Saturday, March 20, 2010

REVIEW: #68 Beautiful Creatures

March 16, 2010 by Allison  
Filed under Horror, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance

REVIEW: #68 Beautiful Creatures

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes

Title: Beautiful Creatures
Author(s): Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
ISBN: 0316042676
Pages: 576
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that’s what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a [...]

REVIEW: #60 Once a Witch

March 8, 2010 by Allison  
Filed under Paranormal, Reviews, Videos

REVIEW: #60 Once a Witch

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Title: Once a Witch
Author: Carolyn MacCullough
ISBN: 978-0547223995
Pages: 304
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin’s magic never showed up.
Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. [...]

REVIEW: #58 The Everafter

January 20, 2010 by Allison  
Filed under Drama, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance, Young Adult

REVIEW: #58 The Everafter

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: The Everafter
Author: Amy Huntley
ISBN: 0061776793
Pages: 256
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
Madison Stanton doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this—she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark space. The only company she has in this place are luminescent objects that turn out [...]

REVIEW: #55 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater #Book

January 4, 2010 by Allison  
Filed under Paranormal, Reviews, Romance

REVIEW: #55 Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater #Book

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Title: Shiver
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
ISBN: 978-0545123266
Pages: 400
Rating:

Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf–her wolf–is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the [...]

REVIEW: #49 Her Fearful Symmetry

November 14, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Paranormal, Reviews

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Her Fearful Symmetry
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
ISBN: 1439165394
Pages: 416
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her [...]

REVIEW: #48 Hush Hush @becfitzpatrick

November 12, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Paranormal, Pictures, Reviews, Romance, Videos, Young Adult

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes

Title: Hush Hush
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 1416989412
Pages: 400
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She’s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.
With his [...]

REVIEW: #35 Night Runner

October 20, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Mystery/Crime, Paranormal, Reviews

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Title: Night Runner
Author: Max Turner
ISBN: 0312592280
Pages: 292
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon)
For Zack Thomson, living in the Nicholls Ward isn’t so bad. After his parents died, he developed strange and severe allergies, and the mental institution was the only place where he could be properly looked after. As strange as it [...]

REVIEW: #34 Dead as a Doornail

October 20, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Horror, Mystery/Crime, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance, Series

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Dead as a Doornail
Author: Charlaine Harris
ISBN: 0441012795
Pages: 295

Rating:

Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
When Sookie’s brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local [...]

REVIEW: #32 Dead to the World

October 11, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Drama, Mystery/Crime, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance, Sci-Fi, Series

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Title: Dead to the World (#4 in the series)

Author: Charlaine Harris
ISBN: 978-0-441-01218-3
Pages: 310
Rating:

Synopsis: (Taken from back of book)
It’s not every day that you come across a naked man on the side of the road. That’s why cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the [...]

REVIEW: #31 Club Dead

October 11, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Mystery/Crime, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance, Sci-Fi, Series

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes

Title: Club Dead (#3 in the series)

Author: Charlaine Harris
ISBN: 0441018270
Pages: 320
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from back of the book)
There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that’s Bill. But recently he’s been a little distant – in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss, Eric, [...]

REVIEW: #27 Faithless

September 28, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Horror, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance, Series

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: Faithless
Author: Yolanda Sfetsos
ISBN: 1615720340
Pages: 48
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from amazon)
Book One of the Alyce Kerr, Faith Healer Trilogy by Yolanda Sfetsos. Alyce Kerr is a celebrity Faith Healer. Her power comes from a binding with a demonic entity. Every time he gives her the power to heal, he sucks a [...]

REVIEW: #26 The Haunting of Sam Cabot

September 27, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Horror, Paranormal, Reviews

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

Title: The Haunting of Sam Cabot
Author: Mark Edward Hall
ISBN: 1615720308
Pages: 98
Rating:
Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com)
There are places that hold evil, houses so vile, so tainted, that people refuse to live in them. Farnham House is one of those places. Once an inn, this majestic old New England manor house [...]

Joining the Sookie Stackhouse Challenge! #SookieSRC

August 13, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Challenges, Horror, Paranormal, Romance, Sci-Fi, Series

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

I’ll be honest – I was not a fan of the Twilight series. The storyline had “capture my attention” abilities yet the storyline was so deplorably cheesy and immature. Did I read all of the books? Of course! I kept trying to give Meyer the benefit of the doubt, hoping [...]

REVIEW: #001 – The Time Traveler’s Wife

August 5, 2009 by Allison  
Filed under Drama, Paranormal, Reviews, Romance

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes

Synopsis:
Henry DeTamble is not your average librarian. A disorder he was born with, titled “Chrono-displacement” causes him to time travel to varying points in his life (both past & future) with out any warning or choice as to where he lands. When Henry travels, he arrives in his destination naked, [...]