Maggie Quinn, Girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out...
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Apr 06, 2009
Jennifer
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I, surprisingly, quite enjoyed this book. It was light, fun, and funny. It's a kind of chick-lit with Demons from Hell and a clairvoyant, snarky Nancy Drew.
It's not the greatest book ever, and has the standard fare of a likable, normal (well, with ESP) protagonist and the intentionally extreme caricature of jocks and cheerleaders, as well as two gorgeous boys and a romance that satisfy its target audience. However, I do like the fact that the heroine is a good mix of self-confi More...
It's not the greatest book ever, and has the standard fare of a likable, normal (well, with ESP) protagonist and the intentionally extreme caricature of jocks and cheerleaders, as well as two gorgeous boys and a romance that satisfy its target audience. However, I do like the fact that the heroine is a good mix of self-confi More...
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Feb 06, 2011
Sarah
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Excerpt: Dad and I had seen the same action movies, so he got into place, all very Lethal Weapon. I mouthed, “One, two,three!” and he yanked open the door so hard it banged into the wall, showering plaster onto the carpet. The crash startled me, and I flung my barrage of salt into the bathroom with a stifled squeak.(...)
“I’m getting too old for this shit,” said Dad, making me laugh, mostly with relief. He examined the big hole the doorknob had made in the wall. “Your mom is going to More...
“I’m getting too old for this shit,” said Dad, making me laugh, mostly with relief. He examined the big hole the doorknob had made in the wall. “Your mom is going to More...
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Apr 03, 2011
Molly: YAL Book Briefs
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Love, love, love this book. I decided to pick it up a few weeks ago again and I was amazed again with how much I love the Maggie Quinn: Girl v. Evil series. Clement-Moore is a genius when it comes to characterization. Maggie and her friends come off as being very real despite all the wacky paranormal stuff that's going on. And speaking of wacky paranormal stuff, Clement-Moore knows her stuff. The explanations seemed logical for all the weird stuff that was going on in Maggie's world and I h
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Jan 05, 2011
Warnie B.
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This book was really fun--like one of Meg Cabot's supernatural books (only smarter and much better written) mixed in with a little Nancy Drew. The main character is delightfully sarcastic (sometimes this type of character can be annoying, but in this case, it really works!), the romance bits are perfectly drawn out and the heroine is not nearly as clueless as most teen heroines seem to be, the characters are generally not trite or uninteresting (okay, maybe the "Biffs and Jessicas" ar
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May 07, 2009
Cheryl
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Here is the review I posted on Amazon:
I stepped outside my reading habits box here and was well rewarded for it. The story of Maggie Quinn and her effort to get out of high school with a demon in her path is a well paced read. This is one hard-to-put-down book. The characters are engaging, even to a forty-something year old reader like me. Had this book been around when I was in my teens, I would have been a lifelong Maggie fan. There is always something satisfying about the triumph More...
I stepped outside my reading habits box here and was well rewarded for it. The story of Maggie Quinn and her effort to get out of high school with a demon in her path is a well paced read. This is one hard-to-put-down book. The characters are engaging, even to a forty-something year old reader like me. Had this book been around when I was in my teens, I would have been a lifelong Maggie fan. There is always something satisfying about the triumph More...
Jun 03, 2010
Cid
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I had to order the first two books in the Maggie Quinn series, which was a bummer since the author is uber cool and local. So, please request this book at your local store. Come on, look at the cover! It’s just cool!
The Setting — is a small college town. I don’t think it ever says where it is. Or if it did I don’t remember. Maggie is in high school so a lot of the story takes place between her school and home. I think that a lot of the feel for the book comes through how Rosem More...
The Setting — is a small college town. I don’t think it ever says where it is. Or if it did I don’t remember. Maggie is in high school so a lot of the story takes place between her school and home. I think that a lot of the feel for the book comes through how Rosem More...
