Life as a vampire is not all it's reported to be. And that's entirely the problem. Being a vampire means dealing with constant nausea, delicate digestion, extreme sensitivity to bright lights (and don't even think about sunlight), and the fear of being found out. Because when the entire world not...
I needed this book to be a satisfying conclusion to the series, and it just wasn't. I was very bored by the plot, which seemed a rehash of the previous book - oh my! Prosper is out to get me again! Cadel's character didn't really grow much, and his supposed moral dilemmas felt false and forced. J...
so i've finally finished this series i am completely unsatisfied with the ending. Not to mention that i feel that cadel's problems have not been solved in my opinion. Though i originally began this series for the fun of it, i found my self hooked by the end of the 1st book. I loved cadels perso...
Cadel is back in another suspensful story as Prosper English returns and tries to ruin Cadel and everything he holds dear. Cadel must use his smarts, his looks, and his connections to find Prosper and his allies and put an end to them once and for all. This story is one of those stories that a...
This summer our library is doing a "Blind Date with a Book" thing, where you grab a random book wrapped in newspaper, check it out at the auto-checkout and take it home and unwrap it. This is the one I got. It earns an extra star for completely ignoring any but the barest possibility of romance. ...
I had just recently got done with reading "Team Human" by Larbalestier & Brennan, which also included the typical vampires, werewolves and zombies characters that are taking the literary world by storm so I had serious misgivings on this book. Would this book turn out to be such a dud as the last...
Good action-packed page-turner for boys and girls. Good strong central character, and I enjoyed the feel of being in that era without being overloaded with description. The relationship between Alfred and Birdie is very well done and quite touching. It is scary, but nothing too bad, not enough to...
While a bit of the climactic plot was a tad unbelievable *to me*, the rest of this book was awesome. I loved the historical fiction aspect of it, the authentic time period language used (with glossary in the back for reference) the nomenclature used for the different types of bogles (many of whic...
Pagan's Crusade by Catherine JinksANNNND I have in my hot little hands the sequel, Pagan in Exile. I was happy to find the fourth in the series ready to order for our teen collection. YIPEEE.I know, I know, the influences of caffeine are upon me. sorry.ahem(schooling my features into some sembla...
This is the fourth novel in the Pagan series, after Pagan's Crusade, Pagan in Exile, and Pagan's Vows. This one takes place about 20 years after the last book, and it's also the only one not told from Pagan's point of view, which is why it took me so long to pick it up. But when I saw Jinks had p...
3 1/2 stars"Pagan in Exile" is the second in a four-book series about Pagan Kidrouk, a Christian Arab from Jerusalem who joins the Order of the Temple. In this book, 17-year-old Pagan serves as the squire of Sir Roland Roucy de Bram, a Templar Knight, who has gone home to recruit men for the Seco...
School stories have been popular since at least the 19th Century when Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes was published in 1857. I suppose that once school, and therefore childhood literacy, became common, young people wanted to read, and the one setting they all shared and could relate to wa...
Allie Gebhardt and her family have decided to move because they didn’t like their old house, but their opinion soon changes when they start to live in the newly renovated home in a small town. Allie Gebhardt also though that shared a room with her brother was bad but when she learns that her brot...