A book review by Madeline Soucie
Claire Kincaid's family lives in New Orleans and is part of a secret society of
voodoo practitioners. Her family is one part of the International Guild of High Priests and Priestesses and runs one of the underground voodoo supply stores.
Though Claire doesn't believe in any of this, she goes along with it for her parents' sake until she can escape to college and put this all behind her.
That is, until a mysterious order is put in at Claire's parents' store for a black market item that raises everyone's alarms. Claire soon finds out that she doesn't know everything that's going on in the voodoo world, and if she wants to know, she'll have to find out for herself. So Claire teams up with her boyfriend Xander and the other firstborns and discover an enemy that just might kill them all.
Find it in APL TEEN New Books YA FIC Zink, M.
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
Claire is super smart. As in the girl who graduated
high school and is starting college at sixteen. She could have gone to schools
like MIT or Caltech, that type of thing. Instead she is attending Texas Prairie
University, a small school in a small town that everyone either transfers out of or disappears from.
She didn't want to go here, but her parents were against her going far away at such a
young age.
From the beginning Claire had it rough, but it only got worse when she
accidentally got on the wrong side of the mean queen bee of school. Now Claire is looking for a place to live off campus
and finds the Glass House and its tenants Shane, Eve, and Michael. Though they
are hesitant to take her in, after seeing how she is attacked at school, they let her in
and her world soon turns upsidedown.
To start, the town is run by vampires. Secondly, there
is more to her new
roommates than meets the eye. Lastly, Claire just
signed on to a ride with no end without even realizing it.
Glass Houses is the first book in the Morganville
Vampire series. The books are
short and quick, but really good, especially if you
like vampire/supernatural stories. This series
takes a new turn on the vampire legend.
Find it in APL TEEN Fiction YA FIC Caine, R.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Proxy by Alex London
A book review by Madeline Soucie
Knox is a wealthy boy in one of the wealthiest families of the Upper City. He has everything he could ever want or need. If he gets into trouble, well, he has a proxy who can take the blame -- that's what they're there for.
Syd is a proxy -- Knox's proxy to be exact. His whole life has been about taking punishments for his patron's crimes. He lives in the Lower City, just barely scraping by. When Knox crashes into a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is sentenced to death. When the boys meet and realize the consequences, they make a run for it hoping to make it to a secret society across the country. If they succeed, it could reset society and make everyone equal. But as the boys later find out, not all debts can be repaid.
This book is set in the future and is a really good sci fi for anyone who likes this genre. This book was interesting in how it took on servitude and a futuristic society gone wrong.
For those who read and like Proxy try it's sequel Guardian.
Find it in APL TEEN New Books YA FIC London, A.
Knox is a wealthy boy in one of the wealthiest families of the Upper City. He has everything he could ever want or need. If he gets into trouble, well, he has a proxy who can take the blame -- that's what they're there for.
Syd is a proxy -- Knox's proxy to be exact. His whole life has been about taking punishments for his patron's crimes. He lives in the Lower City, just barely scraping by. When Knox crashes into a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is sentenced to death. When the boys meet and realize the consequences, they make a run for it hoping to make it to a secret society across the country. If they succeed, it could reset society and make everyone equal. But as the boys later find out, not all debts can be repaid.
This book is set in the future and is a really good sci fi for anyone who likes this genre. This book was interesting in how it took on servitude and a futuristic society gone wrong.
For those who read and like Proxy try it's sequel Guardian.
Find it in APL TEEN New Books YA FIC London, A.
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