Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives Manga's-Ellen Schreiber & REM

This manga series is based off of Ellen Schreiber's book series, Vampire Kisses. Raven is a goth girl with a vampire boyfriend named Alexander. Alexander is a romantic, good vampire. When his cousin, Claude, comes into town, things get complicated. Claude is in search of blood-filled vials that their grandmother hid somewhere. Claude will become a full vampire like Alexander if he drinks from a vial. Raven and Alexander devise a plan to trick Claude and his gang into finding the false vials.

It's a pretty good manga. I only read the first two. I haven't read the books yet but now I kind of want to.

~*Haley*

The Hollow-Jessica Verday

Abbey Browning is a 16-year-old from Sleepy Hollow, New York. Her friend, Kristen Maxwell died in August and she meets a boy named Caspian at her friend funeral. She falls in love with Caspian, but he has a difficult time meeting up with her. Abby also is into perfume making and wants to open up her own shop downtown. She finds out that Kristen was keeping secrets from her. She meet a old couple at the cemetery. She treats them like she'd treat her grandparents.

Basically this story has a lot of grief, romance, mystery and humor in it. I liked it, though I wish there was more supernatural stuff in it. Caspian's a ghost, not that saying that is a huge spoiler. I thought so when Abbey first met him.

I can't wait till the next book. I hope it's better and has more of a supernatural legend element to it. Two and a half stars.

~*Haley*

Poplit Journel Entry:

This book was pretty interesting despite its lack of supernatural events. I like that it was written in first person point of view. I like the humor in some of Abbey’s thoughts. I liked the character Abbey because she was different from most female characters in my stories. Abbey likes to make perfume. It’s her hobby. I never heard of any teenagers making perfume before, so I thought it was cool that she did something more unique. She even dreams of opening up her own perfume shop someday called Abbey’s Hallow. I also liked that the story was set in Sleepy Hollow, New York. I have never read Washington Irving’s story, but I’ve heard about it. I think it was very creative of the author to take a classic legend and build on it or change it in the setting of the modern world. I also liked that the book was a fast read despite its thickness. The words are just the right size and spacing on the pages that I didn’t feel like it was dragging on. The only thing I really dislike in the book is that it had barely any supernatural horror in it. There were a few supernatural elements in it such as Abbey seeing a figure in her room when she woke up from her nightmare, or that Abbey dreamed Kristen’s death and felt it when it happened. When Abbey met Caspian I knew right away he was a ghost, but she didn’t realize that till the second to last chapter of the book. There was this huge gap of supernatural occurrences that was like three-hundred pages long. It was only teen romance and troubles for a while. I’m fine with romance as long as it’s interesting, but I was anticipating something less realistic the whole time. It made me read faster. Finally, near the end, something happens. Caspian calls out the old couple Abbey’s been visiting, Nickolas and Katy, and tell Abbey that they’re not what they seem. The couple later confesses that they are the Headless Horseman and Katrina from the legend. Abbey find out from Caspian’s Dad at the car repair she that Caspian’s been dead for two years and doesn’t believe it. When Caspian’s hand passes through her, she thinks she is going crazy. At the end she leaves Sleepy Hollow and is going to see a psychiatrist while away. I really hated that it ended with that. I want more. I wonder when the second book is going to be out. It did mention a sequel. I firmly believe the sequel will be better, much better that the first book. I did enjoy this book, but it’s still not my favorite. My favorite usually involve characters with bird-like wings. Nothing. Absolutely nothing, can live up to the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.

Shadowland-Alyson Noël

This is the third book in the Immortals series. Ever and Damen and no longer touch each other because if they exchange DNA, Damen will die. Ever must now find the antidote to the antidote Roman gave her. After being bugged by her Aunt, Sabine, she finds a job at Mystics and Moonbeams where she'll give readings under the name Avalon. She tells Sabine that she got a job at a regular bookstore. Ever meets her boss, Jude, who she finds out later from Damen that he is her real soul mate. Damen leaves Ever alone for a while to find out if Jude is the one, but she still thinks Damen is who she's meant to be with. At the pool party she throws for her friend Miles, she sees an Ouroborus tattoo on Jude and starts to think he's a rogue immortal. Then he gets a call from Ava and Ever rushes to save her best friend Haven.

