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Hate List by Jennifer Brown Published : 10.5.10 Pages : 432 Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets. Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life. There are some authors who can write a love story in under 100 pages that makes your heart smile. There are some authors who can instill in your imagination a thirst for adventure. There are authors

[Jessi] Hello loverlies! We’re here today to talk about our reviewing processes! [Inky] Thanks so much to Lisseth from Read-A-Holicz for submitting this topic! Let’s get this party started! The Reviewing Process So Nator Twin, is there a specific way that you review books? Well, for me, there definitely is. I have to take notes when I’m reading, otherwise I forget everything. When I keep track of my thoughts, I feel like I have more in depth and accurate reviews. Plus, I like to use quotes to back my claims! And we all know how famous your quotes are for making me want to read or not a book. (If you didn’t, now you do). (I didn’t know. Thank you for the enlightenment!) I used to read a book, then make up my post and write my review as soon as I finished. Then I started getting really bad at reviewing things as soon as I was done, letting them pile up until I had 4 or more reviews I still needed to write. As a result, my reviews got more and more vague! Then recently I adopted Ashley’s

Innocent Darkness byt Suzanne Lazaer Published : 8.8.12 Pages : 408 Sixteen-year-old Noli Braddock's hoyden ways land her in an abusive reform school far from home. On mid-summer's eve she wishes to be anyplace but that dreadful school. A mysterious man from the Realm of Faerie rescues her and brings her to the Otherworld, only to reveal that she must be sacrificed, otherwise, the entire Otherworld civilization will perish. When your favorite part of the book is the front cover, that's a pretty big sign there's a problem. But well, some books just don't fit you. And unfortunately Innocent Darkness didn't fit me. I'll try to make this quick, so it's not a super duper crazy rant. I loved the idea of Steampunk meets Faeries. However in this case, I feel like the fey aspect overrode the Steampunk so much that they didn't work well together. The development of the Steampunk aspect was very little and almost seemed to be taken for granted. We never got to

I'm baaaaaaack!  What's that you say? Oh yes!  It's true Inky has indeed returned! And with her crazy is tons of bookish fun stuff that she is so super duper excited to share with you and  your friends. Oh your  beautiful faces have I  indeed missed!  But let thy heart no longer be depressed,  for it is really trule accurate. I'M BACK! P.S. Huh somehow I  totally managed to completely  change tenses... Haha whatever.