Burned-P.C. & Kristin Cast

Last. Blog entry. Ever:

I love the House of Night series, and in the 7th book, this one, Zoey's stuck in the Otherworld because her soul's been shattered. Stevie Rae summon the white bull with Earth, not knowing that the white bull is Darkness, not Light like the black bull. The white bull gives her the info for the price of blood, and Rephaim takes it for her and she calls the black bull and he saves them for the price of her being tied to Rephaim's humanity, though he's a Raven Mocker. Stevie Rae gives the info to Aphrodite and she relays it to Stark. Stark goes to the Isle of Women to become uncivilized and goes to the Otherworld to save Zoey. He has to make Heath move on, Zoey to pull her soul together so she's not a restless not-dead-but-not-alive thing, and to defeat Kalona. The ending's pretty good, so I will not spoil it.

Liked it though most of it was in 3rd person, the next book is Awakened.

~*Haley* Good bye all those who even glanced at this.

Here are the next few books I was planning to read. I give up on this blog, it's not worth it.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Bree Tanner is a newborn vampire, one that was in the book Eclipse. Basically she lives with a bunch of other newborn who are lead by Riley. She makes friends with Diego, finds out that vampires don't burn in the sun like Riley's told them. She hangs around by Freaky Fred who has the ability to make everyone repulsed by him. Riley leads them into a battle against their creator's enemies. Then the rest is really the chapter called Mirror from Eclipse.

This book has no chapters and is 178 pages long, hence the term "novella."

~*Haley*

Hourglass-Claudia Gray

Bianca and Raquel have joined Black Cross, the vampire hunting cult. Bianca and Lucas are planning to escape together eventually. Bianca's struggling to find sources of blood, but once their Black Cross cell moves to the New York HQ, she's able to sneak a few pigeons. Mrs. Bethany attack the HQ after tracking Bianca's email to her parents. Black Cross goes on lock down. Balthazar is their prisoner and Bianca and Lucas come up with a plan to let him escape. Later on Black Cross finds out what Bianca is because Raquel caught Bianca drinking Lucas's blood. They take her and Lucas in a van to be studied somewhere, and Dana, another hunter who saw Bianca drinking from Lucas, helps them get away. Bianca and Lucas go to Philadelphia and get a hotel and get cleaned up and then meet with Vic. Vic let's them stay in his wine cellar while his family takes him and Ranulf to Tuscany. Vic already knows that Ranulf is a vampire and well as the other Evernight students including Bianca.

Bianca becoming sick and losing her taste for blood and food and she's dying because it was her destiny to become a Wraith. The only other choice besides full vampire.

It was a pretty good book, I admit. This series gets more and more interesting. This was tyhe 3rd Evernight book. I recommend it.

~*Haley*

The Enchanted Quest-Frewin Jones

This is the 5th book of the Faerie Path. Tania, Rathina and Conner take a boat from Faerie to Alba. They get caught by pirates or the way. Tania and Rathina escape into the Mortal Realm, accidentally leaving Conner behind, but later go back and save him. Conner made a deal with the pirates. They take horses through Alba to a castle of where Queen Titiana was from. They are welcome there, but find that Edric is there. Tania's not too happy about it. Edric's still using the Dark Arts. Edric comes with them into the land of Erin, where enchantments have gone wild. It's kinda of crazy like Wonderland. The Green Lady there steal Edric from Tania and she finds out what she has to do to get him back: go through 2 ordeals. She also found out how to get to Tirnanog, or at least somewhat because it's "beyond the end of the world." At the ocean, they have a run in with the pirates and secrets are revealed as Tania faces the foe.

~*Haley*

Leviathan-Thomas E. Sniegoski

18-year-old Aaron Corbet, his dog Gabriel and an angel name Camael are on the road to save Aaron's foster brother, Stevie. Camael thinks that they will find Aerie, a haven for fallen angels. They end up in a small town after an attack by Orishas. They find a vet for Gabriel who was bitten. Camael kind of disappears. Aaron ends up staying in town a few day, rooming at a old lady's house and working for the vet's office like he did back in Lynn.

