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Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

My Rating: 5 stars As Zoey Redbird finally settles into the House of Night and feels like she belongs, more problems arise. First of all, she’s having boy problems. And nothing is going too well with that. However, the bigger issue is that humans are being killed all around the House of Night area. The […]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

My Rating: 5 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** In the final book, Harry, Ron and Hermione do not return to Hogwarts for their final and seventh year of wizard training. They continue out what Dumbledore would have wanted them to do: find and destroy the rest of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, which are […]

Evermore by Alyson Noel

My Rating: 2 stars So the main character of this book, Ever Bloom, lost her mom, dad and younger sister to a freakish car accident. The accident left a huge scar on her forehead. And, after the accident, Ever discovers that she can see people’s auras, read minds, see her dead sister and know someone’s […]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

My Rating: 5 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** In this sixth installment of Harry Potter’s life, the war with Voldemort is not going well at all. People check the newspapers daily to see if they recognize any names. Even the Muggle governments notice something’s not right. Dumbledore is taking many prolonged […]

Wake by Lisa McMann

My Rating: 4 stars Janie Hannagan was never a normal kid. Ever since she could remember, she had seen other people’s dreams. It didn’t matter where or when, she was always sucked in, and she couldn’t stop. In the dreams, the participants begged her to help them, and there was no possible way that she […]

Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

My Rating: 5 stars Zoey Redbird was just an average girl before she was Marked a vampyre. After leaving her uncaring family, ex-best friend, and ex-almost-boyfriend behind, she goes to the dark House of Night, where she learns all about her new life. At her new school, Zoey meets new people and makes new friends; […]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

My Rating: 5 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts has finally arrived, and there are many things he isn’t looking forward to. Well, first of all, there was an incident over the summer involving some dementors in his Muggle neighborhood. But, in this year at Hogwarts, the […]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

My Rating: 5 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** Harry and is friends are entering their fourth year at Hogwarts, and everything is changing, and change isn’t in favor of the good. They all attend the Quidditch World Cup in the summer, and after the match, Death Eaters invade the camp and […]

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

My Rating: 5 stars *Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t read The Hunger Games, don’t read!* The sequel to the amazing book, The Huger Games, is as breath-taking and suspenseful as the first. Life is good for the 74th Hunger Games winners, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. They’ve got all the money they need to help […]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My Rating: 5 stars This remarkable book tells the story of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in District 12 of the country Panem, which lies where North American used to be. Every year, the middle city of Panem, called the Capitol, hold the Hunger Games. There is a boy and a girl selected from each […]