The Phantom Paragrapher

Are you a fan of Todd Strasser's books ? Have you read his Thrillogy books or been following the series as I read and reviewed Books #1 and #2 - Wish You Were Dead and Blood on my hands. Get ready for the final conclusion of Todd Strasser's Thrillogy . Review: Kill You Last - Book#3 Thrillogy - Todd Strasser- November 2011 Ever since I was younger, I have always been a Todd Strasser fan and when I discovered the first book in the Thrillogy I just knew I had to read the rest as I was hooked. One of my favourite genres is Mystery novels and what I loved about Todd Strasser's Kill You Last was that he used modern technology , what once would have been anonymous messages sent by Post are now email messages and text messages received on the main character Shelby's  Blackberry and her friend Roman , a huge crime fiction and non-fiction buff reads her books and surfs the news on her Ipad. In Kill You Last , Shelby receives text messages and emails threatening to K...

I am slowly making my way through the Stephanie Plum books , when I realised that there was a film coming out I thought to myself, hmmmm I must start reading the books and so my mission for 2012 is to read the complete series of Stephanie Plum. However, because I find the books quite busy with their plots, I have to even them out between other books. Review: Seven Up - Book #7 Stephanie Plum Series - Janet Evanovich - June 2001 I adore this series as I know that whenever I flick open a new one to start , it will be outrageously funny and I will be hooked. Though with the upside of myself loving the series and knowing they will be great as the more you read them , the more you become familiar with the characters and their habits e.g Granny and her love of Stiva's funeral home and the fact that whenever they have closed-casket funerals , she just has to get into the middle of the action and take a peek inside the casket and of course as we know Stephanie has a charm for ...

Have you read Scott Westerfeld's series "Uglies" ? A stroy of a society in which when they turn 16, they are made "Pretties" but of course in those Pretties are the special circumstance cases which we discovered in "Specials" and of course everybody else is just an extra which finished the Series with the book "Extras".    Review: Uglies - Shay's Story - Scott Westerfeld, Devin Grayson and Steven Cummings -March 6th 2012 As I am surrounded by Dystopian as it takes it's spot on the shelves as the New Vampires , it didn't surprise me to see a new copy of Uglies and in Graphic Novel but then when I looked at it closer , I discovered that it was told from Shay's POV. This made me more interested as I am not normally a fan of Graphic Novels/Manga but certain ones I have been found to enjoy. Uglies Shay's story is basically a prequel I think to the novel "Uglies" which was told by Tally Youngblood's ...

When I was younger, I used to love the movie "Harriet the Spy" and always imagined being a Top Secret Spy , so readers here's a spygirl novel from Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Review: Killer Spirit - Book #2 The Squad - Jennifer Lynn Barnes - February 2008 I have always had a thing for girl spy novels , not so much the guys ones but I loved the SpyGirl type books like Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter, SpyGirl by Carol Hedges ,Spy Goddess by Michael Spradlin and The Model Specialists by Shannon Greenland. When I discovered that Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a favourite author of mine had a series out called "The Squad" I just had to read it and unfortunately I've ended up reading Book #2 first LO due to the silly settings on my Ipad I thought I was reading Book #1. In Killer Spirit , we meet Toby - a computer hacker who has joined the Varsity Cheerleading Squad but the cheerleaders aren't what they seem - this cheerleading squad is in fact a cover for ...

Today readers , we shine the spotlight on Kristy K. James and her new book "Enza". Synopsis: Enza - Kristy K. James - January 2012 It is a time of innocence and prosperity. The Women's Suffrage Movement gains more attention with each passing day. All across the country housewives and young ladies harbor hope that they might finally win the right to vote. Patriotism is at its peak as the war to end all wars rages an ocean away. On the home front, in a small town in Michigan, life is being lived out like the pages of a Mark Twain novel. Until an unseen enemy, deadlier than any human adversary, threatens Mankind's very existence. Elliot Owens - The only thing in the world that matters to Elliot is his wife and their five children,and he will do everything in his power to protect them. Daniel Pullman - When his plans to join the Army are dashed following an injury, meeting the love of his life makes the disappointment easier to bear. Colby Thornton - A dev...

Looking for another Dystopian Book ? On a Dystopian Fix ? Review : Incarnate - Book #1 NewSoul-Jodi Meadows -January 2012 As I've said plenty of times before , I am unfortunately a cover whore :P , I am obsessed with covers of books -the prettier the better and I guarantee unless I really know the author's books , I will only pick up the book due to the cover. Incarnate was a bit of both as I had heard the book circulating around in reviews and the cover is amazing. It holds an almost Prism look , the look when the sun reflects a diamond or a piece of glass. It seems that the theme of books have moved from the supernatural life of Vampires and Werewolves after the major popularity of Twilight to the world of Dystopian fiction after the popularity of The Hunger Games. Incarnate to me , had it's good points as well as it's bad as Incarnate tells the tale of a society in which the characters are reincarnated , all have died and been reborn in another o...

Looking for a teen novel that contains a rendition of Greek Mythology ? Review: Everneath - Book #1 Everneath Series - February 2012 Are you a fan of Greek Mythology ? Love to read the tale of Persephone and Hades ? The one where Persephone found herself captured by Hades and then after a certain amount of time decided whether her life was to spent in the Underworld with Hades or on Mount Olympus. Reading Everneath by Brodi Ashton reminded me alot of the books "Abandon" by Meg Cabot and "Goddess of Spring" by PC Cast as they both contain their version of a contemporary rendition of the Greek mythology of Persephone and Hades. In Everneath, we meet Nikki Beckett , whom six months ago - her life as she knew it vanished and she disappeared off the face of the earth and landed in the Underworld where she meet Cole. Now six months later, she has managed to escape the Underworld and return to her old life but it won't be easy as like most American hig...