Thirst No. 2-Christopher Pike

I love this book series. It's so easy to read. It's non-stop action and it has a ton of twists. I highly recommend it to all the vampire fans out there.
Sita's story continues in these three books: SPOILER ALERT!
In Phantom, after Sita becomes human again, Ray comes back from the dead and he and Sita move into a house together. Sita becomes pregnant with her daughter. She meets Paula, another pregnant girl. Sita is only pregnant for about 2 months in all, the growth of the baby is accelerating. When her daughter is born violently, she is name Kalika, she who destroys. Kalika is part vampire and needs blood, so Sita regretfully tricks a boy into coming home with her. His blood feeds Kalika. Kalika is fully grown within a couple week, looking about 20 years old. She is the incarnation of Kali Ma. She wants to see Paula's baby once he is born. Paula runs with the baby soon after. Sita uses some of the baby's blood with Yaksha's too make her a vampire again. She faces her daughter and Seymour is stabbed. Sita heals him with the rest of the baby's blood she had from the hospital.
In Evil Thirst, Sita meets Dr. Seter and James. They have a scripture that Suzama, an old friend of Sita's from Egypt and she could see the future, wrote and Sita wants to see it. It mentions that Krishna, Jesus and this baby all have the same soul. It mentions the Dark Mother, Kali Ma. Kalika is still after the baby and they all end up at Lake Tahoe. Sita finds out who James (Ory) really is only after her daughter is fatally injured.
In Creatures of Forever, Sita finds out that some aliens from another dimension have her blood. They are the Setian for back in Egypt, lizard beings. Alanda, an old friend of Sita that she doesn't remember assists Sita in going back in time only in soul to stop Landolf from ever getting her blood. She goes back to when she saves Dante whose a leper. She plays out what happened as it should until the confrontation, where she kills Landolf only to find out Dante is the real Landolf. She doesn't give him her blood.
In the end, Sita goes back to when Yaksha was born and stabs his infant body.
She has changed her path. She will not become a vampire. So, how come there's a Thirst No. 3 if there are no vampire anymore?

~*Haley*

The Dead-Tossed Waves-Carrie Ryan

This is a companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Gabry lives in a little town by the ocean and behind the Barrier. She lives in the lighthouse with her mother, Mary. Her life in Vista is all she's ever known and she likes her best friend Cira's brother, Catcher. When Gabry and her friends climb over the barrier into the abandoned amusement park, they are attacked by Mudo (zombies) and a few are infected, including Catcher. Gabry escapes before the Militia men show up and capture the rest of the teens. Now Catcher's dying and Gabry's worried. She goes back to the ruins to see him and she know that he has only days to live. Cira and four other are being sent to the Recruiters and 3 others are sentenced to die because they are infected. Gabry feels she should be one of them, but no, she wasn't caught.Then Gabry meets Elias, a mysterious boy who used to be in the Recruiters. She finds out that the dead-worshiping Soulers are in the ruins and Elias is part of them, but only because he needs to find his sister, Annah. She's falling for him now.

SPOILER ALERT: She finds out that Catcher's one of the extremely rare Immunes because after a week of being infected he hasn't died and Returned. Gabry (short for Gabrielle) also finds out that Mary's not really her mother, that she was found in the Forest. Mary leaves to go back to her village and Gabry covers for her. Eventually, she, Cira, Catcher, and Elias escape into the Forest for refuge and find the village. Mary and Harry are there and Gabry finds out who she really is. Annah is her sister. Her twin. Gabry is one of Jacob's daughters: Abigail.

They all leave the village being chased by the Recruiters and I won't spoil the ending anymore.

I did like this book. It was cooler than the first. I love zombie stories.

~*Haley*

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception-Maggie Stiefvater

Deirdre Monaghan, a teen harpist, meets Luke Dillon at a music competition. Luke was the guy from her dream and it's weird to meet him in real life. Dee best friend's name is James and he plays bag pipes. He tells her that he's psychic later on. Luke's pretty cryptic and Dee falls in love with him over the next few summer day after her birthday. She's starts to get mixed up in the faerie world as she runs into fey creature and a freckle face faerie man. Dee's Granna gave her an iron ring, and Luke gave her an iron key for protection. It's mentioned many times that Deirdre is incredibly talented in music as well as in her newly found telekinetic ability. She's a cloverhand after all (and she always find four leaf clovers, but doesn't really need them anymore. She can see faeries all by herself). There's a lot of twists and turn I don't want to spoil or maybe I'm just too lazy to type them.

