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New book: Ghost Flower, by Michele Jaffe

Eve, a runaway, finds a new job at a coffee shop on the outskirts of Tuscon. When she's approached by two   wealthy teens who claim she bears an uncanny resemblance to their missing cousin Aurora, her life takes a turn for the dark and mysterious. Drawn into a scheme to win Aurora's inheritance, Eve finds herself impersonating the girl, who disappeared three years ago on the night her best friend Elizabeth died. But when Liza's ghost begins to haunt Eve, doing harm to the people close to her under the guise of "protecting" her, Eve finds herself in a nightmare maze of lies and deception that leads her to question even her own identity. She realizes her only chance is to uncover the truth about what happened the night Liza died, and to find Liza's killer - before she's next.

This teen thriller by Michele Jaffe will keep readers turning pages well into the night.

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New book: Wood Angel, by Erin Bow

This book features what I believe to be the best feline character in modern literature.  Taggle stole my heart and used his power to make me laugh and cry.  If only for the cat, you should read this book. 

Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver’s daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden talismans are so fine that some even call her “witch-blade”: a dangerous nickname in a country where witches are hunted and burned in the square. A mysterious fog ruins crops and spreads hunger and sickness. The townspeople blame Kate.
The stranger Linay will exchange her shadow for escape and her heart’s wish. It’s a chance for her to start over, to find a home, a family, a place to belong. But Kate soon realizes she can’t live shadowless forever — and that Linay’s anger and grief (like the bereaved author) can "level a city".

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Laura's Holiday Reads (2)

So I know I haven't said much these past two weeks, but it's been a really busy yet exciting holiday for me, and I've even managed to squeeze in a few books ;) Unfortunately I got the kindle app on my ipad set up, and so I've been reading a series that I don't think we have (I'll check when school opens) by Tom Holt.

Pictures above are in order, so start with The Portable Door and end with You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here But It Helps. I'm only starting the last one now, but the first three are a hilarious mix of sarcastic wit, science fiction and pure magic. You follow Paul Carpenter who is approximately 25 but has a mental maturity of about 10 as he applies for a job at the firm JW Wells & Co. Things get increasingly weird as nothing is what it seems at the firm, and both he and his coworker Sophie don't know what the firm actually does to earn money. As they slowly find out, goblins, sorcerers, cars that were once German women, dwarves, giants and modern day Excaliburs all feature in the series, and Paul is forced to save the world a number of times just to prolong the life of his true-love, Sophie. Holt's way of describing things is refreshing, original and downright clever - I've had to read a number of passages aloud to anyone within ten metres of where I was at the time. All in all, they get a little confusing at times but the prose flows effortlessly and you'll be sniggering your way through all of them.
On an unrelated note, I'm definitely going to try and get my way through at least two more of the library books I took out - and on top of that inform all of you of what I thought about them on Monday. Rain is perfect weather to curl up with a book, so enjoy the last weekend of the holidays while it lasts.