Reviews by Tag: vampires

Teen Review
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

The Serpent and Wings of Night

By Carissa Broadbent
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jul 26, 2024

Oraya is a human adopted by a vampire king who competes in the Kejari, a legendary tournament, with Raihn, an unexpected ally. She enters the deathmatch to win a wish from a goddess, which would grant her power. Oraya and Raihn form an unexpected bond during the Kejari, causing Oraya to question her beliefs and her hope for the future. Oraya must decide whether her new feelings are worth the future she’s been working toward her whole life. 

Teen Review
Dracula

Dracula

By Bram Stoker
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Jul 10, 2024

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a Gothic horror masterpiece that has shaped vampire lore for over a century. The novel's interesting format, combining journal entries, letters, and newspaper articles, creates an immersive and suspenseful narrative. The novel begins with Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, traveling to Transylvania to help Count Dracula with a real estate transaction. Harker soon becomes a prisoner in Dracula's castle and discovers the Count's vampiric nature.

Teen Review
The Scarlet Veil book cover

The Scarlet Veil

By Shelby Mahurin
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aqsa A.
Jun 7, 2024

The Scarlet Veil is a novel written by Shelby Mahurin, which follows the character of Célie Tremblay. Célie has always been known as the obedient good girl in her kingdom. She surprises the entire kingdom when she refuses to follow the tradition of being the first huntswoman with an iron fist. But Célie has been dealing with the nightmares of her own past. Though her friends try to protect her from the trauma and horror from her past, Célie keeps hearing mysterious whispers.

Teen Review
 The Serpent & the Wings of Night book cover

The Serpent & the Wings of Night

By Carissa Broadbent
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aqsa A.
Jun 7, 2024

The Serpent & The Wings of Night, written by Carissa Broadbent, is a fantasy story that follows the character Oraya. Oraya is the adopted human daughter of the Nightborne vampire king, and she has been training all her life to fight in the Kejari. The Kejari is a legendary tournament, where people compete against each other to win a grand prize. Oraya, forced to partner with the vampire Raihn, then has to try to win over warriors from other vampire houses, or suffer the fate of death.

Teen Review
The Salt Grows Heavy book cover

The Salt Grows Heavy

By Cassandra Khaw
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
May 3, 2024

“There is nothing wrong with being a monster.” 

The Salt Grows Heavy follows a silent mermaid, abused and tired of captivity, who leaves her castle to wander the dying the world. Her daughters, thousands of horrible teeth-filled creatures roam what’s left of the world. The mermaid finds companionship in an androgenous plague doctor, who’s spend their life being pulled apart and pieced back together. What kind of chaos will the two get into together? 

Teen Review
Crave book cover

Crave

By Tracy Wolff
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M.
Mar 1, 2024

Crave is a supernatural young adult romance novel that follows Grace, a girl who recently lost her parents in a mysterious car crash, as she moves into her new home, Katmere Academy in Alaska. As she settles in, she finds that things around her are suspicious, and no one answers her questions. To distract herself, Grace dives deep into a relationship with the most distant boy in school, Jaxon Vega.

Teen Review
Midnight Sun book cover

Midnight Sun

By Stephenie Meyer
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M.
Jan 26, 2024

Midnight Sun is the first novel in the Twilight saga from Edward’s point of view. It is very interesting to see the story through Edward because he has so many conflicting thoughts about Bella and her well-being around him. I would suggest reading this book after you finish reading the entire Twilight saga because it will help patch up some holes left in the story after the last book. My favorite part of this story is Edward’s protectiveness towards Bella and she doesn’t even know it.

Teen Review
Breaking Dawn book cover

Breaking Dawn

By Stephenie Meyer
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Mahad Z.
Dec 8, 2023

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer is the fourth and final book in the Twilight series. The story continues to follow the romantic relationship between Bella Swan, a human, and Edward Cullen, a vampire. The narrative unfolds in three parts: the preparation and celebration of Bella and Edward's wedding, Bella's challenging pregnancy with their half-vampire, half-human daughter, Renesmee, and the consequences of the birth on Bella's life.

Teen Review
Twilight book cover

Twilight

By Stephanie Myer
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 30, 2023

Bella isn’t like other girls; she just wants to live with her mom, but understands that she has to move to Forks to live with her dad. So, for her mom, Bella makes the decision to move to Forks and start her junior year there. The rainy temperate environment isn’t anything like what she is used to, but neither is the strange boy next to her in biology, Edward. Bella and Edward can’t keep away from each other despite Edward trying to establish distance. Bella knows Edward isn’t normal but she’s not sure what exactly he is.

Teen Review
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Twilight

By Stephanie Meyer
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Mariam S.
Aug 12, 2022

Twilight is perhaps the quintessential YA romance novel, notorious for its movie

adaptation and public division over the love interests. Bella Swan has just left her big-city life in

Phoenix to join her father in the small forested town of Forks, Washington. Not even past the

first day of school, she begins to notice odd things - like the pale and beautiful but isolated

family that is the Cullens. Especially Edward Cullen - who seems completely infuriated and

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