This town has some really strange things going on, like mutated animals and people. It's because of Leviathan, an ancient chaos being. Aaron must fight it, he saves the angel Gabriel and he discovers that he's a messenger of God.

I like this series, they also had a shorter series in 4 part on ABC Family, and at Red Box rentals. I like the dog Gabriel because since Aaron can speak to animals, he can understand Gabriel. Gabriel's become more intelligent since Aaron healed him in the 1st book.

~*Haley*

Early to Death, Early to Rise-Kim Harrison

This is the 2^nd Madison Avery book, sequel to Once Dead, Twice Shy. Madison is the Dark Timekeeper, but she doesn’t believe in fate. Madison is given a scything of guy who’s going to put a computer virus in a hospital’s computer system, causing 3 people to die. She ends up finding the mark (marked to be scythed) at the mall working in a fast food place. It’s either Ace or Shoe. She thinks it’s Ace, Barnabas thinks it’s Shoe. Nakita goes with Madison and Ace. They find out that Ace is a graffiti artist, the one who made album covers for the illegally downloaded music that Shoe would hack. Ace is foul tempered. They end up going after Shoe, the techie one. Along the way, they’re trying to keep this all from the Light Timekeeper, Ron (Chronis) and his apprentice, Paul. After a flash forward, they have to hurry before Ron finds out. They follow Shoe to the school where he’s planning the virus-prank to shut down school for a day. They end up telling him too much, trying to stop him, but he already did it. Madison figures out it’s really Ace, so Madison comes up with a plan in order to get Shoe to patch up the hospital’s system. Madison plays dead-she already is dead! With a great confrontation and conflict that I will not spoil, I suggest you read this book for yourself!

It was really good. I love the reapers-angels theme. It’s pretty sweet! A fast read!

~*Haley*

Spirit Bound-Richelle Mead

This is the 5th Vampire Academy book. Rose Hathaway is graduating and she goes through the trials with flying colors. Many of the graduates Rose knows go to the Royal Court with her. This is where they will decide her future. Lissa, Eddie and Rose go to Alaska to break evil Victor Dashkov out to get information from him. They believe that Victor's half brother, a Spirit User, knows how to save a Strigoi. The meet him in Las Vegas and find out the a spirit-user has to charm a silver stake with spirit and the spirit user must stake the strigoi. A seemly impossible task, can Lissa manage to help Rose save Dimitri?

Dimitri kidnaps Lissa in order to get to Rose. She comes along with a bunch of guardians and many are killed by the strigoi. Christian traps Dimitri with his fire power and Lissa, using the minimal training she had from her 2 guardians, stakes him. In a burst of light, Dimitri is a dhampir again, but nobody believes it. Dimitri doesn't love Rose anymore, according to him. Rose still loves him and Adrian still loves Rose. It's a love triangle of hopelessness!

Later on, something surprising happens-Queen Tatiana is killed! And Rose is being accused! Will Rose ever have a life of her own?

Seriously! A Cliff-Hanger! Can't wait till the next one. And sorry if I left a ton out, or spoiled it.

~*Haley*

Shadow of the Moon-Rachel Hawthorne

Hayden is a werewolf, and on the first full moon after her 17th birthday, she will be able to shift and will officially be a Dark Guardian. Hayden's pretty unique, through, she's can sense other shifters' (werewolf ones) emotions. After a Harvester steal the soul of a fellow shifter during his 1st moon, Hayden runs away for her own protection, but is tracked by another guardian, Daniel. Daniel's dangerous, mysterious and charming. He's the only shifter that she can't sense the emotions of. When he pretty much drags her back to Wolford, her emotions for him deepen. She has never seen him transform, but he claims to be a shifter. Is there something different about him? He wants to claim her as his mate, but Hayden refused him because she doesn't want to risk his soul being stolen when her shifts with her for the first time.

