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Daughter of Smoke and Bone Laini Taylor Little, Brown & Company September 27th 2011 Young Adult | Fantasy Angel | Demon Official Blurb -  Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets un...

Incarnate Jodi Meadows Katherine Tegen Books January 31st 2012 Young Adult | Fantasy Reincarnation Official Blurb -  New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why. No soul Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she'll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame? Heart Sam believes Ana's new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana's enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake...

Blurred Kissed by Death #2 Tara Fuller Entangled Teen July 2nd 2013 Young Adult | Romance | Paranormal Reaper Official Blurb -  Cash is haunted by things. Hungry, hollow things. They only leave him alone when Anaya, Heaven’s beautiful reaper, is around. Cash has always been good with girls, but Anaya isn’t like the others. She’s dead. And with his deteriorating health, Cash might soon be as well. Anaya never breaks the rules, but the night of the fire she recognized part of Cash’s soul—and doomed him to something worse than death. Cash’s soul now resides in an expired body, making him a shadow walker—a rare, coveted being that can walk between worlds. A being creatures of the underworld would do anything to get their hands on. The lines between life and death are blurring, and Anaya and Cash find themselves falling helplessly over the edge. Trapped in a world where the living don’t belong, can Cash make it out alive? Better than the first book, Inbetween!...

Vesper Jeff Sampson Balzer + Bray January 25th 2011 Young Adult | Paranormal Werewolf Official Blurb -  Emily Webb is a geek. And she’s happy that way. Content hiding under hoodies and curling up to watch old horror flicks, she’s never been the kind of girl who sneaks out for midnight parties. And she’s definitely not the kind of girl who starts fights or flirts with other girls’ boyfriends. Until one night Emily finds herself doing exactly that . . . the same night one of her classmates—also named Emily—is found mysteriously murdered. The thing is, Emily doesn’t know why she’s doing any of this. By day, she’s the same old boring Emily, but by night, she turns into a thrill seeker. With every nightfall, Emily gets wilder until it’s no longer just her personality that changes. Her body can do things it never could before: Emily is now strong, fast, and utterly fearless. And soon Emily realizes that she’s not just coming out of her shell . . . there’s something much bi...

Reached Matched #3 Ally Condi e Penguin November 13th 2012 Young Adult | Dystopian Official Blurb -  After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again. Whoa. Deep. Loved the scientific stuff all the virology insight. So fascinating since I was a science major in college. Never really understood who the Society was. They always seem to be this unidentifiable entity. Be afraid of the bogeyman sort of scenario. Since they are so elusive the ending wasn't surprising. All the lines are blurred and the future is uncertain. The biggest drawback for this final book was the middle. At first I was struggling to remember the characters and what had previously occurred in the other two books. ...

So you just finished the first or second book in a trilogy and you find yourself wishing for more. Yet the wait is long and there is nothing to be done but wait. Or is there? Ever sat and pondered just where the sequel will take the story? Are you reluctant to let go of the story and so content yourself with ideas of just what might happen? I do. Fiction Prediction From serious to farce here are some of the ideas I have of what will happen next. These of course have no fact to them but are just the imaginations of my mind. Don't read further if you haven't read the previous books predictions may contain spoilers. Victor has the Thirst Victor turns Dawn and the "pull" between them stops so they go their separate ways. Sin abandons his current plan and decides to build himself an army of demented hyenas and monkeys. Sin turns Dawn so she can still have the sun and lead his incredibly misguided army into a better more harmonious future. Victor and Dawn claim irreconcil...

Blood-Kissed Sky J. A. London HarperTeen December 26th 2012 Young Adult | Paranormal V ampire Official Blurb -  There's nowhere left to hide. I thought vampires were our enemies - they controlled our lives, isolated our cities, and demanded our blood - until I met Victor. With Victor taking over as the new Lord Valentine, things were supposed to get better. Instead, they're worse than ever. Day Walkers, a new breed of vampires who can walk in the sun, are terrorizing the city. Blood supplies are low, and if Victor's vampires don't get enough, they will become infected with the Thirst - a disease that will turn them into mindless killers. To stop it, I must journey across the desolate wasteland to the very place where the sickness began. I can only hope that the answers that await me are enough to save us all... before it's too late. That ending was really jarring. As in it didn 't feel like an ending but an intermission. No cliff hanger or l ...

Falling Kingdom s Morgan Rhodes Razorbill December 11th 2012 Young Adult | Fantasy Official Blurb -  In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power—brutally transforming their subjects' lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined: Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct. Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished—and finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making. Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son ...

Faithful Janet Fox Speak May 13th 2010 Young Adult | Historical Official Blurb -  Sixteen-year-old Maggie Bennet's life is in tatters. Her mother has disappeared, and is presumed dead. The next thing she knows, her father has dragged Maggie away from their elegant Newport home, off on some mad excursion to Yellowstone in Montana. Torn from the only life she's ever known, away from her friends, from society, and verging on no prospects, Maggie is furious and devastated by her father's betrayal. But when she arrives, she finds herself drawn to the frustratingly stubborn, handsome Tom Rowland, the son of a park geologist, and to the wild romantic beauty of Yellowstone itself. And as Tom and the promise of freedom capture Maggie's heart, Maggie is forced to choose between who she is and who she wants to be. I love the west and thought this would be a delightful read. Unfortunately, this was more like an advertisement. It feels safe to say that the a...