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*