winner and Book of the Month

For todays post I have a winner and my Book of the Month. Let's start with the winner of "My Life as a White Trash Zombie" by Diana Rowland......

Erin

Erin I'll email to get an address from you

and now, for the book of the month! I read so many awesome books, that I'm having a really hard time picking my favorite, you guys. Here's what I got lost in...

"Cinder" by Marissa Meyer

"Matched" by Ally Condie

"Under the Never Sky" by Veronica Ross

"Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater

"Anna Dressed in Blood" by Kendare Blake

"Variant" by Robinson Wells

Seriously, how am I supposed to pick just one? they were all awesome, but I'm really torn between "Cinder" and "Anna Dressed in Blood" for my favorites. So I'm going to tell you to go READ BOTH!

But, I will pick ONE. Because, you know, that's the point of this whole deal.... even though I loved Cinder- come on, a cyborg Cinderella? freaking awesome- my pick for Book of the Month is....

from Goodreads:

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

You guys! This book has everything I love in a story. Cool protagonist... and Blake did an awesome job at writing from a male POV..... it's hard writing from the opposite sex, and male protagonists often end up sounding like girls... but not here. Blake totally pulled it off.

And the book was just the right amount of creepy! I love creepy! there were ghosts (obviously) and curses and blood... I actually feared having nightmares one night.. I didn't, thankfully!

Have you read this one? what did you think? If you haven't you really should. This book was super awesome!