Shining Bright

"And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not. That would be awesome. But until that day, I'm going to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in 'real' life." - Zoe Sugg, Girl Online In  Girl Online , fairytale romance meets internet survival as 15-year-old Penelope (Penny for short) Porter struggles through the catastrophe that is teenagehood, anonymously blogging about it along the way. As if just surviving a regular day wasn't difficult, Penny has just experienced possibly the most embarrassing thing to happen to anyone ever: falling over onstage and flashing her 3-year-old, fraying, unicorn-printed underwear to the world. And now, Penny, her parents and her best friend Elliot are on their way to New York-- a world away from her hometown of Brighton, UK, a world away from her disaster. New York proves to be amazing, and she even meets a guy who seems to really like he...

"You always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works." - Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound Crimson Bound is a fantasy story that has the feel of a fairytale and the energy of an action novel. Set in the fictional country of Gevaudan, which was inspired by 17th-century France. The main character is 18-year-old Rachelle, a bloodbound and protector of the King. Three years earlier, the ferocious kiss of a forestborn -- a non-human creature that has incredible strength and fighting ability -- had turned her into a bloodbound, half-human and half-forestborn and since then, she had killed her aunt and joined the King's bloodbound army in which she quickly climbed the ranks. Now, at the top of the army alongside her friend and pursuer, Erec D'Anjou, she has almost forgotte...

"Bloodlines and last names didn't make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were." -    Courtney Alameda ,  Shutter Shutter  provides a peek into what the world would be like if ghosts and monsters were common and ghost hunters were heroes. The heroine in this story is Micheline, heir to Helsing Corps, her family's famous monster hunting company and tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. Being the only possible heir -- due to the traumatic death of her mother and two brothers -- puts a lot of pressure on Micheline, particurlary from her father, the current Commander-in-Chief of the company. This being said, Micheline and her father don't have the best relationship especially since the death of her mother, so it's no surprise that Mr. Helsing doesn't react well after a routine ghost hunt goes terribly wrong, endangering Micheline and her 3 crew members. After fa...