But Roman is offering the real antidote for the price of Haven's life.

But you'll have to see the rest for yourselves because I'm leaving a lot out. On purpose, of course.

I love this series. It's in my top 5. Ever Bloom is a wonderful character, and Damen is really sexy. (yup. Even sexier than Edward Cullen.) I like it because it's so much different that any immortal fiction. They're not vampires because they don't drink blood, but they drink an elixir. Alyson Noël is a great author of young adult fiction. She's really nice too. She posted my fan art on her Myspace blog. :)

Four stars at least.

My Poplit Journel Entry:

Seeing as this is the third book in the Immortals series, I have developed favoritism towards certain character. Specifically the main characters, Ever and Damen. Ever is a teenage girl with blond hair and blue eyes, so we have that much in common. She died in a car accident with her family and was brought back by Damen. She became immortal and psychic after that, and then she met Damen when she moved the California. Damen is six-hundred years old and doesn’t look a day past seventeen. He smoldering hot and pretty romantic. He was selfish at first, but his ideals changed early on in the book. He was trying to beat karma by giving up his power to manifest anything he wanted, and he was going to sell his house and look for a job. I like Ever and Damen because they love each other still after all the craziness they’ve been through. With everything that separates them such as the antidote Roman gave to Ever so she heal Damon and it ended up making Ever unable to touch Damon without killing him, they still find ways to be together.

The character that I despise is Roman. He’s your typical charismatic, charming villain with a British accent. He was introduced in the second book and now he continues to aggravate Ever’s quest to be with Damen forever. He tried to steal Ever’s friend, Haven, away. He hires her at his antique store and she start to idolize the other rogue immortals who work there the same way she idolized Drina in the first book. Roman is evil because at the end of the book he tries to kill Haven. He tells Ever that she can have the antidote if she let her friend die or she can give her friend immortality, which would condemn Haven to the Shadowlands, where souls die, if she would ever get killed somehow. If Ever let her die, and then she’d prove she’s nothing like him, but if she saved her then that would prove that she’s just like Roman. Ever is not like Roman, though she did end up saving Haven in the end.

When she did save her, I was really disappointed that she did what Roman wanted. Haven would have been much happier in Summerland, where people’s souls go to when they die. She could’ve crossed the bridge into another plane and Jude (Ever’s real soul mate, and a new character in the series) could’ve helped communicate with Haven the same way he did between Ever and her dead sister, Riley. I guess now there’s going to be a new immortal in the series, Haven, who will have to be trained in her abilities.

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~*Haley*

Ghost Huntress: The Guidance-Marley Gibson

This is the second book of the Ghost Huntress series by Marley Gibson. Kendall Moorehead, who moved from Chicago to Radisson, Georgia, is a psychic who can see ghost and help them. She and her friends developed a group that they call Ghost Huntresses. In this book the major issue is Courtney Langdon and her jealousy of Kendall's attention from her new popularity. Courtney attempt to get back in the spotlight by faking being psychic. Kendall tries to stop her because it's dangerous. At a Halloween party, Courtney does a seance and is possessed (opressed, actually) by the spirit of a Union solider. Kendall and her team must help rid the ghost from the mean cheerleader's body. I think that's a enough info without spoiling the story. I really love this series because I'm from Chicago like Kendall and she's a cool character. One of my favorite things in the story are the funny t-shirts that Kendall's mentor, Loreen, wears. Ex: 333 Only half evil. Yup, gotta love funny sayings.

~*Haley*

Nightschool Manga Series by Sveltlana Chmakova

This is now officially one of my favorite Manga series. It's published by Yen Press like the Maximum Ride manga were. There's witches, vampire and shifters in it, as well as other creatures. I'm not sure if the 2nd volume has come out yet, but I'll check at Borders probably. The main character is a Weirn witch girl named Alex. She's on the cover, see? I'm not going to do a summary because I've only read the 1st volume, so read it for yourself!

