Immortal Review

Immortal By Gillian Shields (Book 1 In The Immortal Series

Evie is 16 years old and has lived with her granma Frankie for a long time, because her mom is dead and her is in the army overseas. But now Frankie is ill so Abbey gets send to a boarding school called Wyldcliffe Abbey School.

While getting to the school after been trown out of a cab, because the driver wouldn´t go to the hunted school, she is knocked out by a boy riding a black horse, there is something weird about him and he tells her they will meet again. Abbey is a strick school and vie doesn´t feel at home at all.

A rich snob of a girl named Celeste in her dorm wants Evie away, because the only reason she got in, was because her cousin Laura died, in the lake behind the school. No one is very friendly, except a girl named Sarah and she doesn´t really make any friends. After being there a day, Evie begins to have feelings that someone is wacthing her, she also have weird black outs were she is still at the school but somehow the vision is different and there is different people.

One night she wants to go out to see the lake, so she sneaks out of the house by an old staircase, when outside Sebastian shows up and they spend some time together and she promise to see him again. The next many nights she see Sebastian, but he doesn´t wanna tell her anything really about himself, and when Evie sees Sebastian at night the black outs stoppes.

One of the nights Helen a weird girl at Evie´s dorm, locks her in the olld staircase and tells a teacher that Evie was out of bed, but Evie manage to save herself. They also goes with the class to the Fairfax hall, but there has been a break in a night and a painting has been stolen.

But with time Evie gets mad that Sebastian doesn´t want to tell her anything, so she stops seing him. At the same time Sarah tells her that she know something is going on, and she tells Evie that she has some kind of power like she knows when someone is happy or not. Evie tells her about her black outs and the girl she has been seing in them. Sarah then shows her a book with the story of abbey, and how it ones belong to a family that had a daughter named Lady Agnes.

There is a picture of her in the book and that is the girl Evie has been seing, Lady Agnes also lookes a lot like Evie. Sarah and her begins to search in Evie´s family history, because Frankie had ones told her she came from here. Evie realises that she loves Sebastian and want to see him, he is very glad when she comes out one night, they swim in the lake - but something weird happens, he tells her he loves her and they kiss.

Evie begins to connect the dots and is pretty sure that Lady Agnes, who ran away from home had a baby before she died in the so called terrible horse riding accident and that that baby was Evie´s great-great grandmother Effie, who was raised as a normal farmer girl at Uppercliffe.

She also finds out from a letter she gets from one of Frankie´s nurses, that the silver necklace she bearies is an heirlome from Lady Agnes time. She tells this to Sebastian, who tells her that he has to get away and that they can´t see each other anymore, but tells her he has to find out something, and that she has to meet him the next night.

Before she goes to meet him, Helen gives her a newspaper article, of the stolen painting in Fairfax, where she reads that the painting was of Sebastian Fairfax, and there is a picture of the painting and it is her Sebastian. When she meets him, he shows her a grave from 1884 and tells her that it is his grave but he never died.

He gives her Agnes diary and tells her to read it. It tells that Sebastian and Agnes was old friends, and on a trip Sebastian found a book him and her later used to inspiriment with dark powers of earth, water, wind and fire. That Seabatian got gredy, that he wanted eternal life, that Agnes better could master the powers esspecially fire, and that she concealed the powers in Evie´s necklace.

Sebastian then tells her that when Agnes came back to Wyldcliffe so her baby could have a better life, sebastian accidentally killed her and suddenly he was immortal, but not completly and that he eventually will becoem a dark demon if he doens´t complete the immortally with the powers in the necklace. But Agnes has sealed it so the only way he can get the necklace is to kill Evie and take it, he tells her they cant see each other again and that she has to get away from here, that he isn´t the only one who craves the necklace, the powers.

By morning Sarah and Evie sees Helen jump from the roof, but she is still alive not hurt. After school she tells them that she was brought up at a childrens home as they know, but some time ago the Headmistress at Abbey came and told her she was her mother and knew of the special powers she had, like flying of the roof, she took Helen with her to Abbey, but Helen couldn´t tell that she was her daughter.

