Summary: Two girls haunted by the past…and destined to relive it…

In “Legacy of Lies,” Megan has to stay with the uptight grandmother she wants nothing to do with. She’s determined to get through the visit without any drama, but when she falls into a twisted love triangle with potentially fatal consequences, Megan may be caught up in her family’s legacy in more ways than she realizes.

In “Don’t Tell,” Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother drowned seven years ago, she’ll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother’s death. Maybe her mother’s drowning wasn’t an accident after all…and maybe Lauren is next.

We have been seeing a lot of young adult books from the 90s and early 2000s being re-released in bind-up form these past few years – some examples would be the Wicked series by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, LJ Smith’s body of work, and Christopher Pike’s The Last Vampire series and Remember Me trilogy – and they are something that I have been taking great delight in. Why? Because it gives me and so many others a second chance to get my hands on all these wonderful stories – both the ones already read and the ones that would have otherwise not been.

Read the rest of Catherine's review at On The Nightstand.

Summary: On remote Rollrock Island, men make their living--and fetch their wives--from the sea.

The Witch Misskaella knows how to find the girl at the heart of a seal. She'll coax a beauty from the beast for any man, for a price. And what man wouldn't want a sea-wife, to and to hold, and to keep by his side forever?

But though he may tell himself that he is the master, one look in his new bride's eyes will transform him just as much as it changes her. Both will be ensnared--and the witch will look on, laughing.

In this magical, seaswept novel, Margo Lanagan tells an extraordinary tale of desire, despair, and transformation. With devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals characters capable of unspeakable cruelty, but also of unspoken love.

See the review at On The Nightstand.

Hi everyone, I'm new here. :-) I love reading, and my favorite genres are YA, middle-grade, science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction. My favorite authors include Catherine Fisher, Meg Cabot, Malinda Lo, Elora Bishop, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, and Cornelia Funke.

I actually was lucky enough to win an ARC of Cornelia Funke's newest book, Fearless, which is book two of her Mirrorworld series. I'll share my review below. :-)

( Review of Fearless )

Thanks to a mix-up with the publisher, I was sent 13 copies of this ARC instead of one. The publisher has asked me to give away the extras, and I still have several copies left. If you are a fan of Cornelia Funke, or are looking for a new YA fantasy to try, you can find the details on this post!

Our Hero is one Fors of the Puma Clan of a tribe of neo-barbarians of a community called “The Eyrie.”

This is not a book review. I was not able to finish the book or even get farther than three chapters. This is because Trickster’s Girl is kind of awful. It is a “gee, why don’t I write a fantasy with a completely random non-specific hodge-podge of Native American mythology and then completely disrespect it via my heroine!” kind of book. It is a “why don’t I glom together a bunch of Native American belief systems then randomly throw in new agey ley lines!” kind of book. It is a “I have never heard of The Tough Guide to Fantasyland and therefore do not realize how badly I needed it!” kind of book.


Of course, I had my general misgivings just from the summary, which involves "the mythological creature Raven" wanting the female protagonist to help him avert some kind of ecological disaster.