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Halloween Reads: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

October 31, 2014 / 7 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Halloween Reads: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Anna Dressed in Blood Author: Kendare Blake (website | twitter) Publisher: Tor Teen Source: Toronto Public Library Format: Hardcover, 316 pages Publication date: October 17, 2011 My rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars. Buy it:  Indigo.ca | Indiebound | B&N | The Book Depository | Amazon Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered 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. They follow legends and local […]

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Way Better Than Lassie: Early Review – Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

October 3, 2014 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Way Better Than Lassie: Early Review – Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

Rain Reign Author: Ann M. Martin (website | twitter) Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (Raincoast Books in Canada!) Source/Format: ARC from BEA14 Expected publication date: October 7, 2014 (next week!) My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars In her most powerful novel yet, Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin tells the story of girl with mental/emotional challenges and the dog she loves. Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger’s syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Rain was a […]

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