The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong

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My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

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Let me say that I LOVE this book series!

This book is a refreshing change from all the other young adult books that I have been reading lately.

All the other books are fun reads, but this book actually scared me a few times. I like all the characters and from the beginning really liked Derek. He was very protective in a "mean" sort of way but you can see through all that. (I guess I just love the lone brooding type) For some reason the person I kept on picturing as Derek was Tom Welling. I never bought into the whole ugly, pimply and smelly guy. I also liked Chloe because she was a strong person and tried her best to deal with the changes in her life. She was loyal always looking out for her friends to make sure that they were all right. This was a fun and easy read. I highly recommend it.

City of Ashes - Cassandra Claire

If you haven't read the first book yet STOP READING! :D (Unless you don't mind spoilers lol)

Description:

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go—especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil—and also her father.

To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings—and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?

In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.

Review:

This book took a while for me to get into, but once I got into it it was hard to put down. It did take more than half way through for me to get there.

I guess I really grossed out with the whole brother/sister romance thing and I had a hard time trying to understand it. I also have to say that Clary tends to REALLY irritate me. I really dislike the fact that she is extremely stubborn and will put everybody in danger just so she can have her own way. It may be because I am a cautious person myself. All the characters have issues of their own but Clary does not seem to care. Her agenda is her only priority. I like ALL the other characters. They are all fighting their own demons but yet can put that aside to help others. Jace was going through too much finding out that his father was Valentine and trying to cope with that. The inquisitor really had it in for him and I felt really angry with the Inquisitor for her heartless way of treating Jace.

There were a lot of teenage angst that kept the reader entertained.

When I finished the book I couldn't wait to read City of Glass.