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Title : Possess Author : Gretchen McNeil Publication Date : August 23rd, 2011 Published By : Balzer & Bray Hardcover, 384 Pages Source: ARC received for blog tour for an honest review Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, by the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, it turns out the voices are demons – and Bridget has the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from. Terrified to tell people about her new power, Bridget confides in a local priest who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her new power, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. Now Bridget must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone close to her winds up dead – or worse, the human vessel of a demon king." Review: **** 1/2 = 4.5 Sta...

Die for Me by Amy Plum Publication Date: May 10th, 2011 Published By: HarperTeen Hardcover, 352 Pages Source: ARC received from Inkpop/Publisher for Honest Review  Summary: "In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity. When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent. Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenant...

As part of the blog tour for Heidi Ayarbe's Compulsion(which was just released from Balzer & bray/HarperCollins on May 3rd!), she's allowed us to see what the twitter feed of some of the characters from her books might look like. Featured in this feed is Luc from Compulsion, Cappy from Compromised, and Jason from Freeze Frame! ~~~~~~~ Character Tweets: If some of your characters had Twitter accounts, what would their tweet convos be like? (Character tweets between Jason (from Freeze Frame), Cappy (from Compromised) and Luc (from Compulsion) …) Jason: Hey, Cappy. Thought you couldn’t read and write. Cappy: Listen, Dead Boy, if you can do some other-world tweeting, I’ll take care on my end. At least I can touch the fuckin’ keyboard. Jason: Mind over matter. Cappy: You’ve got neither, dead boy. Or do you have a mind? Do dead people keep their minds? Luc: Hijueputa. And I thought M&M was nuts. I’m tweeting with dead guy and illiterate. I’ll take OCD...

Compulsion by Heidi Ayarbe Publication Date: May 1st, 2011 Published By: Balzer&Bray(HarperCollins Imprint) Hardcover, 304 Pages Source: ARC, Teen Book Scene Blog Tour Summary: "Today has to be perfect. Magic. I look at the clock. 10:14 am. Ten fourteen. One plus one is two plus four is six plus ten is sixteen minus one is fifteen minus two is thirteen. OK. I turn from the clock and walk into the hallway. "Ready.” Saturday will be the third state soccer championship in a row for Jake Martin. Three. A good number. Prime. With Jake on the field, Carson City High can’t lose, because Jake has the magic: a self-created protection generated by his obsession with prime numbers. It’s the magic that has every top soccer university recruiting Jake, the magic that keeps his family safe, and the magic that suppresses his anxiety attacks. But the magic is Jake’s prison, because getting it means his compulsions take over nearly every aspect of his life. Jake’s convinced the magi...

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton Publication Date: Feburary 15th, 2011 Published By: HarperCollins / Katherine Tegan Books Hardcover, 464 Pages Source: ARC / Teen Book Scene   Summary: "When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul. A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once. While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is se...

Divergent by Veronica Roth Publication Date: May 3rd, 2011 Published By: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books Hardcover, 496 Pages Source: ARC received from Publisher for honest review Summary: "One choice. One choice decides your friends, defines your beliefs, and determines your loyalties . . . forever. Or, one choice can transform you. In Veronica Roth's debut novel, Divergent, a perfect society unfolds into a dystopian world of electrifying decisions, stunning consequences, heartbreaking betrayals, and unexpected romance." My Review: ***** + = 5+ Stars (NO SPOILERS) If you compile a list of compliments that you would give an outstanding book, they would all apply to how I feel about Divergent. Amazing, fascinating, marvelous, stunning, surprising, and wonderful, I could keep going but the list on this one would be never ending. In a future society in Chicago, the lives of the citizens are split into five different factions. Each faction represents a virtue, ...