Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely

Title: Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely

Author(s): Melody Carlson

Summary:
Kara Hendricks and Jordan Ferguson have been best friends since kindergarten. By now—sophomore year—they're more like sisters, really. Jordan has always been the leader in the friendship, but still she's the perfect friend. That is, until she starts to hang with a new, "cool" crowd and decides that Kara is a popularity liability.

Best Friends forever? Yeah, right.

Devastated, Kara feels betrayed and abandoned by everyone—even God. How could Jordan do this? Why did God let this happen? Yet for all the hurt and insecurity, these dark days contain a life-changing secret. Now that Jordan is gone, Kara has the chance to discover something about herself that she never knew before. But first she must learn to trust again. It won't be easy.

My Review:
Well, to tell the truth the first half of the book was not that captivating. It didn't really get into any detail. I mean yeah, Carlson does cover the finer points of being lonely...like wanting to stay in your room and not be around anyone. And the fact that you always want to cry.
I really liked the fact that Kara finally invited Jesus into her heart. I really is an amazing feeling when you invite Jesus into your heart. You feel all warm on the inside as if nothing could touch you. It's an awesome feeling.

Crank

Title: Crank

Author(s): Ellen Hopkins

Summary:
Life was good

before I met

the monster.

After,
life

was great,

At
least
for a little while.

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite if Kristina—she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul—her life.

My Review:
Okay first off, this book is difficult to read at first because it is written in the form of a giant poem. Every page is a different style that you have to figure out how to read. But once you get the hang of how to read it, it's a very fast pace book. It took me a matter of a few hours to read the whole book. Anyway, it's a great book to read up on information about drugs. Or at least this specific one. It tells her life before she got hooked on it and then after when she was already hooked by it's addiction. She definitely did her homework before she wrote this book. And I know that sounds like I do drugs, but I don't. I just knew someone who did.

New Moon

Title: New Moon

Author(s): Stephenie Meyer

Summary:
I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off hes skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect--not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

My Review:
I love this series so much. I didn't like it when Edward left Bella on her own. But I did like the fact that he would be willing to die for her if anything happened to her. It's what every girl wishes for. Someone willing to do anything for her. Yeah, we may say that we don't; but in all reality we do want that and it was awesome that Edward is like that for Bella. I wish it Edward would have been in the book more, but it turned out to be a great book. They may not have been together physically through out the book, but they were still together spiritually and mentally like it should always be. The one you love should always be with you even if you are not physically together.

Betrayed

Title: Betrayed

Author(s): P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

Summary:
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night finishing school. She finally feels like she belongs, even gets chosen as the Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all she actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jepardize the very fabric of her world. Betrayed, the second book in the House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.

My Review:
I won't give away anything to those whom haven't read it; however, I will say that Neferet is getting on my nerves. She definitely pushed her limit in this book and I don't blame Zoey for the decisions she makes. If I were in her shoes I probably would have made the same ones. I thought it was cool how Zoey gets a grip on her powers and then her friends are gifted an affinity of the elements as well. At least, Zoey is not on her own now. And I like the fact that Aphrodite, acts all snooty (or whatever you would like to call it), but still warns Zoey about things to come.

Marked

Title: Marked

Author(s): P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

Summary:
Enter The Dark, Magical World Of The House Of Night.
a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint her human ex-boyfriend. To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers: when she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her vampyre friends.

My Review:
I loved the book. To me this book was just a way for me to escape from reality and go back a few years. I like how it portrays everything about being a teenager and the fact that even though Zoey did transfer schools, she still goes through the same obstacles. Girls who always think they're better than you in everything and guys who think that they can have whatever they want. Yes, it is true that life is not like that and most eventually realize that after a while, but there are still those few who think that way and I think that P.C. & Kristin Cast did an awesome job in portraying these views.

Twilight

Title: Twilight

Author(s): Stephenie Meyer

Summary:
When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad enough she will have to make a whole new set of friends and settle into a new school.

Bella soon makes some new friends at school but when she sees a boy called Edward Cullen sitting with his brothers and sisters in the cafeteria she is instantly intrigued. Edward is stunningly attractive, almost inhumanly beautiful, and yet he is an outsider too. Although Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk.

At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.

On a trip to the beach, Bella is told of the local legend about the “cold ones”, a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still not welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.

Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years-old, although that was at the end of World War I. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood….

My Review:

This book was really captivating with the romance of Edward and Bella forming. It started out having me being very skeptical about if they were even going to be friends and then as it got further into the book I knew they would be much more than friends. I love the fact that he's basically placed himself as her "guardian angel" or whatever you want to call it. Always there when she needs him. Or the fact that no matter where she is, he always turns up if she's in trouble.I didn't like the fact that Rosalie was always so mean and always turning a cold shoulder to Bella and I hope that changes as I read the rest of the series. But it was great the way his family took her in with no trouble what-so-ever. Never asked questions, just opened their arms freely. Don't you wish everyone was like that??? It would make things so much easier.

Nightmare Academy

Title: Nightmare Academy

Author(s): Frank Peretti

Summary:

• Enter a place where gravity is turned upside down, time runs backwards, and nightmares are real.

He was once a normal fifteen-year-old-boy. He had a name, a family, a school, and a life--and he thought he knew something. But that boy, and that life, and that time have become. . .nothing. His whole mind seems to have been erased.

There's no boy here anymore. No knowledge, no thought, no reason. Nothing but terror, endlessly repeating cycles of it, layer upon layer of it, in swirling sounds, images, and sensations.

Now he only stares into nothingness and whispers two ominous words . . .
Nightmare Academy

My Review:
This book was awesome and kept you thinking throughout the whole entire book. Why are they not allowed to speak and believe things freely? Why do they have to conform to one idea? What's going to happen to Elijah & Elisha if they are found out? It's just the type of book that keeps your mind reeling with every sentence. I mean you know that the bad guys always get caught in the end, but the question is still there in the back of your mind. Will they get what's coming to them or escape from everything and walk away free???