City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare The Skinny: This one is way too complicated to summarize, so here is my bullet-point summary: Jace and Sebastian are bonded together – if one dies, the other dies Clary and the Gang want to find Jace, but have to go behind the Clave’s back to do so … Continue reading »
Rapture by Lauren Kate The Skinny: The Fall is starting… again. Lucifer’s plans to change history are set in motion and Daniel and Luce have nine days to stop him. To do so they, with the help of their demon and angel friends, must return to the original site of the Fall – the place … Continue reading »
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare The Skinny: After the death of her aunt, sixteen year-old Tessa Gray leaves her home in New York for England, in search of her older brother who has requested she join him. When she arrives she is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters, a pair of evil beings who belong to … Continue reading »
![This isn’t some [darn] Narnia book.](http://thegrownupya.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dsb_final_6_1.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "This isn’t some [darn] Narnia book.")
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor The Skinny: Karou is a seventeen year old art student living in Prague. She has a crummy ex-boyfriend, turquoise blue hair, and, oh yeah, her family is a bunch of monsters. Karou’s “father” sends her on around the world on errands, collecting teeth for some unknown reason. … Continue reading »
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand The Skinny: Clara Gardner is a quarter angel and is suddenly given her purpose, the reason she is here on earth, in a dream. In her dream she sees a boy standing within a fire. Her mother, who is a half angel, uproots Clara and her brother, who is also part … Continue reading »
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare The Skinny: Now that Clary is immersed in the world of the Shadowhunters all she wants is her world to go back to normal. Instead, her mom is in a coma, her dad, who turns out to be Valentine (the series’ big bad), is still alive, and hotty mchotty … Continue reading »
Torment by Lauren Kate The Skinny: Just as they finally get to be together, Luce and Daniel are forced apart. In an attempt to hide her from the Outcasts, Daniel sends Luce to a new school, one for Nephilim, called Shoreline. As Luce adjusts to her new life and discovers more about her past lives, … Continue reading »
Fallen by Lauren Kate The Skinny: Luce Price is Sword & Cross’s newest student thanks to an incident that left a fellow student at her former school dead. Sword & Cross isn’t your typical boarding school; here no cell phones are allowed, security cameras watch your every move, and the students are all screw-ups. But … Continue reading »
