Saturday, September 24, 2016

Dead Until Dark


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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
Charlaine Harris
Ace Books: 2001, 292 pages
Reviewed by Kelci Bozada

Sookie Stackhouse seems like your average, small-town waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana.  Except she’s definitely not average.  Sookie can read people’s minds, something she’s been able to do for years but keeps it to herself.  All she wants is a little quiet, but knows she can’t date anyone whose thoughts she can hear.  Then comes along Bill Compton.  Bill is a vampire in a town where people are very wary of his kind, all except Sookie.  As Sookie starts to fall for Bill, a string of murders plagues the town and Bill seems like the prime suspect.  Can Sookie find out who the murderer is before she becomes the next victim? 

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Marked

Marked (House of Night, #1)
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Marked (House of Night #1)
P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast
St. Martin's Griffin: 2007, 306 pages
Reviewed by Kelci Bozada

Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has been chosen, or Marked, as a fledgling vampyre to join the House of Night.  The House of Night is a special school were Zoey will learn how to become an adult vampyre. Her new life is definitely not average: she has been given special powers by the vampyre Goddess Nyx, but her powers become stronger and make her different from everyone else as she tries to fit in at a new school.  Zoey must try to understand her new-found powers as she learns more about being a fledgling vampyre.