The Summoning Review

The Summoning By Kelley Armstrong (Book 1 in Darkest Powers series)

Chloe is 15, her mom is dead and all she has left is her dad, who works all the time is different countries and her aunt who is a doctor. One day Chloe wakes up and she can see dead people and after an incident in school where she is chased by a dead man. The school has a strickted politic and in order for her to get back to school, she has to stay in a group home for mental kids. Her she mets, Simon and Derek that are brothers, Tori who is a bitch, Rae who quickly becomes her friend and Liz her roommate. Chloe is diagnosed with schizophrenia, but she has a hard time believing she is it, but at the same time what could she else be, when she sees dead people? After Derek finds out about her seing dead people, he shows her an internet site about necromancy and Chloe soon discovers she is a supernatural, who can see dead people and bring corps back to life. She quickly become friends with Simon and he shows her he also have supernatural powers. Soon they discover that this is a group home for supernaturals. But when Chloe wakes some burried people in the basement and she finds out from them, that they where supernaturals but where experimented on and later killed. Chloe and Simon plans to escape Lyle house and finds Simon dad who can help them and later come back for Derek. This doesn´t go as planned and soon Simon, Rae, Chloe, and Derek who is becoming a werewolf escapes.

This was a really good book and not a all what i had expected. It was a little bit boring, than the 2 next in the series, but it was okay.
The characters are really well developed and they are not like the characters in other novel, where they are bad boys and extremely beautifull girls, this is real people with real problems and they are not perfectly beautifull, and i think that was one of the biggest suprises in this book, and all of this she blends with the supernatural and she does it well.
Chloe is a great character, who in her teenage years has to deal with the possibility to be mentaly ill and if she can trust the people in her life, and she does a good job at that. Like her i would also begin to question if I was mental or not. I like that Chloe sees things as a storyboard when she think of thing, it is a fun way to look at things. The character in this series is different from others and very believable. But a thing i found completly weird and not really believable is that they would sedate her just because she stands besides the window and is a little freaked out. And that she has to go on a group home just because of that.
This is definently a book to recommend, all though i admit that the next two books is better than this one. The book starts out really slow, but by the end you will be completly draged into the story.

Grade: 7-10

The Fallen Review

The Fallen By Thomas E. Sniegoski
(Book 1 in The Fallen Series)

The day Aaron turns 18, he begins to have weird dreams and understand and talk al different kinds of language, and Aaron now thinks he is going insane. Aaron hasen´t had a easy life, he has no friends and he is a foster kid, who has bounce from one foster home to another, but he lives at a good one now. Then Aaron meets Zeke, a fallen angel, who tells him that Aaron is a Nephilim, the son of a mortal and an angel, and that he has the faith to redeem the Fallen. Aaron think that, that sounds absolutly crazy and dismisses Zeke. But then Aaron meets Camael, former member of "The Powers" who is here to protect Aaron and he believes to that Aaron is the savior, they have been waiting for. Slowly Aaron begins to deal and accept that he indeed is the savior. But not before Verchiel and "The Powers" finds him, his foster parents dead, his foster little brother´s kidnapning. And Aaron leaving the school, his crush Vilma and everything to persuit, his brother and his faith.

The book is written from Aaron, Verchiel and Camael and Zeke´s point of view, but i only fund it intresting when we hear about Aaron. The book doesn´t get much into the story in this first book, The book is a lot about Aaron having strange things happening to him and weird things told to him. I found this book a little boring and it is not because i don´t like the story and i really like the movies, which is not much different from the books. There is some fun in the book too (esspecially from the dog Gabriel), like the thing with How the angels learned the womens about make-up. I found that one quite funny, But that is because of the way i feel about make-up. And The powers(angels)sees people as animals, and uses them as slaves with leashes, that´s a really strong feeling that they actually sees people like that. I think that the author has been good at making things real, so you feel that they are real, like you really feel The powers anger against people and how Aaron is feeling. My favourite character is definently Gabriel, he is fun, sweet, stupid and a dog. So you just got to love him. The book leaves us with a cliff-hanger, so you will want to pick up the next, esspecially since the story in the first doesn´t evolve much. There is also 2 other covers for this book.

