I’ve recently just finished Cassie Mae’s How to Seduce a Band Geek. And I loved, loved, LOVED her How to Date a Nerd. Going in, I knew she had plans for the third book already, How to Hook a Bookworm. What I love about Cassie Mae’s series is portraying the realities of teenage life, but […]
A dead girl walks the streets.
She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago.
And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan.
Because the boy has a terrifying secret – one that would just kill to get out.
In the dark, in the cold, I am listening for a change in the sound of the ocean. The water is rising, quickly and silently; the tide is coming in, and in an hour, this incomplete cave will be full of sea-water higher than my head.
Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races, page 32
It has been a long while since I curled up with an actual book and read. A really long while. That’s what I did this weekend—with three books at that. I’m not sure if I’d be able to post reviews for each, but the point of this is: I missed this. I also realized, nothing […]
I finally got a copy of this book locally. But I won’t be able to read it soon. Like most of the books from my yet to be read pile. I’m having a hard time settling in to this new life I lead. And being a self-admitted scatterbrain, I can’t easily focus on any one […]