~*Haley*

Witch & Wizard-James Patterson

Witch & Wizard by James Patterson, who is also the author of Maximum Ride and Daniel X, is a very funny and exciting book about a brother named Whit and sister named Wisty. It's a very magical novel. I loved Wisty the most because she reminds me of Max a bit because she feisty and sarcastic smart aleck. This is much better that Harry Potter, trust me. This series has action, adventure, magic, comedy, everything. I'm serious. I can't wait another 11 months for the next book! At least Fang comes out soon.
Wisty and Whit are taken from their homes and put into prison accused of being a witch and a wizard by the New Order. The One Who is the One decrees it, and the One Who Judges sentences them to death by hanging. They get put in a mental hospital/prison. They use their magic to escape with the help of Whit's Half-Light girlfriend, Celia, into the Shadowlands. The end up hiding out with a bunch of other kids in the Freeland department store with a really weird name. They want to find their parents and they end up helping other kids escape from the prison they were first put it.
That's my summary. Hope it doesn't spoil it too much. Please check this book out, all you JP fans out there!

~*Haley*

Ignor the box with an x cuz I can't delete it! :(

Once A Witch-Carolyn MacCullough

Once a Witch is an amazing fantasy novel full of magical Talents and wonderful characters. Tamsin Greene is a seventeen-year-old girl from New York and from a family of witches. She different from them, though. She's Talentless. She doesn't have any abilities, or so she thinks. I won't spoil what that ability is. It was fun figuring it out on my own and finding out I was close to being right. Tamsin's friend Agatha goes to boarding school with her, and Tamsin's sister, Rowena, is engaged to another witch named James. Tamsin doesn't like her sister. Rowena has the ability to persuade people, which is an important fact in the book. During the first chapter, Tamsin is working at her grandmother's book store, which is where she meet Alistair Callum, a professor of art history at NYU. He asks her to find a clock, supposedly a family heirloom that was lost long ago. He think that Tamsin is Rowena and can find it for him, but Tamsin gets Gabriel's help. Gabriel, the love interest, can find anything and can travel through time to find objects. They find the clock in the late 1800's. The clock is Domani. It's where the power of the Knight's witches is stored. It's always kept in a time-piece. The Keeper protects it. Alistair is not who he seems, but I don't want to spoil anything else. I'll just leave you with the information I've already typed. Just know that it's a good book, slightly different from most with-themed books. If you're a fantasy person, give it a chance. You'll love it and will be dying for more!

~*Haley*

Immortal Love Stories With A Bite

I loved these love stories. Maybe that was because they were supernaturally amazing! Cast really did pick some great authors for this short story collection. I knew most of the author, so I bought this book. I loved all the stories that were in 1st person, which was 6/8. I especially liked Richelle Mead, Rachel Vincent and Kristen Cast's stories.

The one Richelle Mead wrote, Blue Moon, was set in Chicago (How awesome is it to have the city I live near be the setting?) and the main character was this girl who is a Vampire. She's part of some prophecy to destroy vampires. Rachel Vincent's story, Binge, was about Mallory, a leanan sidhe, and a musician. Mallory's best friend is a Siren.

Kristen Cast's story, Amber Smoke, was about some girl who ends up meeting her love, who can control time. She is turned into a vampire who live off of energy and her blood is amber. She can see aura and she saves her mom.

So, read this collection if you love vampire stories!