Grade: 4

Beastly Review

Beastly By Alex Flinn

Kyle Kingsbury has everything. Perfect looks, lots of money, is popular, perfect family and friends all the things he could want. He is the guy you wish you were and the guy nobody is. But not everything is as it seems on the surface. He may look good and has money, but his family is far from perfect. Kyle is a teenager who bases everything on looks and treats people like dirt. He is absolutly beastly. And one day in class he treats a ugly girl named Kendra horrible, but later ask her to prom as a joke. When Kendra finds out it was a joke, Kyle finds out she is a witch and she puts a spell on Kyle: Now he is a beast, ugly and everything. He has 2 years to find true love or he will stay a beast forever.
Now Kyle´s father gets Kyle to move into an apartment, with a maid and a tutor. Kyle spends his days reading and on the internet and sometimes by night, he go out to see the world. Until one day a man breaks into Kyle´s house, the man offers Kyle his daughter Lindy to live there, if Kyle let him go. Kyle says yes and soon Kyle and Lindy is living together in the same house. And Lindy soon begins to trust Kyle. Can this girl be Kyle´s true love? But can she love him, as a person and not a beast?

Beastly is a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It is a good enough book, i just fund it boring to read it.
The main character is made really good, because he really is beastly on the inside. He only thinks about himself and in truth he doesn´t have any real friends weather he says so or not. I don´t know but i am having a hard time judging this book and i thin that i didn´t fund the love so believable, it is like suddenly he loves her, i think it comes very sudden.

Grade: 4

Wings Review

Wings By Aprilynne Pike
(Book 1 in Wings series)

15 year old Laurel and her mon and dad, has just move to LA. They have left behind there home which has been in her mothers family for centuries. Laurel is a very different girl from anyone else, for examble: she is a strickt vegan, doesn´t need to put shampoo in her hair, doesn´t get cold and many other things. But she is also homeschooled by her mom, but now she has to start in high school. Laurel quickly gets a friend, David and befriend some of his friends. But a couple of weeks after she has started in school something begins to grow on her back. And starts to worry. When a week after something that looks like a flower has grown out of her back, she tells David and together they find out that it is somekind of plant. A week after her family has to go back to there old house and Laurel walks out in there forest behind there house. Here she meets Tamini, who tells her she is a fairie, just like him and many others and that he lives in this forest. Laurel freaks out, but slowly learns to accept it with Davis scientific help. But there is one problem: Laurel´s family is trying to sell the old house, but that can´t happened, because then the land could fall into the wrong hands.

The book starts really slow and there are a lot of pages that just go on about school and things that doesn´t matter that much, that is really boring. The book was fast to read, so i didn´t get as bored as I might had been. But you had to get half way through the book, before it began to be intresting.
I am a person who really don´t like fairie stories: I don´t know why, but i really don´t. But this book was much better that The Wicked Lovely series.
Laurel is a character who is obviously beautifull, but she is not a girl who cares about it, she has never even thought about it. She doesn´t care what other thinks of her. I like her, she has her own mind set on things. And she is not some bitch with perfect blond blond hair. She is weird in a good way.

It´s a book with little action, but a good read. I will be reading the next bock spells and i am looking forward to see more about Lauren and Tamini´s relationship, because there is definently something there.

Grade: 7

Leaving Paradise Review

Leaving Paradise By Simone Elkeles

A year ago Caleb was drunk and hit his sisters best friend Maggie, in a hit and run accident. Now a year after Caleb is up for and early realese from juvenile jail. But he has to act nice and do community service. But when he comes out everything has changed, including himself. His family is acting like strangers to each other, everybody in town is against him, his girlfriend is together with his best friends and his friends aren´t even his friends anymore. All because he was in jail.
Then there is Maggie the girl he hit, even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp and has scares. She doesn´t have it easy eigther. She has lost her friends, tennis and everybody calls her a freak because of the way she walks. Now they are two outsiders and the only on that can understand what they are going through is each other. Slowly Maggie starts to trust Caleb again after they begins working at the same lady. And they eventually begins a relationship. But Caleb is hiding a lot of things and Maggie soon finds out what really happened the night of the accident

