Happy Summer Day!! And welcome to another one of my reviews!

Today’s lucky book is The Last Echo, by Kimberly Derting! It’s the third book in The Body Finder series, and just recently hit the shelves in April. A little background knowledge on the series; the main character is a girl named Violet. No she can’t see the future, and she’s not dating vampires or werewolves (actually she’s dating her extremely sweet best friend named, Jay). Violet can sense the dead; she can look at anybody and sense if they have been murdered. Vi can also feel dead bodies who are unrested looking for peace.

“In the end, all that’s left is an Echo.

Before, Violet’s morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she’s working with a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people—whether by saving a life or catching a killer.

Although she’s relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by “the collector,” Violet refuses to give up on the case. With her own relationship on the line, Violet doesn’t realize that the serial killer is looking to add to his collection and that she may have caught his eye. Will the life Violet has to save be her own?”

In The Desires of The Dead, the story leaves off with Violet joining and becoming part of a “special” force in the police. Working on a new case with others who have powers just as special as hers, Violet gets herself in too deep, once again. After being kidnapped by the man, which the police and her task force have been looking for (who had not only taken, but also murdered various teenage girls, just like Vi) she’s all her own. Vi has no choice, but to save herself, and get out before things go too far!

I had very high expectations forThe Last Echo (which by the way, isn’t the last book in the series!). I enjoyed the first two books, it almost seemed impossible for the third book to be any better than them! But Kimberly Derting proved me wrong once again! If you haven’t started reading this series, you’re living under a rock, and need to pick up a copy for yourself…right now!

Lisa here! Welcome to another one of my reviews, but as you can probably tell from the title, this isn’t just any stinkin’ review, no! But instead, I’m reviewing two books in one… that’s a lot of “reviews” in one sentence, but any-who, the books are…

The Darlings Are Forever (Book #1), by Melissa Kantor.

“Jane. Victoria. Natalya. Together, they are the Darlings. Best friends forever. They have matching necklaces, their own table at Ga Ga Noodle, and even a shared motto: “May you always do what you’re afraid of doing.”

When the friends begin freshman year at three different high schools in distant corners of New York City, they promise to live by their motto and stay as close as ever. The Darlings know they can get through anything as long as they have each other. But doing scary new things is a lot easier with your friends beside you. And now that the girls aren’t spending all their time together, everything they took for granted about their friendship starts to feel less certain. They can’t help but wonder, will they really be the Darlings forever?

Now in paperback, this exciting new series by bestselling author Melissa Kantor, The Darlings Are Forever will speak to any girl who has ever had a best friend.”

Jane, Natalya, and Victoria are three best friends, also known as The Darlings, with a motto they each share, “May you do what you are afraid of doing.” Spending almost all of their time together, usually at their own table, at their favorite restaurant Ga Ga Noodles, the girls are worried about starting high school, each at a different school. They promise to make time for one another and never to forget their friendship.

Natalya is accepted into a private school (which her sister also went to), and becomes friends with the most popular girl’s in school, but for all the wrong reasons.

Jane attends a performing arts school, and wants to pursue acting. Until she starts crushing on her director!

And Victoria, who is innocent and perfect in her parents eyes, starts doing things she would never have imagined doing before.

Sticking together through good, and many bads (such as sneaking out to a party, pictures exposed online, and a few other things that could put Victoria’s Dad’s chances of becoming Senator in danger) the girls come out at the end of the tunnel, as best friends, and as the Darlings.

And Darlings In Love (Book #2), also by Melissa Kantor.

“The Darlings have just begun their second semester of ninth grade, and love is in the air.

Victoria: The sweetheart Jack: The irresistible songwriter…but is he writing off Victoria?

Natalya: The overachiever Colin: The perfect match, if only the game were less complicated

Jane: The drama queen Simon: The Greek god… of mixed signals

In the face of both joy and heartbreak, the Darlings know that they’ll always have each other. Boys come and go, but the Darlings are still forever.”

This second book continues with the three best friends. This time, each learns how to love.

Victoria has a boyfriend named Jack (who we meet in the first book) and loves spending every minute with him; things just keep getting better and better. Natalya is starting to crush on her ex-boyfriend Colin (who we also meet in the other book!) when he challenges Natalya to a online chess game. And Jane is dealing with loneliness but meets a cute boy named Simon in the theater.

Things seem to be going great for the Darlings, that is until Valentine’s Day goes wrong for Victoria. Natalya finds out that Colin is hiding something from her, and things may be to good to be true for Jane.

In Darlings in Love, the three girls, learn that boys come and go, but friends last forever.

(*Thanks you Goodreads, and Barnes and Noble, for the book summaries!)

Hello and welcome to my review, please pull up a chair, and enjoy!

Today’s book review is on The Last Echo, by Kimberly Derting. This is the third installment of The Body Finder series, the first being The Body Finder, and second being Desires of the Dead!

