Review: Dance For Me - Book #1 Fenbrook Academy Series - Helena Newbury - June 2013 After having a couple of DNF's and nothing capturing me, I decided to browse through my kindle and read an older book. Dance for Me jumped out at me with the word Academy and I figured I would enjoy it as I loved school-based novels. Fenbrook Academy is a school for the arts and our main character Natasha is a ballet dancer at the school. She is trying to make it big by going to auditions when she meets our male lead. Darrell is an engineer who dropped out of MIT but his mind makes him a genius at what he does as he builds for the government. Darrell is stuck and needs a new muse when he gets a block - he searches through ballet videos as the fluid of the dancers calm him and boosts his inspiration. On this particular day, the videos aren't working so he goes in search of the real thing and on this day crashes into a ballet audition that Natasha is doing and distracts her, making...

  Review: Kiss of Broken Glass - Madeline Kuderick - September 2014 Are you in the mood for some edgy teen reading ? This novel is written in the same format as Ellen Hopkins and Sonya Sones with the writing style being verses rather than your average book written format. It tells the story of Kenna who over the next 72 hours will experience life in the psych ward as she is caught cutting herself in the girls bathroom at school with the blade from her pencil sharpener . Cutting is one of those issues that has been around for a while and is one of the most popular ways of self-harming, the thought of cutting has even crossed my mind but then I see myself as a wimp for pain and for me - fingernails actually does the trick and it doesn't hurt as much psychologically as I believe cutting would. In this book though, it reminded me of an episode of Criminal Minds that I watched where Kids were hanging themselves and resuscitating themselves back alive for fun. At Kenna...

    Review: A Life Redefined -Book #1 Life Series -Tracy Hewitt Meyer - June 2013 In Rowan's family, she is known as the girl who ruined everything after her baby brother died when she was eight years old. From that moment on, it seems that whenever anything goes wrong, it is Rowan's fault despite the rest of her family's failings. Rowan is the reason her father hates her family, the reason her mum won't get out of bed and the reason her sister is traipsing all around the school. What will happen though when something positive happens to Rowan as Mike - the school quarterback asks her to the Prom . Will her family stand in the way of her happiness once again, especially when her younger sister spreads lies about Mike which end up getting the police involved.  Will Rowan discover a guardian angel that will help her to escape the past she has been caged in , in order to move on with her future plans and what will happen when the truth about why and h...