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Reading level:  Ages 14 and up Hardcover:  352 pages Publisher:  HarperCollins; 1 edition (November 15, 2011) Blurb:  Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior. My thou...

Sequential art: Manga Genre: YA paranormal Format: Paperback, 200 pages Published October 4th 2011 by VIZ Media (first published December 3rd 2010) Blurb:  Yuki is attacked by another pureblood outside a graveyard for meddling in the ways of the vampire society. Injured, she returns home to Kaname, who shares with her his past memories and the truth behind the Kuran family. My thoughts: Admissions, reemergence and revelations is what Volume 13 of Vampire Knight is all about. Zero goes to visit Ichiru's gravesite and has what I believe is one of his strongest moments of admission (besides the earlier prison cell scene with his brother). Zero admits to his twin his wondering if he has any part of his humanity left inside of him. In ghost form, Ichiru appears and says, "I exist inside you, Zero," in what starts off this installment with a poignant touch. Ichiru goes on to tell his sibling to "think objectively" and to "live and do what I cannot." I...

Sequential art:  Manga Genre:  YA paranormal Format: Paperback, 192 pages Published June 7th 2011 by VIZ Media LLC (first published July 5th 2010) Blurb: It's been one year since Yuki left Cross Academy with Kaname, and tonight is her first vampire soirée as a pureblood. Her best friend Sayori has snuck into the party to see her, but will Yuki and Zero be able to protect a human girl amid a bevy of vampires? My thoughts: My comments about Volume 11 lacking in direction also apply with this next installment. During the soiree Yuki is formally introduced to the vampires then senses Zero there. Finding him in the crowd, he causes a scene and is hurtfully cold to her. When the murder of a pureblood and the suicide of a hunter is revealed, the party ends (as all extravagant events in this series does).  Much emphasis is placed on pureblood Sara Shirabuki. She tries to take Yuki's human friend, Yori, away from the party but is stopped by Zero. After Zero takes the...

Sequential art: Manga Genre: YA paranormal Format: Paperback, 200 pages Published December 7th 2010 by VIZ Media LLC (first published December 4th 2009) Blurb: Ichijo wakes up and finds himself in the care of Sara Shirabuki, who saved his life after he tried sacrificing himself to kill Ichio. She asks him to tell her all he knows about Kaname... Yuki returns to the Kuran manor with Kaname, and he admits all of his past wrongdoings to her... After that there is a one year time-skip, and the focus changes to Zero, who saves a little girl from being kidnapped by some ex-human vampires... My thoughts: What has always attracted me to the Vampire Knight series--both the manga and then the anime--is Matsuri Hino's artwork . The emotions she captures on the faces of her three main characters--Yuki, Kaname and Zero--is outstanding, but her crafting of their story has been.... lacking. This has become obvious in this installment. After everything that happened in book ten, this ...

Welcome to The Afterglow Trilogy Official Blog Tour . We read and liked Beckoning Light (our review) and we're happy to be a part of this tour hosted by A Tale of Many Reviews . Author Alyssa Rose Ivy has shared with us a game of This and That with Charlotte's brother, Kevin, and an excerpt from Perilous Light . Beckoning Light    (The Afterglow Trilogy #1) by Alyssa Rose Ivy Genre: YA fantasy Blurb: As Charlotte steps through the gate, she has a strong feeling that nothing will ever be the same again. Moving back to South Carolina after three years away, Charlotte knows she's going to have to face people from her past and adjust to a new high school, but she's completely unprepared for what else waits for her in Charleston. Drawn through an old garden gate, Charlotte discovers a hidden world where she meets Calvin, a boy to whom she is inexplicably attracted. As Charlotte is pulled deeper into this hidden world, it's up to her older brother Kevin to rescue h...

Reader Girls is participating in the Love In Bloom Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Portrait of A Book . We're offering one reader a brand new copy of a contemporary YA romance novel by Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love. Here's the blurb: Like his name, Gray is dark and stormy. Dylan, a girl always searching for what’s next, seemingly unable to settle down, is the exact opposite: full of light and life. On the outside, they seem like an unlikely couple. But looks can be deceiving and besides, opposites attract. What starts as friendship, turns into admiration, respect and caring, until finally these two lone souls find they are truly in love with each other. But staying in love is not as easy as falling in love. If Dylan and Gray want their love to last, they’re going to have to work at it. And learn that sometimes love means having to say you’re sorry. This hop runs from May 18th to May 23rd and ours is open to US/Canada residents only. For t...

Book spotlight Genre: Contemporary romance Format: ebook novella Publisher: Ruby Lioness Press (April 6, 2012) Blurb: Michael Dunbar runs his families cattle station in the far north of Western Australia. Station life is lonely and he wishes there was a way that he could find a companion that wouldn’t mind living the outback life with him. In hopes of finding a woman Michael heads to Broome for a few weeks holiday. What he finds is something he never expected to. Mia Mason a Perth girl, who longs to leave the city behind for a life in the country. Can two like minds fall in love, only destiny knows? Website  /  Twitter About the author: Melissa Kendall is a 36 year-old mother of a 3-year-old son. She lives in Perth, Western Australia and is predominantly a stay at home mum. She does still work a few hours a week as a Software Support Consultant to keep her brain active. She has always loved to read and write and spent most of her teens writing p...