Siren's Storm-Lisa Papademetriou

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Siren's Storm
byLisa Papademetriou (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 18 to 23, 2011

A young man struggling with the loss of his brother. Seeing people and things that are not there, messing with his mind. All taking place on an island that is known for it's ability to attract tourists to come spend the summer and their money. Dealing with this pain has driven him to the brink of madness, a twister churning inside his soul, and a storm that blows his thoughts all over the place and cannot be calmed.

I had trouble in the beginning of this book, reading it was a little hard and then as I turned the pages and got more towards the middle of the book, it became better. A little slow in the first 10 chapters but as I got further in the book, the true excitment of the story unraveled itself.

Persistence of Memory-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Persistence of Memory
byAmelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 18, 11 · edit

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, young-adult

Read from October 10 to 18, 2011

Trapped in her own mind, consisting of it's own world that is different to the normal world around her, a young lady is forced to battle the demons running rampant inside her own head. Trying to exist in a public school setting and aviod her past violent behavior, suffering from a strange form of multiple personality disorder, she tries to battle her own mind that takes her to another person, another being..a vampire! The battle between both personality comes to an end like no other.

However, a little slow and a little hard to read and understand at times, this was still a good book.

Kissing Kate-By Lauren Myracle

Kissing Kate
byLauren Myracle

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 10, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 06 to 10, 2011

High school is probably the main point in a young woman's life when she is just beginning to understand who she really is and who she really wants to become in the future. Growing up with your best friend, all the time spent together, laughing, playing, sharing secrets and discovering themselves together.

One night, while enjoying themselves at a high school party, these two girls whom have done nearly everything together decide to escape to more private settings. During their moments and confessions to each other about how "curious" they are about exploring other possible love alternatives, Lissa's best friend Kate, makes the first move and begins by slowly kissing, touching, and providing sensuality to each other. Lissa, on the receiving end, felt emotions and feelings that she had never experienced. Then as quickly as it had started...it ended.

Walking thru the halls, keeping their distances from each other began to get to both friends and with this they both decided that trying to make up the friendship was never going to work because everytime Lissa approached Kate about "that night", Kate would throw up denial and brick walls thick in form. Slowly, Lissa found herself and realized that her sexuality did not make her a "freak" but made her, her.

This was a very good read and I would recommend it to any yound lady that questions her sexuality or is even friends with someone or close to someone or even has a family member that is confused about their individuality, maybe within these pages they may find the answers.

Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher

Jessica RiffeKincaid's Reviews > Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why
byJay Asher

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 06, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, young-adult, bio-auto-self-biography

Read from September 27 to October 06, 2011

A girl, feeling alone, depressed and let down by those closest to her, prepares everyone that she was close to and had confided in, with cassette tapes explaing in her own words, 13 reasons why she committed suicide. She begins by providing tapes to someone left in charge to see to it that her message is carried on thru the delivery of a box containing nothing but her final words, recorded in her own voice, about why she decided that she was not meant to live in the world anymore and about the people that drove her to making that decision. Her high-school crush, who was too shy in the end to tell her how he felt about her, thinking that he maybe could have changed her mind about her taking her own life, finds out everything about her by receiving those tapes and listening to them in a day. He discovers the rumors that where visciously spread about her where un-true, that those that were "supposed" to be her true friends and the lies they spreaded, how girls were raped, pushed around and forced upon in physcial, and sexual manners by young men, still just boys, and unable to defend themselves against them, going un-punished for their actions. Girls, pretending to be straight A students and the mindset expected of them in that type of position, faslified, pretending to be someone they are not. How, a teacher could have prevented this girl's suicude from happening if he had only asked the right, simple questions by showing that he cared about her as a person. Her legacy and those of the students at her school that show everyone who their "fake" person is but reveals their "true" selves by hitting and killing someone that goes to their school after leaving a party, having been too drunk to drive, but decided no one could tell. How boys took advantage of young girls that were too drunk to put up a fight, behind closed doors, taking something from them that was'nt theirs to take, but did so without their permission while laying unconscious and their male counterparts allowing these atrocious acts to take place with their knowledge.

This was wonderful, dark, scarey, and so close to the truths of those in school growing from young kids into young adults.

Vesper-Jeff Sampson

Vesper (Deviants, #1)
byJeff Sampson (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 27, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult, paranormal-romance

The book began a little slow in the beginning and then picked up the pace, however it was a little hard to understand at times.

A girl who has the same first name of another girl she once went to school with is shot killed after she mysteriously wonders the streets late at night dressed only in her pajamas and before this began acting "strangely" around her family members. Trying to keep herself hidden from having more than one friend and being recgonized by fellow class-mates, she hides herself in clothes too big for her body, making her curves invisable to the eye. After another classmate comments on a social website that the other "Emily" that was murdered was a sad loss of perfect beauty and that the world would have been a better place had it been the "ugly Emily" that was killed instead, she feels a change that takes place deep inside her and decides to take revenge on the boy who posted this comment. She finds a hidden power that surfaces and becomes a "vasper", a member of an elite force that is magical and fearful of discovery.

Butterfly-Jodi Bullock

Butterfly
byJodi Bullock (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 22, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult, fiction, paranormal-romance, thriller-suspense

Read on September 22, 2011

A Ballet dancer who believed her dreams were ruined forever finds out that in her dreams she finds herself dancing better than she ever did in real life. An assumed crazy lady living next door to her becomes her best friend and most important confidante, whom she learns a magical ability that she has had since she took her first breath after being born lays dormant in her mind and is brought to life. The child hood crush on a boy that she grew up with and lost for a brief time, that comes back into her life like a whirl wind and becomes her dream came true, are thrown together to fight the darkness that surronds those that they have become close to. Together they battle the Nightmares, Wierds, and ever present Evil to combat them and bring back those that have taught them their special dream magic.

Better than a Nightmare, this young adult book brings back the meaning to good dreams and the difference of a bad dream. Perhaps, this is how all dreams work as together a group of special seers help to maintain influence over peoples decisions as they sleep thru their dreams.

Chasing The Night-Iris Johansen

Chasing the Night (Eve Duncan Forensic Thrillers, #11)
byIris Johansen

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 22, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, romantic-suspense

Read from August 22 to September 22, 2011

Eve Duncan, her soul-mate Joe, and a new found friend come together in this thriller that never ends. Her son was kidnapped when he was just 2 years old by a life long enemy. Hell bent on making her life miserable for an eternity, her ruthless enemy sees to it that once a year, she receives a phone call from her son just long enough to allow her the pleasure of knowing that her son still lives. Connie, seeks out Eve for help in the search and rescue of her son, using the knowledge that Eve, having lost her daughter and having made it her lifes work to search for her presumed dead "Bonnie" and bring her home by finding her remains, she uses this as an incentive to convinece Eve to help her find her son and bring him home...Alive! Eve, unable to refuse takes the trip, along with her lover Joe, to Russia and the war zone that still exists there. Together, with the assistance of the CIA and Homeland Security and a few other acquaintances along the way, Connie, Eve, and Joe struggle thru death, destruction, and mayhem to the ends of Russia to find the missing boy and bring him home.

This was a great read, with all the "Duncan" twists and turns along the way. Thrilling, exciting, heart touching, and intresting, this book is an add to the "A" list of all the "Duncan" novels.