"I Know Your Secret . . ."
Stacey's junior year at boarding school isn't easy. She's not the most popular girl at school, or the smartest, or th...
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Apr 01, 2009
Rosalia
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Apr 11, 2009
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Sep 06, 2008
Andee
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The first book in the BIFN series! When Freshman Stacey Brown starts having nightmares about her roommate and bestfriend Drea, she goes on a journey that will change her perspective on her nightmares. It starts off with phone calls between drea and this "unknown guy" she won't mention, later there's notes and mysterious packages, and later death threats. Stacey needs to sleep so she can dream, and help save drea but will she be able to do it in time? Using her intuition and her Wicca,
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Aug 06, 2011
It was such an amazing novel that I really did not want to put it down because I wanted to keep on reading to the end to find out who the stalker was.
Stacey is a wicca who has been having a bed-wetting problem ever since she began to have nightmares about someone trying to kill her best friend and dorm roommate, Drea. When someone starts prank calling their room and leaving creepy notes to Drea, Stacey knows all too well that her dreams are a premonition for a murder...Drea's murder. She, Drea, More...
Stacey is a wicca who has been having a bed-wetting problem ever since she began to have nightmares about someone trying to kill her best friend and dorm roommate, Drea. When someone starts prank calling their room and leaving creepy notes to Drea, Stacey knows all too well that her dreams are a premonition for a murder...Drea's murder. She, Drea, More...
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Dec 04, 2008
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Feb 06, 2012
Pikachu
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I read this for the first time when I was in high school. I couldn't remember what it was about, only that witches were involved and that I had liked it so much I'd stayed up until 3am on a school night to read it. When I saw this book for 50-cents at a local bookstore, I knew I had to buy it.
Stacey isn't anything special, which will make her easy for teen girls worldwide to relate to. All of her friends are much more... well, more than she is. Drea is the beautiful one who makes her f More...
Stacey isn't anything special, which will make her easy for teen girls worldwide to relate to. All of her friends are much more... well, more than she is. Drea is the beautiful one who makes her f More...
Feb 06, 2012
Tessa
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Pourquoi Bleu cauchemar? “Parce que le bleu, c’est pour les cauchemars. Pour les éloigner ou pour les rapprocher, selon l’usage qu’on en fait.”
Enfin un livre jeunesse que j’ai apprécié dès le début, dès le premier chapitre, dès les premières lignes. Et surtout, enfin un livre jeunesse qui a su garder le suspense jusqu’aux 30 dernières pages.
Tout au long de la lecture, on se surprend à soupçonner tout le monde. Et pourquoi pas même l’héroïne? Peut être que pendant ses cauchemars, en vér More...
Enfin un livre jeunesse que j’ai apprécié dès le début, dès le premier chapitre, dès les premières lignes. Et surtout, enfin un livre jeunesse qui a su garder le suspense jusqu’aux 30 dernières pages.
Tout au long de la lecture, on se surprend à soupçonner tout le monde. Et pourquoi pas même l’héroïne? Peut être que pendant ses cauchemars, en vér More...
Jan 28, 2012
Sonia
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Blu come gli incubi rientra propriamente nel filone dello young thriller (esiste un filone del genere?).
E' propriamente un thriller che ha degli adolescenti sia come protagonisti che come destinatari della lettura.
Questa particolarità lo rende semplice e scorrevole (si legge in qualche ora), abbastanza appassionante ma non convincente fino alla fine. Sullo stesso genere avevo letto qualche mese fa The Gap di Michele Jaffe che mi aveva stupita e, lui sì, convinta. Mi aveva fatto capire More...
E' propriamente un thriller che ha degli adolescenti sia come protagonisti che come destinatari della lettura.
Questa particolarità lo rende semplice e scorrevole (si legge in qualche ora), abbastanza appassionante ma non convincente fino alla fine. Sullo stesso genere avevo letto qualche mese fa The Gap di Michele Jaffe che mi aveva stupita e, lui sì, convinta. Mi aveva fatto capire More...
