This is not a Test by Courtney Summers Pages : 323 Genre : YA, Horror, Zombies Stand alone My Rating : 4,5/5 From the back of the book : It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t...

Fear by Michael Grant Pages : 509 Genre : YA, Speculative Fiction Sêries : Gone, Book 5 My Rating : 3,5/5 From the back of the book : It’s been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they’ve built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the...

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake Pages : 332 Genre : YA, Horror Series : Anna, Book 2 My Rating : 4/5 What it’s about : Anna is gone, and yet Cas can’t forget her. When he starts seeing her again in unexpected places, Cas first thinks he might be going crazy. But what if he wasn’t? What if Anna needed him? As his quest for answers takes him and his friends on the other side of the ocean, Cas discovers he knows very...

Last May, when I heard there was a reading of The Stand planned for the summer, I knew that I had to join in. I had been wanting to read the book for years, but had been scared by its length. The event, organized by Trish at Love, Laughter and Insanity spanned over the months of June and July and had the cool name of Standalong. Click here to visit the end of event post and read more reviews of the book. The Standalong ended on July 27st...

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Pages : 316 Genre : YA, Horror Series : Anna, Book 1 My Rating : 4/5 What it’s about : Cas isn’t you typical teenager; his main occupation isn’t high school but getting rid of the dead. If you have a ghost terrifying your cat in your attic, he’s the guy you call. With the help of his dead father’s weapon and his mother witchy abilities, there is no ghost that can resist...

Plague by Michael Grant Pages : 352 Genre : YA, Speculative Fiction Sêries : Gone, Book 4 My Rating :  From the back of the book : They’ve survived hunger. They’ve survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach. But enemies in the FAYZ don’t...

The Other Life by Suzanne Winnacker Pages : 315 Genre : YA, Post-Apocalypse Series : The Other Life, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : 3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days : that’s the time Sherry has spent living in a sealed bunker with her family, after a deadly strand of rabies threatened mankind. When they suddenly run out of food, Sherry and her father decide to face the dangerous outside world for the first time in...

Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield Pages : 375 Genre : Post-Apocalyptic Series : Aftertime, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : After bio-terrorist attacks destroyed important parts of the ecosystem, the government’s plan to make it better failed by turning people into Beaters, creatures who yearn for human flesh. Extremely dangerous, the new disease has left many more dead than alive and forced the survivors to fight for the...