The Dargonesti by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya Cook Book Review

It takes place of the coast of the mainland.  Princess Vixa is waiting on board a ship to pick up refugees from a war.  While waiting they get caught in a weird fog and end up in the middle of the ocean with no idea how they got there.  They run aground on an island and Vixa and some of the crew go explore the island to see if there is anyone living there.  They run into two people on the island who run away from them into what looks like a cave.  Vixa and her team go into the cave and find out that the cave is not what they thought it was.  It turns out they are inside a Kraken and that it is taking them deep into the ocean.  They arrive to an underwater kingdom of a race that Vixa thought had long since died off.  While there she meets a few prisoners that had been taken by the Kraken and now serve the queen as builders.  Vixa soon learns that the queen is planning to attack the kingdoms on the surface to become the ruler of all of the elf races.  Vixa befriends some elves that can change into dolphins to help her and some of the prisoners escape.  While escaping she in turn is turned into a dolphin to help the prisoners escape.  At the surface she is able to warn the surface kingdoms of what is going to happen and they prepare for war.  The war comes and Vixa and the surface kingdoms win.  But Vixa feels this pull month later to be in the sea and with one of the sea elves that helped her.  So she ends up returning to him.
    I really liked this book.  I liked that it had action going through out the book and that it was nonstop suspense.  I could not put this book down until I was done with it.  If there are anyone that likes fantasy books this is a must read.

Hell is coming by N.P. Martin book review

This follows a girl named Leia who has been seeing demons all her life.  It started the night a demon came to her house when she was little and kidnapped her mother and killed her father.  Now a teenager Leia is still seeing demons but does not tell anyone.  One night she comes home and finds her brother missing and the woman that took care of her murdered.  Along the way Leia finds out that she has and uncle.  Under the guidance of her uncle.  She works to save her brother and ultimately finds out that she must save the earth from hell on Earth.

Beyond the Highlands by Troy Dennie book review

     This book is the second book in a series following a princess named Tanalasta.  She is next in line for the crown and has not chosen a husband yet.  Word comes that no one can get in contact with her sister, Alusair.  Tanalasta and a group of Dragoneer warrior and war mages head out to save her sister.  She learns along the way that there are phantoms called gnarzeths.  They are the demonic souls of the kingdoms worst rulers.  There is a legend that says 5 will come back, 1 already live, and 1 soon to be born to release hell on the land.  The ruling king leave to get the sacred sword to stop it from happening while Tanalasta and her sister go to help another troop at the gnarzeths den.
    If you are a huge D&D fan you will love this book.  It has everything in it that you would see in a normal D&D campaign.  Like you will read that the magic users in the book can only use certain spells only so many times a day.  I really liked this book and will enjoy reading others.

Reiki: A Reiki Guide To Access The Self-Healing Powers Of Reiki (Written For Reiki Beginners) book review

This book explains what Reiki is and how to master it.  It gives a great overview of it without going too much in-depth.  It is a great beginning book for someone who is interested and is just looking for a get your feet wet book on what to do.

In the Blood (Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery) by Steve Robinson

Jefferson Tayte is a genealogist who is hired by a wealthy family to find out if they are related to a family England who are very powerful.  Jefferson goes to England and finds out there is more to the family history than he bargained for.  He meets up with a woman named Amy and finds out that her husband died by finding something in the house that could destroy the family in England.  It opens up up a dark secret that the England family has been hiding for years.

Redemption by Heather Gray Book Review

     This tells the story of Minnie Drake who is a suspect in the murder of her husband William Drake.  She move back home to the small town of Larkspur.  There she meets up with an old friend Arty Paulson.  While there Arty tries to figure out who really killed Minnie's husband.  While investigating two men show up in the town and are following Minnie and her family.  Both men are arrested and it is found out one is actually a detective from the city that Minnie and her dead husband were living in.  Both find out from the other man that Arty's deputy was in on the plot to harm Minnie and the men take off to check on Minnie.  They arrive at Minnie's house and found out that she had been kidnapped.  They chase down the deputy and save Minnie.  Months after the incident Arty asks Minnie to be his wife and she accepts.
    I really liked this story.  It was a real page turner.  I had to keep reading it until the very end.

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews book review

     The story takes place after the events of Flowers in the Attic.  Christopher, Cathy, and Carrie are on a bus heading toward Florida; when Carrie starts getting sick on the bus that upsets some of the passengers.  One of the passengers is a maid to a doctor and takes the children to the doctor that she is employed by.  The doctor takes them in and sends them to school.  Christopher ends up becoming a doctor just like he wanted too.  Cathy becomes a ballerina and becomes somewhat famous.  Cathy was going to marry the doctor but the doctor's sister interferes and Cathy's ends up marrying her dancing partner Julian.  Julian then becomes violent with Cathy and eventually Cathy becomes pregnant.  But before Cathy could tell Julian about it; Julian gets into a nasty car accident and ends up paralyzed.  While in the hospital Julian commits suicide after Cathy tells him she is pregnant.  Cathy give birth to a son and names him Jory.  She ends up moving back to the town that the nightmare began for Cathy and her siblings.  While there she meets up with her mother, Corrine's, new husband, Bartholomew Winslow.  She seduces him and too ends up pregnant by him also.  Also her sister Carrie feels that she won't amount to anything and kills herself the way her mother killed her twin brother.  She then decides to crash a party her mother is hosting and reveals that she is Corrine's daughter and that Corrine had three other children also and that one was killed by Corrine.  When Christopher arrives is when Corrine confesses to everything.  Then Foxworth hall catches fire and everyone is scrambling to get out.  Once outside Corrine screams that her mother is still inside the house and Bart runs back in to save her.  Bart ends up dying in the fire with the grandmother and Corrine is put in a straight jacket and taken to a hospital.  Flash forward a few year and Cathy has married the doctor.  She has moved back in with him and is raising her two sons now with him.
     I loved how this book was written.  I'm glad that the author kept it on Cathy's point of view the whole time.  I really liked seeing how the characters developed after getting out of the prison that they had been in for three years.  I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series.

Want by Magus Tor book review

     This tells the story of seventeen year old Aurelia who just graduated from school and is heading to Lunar City on the Moon.  This takes place after World War 3 and there is a new world order from a group called the Elitists.  Aurelia has just graduated from school and is a med worker.  She graduated at top of her class.  While at the shuttle station she meets a Clone named Nicholas who is also on his way to Lunar City.  While on the way there the ship is attacked by a group called the Resistance.  It turns out that the group was after Jonathon Hanson who is up to be the next president of the order.  Aurelia, Nicholas, and Jonathon race against time to stop whoever it is by stopping them from the goal of killing Jonathon.
     I liked how this was written.  The characters were well developed and written very well.  I could not stop reading this until the very end.

Flowers in the attic by V.C. Andrews book review

     This tells the story of 4 siblings name Christopher, Cathy, Carrie, and Cory who lives are changed when their father dies in a car accident.  Their mother Corrine then writes to her parents for help.  Corrine gets a letter from her mother saying that Corrine and the children can come and live at her parents house.   They leave in the middle of the night and arrive at Foxworth Hall that Corrine's parents own.  The siblings find out that their mother came from a very wealthy family.  The children don't understand why Corrine and her parents have not talked for so long.  The grandmother meets them and takes them up to a bedroom that is connected to the huge attic of the house.  The children find out that they are going to have to stay in this room until their grandfather dies and that their mother is written back into the will.  The months turn into years and the children find out that over the years their mother remarried without telling them.  Then the children start getting sick and can't figure out why.  Cory gets so sick that the children beg their mother to take him to the hospital.  THe mother comes back and tells the children the next day that Cory has passed away and was buried under another name.  The other 3 then start planning an escape when they realize that they are never going to leave the room.  The older child Christopher then makes a copy of the key to get out of the room to steal stuff to sell for money for the children to survive out on the streets.  While Christopher is out stealing items, he finds out that their mother had been poisoning them with arsenic and advises that they have to leave the next morning early.  They end up escaping and getting on a train heading toward North Carolina.
     I really liked how this book was written.  I like that it was written in the point of view of the middle child Cathy.  The characters are really well written and I could almost picture myself being Cathy and going through what she was going through.

Family Storm by V.C. Andrews review

     Family Storm tells the story of Sasha Porter and how she came to be in the home of a wealthy family the Marches.  In the beginning we find out that Sasha's father left her mother and her with no money to survive.  Sasha's mother tries to get work but her alcoholism gets in the way and losses every job she gets.  They end up being homeless and living on the street.  They survive by the mother selling calligraphy and Sasha making key chains.  On a stormy day, Sasha and her mother are heading toward the beach and are crossing a cross walk.  When a speeding car hit both Sasha and her mother.  Sasha blacks out and wakes up in the hospital and finds out that her mother died in the accident.  Not know what to do Sasha lays in the hospital bed in shock.  A couple days later Mrs. March comes to the hospital and tells Sasha that she id going to live with them.  When asked why Mrs March tells Sasha that her daughter Kiera was driving the car that hit Sasha and her mother while high on drugs.  Sasha agrees to live with the Marches and it causes a lot of tension in the house.  Especially with Kiera.  Kiera goes to court and has to go to therapy by court order, which Kiera is not too happy about.  Sasha finds out just by watching Kiera that Kiera is a master manipulator especially with Mr March.  After a while Kiera starts becoming nice to Sasha and Sasha thinks that they are now going to be friends.  It turns out that Kiera set up Sasha to be raped and get labeled a bad seed so that Sasha would be kicked out of the house.  Then Kiera almost dies from a drug overdose and the friends that had help Kiera get Sasha in trouble confess to their parts in the scheme and Sasha ends up staying with the Marches.
     I really liked how this book was written and how the characters interact with each other.  I loved that you can almost fell the emotion of what Sasha is going through.  I will admit the part where she felt betrayed by Kiera had me literally crying for her because how it was written you could feel Sasha's pain and feeling of betrayal.  I also liked seeing how Sasha's character evolves into herself even though it looks like through out the book Mrs March is trying to turn her into their dead daughter Alena.  I give this book 5 stars just by how moving and keeping the reader engaged until the very end.

H.A.L.F.: The Deep Beneath review

Three teenagers in the desert find out about a secret government program that has been making alien human hybrids since the Roswell crash.  They end up getting captured and taken to the facility.  While there they find out why the hybrids were created and that from the hybrid that they helped the aliens are coming back for the hybrid.
    I thought this book was really suspenseful and I could not put down my tablet while I was reading it.

Second take review

     Vera is a nineteen year old girl full of dreams of being an actress. She leaves her village to go to Moscow to go to an acting school and even got a role in a movie. She is on her way back to Moscow from a visit to her home when she is drugged and sold as a slave in her country. She is able to escape and get back but her life has completely changed her life.
     I found this story really well written and I could feel for the main character. 

Dork Diaries vol. 1 review

     Dork Diaries volume 1 tells the story from the point of view of the main character Nikki Maxwell.  It starts with Nikki wanting a new phone and getting a diary instead.  The reader realizes that the story is actually Nikki writing in said diary.  Nikki writes about the events happening after she transfers to a new school because of her fathers job.  She has a girl named Mackenzie who is the most popular girl in school and is making Nikki's stay at the new school not fun.  Nikki and Mackenzie both enter the art contest and at the end Nikki wins.  Nikki along the way make friends with Zoey and Chloe and also makes friends with her crush Brandon.
     I find this book great for young girls who liked the Wimpy Kid books but want one from a girl point of view.   I really liked how this book was written and am looking forward to reading more from the series.

HOA Wire review

     HOA Wire is about the murder of the HOA president of the community of Orange Grove, California.  Barbara Densmore is the President of the Orange Grove Homeowners Association and is murdered from Ricin.   Detectives find a cellophane wrapper with traces of Ricin on it in the garbage of Nancy Haskins.  Through out the book we see the trial process of the murder trial.  The trial portion was written in great detail and that there is a twist at the end of the book.
    I really liked this book and I really liked how the trial parts were written in so much detail.  I liked how it showed how the defense and prosecution work during murder trials and how they present their evidence.

The Clue of the Black Key Review

    As you may know by now I'm a huge Nancy Drew fan.  I think these books are great for girls and boys that love mystery books that has a strong female character.  The series has been around for a long time and books are still being published all the time.
     In the clue of the black keys Nancy just arrived home from trip to New York.   Upon leaving the airport Nancy notices and altercation between two men.  One of the men Terry Scott advises Nancy that the man he was arguing with stole a tablet and kidnapped a fellow professor in Mexico.  Terry then tells Nancy about a legend of a treasure and that he and the other professor were looking for it.  Nancy interested now offers to help find the missing professor.
     I like how this was written and that there was suspense until the very end. I really like this series and I think anyone who loves mysteries will like this series too.

My Sister The Vampire:Re-Vamped Review

     This is the second book in the My Sister the Vampire series.  It picks up where the first book left off where Olivia and Ivy find out that they are twin sisters.   The beginning of the book is when Olivia tells her family that Ivy is actually her twin sister.  Olivia's family actually take it pretty well.  On the other hand when Ivy tells her father about Olivia he does not seem that pleased that Ivy has found her sister.  The girls school paper finds out about them and publishes a story about them and they become overnight stars at their school.  After that a popular vampire magazine comes over to Ivy's house and they have a photo shoot with a famous journalist and photographer with the magazine.  The girls are excited when the magazine comes out and the girls each get a copy.  Ivy also meets her boyfriend Brandon's father who is a scientist and seems very interested in the girls because one is a vampire and the other is human.  The girls also find out about an agency called the ASHH which monitors if vampires try to have children with humans.  The girl break into the ASHH office to find anything about their birth parents.  After the break in the council finds out that Olivia knows that vampires exist and put Olivia through some tests in order for Olivia to be able to remember Ivy.   Olivia passes all of the tests and is able to keep her memories.  Olivia also signs a contract stating that she is to never tell anyone of the existence of them.  They also find out something about Ivy's dad, but I don't want to ruin it for everyone.
     I'm really enjoying this series and if anyone that has twin daughters or family members who are twins will enjoy this series too.  I love how the book is written and that you can really feel the emotions of the characters.  I like how the twins are identical but have completely different personalities.  Like I said this is a great series.