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Book Review: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets j.k rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Title Harry potter and the chamber of secrets
author J.k rowling
publisher scholastic
releases date September 1st 2000
pages 341

summary -The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart; a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls’ bathroom; and the unwanted attention of Ron Weasley’s younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone—or something—starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects . . . Harry Potter himself

Review –
Harry potter is excited for school to start but it goes off not so well he has to deal with a house elf telling him not to go back to hogwarts and stole his letters from Hermione and ron and now his uncle has locked him in but ron saves him and he’s back with the Wesley’s and they have some trouble getting back to school but then some strange stuff starts to happen people are getting petrified and the chamber of secrets has been open again harry finds a diary of someone from 50 years ago and the diary takes him 50 years back and the diary belongs to Tom riddle hagrid is taken to azkaban and dumbledore is taken away and when Hermione is petrified also and ginny is taken in the chamber Harry has to stop it but when he finds ginny he also finds out that Tom Riddle is Voldemort .

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Book Review: glass house Rachel Caine

Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Title – Glass Houses
Author Rachel Caine
Release date – October 3 , 2006
publisher – NAL Jam
pages – 248
Summary- College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life, but they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood

Review –
this book is about Claire Danvers and she is a very smart girl but she is tortured by girls at school and one bad day she ends up at the glass house where she meets Eve and Eve is worried about her especially since she’s beaten up she tells her to come inside and then she meets Shane “who I have fictional crush on ” Shane and Eve are both great Character Eve is sweet and goth and Shane is kind of a smartass but really cute and treats Claire like a little sister when Eve tells Claire she could move in but only if Michael lets her she falls asleep and meets Michael who isn’t to sure of letting Claire move in because she’s a minor but Claire needs to live there because she doesn’t feel safe at the dorm this is her only option so she finally convinces Michael and she gets to know the town and the rest of them and finds out people actually believe Vampires live in the town well Claire thinks that’s nuts until she meets a vampire Brandon and she also finds out Michael secret he’s a ghost this book was amazing there is allot more like there is this big important book that vampires can’t read I did see some problems with it , it was okay I probably won’t continue on.

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Book Review: crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick

Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2)Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title- Crescendo
Author – Becca Fitzpatick
release date- October 19th 2010
publisher – Simon & schuster
pages – 427

Summary -Nora Grey’s life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn’t pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it: a mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But, despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He’s more elusive than ever and even worse, he’s started spending time with Nora’s arch-enemy, Marcie Millar.

Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadnt been acting so distant. Even with Scott’s totally infuriating attitude Nora finds herself drawn to him – despite her lingering feeling that he’s hiding something.

Haunted by images of her murdered father, and questioning whether her nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death, Nora puts herself increasingly in dangerous situations as she desperately searches for answers. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything – and everyone – she trusts.

Review – Nora and Patch are going great until he protects marcie and other than that she told patch she loved him and he didn’t say anything and other things are happening Vee gets a boyfriend Rixon Pach’s friend Patch and Nora broke up Patch is with Marcie Nora finds some things she doesn’t want to she receives a package a ring from the black hand Rixon tells Nora that’s Patch’s nickname but is it Patch tell Nora Scott is Nephilem he’s imortal can’t die and he’s apart of something bad but when Nora is stuck in a sticky situation and finds out who killed her dad it surprise her .

5 out of 5

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Book Review: awakened p.c cast

Awakened (House of Night, #8)Awakened by P.C. Cast
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Title : Awakened
Author : P.C Cast + Kristen Cast
Release date : January 4 , 2011
Publisher : St. Martin’s griffin
pages: 290
Summary :My love, speak to me. Tell me everything.” Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.
“What would you have me say?” He didn’t meet her eyes.
“Zoey lives.” Neferet’s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.
“She does.”
“Then you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.” She started to walk away from him.
“Where are you going? What will happen next?”
“It is quite simple. I will ensure Zoey is drawn back to Oklahoma. There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.”
Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either…
And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?
In the pulse-pounding 8th book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?

Review – This book was heartbreaking action packed it took place after Burned , Zoey is back and her soul is not shattered Stark is still trying to get his energy back but him and Zoey are happy and in love but when heartbreak goes down at the house of night Zoey and Stark must go back home Stevie Ray is still hiding her Rephaim from her friends Nefert is fooling everyone on the council that’s she’s so nice and good but when they have to do the funeral for jack and everyone is so sad that’s when madness takes part but it ended on a clifhander like always it was sad but I can’t wait until Destined .
5 out of 5

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Book Review: Dream dark kami garcia

Dream Dark (Caster Chronicles, #2.5)Dream Dark by Kami Garcia
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title dream dark
Author kami Garcia & margaret Stohl
Pages 75
Publisher little brown books
Summary –
When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through a mysterious network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, he knew the journey would be dangerous. But returning home to Gatlin, South Carolina was just the beginning…

Wounded during a climactic battle, Link discovers that tending his injuries won’t be as simple as visiting a doctor and that healing his arm should be the least of his worries. For being bitten by a Supernatural does more than break the skin — it changes a person, inside and out, turning Link into someone more and more like the dark creature who injured him.

