The Phantom Paragrapher

Looking for a new teen book to read ? Want to add another one to your reading wishlist ? Coming to you in stores October 2012 is......... Review: Flutter - Gina Linko - October 2012 Do you love time-travelling novels ? Books like Tempest by Julie Cross , The Time Traveller's Wife and The Guardian Angel's Journal by Carolyn Jess-Cooke ? If you enjoy those books, then you will enjoy Gina Linko's  novel "Flutter". Set in the modern time we meet Emery, ever since she was little she has been having what she calls "the loops". From the outside world, it looks like she is having seizures but to her , she is time-travelling to a parallel world - whether it be in the past or future times.  Sick of being locked up and treated like a lab rat, Emery after her recent loops become more vivid and contain the same boy and area , with her friend Gia's help, Emery breaks out of the hospital and heads to the town Esperanza . It is here, that she mee

On the lookout for a Christian novel filled with Worship ? Review: Unlikely Praise - Carla Rossi - March 2012 Do you love reading Christian based novels ? Into your music ? Unlikely Praise by Carla Rossi brings together a group of the most unlikely candidates representing their church as The worship Team. Candi Canaberry has been leading the worship team at her local church , running away and starting a new fresh image of herself. As her father in Austin Don Canaberry is currently doing time for fraud , he is the guy that ruined multiple musicians etc.  Enter Shade aka Samuel , he was a former Rock n Roll star headed to fame when tragedy struck killing his friend and leaving him a wreck , his girlfriend at the time who was pregnant left him. Now on the road to recovery , Shade is wanting to earn redemption.  When Shade and Candi who are opposites meet and get off on the wrong foot , can they mend the fences and prove opposites do attract ? What happens though, wh

Looking for a New Zombie Read ? Love War Stories ? Synopsis : By the Blood of Heroes - Book #1 The Great Undead War - Joseph Nassise- May 2012 An alternate history zombie novel set during World War I that blends the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of Dawn of the Dead. At the end of 1917, the increasingly desperate Germans introduce a new gas to the battlefield: T-Leiche-"corpse gas"-that radically alters the face of the war. Ulike other chemical weapons that attack the living, T-Leiche resurrects the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited, if not quite fresh, source of troops. When legendary Allied pilot and war poster-boy Major Jack Freeman is shot down and taken captive by the Germans, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only man fearless and wild enough to try to rescue the American Ace. With a small squad of heroes-his right-hand man Sergeant Moore, Cla

Looking for a nice quick Christian novella to read ? Review: Yours Truly - Karen Cogan - January 2012 If you are wanting a quick and fast read ? Something that is light, romantic and has a Christian focus, then Yours Truly is for you. Yours Truly takes us into the lives of Scott and Melissa , they have known each other and been together in a sense since College and things are starting to look up for them in terms of creating a future together. On an romantic getaway, Scott proposes to Melissa but soon tragedy strikes and Scott is left hanging onto his life. It is during the hospital stay that Scott meets and learns about God and soon he has become a Christian and hopes to follow in God's way.  His sudden involvement with God and all things Christian, though causes a rift between him and Melissa and soon Melissa feels that unless she gets on board with this Christian and God thing, she may no longer have a future with Scott. Can Melissa find her way into following God

Looking for a new Christian Teen Fiction novel to read ? One that contains a little bit of Edginess ? Review: Faking Faith -Josie Bloss - November 2011 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create an alter-ego ? Would it start to take over your life ? What type of person would you make your alter ego to be ? Meet, Dylan Mahoney. She thought she had it all , a great boyfriend, friends until one day her boyfriend dumped her and Dylan took to his car with a golf club and the next thing she knows it , is that a picture of herself topless that she sent to Brandon has ended up on everyone's phones and computers. Suspended and grounded , with no life and no friends, Dylan turns to the Internet and starts googling until she comes across a group of blogs written by Fundamentalist Christians. One of the girls in particular Abigail, captures and inspires Dylan to start up her own site and soon Dylan has created a new alter-ego for herself "Faith the Fundamen

Are you on the lookout for a new Chick Lit novel to read ? Wanting to discover a new author ? Check out today's review , an author not only from my country of New Zealand but also my current town of Tauranga. The book is available for International Peeps on Amazon  and for those in New Zealand the book is available from Oceanbooks .  Review: A Dash of Reality - Lee Murray- November 2011 Have you ever picked up a book and have not wanted to put it down until the very last page ? Not just because it is an awesome read but because you can picture yourself in the book , travel with the character ? I'm not normally the type of person who feels they travel through to the places the characters been but as A Dash of Reality was sent not only in New Zealand but the main gist of the story in Tauranga , where I live. The book itself was almost an interactive novel as I imagined myself in the different parts of Tauranga- running along The Strand , looking out over the T

On the lookout for a new Dystopian novel ? Did you enjoy The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner ? Review: The Hunt - Book #1 The Hunt Series - Andrew Fukuda- May 2012 Up until recently, I was never a really big fan of Dystopian but with the sudden surge in the genre , it is hard not to read half a dozen Dystopian novels and then end up going OMG , I actually enjoy these types of books. What is Dystopian to all you adults out there ? Think 1984 but modernized and written for the Teenage audience.  From the very first page, Andrew Fukuda's new book "The Hunt " has you captivated as you are drawn into a world which seemed to be a cross between The Hunted by Cheryl Rainfield , The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Maze Runner by James Dashner. In this world , there are two types of people =- the fanged and the Hepers , which actually sounds like Leper which in the way they are treated sounds about right. We meet Gene, he is one of the last few remaining He