REVIEW: Glass Houses (#1) - Rachel Caine

Glass Houses (#1) - Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville Vampires
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Format: Paperback
Pages: 348 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It Was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?

REVIEW: The Dark Day's Club (#1) - Alison Goodman

The Dark Day's Club (#1) - Alison Goodman
Series: Lady Helen
Publisher: Walker Books
Format: Kindle
Pages: 496 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

London, April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a death trap?

Sleepless (#2) - Lou Morgan

Sleepless (#2) - Lou Morgan
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 Pages
Rating: ★★ (It was OK)

Goodreads Blurb

Young, rich and good-looking, Izzy and her friends lead seemingly perfect lives. But exams are looming and at a school like Clerkenwell, failure is not an option. Luckily, Tigs has a solution. A small pill that will make revision a breeze and help them get the results they need. Desperate to succeed, the group begin taking the study drug. It doesn't take long before they realize there are far worse things than failing a few exams.

Frozen Charlotte (#1) - Alex Bell

Frozen Charlotte (#1) - Alex Bell
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

We're waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind...Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins. Brooding Cameron with his scarred hand, strange Lilias with a fear of bones and Piper, who seems just a bit too good to be true. And then there's her other cousin. The girl with a room full of antique dolls. The girl that shouldn't be there. The girl that died.

REVIEW: Clockwork Angel (#1) - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel (#1) - Cassandra Clare
Series: The Infernal Devices
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496 Pages
Rating: ★★★★ (Really Liked It)

Goodreads Blurb

In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them... 

REVIEW: This Savage Song (#1) - V. E. Schwab

This Savage Song (#1) - V. E. Schwab
Series: Monsters of Verity
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400 pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

REVIEW: City of Bones (#1) - Cassandra Clare

City of Bones (#1) - Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments
Publisher: Walker
Format: Kindle
Pages: 503 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.