★★★★ ½ Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Aliens enslaving the human race! Paige O'Connor (part-time sarcastic snit, part-time teenage hoodlum) along with her brother are having just about the worst possible day ever. Actually, most of the world is having the worst day ever. “This isn’t the end of humanity,… Continue reading Aftermath – Tom Lewis

★★★ ½ She earned this suit and had every intention of using it. Cindy Ames, a former NYPD officer, currently alternates between gymnastic teacher and security guard - a far cry from what she once was. Two years ago, she lost her partner in a horrendous incident, which cost Cindy her badge, her dignity and her pride. You… Continue reading The Silver Ninja – Wilmar Luna

★★★★ Ahhh! Such a cute book! A little caterpillar is feeling really lonely. He spends all his free time on his own, or watching the other bugs play together merrily. Instead of eating the leaf, the caterpillar used it to dry up his eyes..." He just doesn't understand why people don't like him (though he thinks it might because he's… Continue reading The Caterpillar – Errol Fern

★★★ But to be clear, we had nothing against her. We actually really liked her. We really, really liked Philippa Lye. Philippa Lye - the it girl - has long been a subject of fascination and intrigue among the New York Mommies of St. Timothy's preschool. Philippa always appears to have it all, but beneath the designer… Continue reading Mrs. – Caitlin Macy

★★★★★ He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over. Everyone knows about that feeling you get at the end of a series. When you know the really terrible thing that author hinted… Continue reading The Raven King – Maggie Stiefvater

★★★★ "I can see I'm going to have my hands full with you," he said. "I'll see to it, sir." Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has it all - the fame, the riches, the glory. Her life is so tied up in the Kennedy legacy, that she hardly knows where they end and she begins. And now, as she's entering… Continue reading The Kennedy Debutante – Kerri Maher

★★★ ½ She didn’t cry out. If she did the slavers would hear and they would find them all. Due to a "fortuitous" shipwreck, the Roman Empire has (yet again) found something it must have...and that something is the people of Nabara. While Kingdom of Nabara has dealt with slavers in the past, the Roman Empire poses a… Continue reading Of Captivity & Kings – E.Y. Laster

★★★★ Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered. Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten. This book makes my heart happy. Eragon has graduated from isolated farmboy to savior of the kingdom. Along the way, he's faced trials, tribulations and terror.  He's fought the shade, the… Continue reading Inheritance – Christopher Paolini

★★★★ One thing was sure: This was not the fairy tale she had been looking for. Life dealt Cady Drake a rough hand. Orphaned nearly at birth, she bounced from foster home to foster home throughout her childhood - each time growing more and more jaded. Cady was a bad seed, through and through. ..that is until… Continue reading The Lost Carousel of Provence – Juliet Blackwell