Summary: Having fallen for a human boy, a teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs.

Review: I read another book by this same auther titled The Silver Kiss, which was about vampires. This book was quite similar in nature and plot, only it was about werewolves. Klause's writing style is very, very elegant; it reminds me a lot of Anne Rice's writing style but less flowery and easier to read, haha. This book had an engaging, interesting plot, sensual and endearing characters and a great ending. It has action, romance, mystery, drama and horror .. just about everything you'd want in a book like this. I really enjoyed it and if you like this sort of book, I'd recommend it.

Summary: A vampire named Louis tells his life story to an interviewer.

Review: I'd heard so much about this book and had already seen the movie that's based on it that I had a lot of expectations when going in to read this book. I really enjoyed most of the book, sans the last third because that was quite depressing. I very much adored Louis and Lestat's characters; Armand's character seemed a bit one-dimentional in this movie for my taste but I love that he was portrayed as a young boy (really didn't like Antonio Banderaz as him in the movie). Claudia's character was fascinating but creepy as hell. It didn't quite live up to my expectations but Anne Rice's flowery writing style has grown on me and I did enjoy the book.

Summary: An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Review: I went into reading this novel thinking that it was going to be a lot of action and fantasy (having seen LXG which is a gross misrepresentation of the life of Dorian Grey). In any case, I was surprised that this book was almost all philosophical, presenting really interesting ideas about who you are as a person and what beauty is and such. It was a lot creepier than I thought it would be but it was also very captivating. I adore the character of Dorian Grey - I find him absolutely fascinating and really enjoyed reading about his interesting life.

Summary: For three years, Meredith Gentry has been hiding from her aunt, the wicked Queen of Air & Darkness. Meredith is abruptly summoned back to the Faerie Court. Forging alliances with powerful, immortal men and exploring her newfound magical powers might keep Meredith alive long enough to figure out why.

Review: I meant to start reading Hamilton's Anita Blake series but I couldn't for the life of me find the first in that series so I borrowed this instead. The book is set in a world where humans and faeries and goblins and the like co-exist. The plot itself relies a bit too much on Merry's "romantic adventures" with, well, every single male character in the book, but ignoring that, it has an interesting story. The characters are all appealing, and overall it's a good, mindless read.

Summary: Richard Cypher and his trusted companions (the beautiful and mysterious Kahlan and the zany sorcerer Zedd) begin their quest to destroy Darken Rahl, an evil mage who bids to control the world by using his dark, magical powers.

Review: This is the first book in a fantasy series called the Sword of Truth. It's basically about a woodsman who is forced into joining the resistance against a man who - surprise, surprise - is trying to take over the world, though that really doesn't capture the essence of this book. Although darker than the fantasy books I'm used to reading, I really enjoyed this book. The characters were wonderfully developed and the plot was very captivating. Though long, it's very fun and easy to read!

Summary: In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Review: A wonderful book all about a boy who finds a dragon egg and turns into the world's first Dragon Rider in centuries. It's a really fascinating subject, dragons, and this book was so fun to read because of that. It is on the simpler side, and the writing isn't that good, but I really love the world that the author has created for this book. The characters are particularly fun; I heart Murtagh. :D

Summary: When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her daughter must navigate a series of foster homes, each with its own limits & dangers.

Review: I've been reading this book on and off for the past year at school, and finally got a chance to finish it. It's about a girl's life, having to move from foster home to foster home while trying to deal with her controlling mother who is in jail for murder. I think it is a very powerful and moving book, but it's extremely depressing at times. The characters were all very interesting and I felt the ending was actually kind of happy, which was surprising. I liked the movie, too.

Summary: This novel tells a fabulous tale about an intrepid sixteen-year-old boy who spends 227 days at sea with a 450-pound Bengal tiger.

Review: Of course, I had to read this sometime. It was quite good; I really had fun reading it. It's about a boy who gets stranded on sea with a tiger when the ship they were on capsizes. I don't know which I liked best; the beginning part about him joining three different religions (which I thought was really neat), or at the end when he tells the reporters the 'true' story (without animals) of his ordeal. Definitely worth reading, though not for the weak-stomached.

Summary: The veil to the underworld has been torn, and Darken Rahl begins to summon a sinister power more dreadful than any he has wielded before. Horrifying creatures escape through the torn veil, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting world above. If Rahl isn't stopped, he will free the Keeper itself, an evil entity whose power is so vast and foul that once freed, it can never again be contained.

Review: I liked this one better than the first; it was less graphic and more gripping. It's a straight continuation of the first book, plot-wise. The characters were developed very well in the first book and now the author gets a chance to show us other sides of the characters. Because of this, the plot moves more smoothly, which is nice. I liked certain characters a lot in this book, and enjoyed reading it!

Summary: After unwittingly destroying the magical wards that had sealed off the Old World from the New World, Richard discovers that he has inadvertently created a gate through which the evil Keeper and his minions can enter. Richard must now accept the power of his father, Darken Rahl, and use all of his magical abilities to defeat Jagang, to save Kahlan and to close the gate.

Review: I loved this one, I thought it was much better than the previous two. The stories were incredibly diverse (from character to character; they all get separated) and I absolutely adored some of the new characters that appear in this book. I also love the fact that the author uses so many different character viewpoints in this book; it's really awesome. It's worth reading the previous two books just to read this one! Very well written. Also much shorter, thankfully!

Summary: Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. On the plane home, he meets Mr. Wednesday, a stranger who offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, but he soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought and the prize is the very soul of America.

Review: I don't think I've ever read a book quite like this, but I thought this one was awesome. In the book, all of the Gods ever thought up or worshipped in history still exist today, trying to make their way among the world as normal people. The intertwining stories and all of the different characters and such .. it was just so good. Lots of plot twists as well. Neil's an amazing writer, and although this wasn't my favorite book of his, it's still fantastic.

Summary: When we meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth as her family holds out hope that she'll be found & her killer tries to cover his tracks. With compassion, longing and a growing understanding, Susie's family pass through grief and begin to mend.

Review: I've heard a lot about this book; I thought it would be a really depressing book (the beginning is extremely intense and creepy) but it actually turned out to be kind of inspiring, in a sense. Still sad, but the ending was really good and I actually felt not exactly happy, but hopeful after reading it. The characters were poignantly developed and you really felt for them. I loved the switches in time and how everything ties back in at the end.

Summary: Michael Young, an earnest young history graduate student, has just finished his dissertation: an exploration into the roots of evil and the early life of Adolf Hitler. When he meets up with a German physicist, they concoct an experiment that allows Michael to time travel to prevent the conception of the Fuhrer. It will change the course of history, but will it create a better world?

Review: It took me a while to get into this book but once it got going, it was very enjoyable. I'm not a history buff or anything but the whole idea the novel presented was facinating! I love Fry's writing style, his sense of humor is fantastic. The intertwined chapters were really cool. Some of the technology of the 'new world' was also interesting - always a bit of a sci-fi fan, heh. I loved the character of Steve. <3 I also loved the ending, I think this is the only book I've read in a while where I was really smiling as I closed the book. :D

Summary: This book follows the fortunes of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. Cheered by feminist ranting with her friends, crazed by parental attempts to fix her up with a rich divorcee, Bridget lurches from torrid affair to pregnancy-scare convinced that if she could just get down to 8st 7, stop smoking and develop Inner Poise, all would be resolved.

Review: Finally got to read this! It kind of sucked to have watched the movie first, because I had images of all of the characters in my head while I was reading. Which was somewhat annoying. I really enjoyed the book, though! I love British books; they're awesome. This one made me laugh a lot, I love how unserious it is. I also loved the fact that Hugh Grant and Colin Firth were both mentioned, by name, in the book. Kind of ironic. ;D It was really quite good, though, I enjoyed it.

Summary: 17-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.

Review: This book was okay, but not as good as I thought it would be. It was like a mix between a Princess Diaries book and Bend it like Beckham .. only more drugs, drinking and partying. Most of it was just like a typical teen drama which I thought got really old after a while. >.> It was really predictable. The only thing I liked about this book was the fact that the main character was a photography addict and she was always taking photos in the story. It made me want to go out and buy a really nice manual camera and take photos. :D

Summary: Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can't tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: a vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anyone what happened or even who she is. She remains lost to the world, until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit.

Review: All of the other works I've read by Eddings have been purely fantasy novels, so this one was quite different. It was a modern story (set in the 1990's) about two twin girls. One of them is brutally murdered, and the surviving one goes insane. The story is basically about what happens to the remaining twin. I enjoyed the book, even though it was kind of disturbing and creepy. I figured out the "mystery" about a 1/3 of the way in, but yeah. It made me laugh that the characters "talked" in the exact same way as the characters in Eddings' other books.

Summary: Richard Mayhew learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he helps a young girl named Door and is sucked into the dark and dangerous world of London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. As he helps Door, who is trying to find out who murdered her family & why, he is chased by two very evil and powerful mercenaries who hunt only the biggest game.

Review: I was expecting this book to be awesome and I wasn't disappointed at all! I loved this book! Every minute of it .. it was excellent. I actually liked it quite a bit better than American Gods; it was a more enjoyable, less serious (in a sense) story to read. The characters were awesome. I loved how diverse they were! My favorite characters are either Islington (who is positively delicious) or The Velvets (so mysterious and suave) The plot was wonderful. The ending was also wonderful. Plus, I mean the story has rats as a revered creature. What more could you want in a book? I mean, really. ;D I highly recommend this book.

