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Need (Need #1) Author: Carrie Jones Review By: Courtney Published By: Bloomsbury USA Date: December 23rd 2008 Genre: YA / Paranormal Fantasy Pages: 306 pages Zara White suspects there's a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She's also obsessed with phobias. And it's true, she hasn't exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane...but Zara's pretty sure her mom just can't deal with her right now. She couldn't be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara's overactive imagination. In fact, he's still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There's something not right - not human - in this sleepy Maine town, and all signs point to Zara. Okay if that cover didn't do anything for you then I have a simple question...What's wrong with you...

Torn (Tryelle Trilogy #2)  Author: Amanda Hocking Review By: Courtney Published By: St. Martin's Press Date: February 28th 2012 Genre: YA / Urban Fantasy Pages: 324 pages When Wendy Everly first discovers the truth about herself—that she’s a changeling switched at birth—she knows her life will never be the same. Now she’s about to learn that there’s more to the story… She shares a closer connection to her Vittra rivals than she ever imagined—and they’ll stop at nothing to lure her to their side. With the threat of war looming, her only hope of saving the Trylle is to master her magical powers—and marry an equally powerful royal. But that means walking away from Finn, her handsome bodyguard who’s strictly off limits…and Loki, a Vittra prince with whom she shares a growing attraction. Torn between her heart and her people, between love and duty, Wendy must decide her fate. If she makes the wrong choice, she could lose everything, and everybody, she’s...

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) Author: Brandon Sanderson Review By: Courtney Published By: Tom Doherty Associates Date: July 25th 2006 Genre: Fantasy or Epic Fantasy Pages: 541 pages For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his...

Pandemonium (Delirium #2) Author: Lauren Oliver Review By: Courtney Published By: HarperCollins Date: February 28th 2012 Genre: Dystopia Pagse: 375 **Spoliers for anyone who hasn't read Delirium - just a catuion to read at your own risk** " SO WHAT was your name before?" I say, and she freezes, her back to me. "Before you came to the Wilds , I mean."   For a moment she stands there. Then she turns around. "You might as well get used to it now," she says with quiet intensity .   "Everything you were, the life you had, the people you knew.. .dust . " She shakes her head and says, a little more firmly, "There is no before. There is only now , and what comes next ." I loved Delirium so as soon as I saw that this book came out I bought it, and I was extremely excited...I couldn't wait to see what would happen to Lena and Alex. Of course I didn't write this blog as soon as I finis...

  Fever (The Chemical Garden #2)  Author: Lauren DeStefano Reviewed By: Courtney Published By: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Release Date: February 21st 2012 Genre: YA/ Dystopia Pages: 341 pages  **Spoiler - This is the second book to Wither, read at own risk :)**   Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ring mistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous ...