Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire... fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil... until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.

Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don't exist), and they're shocked she survived. They're even more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The Vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl's family to host his feast. If Pearl enrolls in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the King's feast -- as the entrees.

Oh you know, this book was your normal vampire-has-feelings kinda book.


But I didn't think I'd enjoy this as much as I did.
I mean the book was about the traditional vamps, you know the ones who can't go into sunlight and choke on holy water etc etc.

So why was it so entertaining?

One Word.

UNICORNS.

I'm not even joking when I say there were unicorns in this book. I know I couldn't believe it either but OMG....I still can't over the fact that there were freaking unicorns in this badass book.



Then we have our awesomesauce vampire: Pearl

If she were real and didn't find me appetizing, I think we could've been great friends. I loved Pearl's character. She is funny, sarcastic and one hell of a vamp.


Oh, just so you know she comes from a deadly family full of scary vamps.

One day Pearl goes out on her normal 'hunt' a.k.a blood leeching a human and soon finds herself being stabbed by a unicorn horn.

Yeah, you read that right.



After getting stabbed by the mythical creature, Pearl doesn't die (duh, coz you know she's the main character and all) but she changes.

She starts doing things that normal vamps can't do.

Like walking in sunshine. Seeing your reflection and all that jazz.


Her freaky parents use her abilities to their advantage which involves Pearl attending high school.

Now enter Evan the cutie, Pearl's new love interest. BTW Pearl already has a scary but sexy boyfriend named Jadrien.

There's ought to be a love triangle, right? Read the book to find out ;)

“To you,” he said, “I surrender my heart and soul.”
She rolled her eyes. “Very romantic, considering you have neither.”

That's all I have time for today. Sorry for the clumsy review. I'm trying to structure my reviews so they are more detailed well put together but still interesting to read. Sadly, all that thinking and planning takes time and for a student who is in their final year of high school a.k.a me doesn't really have that time :(. For example, at the moment my time should be taken up by homework but I'm the pro in procrastinating, so yeah.

Enough of the rant.
Have a wonderful day!!
xoxo

Labels: book review, Drink Slay Love, Sarah Beth Durst, YA

Winning what you want may cost you everything you love

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.

One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.

But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

Labels: book review, Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse, YA

Choose:A quick deathOr slow poison...
Yelena has a choice – be executed for murder, or become food taster to the Commander of Ixia. She leaps at the chance for survival, but her relief may be short-lived.
Life in the palace is full of hazards and secrets. Wily and smart, Yelena must learn to identify poisons before they kill her, recognise whom she can trust and how to spy on those she can’t. And who is the mysterious Southern sorceress who can reach into her head?
When Yelena realises she has extraordinary powers of her own, she faces a whole new problem, for using magic in Ixia is punishable by death...

Labels: Maria V. Snyder, poison study

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Labels: book review, Brodi Ashton, Everneath, YA

Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's athame knife, kills ghosts. In Thunder Bay, Anna, forever 16, drips blood on her white dress from throat slit in 1958, and rips apart anyone who enters her house - except Cas. He makes new friends - high school queen Carmel, jock Will, admiring nerd Thomas and Tom's voodoo grandpa Morfran - to fight this demon.

Labels: anna dressed in blood, book review, Kendare Blake, YA

Synopsis: Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.

Summary: Sophie Mercer thought she was a dark witch, but then discovered she was a demon. Demons are unpredictable, some with dark histories of even murdering loved ones. Sophie doesn't want to risk killing anyone she cares about. She's made up her mind to be stripped of her powers through a process called "The Removal". However, her father, who also happens to be a demon, doesn't think this is a good idea. Instead, he brings Sophie and two good friends to England for the summer, to persuade her to change her mind. What follows is an action packed adventure, in a book that most readers will have an incredibly hard time putting down.

Labels: book review, Demonglass, Fantasy, Hex Hall, Rachel Hawkins, Romance, YA

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