Clockwork Angel

Name: Clockwork Angel

Author: Cassandra Clare

Pages: 476

Start Date: March 21,2012

Finish Date: May 8th, 2012

Type: Victornan YA Paranormal EVERYTHING

Status: Library; Prequel to the Mortal Instruments & #1 in the Infernal Devices series

Rating:

Summary:
Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What’s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

My Review:
The only reason the book got 3 stars is because 1- No one can beat Jace!; 2- the begining was sooo dry for some reason to me! I mean, so much happens right off the bat, I didnt get into it that much till half way thrugh. This book though is very fast paced and for any followers of Mrs.Clare , they will completely enjoy it. The victorian scene with such deteiled charaters and suprising events and shocking secrets will entrap anyone in its pages. Plus a love triangle that doesnt know its a love trinagle is just to yummy! Lol! Its got blood, kissing, lies, and robots... How could you not like it? c=

Excerpt:
“You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”

Cover:
Neat, but not how I picture Will...I wish Jem would have been on the cover x)

Title:
Very much ties in with the book which I like

Extras:
Llisten to "The Section Quartet" radio on pandora; it really tunes you into the book!
Goodreads Page
Awesome Fan Site

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Divergent

Name: Divergent

Author: Veronica Roth

Pages: 489

Start Date: September 12

Finish Date: September 22

Type: Romantic Fantasy/Post Apocalyptic

Status: OWN! ; #1 in Divergent Series

Rating:

Summary:

Beatrice "Tris" Prior has reached the fateful age of sixteen, the stage at which teenagers in Veronica Roth's dystopian Chicago must select which of five factions to join for life. Each faction represents a virtue: Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. To the surprise of herself and her selfless Abnegation family, she chooses Dauntless, the path of courage. Her choice exposes her to the demanding, violent initiation rites of this group, but it also threatens to expose a personal secret that could place in mortal danger. Veronica Roth's young adult Divergent trilogy launches with a captivating adventure about love and loyalty playing out under most extreme circumstances.

My Review:

Ok when I bought this book , I was completely distracted because that day I met my boyfriend =) So after letting this book sit on my shelf for 3 months I thought I'd read it ! I went blindly into its pages and came out st-st-sstunned; this book is just WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. I couldn't get enough! Sometimes the writing would be a tad dry but with all the twists, secrets and plots you really dont give a crap. This concept of the world is intriguing and mind blowing. The characters were all different and harshly beautiful. I have no clue how I'm going to make it through this series with only 3 more books AND have to wait THREE YEARS for the last book. The wait might kill me but I have to read this whole series. You should too.

PS- WAY better then the hunger games btw!

Excerpt:
“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”

Cover:
So freaking cool! And once you read the book you'll get it ;)

Title:
Ditto to cover !

Extras:
The Author

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Prada and Prejudice

Name: Prada and Prejudice

Author: Mandy Hubbard

Pages: 238

Start Date: October 2nd, 2011

Finish Date: October 3rd, 2011

Type: Lite Historical teen romance-y

Status: Library

Rating:

Summary:
To impress the popular girls on a high school trip to London, klutzy Callie buys real Prada heels. But trying them on, she trips, conks her head, and wakes up in the year 1815! There Callie meets Emily, who takes her in, mistaking her for a long-lost friend. As she spends time with Emily's family, Callie warms to them, particularly to Emily's cousin Alex, a hottie and a duke, if a tad arrogant.
But can Callie save Emily from a dire engagement, and win Alex's heart, before her time in the past is up?
More Cabot than Ibbotson, Prada and Prejudice is a high-concept romantic comedy about finding friendship and love in the past in order to have happiness in the present.

