White is for Magic by Laurie Faria Stolarz

"I'm watching you..."

A year has passed since Stacey Brown saved her best friend from a horrible death. Now she's having nightmares again, haunted by ghosts of the brutally murdered...and by a crazed stalker. As she desperately casts healing spells, a new student named Jacob enters her world. Beautiful and mysterious, he reveals that he is also having dreams. To stop a killer, they must join together. But can Jacob be trusted? Or will this new love cause her darkest dreams to come true?

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==I didn't like this book. With having to pee like a million times reading "Blue...", can you imagine how I felt reading this? Puke....piss...what's next....crapping her pants? Boogers? Violent attacks of period? Gross, right? Exactly my point.

I thought Drea was scandolous with Chad. Stacey even lets her off the hook. Even Chad. Like it's no big deal. I guess when you have your sights on someone new, you really don't care.

I really thought this whole story was lame. I don't even want to talk about it. I'm returning the rest in the series without even reading them.==
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Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Stolarz

"I Know Your Secret..."

Stacey Brown has lots of secrets--her crush on her best friend Drea's boyfriend, the spells she casts, and the nightmares that come true. Now she's dreaming about Drea and a psycho stalker. Saving Drea will take all the magic and courage Stacey's got. And everyone's secrets will have to come out.

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==I didn't care for all the peeing and nightmares. I figured now I'd have nightmares and pee the bed. I wish they put more into the actual going to school and set up a better background than just the crap the lunch lady was serving that day or extras details about her room that you could almost smell the piss yourself. Yuck...

Anyways, I don't think that whole explanation about Veronica really held up. The police were lame as well. But you can see how the author has potential in this first book of the series. She does tell a good stalker mystery. Having just read her other two books, that is her strongest talent. She makes you suspect almost everyone in the book before you get to the true monster.==
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Deadly Little Lies (Touch #2) by Laurie Stolarz

LAST FALL, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, the mysterious new boy at school who turned out to have a very mysterious gift--phychometry, the ability to sense the future through touch. But just as Camelia and Ben's romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. Brokenhearted, Camelia has spent the last few months studying everything she can about psychometry, and experienceing her own strange brushes with premonition. Camelia wonders if Ben's abilities have somehow rubbed off on her. Can the power of psychometry be transferred?

Even one Ben returns to school, Camelia can't get close enough to share her secret with him. Despite the romantic tension between them, Ben raims aloof, avoiding contact. Then, when a series of eerie warnings echoes the threats last semester--and Ben just withdraws further--Camelia makes the painful decision to let him go, and move on. Adam, the new guy at her after-school job, seems good for her in ways Ben wasn't. Adam is easygoing, and really seems to care about her.

But when Camelia and Adam start dating, a suprising love triangle results. A chilling sequence of events turns up secrets from Ben's past--and Adam's. Someone is lying, and it's up to Camelia to figure out who--before it's too late.

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==With everything happening again, it's almost a repeat of the first book. You could almost predict it. Camelia really has some guts to be going around her house looking for the scary person. Just get out of the house already...

Anyways, I liked the story. Can see where it will turn into another book. They really need to dive in more into the Aunt's story now. Hope it is just as good.==

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Deadly Little Secret (Touch #1) by Laurie Stolarz

SOME SECRETS SHOULDN'T BE KEPT...

Until three months ago, sicteen-year-old Camelia's life had been fairly ordinary. Then a mysterious boy names Ben started junior year at her school and changed everything.

Rumored to be somehow responsible for his ex-girlfriend's accidental death, Ben is immediately ostracized by everyone on campus, except for Camelia. Despite the rumors, she's inexplicably drawn to him...and to his touch. But soon, Camelia is receiving errie phone calls and strange packages, with threatening notes. Ben insists she's in danger, and that he wants to help--but can he be trusted? She knows he's hiding something...but he's not the only one with a secret.

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==I really liked this book. I finished it quickly as the story flowed easily. I liked the suspense and how it gave you more than one character to suspect.

Even though it did give some pop culture stuff, it wasn't forced. It was smoothly enbedded into the story. Yes...I need a much needed break of the House of Night and this book was perfect.==
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Untamed (House of Night #4) by P.C. Cast

LIFE SUCKS WHEN YOUR FRIENDS ARE PISSED AT YOU.

Just ask Zoey Redbird--she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, of the two Zoey has left, one is undead and one us unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened...

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==I overcame them. I just started to skim through the paragraphs when I realized the author was going down those roads I hate. I was surprised in a good way to see the charity being done by Catholic Nuns. Because the author's anti-Bible Beaters campaign was bordering prejudice itself. That's probably what the author's figured out. I think the author thinks she is doing something for the greater good to displease the idea of dark eyeliner, smoking pot and teenage drinking, to what she considers being a "ho"...

