The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz

The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz
368 pages

My my interest in the series waning.

Revelations by Melissa De La Cruz

Revelations by Melissa De La Cruz
264 pages

3rd book in the Blue Bloods series. There are some things that are hard for me to swallow...but I know that this is a fantasy fiction series, so I put aside my thoughts about this in a religious sense. Once I get past that, I have absolutely loved these books.

Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz

Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz
311 pages

The more is get into this series, the more I enjoy it!

Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz
302 pages

Interesting new vampire twist.

Trafficked by Kim Purcell

Trafficked by Kim Purcell
384 pages

Hannah has been brought to the United States on the premise that she will be a nanny to a Russian family. She is promised wages, a place to stay, and a chance to take English classes. Her dreams quickly go down the drain as she becomes slave to a bitter, evil woman, and his drunk womanizing husband.

Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde

Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde
288 pages

Grace must save her sister from the fantasy gaming world she has escaped into...a world filled with pink, ruffles, cottages, and unicorns. But why would her perfect sister need to escape? Good sci-fi read for girls, but not my cup of tea.

The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks

The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks
217 pages

Not a bad teen mystery, though I wonder if they will figure out the murderer as quickly as I did.

Wendy is dead, found in the park. Rain knows that Wendy wasn't a good person all the time. She went after the girls who shunned her in a brutal way...by going after their boyfriends. But Wendy still deserves justice. Rain must overcome her embarrassment that comes with speech impediment to truly speak up for her friend.

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
356 pages

I picked this up in a hurry for one reason only: there was a quote from Veronica Roth, the author of Divergent. This was amazing! A very different and unique storyline that I fell into instantly. Alina and Mal are the best of friends, growing up in an orphanage together. They come to the age where they are required to go into service for the king. When Alina and Mal's lives are threatened, a special talent comes out of Alina. One that she never knew existed. She can produce a light so bright that it blinds the enemy. Can this hidden skill save the land from the Fold, a land where darkness rules?

Heroes of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun

Heroes of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun
183 pages

These are the astounding stories of teens who risked their lives, and the lives of their families in order to help Jews hide and escape from imprisonment and death at the hands of the Nazis. Very powerful, leaving one to think of the things we do, and the things we do not do, to help those around us.

Extras by Scott Westerfeld

Extras by Scott Westerfeld
417 pages
book 4 of the uglies series

It has been three years since Tally Youngblood saved the world, and now Aya is living her life as an extra...someone so invisible that she rates low in the reputation economy. She has got to build up her reputation and find her place around the surge monkeys and tech heads.

Specials by Scott Westerfeld

Specials by Scott Westerfeld
372 pages
book 3 of the uglies series

Tally is now a special, part of an elite force that enforces the government rules. She is one who gets called in to fix 'special circumstances' that may endanger the plan to keep everyone brain-missing and oblivious to the world around them. But now she is set on those that she once fought along beside.

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
368 pages
book 2 of the uglies series

Tally is back, and now she is a pretty. Will the ugly Tally convince her pretty self to take the cure, to fix her brain, or will she be too far into the bubbleheads to want to be fixed?

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
406 pages

What is no one had the advantage for being extra pretty? What if no one had the disadvantage of being ugly? Jobs, elected offices, friends, everything was based on the person themselves, and not the way they looked? It seems great on the surface...everyone has cosmetic surgery on their 16th birthday, and everybody looks basically the same. But everything is different about that person. Would it be worth it?
Tally is nearing her sixteenth birthday, and cannot wait for her surgery so she can finally be pretty. But her alliance with the rebelious Shay may cost her in a big way. Can she break the promise she made to her friend...can she give up her 'pretty' life for that promise.
Loved this book! (Seemed like Delirium was pretty close to this?)

The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead

The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
418 pages
Sequel to Bloodlines

The Alchemist, Sydney is back with her task of keeping the lines between humans and vampires blurred. At all costs she must keep the human world unaware that vampires and dhampirs exist. But living with them is taking a toll on her. She believes them to be unnatural....until she starts to get too close to the ones she is to protect. Love these books...very easy light read with a great storyline, I was disappointed that I didn't already have the next to start on.

The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin

The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
345 pages

Most of the time when I finish a book, I judge the overall experience by how much I wanted to sneak it in to work with me, or if I felt it necessary to be late coming back from lunch in order to finish it. This book stayed in my purse for two days so I could steal a couple of pages even in the weirdest places, like in line at Wal-Mart. Loved Lida's story, even as it spiraled out of control. In a wilderness camp for misfit girls, she must choose between a friendship with the fierce, scary, but true, Boone, or the fabulous, but fake Gia. And in the middle of all of the drama, she must face the truth that her mother is not in fact dead, and that she feels better when she cuts herself to release the pain. Very stirring book, you cannot walk away untouched by this one!

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
353 pages

Proof that reading is pretty futile when on sleeping medication. I read every single page, but couldn't tell you much what this book is about. A mixture of historical and fantasy reads, Janie and Benjamin must keep the pharmacopia out of the hands of enemy spies.

Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe

Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
229 pages

Hiram is torn between his Grandfather and his Father. One man wants Hiram to grow up in the south, to know where whites and blacks fit into their 'roles' and the other wants him to grow up with respect for all races. But Hiram must decide his true feelings on his own as he finds himself a witness in a brutal crime that rocks the nation, north and south.

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
421 pages

When book 2 was missing from the VA series, I picked this up to get my fix. This is a series based around the vampires and dhampirs, focusing on the alchemist who keep the lines between vampires and humans blurred. I loved this book just as much, but be warned that this gives away storylines in the VA series if you have not read it all the way through.

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
343 pages

I loved this so much more than I thought I would. It was a light read with a wonderful storyline. Totally bummed that our library is missing #2, Frostbite

Rebel Fire by Andrew Lane

Rebel Fire by Andrew Lane
343 pages

Good read, but I didn't enjoy it near as much as I did the first one.