She tells them that her mother is only intrested in her powers and that her mother is a dark sister with Sebastian as their master. After Agnes he had gotten some followers to serve him and when he found the powers he would share, and when a dark sister dies they gave their place to their daughter.

helen shows them visons and they see that it was the sisters who killed Laura after she had had her 3 warning, so their master could have more time, and threw her in the lake. She tells that Sebastian didn´t knew about Laura and that he got mad with her mother when he found out. She tells that when with time Sebatian will crave the powers even more and wouldn´t know what he was doing, eventhough it mean hurting Evie.

Helen tells her that the only possible way to save herself is to realese the powers in the necklace to herself. Evie gets the powers of the water, but she can´t do anything because she doesn´t give herself fully. One day Celeste sets her up, so Evie gets her 3 and last warning. The coven tries to get the necklace but they dont get it, they trie to get Sebastian to take it but he fight against them, finally tha four of them Helen, Sarah, her and Agnes manages to fight them, but is not sure if they are dead. They know that it is not over, and evie knows that she has to save the boy that she loves.

I thought that the book to times was boring and i think that it was a horrible ending. that was way too fast. I liked the story but i kind of feel the same way with ghost story as i does with fairie stories = BORING. It was unoriginal with easily forgettable characters, and the plot was predictable. When i first saw the cover the first thing that comes to my mind Titanic = no idea why.
"Monthly bleeding???" - I think i am gonna have a cow, OMG how ridicules does that senting sound?? Really Really REALLY RIDICULES.

Grade: 4

The Body Finder Review

The Body Finder By Kimberly Derting (Book 1 In The Body Finder Series)

Violet lives in a small town called Buckly and is a body finder, something she has inherited from her granma. When somebody has been killed it calls to her, in smell, taste, feelings or sight and she then goes out to find the body, when she finds it she take it with her and give it a funeral, and then the feelings settle down. Mostly it is just animals, but when Violet was 8, she found af 14 year old dead girl, Emilee, in the woods. But it is not just the one killed that has a certain energi, it is also the one killing, and the killer and the prey has the same mark energi to it. But after sometime it slowly fades, but never really goes away. Violet has just started her junior year in high school and her best friend is Jay Heaton and they have been since they were 6. But recently Violet has been having romantic feeling for Jay, but tries to get them to go away. Jay has change a lot over the summer and girls are suddenly swamming all over him. At a party a couple of days after to celebrate the end of summer, Jay and Violet take a trip on a wave runner together, but on their way back to the party Violet get a feeling and finds a dead girl hidden behind a plant. A week after another girl is found dead, (her body caring different colors - to Violet). A week or so after the party Grady, one of her and Jay friends since they were little, ask Violet to the homecoming ball, and she say yes, eventhough she really wants to go with Jay. Jay seems mad about her choice, he therefore ditches Violet after school that day and gets a date of his own, Lissie Adams a senior and the most popular girl in school. But he later apologize to Violet.

Not soon after the second girl, Hailey a thirteen year old girl, that Violet used to babysit, is reported missing and now Violet doesn´t wanna sit around doing nothing. So she calls Jay, and after a lot of convincing he agrees to help her go to places so she can find the killer with her powers. They going to public places and after 2 days Violet gets a strong taste and thinks she has found the killer, she leaves Jay and almost confront what she thinks is the killer but only a kid, until Jay comes. Jay is pissed at her and starts to ignore her, while Grady is giving her extra attention. After the incident Violet has to find a new way at finding the killer, so she goes with Grady to were the first murdered girl Brooke is burried, to find her mark, which is bells, so she easy can find the killer when she has two marks to go after. The next friday Violet goes to a party with her friends, and has to drive Grady home by midnight because he is way drunk, but out by his car he holds Violet down and tries to kiss her, eventhough she tells him to stop. Jay shows up and get Grady away from her and treatens her to never touch her again. Violet gets mad at Jay, for telling her to get into his car and she walks away, but is soon stopped by Jay who kisses her. The morning after Violet finds out that a girl from the party yesterday named Mackenzie is missing. She joins the search party in the woods, and quickly realises that the killer is there in the woods, protecting another body he has burried, so nobody will find it. She calls her uncle and he arrests the man, while her father take her home. After a couple of hours Jay comes over, and they discuss their kiss and he tells her that he always knew that they would be together one day, he was just waiting for her and he was trying to make her confess it by talking with the other girls. The next day her uncle comes by and tells her that the man confessed to everything, even the girl Violet found when she was 8. But that he doesn´t know where Mackenzie is, and her uncle is certain that he is lying, so he needs Violet´s help. They go out to the mans house, where she get some energi feelings, but not strong to be Mackenzie.

