Historical Fiction:
His Majesty's Dragon
by: Naomi Novik
Summary: It's the war between Britian and France. Napoleon's forces are moving in on the channel. Captain Laurence is a naval officer serving his king and country. He expects nothing unusual when he captures a french fleet but he gets a shocking suprise when a dragon egg is found aboard ship. Dragons are the air force for all countries and all are to be brought to be brought to the corps. Only dragons are to be harnessed at birth so one man aboard his ship will have to take the responsibility and leave the navy forever. Though Laurence never expects it to be him. He and Temeraire, his dragon, are thrown into the solitary life of being aviator and dragon. Though just as Laurence is not like the other aviators who have been training since the age of seven, Temeraire may also have a secret that could mean the difference between victory and loss. Life and death.
Rating:4 stars
Review: Everything is historically correct, except the dragons, wich makes this a very interesting read. I enjoyed it but it is a little confusing with the historical diologue. I do not recommend for all ages.
Overall Review By: Nelissa Prine
Rating:4 stars
Review: Everything is historically correct, except the dragons, wich makes this a very interesting read. I enjoyed it but it is a little confusing with the historical diologue. I do not recommend for all ages.
Overall Review By: Nelissa Prine
Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book
By: Carolyn Meyer
Summary: The story begins when Anne is at an event called the Field of the Cloth of Gold in the summer of 1520. She has no great beauty, no wealth and no title. She meets up with her older sister, who is a lady-in-waiting in Queen Catherine's court. Anne's sister is rumoured to be the mistress of King Henry VIII of England. The King is tiring of his wife/queen because she has produced no sons, only a daughter, Mary (later known as Bloody Mary)
Anne, jealous of her sister's rumoured affair, vows to become the second wife of King Henry VIII. Anne, too, is a lady-in-waiting in the Queen's court. When the King tires of Mary (Annes sister), Anne uses her wits to gain the King's heart.
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This book seriously wasn't my style, at all. but when i started reading it i got hooked.
This book was well researched and enjoyable. It started out kind of slow but i quickly got into it.
I love the way Anne is determined to become Henrys wife. She would stop at nothing to get what she wanted and i admire that. i reccomend this book to people ages 12 and up.
overall review by: Karmen Collum
Anne, jealous of her sister's rumoured affair, vows to become the second wife of King Henry VIII. Anne, too, is a lady-in-waiting in the Queen's court. When the King tires of Mary (Annes sister), Anne uses her wits to gain the King's heart.
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This book seriously wasn't my style, at all. but when i started reading it i got hooked.
This book was well researched and enjoyable. It started out kind of slow but i quickly got into it.
I love the way Anne is determined to become Henrys wife. She would stop at nothing to get what she wanted and i admire that. i reccomend this book to people ages 12 and up.
overall review by: Karmen Collum
Fantasy:
Lord Loss
By: Darren Shan
Summary: Grubitsch (Grubbs) Grady seems to have a normal life at first, he has normal parents, normal annoying older sister. Or so he thought, until his life is turned upside down when he witnesses his family being mauled by blood- thirsty demons. Now Grubbs's life is thrown in every direction as he must learn his family history filled with magic, evil, and a curse that can only be cured by the one who haunts him day and night.
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This book is filled with all the things that i like, such as magic and the supernatural, which really makes this a great page- turner. You are sucked into the life of Grubbs as he battles with his demons, both literally and figuratively. However, this book has blood and gore, so I don't recommend for younger ages.
Overall Review By: Morgan Green
Rating: 4 stars
Review: This book is filled with all the things that i like, such as magic and the supernatural, which really makes this a great page- turner. You are sucked into the life of Grubbs as he battles with his demons, both literally and figuratively. However, this book has blood and gore, so I don't recommend for younger ages.
Overall Review By: Morgan Green
Wicked
By: Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
Summary: Holly Cathers has gone through some tough crap. On a family vacation her parents and best friend die in a horrible accident. She is the lone survivor of a boat crash. The storm came out of air and was gone just as quick. As the only family left she is sent to live with her aunt she never knew about, her twin cousins, and secluded uncle. Soon she must face the forces of a life she never knew existed. Holly is from a long line witches. Her ancestors have an ancient blood feud with the Deveroux warlocks. And the Deveroux decendents live in the very city Holly now resides. And she begins to fall for one of the very men whos ancestors cut her family down like cornstalks. As she discovers her heritage she also finds that some people, or warlocks, want her dead. As she teams up with her cousins and other strange sources of power, she must once and for all destroy the ones who have hunted down her kinmen through the ages. But will she have the heart, or lack of, to kill the very one she loves?