~*Haley*

Bite Me! by Melissa Francis

This was an amazing, hilarious book full of south humor and vampire fiction. AJ (Ariel Jane) Ashe is a 17-year-old vampire who's mom marries her (ex) boyfriend's dad (Rick). She struggles to stay away from him as he not-dates a girl named Lindsey. At the bonfire before school starts, AJ tries to re-bound with Noah James, a soccer player like her. She drinks a beer, thereby losing control of her instincts. She is filled with a lust high and starts making out with him, but she bites his tongue after he tries to get rough with her. After being stopped abruptly when Bridget (one of her BFF's, the other is Malia) and Ryan (her stepbrother/ex-boyfriend) come along, she blacks out and wakes up in her room. Noah is found beaten, bitten and dead two days later, and a few days after that, becomes an undead vampire (a dichampyre). AJ feels guilty and thinks it was her fault that he's dead, but it was a snake bite that killed him. AJ goes through a Hell of a first week of school. She gets framed for cheating, and gets suspended. Photoshopped pictures of her making out with the hot social studies teacher, Mr. Charles, are posted on Facebook by a person who hacked her account. AJ finds out her parents were from the Serpentine line of vampires, and that she may play a part in some mysterious prophecy. I give this book four stars. (****) I really liked it. I read 175 pages of it just today and finished it. Much better than I expected. Remember kids, don't always judge a book by it's cover!
I really can't wait till Melissa Francis's second book, Love Sucks!, comes out. More AJ Ashe please! :)

~*Haley*

Nightlight, A Parody-The Harvard Lampoon

This is the 1st parody (that I bought for 12 bucks at Target, even if it was only 154 pages long) I've ever read in the form of a book. It's really funny. Instead of Bella Swan, there's Belle Goose. Instead of Edward Cullen there's Edwart Mullen. Edwart is a nerd and Belle is a vampire obsessed girl and she has this delusion that Edwart is a vampire. He's clearly not. He's weak and afraid of everything.
I really liked this book because it was pretty random at times. Belle's dad, Jim, is a window wiper. He got her a U-Haul truck. Both her mom and dad can't really feed them self, so she did that choo-choo train spoon thing to feed them. It's really weird, but I cracked up. You'll have to read it yourself to get what I'm talking about.
I'm gonna shout it:
"I LOVE TWILIGHT PARODIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

~*Haley*

I Love to Read a Lot

I should've started this ages ago. I read a lot. I'm taking Pop Lit next semester and I have to read and do summaries of 10 books to get an A. Easy for me. I want to post those online, but you cannot copy my summaries because that is plagerism...I think.

Okay, so this is my recommended books page on my website:
http://breathlessangels.webs.com/recommendedbooks.htm

Here are the book I've read since last December (Over 100, plus Mangas)

All 7 Full Moon O'Saginite Mangas
Host-Stephenie Meyer
The Otherworldlies-Jennifer Thompson
Skinned-Robin Wasserman
Blood & Chocolate- Annette Cutis
The Sorcerer King-Frewin Jones
Marked- P.C. Cast (House of Night Series...)
-Betrayed " "
-Chosen ""
-Untamed ""
Daniel X graphic novel
Switchers-Kate Thompson
Growing Wings-Laurel Winter
Host-Faith Hunter
The Good Neighbors graphic novel-Holly Black
Midnight's Choice-Kate Thompson
Wild Blood-Kate Thompson
Tantalize-Cynthia Smith
Eternal-Cynthia Smith
4th World-Kate Thompson
Philippa Fisher's Fairy God Sister-Liz Kessler
Sea of Monsters-Rick Riordan
Maximum Ride 5:Max-James Patterson
Hunted-P.C. Cast
The Mysterious Mr. Spine's Wings-Jason Leathcole
Angels-Cliff Menish
Persistance of Memory-Amilia Atwaters-Rhodes
Gone-Micheal Grant
The Titan's Curse-Rick Riodan
Demon in My View-Amelia Atwaters-Rhodes (more Den of Shadows books...)
Shattered Mirror-Amelia Atwaters-Rhodes
Midnight Hunter-Amelia Atwaters-Rhodes
The Awakening-Kelly Armstrong (Dark Powers series)
Miles To Go-Miley Cyrus
Defect-Will Weaver
Raven-Allison Van Diepen
Jinx-Jennifer Estep
Wicked Lovely-Melissa Marr
Jinx-Meg Cabot
(and this is when school got out for the summer)
Evermore-Alyson Noel
Wings-Aprilynn Pike
Need-Carrie Jones
Quantum Prophecy 1 Awakening-Micheal Carrol
Karma Girl-Jennifer Estep
Battle of the Labrynth-Rick Riordan
Bones of Faerie-Janni Lee Simner
QP 2 The Gathering-Micheal Carrol
Hot Mama-Jennifer Estep
Once Dead, Twice Shy-Kim Harrison
Blue Bloods-Melissa De La Cruz
Blue Moon-Alyson Noel
Masquerade-Melissa De La Cruz
Moonlight (dark guardians 1)-Rachel Hawthone
Ink Exchange-Melissa Marr
Vampire Academy-Richelle Mead
Night World: L. J. Smith
vol. 1-
Secret Vampire
Daughters of Darkness
Spellbinder
vol. 2-
Dark Angel
The Chosen
Soulmate