Daniel has a secret that he's hiding and I bet you can't wait to find out! Also read the other Dark Guardian novels:

Moonlight

Full Moon

Dark of the Moon

These are easy to read, exciting books I'm sure you'd enjoy!

~*Haley*

Ballad-Maggie Stiefvater

James Morgan and his friend Deirdre start school at Thornking-Ash, a boarding school for the musically talented. James is a piper, he plays the bag pipes. He's the best piper in the state.

When James meets Nuala (so she calls herself), a leanan sidhe (lan-an-shee), he finds that he feels more creative when she's around. She's basically a muse-faery.

James and her are getting to know each other and he's still in love with Dee, but he's warming up to Nuala and falling in love later. When he's not cracking jokes, he's getting into trouble or dealing with fey...okay, not exactly, but something like that. Nuala know she has to burn on Halloween in order to live, so she's not sure weather she needs to steal years from James or not, so she resists her urge to do so. James is working on a short play about a magician, called Ballad. He's letting Nuala direct it. Though she cannot create, she's always dreamed to direct and she's very good a inspiring his actors to do well.

Dee is later kidnapped and she's going to be used to make the faerie queen, Eleanor's consort the king of the dead. Nuala wants to be human. James lets her burn in the bonfire and says her true name seven times...but he has to go save Dee. I really can't tell you the rest. Just know that with James being the main character this time, it was so freakin' funny, I couldn't stop laughing. I seriously recommend this book. It only took me 2 day to read it though it's 352 pages long.

~*Haley*

The Tear Collector-Patrick Jones

Cassandra Grey and her family feeds off of human sorrow, not causing it directly. She's basically like a vampire that thirts for tears instead of blood. She's a heart breaker, breaking up with boys such as Cody and making them cry. She volunteers and a hospital and is a peer concealer. She's always a shoulder to cry on.

When her best friend commits suicide, she comfort her friend's family. She also tries to make friends with a goth girl, Samantha and she's becoming the girlfriend of Samantha ex, Scott. She's starting to have feelings for Scott and that's not her nature. She shouldn't be able to fall in love.

At the family reunion, Alexei, her promised mate, is there. He's evil and picks up Cass's cell when Scott calls and tells him lies.

Later on he kidnaps Scott and tortures him like he did to many little boys. Cass tells Samantha what she is and they go rescue Scott. Scott is near death and Cass will risk everything, even exile, to save him. She's falling in love and she just might become human.

This book was pretty good! I live vampire book, the only problem with this one it that Cass was pretty fake, always trying to make people let out their tears and wiping them with a handkerchief.

~*Haley*

The Reckoning-Michael Carroll

The is the 3rd Quantum Prophecy book. Danny and Colin are super humans and sons of legendary superheroes. Quantum was Danny's father, and Energy and Titan were Colin's mother and father. Now Colin ran away from Sakkara, a special government agency. The Trutopians (now secretly ran by Victor Cross) try to get Colin on their side with some bribes. It's really hard to remember every detail:

-Stephenie, one of Paragon's (the non-superhuman superhero) twin daughters, is now renamed Erica in the witness protection program. She's ends up having to train some kid in Indiana that wants to help and be a superhero. She's gonna take-over her dead father's role.

-Colin is being controlled by Yvonne, a super smart and strong mind-controlling girl.

-Danny is still dealing with having only a left arm.

-Mina, Yvonne's sis, wakes up and Yvonne is controlling her.

-Colin rescues some slaves in a platinum mine.

-I forgot to mention Diamond aka Renata Soliz. She can turn into a solid crystal form, and she's strong. Danny likes her.

-Butler is a guy who can make forcefields.

That's all I remember. I recommend this to those who like superhero stuff.

~*Haley*

Liar-Justine Larbalestier

Micah is a compulsive liar. She lies about everything...well almost everything. When her kinda-boyfriend, Zach, dies, Micah's lies catch up to her and rumors spread. She's not only a suspect, but she was also dating a guy who already had a girl friend.

