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Man-Eating Monsters and Secrets: A Review of SOULBOUND by Heather Brewer

SoulboundHeather Brewer306 pagesPublisher: Dial/ PenguinRelease Date: June 19th, 2012Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LIKED Tril is a world where Barrons and Healers are Bound to each other: Barrons fight and Healers cure their Barrons’ wounds in the ongoing war with the evil Graplar King. Seventeen-year-old Kaya was born a Healer, but she wants to fight. In…

Ghosts and Adventure: A Review of The Mapmaker and the Ghost

The Mapmaker and the GhostSarvenaz Tash256 pagesPublisher: Walker ChildrensRelease Date: April 24th, 2012Source: ARC from ALARating: LOVED Goldenrod Moram loves nothing better than a good quest. Intrepid, curious, and full of a well-honed sense of adventure, she decides to start her own exploring team fashioned after her idols, the explorers Lewis and Clark, and to…

Love and Chocolate: A Review of The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfor

The Sweetest SpellSuzanne Selfors416 pagesPublisher: Walker & CompanyRelease Date: August 21st, 2012Source: ARC from ALARating: LOVED Emmeline Thistle has always had a mysterious bond with cows, beginning on the night of her birth, when the local bovines saved the infant cast aside to die in the forest. But Emmeline was unaware that this bond has…