The Steampunk Chronicles 1

THE STEAMPUNK CHRONICLES:

The Girl In The Steel Corset by Kady Cross

There Are Two Sides To Every Girl!

Finley was never one to fit in, unfortunately that usually meant she was not able to hold down any one job for more then a few weeks. And now it seemed this current position would be no exception. It was too bad, it was quite a good position she held. But now after having beaten a Lord's son and hair to within an inch of his life, she just couldn't see how she would be keep her on in her position or how she would avoid the peelers.

Although it had been frightfully unavoidable the lad had thoroughly deserved every broken bone and bruise he suffered. However Finley now found she did regret it a little, but only because she was now out of a job, again, and would possible find herself in strife with the law. But the bigger problem at hand was not the young Lord and the strife he wanted to set upon her but a Duke and the expectations he now placed on her having seen what she is capable off.

The Girl In The Steel Corset is an action packed Steampunk mystery with a brilliant and colourful cast of misfit superheroes racing about the streets of Victorian London solving crimes and uncovering secrets hidden within the past. A place where the dead may be gone but doesn't mean you can't talk to them, where a broken man can be rebuilt with machines and where even those you trust may betray you. A pacy and enjoyable read that is the first in this new series.

Kady Cross Webpage

Kady Cross @ Harlequin Teen

On sale: 01 June 2011
Price (AU): $16.99
ISBN: 9781742901305
Recommended age: 16+
In a word: Steampunk
Re-read it: yes
Recommend: yes
Star rating: four out of five
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Iron Fey Book 4

The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

Ash's Quest!

Finding Grimalkin was more difficult then either Ash or Puck could have imagined, but that was just the beginning. Now they needed to locate someone far more elusive then that tricky cat, they needed to find the Seer. There were few who actually believed the Seer existed and fewer still who knew where to find her. But if they lived long enough to discover the Seer, would they still be willing to go on?

Ash had made a vow to Meghan before she banished him from her iron realm; he swore he would find a way to be with her again. An impossible task for anyone, but Ash would succeed or die trying. That is until a ghost from the past returns, changing all that has been. With this new revelation Ash must decide if going on with his doomed quest to be with Meghan is still really what he wants to do, or if he can find a way to live without her.

The Iron Knight is a journey to the end of the world in a quest for love to gain a soul. But even if a group of fey's make it as far as that, who's to say what suffering will be incurred for such high a prize. A mesmerizing and thrilling excursion awaits the reader of this, the best story in the series to date. If your reading this series this book will be a treat but if your not reading this series you should, just to read this book.

Julie Kagawa Webpage

Julie Kagawa @ Harlequin Teen

Iron Fey

On sale: 01 November 2011
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921794919
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Quest
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: five out of five
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Goddess Test #1

GODDESS TEST:
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

A Life For A Life!

Kate is not your average eighteen year old, she doesn't shop, gossip, hangout with friends or date. Her life for the past three years has been on hold while she has cared for her sick mother, all the time waiting for her to die. Even after three years it is not something she is ready to accept, she is not yet ready to say goodbye and she will not let her mother go without a fight.

It is her mother's wish to die in the small town where she was born, a town so small it doesn't even exist on any maps. But upon entering Eden, Kate is soon face with some hard choices, however if there is any way to save her mother from death, if only for a short while, then there is no choice, she will do whatever it takes, even if it means risking her own life.

The Goddess Test is more then a test for immortality, it is a test of honour, sacrifice and love. With everything to lose Kate repeatedly risks her life for those around her, but it is more then her life at risk when she starts to fall for a guy who has all but given up on life and love. A heart warming romance that turns myth into reality and brings the gods of ancient Greece to life.

Aimee Carter Webpage

Aimee Carter @ Harlequin Teen

On sale: 01 August 2011
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781742901343
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Love
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: three out of five
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In The Arms Of Stone Angels

In The Arms Of Stone Angels by Jordan Dane

'Darkness Is My Blanket'

Two years ago when a girl died, she betrayed the boy she loved and she lost everything. Although cleared of any involvement in the murder by the police, that didn't stop her small town of assigning her the guilt. After all it was well known that she was close with the Indian boy who had committed the crime. A white girl should have known better then to get involved with an outcast half-breed Indian, so any trouble she got she brought on herself.

