• The Dead Girls’ Dance- by Rachel Caine: The Dead Girls’ Dance (Morganville Vampires, Book 2) in the Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Caine…wow. It’s marketed as a young adult book.  Amazon even suggests it for 9-12 year olds! I’ve read some of Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden books so I knew that Caine knows how to deliver the plot-goods. And in this book? Did she ever. The main heroine is 16 year old genius Claire who has moved into a house in the town of Morganville and out of ... READ MORE
  • Zombies, Apocalypses and Plagues, oh my! round-up: Not only Zombie apocalypses, but ye plain olde apocalypses! Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve been reading: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan– Ryan‘s first novel, classed as YA, takes place in a future in which surviving humans don’t believe the stories they’ve heard of their past, before zombies (the unconsecrated) emerged. One girl does believe the stories handed down to her, and becomes obsessed with finding the ocean. Her chance arrives when a mysterious girl, mistakenly turned ... READ MORE