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__**[[image:lament.jpg width="235" height="359" align="left"]]Book Review 1: Lament**__
Sixteen year old Deirdre Monaghan is a shy prodigiously gifted musician who is about to find out she is also a clover hand - one who can see faeries. When a mysterious boy enters her ordinary suburban life, Deirdre finds herself in trouble. The mysterious boy is named Luke who is a gallowglass - one who is a soulless faerie assassin and Deirdre is his next target. Deirdre must decide if Luke's feelings towards her are true, or is it a trap to lure her into the world of faeries? Part adventure, part fantasy and part love story. Lament is a book that skillfully blends magic and ordinary life, creatively written by Maggie Stiefvater.

[[image:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YpvWimzMT5M/TQpDJYGD73I/AAAAAAAAApU/UyDs0qZUY8s/s1600/Ballad%2BUK.jpg width="232" height="352" align="left"]]__**Book Review 2: Ballad**__
A sequel to Lament. Nuala is part muse, part psychic vampire. Her mark across history is unmistakable: a trail of amazing poets, musicians and artists who die tragically young. James is a brilliant bagpiper in the state. He's young and good looking, just like Nuala's type. But James is the first person ever to reject Nuala. He's preoccupied with a deadly faerie game with his best friend Deirdre. Slowly though, James and Nuala form a cautious relationship, but James realises that his feeling for both Deirdre and Nuala have changed. Halloween descends with bonfires and rituals for the dead, one deadly to Nuala and the other to Deirdre. James can only save one... A story that weaves suspense, romance, truth and music together delivering a thoroughly satisfying story written by Maggie Stiefvater.



__**Book Review 3: Coraline**__
//Green Frog Stickered Book.// Based on the film created by Tim Burton, Coraline is a brave, fearless girl who goes exploring in her new house. She finds a small door that is locked wnd on the other side there is only a brick wall, until the day that Coraline decides to open the door that leads to another flat in another house just like hers. Only it is not the same... First impressions, the place is better than her own. The food is better, there are more interesting toys in the toy box like wind up angels that flutter around in the room and books with pictures that move, crawl and shimmer. But there is another mother, another father that want Coraline to be their daugter and want her to stay and change her and never let her go... Other children are locked up in her clutches too, lost souls behind mirrors and Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to pull her act together and fight with all her wits to save the lost children and to get her ordinary life back too. A creepy horror story with a lot of action written by Neil Gaiman.



__**Book Review 4: The Foreshadowing**__
//Green Frog Stickered Book.// It is 1915, the time of World war 1. Alexandra Fox, also known as Sasha, is a priviledged only daughter of a respected doctor living in a wealthy seaside town of Brighton. Her brothers Edgar and Tom have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift, more known as a curse. She can see the future and her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme. Like the prophetess of Cassandra, who so many centuries before foretold the tradgedies of Troy, Sasha is trapped by power. No one, not even her parents or brothers believe her. She feels annoyed and miserable by her overprotective mother and strict father as the Fox family lose faith in her. She is determined to win it back no matter the price, no matter the consequence, no matter if it's life or death. Read this book to find out what happens to Alexandra in a stylishly written book by Marcus Sedgwick that will leave a tears in your eyes.