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This was kind of hilarious. The hero is half dragon, half demon, and he and his brothers have come to earth to stop their evil father from trying to create an army of zombies, using an ancient Egyptian book. Obviously he falls in love with a spunky human and much boinking ensues.

Darynda Jones could make the phone book funny. She’s fabulous.  I always compare these stories to the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but way funnier, way sexier, and with better writing and more accessible characters.

A really good look into the inner life of someone who has struggled to be “popular” but ultimately finds her own way. It is reassuring that there is life outside high school without dismissing the pain that comes from being on the outside. Despite scenes of bullying, attempted suicide, eating disorders etc there is a kind of wry humour and moments of recognition. Plus, I learned about DJing and how it is an amazing talent.

(3.5 stars) funny, Sex in the City (lots of sex!) book for grown-up Carrie Bradshaws.

This is a lot of fun; if we had followed the Breakfast Club into university (assuming John Bender had made it in to university), you would have the writers of The Peak. The observations of university life are frighteningly spot-on and incredibly funny.

This was actually a pretty cool story, that begins with a guy breaking out of a nineteenth century British prison! The heroine is nothing to sneeze at either. She’s a tutor by day, and a professional revenge-getter by night!

Bizarre and challenging. All about the prospects for intelligent computers and their literary output.

This is a prequel to the fantastic After the Snow. I liked this and was engaged with Magda’s story, but I liked After the Snow better. One Crow alone didn’t have the same experimental language of After the Snow and felt more like a traditional dystopian novel. That said, I really do like this author and will keep reading the series.

This is THE perfect summer read! It is set in the Caribbean on the set of a reality TV show and a young woman has apparently left the show and returned to Canada. Funny thing, though, a part of a leg with a tattoo like the young woman’s has turned up on a beach. The main character is a travel writer whose brother is the producer of the TV show and one of his cameramen is worried that something is wrong so he contacts the travel writer and she turns up on the island. There are cameras everywhere – almost nothing that happens on the island is private – this turns out to be very important in the solving of the disappearance of the young woman. The story breezes along, there are a couple of love interests and when I finished the book I wanted the next book in the series to be available NOW.