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This week we've set our sights on Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter. Here's the summary from Goodreads : Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap. Her parents are getting a divorce. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn’t put out. Her grandmother died and now Kylie’s acquired a stalker. Unfortunately, she’s the only one who seems to be able to see the stalker. And that gets her sent to a psychologist’s sofa. The kooky psychologist gets Kylie sent to Shadow Falls Camp. Kylie and her parents think it’s a camp for troubled teens. They thought wrong. It’s a camp of supernaturals: vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches and shape shifters. And if she believes the camp leader, Kylie is one of them, too. Just because she’s seeing ghosts, just because she was born at midnight, does that really mean she’s not human? And if so, what is she? Not even the other supernaturals can tell her. As Kylie attempts to cope with the realization that these creatures ...

Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Other Press (June 22, 2010) BOOK SUMMARY:  It is Sylvia’s sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin—not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia’s father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute.  Set against the maze of Madrid’s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.  MY REVIEW: Four...

This week's selection is from Dark Song by Gail Giles. "I saw the bag of wires he held coming toward my face then, and my eyelids mashed together, bracing for the hit. It never came. I opened my eyes, and Marc held Dad's wrist." (Page 220, ARC) Book summary:  Mark said he heard the dark song when he creeped houses. The song the predator's heart sings when it hears the heart of the prey. I heard it now. Mark said it had always been in me. Lurking. Waiting for me to hear. Ames is not the person she was a few months ago. Her father lost his job, and her family is crumbling apart. Now, all she has is Marc. Marc, who loves her more than anything. Marc, who owns a gun collection. And he'll stop at nothing--even using his guns--to get what he wants. Ames feels her parents have betrayed her with their lies and self-absorption, but is she prepared to make theultimate betrayal against them? Dark Song  is a YA novel ( 304 pages)  published by Little, Brown Book...

BlogFest 2010 was a great experience for us. Thank you to all of our old and new followers! And now we are happy to announce the winners of the prizes: PRIZE PACK #1:  xxsquigglesxx   has won Radiance , Strawberry Hill and Keeper . PRIZE PACK #2:  Amber   has won Taken By Storm , Things You Either Hate or Love and Lost For Words . PRIZE PACK #3:  Allana   has won Magic under Glass and Anastasia's Secret . Congratulations to our winners. They have been contacted and have three days to reply (or we may have to select another winner). Again, thanks to everyone for participating and signing up. Watch out for our upcoming contests for I Now Pronounce You Someone Else , Hope in Patience , Sophie Simon Tells All and our month long Halloween Boo ktacular Event .

Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers (September 28, 2010) Book summary: On the surface, Emily Meckler leads the perfect life. She has three best friends, two loving parents, and the ideal setup at the Connecticut prep school where her father is the headmaster. But Emily also suffers from devastating nightmares about fire and water, and nobody knows why. Then the enigmatic Del Sugar enters her life, and Emily is immediately swept away—but her passionate relationship with Del is just the first of many things that aren't quite what they seem in Emily's life. As the lies she's been told start to unravel, Emily must set out to discover the truth regarding her nightmare; on a journey that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about love, family, and her own idyllic past. My review: Reading Where the Truth Lies reminded me of looking at pictures. Do you ever see a shot where the people in it look a...

We fell behind in posting our mailbox goodies so this is actually  a compilation from the last few weeks.  We received for review:  Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter Radiance by Allyson Noel Me, Myself and Why? by Mary Janice Davidson We received from swapping: The Mortal Instruments Boxed set & Audio Collection Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman Inside Out by Maria Snyder Early to Death, Early to Rise by Kim Harrison We won (not pictured):  Other by Karen Kincy Ghostgirl: Lovesick by Tonya Hurley Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly From Book Tours: The Emerald Talisman by Brenda Pathos Dark Song by Gail Giles (not pictured) Tutored by Allison Whittenberg (not pictured) We purchased from (birthday) gift cards: Clockwork Angel , Mockingjay , Nevermore , The Haunted ,  Guardian of the Gate , Paranormalcy , Almost to Die For In My Mailbox   was started by   Kristi over at   The Story Siren . 

Shadow Hills is a YA paranormal thriller filled with danger, intrigue, mystery and romance. For those of our readers who have not read Anastasia Hopcus' debut novel, here's the summary:   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 ...