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CLICK HERE TO READ AN UPDATED VERSION TO THIS REVIEW!  Deerskin by  Robin McKinley Standalone Source:  gifted paperback Publisher:  Ace Publication Date: July 1, 1994 Age Genre: Adult As Princess Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her breathtaking beauty she is the mirror image of her mother, the queen. But this seeming blessing forces her to flee for safety from her father's wrath. With her loyal dog Ash at her side, Lissar unlocks a door to a world of magic, where she finds the key to her survival - and an adventure beyond her wildest dreams... Surprisingly, considering this was a birthday present and I have never heard of this book before, I really liked this book , and recommend you read it if you're looking for something different than you're used to, because this book is different than most everything I read before. Deerskin is written in a matter which includes very few dialogues. Most of the story is told through a storyteller, ...

The Body Finder by  Kimberly Derting Series:   The Body Finder #1 Source:  Kindle copy Publisher:  HarperCollins Publication Date: March 16, 2010 Age Genre: YA Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers. Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him. Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Vi...

This question is brought on by the publication of E.L James's Grey . When Grey came out a short while ago (or at least, it was a short while ago when I drafted this) , the internet raged. How dare E.L James try to milk this cow any farther? How dare she attempt to make readers sympathize with Christian? Etc etc..  (Not disagreeing/agreeing, I'm steering clear of this argument as I've never read any of the books) And... Grey became a best-seller almost overnight. Not necessarily surprising, that. The surprising part is that people who absolutely detested the first three books or people who knew without a doubt that they were going to hate this book.... bought Grey. Just so they could... hate on it? assure themselves it was really as bad as they thought it was and they were not missing anything? not entirely sure about the logistics... But that got me thinking... do you ever read books you know you're going to hate?  Do you waste money or time on something yo...

UPDATED VERSION OF THIS REVIEW CAN BE FOUND HERE Doing It For Love by Cassie Mae Series:   All About Love #1 Source:  E-Arc from Netgalley Publisher:  Loveswept Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015 Age Genre: New Adult Elizabeth Fanning’s life looks pretty perfect, judging by the diamond ring on her finger. Her fiancé, Landon, is sweet, handsome, and hilarious. The trouble is, before they’ve even tied the knot, their sex life has gone from mind-blowing to “meh”—and Liz isn’t ready to be part of an old married couple. After a cathartic call to her best friend, Liz comes up with a brilliant idea. She and Landon may never be able to re-create the magic of their first time, but how amazing would their wedding night be if everything below the neck was off-limits until then? Liz thinks it’ll bring them closer together. Landon’s convinced she’ll cave first. So they raise the stakes: Whoever lasts longer gets to pick their honeymoon destination. With her heart set on the Bahamas and L...

Moon Dance by J.R. Rain Series:   Vampire for Hire #1 Source:  Free Kindle book Publisher:  Self Published Publication Date:  August 10th 2009 Age Genre: Adult Mother, wife, private investigator...vampire. Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now the world at large thinks Samantha has developed a rare skin disease, a disease which forces her to quit her day job and stay out of the light of the sun. Now working the night shift as a private investigator, Samantha is hired by Kingsley Fulcrum to investigate the murder attempt on his life, a horrific scene captured on TV and seen around the country. But as the case unfolds, Samantha discovers Kingsley isn't exactly what he appears to be; after all, there is a reason why he survived five shots to the head. T...

So as you guys know, I wasn't always part of The Book Babe's Reads. I had my own personal blog before - which now lies abandoned... alongside all my old reviews. But because I feel like some of them don't deserve such an awful treatment, I'm going to slowly move my favorite reviews here! (though some editing may occur, as I'm a little OCD about my reviews, and the older they originally are, the more likely I am to have things I want to rephrase).  Dark Lover by J.R Ward Series:   Black Dagger Brotherhood #1 Source:  borrowed from library Age Genre:  Adult Original Review: April 12, 2013 In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to ...

Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley Series: Not announced Source: Bought Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: April 28, 2015 Aza Ray is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name. Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia. Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers...

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Series:   The Raven Cycle #3 Source:  Bought signed Hardcover Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: October 21st 2014 Age Genre: Young Adult There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear. Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel. "...But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were  all  in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment eithe...