Troubled teen Nick is a suspect of a murder of a young woman that lived a couple blocks from his house. Being part of a the Search and Rescue team and having dreams about one day becoming a war veteran , some people label Nick as obsessed with violence. His two friends from the Search and Rescue team who are girls try to clear his name for justice’s sake.
The mystery was so fun and it really showed how our justice system works and how troubled young people could just fall through the cracks. But part of the plot does not kick in until less than half way through the book.
Tiffany rates this book 4.8/5 Stars
Last Sacrifice is the last book of the award winning series Vampire Academy . This fictional book revolves around good mortal vampires, called Moroi and immortal blood thirsty vampires called Strigoi. The main character, Rose, a dhampir who is a cross between Moroi and human, has been wrongfully accused of murdering the royal king. Rose’s friends and father, Abe Mazur help her break out of prison so that she can track down the real killer behind the death. Rose’s best friend, Lisa, with whom she has a psychic bond, tries to distract the court by running for Queen as one of the youngest Moroi to ever do so. In the course of the book, Rose finds out that Lisa has a sibling, who is illegitimate and also that their Strigoi teacher has been turned back to Moroi. In the end, with the help of Sydney and Dimitri, Rose reveals the murderer who caused the Queen’s death. However, she also finally makes a choice between the two men she loves, and this causes a rift between her and one of them.
What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.
This novel is a great story, one full of excitement, perseverance, and wit. The main character, the country’s best assassin, who is wanted for a King’s Champion, is put in a competition against others. She uses her wit and strategy, as well as some help from others, to fight her way towards freedom from the salt mines she had slaved in. When an evil source enters the palace, the assassin must fight against it to protect herself and the country’s throne of glass.
Sonya Petrova is an Auraseer, one with the power to sense the emotions of others, living in the Tsarist Russia-based fantasy country of Riaznin. After a terrible tragedy, she is made the Sovereign Auraseer whose job is to serve the emperor and protect him from those who wish him harm. Slowly, however, she is caught in the feud between Emperor Valko and his brother, Anton, just as the sparks of rebellion stir in the empire.
Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies. Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under—and to her own power. As Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them both—unless she can find a way to break all the rules.
A fabulous take on a classic story, The Forbidden Wish is a breathtaking read, with magic and mystery, heartbreak and hatred, deception and desire. Based on the original Aladdin tale, this book weaves a different version- one where a beautiful jinni named Zahra is fated to serve the masters of the lamp. But, the last time she was free, destruction rained down around her, when she dared to love. When Zahra finds herself trapped in the same web again, what will she do to save the one she loves, and free herself of her chains?
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