Off the Shelves Challenge

I finally found a challenge that is perfect for readers like me!
I will be taking part in the Off the Shelves Challenge where you set an amount of books you own and have been trying to get around to read for awhile and try to read these books within this year. I have decided to choose the challenge level - On a Roll. Hopefully I will be able to read this many!
Check it out! Info on the sidebar!

The Alchemyst by Micheal Scott

The Alchemyst By Michael Scott
Published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers in 2007
Pages 375
Themes/Subjects: Magic, Immortality, Prophecies, Evil vs. Good

When I picked up this book I thought it would be terrible. Not just because I had to read it for a reading competition but also because it didn't seem like it would have a good plot. But boy I was wrong! The main characters in the book, Josh and Sophie, are twins working at a bookshop and coffee shop. Little did they know that they would be thrown into a world of magic. The owner of the bookshop, Nick Fleming and his wife Perry turn out to be immortal and really Nicholas Flamel and Perrenelle Flamel, two of some of the most powerful magic users in the world. Nicholas is the best Alchemyst in the world but when the book of codex (which holds all of these important spells in them) is stolen, except for the two most important pages, he must save the twins who are confused why they are being put in the middle of it. Little do Josh and Sophie know that they are a big part of the prophecy that says if the world is going to end.
This book was amazing! The only part that I do not like in the book is that you don't get any background info on the main characters. But after the first hundred pages or so I got sucked into the plot. The descriptions were very clear and you saw everyones point of view which made it even more interesting!

4/5 stars

Sorry!

im so sorry that i havent been on since last year! ive been busy because of graduation and all these projects! will be putting up more blog posts soon!

Review For Jessicas Guide To Dating On The Darkside

Jessicas Guide For Dating On The Darkside
By Beth Fantaskey
Published By Graphia In 2009
Pages 372
Subjects/Themes:Vampires, Romance, Family, Royalty

This book was about Jessica Packwood (a.k.a Antanasia) who starts her Senior year off by being followed by Lucius Vladescu who tells her and her parents that he is Jessicas betrothed and that she is a vampire princess. Her parents let him live in the house and during that whole time she is trying to wrap her head around the fact that shes a vampire and tries to think of a logical explanation about all the weird things that are happening. The whole book is a journey for her to except her true self.
I have to say this book was very good and had lots of drama that kept you going. But at the end it got very boring with politics in the vampire world.

4/5 Stars

Review For Goddess Of Yesturday

Goddess Of Yesturday
By Caroline B Cooney
Published By Random House Books For Young Readers
Pages 254
Themes/ Subjects: Fake Identity, Gods, Greek, Treason

First Line:" I was six years old when King Nicander came to the island of my birth, demanding tribute and hostage."

This novel is about Anaxandra who is taken from her birth island when she is 6 by the King Nicander who takes her to the island Siphnos to accompany his daughter Callisto who is not able to walk. There she shes new things and is taken in as a hostage daughter. The Kings family, which includes queen Petra his wife, don't see her as a simple peasent. They see her as a daughter and think of her marked by her goddess of yesturday, whom they worshiped back on her old island. But as six years pass their island was sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Callisto burned to death, Nicander stabbed in the back, and Petra is taken as a slave as soon as she was forced to walk on her husbands body. Anaxandra scares off the pirates by taking an octapus on her head and impersonated Medusa (who is really said to have an octapus and not snakes on her head). When King Menelaus comes to the island seeing the smoke from the buildings, Anaxandra takes the identity of Callisto and is taken to Sparta where Menelaus rules. But his wife Helen does not believe that she is Callisto. Than Paris of Troy comes to Sparta to get a blood debt from killing a baby and he seduces Helen. He takes Helen to Troy to marry, which is treason. Anaxandra is forced to go with in Helens daughters Hermoine since everyone knew she would be killed. There she falls in love and has to fight for her life.
This was one of my favorite adventure books so far and I could not put it down. It had very interesting facts and many battles.
4/5 Stars

Review For Wicked: Witch & Curse

Wicked: Witch & Curse
By Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
Published By Simon Pulse In 2006
Pages 627
Themes/ Subjects: Witches, Past Generation, Revenge, Covens
First Line: "Oh Great."
These two books combined are about two rival witch covens that have a long, old history: The Cahors and the Deveraux. 17-year oldHolly Cathers was in Arizona for a vacation and they were rafting in the Grand Canyon when there was a huge storm and all of the people including her parents, best friend, and tour guide. She was the only survivor. She goes to live with her best friends mom but she is severly hurt and no one knows why she won't get better. So she goes to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire Cathers-Anderson, her uncle Richard, and two 17-year old cousins Amanda and Nicole who Holly didn't know existed until her parents died. While there in Seattle she gets a deaf, completely white, blue-eyed cat named Bast, after a goddess. Whenever Holly tells her a wish it comes true. Then she meets Jer Deveraux, whom she didn't know was her families enemy, and she falls in love with him even though they are not able to associate with each other. Throughout the rest of this book Michael, Jer's father, tries to kill the rest of the Cathers family. This trails on into the next book where Holly and her cousin Amanda start there own coven and practice their wizardry. They battle the Deveraux etc. etc.
The rest of the book drags on and it made me really bored with it.
2/5 Stars

Review For Heart On My Sleeve

Heart On My Sleeve
By Ellen Wittlinger
Published by Simon Pulse in 2004
Pages 214
Themes/Subjects: E-mails, Relationships, Family, Love

First Line" Hey Julian!"

The main character Chloe goes to Connecticut for a weekend to check out a college and she meets a guy Julian. They get to know each other in many "ways". When Chloe leaves she starts emailing Julian and thinks that maybe she should break-up with her boyfriend Eli who is also her best friend. Chloe launches herself into a world of e-mails and IM-ing. She can't wait until Julian comes to Boston and while shes waiting the whole summer for it to happen her sister comes out of the closet, she goes to volunteer at the camp which is her second home and meets ANOTHER guy that she thinks is a jerk but then starts to really like in the end. Her whole summer is full of drama, big crushes and learning to accept the new.
Overall this book was very drawn out and sometimes you got bored with the long messages and you just skip over those parts. There were some very good parts to it but at the end you just think "Well that wasn't worth the time" This wasn't the worst but not the best
3/5 Stars