[REVIEW] Are You Alice?, Vol1

Series: Are You Alice?
Author: Ai Ninomiya | Illustrator: Ikumi Katagiri
Genre: manga, mystery, shoujo

Published: May 28, 2013 (first published December 25, 2009)
Publisher: Yen Press
ISBN: 978-0-316-25279-9
Link: goodreads

Synopsis: 

A disillusioned young man in search of “something” stumbles into the weird and wacky world of Wonderland where, as “Alice,” he is thrust into a murderous game of “Kill the White Rabbit” by command of the ruler of the land, the Queen of Hearts. But while Alice rails against the role that has been forced upon him, he has little choice but to comply. For in Wonderland, not sticking to the script can have deadly consequences…

[REVIEW] Freewill

Series: N/A

Author: Chris Lynch
Genre: young adult, realistic fiction, mystery, death

Published: March 4, 2014 (first published March 1, 2001)
Publisher: Simon & Shuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-1-4424-8271-5
Link: goodreads

Synopsis: 

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

Will was destined to be a pilot, to skim above surfaces. So why is he in woodshop class? He doesn’t know – or maybe he just doesn’t want to admit the truth.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

When local teens begin committing suicide, their deaths all have one thing in common: beautifully carved wooden tributes that appear just before or after their bodies are found.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Will is afraid he knows who’s responsible. And lurking just behind that knowledge is another secret so explosive that he might not be able to face it and live…

[REVIEW] The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Series: N/A
Author: Holly Black
Genre: young adult, vampire, romance
Published: September 17, 2013 (first published September 3, 2013)
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-0-316-27755-6
Link: goodreads

Synopsis: 

COLDTOWN WAS DANGEROUS.
TANA KNEW.
A GLAMOROUS CAGE,
A PRISON FOR THE DAMNED
AND ANYONE WHO
WANTED TO PARTY WITH THEM. 

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody ix of predator and prey. And once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

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czai on managing hobbies…

…and the closing of my personal aniblog – the Blacksheep Project.

I was thinking of departure from aniblogging community but then I remembered that I’m still in Sekijitsu and leaving it hasn’t crossed my mind (I mean come on! I just started there!). Anyway, I'm staying there and closing this one because keeping my own aniblog is quite difficult (and I honestly don't want to leave a week without a post yet it happens a lot this past few months 'cause of my intense focus in school-related stuff).

Yowamushi Pedal 04: THAT mommy bike overtook a car! @__@

More exciting races. Funny new friend. Onoda development. And did I mentioned exciting race?