I liked this book though I couldn't pay much attention to it. It took me only 2 days to read and it's 325 pages long. There is a sequel called Ballad. I better look out for that.

~*Haley*

The Reckoning-Kelley Armstrong

I love this book series: Darkest Powers. I love the whole kids-with-powers-on-the-run-from-evil-scientist theme. I recommend this to anyone who loves supernatural fiction and a good ghost story or horror flick.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Chloe Saunders is a 15-year-old necromancer. She's on the run with her friends from an evil corporation know as the Edison Group. They meet up with Andrew, an old friend of Simon's dad. They are staying in a big house with his that used to be owned b the founder of the resistance against the Group. Andrew brings in a few Supernaturals who can help train them. Margaret is a necromancer that could pass for Chloe's grandmother (since Chloe temporarily dyed her hair black in the last book). Gwen is a witch who is very nice and young looking. Russel's a shaman who knows quite a bit about werewolves. After Margaret bring Chloe to a cemetery for training and asks Chloe to summon, Chloe accidentally opens a hole in the ground and the dead begin to rise. She realizes the Chloe is much more of a threat than they thought.
Chloe has feelings for Derek and Simon's a bit jealous. Chloe help Derek through his complete change into a wolf and they are attacked by Ramon and Liam.
After going though Margaret's deleted files, Tori finds out something very important. Andrew and Margaret are in on the whole thing. Andrew's trying to send Derek to the Pack. No one can be trusted and Tori looks through Andrew's files before they all decide to escape. The escape plan fail when a few other Supernatural show up. Chloe tries to create a diversion and find out that there are men securing the area. Back in the house, Margaret kills Gwen and then Chloe witnesses her killing Andrew. Chloe and Tori wind up back at the labs and Chloe calls a demi-demon to help rescue her Aunt and her friends. Later Tori's mom is killed and raised, instructed to kill Dr. Davidoff by Chloe. Kit (Simon's dad) shows up. They all go on the run again. The end!


Poplit Journal:

How would you feel if you were a genetically altered supernatural being on the run from evil scientists who want you dead so they can correct their mistake of ever making you? Chloe Saunders is afraid. She can’t trust anyone except Derek, Simon and Tori who are a werewolf, a sorcerer and a witch. Chloe’s a necromancer who’s been altered to be much more powerful than any necro has ever been. At any second she can accidentally raise the dead just by summoning. Most necromancers have to have special herbs just to summon a ghost, but Chloe apparently doesn’t need any of that. According to a ghost, her glow is very bright so she attracts ghosts easily. The only thing keeping her glow down to a normal necro’s glow is the amulet her mom gave her when she was little, but sadly, is doesn’t stop her from accidentally bringing dead animal back into their carcasses when she gets jumpy and nervous.

Tori is a witch and probably half sorcerer too. She’s Simon’s half sister, though she doesn’t know it. She’s very brave, bold and sarcastic. She can hack a computer as well as kick butt. She can do spells without any practice or cantations. All she has to do is see a spell caster do a spell and she can mimic it. She can do binding spells, energy balls and a few other helpful things so far, but she’s learning fast.

Derek is a werewolf and the brother that Chloe truly likes. He’s extremely protective and a bit anti-social. He’s strong and fast and he finally completes his change into a black wolf in this book. He used to be very bitey and rude, mean to Chloe, but only for her own protection. He’s also very smart. He’s good at math and science and he’s always logical. I’m a bit confused why Chloe likes him so much, but I guess once he turned into a wolf and she realized that he wasn’t a monster, but just an alpha kind of guy, she realized that she did love him. He brought heat to her heart.

Simon who’s Derek’s “brother” is a sorcerer. He’s not very powerful like the others, but maybe that’s because he wasn’t part of the experiments. He’s just a normal, young sorcerer. He’s very nice to Chloe and he has a crush on her too, so he was jealous when he realized that Chloe liked Derek. He’s half Korean and likes to draw comics, which I think is cool. He and Chloe were working on a graphic novel of their adventures. Simon is diabetic and a feel sorry for him that he’s on the run with them and has to check his blood sugar all the time. It just seems very inconvenient, but he’ll be fine.

