Eve's Fan Garden

Title:  Watcher:  Book 1 of The Chosen Author:  Roh Morgon Synopsis: (From Roh Morgon’s website) If you were faced with the Choice of spending lifetimes with the one you love, the one who makes your blood sing, whose love fills you and resonates in your very soul or spending eternity in exile, hollow and completely alone…  which would you Choose? What [...]

Title: Try Not To Breathe Author:  Jennifer R. Hubbard Synopsis: (From Goodreads) Learning to live is more than just choosing not to die, as sixteen-year-old Ryan discovers in the year following his suicide attempt. Despite his mother’s anxious hovering and the rumors at school, he’s trying to forget the darkness from which he has escaped. [...]

In my mailbox this week a really fascinating book arrived from Scholastic – Discover More: The Elements. Being the science geek that I am, this book really grabbed my interest right away. The pictures are awesome, colorful, and large. The information is detailed and easy to understand. It is full of very useful information about [...]

WARNING!!!  This review will contain some unavoidable spoilers to the first book in the series, Swoon.  If you do not want to be spoiled, I suggest you stop reading now.  ;) Title:  Swear Author:  Nina Malkin Synopsis:  (from goodreads) A promise broken. A bond betrayed. It’s been six months since ghost-turned golem Sinclair Youngblood Powers [...]

Title:  Swoon Author:  Nina Malkin Synopsis:  (from goodreads) Torn from her native New York City and dumped in the land of cookie-cutter preps, Candice is resigned to accept her posh, dull fate. Nothing ever happens in Swoon, Connecticut…until Dice’s perfect, privileged cousin Penelope nearly dies in a fall from an old tree, and her spirit [...]

Every winter, straight-laced, Ivy League bound Evan looks forward to a visit from Lucy, a childhood pal who moved away after her parent’s divorce. But when Lucy arrives this year, she’s changed. The former “girl next door” now has chopped dyed black hair, a nose stud, and a scowl. But Evan knows that somewhere beneath [...]

From Goodreads.com: Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be [...]

Title: First Day on Earth Author: Cecil Castellucci Synopsis: (from Goodreads) A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world. “We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings. “I know what I am.” Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet [...]

Closing Thoughts, Review, and Contest! This has been an incredible week featuring Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell their Stories. I want to thank the all of the authors for sharing a bit of themselves through their stories. I also want to thank everyone who showed up to chat on Thursday. There were some great conversations.  [...]

The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. Their only means of survival is by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a chain of events that could lead [...]

Title: Clockwork Prince Author: Cassandra Clare Synopsis:  (from The Infernal Devices) In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her [...]

From the author’s website: To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey seems like an ordinary 14-year-old–he likes waffles and video games, hates homework and gets bullied at school. But Michael is anything but ordinary. He was born with special electrical powers. When Michael’s best friends, Ostin Liss and cheerleader Taylor Ridley, make an accidental [...]

From Goodreads.com: On what should be the happiest day of her life, Rebecca Ross is panic stricken. Rebecca has just wed Craig Jacobs, but she realizes she put more thought into choosing her florist than she did in choosing the man she’s just pledged to love for the rest of her life. Before Craig, Rebecca, [...]

From Amazon.com: Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take [...]

From the author’s website:  Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon. On its way to populate a distant planet in the wake of Earth’s collapse, the ship’s crew has been unable to conceive a generation to continue its mission. They need young girls desperately, or their zealous leader’s efforts will [...]