Are you a fan of fairytales ? Love renditions as much as I do ? Looking for a new teen read to ring in the New Year as I bring to you the last books read for 2012 on The Phantom Paragrapher. Review: Kill Me Softly - Sarah Cross - April 2012 As the year comes to a close, I have decided to participate in a New Years Read-a-thon and see how many books I can read till I ring in the New Year. The first on the list is Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross. Are you a fan of fairytales? Love reading the modern and contemporary renditions of the tales? I have always had a thing for fairytale novels and especially renditions of not only classics like The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesy which was a 1950/1960's rendition of Jane Eyre but also of fairytales hence my latest phase of Kristine Grayson's books. Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross falls into that category as we meet Mirabelle aka Mira whose birthday is coming up fast , all she wants in the world is to fi...

  Are you in the mood for a mermaid book ? One which focuses more above the surface rather than under it ? Review: Breathless - Cole Gibsen- March 2012 What would you do if your life changed in a flash ? Would you pretend nothing of it and sneak out at night when no-one could see you or would you tell someone even though you know it would seem crazy or far-fetched? Meet Edith, out one day on a date forced by her Army Stepfather known as "Sir" a tragedy occurs and people will die and others injured badly. Edith though escapes with only a sore shoulder but what saved her in the ocean ? A creature that she can describe as a mermaid, but mermaids can't be real or can they be? Saved by Bastian - a merman , Edith starts to develop a relationship with him though of course it has been said that Mermaids can't date humans and vice versa, yet the pair feel drawn together. Can Bastian and Edith overcome their mortal and immortal differences or will they realis...

  Are you into sports especially Soccer or depending where you live Football ? Looking for a Teen Girl novel ? Review: Offside - MG Higgins - January 2013 Do you remember that movie "Bend it Like Beckham" ? The film where the indian girl got to play soccer as she was amazing at it ? Even though the girl on the cover of Offside is white, I imagine as I read the story of her being Indian as her name is Faith Patel . Faith loves to play Soccer , it is her escape from her life as a babysitter and home-life, it is something she is good at . Though what happens when the coach starts offering Faith advice and she starts to take it the wrong way . Soon Faith has developed crushing feelings on her coach but it seems she's not the only one on the team to feel this way towards the coach. Can Faith get her head back into the game and focus on becoming the best soccer player she can be in order to help her recieve a college scholarship or will Faith soon discover that...

    Looking for a new supernatural teen book to read ? One that will have you flipping the pages and when you have finished , wanting more from the author? Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer - Book #1 Mara Dyer Series - Michelle Hodkin - September 2011 When you read as much as I do , its always a bit touch and go with books as most of them have the same sort of storyline and it really all comes down to how the author executes the storyline and how they can write it , to whether or not the book will be great or not. This storyline is one that has been done a couple of times in different ways but I have to say I adored this book and loved it and cannot wait to read the next one :) In "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer" we meet Mara whom we discover was in an accident the previous school year which caused the deaths of three of her friends including her best friend Rachel, boyfriend Jude and friend Claire.  Somehow Mara came out of the accident unharmed, is...

  Looking for a new teen novel to read ? Did you enjoy the film "John Tucker Must Die" ? Review: Burn for Burn - Book #1 Burn for Burn Series - Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian - September 2012 Have you ever hated someone so much that you would do absolutely anything to get revenge on them ? A Burn for a Burn ? Have you ever seen the hit movie "John Tucker Must Die" ? In a way that is exactly what this book reminded me of as we see three girls all from different classes, social standings and cliques come together in secret - with one goal in mind to get the maximum revenge on those who have hurt them so bad in the past. For Lilia , her revenge target is Alex - a guy she has loved her whole entire life but he doesn't seem to notice her and when she catches him two-timing with not only Kat - a bad girl but also her sister Nat - she is furious and wants her revenge on him. Kat has had it rough and the target of all of her worries and taunts seem to c...

    Are you as big a fan of the Pretty Little Liars series as I am ? Have you been faithfully following the books as well as the hit TV Show which OMG starts up next week :) YAY !!!!!! Today's book review is Book #12 in the Pretty Little Liars Series , so readers get ready to be ............ Review: Burned - Book #12 Pretty Little Liars Series - Sara Shepard - December 2012 Omg , have you ever discovered a series that you just have to read and every time you read it , it makes your blood pump and you are ecstatic and overjoyed and you fall into that feeling of comfort and excitement ? For me, one of the series that does it is the Pretty Little Liars series and as soon as I discovered that Book #12 Burned was available I knew I just had to read it. You would think that the foursome would know never to stray far from Rosewood as even out in the middle of nowhere , "A" can find them. In Burned , we learn that before the Cruise in which the four girls ar...

  Are you looking for a read that is almost a romance crossed with a Stephen King novel ? Review: Some Kind of Magic - Theresa Weir - Originally Published 1998 - Reprinted Jan 2012 You know how when you get the Pixel of Ink Catalogues and they have all the free Amazon books of the day and how friends recommend Amazon books and you are like OMG I Have to have that or if you see a book you really want and so you buy it on Amazon and then when you have this long list of stuff on your Amazon Kindle App and you can't remember for the life of you , why you have it or how you got it ? Well, this is what happened with this book as I have literally hundreds of kindle books on my Kindle App. Some Kind of Magic by Theresa Weir for me was one of those books that I couldn't remember why I got it or how but as soon as I started reading it - I was glad I did as I enjoyed it. Some Kind of Magic is a romance mixed with a bit of...