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These books are books i have read or heard of. Compleate summary and photo below.

In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes became the first book of A Den of Shadows series. Copyrighted in 1999 and published by Laurel-Leaf, a division of Random House Inc., the book consists of 147 seven pages and includes an excerpt from her book Persistence of Memory. The style of story appears in first person.  The book has some explicit references to death and torture therefore considering it not only fantasy but horror. In the Forests of the Night also is categorized under adult and young adult fiction. The book is a vampiratic, fantasy story of a three hundred year old vampire named Risika, which flashes back to the time she was forced to become a vampire. While remembering the past, Risika also goes though troubles with hunting in territories which do not belong to her as well as gaining the respect she believes she deserves.

In 1701 Rachel (Risika) lives with her brother Alexander, sister Lynette and father Peter in Massachusetts. Alexander discovers he has an odd ability, which frightens him into thinking he automatically signed the devil’s book. A strange man named Aubrey Karew shows up at their door and gives Rachel a black rose. Aubrey, a vampire, and his not so lovely assistant, Ather, kills her humanity and makes her a vampire too. In present time, Aubrey kills a tiger in the zoo, which Risika created a bond with. This causes her to seek revenge even though she fears him and his power. 

When reading the book, it flows very easily and smoothly. Contains no static characters for both Risika and Aubrey change throughout the novel.  The tone of the book is suspenseful yet sophisticated, giving one an I can’t tear myself away feeling without the usual wham-bam-in-your-face kind of suspense. I found Amelia Atwater-Rhodes’s book very addicting and just seeing the book sit there while I tried to do my homework made my fingers itch to start reading again. Once you start it becomes nearly impossible to stop.

 Estrella deMadrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, sister, dearest friend, beloved. She is Star in the Night Sky, Truth in the Darkness. But truth is rare and precious in this cruel and unforgiving centry in Spain, when Jews who refuse conversion to Christianity risked everthing-love, life, family, faith. Then: A startling discovery shakes Estrella's world to the core. And yet, it is something small and sweet that sets it a flame. A kiss. A kiss from someone she is forbidden to love. As a new girl emerges from the cocoon of secrets in which she has been shriuded, passion burns and friendship crumbles-and betratal unleashes a monstrous evil from the very deepest part of the earth. Estrella crosses over to a place she never thought she could be; she is someone she never could have imagined.

 Far away on Wide Island lives a princess born with a dragon claw.

No one, save her mother, the queen, knows her terrible secret. And the queen has forced her to wear gloves at all times until a cure can be found. Rosalind is  a princess, so she must be perfect-how else can she fulfill Merlin's six hundred year old prophecy that will restore her banished royal family to its rightful throne? But Rosalind's flaw cannot be seperated from her fate. And soon the bloodthirsty dragon that plauges Wilde Island carries her off. The dragon sees her beauty in her talon where her mother sees only shame. And on Dragon's Keep Rosalind comes to understand the truth behind the prophecy that has haunted her since birth. Is Rosie a princess? Or a spawn of a dragon? Which part of her blood holds the secret to wh she is?

 Summary:

Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by a tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lighting. But instead of ending her life, this cataclyamic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning.

After the lighting strike, the chill in her spirit starts to have physical manifestations. She feels frozen from the inside out, and everything red looks as colorless as snow. Hearing of a few lighting-strike survivor- a man who was apparently dead for forty minutes, then simply got up and walked away- she goes in search of him. Perhaps Lazarus Jones, as he is known, can teach her to live without fear. He turns out to be her perfect oppsite, a man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obessive love affair begins between them, both hide their most dangerous secrets- what happened in the past that turned one to ice and the other to fire. And everyone in her fragile network of friends and family will be drawn into the conflagration of their joining. 

I am a beast. A beast. Not quite a wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright-a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I'm a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever-ruined-unless I can break the spell. Yes, the spell. the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.

The summer is stifling, and strange things are happening in New York City. Rats have taken over the borough of Brooklyn.
A weird, black, oily substance is oozing from fire hydrants and faucets. A mysterious epidemic is turning people into raving cannibals. And the signs say that worse is comming. . . . 

In the midst of all this, five teenagers are trying to ignore the madness and concentrate on something really important: their new band. But there's no way to escape the chaos, especially when it turns out their lead singer has the disease- and her songs may hold the key to the entire chain of disasters. Will their music stave off the end of the world? Or summon it? 

  Mistress of Dragons is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The DRAGONVARLD. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and dark magic, where the uneasy balance of power between the two is on the verge of comming undone, threatening to unleash waves of destruction that will pit humans against men for the domination of the world. Humanity's very survival is at risk. . .

The power to hold the chaos at bay, the terrible secret that maintains the balance, rests in the hands of a new and in experienced mistress of dragons.

Book One of The Last rune 

 Reality is un raveling in the dusty Colorado town of Castle City. Strange symbols are carved into storefronts, and ancient legends come to life. Saloon keeper Travis Wilder is handed an ornate iron box and a mysterious mission. And in Dever, where dead men walk, ER doctor Grace Beckett is witness to a terrifying and inhuman scene of carnage. Theirs is a destiny shrouded in a coming darkness, a destiny that draws them into the otherworld of Eldh . . .

Eldth is a land of gods and monsters, myths and runecraft, conspiracy and blood. It is a world that has secretly coexist beside ours for millennia. But now the boundary between worlds is crumbling in the face of a monstrous evil. And if Travis and Grace cannot save this strange land, then both worlds may pay the price.