Days of Blood and Starlight

Days of Blood and Starlight
 by Laini Taylor
 544 pages

With a war brewing between the Angels and Chimera Kaoru must choose who to side with and come to terms with who she really is.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander - 42 pages

With the new movie coming out this next weekend, I decided to read the book that inspired it.  For me, the most interesting parts were the "written in" comments by Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Soundless by Richelle Mead

Soundless by Richelle Mead  266 pages

For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them.

When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink and many go hungry. Fei's home, the boy she loves, and her entire existence is plunged into crisis, under threat of darkness and starvation.

Then Fei is awoken in the night by a searing noise, and sound becomes her weapon . . .

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Books 4 through 6 - Michael Scott

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Book 4 - The Necromancer, 418 pages
Book 5 - The Warlock, 400 pages
Book 6 - The Enchantress, 528 pages

The final three books continue the fast paced action as the twins and the Flamels try in their own ways to save the world and to find out their true destinies.  Fans of Rick Riordan won't be disappointed with this series.  The interweaving of myth / legend with real world danger makes for an intriguing tale spanning the globe.

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

 The Grimm Legacy  by Polly Shulman  325 pages

High school student Elizabeth is feeling lonely: her new stepmother is taking up most of her father's time and she just transferred to a new school where she doesn't have any friends. When her history teacher suggests that she get a job with the New York Circulating Material Repository, she looks forward to the new experience. The Repository is a lending library of objects - some ordinary and some possessing secret powers. Fascinated by the Grimm Collection and its magical menagerie of items taken straight out of Grimm's fairy tales, Elizabeth and her friends at the repository are entangled in a web of mystery as items and people begin to disappear! It's up to Elizabeth and her friends to solve the mystery and return the powerful artifacts to the collection.