Having spent the past two years in Carolina she had done her best to run from her past, from what had happened to her and what she had done. Now with her grandmother's death she is forced to return to the small town that was once home, that was once hell. Returning she has found many ghosts from the past waiting for her and without facing her fears, without her willingness to sacrifice for those she loves, she will never escape her past and nor will the boy she loves.

In The Arms Of Stone Angels Brenna has always found a peace, a second home where she can lay her head and find comfort amongst the dead. A girl who has always felt like an outsider, shunned and scorned will find strength in her uniqueness and an ability see what others can not. A dark mystery of murder, betrayal and jealously that is emotionally charged and completely absorbing. A must read for all ages.

Jordan Dane Webpage

Jordan Dane @ Harlequin Teen

On sale: 01 May 2011
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921793110
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Acceptance
Re-read it: yes
Recommend: yes
Star rating: five out of five
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Soul Screamers #4

SOUL SCREAMERS:

My Soul To Steal by Rachel Vincent

I Want What She's Having!

Having fought through and survived hellions, possessions, toxic plants, demon's breath and death, Kaylee is about to face her biggest threat yet. After being apart for two years Nash and his ex girlfriend Sabine have again found each other. But as much as Nash denies he still has feelings for Sabine, Kaylee can't help but wonder. After all Sabine is no ordinary ex girlfriend, she was his first kiss, his first love, his first everything.

With Sabine's arrival comes death and ciaos and Kaylee can not help but be suspicious of her new rival, despite claims from those around her who would stick up for Sabine. Sabine has made it more then clear that gaining Nash back is her only goal, even at Kaylee's expense. Kaylee must make a choice, either stand aside and give up the one she loves to appease a living nightmare, or risk losing everyone that is dear to her to a fate worst then death.

My Soul To Steal through love, fear and bad dreams. Something is broken between Kaylee and Nash that may never be fixed. Kaylee has to decide if it is more painful to hold on to something that is no longer there, or to let go of something that had meant so much. With cat-fights, jealousy, creepy vines, nightmares, love triangles, white lies, painful truths, pizza, ice cream and puppies, this is the best Soul Screamers story yet.

Rachel Vincent Webpage

Rachel Vincent @ Harlequin Teen

Soul Screamers

Netherworld Survival Guide

On sale: 01 January 2011
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921685781
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Balloons
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: four out of five
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Iron Fey Book 3

IRON FEY:

The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Long Live The Queen!

Ash and Megan have been exiled from the faery world of the Nevernever forever. They are now free to be together in the human world until they are separated either by Megan's old age or Ash's fading to non-existence. The future is uncertain but at least they will be together. Or so they thought.

After so long in the land of faery Megan is returning home to her mother, her stepfather and Ethan, her half brother. Returning home has been long overdue for Megan, but before she is even able to step through the threshold of her family home there is trouble from the fey.

Drawn once again into the world of fairies, Megan and Ash are on a mission to stop the false Iron King, it is the only way that Megan will be able to find peace and safety for her family. But it is a mission that is near impossible as both Megan and Ash are exiled from the faery realm. Even if the make it into the Nevernever to face the false Iron King, it is a mission that leaves little chance of making it out alive.

The Iron Queen sees a new monarch take the throne of the Iron fey. As long as the Iron fey exist all other fey are in danger, so can there really be a way for all fey to live side by side or is war the only answer? As fey on both sides raise there weapons and watch those around them fade in death, ultimately the war will only be won or lost by a single person and if Megan can't find a way to stop the all powerful force of the false Iron King all of the Nevernever will fade, her ice prince will die and she will have lost everything.

Julie Kagawa Webpage

Julie Kagawa @ Harlequin Teen

Iron Fey

On sale: 01 February 2011
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921793080
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: War
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: four out of five
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Iron Fey Book 2

IRON FEY:

The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

Follow Your Heart!

Meghan may have destroyed Machina but that hasn't stopped the Iron fey. With a new Iron King the Iron fey will stop at nothing to destroy the Winter and Summer fey courts and are causing chaos in the most devastating way possible. Unfortunately the Winter and Summer fey still doubt the Iron fey's existence as only Meghan, Ash and Puck seem to be the only ones to have encountered them first-hand and are therefore the only ones who can stop the ruthless Iron fey.

