Book Bits #2

Book Bits are mini-mini-reviews of books that I either don't have time or inclination to review fully.  However, I have read the entirety of the books I mention.  (For the purposes of GRaB, Book Bits counts as one review.)

I wish I'd had time to review these books, but dealing with another round of The Plague (aka "Catching-Strep-Throat-from-a-Three-Year-Old") I am afraid I won't get around to it.  If you've reviewed any of these books, leave your permalink in the comments so others can check out varying opinions!

Dead Is the New Black by Marlene Perez
September 1st 2008 by Harcourt Paperbacks
Paperback, 204 pages
0152064087 (isbn13: 9780152064082)
  rating: 3 of 5 stars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the TV show) meets Charmed (the TV show) in this quick, very fun, slightly predictable novel; you'll love the three sisters Daisy, Poppy and Rose

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

2008 by Hyperion

392 pages

143210921X (isbn13: 9781432109211)

  rating: 2 of 5 stars

In the US, some teenagers who die aren't staying dead; they're termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic." Funny premise, thought-provoking social issues; still, the writing was less than well executed, a somewhat ponderous read

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
January 20th 2009 by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Hardcover, 280 pages
1599903229 (isbn13: 9781599903224)
  rating: 3 of 5 stars
lovely re-imagining of 12 Dancing Princesses but lacking the full punch of a work like Robin McKinley's Beauty

Death By Latte by Linda Gerber

September 18th 2008 by Puffin

Paperback, 224 pages

0142411183 (isbn13: 9780142411186)

rating: 2 of 5 stars

more like a spy-thriller than a mystery; "The Fugitive" for pre-teen and reluctant teen readers, but the protagonist Aphra is hard to connect with