Kelly Abell’s Haunted Destiny was a story that had me equal parts frustrated and interested all at the same time.

Destiny Dove is the only survivor of a tragic car crash that killed her parents and baby brother. A teen uprooted from her home, she is forced to live with her eccentric grandmother whom Destiny has been taught her whole life to fear. She must start her life over living with an old woman who is not only a stranger to her, but just strange. All Destiny wants is to fit in with kids like her and begin to pull her life back together.

But Destiny soon discovers she is not like the other teens at all. She has developed the family gift of being able to see and talk to ghosts and her estranged grandmother will be …

Continuing with The Eternal Kiss anthology, edited by Trisha Telep, I just finished the fifth story, Undead is Very In Right Now by Sarah Rees Brennan.  This was my first story by Brennan and I have to say she got my attention.

Undead is Very In Right Now was a really cute story that not only worked for focusing on a vampire, but could easily be applied to any real life celebrity.  The story centers around a pretty young vampire, Christian, who is picked to join a new boy band.  Vampires are out in this world, but they aren’t as out there as a lot of series.  They still have that mystery around them and not everyone really thinks about them existing.  That may sound mean, but that’s the reaction I felt when it was revealed to …

The fourth novel in Melissa Marr’s Wicked series, Radiant Shadows does exactly what all her other books have done for me. It left me with more questions, more scenarios running through my head, and all without a single cliffhanger. There is no one word to describe Radiant Shadows, but I can give you to two: freaking fabulous!

The one thing I love about reading is how much it can inspire one’s imagination and Marr definitely does that with Radiant Shadows.  The ending leaves us with a lot of options of what is to come as well as settles some scores that needed to be dealt with.  We’re given another fabulous story within the Wicked world and it doesn’t involve Aislinn or Keenan.  This time around, we’re focused on Ani, the sister of our tattooist …

I don’t usually like to read a sequel before reading the first book in a series because you tend to miss pertinent aspects of the story, however, that wasn’t really necessary when I picked up Moon Rise, the second book in the Unbidden Magic series.

Moon Rise by Marilee Brothers was a very good young adult novel that treats the reader to mystery and action, with a touch of paranormal. It follows the life of high school age Allie and her friends, as they attempt to solve the mysterious moonstone that Allie acquired in the first novel of the series, Moonstone.

Her mom’s still dating losers. Her boyfriend’s gone back to Mexico. Dad still hasn’t told his wife and kids that she exists. At school, the drama queens and bullies still rule. But worst of all …

Continuing with The Eternal Kiss anthology, edited by Trisha Telep, I just finished the second story.  Shelter Island by Melissa de la Cruz wasn’t bad, but I’ll be honest, it wasn’t that exciting either.  Even though I just read it, it’s really not that memorable.

Shelter Island is about a girl, named Hannah, who meets a boy in her bedroom.  We’re given very little about Hannah herself; namely a physical description and the fact that her father left her and her mother.  Other than that, we’re left to focus more on what’s going on then really learning anything about Hannah.  We don’t know what she likes, how she is at school or anything else.  Hannah’s character is very much one dimensional and I just don’t feel a connection to her.

As for a plot, what plot?  There really …