Swoon by Nina Malkin

This story is about a girl, Dice (Candice) who moves from New York City to Swoon, Connecticut after the death of her friend Ruby. She unhappily accepts her fate of living life in the city where nothing interesting really happens. Dice spends most of her time with her cousin Pen (Penelope). However, a queer event that occurred at the start of the novel when Pen nearly dies when falling off an old tree, and her spirit intertwines with that of a ghost - Sinclair Youngblood Powers. His mission is to seek revenge, as he was executed in colonial times after the death of his wife, and he has risen from the dead to get revenge on the descendants of his killers. Pen is oblivious to the possession, and Dice is too aware of him. However, Dice finds herself inextricably drawn to him - despite the fact that he's wreaking mayhem in Swoon. After exorcising him, Sin is free to use his supernatural powers to destroy the town, and Dice has to find her way to stop him. However, the only trouble is that she's fallen in love with him, and yet, she has to destroy him.

I thought this novel was particularly captivating, it was also very vivid and definitely unforgettable. It was spine-tingling, with the collision of the past and the present, yet expressed in such a terrifying manner. However, paragraphs became very lengthy and at times difficult to understand. i also felt that it was hard to believe. The characters were underdeveloped and in some ways, stereotypical.

Overall, I thought it was a good book - only if you had patience to read through the incomprehensible paragraphs.

Vampire Academy: Blood Promise

4TH BOOK IN THE SERIES.
Rose set off to Russia to get rid of Dimitri. But through some adventures, she fails. He is not how he used to be. He is a Strigoi. Their relationship can never be the same.

He kidnaps her and tries to convince her to turn Strigoi, promising that they could be together forever. Rose decides to escape, but Dimitri is hunting her down. That ends on a bridge, where Rose asks him why he wants her to turn. When he gives the wrong answer, she stakes him, telling him that she will always love him forever. He falls into the water and is carried away by the current.

Rose returns to the Academy to finish her final semester. Along the way she discovers an old myth...or so it seems. The myth tells that there is one man who claimed to know of a cure for Strigoi...as in, he knew how to turn them back. Unfortunately, the only person who knows his location is his brother, Victor Dashkov...the same Moroi who tortured Lissa, her best friend for her healing abilities.

In the end, Rose discovers the fact that she didn't stake him right in the middle of his heart. He is not dead. :O

Check out what happens after in Spirit Bound. (:

Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound

5TH BOOK IN THE SERIES:

Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir from a heart breaking trip to Dimitri's hometown. It's graduation, and Rose can not wait till the real guardian life begins. Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He's out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he's silenced her...forever.

Robert, Victor Dashkov's brother, has turned a Strigoi back to life. Noone believes it. Rose isn’t even sure it can be done, but she has to at least try. The mission is dangerous as all hell, and involves dealing with a certain criminal that she’d prefer never to see again in her life, but that doesn’t stop Rose. Even when she realizes that its going to put her friends and loved ones in danger, Rose refuses to stop. For Dimitri.

It is a great book. Nothing like twilight. (:

Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult

The story starts off when Jack St.Bride, a popular teacher at a private girls' school was unfairly accused of rape which sparked from a student's crush. He had lost in job and reputation, and after, a public ordeal that left him serving an eight-month jail sentence and no job. Jack strives to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and he arrives in a small town - Salem Falls, where he hopes to turn over a new leaf. He takes up a job at Addie Peabody's diner, and a relationship between them starts to form in this quiet, secluded town. Just as Jack thought that he has successfully rubbed away the remains of his devastating past, a group of teenage girls who harbor the darkest secrets of witchcraft have formulated a plan to maliciously target Jack with an allegation. However, all the evidence shows that it is flaringly obvious that Jack is the culprit, but he is forced to declare his innocence to a whole town who are seeking for answers, a justice system, where the truth is almost blurry and cannot be seen, and to the woman that he loves. Yet, in the end, Jack his pronounced not guilty and it is revealed that the girls have been the ones twisting the truth and framing Jack for his inappropriate sexual abuse that he wasn't responsible for. The story ends with the cliqued happy ending - when everything that has been devastatingly broken gets fixed, and Addie & Jack get to be with each in the end despite the tough times that they have faced.