This book is a bit of a puzzle. The chapters are mainly titled BEFORE or AFTER. There's some pretty interesting stuff in it. Micah's a werewolf, which would be easy to figure out if you read the tags to this book and the first bit about her being born with a light coating of fur.

Micah is half black, half white. She lives in New York City. She like biology. Her grandma and great-aunt called the "Greats" live upstate on a farm with her cousins, some of who are wolves too. They live without modern technology and Micah doesn't want to go there. I'm afraid if I spoil anymore I will ruin the mystery, but I'll just say that this book will catch your interest, flipping the pages for you. A non-stop mystery-thriller! The author, She's married to Scott Westerfeld. She wrote the Magic or Madness trilogy that I loved!

~*Haley*

Stargazer-Claudia Gray

This is the second Evernight book. Bianca starts the new school year without Lucas and Vic gives her a letter from Lucas saying to meet him is Amherst in October. She runs into another vampire there, a young girl who later turns out to be Charity, Balthazar's sister who he made a vampire way back when. Lucas was hunter her and thinks she's part of a gang. Later on Bianca and Balthazar strike a deal that he will help her meet Lucas from time to time if they help him get his sister back. They make an arrangement to pretend to be dating. Meanwhile, ghost of "wraith" activity has been going on at Evernight and when it does things seem to frost over, ice crystals everywhere. The wraiths are after Bianca, her parents have kept a secret from her-that her parents made a deal that their child would become a wraith instead of a vampire in exchange for the wraiths' help to conceive the child. Bianca's love and life are both on a thin line.

Overall, I liked this book. It was much easier to read after having read the first. I like Balthazar better than Lucas, I think. Balth's more charming.

~*Haley*

Biker Girl-Misako Rocks!

I actually met the Artist/Author of this manga at ACEN. She was really nice and like my artwork when I showed it to her at the drawing workshop.

Biker Girl was her 1st graphic novel. She did the drawings in calligraphy pen ink and they're kind of rough because it was her 1st.

So it's about a 17 year old girl named Aki who finds a magic bike while cleaning out the garage. She touches it and becomes Biker Girl. Her grandpa says it's her destiny. She's off to fight crime and save the day. She races the biker gang that caused her cousin's death and she wins. She finds out that the new leader of the gang is actually her brother. She also falls in love with her best guy friend, Kai. That's about it. It's quite short, didn't even take me and hour to read.

~*Haley*

The Iron King-Julie Kagawa

When strange things occur on her sixteenth birthday, Meghan Chase finds out that her best friend Robbie isn't who she thinks he is and that faeries exist. Robbie turns out to Robin Goodfellow a.k.a. Puck (like from A Midsummer Night's Dream). After school she goes home to see her mother on the floor and her brother turned evil, replaced by a changeling. Her mother's fine, though that doesn't mean all is right. Meghan and Puck go to Faeryland to get her brother back. Along the way she meets a cat (or a cait sith) named Grimalkin, who can talk. The cat leads her to the Seelie court after she was ditched by Puck. There she finds out that she is Oberon's daughter, a half-breed fey. During Elysium she meets (again) the youngest prince of the Unseelie Court, Ash. He has an oath to kill Puck. All lot of stuff happens after that so I will just list now.

-Meghan's elfish aspects show.

-The go to the Winter (Unseelie) Court and are in a manor and Puck lets Meghan try some kind of fruit that makes her drunk.

-Meghan and Grim go to a club in Detroit because a trod is in it.

-Meghan gives up a memory to get info from an Oracle in New Orleans (She lives in Louisiana too)

-Meghan and Puck (who's hurt) and Ash go to meet some dryads in some park and get the special wood that could kill the Iron King who kidnapped her brother.

-They get attack by an Iron fey named Virus.

-They go to the Iron Court, which is like a wasteland of technology.

I'm not even going to go on. So much happen in this book, I can't remember how it did. Anyway, Robbie/Puck is so funny. I like him. Ash is okay.

