The Diary of a Mood Reader

Nearer Still Author: Melissa MacVicar Release: May 28th 2014 Series: Secret Affinity Publisher: Self published Source: Amazon Kindle Store Genre: Historical YA Rating: 3 Stars Website: Goodreads Page Expanding on the world of Melissa MacVicar's debut novel EVER NEAR, this digital-only short story explores the background of Jade’s grandmother, Winnie Ferguson, growing up as a black teenager and a budding clairvoyant in the early 1960s. When Stanley Irving gets arrested during a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, he makes the front page of the Baltimore newspaper. Eighteen-year-old Winnie Ferguson’s father is furious with his daughter's boyfriend and tries to break up the young couple. Will Winnie stand up to her father, or will the pair be ripped apart by the tension surrounding the Civil Rights movement? My review of this short-story  Nearer Still is a short story prequel set in the 1960's. There are two full length novels in this series.The fir...

Ever Lost Author: Melissa MacVicar Release date: 2014 Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC Source: Sent to me via the author & publisher in exchange for an honest review Genre: YA paranormal  Rating: 4 Stars! Website: http://melissamacvicar.com/  New town, new school, new ghost.  Jade has a dedicated boyfriend, an overprotective mom, and a full scholarship. Uprooted from Nantucket, Jade is installed off-island at her dad’s new house so she can attend snobby Layton Academy. Leaving Charlie behind is sheer torment, but living with her father has plenty of dangerous distraction—in the form of a terrifying spirit haunting her new school. Hottie classmate Mateo Fernandez can’t see the ghost, but he knows its story. He’d like to know hers, too, but Jade still misses Charlie, even though distance seems to be changing him.  With support from Mateo and the mysterious Noemie, Jade commits to helping the agonized spirit cross over. As she...

Series : Secret Affinity Release date : September 11th 2013 Publisher : Red Adept Publishing, LLC Source : I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Genre : Young-adult paranormal Rating : 4 Stars Love is ever near. But trouble is never far. Nantucket Island is haunted, but only sixteen-year-old Jade Irving knows it. Ignoring the disturbing spirits isn’t an option, because one dwells in the enormous historic home she shares with her newly blended family. Jade is finding it more and more difficult to explain away Lacey’s ghostly, anguished tantrums, especially with Charlie, her gorgeous, almost step-brother, living right across the hall. When a power-hungry ghost hunter tracks down Jade and blackmails her, Jade’s secret teeters on the edge of exposure, and her entire future hangs in the balance. If anyone finds out Jade can talk to ghosts, her life will be forever changed. Can she save herself, free Lacey, and hang on to her tenuo...