Rating:4.5 stars
Review:This was not a book I just couldn't put down, but it was very much enjoyable. What I liked about this author is the boldness. Not being afraid to kill off main characters, but still have a story i fell into is inspirational. It's.... realy bold. And I loved it. I never thought I'd say this but I actuall may have enjoyed it morer than twilight. The story itself could never be trumped, but the writing itself was amazing.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
Rating:4.5 stars
Review:This was not a book I just couldn't put down, but it was very much enjoyable. What I liked about this author is the boldness. Not being afraid to kill off main characters, but still have a story i fell into is inspirational. It's.... realy bold. And I loved it. I never thought I'd say this but I actuall may have enjoyed it morer than twilight. The story itself could never be trumped, but the writing itself was amazing.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
Evermore
By: Alyson Noel
Summary: When Ever Bloom's life is thrown in a whirl-wind as a result of the death of her family, she is forced to start over. Once the preppy cheerleader she turns a new leaf to the kid everybody hates and ignores. She avoids human contact because after she died and came back, she has exceptional powers. By the faintest touch she can know a persons entire life story, see their aura, and read their mind. But as Damon, a new student, becomes an increasing role in her life, she begins to feel once again how it is to be normal. He has no aura and his toch silences the voices in her head. But there is something strange about him. A secret he has hidden that keeps them apart no matter how hard she tries to ignore it. She may not undrestand him, but one thing is deathly clear. She is falling in love him with him.
Rating:5 stars
Reveiw: a gret book. Captured me from the begining.
Overall reveiw by:Nelissa Prine
Rating:5 stars
Reveiw: a gret book. Captured me from the begining.
Overall reveiw by:Nelissa Prine
City Of Bones
By: Cassandra Clare
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary. Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: I loved the witty and interesting characters of this book. I was captured by the storyline the whole time. This book is filled with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you unwilling to stop reading. A great book.
Overall review by: Morgan Green
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: I loved the witty and interesting characters of this book. I was captured by the storyline the whole time. This book is filled with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you unwilling to stop reading. A great book.
Overall review by: Morgan Green
City Of Ashes
By: Cassandra Clare
Summary:Clary Fray wishes her life was normal again. But how can she ever go back to normal when her mother is still in a coma that stumps the doctors and demons are following her every move? She seees downworlders, warewolves faries and vampiers, her father is evil and number one enemy of the shadowhunters. As she discovers this new life she discovers she has powers no ordinary shadowhunter posseses. To sum it up her life is screwed up.
To top it all off she's having guy priblems. Her life time best friend Simon planted one on her and is now calling her his girlfriend. Even though shes not repulsed to find her friend as more than a friend, she also can't help the passion she has for her new-found brother, Jace. Jace and her both know they can't be together but can't stop the draw they have on each other.
And as icing on the cake of bad-stuff-happening, someone is killing downworlder children. And that has to stop. It's official. Clary Fray's life will never be normal again. No matter how hard she wishes.
Rating:5
Review: All I can say is I LOVED IT. You can't get a better response out of me.
Overall Revie
Bad Girls Don't Die
By: Katie Alender
Summary: Alexis has a normal anti-social life. She hangs out with the local goths, or as she secretly calls them, The Doom Squad. She is anti-cheerleader, and beleives her life is at the peak of its strangness. But she learns that it can always get stranger, and more dangerous. As her fourteen year old, doll hugginging, eye-changing sister becomes more secluded and hostile, Alexis learns that everything is not as it seems. the old house she live in has a horrible past, and it is seeping into her sisters head. Kasey is being possesed by an evil that has lived on through the centuries. Alexis is the only one who can stop her sister from carring out the plans of an angry spirit. If Kasey isn't already gone.
Review:It was a good book. I loved the way it waas written and the main character was inspiring.
Rating:4
Overall Reveiw by:Nelissa Prine
Review:It was a good book. I loved the way it waas written and the main character was inspiring.