Jan 18, 2012
Josh
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This is one of those stories where the main character has a somewhat vague vision and spends most of the time trying to figure out what it means. She does all these spells which seem to have roughly no effect at all. I guess maybe you can look at it like a bit of an intro to Wicca the religion and just consider it like the prescient dreams/visions are her only "power". It does seem a lot like the little rituals Stacey does are more de-stressing methods than anything that's meant to
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Nov 30, 2011
Kristin
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I was lucky enough to meet Laurie Faria Stolarz a couple of months ago at a YA author event at Books of Wonder. I brought along every single one of her published novels (yeah, I am that person) and she was awesome enough to sign them all!
So, if you couldn't already tell where this was going, I am a HUGE fan of Laurie Faria Stolarz!
Laurie was the first author to ever reply to a fan letter (I heart snail-mail!) and her books play a big role in my cu More...
I was lucky enough to meet Laurie Faria Stolarz a couple of months ago at a YA author event at Books of Wonder. I brought along every single one of her published novels (yeah, I am that person) and she was awesome enough to sign them all!
So, if you couldn't already tell where this was going, I am a HUGE fan of Laurie Faria Stolarz!
Laurie was the first author to ever reply to a fan letter (I heart snail-mail!) and her books play a big role in my cu More...
Nov 28, 2011
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Jun 06, 2011
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Blue is for Nightmares is an excellent read! While reading, I felt like I was the main character, Stacey Brown. Everything she felt I felt, from anger, sadness, fear and even embarrassment. I loved this book so much that I referred it to one of my best friends right after I finished. The characters' personalities work so well together its crazy!
Stacey Brown is just an average sixteen year old on the outside, but what some people don't know is that she practices Wicca. However, it is More...
Stacey Brown is just an average sixteen year old on the outside, but what some people don't know is that she practices Wicca. However, it is More...
May 28, 2011
This book was okay but something about it bothered me severely. I couldn't put my finger on it for a while but eventually i figured it out.
Stacey brown reminds me of Ever freaking Bloom. The brainless protagonist of the Evermore series. Not to mention fucking annoying. Though, too be nice, she doesn't make nearly as many mistakes as ever. Thank god. However, i didn't subtract stars for that little pet peeve of mine. This is what got the stars subtracted.
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Stacey brown reminds me of Ever freaking Bloom. The brainless protagonist of the Evermore series. Not to mention fucking annoying. Though, too be nice, she doesn't make nearly as many mistakes as ever. Thank god. However, i didn't subtract stars for that little pet peeve of mine. This is what got the stars subtracted.
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May 09, 2011
Maggie
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So far, there’s nothing pretty about Stacey Brown’s junior year at boarding school—not only does she have a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, she’s started wetting the bed—always after having a terrifying nightmare that she can’t quite remember. The last time she had nightmares, a little girl died. And this time, she’s dreaming about Drea, her best friend who’s the target of one seriously psycho stalker. A Wiccan through her grandmother, gifted with magic powers she doesn’t fully understa
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Mar 01, 2011
Danielle
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I first heard of this book after reading Deadly Little Secrets, another book by Laurie faria Stolarz, and all I have to say is that I’m glad I flipped to the front to see other books by her. Blue is for Nightmares is an excellent read! While reading, I felt like I was the main character, Stacey Brown. Everything she felt I felt, from anger, sadness, fear and even embarrassment. I loved this book so much that I referred it to one of my best friends right after I finished. The characters’ personal
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Jan 07, 2011
Jacob
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2 stars isn't a bad thing in my book. (no pun!) The beginning is rocky--the narrative is clunky and feels very immature due to moments of heavy-handed exposition and generic teen characterizations. The given circumstances also feel annoyingly familiar: we're at a co-ed boarding school, there are creepy goings-on, and our protagonist--Stacey Brown--is a witch. But Stacey is of the Wicca persuasion, and this is a new sort of character to my reading experience. I found myself both intrigued and
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Dec 30, 2010
Karissa
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This is the first book in the Blue is for Nightmares series; so far there are 4 books in this series. This book was kind of a cross between a mystery and a teen horror flick with a paranormal bent to it. It was a suspenseful and creepy novel that was hard to put down and had a number of surprising twists to it that left me unable to stop reading.
