Category Archives: young adult
Seven Black Diamonds – Melissa Marr
Seven Black Diamonds, book one Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal. Her father’s “unconventional” business has meant a life of tightly held secrets, concealed weaponry, and a strict code. But Lily’s crime isn’t being the daughter of a powerful mob boss. … Continue reading
Guile -Constance Cooper
In the Bad Bayous the water is thick with guile, a powerful substance that wreaks unpredictable changes on objects, animals, and even people who soak too long. Sixteen-year-old orphan Yonie Watereye scrapes a living posing as someone who can sense … Continue reading
Firstlife – Gena Showalter
Everlife, book one ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE. Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to … Continue reading
A Drop of Night – Stefan Bachm
Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she’s been looking for—she’s been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs … Continue reading
Shadow Kiss – Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy, book three (First review of 2015!) It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She’s having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, … Continue reading
Rapture – Lauren Kate
Fallen, book four The sky is dark with wings . . . And time is running out for Luce and Daniel. In order to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the Fall began. Only … Continue reading
Passion – Lauren Kate
Fallen, book three ‘Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have chosen me. Forever.’ Luce would die for Daniel. And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be … Continue reading
Torment – Lauren Kate
Fallen, book two (I reiterate that it’s been awhile since I read this one, but my review still sounds like an accurate representation of my opinion. Enjoy!) How many lives do you need to live before you find someone worth … Continue reading
Fallen – Lauren Kate
Now that I FINALLY got around to the second half of the series, I thought I’d better get a move on and post my reviews for book one and two. Keep in mind that this review went up when I … Continue reading
Vivaldi’s Virgins – Barbara Quick
Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria Dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the “Red Priest,” Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna … Continue reading
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