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*

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*

The Immortal Realm-Frewin Jones

This is the 4th book of The Faerie Path series. Tania tries to bring the Mortal and Immortal Realms together by letting her mortal parents come to a Faerie wedding. A baby gets sick and dies after the wedding and since that hasn't happened in thousands of years in Faerie, they set the blame on Tania since she brought her sick mortal father there. The sick are put in the Gildensleep and a "Healer" from Alba comes to help, but really he's a fake and starts blaming Tania, so Tania might be banished for eternity because of his act. Tania brings Conner from London and he's a med student but he fails to cure Cordelia. Eden says that the sickness isn't mortal so Tania, Rathina and Conner set out on a quest to find the Lost Caer. They must find out where it is from a forbidden hall of records and then go to the Lost Caer and find out how to stop the plague and save Faerie from the devastation.
BEST. FAERIE PATH. BOOK. YET!!!!!!!! I read it in less than 2 days and it's 341 pages long. Rathina's pretty funny. I think it would be awesome for her to pair up with Conner. Can't wait to read The Enchanted Quest.

~*Haley*

Prétear Manga

This fantasy is supposed to be the new legend of Snow White. Himeno becomes the prétear after she meets the Leafe Knights. Each knight has a specialty such as wind, plants, ice, water, fire, light and sound. Himeno can use their power to create more Leafe (life-energy) and destroy the seeds of Darkness that the Princess of Destruction put in places.

I really liked it because of the outfits and abilities. It's cool, so if it's at your library then read it!

~*Haley*

Thirst No. 1-Christopher Pike

Within the binding of this book there are actually three books.

Sita is a fiver thousand year old vampire with a thirst for blood, though she prefers not to kill. In The Last Vampire she tries to get close to Ray Riley so she can get information about who is searching for her, who turns out to be Yaksha, the one who turned her. In Black Blood she is hunting down a psychotic vampire named Eddie who is out to destroy the human race and creating more vampires. In Red Dice she is chased down by the government and catches up with an old friend named Arturo who has a plot to turn everyone in the world into "perfect" vampire-hybrids.

I liked this series so far because the author includes a lot of action in it as well as philosophical bits and scenes from the character's past. Sita is a deep character, which makes sense because she's 5,000 years old. It's not much of a romance novel, so I liked it better for its amazingly interesting events.

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Throughout these three books there are continuing themes. The main character Sita keeps on mentioning paradoxes. A paradox is a kind of contradiction. It has to do with opposites. Sita mentions a story about a demon that asked a god for invincibility and the power to kill anyone by touching the top of his of her head. The paradox of the gifts given to him was the solution to the paradox. The question was which one was stronger. He ended up being tricked into touching the top of his own head and the gift canceled each other out and he was killed. Sita thinks her whole life is a paradox and she even discusses it with Krishna, the eighth avatar or God. Krishna talks about how everything has an opposite. Fire has ice. Day has night. Sita and Krishna are the same and yet different. It reminded me of Yin-and-Yang.
There is also a theme of life and death. Sita does not enjoy killing, though she does it when she needs to. A few times when the bad guy said that they didn’t want to die, she would come back with the phrase “Then you should never have been born.” It is true that everybody who has been born dies too. Even vampires die, but not of old age. Sita was the last vampire supposedly, so she killed the rest of the vampires to save the world from them. The first vampire, Yaksha, became tired of living so he tried to complete (originally) his mission to rid the world of vampires by killing Sita, Ray and himself. Sita, who was older than Yaksha, didn’t want to die yet. Her true desire was to become human. She wanted a baby. She wanted to create life.
Humanity is another theme in these books. Sita was only a human for a short time. She lived in a village of mostly blond haired blue eye people in a place south of what is Russia today. When she was twenty she met Rama and he became her husband. They had a daughter name Lalita. When Yaksha turned her she had to leave them. She missed them so much throughout the years. Sita became drawn to Ray because he reminded Sita of Rama. He might have been his reincarnation, but sadly, he sacrificed himself. Sita remembered Arturo, an alchemist from Florence. He knew how to change some things into other things using crystals and a copper sheet. Sita catches up with him in the third book. He wants to change all of humanity into perfect vampire-human hybrids. Sita thinks humans should stay human. She wished she stayed human. Before the bomb kills Arturo, he tells her that he knows how to make her human again. After he dies she goes to his house and uses his tools to make her human again.

~*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*

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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*