Micro! Or "Honey I Shrunk the Grad Students!" Or "The Magic School Bus Visits Brobdingnag!" What's that sound? It sounds like Michael Crichton cursing from the beyond the grave ( Read more... )

Books 1 and 2 of the Immortals series ( Read more... )

A brief synopsis: Diana is a descendant of witches and well aware of her own possible powers. However, magic killed her parents, and she has little to no desire to actually practice herself. She is researching alchemy at one of the libraries at . . . Oxford? when she pulls a manuscript that has been missing for two hundred years and is much sought ( Read more... )

Not to be confused with the porn of a similar title. This is from the author of the Thursday Next series. If you've read those, you'll probably like this, but be prepared for something a bit darker than those books ( Read more... )

Second verse, remarkably similar to the first. Different details for the story, but I'm sure a wider sampling of Dessen would reveal that they're all pretty formulaic in construction.

Still, they're pretty good if straight ya (no fairies, vampires, werewolves or aliens) is what you're looking for.

- Merrin

Filed under: you're too old for these, Merrin ( Read more... )

This is the first book in her new series, The Fallen Angels ( Read more... )

This one was strange. The story is about a tiny town that made a pact long ago with the dead. There must always be a Graveminder to keep people in their graves, and an Undertaker to help the Graveminder travel into the land of the dead and come back out ( Read more... )

Okay, if you've read this at all, you know ShaShi is one of my absolute favorites. She has a great deal of hits and only a very few misses for me. This one isn't a hit? But it isn't really a miss for me either. It was . . . I don't know ( Read more... )

It occurred to me as I just posted the review of Lover Unleashed that I have never posted about this whole series before. So here goes ( Read more... )