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*

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*

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*

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*

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*

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*

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*

Vampire Diaries The Return 2: Shadow Souls-LJ Smith

This 599 page book is the 6th Vampire Diaries novel. Elena, Damon, Bonnie and Meridith travel to the Dark Realm to rescue Stefan. They have to find both halves of the kitsune(Fox Demon) key which Misao and Shinichi hid, but Misao gave away clues. Damon pretends to be the master of 3 slaves, Elena and her friends.

All I can say is that it's a long complicated plot that I can't remember every detail to, but I recommend it to vamp lovers. The books are better than the TV show, trust me. Even though they gave me eye strain...they should be easy to read. I'm just tired. I heart Damon. :P

~*Haley*

Vampire Kisses 2: Kissing Coffins-Ellen Schreiber

Raven has to find Alexander. He left without a word. Now she's sure he's a vampire, but does she want to be a vampire anymore? Not yet. After finding out that Jameson called from the Coffin Club, Raven goes to Hipsterville to find him and Alexander, but they're not there. She meets Jagger, whom she finds out is a vampire too. Raven goes back to Alexander's mansion and she finds them and Alexander and Jagger fight. Jagger is scared off only after at temping to bite Raven. Alexander and Jagger later fight at the Drive-In. This book is also a very short, funny read. Only 165 pages long. I started it this morning and am done. I guess I'll check out the rest of the series.
I totally recommend it! :)


~*Haley*

Betrayals-Lili St. Crow

This is the second book in the Strange Angels series.
Dru Anderson is sent to the Schola for her own protection after she finds out about her djamphir (half vampire) heritage. The Schola is an all-boys training facility which makes Dru feel like an outsider. She's not allowed outside of the school, but she does escape a few times. Christophe come back, which makes her feel a bit better, but then she finds out that there's a traitor in the Order and Christophe is a suspect. Graves (the Goth-Boy turned skin changer) is making friends with werwulfen.
The schola is attacked twice, the second time a Burner sets it on fire. Dru, Graves, Christophe and a few other werwulfen escape and set of for another safe place. Dru's in danger and no one can be trusted.

I recommend this series to fans of Vampire Academy or Maximum Ride. But, beware of the small text on each page. It's not very easy to read, but I got through it and still like the characters. Dru is a cool, tough character.



Pop Lit Journal:

Dru and Graves and even Christophe have their own saying or “catch phrases”. Things they seem to say repeatedly that make it easy to distinguish who’s saying what when dialog doesn’t include “I said” or “he said.” Dru has her saying in her thought too, of course, because this novel is written in first person. Since Dru grew up in Florida, she has some very southern saying that she picked up from her Gran or dad. She swears a lot, but I won’t go into that. Whenever she’s desperate she thinks “oh, God” or “Jesus.” Whenever something seems too make sense, she thinks, “go figure.” Twice in the same paragraph she described how male werwulfen and male djamphirs will change at “the drop of a hat.” Her father or Gran’s voice would always come to her mind with advice or their own little sayings they used to say to Dru. She also has a lot of thoughts about how she doesn’t like being told what to do or thoughts how she doesn’t want to ruin her tough-girl image. Out of all the books I’ve read, this series has had the most italicized thoughts from the main character I’ve ever seen. Some of the things she says a lot sarcastically are “gee, thanks” and “peachy.” She’s a very stubborn and sarcastic character.
Graves (Goth Boy turned Skin-changer) has his own little phrases. “First one’s free,” is like his motto or something. In Strange Angels he said it like twenty -something times, in this book only about three times. He’s very generous, especially to Dru. He obviously likes her even though she kind of ruined the life he had before they came to the Schola. He said he liked the Schola better, anyways. At least they feed him there. He’s a really nice, smart guy even though he smokes and he’s Goth. He is pretty much Dru’s best friend now, and has potential to be her boyfriend too. Whenever something’s wrong he says, “Christ” or even “Jesus.”
Christophe has the tendency to say things in what I think is Russian. I seriously wish the author put a glossary in the back of this book so I knew what Christophe was calling Dru half the time. He calls Dru his “little bird” in English and possibly in Russian. Since Christophe is older than he looks since he is half vampire, I was able to tell his age from the way he spoke. He sounded like he must be about a hundred years old since he spoke like an old man or like an old-time romantic. Dru didn’t realize he was so old, but I thought it was sort of obvious. How would a teen know so much about her mother?

~*Haley*

P.S. I HAD TO RETYPE THIS DARN THING BECAUSE MY INTERNET FAILED LAST NIGHT!!! I HATE COMCAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Devil's Kiss-Sarwat Chadda

Devil's Kiss is about a squire of the Knights Templar named Billi (Bilqis) SanGreal. She just completed her Ordeal and is now part of the knights, but she doesn't really like her warrior's life. She wants a normal life. Kay comes back from Jerusalem, but she doesn't really want him to be part of her life now that he's an Oracle. Billi meets Mike after he saves her from some jerks on the train. He later turns out to be the dark angel Micheal and he's come to release all the other dark angels from the cursed mirror. He wants to unleash the tenth plague on London, killing every first born child. They have to stop him and the only way to do that is to use the Silver Sword, but Satan tells Billi she must kill her father that she pretty much "hates" in order to get it from him. Will she be able to do it or will she find another way to stop Micheal? This book was pretty awesome. It only took me three days to read. I read the second half of the book today. I'm really interested in reading the next book called Dark Goddess that comes out this year. This book is in 3rd person and it has a lot of British words in it. I had a hard time imagining the character with British accents, but I still loved it.

