Writer • Literary Critic • Poet
Mackie Doyle is not an average teenager. Even living in the small town of Gentry, he is not of this world. Doyle comes from a place filled with death, disease, and darkness. A world where its occupants are the living dead and it’s all ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a replacement for [...]
Maya lived a pretty average life, until she witnessed the death of her best friend Serena. A year after the incident, Maya and best friend Daniel find it difficult to cope with their everyday lives. After the arrival of Rafe, the new kid in town, Maya’s house is visited by mountain lions more and more [...]
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh is about Isobel Lanley a popular girl at her school. She doesn’t particularly like to turn in all of her assignments and when she is partnered with Varen Nethers, all the horrors of her English assignment have fallen on her shoulders. Varen Nethers is the quiet Goth kid that always sits [...]
Magic, Love, Mystery, Suspense, 1878. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare is about a 16 year old girl named Tessa Gray, who moves to London to live with her brother Nate. But, upon her arrival she is taken aback when she is greeted by two women known as the “Dark Sisters”. Deceived by a letter that [...]
Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels, Ivy, Bethany and Gabriel are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness. They work hard to conceal their true identity and –most of all – their wings. If this sounds like every other [...]
“Once Dead, Twice Shy” by Kim Harrison is the first book in Harrison’s series about 17 year old Madison Avery. Madison is hardly you average teenager, she is dead and still walking the earth in her body trying to live a normal life. Unfortunately, she never actually fit in even when she was alive. Always [...]
Who said you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover? “Fallen”, by Lauren Kate is a definite exception to this rule. Her book drew the attention of many teens, selling over 60,000 copies worldwide. It wasn’t simply the story line of the book, but also the amazing cover that attracted my attention. “Fallen” is one [...]
Oh no, not another teenage love story full of angst, forbidden love and the supernatural. I have to admit, the first thing about this book that caught my eye was the cover. The falling angel, with black-red wings, adds a touch of darkness. Not to mention the guy himself, he’s not just falling, he appears [...]
Most teenagers these days seem to think that a tattoo is a ‘cool’ way to rebel against their parents. However, this is not the case for the character of Leslie in Melissa Marr’s “Ink Exchange”. “Ink Exchange” is the sequel to Marr’s “Wicked Lovely”, but newcomers do not have to be familiar with the author’s [...]