Snake Dance by Angelica Hart & Zi

This was an e-book sent to me from LASR for review.

We are entered into a world of fowl and adders & asps living in turmoil from each other. There is a definite separation between the two worlds.
The ruler of the fowls is expecting the birthing of his descendant and is shocked to find that he is of the adder genre and is therefore banished for life to Raffia, the continent of the banished.
There is a second birthing to which everyone is in attendance. The birthing is of wRen, the most perfect specimen to be found in the pod. She has been claimed by the ruler as his for mating, when she is old enough to do so.
wRen is of an independent nature and does not want to be claimed by the ruler. She has an encounter with veIper, the banished descendant, and falls immediately in love with him. 
We are told about some very evil happening between the rulers and some of the female fowl that inhabit their continent. wRen wants to let people know what is going on, but knows that to let others know, would be pointless.
The book is a good example of good versus evil and the language, at first hard to understand, becomes easier to meld into. As you continue reading, you learn that most of the sci-fi language is getting easier and more understandable to read.

Night Glitter by Jill Shure

This book was sent to me from RomanceJunkies for review.
Jeri Devlin, our heroine from Night Jazz, has decided to stay in the past with her husband Lex, instead of falling back into the future with her brother and his fiance. She loves Lex and has fallen in love with the time of the Great Depression. She and Lex are doing well financially and they are very in love.
Lex is stricken with TB and Jeri has him placed in a private sanitarium, which is costing a lot of money. So Jeri must find a way to make a living that will pay for his medical care. She moves to California and tries to find relatives that she remembers being alluded to by her family in the future.
She locates her cousin, Lorena, and lives in her brothel and travels to Hollywood to find employment as an actress or secretary. She ends up working for a woman who is a has-been actress whose father is one of the biggest producers in Hollywood. There is much involvement here, including with the husband of this actress.
I really enjoyed the first book, thought it was fun. This one was OK, just didn't like the change in the mores of Jeri. She becomes involved with some good people, but has changed so much from the first book. 
I would love to see Jill Shure write more continuous books in this series, as I would love to travel with Jeri to more eras.

http://jillshure.com/

Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun

Seem to be on a homeless kick lately.
Joon has left home after her father leaving the house and her mother pretending to die in the front yard. Her mother has chosen to completely block her out, not talking to her or even reacting when Joon tries to talk to her.
We are taken on a journey through Joon becoming a homeless young lady at the age of 15. She lives in a home, is befriended by a young lady named Knowledge, they skip the shelter and Joon's truly homeless life is started.
She and Knowledge remain friends and street buddies for a while. Joon works in a dance club (brothel), tries to become an Avon lady, gets pregnant, tries to do away with the pregnancy, becomes addicted to drugs, tries to recover from that.
This is a very sad tale, but there were no connections. You were constantly skipping through time and there were some predicaments that Joon encountered that we never get the answers to. You never really find out if she in fact bettered things for herself, or if someone helped her do that. The hope was always there to be taken, but Joon never had the confidence to take her life into her own hands and overcome the problems that were besetting her.
My hope for Joon is that she realized that life had something to offer her and that she took advantage of some good things.

http://milesfromnowherethenovel.wordpress.com/

All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families by Rene Denfeld

There is a body of a young girl found on the train tracks in Oregon. She has been beaten and burned beyond recognition. It is found out that her name is Jessica and that she had been involved with a family living on the streets.
The street families have their own "laws" and if you do not abide by them, you pay the price.
This book was very well researched and you are quickly pulled into the street life and the different families that reside in Oregon. What is the hardest to realize is the violence of members who claim to be Wiccan and don't want anything to do with our "normal" society. 
They have formed families and they turn on each other for their "laws" being broken, whether or not the "laws" were really broken or it was just implied that they were.
Be warned that this is an extremely violent group of people and if you have a weak stomach when it comes to this stuff, don't read the book.
I guess my biggest question is, what appeal is there to living on the streets and living by the code of the families? There were some very intelligent and well familied individuals involved in this book. Are kids really just looking for that kind of freedom? But where do they get the idea that this is the freedom, since the rules of the street families seem so much harsher than that of the normal world? 
This was just sad and really makes you think about the roles that parents play and how hard it is being a parent and wanting the best for your children, when they believe that what they are seeking is much more important. Unfortunately, there are lots of influences upon a teenager and you hope for the best. 

http://renedenfeld.com/