"Castle Rogue" by Carole Nelson Douglas picks up where "Chapel Noir" left off. Luckily, Nell is alive! She and Godfrey are being held in a remote castle in Transylvania by Irene's worst enemy, Tatyana, a Russian spy known as Sable. Douglas has a very interesting Ripper suspect, and in the end Nell and Godfrey, who have been joined by Bram Stoker, are rescued by Irene, Pink, and Sherlock Holmes. It was great fun, I really enjoyed having Nell's dry wit back.
"Unwind" by Neal Shusterman was...interesting. I can't say that I really liked it. Set in the future, abortion is illegal but parents can choose to "unwind" their teenagers anytime from 13-17. Unwinding is a process of harvesting them for their parts, so technically they're still alive, but in a different form. Connor discovers his parents are going to have him unwound, so he runs away and ends up with a ward from the state who is also being unwound due to budget cuts, Risa, and Lev, a boy who is actually being tithed (since his parents have 10 kids, 1/10 belongs to the state, so Lev is the tithe). They end up being shuttled through an underground escape network and end up in the desert at an airplane graveyard run by a former Navy Admiral, who helps hide the kids until they turn 18 and can go out on their own. It was an interesting premise, but I just didn't get into it.
"Insurgent" by Veronica Roth is the sequel to "Divergent". It was very good, and the ending nicely set up the third book. Tris and Tobias are working hard to thwart the leader of the Erudite, who is using mind control to make killers out of the other factions. Amity refuses to get involved, and they bounce around in different factions, finally breaking into the Erudite headquarters to take her out.
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