Frostfire
By Amanda Hocking
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Personal Rating: 4/10

Bryn is a tracker. Her job is to go into the human world and retrieve the changelings-- troll babies who were hidden in the human world as infants. She's the best at her job, but when an enemy from her past shows up, she finds her self in a tricky situation where she can decide if she needs to kill or help him.

If this synopsis sounds bland and confusing, then it describes this book pretty well. I'm not a big fantasy fan in general, but I gave this one a try, mostly because I thought the cover was pretty. But overall I just did not like it at all. There was nothing really unique about the story or the characters, and it just had a really immature tone to it, when the character tries to come across all serious and mature. The cover is still very pretty, but the rest of the book is less than thrilling.

More Than the Tattooed Mormon
By Al Fox Carraway
Genre: LDS Non-Fiction
Personal Rating: 10/10

It's been a while since I've read a Church Biography, but when I read that Al Carraway (the Tattooed Mormon) had a book out, I knew I had to read it. Her story is an amazing one about converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, even when all her family and friends were against it. She became famous through a blog she started shortly after her move from New York to Utah. She is a very popular public speaker for the Church, and has traveled all over the world to speak.

This a really short and sweet book--only 147 pages--but I felt like it really leaves a mark on the reader. Al did not grow up in the Church, so hearing about her conversion, and her strength through everything, was a point of view I rarely get to hear about. If there's anyone reading this who isn't a member, or doesn't know much about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (and I doubt there is, since I think my mom is the only one who reads this thing) I encourage you to pick this book up. It won't answer all your questions, but it will give you a sense of what the Church really is about, from the point of view of someone who joined against all the odds.

Overall, this was a very worth wile read, something I can see myself rereading several times. I would recommend it not only to every member of the Church, but those who have even a little bit of interest in what the Mormons believe.