#11 A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

Stars: ****

Genre: YA, Paranormal, Romance. Urban Fantasy.

Helen is Light, a spirit, a ghost, who haunts people with a love for literature. It's been 130 years since her death and she discovers that someone can see her. It's weird for someone to be able to see her, she is dead, nobody has been able to see her since like forever. At first she is scared of this boy who smiles at her but slowly curiosity makes her come near him. She discovers he was once Light like her, who found the empty body of Billy. 
James, the once Light who has borrowed Billy's body, and Helen slowly start having feelingd for each other, but a ghost and a human was not meant to be, so they look for an empty body for Helen. And they find one. Little by little the lovers discover pieces of their past lives before being Light, and the lives of their bodies.

It has taken me year to finally pick up this book and read it, always wondering if it would be a good buy or a bad one, and I'm glad I picked it up. The story is about ghosts, about life and love, about wrong choices and trying to get it right. James and Helen were great characters, the story was beautiful and the writting lovely.
Some books leave me with a feeling I can not explain, a feeling that I have gotten with the movie Kokuhaku (Confessions) and other books and movies. It left me breathless. I really liked the book but this might be a book some may not like.

P.S: Love the cover, it's probably one of the reasons I bought it.

#8 Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

Stars: ****

Genres: YA. Sci-fi, Romance.

It's 2788 and every Norm gets to go through portals to other planets, now only the Handicapped live on earth. The Handicapped are those who can't go to other planets, if they do, they will die. 
18 year old Jarra is a Handicapped and she has always held a grudge against the Norms, especially her parents who abandonned her when she was sent to earth to save her life.
And then Jarra has a great idea, she will invent a fake identity, passing as a norm from a military family, go to a history class on earth with norms who despisse apes such as herself (because she knows what all norms think of her, she has heard all the jokes on the vids) and when all the norms she will tell them that she is an ape and see all their faces.
But Jarra never expected to became friends with the norms or start falling for a boy who loves history just as she does.
And then there's the huge solar storm that strikes earth, making all the norms in her class portal off-world, but Jarra, as an ape girl, can't. Oh, and lets not forget the military ship that will land on earth escaping the solar storm, the first land in 600 years, and its crashing near their shelter.

The story starts off as Jarra telling us (or actually the norms) all the events that unfold to become her story.
Jarra was fun, but a bit though more that half through the story she annoyed me, but I kept reading nervous to see what happened. It was exititng and fun, somthing refreshing. And I love archeology and it was really cool I could read about archeologu in a future view.
So, like history, space stories and great characters? Read this book.

And the Cover!!!!OMG!!! LOVE!