My Review:

This book was cute and quite a fast read but it wasnt all sugar and spice.... The whole premise was fantastic but I wanted more detail and for her and Alex to get it onnnn ;D (just kidding) In some ways she was way to old to be merely 15 and in some cases she acted 12; not thinking and just saying. If I was in the situation Callie found herself in I think I would've handled much MUCH better. (view spoiler)[And THEN you never find out how the magic worked or why and I would've been sooo happy if sh...moreThis book was cute and quite a fast read but it wasnt all sugar and spice.... The whole premise was fantastic but I wanted more detail and for her and Alex to get it onnnn ;D (just kidding) In some ways she was way to old to be merely 15 and in some cases she acted 12; not thinking and just saying. If I was in the situation Callie found herself in I think I would've handled much MUCH better. Also I loved the shoes! But all in all this was a cute, fun, and fast read =)

Excerpt:
“What do you mean, ruined?"
From the way Emily swallows slowly, you'd think we were talking about smoking crack. "Compromised. By...by another man."
"Oh!" I say, too loudly. "You mean, if the girl's not a virgin, the guy won't marry her?"
She nods, her eyes wide, as if being a non-virgin is akin to being an ax-murder.” 


Cover:
So cute! :D

Title:
Kinda cute, tying in the shoes and an old book.

Extras:
Better Red Shoes ;)
Cool place!
The Author

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Sea Change

Name: Sea Change

Author: Aimee Friedman

Pages: 294

Start Date: August 29th, 2011

Finish Date: September 11th, 2011

Type: Mystical Island Lore Fantasy

Status: Library

Rating:

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science. . .and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she's happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother's estate.There, Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious, mystical history, presenting her with facts her logical, scientific mind can't make sense of. She also meets Leo, who challenges everything she thought she knew about boys, friendship. . .and reality. Is Leo hiding something? Or is he something that she never could have imagined?

My Review:

This book for me wasn't "all that" sadly. I think the characters, mother and daughter especially needed to grow up. Also there was just to much mystery and not nearly enough answers. This whole story could have been easily a short story. The author desperately needs to make another book other wise I will feel like it was a waste to read this. On the good sides, I loved some of the folklore and stories and the twisted secrets. Overall its an enjoyable summer read.

Excerpt:

“Summer-induced stupidity.That was the diagnosis...”

Cover:

Veryyy cool, a little abstract. obviously the people are gorgeous but i cant tell whats going on. Definitely a cover to stare at lol

Title:

Ohhh very nice and original. Love it!

Extras:

Something fun :)

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I Love You, Beth Cooper

Name: I Love You, Beth Cooper
Author: Larry Doyle
Pages: 253
Start Date: May 14
Finish Date: May 17
Type: LMAO High School Graduation Night Story
Status:Library
Rating:

Summary:Denis Cooverman didn't want to give a typical graduation speech, cherishing memories and embracing challenges and crap. So, instead, he stood up in front of his 512 class-mates and their 3,000 relatives and said some-thing really important: "I love you, Beth Cooper." It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that: Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is. And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species. And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, in town on furlough from the United States Army. Complications ensue. Denis comes of age overnight in this exhilar-ating, endearing novel that reminds us why we can't wait to escape high school but can never leave it behind.

My Review: Ok I could go on for DAYS about this book and why I loved it, but ya'll would never read it, so I'll keep it short and sweet. This book had every comical thing that could happen in it. I had to read it alone because I started snorting and laughing out loud in public. In one way I wish at least half of this stuff could happen to me and in another I just wish I could be Beth! I <3 u BC was definitely a LMAO/ROTFL book that had a romantic and crazy side. And the end...... well it leaves 'things' up in the air.... PS - The Pics are AWESOME! ::takes hat off for the artist::

Excerpt: UG! Mom took back a ton of books and I didn't get anything =( Including this one.
But go to the movie page and look a quotes, they all are from the book C=

Cover/Title: I love all the covers for this book! http://www.shelfari.com/books/496954/I-Love-You-Beth-Cooper/editions

Extras: LOTS of songs and funny sayings, but you know since I don't have the book.....
Movie Page
The Music

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Hot Stuff

Name: Hot Stuff
Author: Janet Evanovich and Leanne Banks
Pages: 281
Start Date: May 14
Finish Date: May 14
Type: Lovey Dovey Romantic Comedy
Status: Library
Rating:

Summary:HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like men and marriage. She spends all day in school, earning her teaching degree, and all night working as a bartender in Boston’s South End. Ex-cop Kellen McBride has decided to make Cate’s bar his nightly haunt. He likes Cate’s sassy Irish spirit and wild red hair. He also has an ulterior motive for getting close to her. Cate has sworn off all things romantic, but when she comes home to a ransacked apartment, a roommate who has flown the coop, and a sleeping bull-mastiff named Beast, Cate has no choice but to ask Kellen for help. Can Kate resist the charming Kellen McBride while keeping herself out of danger? Or will Kellen turn up the heat on Cate and everything in her life?