Apr 29, 2009
Steph Su
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High school senior and aspiring journalist Maggie Quinn just wants to survive the last few weeks of high school without getting sucked into the prom madness. However, there’s more on her plate to worry about when strange and horrible things begin to happen to her grade’s “elite crowd,” lovingly called the Jocks and the Jessicas by Maggie. These boys and girls suffer accidents or lose what is most important to them, and Maggie, with the help of her friends, reluctantly admits that something sinis
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Aug 03, 2009
Warnie B.
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This book was really fun--like one of Meg Cabot's supernatural books (only smarter and much better written) mixed in with a little Nancy Drew. The main character is delightfully sarcastic (sometimes this type of character can be annoying, but in this case, it really works!), the romance bits are perfectly drawn out and the heroine is not nearly as clueless as most teen heroines seem to be, the characters are generally not trite or uninteresting (okay, maybe the "Biffs and Jessicas" ar
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Jan 16, 2010
Stefanie
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Aug 10, 2011
Asher
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Rosemary Clement-Moore's Prom Dates from Hell is best described as Veronica Mars meets Buffy (in a witchy, rather than vampire, way). I would happily recommend it to those who enjoy, upon occasion, young adult fiction with a paranormal bent. Here's a taste:
“Are you taking away my constitutional right to vote for King and Queen? I demand the right to choose my own representation of all that is wrong with adolescent social hierarchy. You cannot deny me a voice in the senseless aggr More...
“Are you taking away my constitutional right to vote for King and Queen? I demand the right to choose my own representation of all that is wrong with adolescent social hierarchy. You cannot deny me a voice in the senseless aggr More...
Aug 03, 2009
Jody
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This is a great book. My love for Maggie, the main character and teller of this story, began on page one. She is witty, honest and everything I have wanted to see in a female, teen main character for quite some time. And...she has a best friend who is just as hilarious.
Maggie Quinn is not a super hero. But as she approaches the end of her senior year, she finds she has gifts that are a bit more supernatural than her peers. Her grandmother believes very strongly in her ability to More...
Maggie Quinn is not a super hero. But as she approaches the end of her senior year, she finds she has gifts that are a bit more supernatural than her peers. Her grandmother believes very strongly in her ability to More...
Jan 15, 2009
Katrina
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Give this to the next Buffy fan to approach you for a suggestion, for serious. Maggie Quinn has always been somewhat intuitive. Her gran tells her that the Sight runs in the family. So when Maggie starts having horrific dreams about fire and brimstone and a shadowy demon, she's not completely surprised to find mysterious things happening at her high school. The first appearance is at the pool during gym class. Maggie notices a strange sulfuric odor and then her classmate Karen "accidentally
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May 22, 2011
Claire
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Also picked this one up in Canada from the specials table. Probably closer to 2.5 stars really, but I give it a bit of a benefit here because I did like the sequel a lot more.
This was a pretty standard and well written YA of the "high school girl with psychic powers" style. I quite liked this one, although the plot was a little predictable, but I do have to give a trigger warning for a not-hugely-signposted (although we did see it coming a little way off) disclosure near that More...
This was a pretty standard and well written YA of the "high school girl with psychic powers" style. I quite liked this one, although the plot was a little predictable, but I do have to give a trigger warning for a not-hugely-signposted (although we did see it coming a little way off) disclosure near that More...
Aug 29, 2010
Alice
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Rosemary Clement-Moore has created what is quite possibly one of my favorite YA heroines ever. Maggie Quinn is snarky, sassy and smart. She's got this razor sharp wit that keeps you laughing at the people and situations around her.
You know Maggie is character gold when she continuously drops references to Star Wars and LOTR.
At first glance, Maggie is the average on-the-fringe type of teenage girl. She writes for the school paper, but she's not all out popular. She's got h More...
You know Maggie is character gold when she continuously drops references to Star Wars and LOTR.
At first glance, Maggie is the average on-the-fringe type of teenage girl. She writes for the school paper, but she's not all out popular. She's got h More...