However Meghan is trapped in a world of inescapable cold with no one to trust surrounded by curious and malicious fey of every sort imaginable. Ash is growing ever distant from Meghan becoming hard and cold with her, leaving Meghan to slowly doubt his love for her. And Puck is still unconscious within a tree somewhere leaving little chance of anyone knowing the truth of what has happened and returning what was stolen, preventing a war that everyone seems to want and stopping the unstoppable force that is the Iron fey from destroying the Nevernever.

The Iron Daughter is a story of love turned cold, of trust turning to betrayal and of the whole world coming down around you. But it is also a story of old friends returning and old enemies uniting in a quest to save all. This is where unexpected feelings, past secrets and old friends only complicate an already impossible situation. That of Meghan caught between two worlds and two boys, where she must make a choice knowing that someone is going to walk away with a broken heart; if she's not lucky it will be her own.

Julie Kagawa Webpage

Julie Kagawa @ Harlequin Teen

Iron Fey

On sale: 01 August 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921685583
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Sceptre
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: three out of five
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Iron Fey Book 1

IRON FEY:

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Lets Make A Deal!

The last thing Meghan remembers of her father is a memory of him smiling, laughing, standing by a pond in the park sending her off to get an ice cream. The next moment he was gone with only his shoes left to mark that he had ever existed at all. That was ten years ago. Since then she and her mother had moved, her mother had remarried and she now had a half brother who, despite being only four, was really quite a good kid.

When on the eve of her sixteenth birthday her brother starts acting strangely and she begins to see things that cannot possibly be, Meghan is faced with an impossible truth; faeries are real. And more startling then that, she herself is half fey. When her best friend is more then what he seems, when her brother is nothing like he was, when her whole family is placed in danger, Meghan is faced with a choice that will forever change the way she sees the world.

The Iron King blends together the familiar themes associated with faeries found in mythology and folk beliefs but twists them into a modern fairy tale that is new and sharp. This is a world where time has no meaning, love will leave you frozen and friends will get you drunk on fruit and break your heart. With vivid detail a richly imaginative journey is taken that will bring danger with every turn, obligation with every word and understanding with every new encounter. A captivating read, I promise.

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Julie Kagawa Webpage

Julie Kagawa @ Harlequin Teen

Iron Fey

On sale: 01 March 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781741168693
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Princess
Re-read it: yes
Recommend: yes
Star rating: five out of five
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Glass Book 1

GLASS BOOK:

Storm Glass by Maria V Snyder 

Seeing The Light!

Opal has a skill with glass, it is a unique magical ability that only she possesses, unfortunately it also happens to be the only magical ability she possesses. The past four years at the Magician's Keep have not been easy for Opal, with little other skill and no friends it has been a hard and lonely time.

Now in her fifth year, Opal has been asked to undertake a mission for the Master Magicians, a mission only she can fulfill as it relates to glass, her magical speciality. But one seemingly straightforward mission soon turns into so much more as events begin to unfold and deceptions are played out. Opal is in more danger then she realises, but with so much going on can she discover the truth in time to save herself and those she loves?

Storm Glass is not your typical magical girl story, there is a realness to this story that is immediately evident through the history and culture of the land as well as the personal back-stories of the characters. This is not a simple story of one quest leading to a simple outcome, but will instead set of a chain reaction of events so complex and strategic that it will leave you hooked, wondering to the very end. A brilliant new series that is every bit as complex as it is engaging.

Maria V Snyder Webpage

Maria V Snyder @ Harlequin Teen

On sale: 01 May 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921685552
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Orpal
Re-read it: yes
Recommend: yes
Star rating: five out of five
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Soul Screamers #3

SOUL SCREAMERS:

My Soul To Keep by Rachel Vincent

Take A Deep Breath!

After a month of being grounded Kaylee is ready to get out and have some fun and to finally be able to spend some time with Nash, her good looking, popular and all together too good to be true boyfriend. However Nash doesn't seem quite himself lately, but Kaylee has bigger problems to worry about.

Her first night out in a month and disaster has struck in the form of Demon's Breath. Somehow it has made its way across from the Netherworld only to be become the most popular drug to be used by the most popular guys at school. Those balloons can sure become addictive.

