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 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*

Token of Darkness-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Ever since the eight-car pile up that Cooper was in, he has been haunted by a color coordinationally challenged ghost of a teenage girl. He also can see shadows and can push people out of their body. Samantha (the "ghost" that can't remember he past) wants to be alive. Cooper goes to the library to see if he can figure out how to help her. There he meets Brent. Brent can read minds and he dated Delilah who was a friend of Cooper. Delilah practices sorcery. Brent takes Cooper to Ryan le Coire, a very powerful sorcerer who may be able to help him. Delilah figures out that Samantha is a water elemental with no idea of what she is. Delilah ends up in the hospital after almost drowning because she tried to exchange mortality with Samantha. There's a bit of a body mix up and the ending, I cannot say.
Honestly, one of the funniest and most exciting books by this author. It's only 197 pages long and I read it in one day. I really loved it and recommend it. It's supernaturally awesome!

~*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.

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*