I love the cover, don't you?

~*Haley*

Evernight-Claudia Gray

Bianca, a shy 16-year old girl, has to start school at Evernight boarding school because her parents are becoming teachers there. She meets Lucas on orientation day and she feels comfortable with him. She really likes him and they get together and break apart a few times. She ends up going to the Autumn ball with Balthazar instead. Lucas shows up and Bianca kinda bites him...the first time she ever tastes human blood. It was 140 pages into the story and we finally find out that she's a born vampire, and I though Lucas was the vamp. Anyways, she's in trouble for it and there's a whole side story of Raquel, Bianca human friend, being stalked by the vamp Erich. Bianca confronts Erich and Lucas sees and Bianca confesses her vampire-ness to Lucas via email. We later find out that Lucas harbor a secret too-he's a vampire hunter, part of the Black Cross. Will their love survive, I mean, c'mon! Oh, and Bianca bit Lucas twice so now he has some vampire powers.

And also, Patrice is Bianca's roommate. The author wrote a short story about her in this other book I have.

I'm gonna read Stargazer, the sequel.

~*Haley*

Meridian-Amber Kizer

Meridian Sozu has had many things die around her. On here sixteenth birthday, when a car crash happens in front of her house, her parents send her off to her great-aunt's house in Revelation, Colorado. He Auntie is her name sake and also a Fenestra like Meridian finds out that she is. A Fenestra is partially angel and they a windows to heaven, being that can lead people to other side very comfortably. Auntie trains Meridian with the help of a teenage guy that lives there named Tens. Tens is very mean to Meridian at first, but she falls in love with him. There's a very charismatic and movie-star looking reverend in town and he's turning everyone against Auntie, calling her a witch. They think he's a Aternocti, one that leads souls to the Destroyer rather than the Creator. They're been getting strange calls and dead animals on their door step. Meridian isn't very safe.

Auntie is 106 years old (because that's how long all Fenestras live) and going to die soon. Meridian is learning how to escort souls and she must be able to do so for her Auntie when she passes. Meridian help Auntie's dead lover, Charles to the other side. She does so for Auntie on New Years Eve, and then some believers and Aternoctis burn down the house. Tens and Meridian narrowly escape through a secret passage. They make it to the cave that Charles souped up a long time ago and Tens improved it. Tens was poisoned by the reverend when Meridian was leading souls at the train wreak. Meridian's got to stop Reverend Perimo before it's too late.

This book was so good, can't wait till the next. I read it in 2 days.

~*Haley*

Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret-Liz Kessler

Emily's life is finally perfect on Allpoints Island, but she feels like something's missing. She's home-sick. After finding out from Archie that Shiprock is under distress, Emily, her mom, Mr. Beeston, Aaron and his mom, and Millie all go to Emily's hometown, Brightport. Shona and her family return to Shiprock (the mermaid town near Brightport) Aaron and Emily get in trouble on their first day at Shiprock's mermaid school because the principle finds out they're semi-mers.

Also, Mandy doesn't remember ever being Emily's friend, but Emily and Aaron somehow break the memory drug's spell by holding hands and she remembers.

Shona and Emily go out in search for some lost sirens and Emily gets pulled by a current into a well and meets the old lost sirens. They're not very nice and think that the can get out only by a siren's song and since they lost their singing voices, they need another siren to help them. Shona finds the cave and her singing doesn't help. Aaron finds Emily and they break the curse, but only so they can get through. They take conch shell the best siren, Melody. They find the map inside of it of some deserted island. Mr. Beeston finds out about all this and goes to the cave. Melody just so happens to be his mother. Emily and Aaron go to Neptune and ask for him to break the curse for them all and let the sirens out. He does it under the conditions that Emily and the others up their efforts on stopping Brightport's development that's ruining Shiprock and also Neptune takes Emily and Aaron's power to undo his own power away. They ask Melody for help and she agrees. Before, Millie brought Emily's grandparents into town. They had been memory drugged and now they got the back and the drug's magic is gone. So now Emily's grandparents remember. There's a nice happy ending and I wouldn't want to spoil that too, but I like this series. It's probably my favorite Juvenile series, but I don't read many anymore. The mermaid phrases are pretty cute and I think that 12 year old Emily Windsnap seems more mature now that she's falling in love with Aaron. I wonder if this story is British or American. It's Mom not mum, and it uses dollars and not pounds, so I think that Liz Kessler made this more American based despite living in England.

