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SPARK by Holly Schindler- Cover Reveal

Hey bookworms, Welcome back to MYABL! Today, I am happy to reveal the cover of a upcoming YA read, Spark by author Holly Schindler! Check it out! All of the juicy details about this novel, as well as the author, are posted below. Keep reading for more. SPARK comes out next year (May 2016)! Make sure you add it to your Goodreads if you'd like to read it. Links for Goodreads and pre-orders are at the end of this post. I'm excited because it has the most amazing elements of Romeo and Juliet wound into it's blurb. Description: Holly Schindler’s Spark: When the right hearts come to the Avery Theater—at the right time—the magic will return. The Avery will come back from the dead. Or so Quin’s great-grandmother predicted many years ago on Verona, Missouri’s most tragic night, when Nick and Emma, two star-crossed teenage lovers, died on the stage. It was the night that the Avery’s marquee lights went out forever. It sounds like urban legend, but one that high school senior Quin is ...
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The Secret

The Secret

Angelfire

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton (NY: HarperCollins, 2011).

Ellie leads a carefree, privileged life in suburban Detroit until she starts having horrifying nightmares of brutal, dark creatures whom she must fight off with her magical, flame-spouting Khopesh blades. She's sure the dreams reflect nothing more than the stress of the start of her senior year in high school until she meets Will, who claims to be her Guardian, and the nightmares enter her waking world. During their training sessions, Will slowly reveals her role as something called a preliator who can kill these dark creatures, called reapers, that kill humans and carry their souls to hell so they can fight in Lucifer's army at the Apocalypse. Ellie resists her destiny, but ultimately has to believe that she must fight for humanity--and for her own mortal soul when an evil being named Bastion plots to kill her with the newly rediscovered Enoshi--the ultimate reaper.

On the plus side, Moulton has crafted a novel that's full of nonstop action as the brutish reapers pop up all the time and Ellie has to battle them. Blood, guts, gore, bashed cars, destroyed buildings, and shredded clothing regularly embellish the plot. Also, the romance between Ellie and Will develops as naturally and pleasantly as the monster killing allows. On the minus side, the angel mythology is unnecessarily complicated and difficult to follow with far too many levels of hierarchy given in more detail than necessary, and then ultimately altered with new developments. Ellie comes off as pretty dense for whatever she is--archangel? ninja monster destroyer? fire-summoning, blade-wielding killer? spoiled rich girl? Her mother and father are little more than types--distant and unobservant, though kind and caring mom, and emotionally abusive, workaholic dad (who has "changed"--though this is never explained but obviously something that will become pivotal in the next installment).

Not a bad read, but not overwhelmingly awesome. Recommended for ages 14 & up (though younger readers will no doubt find and enjoy it) due to violence, sexual situations, language, and alcohol/drugs.

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