Rating:4
Overall Reveiw by:Nelissa Prine
The Mediator Series
By: Meg Cabot
Summary: Since the age of two, Suze Simon has had a peculiar gift. She sees people that for some reason, others can't. Oh, yea, that's because their dead. It was put upon her at birth that she would help thoes who are hagin' around after their party's over find their way out the door. But now her mom has remarried after the death of her father. Her life of just her and her mom living in their apartment in New Yourk is changed dramaticaly. She is wisked away to California with three new stepbrothers, a stepdad, and a catholic school.
She starts a new life that is completely different, but yet so the same. She still has to help the dead move on but she soon finds herself in situations that are... well to put it mildly, sticky. She finds others like her, discovers powers she hadn't known existed, and love that seems to be impossible. And let's not forget that on top of it all she still has to make to school on time with decent hair!
Reveiw: The series consisted of Sadowland, Ninth Key, Reunion, Darkest Hour, Haunted, and Twilight all in the mediators series. I very much liked this series and read each book in like a day. I loved the way they were written and the quirk added to the the classical ghost whisper and " I see dead people." I love thoes but the idea of shifters or mediators with thoes extra abilities thrills me. The way Twilight ended was amazing and just....wow. It is a must read. I recomend it for all who love these kinds of books.
Rating: 5 Its my first one so you know I enjoyed it.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
She starts a new life that is completely different, but yet so the same. She still has to help the dead move on but she soon finds herself in situations that are... well to put it mildly, sticky. She finds others like her, discovers powers she hadn't known existed, and love that seems to be impossible. And let's not forget that on top of it all she still has to make to school on time with decent hair!
Reveiw: The series consisted of Sadowland, Ninth Key, Reunion, Darkest Hour, Haunted, and Twilight all in the mediators series. I very much liked this series and read each book in like a day. I loved the way they were written and the quirk added to the the classical ghost whisper and " I see dead people." I love thoes but the idea of shifters or mediators with thoes extra abilities thrills me. The way Twilight ended was amazing and just....wow. It is a must read. I recomend it for all who love these kinds of books.
Rating: 5 Its my first one so you know I enjoyed it.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
Scent Of Darkness
By: Christina Dodd
Summary: A thousand years ago, someone made a deal with the devil. He promised his soul, and the souls of his decendents, for the gift of immortality and being abel to transform into a magnificent hunter. They became ruthless killers who killed without mercy and took woman without hesitation.
For no Varinski ever fell in love...
Until one did.
No Varinski ever married...
Until one did.
No Varinski ever fled the compound and that way of life...
Until one did.
For the first time cracks appeared in the solid foundation of the deal with the devil.
Heaven took note.
So did hell.
Ann Smith has been in love with her boss Jasha Wilder for three years. When she finaly works up the nerve to go to his house and try her hand at seducing him, she learns the bloody background of Jasha's family. But as she does she is sucked into his life with no chance of escaping. Overtaken by new found passion and fear, Ann and Jasha must fight for their lives. Because the true Varinskis have found them. And what they want is the ones who ran, dead.
Rating: 4
Reveiw: This book was just right. It had the Supernatural plot wich we love here at the booklist, with just enough of real life drama to make it realatabile. That is if your boss-lover is an animal and you have his crazy merciless long lost family out to kill you. Lol. I did enjoy this book but I would put caution on reading it. The author is very descriptive and there are "adult" scenes. I did enjoy it though so praise for Christina Dodd.
For no Varinski ever fell in love...
Until one did.
No Varinski ever married...
Until one did.
No Varinski ever fled the compound and that way of life...
Until one did.
For the first time cracks appeared in the solid foundation of the deal with the devil.
Heaven took note.
So did hell.
Ann Smith has been in love with her boss Jasha Wilder for three years. When she finaly works up the nerve to go to his house and try her hand at seducing him, she learns the bloody background of Jasha's family. But as she does she is sucked into his life with no chance of escaping. Overtaken by new found passion and fear, Ann and Jasha must fight for their lives. Because the true Varinskis have found them. And what they want is the ones who ran, dead.
Rating: 4
Reveiw: This book was just right. It had the Supernatural plot wich we love here at the booklist, with just enough of real life drama to make it realatabile. That is if your boss-lover is an animal and you have his crazy merciless long lost family out to kill you. Lol. I did enjoy this book but I would put caution on reading it. The author is very descriptive and there are "adult" scenes. I did enjoy it though so praise for Christina Dodd.