~*Haley*

Radiant Shadows-Melissa Marr

Ani is a hound halfling with a hunger for both emotion and touch. This, as well as being able to feed off of both mortal and fey, makes her abnormal. Irial, Gabriel and Rabbit are all protective of her but know that she is very strong herself.

Devlin is the Bloodied Hands of the High Queen, he's her assassin. He was the 1st male fey, created by both Sorcha and Bananach, brother to both. Years ago Sorcha sent him to kill Ani, but Rae, a spectral mortal he met over a hundred years ago, convinced him not to.

When Ani and Devlin meet in a club, Ani kisses him and feeds herself. He feels drained and wonders what she is. Eventually he's falling in love with free spirited Ani and here are some highlights of this book:

-Rae, the spectral girl, she can walk in dreams of others.

-Sorcha, Bananach and Devlin can only see the futures of those not tied to them.

-Seth can see the future as a fey in the Mortal world.

-Irial's been doing experiments on Ani's blood, seeing if it can help the Dark court.

-Ani gets a steed! She names it Barry for Barracuda. I thought it was cool.

-The High Court's queen Sorcha kinda unbalenced now. The Unchanging Queen has changed.

-Ani & Devlin take Barry across the country for Ani's safety and when they stop at a rest stop, it's funny when Devlin almost walks into the girl's room. Ani tells the other lady in there that Dev's just shaken up cuz he's sensitive. lol

-Ani & Dev stay in a hotel for a night.

-Sorcha asks Rae to walk into some artists dreams.

-Faerie falls apart while Sorcha's sleeps to dream about her "son" Seth.

-Dev & Ani save faerie by bring Seth to wake the queen.

-Devlin & Ani start the Shadow Court!

That's about all I can think of. I had a hard time reading it because it's in 3rd person. I just have a short attention span when it comes to boring books. I'll give it at least 1 star, though for the funny parts.

~*Haley*

Whiteout-Walter Sorrells

This is the 3rd book in the Hunted series. The 1st is Fake I.D. and the 2nd is Club Dread.

Chass and her mom move to Greensville, Minnisota. After a month of being there and Whiteout storm happens, making everything a Winter World. Chass finds Ms. Hill's body in the snow with a shot in the head. She was the music teacher, an old lady, and Chass wondered who would do this to a nice lady. She sees a man, the killer most likely. When she tells her mom, her mother wants to leave. Chass gets mad and walks out into the storm. She goes to the police station and the chief helps her a bit, but then he's going crazy about the wolves. Chass hotwires a snowmobile and wrecks it. She goes home again and her mom's still not there. Katie shows up at her house. There's someone at the door and they freak out. It's Fabe from California. I can tell you a few more key events:

-Her mom gets shot after going out with Chass's hat on

-The girls get in trouble for breaking into Ms. Hill's house

-The high school is set on fire and Katie tries to save instrument while Chass looks for evidence

-We find out that Kyle Van Epps was from this town

-Kyle had a brother, Cale

-Cale was deformed. He's in the loony bin.

-Elliot used to go get Cale in secrecy and drive him to Ms. Hill's home to record and make songs.

-Cale is a rich song writer, but Kyle gets all the money.

-Chass goes back to Ms. Hill's and into her basement and is locked in as it burns. She gets out barely.

Too much happens. It's a good book and a mystery, so I'm not gonna tell you the killer. Is is Kyle, Cale, Elliot, Elliot's Dad, Mr. Osmund or some other person? Read and find out!

:)

~*Haley*