Posted by bkristin on Nov 16th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand Clara has a purpose and, like all humans with angel blood, her purpose comes in the form of a vision. Now Clara and her family must uproot their life to go to the place of her purpose and she must do what is required. The only problem is, the visions give little details and she is not left with much to go on. As fire season nears, can Clara fulfill her purpose in time? The characters were well developed and believable. Tucker was my favorite and though he changed from the bratty teen that constantly teased and bugged Clara to the sweet cowboy that showed her the...
Posted by bkristin on Nov 14th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Whisper by Chelsea M. Cameron Anna can hear the dead and finds that she needs to help them on their way. When a new dead guy named Jack comes along, he does not want to be helped on his way and instead makes plan to stick around for a long time. Unfortunately for Anna, there is the problem that Jack becomes more and more appealing the longer he stays. When she is found talking to thin air, her parents medicate and threaten to institutionalize her. There were several plot lines threaded together in this story. First off is the relationship between Anna and Jack and learning the truth of her...
Posted by bkristin on Nov 9th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore Bitterblue is now eighteen and queen. Unfortunately she is left a great mess to clean up by her dead father, crazy King Leck. To make matters worse, she is kept busy in her office from morning to night will all the new orders she must go over and sign. Can she pull her kingdom back together before her own people start to revolt like the kingdoms around her? I like the style of Cashore’s writing. I find it easy to read even when thing diverge into information that is not completely relevant to the plot. It is still fun to read all the side details. The plot...
Posted by bkristin on Nov 7th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Winter’s Awakening by Karen Luellen Meg, along with her brother’s find out the reason they were homeschooled and kept from the world. For their entire lives, they have been hunted by a lab that created them to be super humans. Their mother saved them, yet now it is time to return the favor. This book was different in that all the chapters jumped around from different points of view. There was the view point of Margo, Meg, Mr. Williams and they switched between first person with Meg to third person with everyone else. I was a very different style book that took some reading to get...
Posted by bkristin on Oct 19th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Grace had been watching the wolves behind her house for years. When a naked boy with a gunshot wound arrives on her steps, her suspicions are confirmed. She recognized one set of eyes through all of the years. Her wolf was really an eighteen year old boy. And now that they met, they want to find a way to make him human, as this is the last time he will shift to a human form. In book 2 Sam is cured and life would be good for Grace and Sam, but there are now a lot of new wolves in the forest. Sam and Grace wait as spring approaches to meet the new wolves in their...
