![]() Jake stood still, watching the rocks, waiting for a movement.‘ Wellington’s Red Rocks! He is staying with his father … in Owhiro Bay! Yay Wellingtonįirst line: ‘ Waves battered the beach, chattering to the stones as the receded. Red Rocks, by Rachel King (255 pages) – Jessie inadvertedly unleashes a curse on his family by stealing a sealskin he finds at Red Rocks. Like the title says! ‘A classic ghost story with a stunning twist’ says the book cover – correctly, for I read the ending and it’s very good and chilling.įirst line: ‘ When Dad first crunches the car up the semi-circular gravel drive outside Weston Manor I don’t take much notice.‘ Sounds, smells, and ghostly crying, and soon Tabitha is getting haunted. The Haunting of Tabitha Grey, by Vanessa Curtis (295 pages) – Tabitha and her family move into Weston Manor, and soon things start behaving unnaturally. Earth, Everneath.įirst line: ‘ I was picturing his face – a boy with floppy brown hair and brown eyes – when the Feed ended.’ It is like the myth of Persephone, brought into the present! Cole, the smouldering immortal from Everneath, wants Nikki for his Queen, but Nikki just wants to stay with her boyfriend Jack. I hobble and curse, and then I stumble onto a nearby lawn.‘Įverneath, by Brodi Ashton (370 pages) – Nikki gets snatched into the underworld, or the Everneath, and has to spend six months there and six months on Earth with her loved ones. Pain cuts through my foot each time it hits the pavement. I don’t think an actual apocalypse takes place.įirst lines: ‘ Ow. He starts to get involved with the religion in an effort to get to know Rebekah more or is it because his mother died recently? Anyway. He agrees! Setting off a chain of events that transforms all their lives.Įverything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse, by Lucas Klauss (403 pages) – Phillip meets and falls for the girl of his dream, Rebekah, who happens to belong to a super-evangelical church, as mainly found in the US. However! Karl isn’t sure that he can write well enough at all, so he convinces Fiorella’s favourite author to write the letter on his behalf. She had already decided that all our problems were solved, gone forever.‘ĭying to Know You, by Aidan Chambers (275 pages) – Karl is in love with Fiorella, and because is very smart and literate, she insists that he writes her a letter to express his love for her. Sooooo I reckon you might like this if you like The Hunger Games but weren’t so keen on all the killing?įirst lines: ‘ When we got the letter in the post, my mother was ecstatic. America Singer is selected to compete, but she really just wants to be with Aspen, her true love, who happens to be a caste below her. Thirty-five girls are selected and must compete in a televised selection to win the heart of Illea’s prince. The Selection, by Kiera Cass (327 pages) – It is the future! America has had a war and is now a dystopian monarchy (called Illea) with a fairly strict caste system. It’s a party, and I’m surrounded by voices.‘ Her childhood friend, Rain, is determined to untangle the gossip and rumour from the truth and subsequently find the killer.įirst lines: ‘ In my dream, everyone talks except me. ![]() The Girl in the Park, by Mariah Fredericks (217 pages) – A haunting psychological thriller about a girl – the school ‘party girl’ – whose murdered body is found in NYC’s Central Park. Circling the graveyard in strict formation, their dark beady eyes watching, relentlessly watching, their sleek black bodies buffeted by the wind.‘ Also she meets a guy.įirst lines: ‘ First came the crows. Her mother send her to live with her grandmother, who realises that Daire is, in fact, a Soul Seeker, someone who can navigate between the worlds of the living and the dead, flavoured with Native American mysticism. Daire Santos is seeing things and everything is generally pretty weird. Just to make things worse she has to pretend to not be a vampire so her new friends – a ragged band of humands seeking an end to vampirism – don’t kill her.įirst lines: ‘ They hung the Unregistered in the old warehouse district it was a public execution, so everyone went to see.‘įated : The Soul Seekers, by Alyson Noel (325 pages) – This is the first book in a series by the author of the Immortals series. Allison lives on the fringes of a vampire city, surviving as a scavenger she is turned into a vampire, so becoming what she hates the most. The Immortal Rules, by Julie Kagawa (504 pages) – It is the future (I think!) and vampires treat humans like cattle, farming them for blood. Here are some new books! Now Grimm won’t have an excuse to kill me.
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