Review: Sweet Venom by Terra Lynn Childs

Sweet Venom

Author: Terra Lynn Childs

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, 2011

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
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Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it’s also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just like her shows up to fight the monster.

Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.

Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.

These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.

Musing Mondays (7) & It's Monday! (2)

 Musing Mondays is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

 This week’s musing is…
 

What does it take for you to give up on a book you're reading?

Well up until this year I had never given up on a book I chose to read. Ofcourse we all gave up once or twice while reading books the teacher assigned us. But no, I'm talking here about a book I picked up because I wanted to and was pretty excited to read it. So this year I've given up on three books and I think it has a lot to do with the prose. If it's not flowing then I'm not sticking around for the bumpy ride! The book can make no sense, might be cliched, the characters might be a bore, but I'll finish it just to see how the book ends IF and only IF the prose is good. 

It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey. Each week we share the books we have just finished reading, are currently reading, and are planning to read.

Just Finished Reading:

Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett

Currently Reading:

Kiss of Night by Debbie Viguié

Planning To Read:

  My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent

Review: All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevim

All These Things I’ve Done

Author: Gabrielle Zevim

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

Genre: YA Dystopia
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In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.