The Assassin's Curse

Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allying pirate clan. But that only prompts the scorned clan to send an assassin after her. And when Ananna faces him down one night, armed with magic she doesn’t really know how to use, she accidentally activates a curse binding them together.

To break the curse, Ananna and the assassin must complete three impossible tasks—all while grappling with evil wizards, floating islands, haughty manticores, runaway nobility, strange magic, and the growing romantic tension between them.

The Assassin's Curse is a great read for anyone looking for adventure and a hint of romance involving pirates, assassins, and mystical creatures. It is one of the best books I have ever read.

Wonder

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. 

August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face.WONDER, now a #1 New York Timesbestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. 

Wonder was a heart warming story, filled with joy, tragedy, hope, friends, and family. It is a book for all ages and is very inspiring to the heart and soul. 

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan

Fourteen-year-old Will has one great dream:  to become a knight in the Kingdom of Araluen.  If only he would grow!!  As the smallest of all the orphans being kept by the Baron, his chances of being chosen for Battleschool are slim.  When he is finally assigned an apprenticeship, it is his abilities to move across a field unseen, climb steep tower walls like a spider, and his great inquisitiveness that land him an assignment with the Ranger instead.  The next days are filled with learning about Rangers—they are the intelligence arm of the king’s forces.  The next months are filled with practicing the skills Rangers use—knife throwing, stealth moving, tracking the enemy, listening in without being seen, and learning to work with his unstoppable pony Tug.  In the meantime, Will’s friend Horace is having a harder time in his assignment at Battleschool.  He is humiliated, harassed and beaten by three upper classmen, and he thinks the authorities intentionally look the other way.  A deep resentment starts burning inside of Horace, with a bitterness that threatens long-term trouble.  He doesn’t realize that his instructors look at him as “a natural”, with the talent to be one of the great swordsmen of all time.  Horace alienates his friends, including Will, and then they face life-threatening danger together.  Bigger trouble lies ahead as rumors of war whisper through the intelligence community, and Will joins his master in facing the dangerous beasts called Kalkara that are slaying the military leaders of Araluen.

Saving Wishes

For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig.
She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania.
Thankfully, it's temporary. Her lifelong dream of travelling the world is just months away from becoming reality. All she has to do is ride out the last few months of high school, which is easier said than done thanks to a trio of mean girls known as The Beautifuls.
When Adam Décarie arrives in town, all the way from New York, life takes an unexpected turn. His arrival sets off a chain of events that alters her life forever, convincing her of one thing. Fate brought him to her.

Saving Wishes is the story of a girl who doesn't quite fit the life she's living, and the boy who helps her realise why.

Adventures of a Space Bum

When Starwort Bacchus finds herself running from her landlord, skipping out on the rent, she jumps aboard an automatic repair vessel and hitches a ride to the next port. But the search for her father's legacy, the inheritance her uncle nearly decimated, takes her to planets where friends and enemies are hard to identify, and her best ally is a computer. With a pocket full of "Universals" and a ceramic blade strapped to her thigh, she travels the darkness looking for a home. Instead she finds a growing list of places she cannot go to again, including a place she has never been - Earth.

This book by Jon Batson is a great read for a person looking for a adventure. It was nice looking through the eyes of Starwort Bacchus and going on adventures through space and looking at Earth in a whole new way

The Heidelberg Ghost

This book was a nice short read for whenever you have free time and just want to enjoy some time indoors. It was a well written book and overall it was better than most books I have read, which is a lot. I almost even cried (which I never do). It was a wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone that has a thing for paranormal and romance. 

It starts off with when Andi decides to return to Heidelberg, Germany, after her life in the U.S. falls apart. Deciding to use Heidelberg Castle as inspiration for her next romance novel, she listens carefully to the guide's descriptions of the ghosts and myths of the castle. During the costume party at the castle she discovers for herself that the ghosts and myths are real and true, and to make matters worse, she finds herself falling in love with a ghost along the way.

I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You

       

     Cammie Morgan may be fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (three of which involve a piece of uncooked spaghetti), but the Gallagher Academy hasn’t prepared her for what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she’s an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through a mall without him ever being the wiser, but can she have a regular relationship with a regular boy who can never know the truth about her? Cammie may be an elite spy in training, but in her sophomore year, she’s doing something riskier than ever—she’s falling in love.- Wikipedia 

INVOLVES:

Romance

        Adventure

                 Action

                        Spies

                              Teenage Characters

Graceling

Graceling

By: Kristin Cashore

Front Cover of Graceling

     Graceling is a young adult fantasy novel by Kristin Cashore and the book earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008 and received many favorable reviews. It is the first book of three (Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue) and it revolves around a time of when people were blessed with a grace or graceling, which is the ability to excel at things that normal people can't. Lady Katsa who is the main character of the book, is graced with the ability to kill, and goes on an heart-stopping journey with her companion Po who is also also graced with the ability of (spoiler alert) fighting. They will meet many other companions along the way who will either help them or try to kill them in the first breathtaking book of the series. 

          Involves:

•  Survival 

  • Fantasy

    • Romance

      • Adventure

        • Action

          • Mystery (a bit)

 

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