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Review: The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle by Catherine Webb

Published by Darren on October 4, 2011 | 5 Responses

I read the first book in Catherine Webb’s Horatio Lyle series back in May and really enjoyed it’s rich and complex prose and quickly picked up this, the second book. Unfortunately, it took me until this last week for me to read it. There seem to be some odd things going on in the city of London, lately. Take the… Read more →

Touching Darkness [Midnighters #2] by Scott Westerfeld

Published by Darren on June 5, 2009 | 6 Responses

At last, everything was sorted out. About the Book As we found out in the first book of the series, The Secret Hour, midnight in the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma, brings about something very different to what most of the towns residents know about. Midnight, is when the blue hour happens, the world freezes, and the creatures that inhibit… Read more →

Midnighters#1 The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld

Published by Darren on May 6, 2009 | 4 Responses

The halls of Bixby High School were always hideously bright on the first day of school. This was my on-plane read for my recent little weekend jaunt to Spain, and it turned out to be a perfect, fun, little read. The only other book I’ve read by Scott Westerfeld before this was, Parasite Positive/Peeps, and I’m happy to report that… Read more →

Marked (A House of Night Novel) by PC & Kirsten Cast

Published by Darren on March 15, 2009 | 11 Responses

Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse I saw the dead guy standing next to my locker. Synopsis When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoe is… Read more →

Parasite Positive/Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Published by Darren on February 25, 2009 | 12 Responses

After a year of hunting, I finally caught up with Sarah. The blurb on the back of this book does not do it justice, which basically makes it look like it’s all about a teenager in New York, chasing down ex-girlfriends, that could be infected with an STD. Okay, an STD (read parasite) that turns you in to a vampire!… Read more →