~*Haley*

Uninvited-Amanda Marrone

Jordan Malone's a high school student on Long Island with a vampire ex-boyfriend (Michael) stalking her. He torments her every night by talking to her through the window, asking her to let him in. Jordan knows that is she invites him in, he could kill her or worse-turn her into a vampire.

Jordan's a troubled teen who gets trashed and smokes pot. Her friends are so weird: Rachael, Gabby and Janine. It's all party, sex and drugs to them. Lisa returns from "rehab" and she doesn't really talk to her much. Jordan goes to a party for the 1st time in a long time and sees Michael there (her first time actually seeing him) and freaks and gets the heck out of there. Lisa's at her house and knows about Michael. The ending is the best part...Lisa's gonna get turned and Jordan finds out that Michael never really loved her. She has kill him and save an old friend.

It was really weird at first, but then near the end it was good. I read it with 2 other guys for pop lit. It's only 204 pages long. Note to self: check out Amanda Marrone's other book: The Revealers

~*Haley*

Captivate-Carrie Jones

Zara White and her friends have just discovered pixies existed and are protecting the town by trapping them in a iron surrounded house. Zara found out she was half pixie in the last book, Need, and that her father is the pixie king.

Zara saves a pixie named Astley from being taken by a Valkyrie to Valhalla, who turns out to be another pixie king. He's much nicer than any pixie she's meet (because all pixie she's met are bad ones). Zara's skin changes blue (the true color of a pixie's skin; they also have sharp teeth and silver eyes) whenever he's around, her reaction to him.

When a 3rd pixie king shows up and lets the other pixies lose, the take revenge on Zara's werewolf boyfriend, Nick. A Valkyrie takes him away and Zara has to figure out how to save him. She asks Astley to kiss her and change her into a full pixie so she may enter Valhalla.

Issie is her human bff. Devyn's Issie's beau and he's a were-eagle. Zara's step-grandma, Betty, is a weretiger. Cassidy is....can't tell you. Mrs. Nix is a werebear.

I really like this series. Zara's obsession with phobias is funny. I like how bubbly she is in the 1st part of the book. It's really written all funny-like and it's made of awesomeness. See? Now I'm talking like them!

~*Haley*

Beautiful Creatures-Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

This book is about a guy named Ethan Wate who lives in Gatlin, South Carolina, a small town that was part of the Civil War. Ethan meets Lena Duchannes (pronounced Du-chain) who is Macon Ravenwood's niece. Macon's the town shut-out, so they all think that Lena is crazy like him. Lena accidentally breaks the window in their English class and the cheerleader start bs-ing that she broke it with something and that she's violent and that they were hurt by it. Ethan and Lena has a psychic connection and they came telepathically communicate. Ethan goes to Ravenwood manor and finds Lena. The find a locket that sends them vision of the past. Ethan sees Macon for the first time and he's pretty cool, but when they have dinner he seems to have strange powers too. Ethan finds out that Lena's a Caster, which is sorta like a witch. He finds out that on her sixteenth birthday she could turn Dark and forget about him. They spend their days before Feb 11th figuring out how to stop her Claiming.

There's a ton more that happens in this book. I'll tell you about the characters beside Ethan and Lena and Macon. Link, whose mom is head of the DAR (like a pta), is Ethan's best friend. Emily, a cheerleader who hates Ethan, Savannah Snow, who he dated once. . Amma is Ethan's house keeper who does Voo-doo. Ethan's dad is a writer, and his wife, Ethan's mom, Lila died so he's a bit crazy and a shut-in now. There's the Sisters, Ethan's crazy great aunts. Lena's family's even crazier: Ridley's a Dark Caster and a Siren. Reece is a Light Caster and a Sybil. Ryan's....a healer? Larkin's a shifter, and Aunt Del can see through time. Boo Radley's Macon's wolf-dog. That's about it. I enjoyed it and wonder is there's a sequel. Have fun! Go read!

~*Haley*