2012 Reviews by: Appleton
Do you have what it takes to save the wizard world?
If you've followed the series you've come to the extraordinary finally. In Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows your heart won't skip a beat until the very end. Well at least mine didn't. I mind blowing descriptions lead you through the epic finale. When Voldemort and his death eaters have take over the wizard world and Harry has a fine under his name. Hogwarts is roaming with dementors and the most suprising of all is the new head master. I'll stop there because anything else would spoil the book if your looking for a good book read Harry Potter in general because you gotta read the other ones too. So read to find out about this amazing book.
Shattered Mirror - Different, interesting, and suspensful
Shattered Mirror, what can I say? I practically wrote it in the title. It's so, what's the word, out of the ordinary. This book was published somewhere in 2001, which I know, apparently "way in the past", but really, it's quite amazing. To REALLY start this off, I will start with a summary. This book is about a girl named Sarah Vida, who is a witch, and a vampire hunter, with many secrets including the witch and vampire part. She's the daughter of Dominique Vida, who is one of the most famous vampire hunters, and witch out there, which is a lot to handle, considering Sarah is the YOUNGEST, yes I said youngest, in her clan. Her family hunts vampires to keep "Peace". Then a man named Christopher Ravena comes into her life when she moves to the small town. She knows he's a vampire, but when she's with him, forgets he's a vampire. Christopher though does not know that Sarah is a vampire hunter/witch of the Vida clan, which is pretty obvious since it's in her name.
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I just had to point this out first: This is the third book of the Wings Series. Second: If you read "Illusions" right away, you're not going to understand anything that happens in the book, UNLESS you read the first two books. Third: This book is AMAZING! Okay, now, this book is about a girl named Laurel Sewell who is a scion (a scion is a faerie sent to live in the human world). In this book, Laurel has been with her boyfriend David Lawson for two years. This year is senior year. And throughout these years, Tamani has been in love with Laurel since before Laurel was sent to the human world. Tamani is a sentry from Avalon, who was sent to watch Laurel grow up without problems, that is until the events in the first book with the trolls. Continuing on with Illusions, in this book Laurel finds out that she has another enemy other than trolls. Laurels love life is slipping from the grasps of her hands from the constant fights between Tam (Tamani) and David.
Read more»The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
As one of the most adorable books that I have ever read, I would highly recommend this book. When Hadley misses the flight from JFK to London for her father's wedding, she is stuck at the airport for several hours waiting on the next flight. In the meantime her path crosses with Oliver, a British boy waiting to take the same flight on a visit home to England. This casual meeting is only the beginning of their time together as they find themselves in seats 18A and 18C. Thinking the Oliver and Hadley are a young couple, the women between them switches to let them sit next to each other. The two spend most of the flight taking on their way to two very different but important life events. While this story is adorable and heart-warming it is also so much more. This is a story about family, love and forgiveness. Hadley does not feel like she fits into her father's new life in England and is dreading the entire weekend she will have to spend there. Covering the history of how she has come to this point in her life this is a well rounded story about how everything in our lives can lead us to find wonderful things, such as the possibility of love at first sight.
Intriguing historical fantasy by Wisconsin author
Set in the mythical country of Hytanica, this fantasy story centers around the princess of a kingdom that was once at war with a ruthless country, Cokyri. As Alera is the crown princess and nearing her 18th birthday, she is being pressured to chose a man to marry with all the traits that will suit the next ruler of the country. While Alera attempts to find any suitor to her liking that her father will approve of more than his choice for succession, the arrogant Lord Steldor, a young man, Narian, who was stolen from his home country of Hytanica as a baby to be raised in Cokyi returns to his birth place to find his family and captures Alera's attention. With an impending war ensuing over Narian's return the choices that Alera make became even more important as heir to the throne. Struggling to deal with growing up while balancing her wishes, her father's wishes and what is best for the kingdom, this is also a coming of age story for a young girl. While the writing style is a somewhat unrefined in the first novel of this series, the story is captivating to the point that I couldn't stop reading and the writing definitely improves in the second book of the series.
Read more»Bruiser
This is a read I would highly recommend to both boys & girls. Tennyson & Bronte are teenage twins whose parents happen to be literature professors. Tennyson is not pleased that his sister has recently started dating Brewster (aka Bruiser), the boy voted "most likely to get the death penalty." Bruiser lives with his mean, alcoholic uncle and his 8 year old brother, Cody. The family is perceived as "no good" and pretty much keeps to themselves.
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