A couple of days after Violet is out running in the woods, because Jay had to get home, when suddenly she is being chased by a man, a predator. She tries to run home, but end up the opposite way, she suddenly hear Jay calling her, but suddenly without thinking she has falling in the river. She wakes up in the ambulance and at the hospital she tells Jay and her family that she was being chased, and her uncle tells that that must be the missing peace, that the man had a partner. And if i hadn´t been for Jay coming to meet her in the woods, there ís no telling what could have happened. Now Violet has a sprained ancle, that could take months to be good again. The homecoming ball is coming up, but he parents is not comfortable letting her out of sight and then there is her ancle. So she is suprised when JAy is telling her that they are going. At the ball, Violet and some of her friends is at the bathroom the longest from the party, because the others where occupied, so when Violet has to rebind her ancle, she tells the others to go back. But after they leave the man that chased her come in, and he even works for the police. He hauls her away, but Jay comes and they escape, but the man has a gun and he shoots. We later find out that Jay got hit, but not right and that her uncle killed the man.

I thought that this was a really good book, but the whole book almost got ruined when i thought in the end that it was Jay who was dead, when i thought that i got really mad and thought that the author had ruined the whole thing, so i scrolled a couple of pages and found out that he was still alive. fehhw, happy again. I really enjoyed reading about Jay and her feelings for each other and it was really cute, like the kind of thing all people should have. I also enjoyed that her family was that close as they were. I also really like the cover eventhought it is simple but it is also intrigued. The book was sometime creepy, which is a good thing and suspensefull and really believable.


Grade: 10

Spells Review

Spells By Aprilynne Pike
(Book 2 in Wings series)

Laurel who recently discovered she is a fairie, has just got a message that she has to spend 8 weeks in Avalon to studie all the things about beign a fairie. She gets settle in her old room in the Academy Of Avalon, and has to read a million books before she can begin classes. After a week of studing, Tamani finaly comes to visit her and showing her town and she meets his mom Rhoslyn and niece Rowen. She learn a lot of things about the fairie society, like Spring Fairies is the lowest in the rank, as they shop elsewere and when the 2 of them walk in public it is like Tamani is her guard and nothing more. Also that it is only Spring and Summer fairies that lives/knows their parents, because fall and winter are important to the society, so their parents leaves them at the academy so they can get trained. When she starts classes Katya, tells her that the girl named Mara was Laurel good friend, but because Laurel got choosed to lived with the humans instead of her, she hates Laurel now. The first day in class Yeardley the fundamental instructor comes and tell her that they will work on defensive herbology, and Laurel knows it is because of the trolls. When the day of her return to the human word comes, Jamison tells her that Barnes probably soon will try a new move, and that she has to practice all she have learned. Laurel comes home just before school starts and reunite with family and friends, but her mom is still very distant from her, because of the fairie thing. And things doesn´t seem to get better with her fairie poisons, as she keeps not getting it right.

