Review: Fall of Night (The Morganville Vampires #14) by Rachel Caine

Summary-

Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t the only town with vampire trouble...
Claire never thought she’d leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate program at MIT, she can’t pass up the opportunity. Saying good-bye to her friends is bittersweet, especially since things are still raw and unsettled between Claire and her boyfriend, Shane.
Her new life at MIT is scary and exciting, but Morganville is never really far from Claire’s mind. Enrolled in a special advanced study program with Professor Irene Anderson, a former Morganville native, Claire is able to work on her machine, which is designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires.
But when she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control, and Claire starts to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she’ll ever make...

 

Review-

This is Book 14 in the Morganville Vampire series. Besides this book, I've also read and reviewed Book 11, Last Breath, on this site. Both books are a solid five stars and the whole series will probably also be five stars when I get to read them all---hopefully soon! Author Rachel Caine's character and series protagonist, Claire Danvers, is a fun character to follow because trouble chases her as if she's Buffy The Vampire Slayer. And she kicks vampire tail like Buffy as well, lol. Claire leaves Morganville, it's vampire population and her best friends, Eve, Michael and her boyfriend, Shane, in order to live a somewhat normal life as a college student. Luckily for the reader, she will never be able to escape Morganville's vampires and finds herself in danger again. First from her roommate's stalker, then from vampires, and later, from a rabid group of vampire hunters. The enormous appeal of this series is that the action is brief and intense. There is a lot of fun teenage ribbing, romance, and normal teen moments. Plus, Claire is a super-smart nerd who still gets the hot boyfriend and the emo best friend. A truly inspirational message for all geek girls everywhere!

 

Publisher-New American Library

Reviewers rating: 5 STARS!!!

Reviewed by~Cindi

Thank you to the publisher for the donation of this book to the Read for your future book program in exchange for a honest review!

Review: Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam #1) by Michael Grant (Goodreads Author), Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)

Summary-

In the beginning, there was an apple—

And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker’s head clears a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother’s research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal.
Just when Eve thinks she will die—not from her injuries, but from boredom—her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.
Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect... won’t he?

 

Review-

A young adult technological novel, Eve and Adam was a highly entertaining read. The story starts very simply--Eve is hit by a streetcar, loses a leg and almost dies. Once she gets to the hospital, though, things really start to heat up. Meeting Solo, a strange young man who follows Eve's imperious mother's orders, Eve begins to question her life and the unusual events going on around her. With the well-written and well-developed characters, getting into the story was easy. Solo's story offers a bit of adventure and mystery. Eve's best friend Aislin offers a tragic and touching cast to the book. Adam, Eve's perfect man, is child-like and slightly humorous. Even Eve's rigid and unemotional mother Terra has her own hidden drama. These characters weave together to form a book that will make you question everything you ever thought about science, relationships, and how far you would go for your morals.

 

Publisher-Feiwel & Friends

Reviewer Rating: 4.5 Stars

Reviewed by~Cindi

Thank you to the Publisher for the donation of this book to the Read for your Future book program in exchange for a honest review!

Review: Deadly Crush (Deadly Trilogy #1) by Ashley Stoyanoff

Summary-

Dog Mountain is just like any other small town — peaceful and uneventful. Well, that is if peaceful means wolves howling all night, and uneventful means it’s overrun by pesky werewolves, then yes, Dog Mountain is just your average small town.
Jade Shaw has spent the last two years avoiding the pack. But when Aidan Collins moves to town, avoiding the dogs doesn’t seem possible. The pack wants him just as much as she does.
Determined to keep him out of the pack’s grasp, Jade does everything she can to gain his attention. Little does she know, Aidan is in deeper with the pack than she could have imagined, and competing for his attention is a deadly game, one she may not want to win.

 

Review-

An amazing story with awesome plot. Keeps you on edge. SO many plot twists!

 

Publisher-Ashley Stoyanoff Books

Reviewer Rating; 4.5 Stars

Reviewed by~Hailey Bowman (Student at Franklin Highschool)

Thank you to the Author for the donation of this book to the Read for your Future book program in exchange for a honest review!

Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? Since it's the NEW YEAR, a story of being Reborn, of course!!

Love Reborn:

(Dead Beautiful, Book #3)

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by Yvonne Woon

Release Date: 7 January 2014

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Renée and Dante are dying. The soul they share cannot sustain them both, and they're quickly running out of time. But Renée has in her possession a legendary chest said to contain the secret to eternal life-if only they could solve the clues that lie within it. With both the Liberum, a Brotherhood of the Undead, and a team of Monitors, led by Renée's own grandfather, in hot pursuit, Renée and Dante must keep the chest safe or risk having it fall into the wrong hands. With the help of a mysterious letter-writer called only Monsieur, Renée and Dante follow a series of clues that lead them on a treacherous journey across Europe. They seek the Netherworld, a legendary chasm where souls go to be cleansed. It's their only chance at a fresh start, but with it comes a terrible choice, one they never imagined they would be forced to make. The third novel in the acclaimed Dead Beautiful series is a haunting story of sacrifice, loyalty, and a love that can never die.    
( goodreads summary )

It's Monday! What are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

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Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

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Cindi is Reading: Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick

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Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? The follow-up to Splintered, of course!!

Unhinged:

(Splintered, Book #2)

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by A.G. Howard

Release Date: 7 January 2014

Publisher: Amulet Books

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school. That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs. Could she leave Jeb and her parents behind again, for the sake of a man she knows has manipulated her before? Will her mother and Jeb trust her to do what’s right? Readers will swoon over the satisfying return to Howard’s bold, sensual reimagining of Carroll’s classic.    
( goodreads summary )

Merry Christmas!!

A blog is only as good as it's readers. We have been fortunate to have such wonderful follower/friends who have helped us to achieve over four thousand blog followers, 222,270 page views and most importantly, innumerable books to donate to Franklin High School in Ohio. After all, that's why we are here---to promote Teen Literacy. So today, on Christmas Day, gather your children around and read a good book to them:)

Merry Christmas and 

Happy New Year!!

It's New Year's Eve!!

Life is busy, we get it. We here at RFYF have children, grandchildren, jobs, spouses and many responsibilities so we understand. As a matter of fact, I bet we are ALL running around today cooking, primping and getting ready for a FABULOUS evening tonight. Am I right? And since we are so often busy, certain important things seem to fall by the wayside---like reading a good book to ourselves, our children, or our grandchildren. It's ok, right? We can read to them later, school teaches them to read, they can read to themselves. There is always an excuse.

Well, NO EXCUSES this year. For 2014, let's all make a concerted effort to sit and read. Stop and smell the book pages. Take a moment to pick a bouquet of words. Bring a sick friend a freshly baked story. Sing along to an audiobook. There are many ways that we can work a book, a short story, a few pages into our day. The benefits are as important as drinking three glasses of water a day and taking your daily vitamin. We grow when we read. We become better, stronger people when we learn. Our brains get a workout.

So for 2014, let's promise to READ!!! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM READ FOR YOUR FUTURE!!!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

&

Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

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Cindi is Reading: Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick

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Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? The follow-up to The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, of course!!

The Book Of Love

(The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, #2)

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by Tammar Stein

Release Date: 31 December 2013

Publisher: Harper Teen

The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers has given Lucy everything she thought she wanted. Gone is the poor, innocent girl pining away for a guy who didn’t deserve her and in her place is a fierce, fabulous Heartbreaker with glamorous sisters, an unbreakable heart, and access to magic. The only problem is this: Lucy’s floppy-haired, blues-playing best friend Tristan is in pain. And she’s powerless to help him. Or is she? It’s time for the annual Heartbreaker competition — a chance for Lucy and her sisters to win The Book of Love, an ancient tome containing centuries’ worth of Heartbreaker wisdom, and maybe, just maybe, enough magic to fix Tristan’s heart for good. Lucy will do whatever it takes; if it helps her fix her friend, she knows it’s worth it. At least she thinks she knows. As Lucy goes deeper into the world of the sisterhood, she learns that even those closest to her have unimaginable secrets, and when it comes to magic, nothing comes without a price . . .     
( goodreads summary )