The Sight

I love wolves so of course when I saw this book in the store I was like OMG. So I got it and finally read it. I liked it but someone who doesn't like wolves might not. It kind of reminded me of the anime Wolf's Rain. The ending really made me mad. Besides that it was pretty good. It talked about the struggle betweeen wolves and man. Which I find really interesting. Now I have to read the sequel. I don't know if it's going to be good or not.

Review/Description
In the shadow of an abandoned castle, a wolf pack seeks shelter. the she-wolf ’s pups will not be able to survive the harsh transylvanian winter. And they are being stalked by a lone wolf, Morgra, possessed of a mysterious and terrifying power known as the sight. Morgra knows that one of the pups born beneath the castle holds a key to power even stronger than her own—power that could give her control of this world and the next. but the pack she hunts will do anything to protect their own, even if it means setting in motion a battle that will involve all of nature, including the creature the wolves fear the most—Man.

Valiant

I really like this book and my interest in faerie books is growing extremely. It ened up being slightly romantic which actually surprised me but made me like the book even more. It wasbasedon faeries but this time the faeries are even more evilo than before and Val gets caught up in the struggle. After she finds her boyfriend and her mom together which is really sick, she runs away and right into the world of the faeries. Thanx Night for giving me this awesome book.

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When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.
But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there’s Luis’s brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

The Silver Kiss

This book was better than I expected it to be. It was somewhat tragic and I almost cried through out the whole book especially in the end. It was truly alovestory between a human and a vampire, ofcourse not nearly as good as Twilight, but if you liked Twilight you should like this book.I do suggest you read it if you like vampires.

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Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.

Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?

Uninvited

He'll enter at her own risk...

This book was ok I really didn't think it was that interesting. It wasn't a very gopod vampire book either. The vampire was really generic and not really the main point of the book. I just don't like books that much when the main vampire is evil probably a side effect of reading Twilight. The only reason I read it was because the main characters name was Jordan and her life sucked so I was intrigued. Her boyfriend turns into a vampire after he dies and comes back to haunt her so I guess of course her life would suck. I guess if your bored this would be a good book to read but besides that it's not.

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Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in.

Jordan can't understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down. After all, her life -- once a broken record of boring parties, meaningless hookups, and friends she couldn't relate to -- now consists of her drinking alone in her room as she waits for the sun to go down.

Michael needs to be invited in before he can enter. All Jordan has to do is say the words....

Wicked Lovely

This book was actually really good, far better than I expected. It was about faeries. This girl named Aislinn who has the *sight* meaning she can see the faeries. She already hated her ability and it totally controlled her life. It became even more annoying when she maent Keenan and after that her whole life changed. This guy named Seth in the book is absolutely awesome. It takes about 30 pages for the book to get interesting. The beginning is slightly boring and hard to understand, but way worth it in the long run. I highly recommend it unless you don't like faerie books then your out of luck.

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Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.

Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight—and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.

Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.

Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.

But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost—regardless of her plans or desires.

Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.

But Inside I'm Screaming

This book had the typical mental institution setting. And told the story of a woman trying to get her life back together and to get out of Three Breezes. Mental Institutions always have names like that. I enjoyed this book. It wasn't all that interesting but it was a good story. That's basically all it was was telling the story of an overstressed woman who couldn't deal with her life anymore. She tried to kill herself and failed. It seemed like she failed at everything though her eyed. She kept getting into controlling and abusive relationships who also influenced her opinion of herself. This book described how she came to love herself and accept that she wasn't perfect.

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But inside I'm screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection.

While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had.

But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult. Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed, one of them, and faces the reality that in order to mend her painfully fractured life she must rely solely on herself.

The Shining by Stephen King

I finally finished it!!! There are about 683 pages including the epilogue. The Shining was phenominal. I highly recommend it. The book is almost NOTHING like the movie. The ending was COMPLETELY different and the events throughout the story were way different too. Oh, and the dog-mask-thingy does have a little importance in the book. Basically, it's about the Torrance family-Jack, Wendy, and Danny. Danny has a special gift (shining) which allows him to see things that have or will happen. Jack has a drinking problem and loses his job... He snags a job at the Overlook hotel as the caretaker and lives in the hotel with his family. As the days pass, the hotel tightens its grip on Jack... I can't give away too much cuz I want you guys to read it! Stephen King has a REALLY good writing style; he actually puts the characters' thoughts in between some of the lines. DO NOT BELIEVE THE MOVIE AT ALL!!! IT LIES!!! IT DIDN'T RUIN THE BOOK AT ALL!


The Greatest Haunted Hotel Story Ever Written!!, June 17, 2004
By
Robert J. Schneider (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews Throughout the last century, there were many authors who wrote haunted house stories. In 1977, Stephen King beat 'em all with a haunted hotel story. You see, this is not just *any* haunted hotel story; this is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is about several things, all tied up into one complex and multilayered whole. It is about a five-year-old boy who is impossibly mature and wise beyond his years, and who has a terrifying gift that seems as much a curse. It is about his father, a recovering alcoholic with demons in his soul and skeletons in his closet, who is battling both in order to keep his family financially afloat. It is about his wife, a doting mother who has braved the ups & downs of her husband's turbulence, who loves him, and who wants to trust him beyond his past mistakes but is just on this side of being unable to do so. It is about a classic, Art Deco hotel tucked deep within the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, whose name is respected but nevertheless has a mysteriously chequered past. It is about the ghosts that occupy this hotel, that wish to possess the above family but can only be seen by the boy and the head cook. It is about the head cook, an older black man who shares the same gift with the boy, and who develops a special friendship with him as a result. It is about a family who begin at their last chance for hope & unity, who end up fighting for their last chance at survival. This is THE SHINING.
THE SHINING is a true gestalt entity: it is more than the sum of its parts. Stephen King masterly intertwines all of the above elements, plus some truly frightening imagery, to create a novel of several hundred compulsively-turning pages that add up to one of the greatest experiences that I've ever had as a reader of fiction.
MOST RECOMMENDED; AGES 15 & UP