Review- This is link’s story and this story link in trying to deal what happens now that he’s a a quarter incubus but it’s hard when you can’t eat normal food that your mom cooks for you and thinks that your on steroids. Ridley and link are going out even though she doesn’t think they’ll work but when Macon gives Link a package to give to a friend of his this trip comes with a price.
5 out of 5

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Book Review: Beautiful Darkness kami Garcia

Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles, #2)Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title : Beautiful Creatures
Author : Kami garcia & Margaret stohl
Release date – october 12, 2010
Publisher : Little brown books for young readers
Pages – 503
summary -Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Review – In this book Ethan has to face many things that his girlfriend Lena might turn dark because if she choses light all the dark people in her family will die and and if she chooses dark all the light will die. and now she’s become depressed because she thinks that she killed her uncle Macon and she’s just so sad all the time and Ethan doesn’t know what to do Ethan got a job at the library and there is a new girl liv but when Liv meets Leana she’s jealous in a different way girls should be but in the end they just decide to break up also Ridly is back and she brought a new guy john breed Lena runs away with John and Ridly so link Ethan and Liv all go to find and save Leana allot of things happened in this book and I can’t wait until beautiful chaos.

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Book Review : Spirit bound Richelle Mead

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Title – Spirit Bound
Author Richelle Mead
Release date – May 18,2010
Publisher – penguin/ razorbill
pages – 489
summary -Salvation has its price.
The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. “You’re lying. What you’re describing is impossible. There’s no way to save a Strigoi. When they’re gone, they’re gone. They’re dead. Undead. Forever.”

Robert’s next words weren’t directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. “That which is dead doesn’t always stay dead….”

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It’s graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside of the Academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won’t join him, he won’t rest until he’s silenced her…forever.

But Rose can’t forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose’s prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. In the end, is true love really worth the price?

Book review – After the craziness of Blood promise we were wondering what was going to happen next after we found out Dimiri wasn’t killed by Rose and we now found out that there is sapose to be a way to save strigoi from not being strigoi anymore but there was only way of getting that info was releasing a criminal who was related to him Victor Dashkov. But Rose also has her trials that she passed but her dad showed up he was sitting next to her boyfriend Adrian Ivshkov who I so love them together and Lissa and Christian are still broken up blah that is so aggravating I don’t think I screamed more in a book ever espeshilly when rose was arrested for killing the queen oh we also found out that lissa has a half -brother or half -sister oh my freaking god this book was amazing can’t wait to read The last sacrifice the final book in the vampire academy series.

5 OUT OF 5 OF COURSE



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Book Review: percy Jackson and the lighting their Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary : After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Review – This book is about 12 year Percy Jackson who is a troubled kid, who keeps going from school from school because of strange things always happen to him so at one school trip when fury almost attacks Percy and then his classmates don’t even remember this teacher so at the end of the school year his best friend grover tells him the truth he’s a half blood and he’s in for an adventure . and he’s going to camp half blood he kills a minatar hades took his mother this was an amazing book if you love greek mythology read this book we find out percy is son Poseidon the sea god and there is going to be a war if someone doesn’t return Zeus lightning bolt .

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Book Review : Hushed Lauren Barnholdt

Hushed by Lauren Barnholdt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Title : Hushed
Release Date :February 19th 2011

Review : BOOK 4 this book was very creepy in ways like the butterfly’s cam finds a butterfly necklace in Riane’s locker and he also thinks Brody and Riane are both in on this witch thing and they want to hurt Cam and Natalia also homecoming Riane asks Cam and Natalia isn’t sure she even wants to ask Brody but her friend Anastasia tells her to because of the way he looks at her and when Cam shows Natlalia the necklace she knows something is wrong cause whenever something bad happens she sees a butterfly and she is getting stalker texts from her ex.

4 out of 5



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Book Review : Rumored Lauren Barnholdt

Rumored by Lauren Barnholdt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Title : Rumored
Author Lauren Barnholt
Release date February 11th 2011
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Review : Book 3 this book was all kinds of crazy Natalia ends up going to the spa with the triad and when Raine tells her that she shouldn’t like Cam things go dirty the lights go out and one of the girls has a scratch on her face and things go worse at school and are telling everyone that Natalia punched her oh god girl drama on way other level Natalia hears Brody and his sister talking about something strange and Cam was sucked the life out of him by Riane this isn’t good.

