Showing posts with label caroline b cooney. Show all posts
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Sunday, 20 June 2010

The Cheerleader by Caroline B. Cooney

The CheerleaderThe cheerleader... Beautiful, popular, exciting - the girl Althea longs to be. But Althea is a nobody - she gets no phone calls, shares no laughter, has no friends. Then one day she meets him - a vampire who offers to make her the cheerleader, in exchange for a simple bargain. Soon Althea has everything she desires: beauty, friends, success. But Althea wants more - and she'll do anything to get it...
Althea wants to be popular and would do anything to get in the cheerleading squad, so when the resident vampire offers to make her dream come true, she agrees. But the vampire wants something in return, he wants to be fed...
Althea has a choice, save her friends but lose her popularity, or sacrifice her friends to get what she wants.

There is a cute romance sub-plot in this book, thankfully not involving the vampire, who is pale, has nails like foil, and smells like death. He also seems to like flapping his cloak around a lot.

This was a fairly quick read. It was creepy in places, but not overly scary.

Sunday, 2 May 2010

In My Mailbox #3

I got a huge haul of books this week. I went a bit crazy in the charity shops lol. (Click on a cover to go to the book's Goodreads page).

Code Name Mr Right The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1) The Cheerleader The Hitchhiker (Point) My Secret Admirer (Point - Horror) The Witch Hunter: A Crowner John Mystery (Crowner John, #8) Milly Molly Mandy Stories (Young Puffin Modern Classics) The Nightingale Gallery (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelsan, #1) Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime Water (Ladybird leaders) Collins Bumper Play Book

I also got this one in a swap:
Fingersmith

And this one arrived that I won from Ria at The Beaucoup Review. Thanks Ria!
Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging: WITH "It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!" (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Books 1 &2)

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