Author: Bree Despain
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Publisher: Egmont
Pages: 372
Age Group: Young Adult 
Source: Bought
Interest: Author
Other Tittles in the Series: The Lost Saint
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Grace Divine—daughter of the local pastor—always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared and her brother Jude came home covered in his own blood.

Now that Daniel's returned, Grace must choose between her growing attraction to him and her loyalty to her brother.

As Grace gets closer to Daniel, she learns the truth about that mysterious night and how to save the ones she loves, but it might cost her the one thing she cherishes most: her soul.

Bree Despain has now captured my attention with an amazing debut novel! The Dark Divine was everything I thought it would be and more. This is not just your average werewolf story. Bree Despain has created a whole other way to think about werewolves. And a religious one at that! 
  
Grace is the typical pastor's daughter. Sometimes naive and is overprotected. I really liked her character. Daniel was well... dangerous and brooding and oh so hot! Their, did that get your attention! :)  I liked Pete, but you may flip flop with him. His character changed. The one character I really liked right from the beginning is Don, and I have no idea why! He seems to really care about Grace.


The only reason this isn't five stars is because I think that she relied to much on the bible. I am a christian so it didn't effect me to much, but to some it might be an annoyance. 


I didn't mean to wait to long to read this, but I knew that if I read this I would want  to get my hands on the next book in the series. So the next borders I hit I'm getting it!  



My Rating:(4.5 Stars)

Author: Simone Elkeles
Series: Bk. 1 (Perfect Chemistry)
Publisher: Walker
Page: 357
How Received: Bought

When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for—her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. 

After having so many friends recommend this book to me I finally came to my senses and bought it. And I sure am glad I did! All I can say is I'm in love with Simone Elkeles' writing. I just ordered Rules of Attraction the second book in this series, and as soon as I get it I'm going to read it. Now all I have to do is wait for it to get here.....the waiting is going to kill me! 


Alex is the guy everyone is terrified of. Brittany was the golden girl. Alex is a gang member, and he has that I don't give a s&!@ attitude. Brittany is the popular blond with everything a girl could want. Alex and Brittany are assinged to be chimistry partners, and they both don't like that!   They despise each other! Both are facing something bigger than high school. Brittany is trying to make everyone believe her life is perfect. And Alex is trying to find out who murdered his father.


When Alex and Brittany are they fight, argue, and just get under each others skin. But as they get closer you will see the sexual tension sky rocket!


This book is more that an amazing romance. It is an eye opener. It showed that if your rich or poor everyone still faces challenges. and that no one is perfect, even if everyone believes they are. 


I really loved this book. I wish I could give it a million stars. I totally recommend this book!

My Rating:

Kristi at The Story Siren is hosting the fantastic Debut Author Challenge again for 2011. This will be  my first year participating in this challenge. I was debating on doing it last year, but it was to late in the year

Kristi has already put together a spreadsheet of Debut authors of 2011, and you can find that here.

Here's just some of the books that I'll be reading this year. It may change:

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Warped by Maurissa Guibord

XVI by Julia Karr

Timeless by Alexandra Monir

Vesper by Jeff Sampsen

The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher

Other Words for Love by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris

This one will be easy. All you have to do is try to read as many books as you can with 350 or more pages.

Hosted @ What's Your Story

I don't have a list of this one just what every I find I'll read :P

This challenge is hosted by: The Thoughts of a Book Junky
In this challenge all you have to do is read 26 books. One for each letter of the alphabet. Easy? Let's hope! 

Here's my list so far ( it might change):


Bold = Read
Crossed Out = Read and Reviewed


a. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Brey
b. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
c. City of Falen Angels - Cassandra Clare
d. (The) Dark Divine - Bree Despain 
e. Evernight- Claudia Grey
f.  Fragile Eternity - Melissa Marr
g. Getting the Girl - Markus Zusak
h.  (The) Hollow -Jessica Verday
i. Ice - Sarah Beth Durst
j. Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side - Beth Fantaskey
k. 
l. The Luxe - Anna Godberson 
m. Masquerade - Melissa De La Cruz
n.  North of  Beautiful - Justina Chen Headley 
o. Original Sin - Lisa Desrochers
p. Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
q.
r. (The) Replacement - Brenna Yovanoff
s. Sing Me To Sleep - Angela Morrison
t. (The) Tear Collector - Patrick Jones
u. Unearthly - Cynthia Hand
v. Vampire Academy - Ricelle Mead
w. Wabi - Joseph Bruchac
x.   XVI - Julia Karr
y.
z.

Over at My Love Affair With Books they are hosting the "I Wish I Read That" challenge. I decided I wanted to join. I have a HUGE tbr pile, and anything that will help me get it under control I'm in for. This sounds like a fun challenge!
Their are several levels. I picked the highest level; The Obsessed! (Which I am.) I have to read and post a review for at least 20 books. No biggy right? Let's hope so!

To learn more about this challenge, or to join go visit "My Love Affair with Books"!

Here is my list (which my change), and sorry got lazy with the authors:

Bold = Read
Crossed Out = Read and Reviewed

1. The Dark Divine
2. Beautiful Creatures
3. Ballad
4. Blue Bloods
5. Perfect Chemistry
6. Ice
7. Evernight
8. Vampire Academy
9. Megan Mead's Guide to the McGowan Boys
10. Rumors
11. The Hollow
12. Willow
13. The Tear Collector
14. The Replacement
15. Marked
16. Twenty Boy Summer
17. North of Beautiful
18. Prom
19. Two way Street
20. Sea Change