When David and her are at a party at their friend and Chelsea´s boyfriends house Ryan, Laurel see a troll outside, the of them hurrie to get to Laurels house, that is guarded and protected from most trolls. The car gets stuck on the way, so they have to run to the forest. There they get surrended by 3 trolls, but is saved by a woman named Klea Wilson, she knows Laurel´s name and she ask them to give her a ride to her camp, where she ask them qustions, ask about Barnes and tells them that she works for an organization that tracks trolls and other creatures. The 2 of them pretends that they don´t know about trolls and tells a fauls story abot Barnes. She gives them each a gun, because they wont take the protection. David is very facinated with the gun and woman, and he doesn´t really understand Laurel´s concern about them hunting supernatural beings and her being scared that one day someone will be pointing a gun at her. Next day she goes to clean the cabin and tell Tamani about what has happened. A couple of days later she gets an invetation from Tam, to go with him to a festival in Avalon. She doesn´t tell anyone about her going, and she have a good time at the festival. Suddenly Laurel and Tam are kissing and then he tells her he is in love with her, that loves her and that it isn´t fair that he has to wait for her. Laurel hurries to the gate with Tam on her heals, when they are on the other side Shar tells them that David is there. Laurel rushed ahead to him, but Tam stops and kiss her, right in front of David. Laurel´s world is crashing and as if that wasn´t enough, she gets a message from the trolls trown through her window at night saying that if she doesn´t show up at a lighthouse by 9 her friend Chelsea will die. She hurries to get David, and they go to free Chelsea. They almost loose but then Klea comes and shoot Barnes, after Chelsea tells them that she know Laurel´s secret.

I think it was a good enough second book, where the character developes and things happens between them. I did find it quite boring hearing about her time in in Avalon, because i didn´t think anything really happened. But with the ending in this, I can´t wait for the third book it is going to be so good. I think that Tam will get settle in the human world and go to Laurel school. Can you imagine the tension between him and David, that is going to be so good.


Grade: 7

Thirteen Reasons Why Review

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Clay Jensen comes home from school one day, and there is a package waiting for him and in it is 7 audiotapes with both A and B sides. He finds out that it is the girl named Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, by taking pilles who is the person on the tappes. She tells that this box with tappes will be send on from person to person of those who caused her to eventually commit suicide, and that there is 13 persons. If the person that has the tappes doesn´t listen to them and send them on, the tappes will go public. She also explains that all the persons have got a map delivered several weeks ago in their locker with locations they better visit, and that she has somebody watching them. It is all planned out from her side, but Clay really doesn´t understand why he is on the list. He actually liked Hannah and wanted to get to know her, but was too shy. But he is curious and scared so he starts to listen. After starting to listen he goes to his friend Tony´s house to borrow a walkman, but end up just taking it first without asking.

The 1. person is Justin Foley. He was Hannah´s first kiss and it all went well until he started bragging about it, and then a lot of rumors started at school. - she here tells the person to go to a spot, her old house.

The 2. person is Alex Standall. He has a thing of making lists with hot or not people, and Hannah was on that as the person with the best ass, this gives people a reason to grab people. She then tells the person to go to - Blue Spot Liquor on the map, where you can she an example. She tells that a person that has a whole tape to himself came in there one day while she was there and grabed her ass, her wrist and told her to relax about it, but who does that? She is not his property.

The 3. person is Jessica Davis. Who was on the not hot ass list made by Alex. Hannah met her, her freshman year one weak before school, they were both new and the guidance counselor thought they could help each other. The 2 of them went to Monet´s Garden Cafe & Coffeehouse - the next place on the map there they met Alex he was also new and they talked. They had each other to talk to, and then suddenly Alex dropped out and then Jessica and they stopped talking. One day after the list came out, Jessica wanted to meet at the cafe, she tells Hannah that she knows the rumors about her and Alex. (Justin started the first, so the second must be true too)
Hannah tells her that they aren´t true and that she is not the reason Jessica and Alex broke up. To get on with it Hannah takes the blame, Jessica sees it as an oppotunity and start a cat fight, where they both after have scars
The 4. person is Tyler Down. A Peeping Tom. So Hannah has done the same to him as she tapped Tyler´s story, she is outside his window - so the next place to go is Tyler´s home Hannah was home alone when her parents were on vacation, and when she was about to go to bed she hear a camera take a picture outside her window, but was afraid to look. The next day she ask a girl if she can sleep at her house and at night they almost catches The Tom, so the next day at school where they where last night, and Tyler gives himself away with his answer. Tyler invated her privacy.