I really liked this book. It is easy to understand, has no hard words and it is really fast to read. The book is not a typical happily ever after story, not even in the end and i like that, (Well as long as there is a sequel. else it is just sad) I was just an amazing and beautiful story. And Caleb what a wonderful character, he goes through all this crap for his sister. I will admit that i thought it was Kendra who did it, so i was kind of shocked when we fund out it was Leah. I know that she has changed and all that, but i thought it was because his brother whent to jail, not because she did it.
I was really sad with the ending and almost got mad with the whole book, until I a minute after fund out that there is going to be a sequel and it is coming out in a couple of months. A thing i fund a little weird is the first real time they are alone together, despite their worries and fears and hesitations, they just suddenly seemed to click and everything was alright. Things went back to being hard, then all of a sudden were good again, it was very on and off with little explanation for it. The book as written from both Maggie and Caleb´s point of view.
I am totally going to read the sequel and are really looking forward and hoping that Maggie and Caleb will end up together, because it is totally cruel to leave us with that ending.
This is a really strong book that deals with some though stuff. The book also have another cover.

Grade: 12

Going Too Far Review

Going Too Far By Jennifer Echols

There is a story in a town that a girl and her boyfriend died on a dangerous bridge, because the girl got stuck and the boy wouldn´t leave her, when the train came.
Meg is 17 years old and like to live life on the wild side. But a week before Spring Break, she and her friends are taking in by the police, for tresspassing on a dangerous bridge, while they are totally drunk. It was a close call, because if they had been there 5 minutes after, they would have been hit by the train.
As punishment, there trip to Miami in the spring break is cancelled and instead they have to stay and by night, be on a job: one with the police, another with the paramedics and the third with the firedepartment. Meg must spend the week riding in a police car with JohnAfter (the officer who arrestet them). But John has a weird obsession with the bridge and Meg can´t understand why. As the days goes Meg learns more about the officer and finds out, that they went to school together, that he is only a few years older than her, and that she starts falling in love with him.

I really loved this book. It is easy, absolutly good, not hard and fast to read. I totally loved the characters and how Meg and John are totally different. Because they could so learn something from one to another. There were twist in this book, that can be shocking. But i wasn´t suprised because i had a feeling about these twist. And they were almost right. So i didn´t get suprised, but i totally loved it anyway.
Meg is a person who is wreckless and lives her life and does whatever the hell she wants. She has Blue hair, a tatoo and doesn´t get attached to people, like she doesn´t call people, they call her.. But there are a lot more under the surface and you learn that she really isn´t like this, but that something has happen to her and therefore she acts this way. John is like the opposite, he takes things serious, he is young and ever since he left high school he hasn´t taken a break. All his friends are at college and partying and is unserious. While John stayed in the city, because of a thing that happened that is still tearing him apart. So he has his hands full with Meg. For Meg, the girl who doesn't plan anything and who runs away from any emotional ties, this week could spell out her downfall.
A beautiful book, worth reading, who has a lot of things under the surface.

Grade: 12

Two-Way Street Review

Two-Way Street By Lauren Barnholdt

Courtney and Jordan are about to begin a three day trip from their homes in Florida to their college orientation in Boston. But they are not going to have a good time, because two weeks ago, Jordan broke up with Courtney, because he met a girl on MySpace. Courtney doesn´t want to take the trip with Jordan, but her parents makes her go. Now she is on a trip with her ex that goes wrong in so many ways, But there are secrets Jordan has been keeping and those secrets are the reason he broke up. So those are bound to come out eigther through their friends, family or some other way. Because in the end Courtney and Jordan are bound to be together.

A really good, fast, easy and full of drama and teenage problems book, which i absolutly loved. I would so watch it if i would be made into a movie. And besides the book could be a really good young adult movie. I just think the book was sweet and a really good read.
As for the books writing style, the chapters in the book are shared, so Courtney and Jordan each tell there version of the story before, during, and after the trip. This gives the reader and in-sight in both there feeling and other stuff.
So, as for the characters: My first thought i had when Courtney´s Dad first is mention is: That there is something weird about him, and like: Is he having an affair?? And it was the same thing i was feeling when Jordan´s mom was mentioned, so you put two and two together, and AHA.
As for Courtney, i really liked her character especially because i can totally relate to her, because i am all the same things that she is like: organize, thinks about things a lot, likes country music etc. But Jordan is total opposite Courtney, he is laid back, like what he call "Hard Core Rap" and takes thing one at a time.
They both has friends that are only a phone call away and these friends are ready to help anytime.
The book reference a lot to Myspace, so it has a big play in the book.
A book worth reading if you like to read cute but not easy love stories between teenagers. Would totaly recommend it!

Grade: 12