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MARK OF ATHENA!!!! AAAAHHHH!!

For all of the people out there who have read the Percy Jackson series, The Kane Chronicles, and (or) the Heroes of Olympus (series in progress) by Rick Riordan, the Mark of Athena comes out in three days.  THREE DAYS!!  I am so excited!!  I have been waiting forever (a year!) for this book to come out!  It is the third book in the Heroes of Olympus series. The HOO series is like Percy Jackson continued.  In the first book, Rick Riordan introduces three new characters, Jason, Piper, and Leo.  If you haven't read the books, I don't want to spoil anything, but I have to say, Leo is awesome!! He is totally crazy!!  Plus his "demi-god gift" is totally awesome!!  Plus, he gets a magic tool belt!  Piper is purposely not pretty.  She hates attention.  Especially since her dad is a famous movie star and gets tons of attention.  Her PBJ sandwiches have sparklers in them as toothpicks.  Seriously.  Jason is an amnesiac.  He has no clue where he is, how he got there, and he esp

The Binding by L. Filloon

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I am totally obsessed with The Binding.  Ever since Christmas, when I got my Kindle, I've been reading a lot more books, but I forget to blog about them!  That's what happened with The Binding.  I've read it at least five times, and I think I like it better than Harry Potter.  "Gasp!"  The Binding is a story about Lily Michaels and Tharin Lunar.  Lily doesn't know it, but she's about to discover that she's part elf.  Two nights after her eighteenth birthday, Lily is going for a run when she is knocked over by a stranger, who just saved her from being hit by an arrow.  When Lily sees who's shooting at her, she can't believe it.  It's her brother, and he disappeared four years ago.  The stranger deflects all the arrows and gets rid of her brother, Lucas, but not before he shoots an arrow straight at Lily that the stranger can't reach.  Lily knows she's going to die, but she doesn't care.  She just lost her brother, again.  But rig