The Calling (Darkness Rising #2)  by Kelley Armstrong First read in April 2012. Re-read April 2013. Review is written after the first read. Blurb from Goodreads: Maya Delaney’s paw-print birthmark is the mark of what she truly is -a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly everyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it’s only a matter of time before she’s able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there may be others in her small town with surprising talents. Now Maya […]

The Gathering (Darkness Rising #1)  by Kelley Armstrong first read in April 2011, re-read in April 2012. Review is written after the re-read. Blurb from Goodreads: An ordinary town . . . full of deadly secrets Strange things have been happening in sixteen-year-old Maya’s small Vancouver Island community–from the mountain lions that have been constantly approaching her to her best friend’s hidden talent for “feeling” out people and situations. There’s also a sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel . . . “different.” Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya’s biological parents and it’s […]

With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7) by Rachel Vincent Blurb: What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America? It’s time to kick some hellion butt… After not really surviving her junior year (does “undead” count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She’s going to find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity against one another in order to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever. But then she meets Wrath and understands that she’s […]