I definitely enjoyed reading this book as its unique and original; it was indeed one that i couldn't put down as there's a twist of fate on every page; a revelation. It was also genuinely suspenseful and it is a mixture of romance, mystery, spookiness, heartbreaks - and all these traits make this book a really great novel.

Maximum Security Robert Muchamore

During this new thriller of CHERUB James has to get into the daily lives of the worth criminals which couldn't be executed because they were below legal age. In the Prison Arizona Max James is aming for the son of the greatest weapon dealer around the world. This person which we don't have any clue what she is called expet it is a famle in her 40s. James manages to get into the group of the skin heads will his collegue which is also from CHERUB gets put in the hole after a massive riot. The plan was to escape with Joe (the son) and afterwards to use him to get to the weapon dealer. However once she knew that her son was out she made an attempt of killing him while he was sleeping via some more criminals and to get her son back in her arms. However as James is CHERUB agent he knocked out both criminals called his mission controller Mr John John and told him the number plates of the car and after a long hunting they found the car driving towards a small town where Joe meeted his mom. However he only had time for a little recomfort as all the MI6 and FBI agents were around pointing guns at them. As she got in prison the British Army got there mini rocket launchers back which have been tooken of them by her and James goes back to the campus to meet his girlfriend which had been in Japan for 4 months.

This new thriller of Robert Muchamore was fantastic it was even better then the first one and I stongly recomend that you join the ranks of the CHERUB readers.

The Recruit from Robert Muchamore

This book starts off in london ina suburb area wher James, the main charcter, goes at school and every year he gest into a fight.

However he has one quality is super intelligence in Maths. When his mom dies his sister a,d him are put a childrens home. His sister is tooken back by his unliked father who as james says can't take care of her. As the story goes on he gets enroled in a secret agency called CHERUB which is training young children at martial arts, foreign languages, physical educationa nd many other things that make them just as good as MI6 agents which they work in close relation with. The idea of CHERUB is that a terrorist wouldn't suspect a young boy or girl to be an undercover agent so he might let them come into there lives and let them find an evidence to put them in prison for teh rest of there lives. However all CHERUB agents need to pass the basic training tes, which is a 100 day long and where your nevers, your body strenght and your courage is put to it's limits and if you either get harmed or that you get away you will have to pass it again in 32 days. James passed and went for his first mission which was in a small Hippie town called Fort Harmville and wear there was suspected to be a terrorist attack from the group "save Earth" which would consist of killing all the big oil leaders meeting in a governmental building 60 kilometers away. James succeds and saves thousands of lives and earns a Navy T-Shirt. The colour of the shirts tell people what level you are at if you are orange it means you are totaly new and nobody should say information to you until you meet the Head of CHERUB. Then you get a Blue one which is wiating for basic Training, afterwards you get grey which is avilable to do missions, then there is navy which fro outstanding performnaces on a single mission, then there is the black T-Shirt which for outstanding performances on many missions and the final one is white which is for staff and for retired agents.

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

This book is about a boy, 13 years old, called Steven. He has mouse-brown cowlick-y hair, glasses that are about an inch thick, and braces that look like he tried to swallow a train wreck. (: He plays the drums in the All-Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school and is constantly annoyed by his 5 year old brother, Jeffery.

One day, there was a little accident Steve caused to his brother. Few days later, Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia. And Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and the sudden change of everything. Having his mom quit her job as a teacher to take care of Jeff, having to deal with all the nightmares of Jeff's death, having to face his friends and teachers with a huge secret, having to run out of money... The next minute, he finds himself in a MAHOOSIVE family crisis.

I really, Really, REALLLLLLY recommend this book to everyone. It gives your heart this tingly feeling (: Family issues will vanish after reading this book. It is very touching, and an extremely funny book. It is really worth reading. Give it a try, and you will love it (: