TSHS Book Reviews

  Zoey and her friends encounter evil in an unexpected place when they learn that Kalona, the newest member of the House of Night, is hiding a deadly secret.

Zoey Redbird’s life at the House of Night prep school for fledgling vampyres gets a lot tougher when she loses all three of her boyfriends and her group of friends turns against her, which makes it all the more difficult to get anyone to listen when she discovers Neferet has declared war on humans.

Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead.

After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

  Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into “Bree” after she “shakes hands with the monster.” Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, “convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I’d want to be.” When Kristina goes home, things don’t return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over….

  Kristina Snow was a 17-year-old with high grades and a loving family. In Crank (S & S, 2004), one summer in California with a meth-addicted boyfriend destroys her life. Glass picks up a year later. She lives with her mother and works at a 7-11. Depressed about her post-baby figure…

  A great story, but a little hard to start.  Once you understand that this story is set in present day Ireland, and some of the terms become clear (like “Grada” is a title for the police that means “Officer”) it’s a bit easier to follow.  A boy goes on a quest to buy his mother some time, because she never seems to have any. There’s a lot of back story that all comes together in the end, involving legends and lore that many people don’t believe any more and somewhere in there you find out if the legends are really true or not!

  Kaitlin Burke is a teen star - tv, movies, etc. She wants to be a “normal” teen and experience high school but can’t do it as herself so she puts on a disguise.  She can’t stop being the star she is though, so her “double life” keeps tripping her up, until the inevitable disaster!