Born Wicked

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave. Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra. If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.

I had no plan to read this at first. It didn't really seem like a book I would enjoy but I changed my mind and what a luck. The beginning wasn't that great though. Slow-paced and not really interesting but when I was thinking about putting the book down and pick up something else - everything turned and the book got great.

I liked Cate from the very beginning and got kind of mad at Maura for not listening to her sister, heh. The book contains a little love-triangle but I'm not really surprised. The book had been just as good without it, though. And when we're on it - Finn is definitely my favorite.

I really liked this book and I highly recommend it to you guys!

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood 
Hardcover, 330 pages
Putnam Juvenile
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay. When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn’t expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. And she, for whatever reason, spares his life.

I've read so many reviews about this book that I got a little afraid of being disappointed. When I started reading I thought it went to slow so I skimmed a bit but all of a sudden it turned. The book got very interesting and exciting and I had some issues putting it down at nights.

Anna is a very interesting character and I'm hoping to learn more about her in the second book in this duology. I liked Cas too but I had a big problem with the instalove. In two seconds, Cas loved Anna, a ghost. It didn't seem really realistic if you ask me.

Anyway, I'm going to read Girl of nightmares as soon as I can and if you're into ghost and paranormal romance - I recommend this book.

Anna dressed in blood by Kendare Blake 
Paperback, 373 pages
Orchard Books
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Every Day

Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. 

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

I've read one book by Levithan before this and I loved it. Before I picked this up I read a few reviews and it was all really good so my expectations were pretty high but he did it. HE DID IT! Some might say this is a wierd book and not believable but I loved it and you should read it open-minded.

A has a interesting life and I'm a bit curious about the background. What happened and why? How is the future going to be? I had some problems putting this down so my sleep got kind of disturbed there for a couple of days but it's OK. If it's disturbed by a great book - it's OK.

Levithan has become one of my favorite authors and I'm so curious about his other books. Yesterday, a book by him and Andrea Cremer was released and that one sounds really interesting. I highly recommend this book and still can't stop thinking about it.

Every Day by David Levithan
Hardcover, 324 pages
Knopf Books
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