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*

Firespell-Chloe Neill

Lily Parker's parents send her to St. Sophia's boarding school in Chicago when they leave for Germany on a sabbatical. The school is pretty strange and so is her roommate, Scout. Scout disappears a lot at night and Lily wants to know what's going on. She find out that nothing is what it seems. Scout is a part of a group of magic users that want to protect Chicagoans from the psychic-energy stealing Reapers. Lily doesn't have a power so the elders of the Adepts don't let her join, but after being hit with firespell a darkening appears on Lily's back. She does have a power. Firespell.

Lily also finds out that her parent have been lying about their jobs. They aren't really philosophy professors, but geneticist, though they don't know that she knows.

Lily and the other Adepts have a fight against the Reapers and I will not spoil the rest. This is the 1st Dark Elite novel. I loved it because it was set in Chicago. Scout and Lily are pretty funny together. Jason sounds really hot. He's Lily's crush and he's a werewolf. I recommend this yummy series.

~*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*

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*

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*

Psycho Busters Manga

I read the first four of these mangas and I love them. Kakeru, Ayano, and the others. They're psychics and it kind of reminds me of Dark Visions and Maximum Ride. There's this place called the Greenhouse and it's kind of like the School in M.R. Ayano and the others lived there before they escaped to find Kakeru. Kakeru doesn't know he's psychic at first but he finds out in the fourth volume. This series I'm going to keep up with too now, so I can't wait for the next volume. Manga lover out there, check it out!

~*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*