Things quickly move from bad to worse as Kaylee realises that everyone she loves is somehow mixed up with Demon's Breath and the Demon behind it. In the end no one is safe and no nothing will be the same, least of all Nash who as it turns out really is just too good to be true.

It's My Soul To Keep if a demon doesn't get it first. Kaylee is facing her hardest challenge yet and that's not just because it's the most dangerous. Issues of trust, sex and drugs are immersed in the supernatural as Kaylee uses her bean sidhe abilities to unravel the mystery surrounding those around her. But after being deceived, lied to and used will she be able to forgive herself.

Rachel Vincent Webpage

Rachel Vincent @ Harlequin Teen

Soul Screamers

Netherworld Survival Guide

On sale: 01 June 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921685569
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Balloons
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: probably
Star rating: four out of five
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Soul Screamers #2

SOUL SCREAMERS:

My Soul To Save by Rachel Vincent

Should I Stay Or Should I Go!

It has been only weeks since Kaylee has discovered that she is a bean sidhe and only weeks since she witnessed her aunts death, as well as the deaths of four other innocent girls; her best friend Emma almost one of them. But Kaylee is about to learn that there is more to the world then reapers and bean sidhes'.

Kaylee now has two new men in her life; her boyfriend Nash who was there for her with the truth when no one else was and her father who for as long as she can remember has been absent. If Kaylee thought things were awkward before they are about to get a whole lot more complicated. Forced to skip school, break rules and downright lie, Kaylee will have to make a choice, her life or the life of a complete stranger.

When Kaylee crosses over to the dark side she begins to realise just how much danger she is really in. Soulless pop-stars, demons, love sick reapers and overbearing fathers may not be the biggest hurdles she has to face, if she can not get over her own sense of guilt, and a nasty little vine, it may not be just her life lost. Kaylee must realise she can't save everyone, or the price she pays will be herself.

My Soul To Save through sacrifice and love, but it may not be enough. Kaylee is delving deeper into the dark and dangerous world of the Netherworld in a way that is daring and energetic. With a focus on trust, friendships and doing what is right there is just the right blend of mystery, danger and romance to keep any reader satisfied. It's a real scream!

Rachel Vincent Webpage

Rachel Vincent @ Harlequin Teen

Soul Screamers

Netherworld Survival Guide

On sale: 01 April 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781921685545
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Demons
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: probably
Star rating: four out of five
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Soul Screamers #1

SOUL SCREAMERS:

My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

Time Is Running Out, And So Is Her Voice!

It was a Friday night and Kaylee and her best friend Emma have decided to go out, but as they are still under age they have snuck into the club through the back door. Emma is blond, curvy and beautiful while Kaylee is not, but she is long used to standing in the shadows. What Kaylee is not used to is attention, especially not from a very good looking and popular Nash who has never talked to her before in her life.

What started out as a fun night out soon turns into a nightmare as Kaylee's past comes back to haunt her. She had thought she was over it, that it would never happen again, but suddenly, in a club full of people Kaylee sees doom and panic strikes her. Unfortunately it just happens to occur when the gorgeous Nash is standing right beside her, and she knows after this he will never speak to her again.

But when the panic is over and Nash is still at her side Kaylee is wondering what it is Nash is really after. So much is about to change for Kaylee and as much as she thinks she might be crazy she will not allow others to believe it, not when it could lead her to enforced hospital stays with zombie pills for the crazy. She will not go through that again!

As the truth about Kaylee and her past is revealed so too is a whole new world, one that is far more heartbreaking and frightening then she could ever have imagined. With Nash by her side, although why and for how much longer, Kaylee must make some awful decisions and face horrific situations, and when the dust clears not every one will make it out alive.

It's My Soul To Take as long as no one screams. A swan song unveils a whole new and engrossing world of supernatural and faerie beings that is dark, soulful and utterly unique. Amidst the death and darkness love is blossoming and as this story unfolds so to does the character of Kaylee and her story as it embarks on a new and exciting series. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

Rachel Vincent Webpage

Rachel Vincent @ Harlequin Teen

Soul Screamers

Netherworld Survival Guide

On sale: 01 February 2010
Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781741168648
Recommended age: 14+
In a word: Soul
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: probably
Star rating: three out of five
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