Could this really be by the same author who wrote Bronze Gods?Admittedly, this is the first YA book I've read by Aguirre. But after she completely astounded me with her complex world-building, clever mystery and well-developed characters in her adult steampunk series, I did not hesitate to come at this book with eager grabby hands. How disappointing to discover that this book is a shallow and boring addition to the long list of paranormal YA novels with creeptastic love interests.I haven't met a...

Well, I got all three of the books in the trilogy from BookOutlet and I hope the others get better. I liked the book and didn't like the book and I don't even know what to say. It was confusing here and there. Sigh. . .Edie has been picked on by bullies at her school for so long that she is on the verge of killing herself when a hot boy named Kian stops her and gives her a way out. He will grant her three wishes but she has to return three wishes to the company he works for and she takes it. I m...

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestI'm trying to purge my room of its physical copies of books and that means a lot of YA I've stocked up over the years. MORTAL DANGER is a book I bought years ago but never read. 99% of the reason I bought it was because I love the author, Ann Aguirre: her Sirantha Jax series is my everything.MORTAL DANGER is... a very strange book. Actually, a lot of my friends really didn't like it and I can sort of see why. It's like a weirder version

DNF 54%I'm sad because I was so looking forward to this but I'm sooo bored. I put it down to read something else after it felt like I'd been reading this one for a year, and I just can't motivate myself to pick this up and continue on with it. It started out alright but then turned out to be all about these 2 paranormal/afterlife "companies" who are in competition with each other and all their political drama, and well bleh. Also the love interest is another of those stalker guys who has watched...

In my experience, all the best books come from the most genuine of places. Of course, fiction is always fiction and I wouldn’t want it any other way, but the underlying emotion has to be honest. Authors don’t always draw from acquired knowledge and experience; after all, their characters can have a very different set of values, but the very best authors rely on emotions that are familiar and true. Among such authors, Ann Aguirre is queen.In the interest of full disclosure, I was a beta reader fo...

OH Ann, please make this as wonderful and badass as your Razorland series My reaction to the synopsis? Read all my reviews at www.rattlethestars.com

“I read a novel where this hit man is supposed to assassinate a woman, but he ends up falling in love with her instead, just from watching her.” Well, way to fall into your own cliché, book.The message in this book? Beauty is everything! Want a better life? Become beautiful. You will instantly have everything you will ever want. With the exceptions of a few Evil People wanting to possess you because you have a Special Destiny, but, whatever, right?- A hot boyfriend (or two)? Check! He's been

Engrossing and disturbing, Mortal Danger combines revenge, horror, and the trials of high school. Edie was a sympathetic character, a victim of cruel school bullying. This pushes her to take a deal that ends up being too good to be true. The consequences are ugly and terrifying and Edie is caught up in a deadly supernatural game. While Edie’s back and forth with Kian was understandable, it was a little frustrating at times. Still, I was rooting for their romance because they had so much in commo...

It appears that I'm in the minority here, but this book really entertained me.Meet Edith Kramer, a girl at the end of her rope. This brilliant, bullied girl has very logically planned her own death and is stopped the second before she tips over the edge. Kian is unbelievably handsome, but he's not one of the cruel 'beautiful people'. He offers her a mysterious bargain that'll enable her to get the revenge she's so desperate for. Edie may have been about to end it all, but this girl's no fool. In...

Here's something YA authors don't seem to get: You don't have to try so hard to make me like your main character. I don't need to like your main character in order to be invested in her story and enjoy the book. She doesn't have to be a freaking saint for me to like her and be interested in her either. Traditionally unlikable and morally ambiguous characters are perfectly fine with me as long as I find their story engaging. If I picked up a book that's supposedly about a teen seeking revenge for...

So many girls are obsessed with their looks as if their self-worth is tied to how attractive they may be. And can you blame them? Our media is saturated with that message. Edie was a great character because of her complicated relationship with her looks. Even after she is turned "pretty" she struggles. Her feelings will resonate with those girls who don't think they are beautiful enough. I feel like this will be a good book to start a discussion about what beauty means, how we use it, and what i...

***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Mortal Danger by Ann AguirreBook One of the Immortal Game seriesPublisher: Feiwel & FriendsPublication Date: August 5, 2014Rating: 4 starsSource: ARC sent by the publisherSummary (from Goodreads):Revenge is a dish best served cold.In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong eno...

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Unique dark story weaved with mystery, romance, and action. To be honest, it took me by surprise on where the story went but I loved every minute of it!Opening Sentence: I was suppose to die at 5:57 a.m.The Review:Edie Kramer just finished her junior year of high school at the prestigious Blackbriar. She has attended Blackbriar for three miserable years and there is no way she can go through another. She has been bullied to the brink of her sani...

Trigger warnings for discussions of suicide and Faustian bargains with eldritch beings.Mean Girls is one of my favourite movies of all time. It was the first movie I ever purchased for myself on DVD. (If you are reading this in the future, kids, DVDs were the optical media of choice for storing video, back before Netflix just decided to store everything directly in your brain.) It’s a scathing, fun, moving look at the harmful nature of high school hierarchies. While I was largely indifferent to

This review can also be found on A Thousand Lives Lived, check it out for more!Ann Aguirre's books are a girl's best friend. Mortal Danger has been on my must-get TBR list for ages, and after reading her newest, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, I found that it was so relatable to me and that I needed more from Aguirre as soon as possible. This time around, the story was much more dark and eerie, but eerie in the sense that is totally satisfying. The concept of the Immortal Game trilogy is u...

"There's a pivotal moment just before death, when bargains can be made." I chose to ignore this book’s synopsis, as I wanted that “jump blindly to the plot” experience. I’m so very glad I did. I am a long time fan of Ann Aguirre's books. Thus this was an immediate MUST read for me.The book takes upon its shoulders a lot of complicated social issues and very craftily masters them. Allow me to pinpoint the precise moment this book hooked me: It begins with a suicide attempt. The main character

"My name is Edie Kramer, and I'm afraid I made a deal with the devil.." Ladies, gents and in-betweens, let us please pause for awhile and give this effing book a round of applause.After a crappy series of depressing, happiness-sucking, let-me-slit-my-writ books, I finally found a book that puts me on edge.We have Edie Kramer, a geeky girl who decided to commit suicide when the bullying at her school become too much to handle. But before she could do anything drastic,she was saved by a young

What a strange book. It was a mix of horror, paranormal, and in a way, it was contemporary.

Be warned, this is pretty dark book. A freaking fantastic book but dark. Review originally posted at Step Into Fiction Actual rating: 4.5 stars This cover is perfect. It’s creepy, it’s dark and it’s extremely fitting. Before reading the book, when I first saw this cover I was really excited. You could tell it was going to be dark but I had no idea how dark. I also wasn’t sure I liked the name change from Mortal Beauty to Mortal Danger but you know what? It works.Now that that is out of the way...

Scary! I remember hearing Ann talk about this book and warn readers that if you are afraid of things that go bump in the night, then this book isn't for you. She wasn't wrong. =) Having said that, I love Kian. He is all kinds of amazing and I really identify with Edie on a lot of levels though I wasn't teased nearly as badly as she was. Can't wait to move on to book two and find out what happens!