Clay goes from place to place all night, when he is at the cafe he finds a book with a picture of Hannah and Courtney, who is looking nervous at a party with their arms around each other. When he gets to Tyler house, his window is broken and a guy from school Marcus Cooley is there. He finds out Marcus is on the list and that he and 3 other person who has had the tappes has done this to his window because he is Peeping Tom.

The 5. person is Courtney Crimsen. The girl Hannah took with her home to expose Tyler. and Coutney is a people user, always sweet, but uses people. After the Tyler thing, she ignores Hannah, until one day there is a party and Courtney tells her they should go together and that Hannah should pick her up. - So the next place is Courtney´s home. so they go to the party, but Courtney quickly disappear and a guy comes up tp Hannah and tells that Courtney has told that Hannah is fun to hang out with, and that she has some fun things in her closet. Tyler is there so Hannah tells him to take a picture of her and Courtney. And Courtney ONLY USES people, then throws them away.

The 6. person is Marcus Cooley. Who is friends with Alex now, so Hannah is a little vary. He gets Hannah´s number because at that time at the school there was a funraiser for cheer camp called OH MY DOLLAR VALENTINE, where you where matched with people if you applied. He calls her and she agree to a date after school, which brings us to the next place - Rosie´s Diner. Marcus doesn´t show up until late and said that he thought they were joking, but he turned around on his way hom JUST IN CASE. He then tries to kiss and grab her against her will and leaves telling her she is a tease.

After this with Marcus and Zach, Hannah did on the same day go to get her hair cut very short. And at that time Hannah is really long out, that she need the notes that Zach takes. She also leaves a note in the teachers bag, and ask if they can talk about suicide, because deep down Hannah has had that thought going on recently

The 7. person is Zach Dempsey. After Marcus leaves Zach comes by her booth and tries to talk to her, but Hannah can´t. Afterwards she hears his friends teasing her for not getting at date with her, and he doesn´t said anything. But that didn´t mean he didn´t do anything. she finds out that someone is stealing her bag of encouragement from peer communications class, and caughts Zach in doing it. But he doesn´t even explaines, Like Hannah isn´t worth giving an explanation.

The 8. person is Ryan Shaver - Next place to go is public library Hannah joined a poetry group, because she loved poetry and Ryan Shaver a guy on her school who is the editor of a school paper. He post things that he finds, but with Hannah he doesn´t do that, And then he steals one of Hannah´s poems, and the poem gets really popular on a good and bad way.

Tony shows up at Rosie´s diner and eat, when he is done he waits in his car til the diner closes and Clay leaves. He tells Clay to get in, and that Tony is the one with the extra tappes and that he wants Clay to listen to tape nummer 9, that he is at now, while staying in the car. They then drives to the next location. Tony also knows that it is his walkman and that Clay took it

The 9. person is Clay. But Hannah soon tells that his name doesn´t belong on the list, not in the same way. And Hannah then starts to talk about the party, where the two of them connected. - Which brings us to Five-Twelve Cottonwood. They talked and kisses, but Hannah pulls away and tells Clay to leave her alone. Clay leaves and end of story. Clay could have reach out to her, but she had set up her mind. So they both have some blame.

The 10. person is the Reaper who probably is Bryce - and Justin, but they can´t send the tapes to Justin becausse he has already has them´, and if the reaper knew he would leave. After Clay leaves the room they are in, Hannah is on the floor in the dark. Jessica and Justin comes in kissing, but Jessica passes out so Justin leaves. Justin friend come in and rapes Jessica, and Justin just let it happen, and Hannah is sitting in the closet.

The 11. person is Jenny Kurtz. The cheerleader we met earlier with Marcus. After the above she drives Hannah home, but drives into a stop sign and kicks Hannah out of the car. This ruined stop sign causes an accident with a senior from their school and a old man. They both could have stopped it but didn´t. - This time we go to the stop sign.