Summary: The dangerous, fanatical Imperial Order, under the leadership of the power-mad Emperor Jagang and his multitude of demonic underlings, unleashes a deadly plague. To find a cure, Richard Cypher and Kahlan Amnell must seek out the legendary Temple of the Winds, a fortress of evil sealed away for 3,000 years.

Review: This one was actually pretty good. The only reason I marked it down a bit was that there was a lot of heavy content in this book - much more intense than the first book, which is saying something. -.- You have it all; plague, torture, serial killers, deranged priests, etc. A bit heavy for my taste, heh. In terms of character development, though, this book was absolutely wonderful! It really gave a lot of insight into the two main characters which the previous book didn't really do. Not my favorite of the series so far but it's a good book; better than the first two.

Summary: At the request of his godchild Jane, Ted Wallace visits an old friend's lavish English estate to check up on his other godchild, 15-year-old Davey, who is experimenting with faith healing. Ted, a failed poet, husband and father joins a strange group of guests at Swafford Hall. The guests drink and converse while Ted seeks to make sense of some rather bizarre goings-on.

Review: This was an odd book. I was expecting another brilliant work of genius, like Making History but was sadly disappointed. The book had it's funny moments, but lacked the engaging plot that Making History had. Also, I found the whole plot a bit disturbing. The main character (whose name I can't even remember, haha) was very weird and a bit perverse. Most of the other characters were very odd as well. I guess the only thing I really liked about this book was the ending; I love how we're all expected to believe that there really are miracles occuring, but in the end it's just coincidence. Not really worth reading again in my opinion.

Summary: When a scatterbrained nun goofs up a baby-switching scheme and delivers the infant Antichrist to the wrong couple, it's just the beginning of the comic errors in the divine plan for Armageddon. The angel Aziraphale and his demon friend Crowley like life on Earth too much to allow the long-planned war between Heaven and Hell to happen so they set out to find the Antichrist and avert Armageddon.

Review: This book was awesome; I'm loving Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's books more and more! The best thing about this book, besides the kick-ass characters, was definitely the plot. It was mostly quite funny which is a nice change in a book about an armaggedon. I loved how there were about five different groups of characters, and they all came together at the end; I love that kind of book! Aziraphale was my favorite character; he was so innocent and just plain amusing. Crowley is also awesome, as well as Hell's Angels. Wonderful book, I very much enjoyed it. <3

Summary: The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam, but when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets ...

Review: I was expecting this to be a great book as I know people who've read this and enjoyed it, but it was even better than I thought it'd be. It's all about a group of rats, a cat (Maurice) and a boy who go around and make money by pretending to be a 'plague of rats', until they find trouble in one town. It was quite funny and relatively lighthearted, and it was interesting to read a book about rats who are this intelligent. A very fun read, I highly recommend it.

Summary: Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of a band and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the origins of his undead species.

Review: This was absolutely wonderful; much better than Interview with the Vampire in my opinion. Lestat is by far my favorite character from this series, but I also enjoyed 'meeting' Nicolas, Gabrielle and Marius, as well as learning more about Armand (another favorite). It was quite interesting to learn about Lestat's early life, I loved hearing all about it. The plot was very engaging and not at all boring like some parts of Interview with the Vampire were. Captivating from one end to the other and really worth reading.

Summary: Lestat has awakened Queen Akasha from her 6000 year sleep and she immediately begins a wholesale slaughter of most of the world's vampires, sparing only a small remnant who she expects will join her in a crazed crusade against male mortals. Meanwhile, Jesse, who works for the Telamasca, a secret society that collects data on those with paranormal powers, investigates.

Review: This book was not as good as The Vampire Lestat but better than Interview with the Vampire. It was very interesting to see the actual version of this story, as the movie really skewed characters and events around. I found the plot in the book to be much more realistic and believable than the one in the movie. Again, I also liked that Lestat, Armand and Marius played a big role in this book. As a bonus, we got to learn more about certain elders (Maharet and her sister, Khayman, Pandora, etc.) which was really fascinating. This is a wonderful mystery/horror, very enjoyable!

Review: I borrowed this book thinking it was just that, but it turned out to be an extremely confusing graphic novel. It made absolutely NO sense to me. Not only did it seem like it was a book that took place in the middle of the series (which it's not; it's the first) but it seemed like whole pages were just missing from the plot. The only reason I gave it any stars was because some of the drawings were pretty, and the dragons were interesting. I would not recommend it at all, though.