Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy Book 1)

Author: Richelle Mead
Stars: 5 out of 5

Happy Easter everyone!! Now on to the review!

Back of the Book
St. Vladmir's Academy isn't jsut any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but not they're being dragged back to St. Vladmir's -- the very place where they're most in danger . . .

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi-- the world's fiercest and most dangerous vampires - make Lissa one of them forever.


Review
Surprisingly I really liked it. Usually books that everyone goes crazy for, I don't seem to find the same allure but this was a pretty decent book. Especially that it's a vampire book and for once had and was nothing like a twilight wanna be. Love the connection between these two girl as they unravel the mystery of their bond and the forbidden loves that tehy aquire (i mean who doesn't love forbidden things). The story takes a interesting turn of event with the two types of vampires and a society that is in need of change.
One last thing - I wish i had Dimitri as a teacher, damn lucky Rose. 
Overall i really enjoyed it and it's not what I expected for your typical ya novel where I can predict everything.
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Eat, Brains, Love by Jeff Hart

Stars: 4.5 out of 5

Back of the book

A laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly romantic, zombie road trip novel filled with heart—and brains. Eat, Brains, Love is perfect for fans of Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies.

The good news: Jake's dream girl, Amanda Blake, finally knows his name.

The bad news: it's because they both contracted a mysterious zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. Now Jake and Amanda are on the run from Cass, a teen psychic sent by the government's top-secret Necrotic Control Division to track them down. As Jake and Amanda deal with the existential guilt of eating their best friends and set off in search of a cure for the zombie virus, Cass struggles with a growing psychic dilemma of her own—one that will lead all three of them on an epic journey across the country and make them question what it means to truly be alive. Or undead.

My Review
Jake was a regular high school boy. He loved video games and getting high with his friends until one day when he ate half of his friends in the school cafeteria. Now he is on the run, he is a zombie fugative and his getaway partner is the hottest girl in school Amanda Blake who ate the other half of his class. Some how they have contacted a zombie virus with a hope of a cure they head to Iowa, but their way there is be a difficult one.

Meet Cass the youngest member of the NCD squad, She is a telepath and is on a mission to track and kill zombies. Those zombies in particular Jake and Amanda. There is humourous banter between Jake and Amanda and even funnier thoughts from Jake.
The story is told from the points of view from both Cass and Jake. So we get both the outlaw and the tracker views and the choices and thoughts they make. The cliff hanger at the end of the book has me amped for the next and to figure out what really is in Iowa and how Cass teaming up with the zombies will change the dynamics.

Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz
Stars: 5 out of 5

My Review
I didn't know what to expect when I first picked up the book and started to read, but by the second chapter I couldn't put the book down. It was soo intriguing and it made you wonder what was going to happen next.

The plot of the book is: High atop Hathorne Hill, near Boston, sits Danvers State Hospital. Built in 1878 and closed in 1992, this abandoned mental institution is rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy. Locals have long believed the place to be haunted. They tell stories about the unmarked graves in the back, of the cold spots felt throughout the underground tunnels, and of the treasures found inside: patients' personal items like journals, hair combs, and bars of soap, or even their old medical records, left behind by the state for trespassers to view.
On the eve of the hospital's demolition, six teens break in to spend the night and film a movie about their adventures. For Derik, it's an opportunity to win a film making contest and save himself from a future of flipping burgers at his parents' diner. For the others, it's a chance to be on TV, or a night with no parents. But what starts as a playful dare quickly escalates into a frenzy of nightmarish action. Behind the crumbling walls, down every dark passageway, and in each deserted room, they will unravel the mysteries of those who once lived there and the spirits who still might.

It's the best to read late at night during a thunder storm where every sense is heighten and every nerve is on edge. There were a lot of unexpected happenings in the book and the way she wrote the book makes you feel like your in the scenario with the other teens in the abandoned hospital wondering what every dark shadow has lurking behind it. Each teen has there own reason for going to the hospital that night each with a different motive overall the end of the books tells you how each person turns out whether they make it out ALIVE!

Overall a very good book that i would recommend for a quick summer read. =)

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Author: Sarah Ockler
Stars: 4.5 out of 5


Back of the Book
"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?"
"Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"

According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie---she's already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.


My Review
Anna, Frankie and Matt (Frankie and Matt are brother and sister) have always been inseparable -bffs till the end they share everything. . . except Anna's feelings for Matt. On her 15th birthday they finally confess how they feel about each other, sharing a marzipan covered kiss. For one whole summer they share things with each other and start to fall in love. Everything changed when Matt crashes due to a heart defection and is pronounced dead. 

1 year later Frankie's family decides to take there annual family vaca to Zanzibar SF. Here the girls make a pact for the A.B.S.E (absolutely best summer ever) and try to get with twenty guys in twenty days. Anna tries to discover what Matt meant all those postcards ago and reconnect with him some how and try to be a different person. 

Over the summer Anna learns how to let go, love and change.  She falls for someone who opens up her perspective on love and life. 
I love the cover which is the symbol of the book sea glass. 

Like the ocean, falling and whispering against the shore. Nothing ever really goes away - it just changes into something else. Something beauty

Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Title: Shut Out

Author: Kody Keplinger
# of pages: 273
Stars: 5 out of 5

I LOVED THIS BOOK.
After all the sleepers I've been reading this was fun and refreshing. I loved this book its a modern take on Lysistrata.
There's a school rivalry between their own football and soccer team, that has be on going for 10 years.
All of the girlfriends with the boys on these teams always felt like they were being put second to the rivalries and they've had enough. Especially Lissa Daniels. She fed up and has come up with a plan, all of the girls are going on a sex strike (and any sexual activities count too)there going to make the guys feel it and hit them were it hurts the most IN BED!!

But this book goes much more than teenagers and sex, it takes a look on how females and males are looked upon when it comes to the topic of sex and why there is always a double standard to women. As a result soccer and football sides are demolished and they all bond in a quest to see who can outlast who in the battle of boys versus girls.

To anyone who loves a good chick lit and wants to know who outlast who read this book, I'm sure as hell happy to have picked it up at the library. Kody is an amazing author, I can't wait to read more from her.

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