“In the end, all that’s left is an Echo.

Before, Violet’s morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she’s working with a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people—whether by saving a life or catching a killer.

Although she’s relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by “the collector,” Violet refuses to give up on the case. With her own relationship on the line, Violet doesn’t realize that the serial killer is looking to add to his collection and that she may have caught his eye. Will the life Violet has to save be her own?”

I’ve loved this series, the story line, the characters, everything from the start! This series is something new and fresh. I haven’t read anything like it, or anything comparable.

Since The Body Finder, Violet realized her special power, learned how to control it (somewhat), is dating her best friend (Jay), and now is part of a police task force, with others who also have special abilities.

If you haven’t read the series yet, you might be asking yourself, what kind of special power are you talking about, Lisa?

Violet can sense the dead! And looking at someone she can see if that person has ever murdered anyone (including animals).

Becoming part of the police task force, Violet meets other people who have different powers. She meets a boy named Rafe, who Violet soon builds a bond with, causing tension between Violet and her boyfriend Jay. She also deals with cases that seem impossible to solve. Being so closely involved, Violet always gets caught up in the crime.

Becuase I read and enjoyed the first two books in this series, I set extremely high expectations for this third installment, and yet again, Kimberly Derting hits a home run! I wish The Last Echo showed a little bit more of Jay, and the romance between him and Violet, but I still really enjoyed reading about the criminal side.

Howdy Ya’ll!

Welcome to another one of my reviews. Todays book is A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford. It’s the second book in the A Touch Trilogy. Even though the copy I had was a ARC for a book tour I was participating in, A Touch Morbid has already hit the shelves so anyone can go out to the store and pick up their own.

I hadn’t really noticed it before, but I’ve really been into paranormal – especially angel books! I’m not sure why, ut I’m pulled and attracted to them. A Touch Morbid is the book that got me into this phase!

Leah Clifford does an amazing job re-introducing all of the characters in the second book. If it’s been a while since you’ve read the first book, don’t worry, it’ll only take a few pages to get back into it. And only a few more pages before it has your attention tightly wrapped around its finger. I honestly couldn’t put A Touch Morbid down (bad idea, when laying out in the sun reading! Leads to serious sunburns! *Warning*).

There’s is a lot going on in A Touch Morbid, which can be a bit overwhelming (I had to take my time and read some parts more slowly, so I could fully understand what was going on). While Kristen is trying her best to find Gabe and not sure if she can trust Luke or not, Eden wants to save Gabe and keep their group together and safe. Jarrod wants to help a human girl who is addicted to Touch, and soon has feelings for her, and then there’s Az who just wants Eden to be happy even if it means he has to make a huge sacrifice.

A Touch Morbid, wasn’t really what I was expected! From the cover, I got a whole different vibe than what the story was actually about. But after reading the story, and LOVING it, I understand what the cover means and how it connects with the story line. If you haven’t read this book or A Touch Mortal, you really need to go out right now and get it, before I hunt you down (I swear I will!). I can’t wait to read and see what the cover of the third and last instalment of the trilogy will look like 🙂

Lisa

“Whaaat? Lisa you just now started reading the Vampire Academy series? What’s wrong with you?”

I know, I know, you all probably want to throw rocks and sticks at me through this screen! But I just never got around to reading this series, and I really didn’t do too much research on them, to see what they’re about, or to check what some of my favourite book bloggers thought about them.

A while ago I finally got myself to purchase the first two books, but still months went by before I finally picked up the first book, and dug in!

To be honest … I regret not starting this series right when it hit the book store shelves!

Vampire Academy is about a girl (or vampire princess, same thing, right?) named Lissa and her guardian named Rose, who are just being forced back to their school called (take a wild guess, go ahead!) Vampire Academy, after running away and spending the last few months by themselves in the human world.

The Vampire Academy is a boarding school that not only vampires, but also their in-training guardians, attend.

Finally, arriving at the school, Lissa was just sent straight off to class while Rose was receiving her punishment for not “preventing” Lissa from running away. Rose is stuck in classes she needs to take as a senior, but she is also forced to take before and after school training lessons, and whatever free time Rose has left, she is forced to spend it in her dorm room.

Throughout dealing with coming back to school, not seeing each other very often, and just some regular old high school problems, the two girls find out that Lissa holds these immense powers! She can not only save people from dying, but she can even bring them back from the dead. Every time Lissa does this, she makes a huge sacrifice, she loses a pieces of her own soul!

Vampire Academy was nothing I thought it would be! I was really getting tired of this whole vampire thing, but this book puts a whole different spin on it! I love it, and I just want to punch myself for not reading it earlier! (Well at least I dont need have to wait, for what seems like forever, for another book in the series to come out!) If you haven’t picked up these books, I recommend you should!