Clay witnessed this accident, and he helped the old man home to his house, a house that was Hannah´s first house when she moved to town. After this Hannah starts planning her own funeral.

The 12. person is Bryce Walker. The weekend after The Party there was another at Courtney house, Hannah didn´t go but came to check on people later. She fund Bryce and Courtney´s afterparty in a hottub, and Hannah joined them. A little while after Courtney went, knowing what was going to happen, and then Bryce sexually abused her. And Hannah let it happen, because she had already given up.

The 13. person is Mr. Porter. Their english teacher. He is the new guidance counseler and Hannah tries to talk to him, give herself one last chance, but the teacher tells her that she just need to move on.

I the beginning of the book, you heard of Clay sending the package with tappes to Jenny at the post office, and he comes late for school, for english. He then see Skye a loner, and i think that he may think that she will do the same as Hannah, so he walk up to her.

This book is the best "can happen in real life book" i have ever read. It was so good and exiting and you just sit on the edge through the whole book. But you also sit on the edge because, what has Clay done? Because he really can say that he hasn´t done anything, so when it comes to Clay´s turn, i just wanted to run a mile, because of all the energi i had built of inside. Now for 2 characters Clay and Hannah. I thought they were both really good and believable. I loved Hannah´s spirit in this book. I mean the way she tells the story esspecially at first, she is not sorry for herself, she is holding her head high and stuff. She really has humor and is a really strong pérson if you ask me, taping the tapes and planning it all. I really loved her, but what i didn´t thought was fair was that i felt that she somehow blames Clay of some things, eventhough he was her friend through it all, he never did anything to harm her, he was just to shy to get to know her better. It was an amazing book, eventhough it is about a suicide. It had a lot of suspence and was so exiting. But the book could be really complicated at times, because there are so many stories going on and hitting secrets and stuff, so you really got to read the lines and in between right and good. It is just a book that is too impossible to put down, you just get suck right in to it and don´t wanna get out.

Grade: 12


Remember To Check Out: http://hannahsreasons.blogspot.com - To Hear Hannah´s Tapes

Illusions Review

Illusions By Stefanie Ellis
(Book 2 In The Gray Area Series)

Sidney and Cael now lives together at Cael´s place and is working hard on The amusement park. It is Sidney´s 18 year old birthday and Cael gives her 3 things: a bracelet, Naming the park after her and tickets for the two of them to Romania. They go to Romania, and when they get there their is a wedding going on. All of them is happy to see them, but Sidney reads the brides thought and finds out she intends to kill her future husband, so the wedding is canceled, instead Liam and Rayna have a ceremony. Nicole is really sad, because she broke up with Vince and know is kind of in love with Cael. Soon Kylie last day a school comes and now they are going out to find their mother, they have a map from her and finds out that they both have to touch it, for it to show something. First destination is Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia. On their way, Kylie has to pee and they stop somewhere at a festival and suddenly Cael remembers something from his human life. Each time they uses the map to find their destination, they then go, get a vision from their mother, who places some things, they are suppose to get.
They also go to a bar in Roanoke, Virginia. Here they find Mr Noble, who tells them that their mother saved him and his son´s lives, that their mothers name is Serenity and that she has said that they were twins, but they can´t be because of the age different. He gives then a piece and they then go to New York City, where the sisters do some seriously shopping told by Cael, and after they go to dinner at a fine resturant were a vampire is the chef. After dinner Kylie ask to go with a guy and his parents to a movie, and they let her. Sidney is still suspicious toward Cael and to her suprise he ask her to marry her and she says yes. They almost have sex after but is interupted by Moon who calls and tells that she is hearing voices and that they are teling her that Sidney is lying. They get their thing in New York and go to California their home. The 1 thing they do is to see Moon, and Moon tries to kill Sidney, because the voices told her to. Cael calls Romania and Rayna then comes and take Moon with her. The next place to go is The St. Augustine Clinic, were they get the last piece and the things forms themselfs together to a necklace, that is a compass. The follow but haves to leave the car in the desert as it breaks down. They walk through the desert on foot, comes to a cliff, where there is an invisible portal to a forest. Here they meet a Gnome, who tells the the fairies are missing. They follow him through the forest, but something weird is going on, Sidney and Cael feel like human and getting wounds and visions, while Kylie and the gnome just kind of ignores it. They find out latter that the forest was playing a trick on their minds and that they are still vampire, and the gnome tells them it is probably because the forest don´t let evil cross. They also come across a unicorn-Pegasus, who lets Sidney fly on it. Suddenly the necklace orms a vortex and through there they come to a kind of Utopia. Liam is also concerned because there is a disturbance in the balance on earth right now and he neds to warn Cael and Sidney

