Hubble Bubble and the Super-Spooky Fright Night Tracey Corderoy (text) & Joe Berger (illustrations) (Nosy Crow) With its gorgeous Hallween-y cover, this latest book from the Hubble Bubble young fiction series ( a spin-off of the bestselling picture book series) puts you in the right mood straight away. Pandora is having a Halloween party with her …
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The Vampire Hunters
Pete Johnson(Yearling) On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus found out that he was a half-vampire. It might sound exciting, but Marcus certainly does not think so: blood cravings, near death-experiences when eating pizza (half-vampires are allergic to garlic) and powerful vampires wanting to drink your blood while you are a fledgling … it is not that …
City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare(Walker Books) Please be aware that there are some spoilers in this review!City of Fallen Angels picks up six weeks after the end of City of Glass and the Mortal War that saw the demise of Valentine. Everybody is back in New York, apart from Alec and Magnus who are on the romantic tour …
Vampire Academy Contest!!
The FINAL, highly-anticipated heart wrenching book in the Vampire Academy series is finally here! Vampire Academy is the dark and delicious New York Times bestselling series with over a million and a half copies sold in the US alone. A fantastical combination of high school life, forbidden love and the supernatural makes this the perfect …
Spooky Reads (7): Bloodline
Kate Cary(Egmont) When nineteen-year-old John Shaw enrols in the War and begins his duties in the trenches, he thinks that the horrors of war he will witness will be at the hands of his enemies. But it becomes clear that danger might not be across No Man’s Land after all when mysterious and charismatic Captain …
Keys to the Repository
Melissa de la Cruz(Atom Books) Enter once more the fabulous world of the Blue Bloods, the vampire elite, and sneak a peek at their deepest secrets! Below the streets of Manhattan, sheltered from prying eyes, is hidden the Repository, the “library of Alexandria” for vampires, where all recorded movement from Blue Bloods, mostly unbeknown to …
The Vampire Blog
Pete Johnson(Corgi Yearling) Marcus is a perfectly normal teenager with a perfectly normal life, albeit some slightly odd parents. At least that’s what he thought, until his 13th birthday! When his parents give him an iPod Touch (hence the blogging), he is over the moon, quite content and pleasantly surprised by his parents buying him …
Blue Bloods series
Melissa de la Cruz (Atom books) No more love triangles. No more forbidden love. No more vampires!!! That’s what I had promised myself after reading what felt like one too many teen vampire books (Marked, by PC & Kristen Cast, which was abysmal. I read the second in the series too, just in case I had …
Marked
PC & Kristin Cast(Atom Books) When Zoey Redbird, a teenager with a very strict family, gets marked to soon become a vampire, her life gets turned upside down: she will have to move to the House of Night, a boarding school for vampire fledgings, where she will learn to become a vampire or die before she reaches that …
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Catherine Jinks(Quercus Books) Yes, I know, everybody is sick of vampire/supernatural fiction. It’s everywhere isn’t it? And it’s getting hard to decipher between the good from the “I want a bit of Stephenie Meyer’s fame” books! But if you are sick of all the vampires (I am not, I’ll admit!), then this is the book …