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 »
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Skinny: Jacob grew up with his grandfather’s stories of the children he grew up with on the tiny, remote island in Wales. To Jacob, they were just stories; to his grandfather, they were memories. When a horrific attack kills his grandfather, Jacob is thrown into his … 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 »
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 »
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 »
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare The Skinny: Clary Fray’s witnesses what she thinks is a murder at a night club and suddenly she is thrown into a world she never knew existed. The world the Shadowhunters, descendants of nephilim who hunt demons, is filled with danger and mystery. When Clary is attacked by a … Continue reading »