The book was fun, but there was really something missing: like If you take the first one in the series there was a lot of things going on and quick, but in this it is just one thing, finding their mother, so the only thing you really hear about is them driving around and getting visions. So i feel like the first book things were going way too fast that you didn´t get to get a ckear pictue, and in this they do nothing really, it is like a built up for the third book, but really boring. It is so much fun with all the names Cael comes up with for her, sometimes i was just really LOL. And the thing with Gargoyles, so much fun. Just standing there snarling at each other. And i totally loved this line: "Vampires versus Gargoyles, what a sight." and this: "So I guess that was the plan. To crouch in the middle of the forest in our warrior positions and send growls and snarls back and forth. People would not pay to see this battle."

Grade: 7

Ashes Review

Ashes By Stefanie Ellis
(Book 1 In The Gray Area Series)

Sidney Fox is a 17 year old, senior in high school. Her best friends Veronica called Moon. Christmas break is over and she has to go back to school and today a new boy named Cael Ash starts in her class and every girl in school is head over heals for him, even her 15 year old sister Kylie, who thinks that he is going to marry her. One week later friday afternoon Sidney decide to go camping and because Cael is at her house talking to Kylie about just beign friends, he comes with her "because it is not safe, going alone" she is really annoyed with him, but let him go. On the trip they become friends and at night when sidney wakes up there is a man there that wants Sidney, but Cael kills him with a wood dagger and he turn to dust, she then finds out that he is a vampire. And the next morning they agree that there is something between them than need to be explored. Sidney tells Kylie that day, that she will stay away from him if she wish, and so she does. That monday Kylie is beginning to change for the better, as she start hanging out with Sidney´s friends, different opinions and dressing better, and by the end of the week, she tells Sidney to be with Cael. On a date Cael show her the old tivioli which he bought and they talk about the fact that they know so much about each other, without actually knowing. The next day Cael comes home to her house for dinner, but when Cael and her are standing outside. They get a message to show up at a adress in Romania or Sidney will die. They go to Romania right away, and go to the adress that Cael got a hundred years ago, when he woke up in a coffin. Here they meet Taran, who tells them he knew Cael in human life and he tells them about his human family as well as his royal vampire family. He tells that Cael was suppose to have the throne that his "brother" the now evil Liam has. Shortly after Sidney gets kidnapped by Liam, and is taken to were he lives, were he every hour drinks from Sidney. He has a wife Rayna, who knows Taran, and she get her maid Nicole to change Sidney to a vampire because there is no other way to stop Liam and free Sidney. After Taran and Cael comes and helps, they lock Liam in a cell and after a day as a vampire Sidney forget her human life, but have some glimse, and Cael shows her how to be vampire. at her second day as a vampire Rayna finds them, teling that Liam broke out, they then hide in a church with Taran, Nicole and Vince preparing to take Liam down. When they about to take so of his forming guards down Vince and Sidney gets seperated from the rest and Sidney is almost killed trying to save Vince, so Cael gives her some of his blood. And when she wakes up in the church 3 days after, she remembers her life as human, she is a mind reader, she can fly and because of Cael blood she is now "royal" and can go out in sunlight. They attack Liam and his guards while he has a party, but when Liam accidentally almost kills his wife Rayna, aming for Vince, he becomes good again. Cael and Sidney goes home and she talks to Kylie and tells her everything, now she just have to find out how to tell her parents, So she stays at Cael´s place. The next day Sidney and Cael goes to her home, and her parents are happy to see her, but her mom can see a change and Sidney can hear in her mom thoughts that a change wasn´t suppose to happen, she ask what is happening and her mom brings 2 letters to her and Kylie, from their birth mother teling they are half fairies.