Nightwold vol 3:
Huntress
Black Dawn
Witchlight
Fairy Tale-Cyn Balog
Fragile Eternity-Melissa Marr
Full Moon-Rachel Hawthorn (dark Guardians 2)
Revelations-Melissa de la Cruz
The Last Olympian-Rick Riodan
Ghost Huntress-The Awakening-Marley Gibson
Daniel X: Watch The Skies-James Patterson
Good Ghoul's Guide to getting Even-Julie Kenner
The Foretelling-Alice Hoffman
Betrixt-Tara Bray Smith
Dark of the Moon-Rachel Hawthorn (dark Guardians 3)
Anima 1
Anima 2
Love Is Hell (various)
Vampire Diaries: The Awakening-L.J. Smith
Vampire Diaries: The Struggle-L.J. Smith
Anima 3
Anima 4

Vampire Diaries 3: The Fury-L.J. Smith
Frost Bite-Richelle Mead
Prom Nights From Hell
The Secret Circle: The Iniation and The Captive pt 1-L. J. Smith
The Mysterious Mr. Spines: Flight-Jason Lethleo
Wicked: Witch (only up to page 175, and then got bored)
The Guardian-Joyce Sweeny
Crashed-Robin Wasserman
Anime 5
Anima 6
Anima 7
Anima 8
Anima 9
Anima 10
Dark Visions-L.J. Smith
-The Strange power
-The Possed
-The Passion
DNAngel 1
Audrey, Wait!-Robin Benway
Maximum Ride Manga vol 2
Tempted-P.C. Cast
The Night of the Solstice-L.J. Smith
DNAngel 2
Shadow Kiss-Richelle Mead
Blood Promise-Richelle Mead
DNAngel 3
DNAngel 4
The Waters & The Wild-Francesca Lia Block
Selkie Girl-Laurie Brooks
Demon Princess: Reign or Shine-Michelle Rowan
Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion-L.J. Smith
Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall-L.J. Smith
The Silver Kiss-Annette Curtis Clause
A Fast and Brutal Wing-Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Hush, Hush-Becca Fitzpatrick

The Van Allen Legacy-Melissa de la Cruz

Sea Change-Aimee Friedman
DNAngel vol 5-7

Hunger-Micheal Grant

Strange Angels-Lili St. Crow

The Secret Circle: L J Smith

-The Captive pt 2

-The Power

The Eternal Kiss (13 authors)

Pretty Dead-Francesca Lia Block

The Last Song-Nicholas Sparks

Super Girl Candor Graphic Novel

Vamped-Lucienne Diver

My Soul to Take-Rachel Vincent

Nightlight (a parody)-The Harvard Lampoon

Books To Read:

Betrayals-Lili St. Crow
Evernight series
Kissed by an Angel-Elizabeth Chandler
Dark Secrets-Elizabeth Chandler
Vampire Kisses series-Ellen Schielber

Good Ghouls Do-Julie Kenner

Ghost Huntress: The Guidance-Marley Gibson
The Immortal Realm-Frewin Jones

James Patterson Books:
Witch & Wizard
MR: Fang
DanielX: Demons & Druids

Strange Fate-LJ Smith
Swoon-Nina Malkin
Shadowland-Alyson Noel
The Mysterious Mr. Spines:Song-Jason Lethleo
Burned P.C. Cast
Demon Princess: Reign Check-Michelle Rowen
The Sweep series-Cate Tierman
Crescendo-Becca Fitzpatrick

Immortal-edited by PC Cast

Thirst-Christopher Pike

My Soul to Save-Rachel Vincent

Witch & Wizard 2-James Patterson