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The final book in Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey Series comes out Tuesday October, 25th. Each week until the release date I’ll Book Talk and Review a book in the series…including those novellas! I’ve become addicted to the series, so whether this is your first time with the books or you’re eagerly awaiting [...] 
October 4th, 2011 | Tags: faery tales, fairy tales, fey, Iron Fey #2, Julie Kagawa, Meghan and Ash, Puck, Series, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Fey Series, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment  BookTalk “Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After.” (6, ePub ed.) So begins this tale of After. Laurel Meisner and her once-friend-turned-bad-boy neighbor David ditch their respective families plans to grab ice cream after a seder dinner. David claimed calculus homework with a friend. [...]
August 11th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, Death, family, grief, high school, jennifer castle, realistic fiction, relationships, the beginning of after, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk “so long as we know we’re trapped, we still have a chance to escape.” (67, Galley ed.) Neva is hosting a ‘Dark Party’. She’s planned the details with her best friend for weeks. They’ve snuck her father out of the house. Being he head of rewriting the Protectosphere’s history makes him a figure most [...]
August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, Dark Parties, Dystopian, Sara Grant, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Click Here to enter to win a Signed copy of Forever *Spoilers* Review This was by far my favorite book of the series. I know it ends without resolving the wolf/human problem…but still, it seemed strangely finished to me. Having that last image of a fall leaf as a wedding band around Grace’s finger is [...]
July 20th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, family, friendship, love, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal Romance, relationships, romance, Series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, werewolf, werewolves, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment *Spoilers* Review One of my favorite parts of this book was when Grace told off her parents. I normally don’t support this type of outburst from teen characters. I often find that either the adult they are ranting at was such a caricature of a person that it seems unfair…or that they aren’t seeing a valid adult [...]
July 19th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, family, friendship, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal Romance, romance, Series, The Wolves of Mercy Falls, werewolf, werewolves, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk “All right, Miss Teen Dreamers! Yoo-hoo! Over here! I’m wigglin’ my fingers your y’all’s attention! Could ya’ll come on over here, please?”…”Hi. I’m Taylor Rene Krystal Hawkins, and I’m Miss Teen Dream Texas, the state where dreams are bigger and better – nothing against y’all’s states. I’m a senior at George Walker Bush High [...]
July 14th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, consumerism, friendship, Gender Roles, lesbians, Libba Bray, pirates, plane crash, romance, satire, trans gender, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Emma thought her life couldn’t get any worse. Within a year she’d lost both her mother and her twin brother leaving her with a grieving alcoholic of a step dad to take care of her. After her stepfather wrapped both of them around a tree Emma is left not only with a massive scar [...]
July 13th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Cara Lynn Shultz, chick lit, family, friendship, paranormal romace, spellbound, witch, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Chapters 6-10 Questions Provided by: Lisa The Reading Nerd Monday’s Bite is a weekly meme hosted by GReads, Lisa the Nerd, Secret Life of an Avid Reader, and The Reading Housewives. It’s a reread of Twilight. Taking us all back to the time where we fell in love with the story…And definitely clearing up [...]
July 11th, 2011 | Tags: Monday's Bite, Paranormal Romance, Series, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Vampires, YA Fiction | Category: Monday's Bite, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 2 comments |
               
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