My Reviewers of Young Adult Literature (ROYAL) group met tonight to share the books we read and reviewed in the past two months. Being awesome, as usually, I did not yet read two of my assigned titles, Ash by Melinda Lo and Ghost Huntress: The Awakening by Marley Gibson. I’ll add those to the next [...]
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Graphic Novel Round Up, Part 1
Recently I’ve read several graphic novels. I’m not great at writing full-length, in depth reviews for them as I do for novels, so I thought I would do a compilation post, despite there being no real theme between them. Here it goes:
Rapunzel’s Revenge
by Shannon and Dean Hale
Illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation)
A girl-power retelling of [...]
Mini-Review: Dead Is…
Dead is the New Black and Dead is a State of Mind
by Marlene Perez
Cute, light, easy-on-the-brain supernatural books. Daisy is a “norm” in a family of psychics. Her father was also a norm but he disappeared and no one is sure if he’s dead of alive. Daisy believes he abandoned them but the rest of [...]
The Morganville Vampires Series
by Rachel Caine
The sleepy town of Morganville, TX is not all that it seems. It’s the home toTexas Prairie University (TPEwwww), a school where partying rules and academics are an after-thought, and not much else. Claire is 16 and smart. She graduated high school early with acceptances to prestigious colleges such as MIT, Yale, and [...]
L. J. Smith and the Night World
In the long, long ago when I was a teenager (ok, so not that long ago) I was in love with a series by L. J. Smith called the Night World. Recently I have had several L. J. Smith encounters, not with the actual person but with her work. In the bookstore I noticed that [...]
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Read-a-like for Deanna Raybourn
For those, like me, who enjoyed Lady Julia Grey you will be happy to know that there is a series that is similar (eerily similar, I think). Author Tasha Alexander has written three books about Lady Emily Bromley, check them out on her website. I picked up the first title, And Only to Deceive but [...]
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