Review of Anna Dressed in Blood By Kendare Blake

In this unforgettable tale about a ghost hunter and the ghost he falls in love with, Cas enters a town with one goal, to kill Anna Dressed in Blood. He expects to find a simple spirit, one he can kill and leave. Anna turns out to be much more than anyone expected. Instead of a troubled spirit, he finds a cursed girl, going crazier with every kill. Her unravels the past of both the ghost and himself, discovering things he never thought possible.

This book. This book was amazing! It has been so long since I have read such a creepy, mind captivating, fast paced, and well thought out book. I don’t even remember the last one that can be described that way. Anna Dressed in Blood was engraved into my mind for several hours after shutting the book on the last page. I thought it was silly, seeing reviews about how people couldn’t sleep at night after reading it. How bad can a simple book be? But there is something special about this book. I don’t know if it’s the wonderful characters, the creepy setting, or the fact that the book was printed with red ink, I will have to add this book to my collection, just so I can read it again and wear the pages down so horribly bad, that it seems like a book printed in the seventies. I don’t know why I waited so long to read a book with such amazing reviews. I regret not picking this book up sooner to find the wonderful world it held behind the red words.

Review of Megan Berry #1: You Are So Undead to Me By Stacey Jay

In Stacey Jay’s novel, You Are So Undead to Me, main character, Megan, finds her Settler powers returning after the night five years ago, where they disappeared. This means taking on responsibility once again, possibly ruining her sophomore experience.

So I guess we’re back to whiny, pathetic, and stupid female main characters? Megan was horrible. She really was. She was stupid and whiny and really couldn’t do anything right. This book was boring, up until the big event at the end when you finally learn the identity of the black magic practitioner(s). The end was completely unexpected, which makes me wonder if the second book will be any better. I don’t think I’m in any hurry to find out.

Review of Curse Workers #1: White Cat By Holly Black

In Holly Blacks wonderful book, White Cat, Cassel, the only non-worker in his family, suddenly begins having dreams of a strange white cat. He begins to question what he has been told all his life, and even what he remembers.

White Cat was a very hard book to get into, but it turned into one of the most interesting books I have read in awhile. It follows the story of Cassel and Lila as they uncover the secrets of Cassel’s family. The beginning was really slow and confusing but as it moved on, things were explained much better and I was able to feel for the characters more. I was a bit disappointed that the book wasn’t really about the cat, but at least no cats died.

Review of The Lunar Chronicles #2: Scarlet By Marissa Meyer

In the second book in the Lunar Chronicles series, Scarlet searches for her missing grandmother with the new stranger in town, Wold. Meanwhile, Cinder escapes with Captain Thorne as she tries to meet up with Dr. Erland in Africa.

Oh I love this series. Both books have been beautifully written, fast paced, full of character development, and simply wonderful. I think I enjoyed Scarlet a tad better than Cinder with the introduction of a new character. It’s so refreshing to read a book with powerful female main characters after reading books with such weak and whiny female main characters such as Beautiful Creatures and Unravel Me. Cinder and Scarlet were such powerful and strong characters and it made the book that much more enjoyable.

Review of Zom-B Angels By Darren Shan

In the forth book of the Zom-B series, B finds her way to a base. It’s a hope to other revitalized. Here she will meet others she thought she had lost, fin out the truth about the revitalized, and realize how twisted this whole thing it.

It was refreshing to read a nice short book after reading the big mammoth that Beautiful Creatures was. The thing I REALLY like about the Zom-B books, are that they are really short and usually move really fast. Angels was a bit slower than the others, but it answered quite a few questions that needed to be answered. I wasn’t too happy with the return of Rage, but the introduction of wonderful, new characters, like Jakob and Ashtat, made up for it.

Review of Beautiful Creatures By Kami Garcia and Margret Stohl

In the first book of the Caster Chronicles, new girl, Lena moves to town, harboring a deep secret that Ethan just has to figure out. As the two fall in love, secrets are revealed, ones even Lena didn’t know about.

Okay. If I had to describe this book with one word, it would be, Okay. I really don’t get why so many people love it that much. It had really good characters, but Lena kind of made me feel depressed sometimes. She was a really depressing character. I despised her cousin, Ridley. Ethan was a better character. I like that even though the entire town was revolting against them, he waved it off like it was nothing. I was a bit upset with Link early on, but he really showed his true colors about half way through. The plot was unique, but at the same time, this book easily could have been 300 pages side from the 560 it really was. It dragged on a bit too much and got really boring. I had to force myself through the last 120 pages because it was so boring. It covered a span of maybe three hours while the rest of the book fit a good week or two in the same amount of pages. Macom was one of my favorite characters throughout the entire book and is probably the only reason this book received 4 stars instead of 3.

Review of Confessions of a Murder Suspect By James Patterson and Maxine Peatro

In James Patterson’s latest book for young adults, Tandy Angel wakes up to siren blasting and police storming into her house, only to find her parents dead. She must finally face the past that has been worked at so well to be forgotten, in order to solve the mystery of who killed her parents. The only thing is, any of her siblings are suspects, even her.

While I wasn’t expecting much from this book, I found it very well. I remembered how much I loved this author’s style of writing and how his characters always seem to speak to the readers, making them much easier to understand. While many parts of this book were confusing until the very end, it added extra suspense to the plot. Tandy was a well thought out character, though not my favorite. I found myself liking her twin Harry a bit more. He was the “black sheep” of the family, the one that couldn’t be fixed, and I liked that. It added an extra piece to his character. Samantha, their parent’s assistant, was a very interesting character though towards the end I felt that was was a bit whinier than all the Angel kids put together.