Review ~ "Linger" by Maggie Stiefvater

Title: "Linger"
Series: The Wolves of Mercy Fall, #2
Author: Maggie Stiefvater 

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Published: July 13, 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Werewolves
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
 

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the longing.

Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.

the loss.

Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.

the linger.

For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces--wolf and human--with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?

Review ~ "Opal" by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: "Opal"
Series: Lux, #3
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

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 Published: December 1, 2012
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Genres: Young Adult, Aliens, Paranormal
Pages: 382
Format: Paperback
Source: MeL Cat

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After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.

Together we’re stronger... and they know it.

"Life Eternal (Dead Beautiful, #2)" by Yvonne Woon

"Life Eternal (Dead Beautiful, #2)" by Yvonne Woon

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Published: January 24, 2012

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Paranormal
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

Source: MeLCat

Read July 30 to August 1, 2013

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Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died last May, and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin. Now, her separation from Dante becomes almost unbearable. His second life is close to an end, and each passing day means one less that she will spend with the boy who shares her soul. Just when Renée has almost given up hope, she learns of the Nine Sisters-brilliant scholars who, according to legend, found a way to cheat death. She can't shake the feeling that they are somehow connected to her dreams, strange visions that hint at a discovery so powerful, and so dangerous, that some will stop at nothing to protect it. Renée thought she knew the truth about life and death. But there is a secret woven through history that holds the only hope for Dante and Renée. Unless they find answers soon, their time together is doomed to be cut short.

"Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)" by Cynthia Hand

"Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)" by Cynthia Hand

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Published: January 4, 2011
Publisher: HarperTeenGenres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 453
Format: ebook
Source: OverDrive

Read August 22 to 30, 2013

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In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy. Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side. As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny? Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.

"Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)" by Sarah Rees Brennan

"Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Published: September 11, 2012
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Mystery
Pages: 384
Format: ebook
Source: Overdrive

Read September 21 to 25, 2013

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Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head. But all that changes when the Lynburns return. The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the-Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?

"Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

"Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)" by Maggie Steifvater

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Published: August 1, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library

Read August 16 to 17, 2013

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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 pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

"Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)" by Lauren DeStefano

"Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)" by Lauren DeStefano

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Published: February 21, 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance
Pages: 341

Format: Hardcover

Source: Library

Read January 25 to February 21, 2013

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Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary. In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.

"Legacy of the Clockwork Key (The Secret Order, #1)" by Kristin Bailey

"Legacy of the Clockwork Key (The Secret Order, #1)" by Kristin Bailey

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Published: March 5, 2013
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Steampunk
Pages: 416
Format: ebookSource: pulseit
Read April 5 to 7, 2013


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A teen girl unravels the mysteries of a secret society and their most dangerous invention in this adventure-swept romance set in Victorian London. When a fire consumes Meg’s home, killing her parents and destroying both her fortune and her future, all she has left is the tarnished pocket watch she rescued from the ashes. But this is no ordinary timepiece. The clock turns out to be a mechanical key; a key that only Meg can use; which unlocks a series of deadly secrets and intricate clues that Meg has no choice but to follow. She has uncovered evidence of an elite secret society and a dangerous invention that some will stop at nothing to protect, and that Meg alone can destroy. Together with the handsome stable hand she barely knows but hopes she can trust, Meg is swept into a hidden world of deception, betrayal, and revenge. The clockwork key has unlocked her destiny in this captivating start to a trilogy.

"Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)" by Shannon Messenger

5 out of 5 stars



Read April 8 to 14, 2013



Pages: 416
Published: March 5, 2013
Publisher: Simon Pulse


My Initial Reaction:


Did it seriously need to end that way!?!?!? I can't wait until 2014 to see what happens next!!!! I need to read it NOW!!!!!

My Actual Review:
I read this book for free on Pulseit and it was amazing. I thought that it was great that this book was different. So many young adult paranormal books contain vampires, fairies, and werewolves, but this one was all about sylphs. I haven't read too many books that are about sylphs, so this was amazing.

"Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)" by Rachel Caine

"Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)" by Rachel Caine

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Published: October 3, 2006
Publisher: Signet Books
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal
Pages: 256
Format: ebook
Source: Download Destination
Read December 17 to 20, 2013

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From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?