Myra is a devoted girls’ camp counselor whose familiar summer routine is overturned when the camp converts from all-girls to co-ed. As the weeklong camp progresses, she begins to suspect that the carefree adventurousness of Alex, the new male counselor, is actually calculating endangerment of the kids. Yet as she increasingly fears for the kids’ safety, she also finds herself . . .
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This is a story about a sixteen year-old boy named Seth Drak. He doesn’t think that there is anything out of the ordinary about him except for his above average grades that landed him in the top school in Manhattan when he was in the fourth grade. This all changes when the Alecard twins transfer. Transfer students were weird enough, . . .
Meet seventeen-year-old Emily Hunte, a teenager living in America during the Great War on Technology. When the attacks in Chicago start, her older sister and trained soldier, Amber smuggles her into a survivalist compound in the wilderness of Alaska—one of the few safe places left in the world. To survive in this cutthroat community, Emily has to take on the . . .
The Australian suburb of South Hertling has known its share of misfortunes—supervillain attacks, unexpected time rifts, attempted robot uprisings and crashed spaceships, to name but a few. But finally the suburb has some good news! It is opening day of a new attraction in which for the first time ever, the public can see extinct creatures in captivity—Trilobite . . .
Most years, I think, are skippable. They suffer from this indescribable mundanity, this relentlessly oscillating day in day out. Those years you could summarise in a sentence or two. To say that 2014 was the best year of my life would be unfair to years 1997 through to 2013, and all the years that followed. But it was certainly the . . .
Years ago magic entered our modern world and changed everything. Twenty years later, the world has Access Facilities to help budding magic users and the MDE to help manage, police, and control magic. Raven Delias is a normal teenage girl who is getting her Core magic awakened like everyone her age. She just wants to get into a good school . . .
Hui Yue had a pleasant life. He was gifted with good looks, a shrewd personality and athletic abilities far above the norm. Every student at his university would call him perfect, however Hui Yue himself knew that the one thing he wanted the most was the one thing he could not have, his childhood friend from his previous life, Li . . .
Neith is pretty much waiting to die. Rigid controls and an abundance of technology contribute to some semblance of order for those who remain in the last clean city, Feichangbei. While the epidemic is over, the survivors’ victory is only temporary. There have been no living births in 16 years. The third generation numbers less than 2,000, and the third . . .
Hi guys! My name is Amber A and this is my story . . . so far. I’m just a typical Aussie teen living my life in Perth, WA. It’s 2004 and I’ve started Senior School this year, and I just KNOW that it’s not all going to be smooth sailing . . . I have a dysfunctional family life, my friends are totally . . .
Peter Wright was an ordinary guy, living a mediocre life, but fate had other plans. Peter finds himself in a parallel world with nothing to his name but a wholly unimaginable power he needs to figure out how to use. Now Peter Wright steps forth to unravel what is his destiny, as Fayde of the Void. . . .
I always wanted to be a selfish person. Why? Because they get to keep everything. So I decided to be the most selfish person in the world. One who will always put himself before others. Everything would have worked out, but I met her. Her name is Mai. And, somehow she changed me. . . .
Zak Sykes is a shifter. He can shift objects using the power in his heart known as eks. He gained this power when he was twelve years old on White Valentine’s. On that particular February 14th a massive white light engulfed Downtown York, destroying everything and taking the girl of his dreams from him. Now, six years later, Zak, along . . .
Pillars of Faith follows the story of a woman named Senna who has been forced into the violent life of a monster against her will. Struggling with self loathing, the lack of a home, and inescapable, crushing loneliness, she desperately clings to the shreds of her own humanity. What will change when she finally finds someone to fight for? More . . .
Oct 6, 2013: I liked the short opening chapter in which a woman dives off a cliff and becomes a mermaid. It was quite evocative and brought back memories of the movie Splash.
The second chapter makes a grevious error – a time traveller encounters gladiators and the Coliseum in ancient Greece instead of Rome. Ouch. One mistake doesn’t necessarily condemn a story (the Coliseum scene is only a short vignette, and after that the action switches to Central America) but it does mark [more . . .]
Apr 21, 2010: Readers beware; here there be spoilers.
Breathless follows the misadventures of a teenage couple as they blunder their way through a religious-flavored conspiracy dedicated to the task of either getting them to bump uglies or kill each other. I didn’t stick around long enough to find out which.
I’m not a fan of Twilight, so keep that in mind—harnessing the combined power of teenage sexuality, angst, and hints of the supernatural has [more . . .]