My Review:
Ok this book was horrible writing! I mean it was literally all talk and no action. Like someone would be talking and somehow end up on the other side of the room or in a different room and it's like how the hell did they get over there??? Also the chemistry seemed SooooSOOSOSo FAKE! But the redeeming quality was that is was literally laughing of loud funny. The characters and situitaions they get into.... omg LMAO! So, I mean, you might want to read it in a day like me, but if you think it would take you a week or tow, forget it!

Excerpt: X

Cover/Title: Ok best thing about the book is the cover. Title = ok.

Extras: X

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Scrambled Eggs At Midnight

Name: Scrambled Eggs At Midnight

Author:Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler

Pages: 262

Start Date: May 9

Finish Date:May 14

Type: Teen Life & Love

Status:Library

Rating:

Summary:Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself) wants nothing more than to stay put; to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, and abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Meanwhile, Eliot misses the happy times he left behind when his father decided to open a camp for kids looking to lose weight and find Jesus. when Cal and Eliot meet by chance, they feel an immediate connection. together they must face their isolation, the threat of yet another move, and the deepening of Eliot father’s obsession. in their case, love just might be everything it’s cracked up to be.

My Review: This book ain't all it's cracked up to be. It's better.
Within the first chapter I so felt for Cal, and in the second I had a crush on Eliot. I like how all the characters have there own stories and how the authors brought religion sneakily into the book. But in a good way, people. I swear.Also it's the little things in this book that seriously made my heart ache for someone like Eliot and to be brave like Cal. And the end.... omg FINALLY an ending that ended how I would have. In writing and in real life. Trust me. Read and see what Cal does..... I know you would do it too.

Excerpt: UG! Mom took back the book before I could get anything =( SRY!

Cover/Title:
CUTE! I mean the picture and name just so fits the book! LOVE it!

Extras: Look at Excerpt. Oh but did ya'll notice the authors? B B and H H. Lmao

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Sleeping Over

Name: Sleeping Over
Author: Stacey Ballis
Pages: 345
Start Date: May 7
Finish Date: May 10
Type: Chick-Lit ALL the Way; Paperback
Status: Library
Rating:

Summary:Meet Jess, Robin, Anne, Lilith and Beth…five thirty-somethings living in Chicago and trying to navigate work, men, life and love with humor, intelligence, and – most of all – friendship. Though each woman is very different, and clearly on her own path of discovery, the strength they find in each other makes their individual journeys a little easier.
We meet the ladies in flashback at a Valentine’s Day slumber party, establishing the connections between them, and giving us a snapshot of where the women are in their lives. We then move to present day, two years later, and each of the five tells her own story as it happens. Part Sex and the City, part Little Women, with a dash of Slaves of New York (well, Slaves of Chicago, at the very least), Sleeping Over examines relationships both romantic and platonic, (and platonic wanting to be romantic), and looks at all the various configurations of what it means to "spend the night" with someone.
Jess has just returned from a two-year Peace Corps tour in Kenya, and is crashing at the condo of her cousin Mark’s best friend, pediatrician Harrison. Dealing with a return to Western Civilization, her long-divorced parents dating each other again, and the feelings she is trying not to develop for the dashing doctor she is living with, may in fact make her crazy at any moment. Then again, if the doctor reciprocates, she just might be on the road to real joy.
Robin relishes her job as executive sous-chef in a trendy little restaurant almost as much as she relishes her friendship with its owner, Michael. But while Michael may think that their cuddly sleepovers are just friends being affectionate, Robin knows that she wants much more. But how do you make someone who knows you so well look at you with fresh eyes? And if he does, will it spell disaster at work?
Beth and her sister, Anne, have recently opened up a boutique together which is managing to keep afloat in spite of the economy. Beth isn’t really concentrating on much besides the store, fixing up her loft, and playing with her dog Petey when unexpected reconnections with three men from her past throw everything into turmoil. Ex-boyfriend Sasha has decided they should be friends again, as has grad-school lover Eric…all while Beth is in the infancy of a romance with Jeff, a guy she detested in college who has suddenly become the opposite of detestable. It is either an embarrassment of riches, or a nightmare from the tenth circle of hell, and she will need loads of support from the girls to puzzle out her next move.
Anne loves Beth, and Beth loves their working partnership, but the store isn’t Anne’s dream, and while the sisters share almost everything, Anne’s secret desire to go back to school to pursue a career in occupational therapy is keeping her up nights. Lucky for her, these nights are no longer spent alone, after a bizarre series of events brings Chris into her life – and for the first time, Anne knows what it means to be completely swept off her feet.
Lilith has finally returned to her work in theater after nursing her father during his ultimately unsuccessful battle with cancer. But getting back in the game has her stuck in the worst kind of triangle. While she and boring boyfriend Martin are temporarily "seeing other people," she meets Noah, a deliciously enigmatic actor, for whom she falls head over heels. Problem one, Noah is married. Problem two, Noah isn’t the least bit interested in Lilith, except as a friend. But Jay, on the other hand, is very interested. He is younger, brasher, nothing Lil ever expected to want or need…but nevertheless intriguing. Lil struggles with letting go of the idea of Noah to see if she should be more open-minded about Jay.
There are surprising twists for each of the women, separately and together, including one major disaster which threatens to change their friendship forever. But at the end of the day, five is always a happier number; and sometimes, whoever else you may be sleeping with, sleeping over with your girlfriends can be the best thing to do.



