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Review; The Hidden - Jessica Verday

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Are you a fan of Jessica Verday's series "The Hollow" ? Have you read and enjoyed The Hollow and The Haunted ? Get ready for the conclusion of the trilogy with Book #3 The Hidden. Review: The Hidden - Book #3 The Hollow Series- Jessica Verday- September 2011 Ever since her best friend Kristen died , Abbey has been able to see Shades and one in particular Caspian, her ghost in transparent armour. We have travelled the adventures of Abbey and Caspian through their meeting in The Hollow , to their nearly losing each other in The Haunted to finally their reconnection in The Hidden. However, it seems that somebody else wants Abbey to themselves and he will stop at nothing to get her . Vincent Drake , he was the one there when Kristen died and as we read the novel , we discover that it was in fact Abbey that should have died that night , not the other way round and it seems that Abbey's time is nearing as she is living her life on a thread. Unlike the other two novels, T...

Review: Clean - Amy Reed

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Review: Clean - Amy Reed - July 2011 Isn't it amazing how sometimes you read novels and what they discuss is actually relevant in a way to an event that has happened in your life or on that specific day. For me , reading Clean it gave me a reflection on the fact that we are losing so many young people to drugs, alcohol, self-esteem issues etc. Just look at the paper this morning and it read that Amy Winehouse aged 27 died from a drug overdose ,though due to her past that doesn't really surprise people but just to think if only there was somebody there to care strongly enough to tell her enough was enough. It's such a waste to see people die at a young age. In Clean, it takes us into the life of 5 teenagers who over one summer are sent to rehab. Each of the five teens are addicted to a drug or alcohol that has reached the point in their lives that it's the only thing keeping them going. The novel Clean almost reads like a transcript as it follows the group of five teen...

Wildefire - Karsten Knight

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Wanting a new teen book to read, one that includes supernatural gifts and a hint of reincarnation? Review: Wildefire - Karsten Knight- July 2011 Being an avid reader and loving to discover all the new books that come out , one of my favourite things is to discover new sites to get ARCS and today's book is my first from the Simon and Schuster Galley Grab, ( http://www.galleygrab.com/ ) where each month they send you a newsletter of books that you can request .  Wildefire is a new teen novel , that starts off in a modern school where the main character Ashline decides to beat up a girl named Lizzie who Ashline has just discovered has been hooking up with Ash's boyfriend Richie. Soon Ash's sister Eve who has been missing turns up and with her a whole lot of secrets to share about her's and Ash's background as they were both adopted. When Ash gets into more trouble it's the last straw and she is sent off to boarding school, but whilst there she discovers that th...