Cloaked

Cloaked is by Alex Flinn (the author of Beastly, an excellent book I've read before). It is about a boy who works on shoes, who meets a princess that wants him to go and search for her brother, the prince, that has been turned into a frog. It sounds really weird, but basically it incorperates a whole bunch of traditional and obscure fairy tales into one hilarious mishmash of magic and mayhem.

Beautiful Creatures

This weekend, I read the book Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. A wonderfully written book! The basic plot is that there is a guy named Ethan who meets this girl, Lena, and starts hanging out with her. They find a magic locket that shows them visions of the past--Civil War era--and it is revealed that Lena is a Caster (sort of a politically correct way to say 'witch,' I guess), and that her alignment (Dark or Light) is to be revealed to her on her sixteenth birthday. Much wackiness ensues, including a Caster named Ridley wreaking mayhem on Ethan's best friend and an incubus who turns out to be someone you wouldn't expect. I highly reccommend this book, and I'll let you know about the sequel, which I am going to scour the library for as soon as the doors open.

My Most Excellent Year

My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger is the book I just finished. I checked it out yesterday morning and finished it last night. That's right--one day and I read the whole book. Not because it's small or fluffy, but because it was so good that I couldn't put it down. And that's saying something, since it's a romantic comedy and I'm most defiantely NOT a girl who reads love stories with any kind of regularity. Or willingness. It usually takes my friend Jenni practically gluing my hands to a book to get me to read romance novels. And I finished this one in a day. Brilliantly written, very funny--I reccomend this book to everybody. That's right, boys, even you.

Perfect Chemistry

Have you read Perfect Chemistry? It's a Romeo-and-Juliet style love story, which means I automatically am obligated to hate it. And YET! My friend Jenni talked me into reading it, and I couldn't put the thing down!! It was brilliant. Read it. Tomboy to audience, I dare you all.