Buy Dark Eden by Patrick Carman Special: $11.49 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on January 12, 2011 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Imagine what Adam and Eve saw when they opened their eyes in the Garden of Eden. Now imagine the exact opposite, and you might have some [...]

Buy The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Special: $12.74 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on Sept 13, 2011 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars When Mara Dyer wakes up in a hospital room, she has no idea how she got there. She can explain neither how her friends and boyfriend [...]

Buy Fury Special: $13.49 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Simon Pulse Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on August 20, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Sometimes sorry isn’t enough. It’s the winter holiday break in Ascension, Maine, and even thought the falling snow gives it a peaceful glow, not everything is as it appears to be. [...]

Buy Mind Gap Special $7.49 (Regular price: $9.99) Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on February 1, 2011 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Jake MacRae might be only 14 years old, but that doesn’t mean he’s too young to have his life spin beyond his control. Unfortunately, he doesn’t realize that the choices [...]

Buy Choker Special $15.19 CAD (Regular price: $19.99 CAD) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on January 27, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars What wouldn’t your best friend do for you? Ever since they moved away from her best friend Zoe, Cara has known what it’s like to be a loner. [...]

Buy The Uninvited Special $14.15 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Candlewick Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on January 13, 2011 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Mimi Shapiro feels that her life in the Big Apple is crashing down all around her. So when her father presents her with the opportunity to spend her summer at [...]

Buy Lure Special $10.54 (Regular price: $12.99) Publisher: Dundurn Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on November 27, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars In Deborah Kerbel‘s follow up to Girl On The Other Side, she creates a suspenseful and at times, chilling ghost story aimed at the young adult audience. Max Green feels like nothing [...]

Whether you’ve already read Erick Setiawan‘s debut novel, Of Bees And Mist, are excited to read it, or are hearing about it for the first time, I want to say one thing – it’s great. Today, I have the great pleasure of having him stop by with a great guest post about the differences in [...]

Ghost stories can be inspired by any number of things from dreams to stories that are currently part of the literary cannon. Every once in awhile, however, a ghost comes to life from the type of stories you usually find on TV shows, like Ghost Hunters or Paranormal State. Did you know that Deborah Kerbel‘s [...]

Buy The Night Wanderer Regular price: $9.99 Publisher: Annick Press Format: eBook Reviewer: Melissa on October 26, 2010 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Since the market for vampire novels has become so saturated since the Twilight Saga became popular, some readers have become sick of this type of Gothic novel. Others still devour vampire [...]