Romance:
Tribute
By: Nora Roberts
Summary: Former child-star Cilla Megowan's life is difficult. Her famous grandmother, Janet Hardy, commited suicide in her mid-30s , and her mother has been married five times. Now Cilla finds she would rather flip houses than perform. That's why she goes to Shenodoah Valley, Virginia. Janet Hardy's house is rotten and falling apart, making it perfect for Cilla. She will recieve help from local contractors, while she unknowingly helps her neighbor. Ford Sawyer is a graphic novelist who lives across from Cilla. He lives alone with his ugly little dog, Spock. Ford finds Cilla the perfect figure for a new series of novels. When Cilla finds an old book containing letters, suggesting Janet was pregnaut by a married man when she died has Cilla wondering who he was. The mystery deepens when cruel acts suggest she go back to Hollywood. If Cilla and Ford don't solve the mystery soon, Cilla will be cut down in her prime, just like her grandmother.
Rating: 3 stars
Review: This is a great book with a fantastic story to tell. Anyone looking for romance should read this. For teenagers and up, though. There is adult content not for younger readers.
Overall Review By: Hannah Albritton
Rating: 3 stars
Review: This is a great book with a fantastic story to tell. Anyone looking for romance should read this. For teenagers and up, though. There is adult content not for younger readers.
Overall Review By: Hannah Albritton
Fiction:
Jinx
By: Meg Cabbot
Summary:Jinx has had her share of bad luck, hince the nickname. Since she was born whenever she was around things got messed up. So when she moves in with her aunt in New York, she is ecstatic to be starting over. But not everyone is as happy as her. Tory, her cousin, is hiding dark secrets. One that could hurt anyone, even the boy they've both fallen for. As her history and her ancestors' before her comes back, she must find a way to embrace that which she fears most. Tory must be stopped before her use of black majic worsens.
Rating:4
R:It was a very good book. I finished it in one day. It does have majic in it so if your not for that don't pick up the book. But other than that, a great read.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
Rating:4
R:It was a very good book. I finished it in one day. It does have majic in it so if your not for that don't pick up the book. But other than that, a great read.
Overall Reveiw By: Nelissa Prine
Sweetblood
By: Pete Hautman
Summary: There are only two races that matter:the living and the Undead...and with every year that passes the numbers of the Undead grow. It is inevitable. So says Lucy Szabo. She has a theroy.: Hundreds of years ago, beforethe descovery of insulin, slowly dying diabetics were the original ''vampires.'' Lucy a diabetic herself counts herself among the modern Undead. As sweetblood she frequents the Transylvania room an internet chat roomwhere so called vampires gather to discuss all things goth. But Draco claims to be a real vampire and Lucys not entierly sure hes kidding. As Lucybecomes more involved with the goth/vampire subculture everything in her life begins to unravel. Her grades plummet her relationship with her parents deteriorates and her ability to regulate her blood sugar worsens dramatically. Then she meets Draco face to face and he invites her into his strange world. Lucy realizes that she needs to make some difficult choices. if it isnt already too late.
Rating: 1.5
Review: So I copied the summary wich I dont do on any other books straight from the inside cover of the book. Its exact except for one word and some punctuation. It sounds decent right? I read it in one day just so I wouldnt have to read it tomorrow. It was porly written. It lacked a hook. And the girl was just weird. Ok I may think like her but her main motive for the day was ''lets see how can i be stupid and be an a** to everyone at the same time?'' It lacked a plot and the characters were flat.
It was like a movie you see advertised on tv and think ''Well that movie looks decent.'' then you go by it figure out the only good part was on the trailer and it absolutely sucked. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
Overall Review By: Nelissa Prine
Rating: 1.5
Review: So I copied the summary wich I dont do on any other books straight from the inside cover of the book. Its exact except for one word and some punctuation. It sounds decent right? I read it in one day just so I wouldnt have to read it tomorrow. It was porly written. It lacked a hook. And the girl was just weird. Ok I may think like her but her main motive for the day was ''lets see how can i be stupid and be an a** to everyone at the same time?'' It lacked a plot and the characters were flat.
It was like a movie you see advertised on tv and think ''Well that movie looks decent.'' then you go by it figure out the only good part was on the trailer and it absolutely sucked. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
Overall Review By: Nelissa Prine