The book is written from the viewpoint of Stacey Brown. Stacey is a practicing Wiccan who has the ability to see the future. Exactly what Stac More...
The book is written from the viewpoint of Stacey Brown. Stacey is a practicing Wiccan who has the ability to see the future. Exactly what Stac More...
Dec 07, 2010
Heather
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This is a truely wonderful YA depiction of a young girls life... and wicca. Although this book has been out for many years now i just recently picked it up. It was a super fast and easy read which i really enjoyed. Didn't take a lot of thinking, not to mention wicca is not as widely used these days in YA fiction as vampires which is quite a breath of fresh air.
Stacey is a fairly likeable character, although there wasn't a whole lot of depth to her. She wasn't a character that i f More...
Stacey is a fairly likeable character, although there wasn't a whole lot of depth to her. She wasn't a character that i f More...
Aug 31, 2010
Danalky
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The book "Blue is for Nightmares" by Laurie Faria Stolarz was a very entertaining book.This book was about this girl named Stacey.Stacey has a very big crush on her best friend Drea's boyfriend "Chad".Stacey does witchcraft.When Stacey starts getting these nightmares about her best friend being stalked by this guy she doesn't tell anyone.But when Drea starts getting strange packages and notes she has no choice but to tell her.Now Stacey try's top use her witch craft to hel
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Jul 07, 2010
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This book is about a girl named Stacey who has nightmares about people and they end up coming true. She performs spells to keep the dreams away or in some cases revel them. One day when she dreams about her best friend Drea and a psycho stalker she makes her first priority saving her but time is running out and she has to use every spell in the book to save her.
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This book is about a girl named Stacey who has nightmares about people and they end up coming true. She performs spells to keep the dreams away or in some cases revel them. One day when she dreams about her best friend Drea and a psycho stalker she makes her first priority saving her but time is running out and she has to use every spell in the book to save her.
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Mar 25, 2010
In this book one of the main themes that I noticed was an ability to look within yourself and being able to trust yourself. Listen to your instincts and they will guide you. I would rate this book a 3.5 or 4 because I liked the characters in the book and the way the author had them speaking when I was reading the book I felt like I was there with the characters and that I was involved so for me it made it easy for me to understand since I could get into the setting of the book and I could gras
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Nov 13, 2009
Sarai
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Grade 7-10-Stacey's nightmares have proven to tell the future in the past, and now they have returned. The person who is in danger in the teen's dreams is her roommate. Determined to discover who is out to kill Drea, the protagonist performs a series of spells taught to her by her grandmother to ferret out the murderer. Seemingly, all of the girls' friends and acquaintances are suspects. This mystery will initially attract readers who are into Wicca and spells, b More...
Grade 7-10-Stacey's nightmares have proven to tell the future in the past, and now they have returned. The person who is in danger in the teen's dreams is her roommate. Determined to discover who is out to kill Drea, the protagonist performs a series of spells taught to her by her grandmother to ferret out the murderer. Seemingly, all of the girls' friends and acquaintances are suspects. This mystery will initially attract readers who are into Wicca and spells, b More...
