March Madness: Round One, Match Four

Yesterday's poll is still open, if you'd like to vote - only one person voted! Maybe you guys didn't know the books? Either way, you can vote today if you haven't. I'm leaving today's poll up until midnight on Sunday so you have until then to make your decisions.

Today's paranormal reads are demon hunters!

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If you haven't read City of Bones yet, you might want to before the film is released! Here's what it's about: Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

The catalog says in Strange Angels, Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

Demon hunters with missing parents? Sounds eerily similar.. (but the characters are completely different).

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Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan and Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien look like they could almost be sequels - both blueish covers with girls on them, not to mention the completely eerie feel they both have. 

Forest of Hands and Teeth could have easily gone in the zombie category since it's a dystopia due to zombification. A description for you, if you haven't read it yet: Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

Here's what the catalog had to say about Birthmarked: In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.

I haven't actually read Birthmarked (yet) but one reviewer said, "Readers who enjoy adventures with a strong heroine standing up to authority against the odds will enjoy this compelling tale" so it's on my to-read list.