REVIEW: TOUCH BY JUS ACCARDO

TOUCHDENAZEN #1JUS ACCARDOGENRE: YA SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home. Except there’s something off with Kale. He wears her shoes in the shower, is overly fascinated with things like DVDs and vases, and acts like she’ll turn......

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REVIEW: TO SELENA, WITH LOVE BY CHRIS PEREZ

TO SELENA, WITH LOVE CHRIS PEREZ GENRE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the young age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tightly knit family of their beloved angel, and her husband, Chris Perez, of......

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REVIEW: FALLING UNDER BY GWEN HAYES

FALLING UNDER FALLING UNDER BK #1 GWEN HAYES GENRE: YA PARANORMAL ROMANCE SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she's seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams. As the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her closer one moment and pushes her away the next,......

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REVIEW: LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS' BY MENDAL JOHNSON

LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS' MENDAL JOHNSON GENRE: HORROR SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they were nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive.But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would have on the children. Their wealthy parents were away in Europe, and in this rural area of Maryland, the next house was easily......

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REVIEW: DARK PASSAGE BY M.L. WOOLLEY

DARK PASSAGE HEARTS BEYOND FOREVER #1 M.L. WOOLLEY SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) * What is to high a price to pay for love? * How far would you be willing to go? * Would you be willing to sacrifice your eternity? * Every choice has consequences - good and bad...Jen takes refuge in a rundown mansion when her life falls apart. To escape reality she finds herself choosing between the world of the living and the dead. She begins having vivid......

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REVIEW: TORN BY AMANDA HOCKING

TORN TRYLLE #2 AMANDA HOCKING SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) 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......

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REVIEW: THE WOLFEN BY WHITLEY STRIEBER

THE WOLFEN WHITLEY STRIEBER SYNOPSIS (Amazon) The Wolfen have lived and fed on humanity for thousands of years. They are hideously ugly and utterly savage but relentless and smart. Two cops, a man and a woman, who are bound together in a strange love and hate relationship have experienced the full awful horror of the Wolfen. __________________________________________________ MY TAKE 4 STARS Back in 1978, when this book was written, is......

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REVIEW: THE HOWLING II BY GARY BRANDER

THE HOWLING II THE HOWLING SERIES GARY BRANDER SYNOPSIS (Amazon) For Karyn it was the howling. The howling that had heralded the nightmare in Drago... the nightmare that had joined her husband Roy to the she-wolf Marcia and should have ended forever with fire. But it hadn't. Roy and Marcia were still alive, and deadly, and thirsty for the most horrifying vengeance imaginable... _________________________________________ MY TAKE 4 STARS This......

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REVIEW: GHOST STORY BY PETER STRAUB

GHOST STORY PETER STRAUB SYNOPSIS (Goodreads) In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past — and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" (The Washington Post Book......

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