One Piece Volume 1: Romance Dawn, by Eiichiro Oda

One Piece Volume 1: Romance Dawn

Monkey D. Luffy is a boy with the aspiration to become King of the Pirates, after listening to the tales of wonder from his hero, a pirate named Red-Haired Shanks. While listening to one of these stories, Luffy accidentally eats a rare, devil fruit. This devil fruit gives him to power to stretch like rubber, but with a large cost. He can never swim again. This doesn't stop Luffy, even after Shanks and his crew leave. Ten years later, Luffy's dream starts to unfold as he sets out to become a pirate. Along the way, he meets many new people, both friend and foe. This is the start of his pirate journey.

I recommend this book, because it has a great story line. It really wants you to stay in the book, one page after the next. The art is great.With the amount of detail in some panels, and less than others, it makes you want to look for things you wouldn't otherwise notice, like Panda Man, in this book. i really have enjoyed this series, and would recommend it to anyone who reads manga.

Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, Volume 1 by Ellen Schreiber

Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, Volume 1
Raven and her boyfriend Alexander's realtionship is anything but normal. They can only see each other at night because Alexander is a vampire. Trouble is stirred up when Alexander's cousin, Claude, comes to town with an evil agenda in mind. Alexander looks for a way to stop Claude and tells Raven to stay out of it, but she can't help but meddle and wriggle her way into the situation.
Vampire Kisses is a great series especially if you like REAL vampires that only come out at night and not the kind that sparkle and graphic novels. At some points the way the teenagers act is a little over the top and unbelievable. The characters, to me, seem to be based more off of sterotype. It's a great grapich novel if you want something that at times is humorous.

Gamer Girl

Gamer Girl
Maddy is a 16 year old girl who struggles to find where she fits in after her parents divorce.  She creates a manga club to find her kind of people.  While at her dad's house one weekend she becomes hooked to and online fantasy game.  She meets a guy a and falls in love.
At the same time she falls for the "popular" guy at her school.  In the real world Maddy is this shy brunette girl who you would look right over in a crowd.  Online in the fantasy game she can be anyone she wants to be so she chooses to be a blonde elvin queen.
This book isn't very great and I would not recommend it to people because it has just an ok storyline and is very predictable.  From the very beginning I knew what was going to happen, but you think that if it is that obvious that what you think is going to happen can't be what is going to happen.  In reality the book is just that simple-minded that you don't even have to read it to know what happens in the very end.  There are no real twists and turns in the book to keep you in; to make you to want to keep reading it.
Gamer Girl is not very well written, not exciting, and very predictable and I would not recommend it to anyone.

Friends With Boys

Friends With Boys
Maggie is going to her first day of public school after being homeschooled all the way until she was old enough to go to high school. On her way she has to go through a graveyard where she encounters a ghost she saw when she was younger. The ghost starts to appear more and she can't figure out why it won't leave her alone.
On top of her ghost problem, she is new at school and doesn't have any friends besides her brothers who don't want to be bothered with her at school.  She makes new friends Lucy and Alistar who are siblings.
Making friends is hard enough and then having your social life complicated by a ghost who has been haunting you for your entire life doesn't make it any better. Maggie tries to balance making friends and getting rid of the ghost all at the same time.
The book is well written and has characters that you can relate to. Maggie is like any shy girl who doesn't know many people and doesn't know how to make friends and who doesnt know how to be girly. It gives it a different feeling when the book isn't all about ghost but about friends and the silly things brothers like fighting all the time.  The author keeps you wandering why the ghost is haunting her specifically, keeping you wanting to read to want to find out. It is a great graphic novel overall and should be recognized.

Anya's Ghost

Anya's Ghost
Imagine you are walking along through a park when suddenly you fall in a hole. But the hole contains more than just dirt. There is a skeleton and a ghost inside.
Anya has all of this happen to her and more. When she finally gets help and  a way out, the ghost does too and is very attached to Anya. At first it's fun to have a ghost companion who can help you cheat your way through things socially and academically, but after awhile it gets old and you try to get rid of the ghost only to have her turn on you.
Anya's Ghost is a great if you want to take a little break and try a graphic novel. The story itself is great and well written. To pull everything all together, there are awesome illustrations. Along with the suspense of trying to get away from the ghost there is humor spread out through the book.  The characters are so well developed you feel like you could know them or people just like them in your own life, so it gives you something to relate to. You feel like the story could be real and you are right alongside the characters.

The Mind Readers by Lori Brighton

Cameron Winters just wants to be normal.  That is pretty much impossible for a girl who reads minds.  She hears every thought people think, every one, some of them vile, perverse, and some gut wretchingly awful.  Yeah.  That's pretty bad.
Cameron has never been able to read her grandmother's thoughts, though.  Or the new kid Lewis.  They can both block their thoughts.  Cam later learns that Lewis was trained to block his thoughts from other mind readers and do other things with his mind.  He and Cam go to the island on which Lewis lives in order to train Cam.  The island is beautiful, and that is where she meets Aaron, who plays an important part in the story.  But as always, things go awry.
This book was great.  I give it "two thumbs up".  I just thought it was something different for a change.  When I was little, I always thought "What if I could read minds?", so this book kind of appealed to me.

Marked Soul Guardians Book One by Kim Richardson

Marked Soul Guardians Book One by Kim Richardson

     Marked  is an interesting book.  It is about a girl who becomes a guardian angel and saves souls.  At the very beginning of the book, in the very first chapter, the main character, Kara Nightingale dies.  She is walking and just talking to her friend on the phone, when all of a sudden a big old bus comes out of nowhere and smashes her.  That starts her adventure. 
     Kara now lives in Horizon, and is a guardian angel rookie.  She soon learns though, that the world she lived in is a dangerous place.  Demons are everywhere and, on top of that she has to worry about saving people's lives. When Kara finds a mysterious mark on her leg, things go downhill for her.  She is accused of being a Demon spy. 
     This book wasn't bad but it wasn't good.  It didn't really keep my attention.  Only certain parts of the book could keep my attention, so overall I give this book a 5.5.