Book Review: Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen(blog tour)

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen

Release Date:October  2010
Publisher: HarperTeen
Age Group: Young Adult 
Pages:    389
Series: Bright Young Things #1

Overall: ♥♥♥♥♥ 

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.

Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star…

Cordelia is searching for the father she's never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined—and more dangerous. It's a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.

The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. But Astrid's perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.

Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls' fortunes will rise and fall—together and apart. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

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Book Review:The Drake Chronicles Series Blood Feud, Out For Blood by Alyxandra Harvey + Giveaway

Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey

Release Date: June  2010

Publisher: BloomsburyTeen USA

Age Group: Young Adult 

Pages: 272

Series:The Drake Chronicles #2

Overall:♥♥♥♥

It's been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix barely survived the French Revolution. Now she's made her way back to the living and she must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who left her for dead the day she turned into a vampire. That's if she can control her affection for Logan Drake, a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks.

The clans are gathering for Helena's royal coronation as the next vampire queen, and new alliances are beginning to form now that the old rifts of Lady Natasha's reign have started to heal. But with a new common enemy, Leander Montmarte—a vicious leader who hopes to force Solange to marry him and usurp the power of the throne for himself—the clans must stand together to preserve the peace he threatens to destroy.

Book Review: Entice (Need, #3) by Carrie Jones + Giveaway

Entice (Need, #3) by Carrie Jones
Release Date:  December 2010
Publisher: BloomsburyTeen USA
Age Group: Young Adult 
Pages: 272
Series:Need #3

Editions: Nook |Kindle| Audio Book
Overall:♥♥♥♥

Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that’s not how things have worked out. For starters, well, Nick is gone. He’s been taken to some mythic place for warriors called Valhalla, where Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. It’s just not going to be easy.

Meanwhile, Bedford needs its warriors more than ever, since a group of evil pixies is devastating the place, with teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent. But even if Zara and her friends can find the way to Valhalla, there’s that other small problem: Zara’s been pixie kissed. When she finds Nick, will he even want to leave with her? Especially considering she hasn’t turned into just any pixie . . . She’s Astley’s queen.

Book Review: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
Release Date:  March 16th 2010
Publisher: HarperTeen
Age Group: Young Adult 
Pages: 336
Series:The Body Finder #1
Editions: Nook |Kindle| Audio Book
Overall:♥♥♥♥♥

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

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My Thoughts:

The Body Finder is... SIMPLY. A.FANTASTIC. READ.I don’t know why I’ve put off reading this book for so long, it was amazing. Reading Desires of the Dead is a MUST!


Derting creates a unique story that is very much needed in YA. She is so Alex Cross.I mean how many YA novels out there have a heroine who can sense the dead, a serial killer... And the best friend gets chosen! I don’t know about you guys but sometimes a tangled love triangle gets on my nerves(just a little bit)


And Violets a fabulous heroine at that. She a pretty strong character seeing that she found a dead body at very young age...normally wouldn't that really mess up a kid emotionally?... But she held her composer really well. I think it’s because she has a really loving and protective family. Her family is pretty understanding when it comes to her gift, they never question her about it. That’s what I really admired.


Lets not forget about the her Best Friend Jay...who is totally swoon worthy and definitely mine, i mean Violet’s(<==so jealous of you).  Jay is charming and just THE perfect guy, he definitely knows how to make a girls heart melt and smiles that last for days*sighs*


Derting wraps this lovely book up in a bow and sends you on a romantic and intriguing thrill ride. If the romance doesn’t get you chills then the suspense will!

*Bought a finished copy(personal library)

To find out more about this series and its author, visit the following links:
-Literary Awards: YALSA Best Fiction Nominee for Young Adults (2010)

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Character Interview: Phe (Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus ) + Giveaway

Shadow Hills

by Anastasia Hopcus

After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA -- a school which her sister mysteriously mentioned in her last diary entry before she died.

Once there, Phe quickly realizes that something is deeply amiss in her new town. Not only does Shadow Hills' history boast an unexplained epidemic that decimated hundreds of its citizens in the 1700s, but its modern townies also seem eerily psychic, with the bizarre ability to bend metal. Even Zach -- the gorgeous stranger Phe meets and immediately begins to lust after -- seems as if he is hiding something serious. Phe is determined to get to the bottom of it. The longer she stays there, the more she suspects that her sister's untimely death and her own destiny are intricately linked to those who reside in Shadow Hills.

Book Review: Everlasting by Angie Frazier

Everlasting  by Angie Frazier 
Release Date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Age Group: Young Adult 
Pages: 336
Series: Everlasting #1
Editions: Nook | Kindle
Overall:♥♥♥♥

Sailing aboard her father's ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a lady in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn't love in order to preseve her social standing. On her last voyage before the wedding, Camille learns the mother she has always believed dead is in fact alive and in Australia. When their Sydney-bound ship goes down in a gale, and her father dies, Camille sets out to find her mother and a map in her possession - a map believed to lead to a stone that once belonged to the legendary civilization of the immortals. The stone can do exactly what Camille wants most: bring someone back from the dead. Unfortunately, her father's adversary is also on the hunt for the stone, and she must race him to it. The only person Camille can depend on is Oscar - a handsome young sailor and her father's first mate - who is in love with Camille and whom she is inexplicably drawn to despite his low social standing and her pending wedding vows.

With an Australian card shark acting as their guide, Camille eludes murderous bushrangers, traverses dangerous highlands, evades a curse placed on the stone, and unravels the mystery behind her mother's disappearance sixteen years earlier. But when another death shakes her conviction to resurrect her father, Camille must choose what - and who - matters most.

Character Interview: Jersy(One Lonely Degree by C. K. Kelly Martin) + Giveaway

One Lonely Degree

by C.K. Kelly Martin

Anything is possible....

Finn has always felt out of place, but suddenly her world is unraveling. It started with The Party. And Adam Porter. And the night in September that changed everything. The only person who knows about that night is Audrey—Finn’s best friend, her witness to everything, and the one person Finn trusts implicitly. So when Finn’s childhood friend Jersy moves back to town—reckless, beautiful Jersy, all lips and eyes and hair so soft you’d want to dip your fingers into it if you weren’t careful—Finn gives her blessing for Audrey to date him. How could she possibly say no to Audrey? With Audrey gone for the summer, though, Finn finds herself spending more and more time with Jersy, and for the first time in her life, something feels right. But Finn can’t be the girl who does this to her best friend...can she?