Sep 08, 2009
Jamie
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Blue is for nightmares is a story about stacy Brown who is a 16year old at Hillcrest Boarding school. She is a hereditary wiccan from her grandmother. She really wants to have a normal life and experience at school, but she can't, as she starts having nightmares about her best friend and roommate Drea dying. Stacy knows that she can't ignore these nightmares. She learned this lesson three years earlier when she ignored nightmares about a girl she used to babysit named Maura, and she was murde
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Sep 04, 2009
Bella
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Stacey Brown is a seventeen-year-old witch who goes to a boarding school in Massachusetts. When she was around twelve years old, she started having dreams about her younger friend Maura’s body being found in a shed, and eventually she was, in fact, found dead in a shed after a guy molested and beat her. Stacey starts having dreams again, only this time they’re about her friend Drea. Her friends Amber, PJ, and Chad try to help her, but Stacey isn’t finding out enough information from her dreams.
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Jul 03, 2010
Luann
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This is another one I didn't enjoy much. It came as an "extra" in a batch of books I got through eBay. Now I know why they wanted to give it away!
I think the author was trying to write a book similar to a teen horror movie. She kept having the characters say and think things like, "It's like some bad horror movie or something," and "This isn't a slasher movie, it's a prep school," and "Some senior boys are treating this like a cheesy horror movie... More...
I think the author was trying to write a book similar to a teen horror movie. She kept having the characters say and think things like, "It's like some bad horror movie or something," and "This isn't a slasher movie, it's a prep school," and "Some senior boys are treating this like a cheesy horror movie... More...
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Jan 03, 2009
Vicki
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This book is about Stacy Brown who has nightmares that reveal dangers in her everyday life. She ignored them once before and a young girl died, now her nightmares are about her best friend Drea and she is determined to do what she can to save her.I wasn't that impressed with the characterization and I felt the book was a bit surface. However, it was a quick read, and I was interested enough to see how it ends. I have her other books though and am not in any rush to pick them up.
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Sep 15, 2011
Victoria
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In the book “Blue is for Nightmares” by Laurie Stolarz, 16-year old Stacey has been having nightmares about her roommate, Drea. In these nightmares Stacey is desperately trying to find Drea. But that’s not the bad part, the last time she ignored her nightmares, they were about a little girl that ended up dead.
Stacey is a descendent from a long line of witches, so when Drea confesses to getting strange, phone calls she knows she won’t make the same mistake and let her friend end up dead. St More...
Stacey is a descendent from a long line of witches, so when Drea confesses to getting strange, phone calls she knows she won’t make the same mistake and let her friend end up dead. St More...
Nov 02, 2010
Jennifer
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Well, I feel a bit schizophrenic, with my extremes of likes and dislikes, but a great many YA reads seem to be either very good or very bad, and the very bad get an extra kick from me when they are blatantly poorly pieced together commercial rubbish based on supposed 'high interest' factors in teen reads.
This book is at least not a knock off of the Twilight series, I guess its got that going for it, but then again there's a lot of rubbish that Twilight can't take the blame for out there. More...
This book is at least not a knock off of the Twilight series, I guess its got that going for it, but then again there's a lot of rubbish that Twilight can't take the blame for out there. More...
Apr 27, 2010
Zach
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This book was very good. When I laid eyes on the cover and read the title, I thought this would be a horror book filled with spells and rituals. I was wrong. It is about Stacey, an average girl who has one special gift, nightmares that apparently predict the future. She continues to happen about her best friend and her psycho stalker. Throughout the book, Laurie Faria Stolarz's method of writing kept me reading. Her writing has a sense of suspense while making just enough room for horror. Someth
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Jul 31, 2009
Courtney
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Amazon rates this book for Grades 7-10, which I think is quite accurate. As an adult who reads a lot of YA novels, this one just didn't do anything for me. Yes, it had drama, yes, it had suspense, but there was little to no character development. A quick and easy read for middle schoolers for sure.
The story takes place at a boarding school, which we are given absolutely no information on. We are also given no information on any of the characters. The story immediately winds up, f More...
The story takes place at a boarding school, which we are given absolutely no information on. We are also given no information on any of the characters. The story immediately winds up, f More...
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