Over My Dead Body: 43 Old Cemetary Road Book 2 – Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise

Somehow, I wound up on the Amazon Vine list. This is the first of the books I’ve reviewed as an Official Vine Reviewer but I have two more books waiting for me to review and I think another one the way.
You can read the review here.

The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers

I read the last three of the four books one after another in the last two weeks, so I decided to write about them all at once.
All of you know the plot, so I won’t bother with much of that.  All of you know that Stephenie Meyer is an amazing writer, so I won’t even [...]

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

I’ve come across two new series. The first is Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz.
I have found that young adult novels are often as good as adult novels and, in many cases, better. In this case, I’d say better. Since the author can’t rely on gratuitous sex and violence, they actually [...]

Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones 10/07/08

I got this book because my friend M said it’s one of her favorites.  We tend to like a lot of the same books, so I got it.
At first, I wasn’t sure.  It sort of grew on me.  I wound up loving the ending.  But then, I like a tidy ending where everybody gets taken [...]

Paperquake by Kathyrn Reiss 05/26/08

Violet is the youngest of triplets, nearly an hour younger than the oldest, as she’s reminded at one point.  The other two are identical, Violet a fraternal who looks nothing like her sisters, Jasmine and Rose.  Violet wants nothing more than to fit in with her sisters but she doesn’t.  She was sickly at birth [...]

Avalon High by Meg Cabot 12/9/07

I’m a fan of books about the Arthurian legend.  I’ve read tons of them.  I’m a fan of Meg Cabot and have read many of her books. This book by Meg Cabot about the Arthurian legend ought to be perfect, right? Yeah, not so much.  Mildly entertaining but didn’t do a good job at getting [...]

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede 11/16/07

This was a cute story written for children. Princess Cimorene is a terrible princess – she doesn’t want to embroider things or learn about protocol and certainly not dance! She convinces various people in the castle to teach her fencing, cooking, Latin, magic and economics. Her parents get so frustrated with her [...]

The Uglies by Scott Westerfield 10/14/07

Okay, so how to describe this book.
Tally Youngblood is an Ugly.  Her friend Peris is now a Pretty and in 3 months, Tally will become a Pretty as well.
In Tally’s society, people go through a few stages:  the Littlies, who are the very small children who still live with their parents; the Uglies, who are [...]

The First Collier by Kathryn Lasky 09/08/07

I had a lot of time to read this weekend.
This wasn’t the best of this series, but I liked it well enough.  I don’t know if I’ll continue this series beyond the three that I have waiting for me but we’ll see.
This one described how the fighting claws came into existence, gave more owl natural [...]