Night Star by Alyson Noel

"Night Star" is the fifth installment in the addictive Immortals series. Ever learns a dark secret from her and Damon’s past lives. She needs to protect Jude and stop Haven from revealing their secret. Can she learn to forgive and learn her destiny in round five of the series?
These books are ideal for anyone who loves magick, the afterlife, and action as themes in books.
Reviewed by Bri C.

The Haunted by Jessica Verday

Spoiler Alert! This is the second book in the series, the review for the first book is called "The Hollow".

In this thrilling sequel to "The Hollow", Abbey returns home to Sleepy Hollow after recovering from her “mental breakdown”. In the time that it takes to convince herself that Caspian does not, can not, exist, a new romance sparks between her and Ben. In the second installment of the series, Abbey accepts Caspian, learns more about his past, their future, and the cause behind Kristin’s early demise.
Reviewed by Bri C

The Hollow by Jessica Verday

Abbey is your average teenage girl with her goals and ambitions set. The only thing is, last summer, her best friend Kristin disappeared. On the day of Kristin’s wake, Abbey meets Caspian, a blonde, attractive, and mysterious boy. Through the novel she falls in love, makes new friends, and reconnects with her lost friend’s family. She unearths Kristin’s deep secret, she finds her friends aren’t everything they appear to be, and she learns the impossible truth about Caspian. Abbey needs to discover what’s real in the town of Sleepy Hollow.
These books are great for anyone looking for love, action, and a little bit of the supernatural, in a book.
Reviewed by Bri C

Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman

Hannah has gone through life known as “That Monkey Girl”. With Amelia, her older monkey sister, an annoying little brother, up tight mom, and has-been rocker dad, her social life is nonexistent. Hannah goes on the "quest for cool" at her new boarding school, Brentwood, when drugs, boys, and body image issues get in the way. Artistic and scholastic ambitions plus self discovery make the perfect foundation for this short memoir that anyone can connect to.
Reviewed by Bri C.

Dawn-Kevin Brooks

Have you ever thought about killing something you knew you couldn't really kill? Have you ever had a parent disappear out of your life for 2 years? A girl named Dawn has. This is about how she deals with her father leaving one day. And how she thinks she can kill God when he doesn’t exist on earth.

The day Dawn’s dad comes back is when she hears about the trouble her dad got their family into by crossing the wrong guy. Then her mother does something drastic that most mothers would probably do if they felt their child was endangered.

I really liked this book by Kevin Brooks because it was really interesting how Dawn was strong through all the things that were going on in her life and how she didn't let things bother her. I liked how it was a mystery as to what would happen next. One reason I choose this book was because the author’s other books were really good too. Some of his other books are: “Kissing the Rain”, “Lucas”, “Road of the Dead”, and “Being”. I would recommend this book even if you haven’t read his other ones. This was an easy and funny read of 199 pages.

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Isn’t getting big packages in the mail exciting? It was for Clay…until he found out what was in it. Clay was just a high school student who was at the time, struggling to accept the fact that, due to his friend’s suicidal death, his friend was never coming back. When he opened the package that was addressed to him, he only found seven tape cassettes with a number on each side of each tape, adding up to the number thirteen. As he listened to each of the tapes, he listened to his friend explain all the events leading up to her death.

This book was so touching; it will haunt me for the rest of my life. I would like to recommend this book to everyone because it was so amazing, but it could also be disturbing to some people. It evokes some strong emotions such as: anger, sadness, happiness, ECT. But over all, the book was beyond five star criteria.

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Would you ever be embarrassed about seeing your mom in a dumpster looking for food? Well, Jeanette has, and it wasn’t pretty. One day in New York, Jeanette was in a taxi on her way home from work and she spotted her mother digging in a dumpster.

Jeanette has three siblings Lori, Brian, and Maureen. In this book, Jeanette describes her childhood moving from town to town and dealing with poverty, an alcoholic father, and a mom who acts more like a child than a parent. Very often they were starving because their dad would rather spend money on alcohol. Later in the book, all the kids realize that their parents didn't do a very good job at raising them. They decide that they want to live a better life than what they had growing up. This is when the kids decided on their own to move to New York.

I thought this book was very interesting. Even though Jeanette’s childhood was lousy, she was very intelligent. For instance, when Jeanette was in elementary school she already knew how to code math by using a computer number system called binary.

At first I didn't know if I would like this book because it is a biography. I was thinking, why would I want to read about some else’s life? I wasn’t sure if I could relate to the author, Jeanette, but I really could. I thought it was a slow read at first but it started to pick up when she begin talking about her childhood.

This book has funny parts and some serious parts. The read was 288 pages. I think a lot of people would like this book even if it's not a genre you would normally read.