Sep 22, 2011
Stacey
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I downloaded this when I had nothing to read in a waiting room, because it was the first book I came across that I was able to check out. I'm glad I stumbled onto it though. It was an intriguing read that kept me on the edge of my seat. Maggie (not short for Margaret) is a heroin that reminds you of yourself in high school and as soon as the story starts you find yourself rooting for her. She's tired of the jocks and cheerleaders running the school, she stands up for the awkward nerdy kids,
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Jul 30, 2009
Karen
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The first in a trilogy about young heroine Maggie Quinn, "Prom Dates" was one of those books that I probably wouldn't have initially considered but am so glad that I gave it a chance...because I LOVED it. Maggie possesses supernatural senses, such as soothsaying dreams, but still remains a down-to-earth protagonist. She is witty and consistently engaging. Sci-fi and workings of the other-worldly are not typically my cup of tea, but Rosemary Clement-Moore makes it not just readable, but
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Apr 20, 2010
Allison
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Maggie Quinn is your average high school nobody- and she's totally happy to blend in- until something dark starts stalking the popular crowd that tortures the kids like her.
This book was a completely fabulous, light, pool side read. The plot moves along quickly enough to keep things interesting and the characters are all likable and well written. There were also a few unexpected twists in the ending that spiced things up even more. I could see Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil becoming a success More...
This book was a completely fabulous, light, pool side read. The plot moves along quickly enough to keep things interesting and the characters are all likable and well written. There were also a few unexpected twists in the ending that spiced things up even more. I could see Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil becoming a success More...
Jul 15, 2009
Rhonda
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Told in the first person, Maggie discovers a gift that she has been blessed, or not-so-blessed, with - the ability to see things in her dreams that will take place. There is a demon targeting people that make their fears become real and it is after Maggie also. With lots of twists and turns, Clement-Moore does an excellant job of making Maggie into a modern day Nancy Drew and paves the way for more to come.
I probably, as a teacher, would not teach this in a class setting; however, I wo More...
I probably, as a teacher, would not teach this in a class setting; however, I wo More...
Feb 10, 2011
Melissa
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This was a good read. It was basically what I was expecting...a paranormal, demon fighting story that revolves around a teen that is beginning to recognize her psychic abilities. What I did like was that it was neither too serious, nor too flippant....it reminded me of an adult Paranormal kindof romance, but without all the adult innuendos. Prom Dates from Hell was fun and flirty, and I will definitely recommend it to those who like this genre. I want to read the rest of the series, but I'm not
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Oct 23, 2010
Kavanand
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Maggie Quinn is an aspiring photojournalist, who stumbles upon an evil demon plot in her high school. She attempts to solve the mystery with the help of her awesome grandmother, a jock who's stepping outside his clique, and a very cute college student.
The plot isn't terribly original, but beyond that, there's a lot to like about this book. For starters, it's really funny, something that's lacking in most YA paranormal novels (the sturm und drang of tortured romance doesn't really lend More...
The plot isn't terribly original, but beyond that, there's a lot to like about this book. For starters, it's really funny, something that's lacking in most YA paranormal novels (the sturm und drang of tortured romance doesn't really lend More...
May 18, 2009
Dennis
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this one was a lot of fun, mainly because of Maggie's constant sharp sarcastic wit. she finds it nearly impossible to hold her tongue or back down from any threat, even when she's truly scared. the story itself will appeal to fans of Buffy, Charmed, The Mediator. sometimes you just have to kick some demon butt. "As an interactive horror experience, with beasts from Hell, mayhem, gore, and dismemberment, it was an impressive event. As a high school prom, however, the evening was margina
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Aug 14, 2011
Laura
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Excusing my fansquee over Texas Gothic earlier this month, I love most of Rosemary Clement-Moore’s books. They’re funny, snarky, and manages to whip up a good plot.
Prom Dates… is a great little read. I said in the aforementioned review that Amy Goodnight could be cousins with Maggie Quinn, insofar of the fact that they’re both snarky psychics who like to get their Nancy Drew on. While it should be a cliché that Maggie’s defenses for dealing with the banality that is high school. But More...
Prom Dates… is a great little read. I said in the aforementioned review that Amy Goodnight could be cousins with Maggie Quinn, insofar of the fact that they’re both snarky psychics who like to get their Nancy Drew on. While it should be a cliché that Maggie’s defenses for dealing with the banality that is high school. But More...