Anyways, I thought Erik should of given Zoey more grief. I liked the new character of Shekinah. Don't like the fact that all the red fledglings all of a sudden got better because of pizza and blood from the blood bank. I liked the Heath confrontation. Finally the author gave the characters something to really work on besides boyfriends and witch stuff with this bad Angel. Now she can produce another 6 books to drag that out. Did anyone notice how it is book 4 and it still is only 2 1/2 months in. Do we really have to know what she does day to each day?

Btw...Nuns never wear a Rosary around their necks==

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Chosen (House of Night #3) by P.C. Cast

BLOODLUST AND DARK FORCES ARE AT WORK AT THE HOUSE OF NIGHT.

and fledging vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And, oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the grippin third installment of this "highly addictive series" in which Zoey's mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare, Zoey finds herselk in the very rare position of having three boyfriends, a situation with the potential to spell social disaster. Then vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. But as Zoey and her friends find out, things are not always what they seem...

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==I had a hard time starting this book. What I hated so much about the book before was magnified. The long explanations....the pop culture references. I wanted to cry and contemplated whether to just abandon this series after all.

But pushing past all that, what was the deal with dry humping in the park? Then she killed two guys and we never hear anything about it again?

I'm kinda glad she got burned with the whole boyfriend thing. And if she Imprinted with Loren and then he got killed, wouldn't Zoey have felt something? Heath felt everything...I don't know.
And did I read something about "Ink Exchange" being her other favorite vampire book? Did I read that right? "Ink Exchange" is a faery book (my fav in that series).....sad face==
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Betrayed (House of Night #2) by P.C. Cast

Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has manages to settle in at the House of Night finishing school. She finally feels like she belongs, even gets chosen as the Leader of the Dark DAughters. Best of all, she actually has a boyfriend...or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenages are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. Betrayed, the second book in the House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.

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==Again, too many pop culture references. Too many long drawn out flashbacks. I'm sure the readers of her books arn't idiots. They can remember a little more than 2 seconds so the author didn't have to beat a dead horse repeating over and over in the book the same background information. Enough already.

You start to think, ok, there are two authors...which one is the adult trying to be young and which is the horny bitch? C'mon...does teen readers have to hear about bulges and visulaizing the character's boyfriend masterbating? Stick to romance novels if you want to push sex.

What's the deal with all the anti-drug propaganda?

Just when the book was at the climax, they stretch out the outcome and then just end it promising to deal with it later. Yeah right...do I hear the mighty dollar?

I guess I'm still waiting for it to get better...

Oh yeah...and why didn't Zoey just go to the prof. in the stables for help? What's with that? Why did they have to make Neferet be the bad guy? Really? ==
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Marked (House of Night #1) by P.C. Cast

ENTER THE DARK, MAGICAL WORLD OF THE HOUSE OF NIGHT

a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it though the Change--and not all of those who are Marked do. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosen as soecial by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powersm but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortuante ability to Imprint her human ex-boyfriend. To add to her stress, she is not the only gledging at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herselkf for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampyre friends.

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==The author tries too hard to act young. I thought it was just me, that I found it annoying. Just because an author can throw in some of the latest Gossip Rag headlines, doesn't make teens relate immediately to the author. Big Deal.

I did find the book flow easily, if you could skip over some of the boring parts like the pop culture references or the extended flashbacks to previous parts of the story.

It is a little disturbing how they are trying to evolve Wicca and Cherokee rituals into the vampires. Oh well, I guess they needed something to entertain the readers and try to show off.

Yeah...I'll read the rest. I don't like to stop with the characters unless the book is truely horrid, which this isn't.==
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Give Up The Ghost by Megan Crewe

Cass McKenna much prefers ghosts over "breathers". Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable. They know the dirt on everybody...and Cass loves dirt. She's on a mission to expose the dirty secrets of the poseurs in her school

But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass's whole scheme hangs int he balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.

As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim's like, she's surprised to realize he's not so bad--and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it's time to give the living another chance...

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==Sometimes it is nice when a book can stand alone on its own. Nothing to stretch out the story into another for the sake of another dollar earned. This book was entertaining and nicely wrapped up in the end.

I'm not saying this book was the greatest. At first with the gossip and all that, it made you feel that she was right to go and try to protect people. But when she was trying to go after her old best friend, she just seemed petty and stupid. We never learned either what Bitsy was going to tell her and then we never heard from that ghost again.

She was a fool to miss all the chances she had with Tim. Esp. when he came to see her and was all upset in school. She even had him walk home drunk after trying to kill himself and she was fine with this? Anyways...I'm glad it was wrapped up at the end.==

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