Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff Pages : 304 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record. The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor’s peaceful suburban community is killing girls. For Hannah, the summer is a complicated one. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just...

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco Pages : 267 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw...

Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn Pages : 419 Genre : Horror, YA Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : On a cool autumn night, Annaliese Rose Gordon stumbled out of the woods and into a high school party. She was screaming. Drenched in blood. Then she vanished. A year later, Annaliese is found wandering down a road hundreds of miles away. She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know how she got there. She...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke Pages : 360 Genre :  YA, Horror, Paranormal Series : Between, book 1 My Rating  : 4/5 From the back of the book  : Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town… until River West comes along. River rents the guest house behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy...

In The Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters Pages : 387 Genre :  YA, Paranormal, Historical Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 From the back of the book  : In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary...

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard Pages : 388 Genre :  YA, Paranormal, Steampunk Series : Something Strange and Deadly, book 1 My Rating : 4/5 From the back of the book  : The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia… Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich...

If I Should Die by Amy Plum Pages : 405 Genre : YA, Paranormal Stand Alone My Rating : 3/5 My Thoughts : Reading the last book of a series is always a little bittersweet; there’s the joy of finally knowing how the story will conclude for our heroes, mixed with the sadness of seeing them on a new adventure or the last time. But is there something more disappointing than a series ending on a disappointing book? It breaks my heart to say...

The Raft by S.A. Bodeen Pages : 231 Genre : Contemporary Fiction, Survival Stand alone My Rating : 2,5/5 From the back of the book : Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the...