Apr 23, 2009
Karin
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Maggie Quinn is a high school senior who spends her time taking photos for the yearbook and writing stories for the school’s newspaper. She is completely content with staying under the radar in order to avoid coming into contact with the Jocks and the Jessicas (the girls that seem to run the school). Everything is working out just fine until she snaps some incriminating pictures of the Jocks bullying one of the bigger geeks of the school.
Soon, after her creative photo rescue, Magg More...
Soon, after her creative photo rescue, Magg More...
Oct 10, 2008
Gail
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I enjoyed the heck out of this book. Maggie is NOT going to the prom. She's one of those anti-prom, anti-clique, anti-school-status-quo people. She works for the school newspaper (which is apparently published a lot more often than any high school paper I was associated with) and emphatically does NOT have prophetic dreams. Except she does. She's always had these weird intuitions, which her dad and her dad's mom believe in and understand, and her mom totally doesn't. The weirdness begins when th
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Dec 24, 2011
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
Maggie Quinn is just weeks from graduating and getting away from Avalon High. But as the end of her high school years gets closer, Maggie gets warped into the wrath that is Prom. This only happens because Maggie had to protect the school outcast, Stanley, who was being picked on by the prime jocks and their girlfriends, the Jessicas. Maggie stops this by taking photos of the action, since she is the yearbo More...
Maggie Quinn is just weeks from graduating and getting away from Avalon High. But as the end of her high school years gets closer, Maggie gets warped into the wrath that is Prom. This only happens because Maggie had to protect the school outcast, Stanley, who was being picked on by the prime jocks and their girlfriends, the Jessicas. Maggie stops this by taking photos of the action, since she is the yearbo More...
Nov 13, 2007
Abby
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Give this to the next Buffy fan to approach you for a suggestion, for serious. Maggie Quinn has always been somewhat intuitive. Her gran tells her that the Sight runs in the family. So when Maggie starts having horrific dreams about fire and brimstone and a shadowy demon, she's not completely surprised to find mysterious things happening at her high school. The first appearance is at the pool during gym class. Maggie notices a strange sulfuric odor and then her classmate Karen "accidentally
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Oct 13, 2007
Nian
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As hinted from the title, you could tell that this is one of those books with action, mystery, and mostly about the supernatural. No vampires, though. Just plenty of demons, spirits, stereotyped cheerleaders and jocks, and a super heroine.
Maggie Quinn, reporter and photographer, has always had weird dreams. She calls them "gut instincts" and most of what her gut tells her comes out to be true. And, with graduation six weeks away, she likes nothing better than to let the ti More...
Maggie Quinn, reporter and photographer, has always had weird dreams. She calls them "gut instincts" and most of what her gut tells her comes out to be true. And, with graduation six weeks away, she likes nothing better than to let the ti More...
Mar 12, 2010
Nicole
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Love this series. Love, love, love it. The characters are so fun and endearing - from Maggie and Lisa, to Maggie's family, to Maggie's to good to be true boy "friend with potential" :) Having started this series by reading book #3 (by accident), I immediately looped back to see where it all began...and was not disappointed. I've said this before, but this series has the spunk and supernatural fun of Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. I'm hoping there are many books to come...
Aug 18, 2009
Meredith
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Jun 11, 2011
Miss
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3 pages in, and so far: LOVE
"Had I gotten my tickets yet? Had I voted for the class song? Had I voted for the King and Queen? No, no, and Hell no, because voting for royalty was not just moronic, it was oxymoronic." How has no one pointed this out before?
All the way through, and LIKE.
The writing is sharp and clever. The story, though derivative, is derivative of things I like, so that's OK. I'd like to read the next book in the series, but I would say it lacks
"Had I gotten my tickets yet? Had I voted for the class song? Had I voted for the King and Queen? No, no, and Hell no, because voting for royalty was not just moronic, it was oxymoronic." How has no one pointed this out before?
All the way through, and LIKE.
The writing is sharp and clever. The story, though derivative, is derivative of things I like, so that's OK. I'd like to read the next book in the series, but I would say it lacks