My Review: Well the summary pretty much sums it up. Really all I should add is that the end is Whoa. And Harrison is the EXACT man I want to marry. But Jess needs to be slapped around a bit I think... And personally I think Stacey could have written about each women in their own book, but it would have drug out, so this was so smart on her part to intertwine their stories together. Definitely a book to add to your chick-lit reading group.

Excerpt: We wake up, still twisted together. Harrison brushes the hair off my forehead and smiles at me.
"Good morning, beautiful."
"Good morning."
"I think I have to make love to you now."
And he did. And we were, you know, inevitable. ~ page 152

Cover/Title: Love the title, because you can take it two ways.*wink wink, nudge nudge* And the cover is soooo cute but see the guy that has his legs kinda on two girls? Well, that doesn't make sense because no guy cheats on the girls! Any way I want the slippers, pants and boxers please.

Extras: [ # is page # ]
The Unbearable Lightness of being - 17
Jimmy Durante - Mrs. Calabash - 39
Six Feet Under - 97
Regarding Henry - movie - 121
Annie Lennox - music - 156
Waiting for Godot - 170
Sarah Mclachlan - 215
Springtini - 287 **** and other recipes from the book!!! *****
"In my Life" - Beatles - 304
The soundtrack to "The Commitments" - 334
The Importance of Being Earnest - movie/play - 340
Fun Stuff About and From the Book

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Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale

Name: Ironside:A Modern Faery's Tale
Author: Holly Black
Pages: 323
Start Date:May 9
Finish Date: May 9
Type: Romantic, Gothic Modern Faery Tale
Status: Library; 3rd in the Modern Faery Tales
Rating:

Summary:the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing—her love for Roiben. But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie.Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth—that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But when Kaye returns to the faerie courts, a battle of wits and weapons is being waged over Roiben's throne, and she soon finds herself at the center of it all.

My Review: Knowing this would be the last book *sniff* I tried to savor it. Yeah, for a whole day. Once you start it, you can't put it down. A couple times I had to smack my head and say "You dumb-ass!" to Kaye or some other character but most of the time I was just enthralled. And Corny and Luis? Aw! My fave gay couple so far! I'm trying really hard to think of negative things here, but I'm in such a good mood today! So this book has no faults, except for the usual:
It ended.

Excerpt: " 'Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn' " ~ page 15

Cover/Title: Title is a 5 on a 1 to 10 scale. Cover is awesome! But remember the crown at the end of Valiant? That they had to make to save the stupid boy? Is this it? Or is it Roiben's crown???? But I like this cover more: --- Cover ---

Extras: X

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