I thought this was a relly good and nice book and i really enjoyed reading it. Now as for the characters, i absolutly love Sidney, and i see so many things of my self in her. I liked the names she gives her family, because that is exactly what i do with my family. I doesn´t seem completly real that she isn´t scared of him just a little, but okay it comes in the morning, but we all react different.
The only thing that just seem weird and unbelievable in this book is how fast the characters change their mind and suddenly they are evil and then good at 2 seconds, and it just doesn´t seem real. Also i think that maybe their is too many things going on, i thought that the author could have used a little more time on each subject, it seem like the story is going too fast. In this there is also other things a vampire can do, like when you drink another vampires blood you get their power and stuff like that.
And wow really a big cliffhanger at the end there. So i am really loóking forward to reading the next book.

Grade: 7-10

Before I Die Review

Before I Die By Jenny Downham

16 year old Tessa is dying, goes to a club with Zoey and they end up going home with 2 boys and both have sex, but Tessa feels emthy inside. Some time later she meets her neighbour Adam, when she ask him is she can burn something in a fire he is making. A couple of days later the doctor tells her that her condition is worsening, and thatshe should do thing she wants to do, she then decide to put her list back together. For a whole day she goes out with her little brother Cal and Zoey, and she has to says yes to everything - She jumps in a lake and buy a zillion things, and other things and then she ends at the hospital. Another day she gets Adam to get her some drugs. Her and Zoey take them at his house and he drives them to the woods for a whole day. She also shoplifts in the supermarked, but get caught. She takes her dads car and drive, eventhough she doesn´t have a license. Zoey has been acting weird lately, and she finds out that she is pregnant. Her friend can´t figure out if she wants to keep the baby or not, but ends up keeping it and moving to a apartment of her own. Tessa and Adam also begins to have feeling for each other, they become a couple and Tessa has sex where it actually means something. Tessa parents also come closer to each other again, as her mother begins to sleep at their house more times a week. But time is running out for Tessa and she gets more and more mad and wants more things. She also wants Adam to sleep in her bed at night and that comes true, eventhough his mom needs him too. They are also suppose to go on a trip, but Tessa becomes so sick she has to be at the hospital for weeks and she now doesn´t have more than a month left, eventhough there are 6 weeks to Zoey baby is due, but Tessa wants to be there. All of the people in her life are there for her when she is almost dead and her life passes before her eyes. A really good, but strong and sad book about a girl with cancer. I even cried at the end. But i also thinks that is because i myself have had a hard time with the whole dead thing for a while now.
Tessa is a really good lead, and you feel her pain, and you can tell that having sex doesn´t touch her one bit. And then she starts making her list, which is a good thing. Sometimes she sat around feeling sorry for herself and didn´t want to die, while other times she just couldn´t take it anymore. Zoey as a character is strong somehow because I like her light tone of the whole dead thing, but at the same time you just feel that she could be more understanding. Sometimes i thought she was a good character and sometimes i just thought that Tessa could have a friends so much better than Zoey. I will say that when it comes to Tessa´s mom a dad i was suprised how much the whole thing is her fathers burden, you know he mom is not there so much and you would think that when her daughter is dying she would want to. And her father how mány things he does for that girl and he cries so much, it is just so sad. So i would say that besides Tessa her dad is the strongest and most developed character.
Eventhough it is a sad book, there are also some fun moment when Tessa do some crazy things, like when they are high, and they studie all things like they are amazing and the most important thing in the world, is so much fun! it a really good ad alive story that will really touch you.

Grade: 10