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Review: Pretties

The Book: Pretties, by Scott Westerfeld
The Story: This is going to have little spoilers from Uglies, so if you haven’t read it yet and plan to, do yourself a favor and do not read on!
So, this book starts with Tally being pretty… and really confused. She doesn’t remember clearly what happened to her to [...]

Review: Sweetly

The Book: Sweetly, by Jackson Pearce
The Story: Gretchen, her twin sister and their brother Ansel are out in the woods when they are chased by something fierce and horrible. Gretchen and Ansel make it home, but their sister is no where to be found. People search and search but no sign is ever [...]

Review: Lola and the Boy Next Door

The Book: Lola and the Boy Next Door, by Stephanie Perkins
The Story: Lola is kind of the coolest girl ever. She has an incredible wardrobe of costumes and wigs. She has two great dads. She has a hot rocker boyfriend. She lives in San Francisco and kind of just does her own [...]

Review: Anna and the French Kiss

The Book: Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
The Story: Anna is just a normal almost-Senior in an Atlanta high school. She has an almost-boyfriend and an awesome best friend. She’s looking forward to her senior year and bam! Her dad tells her that she’ll be going to a Parisian boarding school [...]

Review: I Am Not a Serial Killer

The Book: I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
The Story: John Wayne Clever truly is not a serial killer. He has never killed anyone, in fact…. but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t think about it. A lot.
He is obsessed with serial killers, is likely a sociopath, and has rituals [...]

Review: Across the Universe

The Book: Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
The Story: Amy was frozen in a box along side her family, put on a ship and flung into space. Seriously.
The plan was to wake them up when they got to their planet, but something has gone wrong and Amy was unthawed about 50 years [...]

Review: Delirium

The Book: Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
The Story: Lena Holoway is born into a world that has been totally rid of love. Scientists in the past realized that love was the reason that there was hurt, pain, anger, jealousy, and passion in the world. They developed a surgery that successfully rid people of Love and [...]

Review: Hex Hall

The Book: Hex Hall, by Rachel Hawkins
The Story: Sophie is a witch. She is also just a normal high schooler that lives with her non-witch mom. She came into her powers when she was 12 and really doesn’t know much about them… except that they work. On prom night, they may just [...]

Review: Desperation

The Book: Desperation, by Stephen King
The Story: This is the companion novel that goes with The Regulators. They aren’t a “series” exactly and can be read in any order, but the do have some characters that overlap and a similar storyline. Just so ya know.
Desperation is a town in in-the-middle-of-nowhere Nevada. [...]

Review: Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee

The Book: Shadow Baby, by Alison McGhee
The Story: Clara winter (yup, the lack of capitalization is on purpose) is 12 year old girl with a very, very active imagination.  She is growing up in a rural town with her mother.  She religiously quizzes her mother about the whereabouts of her grandfather, father and twin sister. [...]