Evermore by Alyson Noel

Genre: Young Adult

Sub Genre: Paranormal Romance; Immortals, People with Abilities

Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Back Cover: After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people’s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone’s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppressing her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school – but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste. Damen is gorgeous, exotic, and wealthy. He’s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head – wielding a magic so intense, it’s as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she’s left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is – or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she’s falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.

This was a great first story, having a take on Immortals that I’ve only seen once or twice. Ever is a very dynamic character, whom has had her tragedy and is trying to deal with survivors remorse. Being one of the outsiders but having some true friends. When Damen shows up you begin to see changes in her as she comes back to life. I really enjoyed this story. There are dangers that the characters have to deal with but they also have the emotional conflict. That keeps you rooted to the page. A story that I could read over and over again. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series, Blue Moon.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

ISBN: 031253275X

Pages: 320

Series: Immortals

Volume: 1

Glimmerglass by Jenna Black

Genre: Young Adult

Sub Genre: Paranormal; Faerie, Faeriewalker, Magic, Avalon

Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Back Cover: Normal: It’s all she’s ever wanted to be, but it couldn’t be further from her grasp… Dana Hathaway doesn’t know it yet, but she’s in big trouble.  When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she’s had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl—she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie.  Soon, Dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to Ethan, the hot Fae guy Dana figures she’ll never have a chance with… until she does.  Caught between two worlds, Dana isn’t sure where she’ll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again…

This is the first book in the Faeriewalker series. Dana thought nothing could be worse than living with her mother who is an alcoholic. She runs away from home to go and find her father. But once there she is there, nothing seems to be going right. With an unwelcoming aunt, people trying to kill her and she doesn’t know who to trust. This is a very fast paced book but instead of feeling like your hair is on fire trying to keep up it written brilliantly. I have to say that as much as I liked the main characters it’s the supporting ones that truly make this story shin. This is a book that I absolutely love and can’t wait to read the next book in the series, Shadowspell.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

ISBN: 0312575939

Pages: 304

Series: Faeriewalker

Volume: 1