Read it! :)

~*Haley*

Hearts At Stake-Alyxandra Harvey

Solange Drake is the first female vampire to be born in 900 years and apparently that makes her a threat to the throne. She has 7 older brothers, Nicholas being the youngest. Her best friend is Lucy who's real name is Lucky, but no one except "annoying" Nicholas calls her that.

There's a bounty on the Drake family and a fresh agent shows up at their house. His name is Kieran. He's pretty much Solange's love-interest, just as Nicholas is Lucy's love interest.

London shows up at the Drakes' house and Solange is summoned by Lady Natasha (the queen) and it ends up being a trap since Lady Natasha set the bounty. I really don't want to spoil it, but there's a lot of humor in it. If you love vampires, romance and comedy, you'll love this series: The Drake Chronicles.

See more info here:

http://thedrakechronicles.com/

~*Haley*

Vampire Kisses-Ellen Schreiber

This series is amazing. Raven Madison is an awesome character. She's funny and sarcastic and goth and vampire obsessed. Basically, she lives in Dullsville and it's pretty dull there, hence the name, and some family moves into the old Mansion. There's rumors that it was a family of vampires. Raven sneaks into the Mansion. Alexander sees her and invites her to dinner sometime later. The antagonist is a jerk named Trevor. Becky is Raven's best friend. Alexander is a vampire, but that's not until the 2nd book. Read it, it's really awesome!

I give it 4 stars!

~*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.

Pop Lit Journal:

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*

Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives Manga's-Ellen Schreiber & REM

This manga series is based off of Ellen Schreiber's book series, Vampire Kisses. Raven is a goth girl with a vampire boyfriend named Alexander. Alexander is a romantic, good vampire. When his cousin, Claude, comes into town, things get complicated. Claude is in search of blood-filled vials that their grandmother hid somewhere. Claude will become a full vampire like Alexander if he drinks from a vial. Raven and Alexander devise a plan to trick Claude and his gang into finding the false vials.

It's a pretty good manga. I only read the first two. I haven't read the books yet but now I kind of want to.

~*Haley*

Nightschool Manga Series by Sveltlana Chmakova

This is now officially one of my favorite Manga series. It's published by Yen Press like the Maximum Ride manga were. There's witches, vampire and shifters in it, as well as other creatures. I'm not sure if the 2nd volume has come out yet, but I'll check at Borders probably. The main character is a Weirn witch girl named Alex. She's on the cover, see? I'm not going to do a summary because I've only read the 1st volume, so read it for yourself!

~*Haley*

Immortal Love Stories With A Bite

I loved these love stories. Maybe that was because they were supernaturally amazing! Cast really did pick some great authors for this short story collection. I knew most of the author, so I bought this book. I loved all the stories that were in 1st person, which was 6/8. I especially liked Richelle Mead, Rachel Vincent and Kristen Cast's stories.

The one Richelle Mead wrote, Blue Moon, was set in Chicago (How awesome is it to have the city I live near be the setting?) and the main character was this girl who is a Vampire. She's part of some prophecy to destroy vampires. Rachel Vincent's story, Binge, was about Mallory, a leanan sidhe, and a musician. Mallory's best friend is a Siren.

Kristen Cast's story, Amber Smoke, was about some girl who ends up meeting her love, who can control time. She is turned into a vampire who live off of energy and her blood is amber. She can see aura and she saves her mom.

So, read this collection if you love vampire stories!

~*Haley*

Bite Me! by Melissa Francis

This was an amazing, hilarious book full of south humor and vampire fiction. AJ (Ariel Jane) Ashe is a 17-year-old vampire who's mom marries her (ex) boyfriend's dad (Rick). She struggles to stay away from him as he not-dates a girl named Lindsey. At the bonfire before school starts, AJ tries to re-bound with Noah James, a soccer player like her. She drinks a beer, thereby losing control of her instincts. She is filled with a lust high and starts making out with him, but she bites his tongue after he tries to get rough with her. After being stopped abruptly when Bridget (one of her BFF's, the other is Malia) and Ryan (her stepbrother/ex-boyfriend) come along, she blacks out and wakes up in her room. Noah is found beaten, bitten and dead two days later, and a few days after that, becomes an undead vampire (a dichampyre). AJ feels guilty and thinks it was her fault that he's dead, but it was a snake bite that killed him. AJ goes through a Hell of a first week of school. She gets framed for cheating, and gets suspended. Photoshopped pictures of her making out with the hot social studies teacher, Mr. Charles, are posted on Facebook by a person who hacked her account. AJ finds out her parents were from the Serpentine line of vampires, and that she may play a part in some mysterious prophecy. I give this book four stars. (****) I really liked it. I read 175 pages of it just today and finished it. Much better than I expected. Remember kids, don't always judge a book by it's cover!
I really can't wait till Melissa Francis's second book, Love Sucks!, comes out. More AJ Ashe please! :)

~*Haley*