4 out of 5



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Book Review : Tricked Lauren Barnholdt

Tricked by Lauren Barnholdt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars






Title Tricked
Author Lauren Barnholdt
Release date : February 4th 2011
Summary: Natalia Moore is the new girl at Santa Anna Prep, and all she wants to do is fly under the radar — get to her classes, meet a few friends, and try not to make a total fool of herself in the meantime. But when handsome and popular Campbell Elliot goes out of his way to be nice to the new girl, Natalia’s plan to go unnoticed flies out the window.

Cam’s hot, but he’s completely off-limits. Raine Marsden, the most popular and meanest girl in school, has had her eye on him ever since the summer. And Raine doesn’t like competition.

When Cam goes as far as inviting Natalia to the exclusive weekend party at Raine’s house, Raine sets her sights on a new victim. But what Natalia doesn’t know is that Raine and her friends are no ordinary mean girls. They have powers most people can only dream of, and nobody will stand in the way of what they want. And what Raine wants is Campbell.

Review: in the second book things are continuing Natalia is hanging out with Brody and they all go to brunch Raine ,Cam And Brody well things don’t go well and Raine is acting strange Natalia sees a guy from her old school she didn’t want to see and cam and Natalia kiss and he tells her how he feels things don’t go to well and end on an Icy note.

4 out of 5




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Book Review : Claimed Lauren Barnholdt

Claimed by Lauren Barnholdt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Title: Claimed
Author : Lauren Barnholdt
Release date January 28th 2011

Summary : Natalia Moore is the new girl at Santa Anna Prep, and all she wants to do is fly under the radar — get to her classes, meet a few friends, and try not to make a total fool of herself in the meantime. But when handsome and popular Campbell Elliot goes out of his way to be nice to the new girl, Natalia’s plan to go unnoticed flies out the window.

Cam”s hot, but he’s completely off-limits. Raine Marsden, the most popular and meanest girl in school, has had her eye on him ever since the summer. And Raine doesn’t like competition

When Cam goes as far as inviting Natalia to the exclusive weekend party at Raine’s house, Raine sets her sights on a new victim. But what Natalia doesn’t know is that Raine and her friends are no ordinary mean girls. They have powers most people can only dream of, and nobody will stand in the way of what they want. And what Raine wants is Campbell.

Claimed, the first book in The Witches of Santa Anna series of novellas, proves just how far true love will go and that nothing–not even pure evil–can change your destiny.

Review : this book is about Natalia and she’s at a new school a private school and there she meets some people cam and Raine and Natalia likes cam but raine doesn’t like competition and cam invites Natalia to a party and offers to give her a ride but he wants to hook up with Raine until he see’s Natalia have something in common, Cam’s friend Brody takes Natalia and ends up kissing her and she freaks out and then something strange happens.
4 out of 5 stars




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Book Review : Two – way streen Lauren Barnholdt

Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Title : Two way street
Author : Lauren Barnholt
Release Date : June 26, 2007
Publisher : Simon pulse
Summary : This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They’re even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.

Then Jordan dumps Courtney — for a girl he met on the Internet.

It’s too late to change plans, so the road trip is on. Courtney’s heartbroken, but figures she can tough it out for a few days. La la la — this is Courtney pretending not to care.

But in a strange twist, Jordan cares. A lot.

Turns out, he’s got a secret or two that he’s not telling Courtney. And it has everything to do with why they broke up, why they can’t get back together, and how, in spite of it all, this couple is destined for each other

Review : Meet Jordan and courtney who are broken up and now are going on a trip together because they have to get to collage Jordan broke up with courtney for a girl he met on Myspace but there is more to there breakup that Courtney knows about so on this trip they go through the past and they go through some rough edges and there both in love with each other but will they be abel to be together because of the secret jordan kept from courtney.



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Book Review : Looking for Alaska John Green

Looking for Alaska by John Green

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Title : Looking for Alaska
Author : John green
Release date : march 3rd 2005
Pages 221
Publisher puffin
Summary:
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver
Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Review: This book Looking for Alaska was a book that amazed me it was funny and sad it’s about Miles/pudge going to culver creek looking for the great perhaps but what he didn’t expect was meeting a girl that changes his life Alaska Young pudge fell in love on the first sight of Alaska miles gets some interesting friends the corneal alaska takumie and Lara these guys aren’t the rich kids but they know how to have fun miles loves last words which is interesting but these friends love to prank on miles first date at culver creek with Lara he ends up puking on her jeans which is memorable but miles still likes Lara so on a big prank adventure on the rich kids they make out and miles ask’s her to be his girlfriend and then something big happens which is big and is a big part of the book it was sad.



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