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Warning. Review might contain minor spoilers. Read at your own risk. I was really excited about Down London Road because I really love how Samantha You...more Warning. Review might contain minor spoilers. Read at your own risk. I was really excited about Down London Road because I really love how Samantha Young writes her stuff, her Warriors of Ankh series was pretty great, I really enjoyed reading it, and I also liked the previous book in this series, On Dublin Street . Why did I like On Dublin Street? No idea. It’s not my usual thing but it worked for me perfectly at the time. Down London Road proved that me liking On Dublin Street was purely a mood thing. Oh well. I went blindly into this book so I had no idea what to expect. I had no idea that this was going to happen: My eyes flickered across the room and then my breath hitched as my gaze paused on a guy who was staring at me. Our eyes met, and for some absolutely bizarre reason the connection felt physical, like acknowledging each other’s presence had actually locked me in place. Yeah, that made me know that I won’t like this book. I was hoping to be wrong, but no, I wasn’t wrong. I really don’t like this sort of romance or this sort of characters. I also think that tattooed guys are being extremely overused and this aspect made Cam less attractive. He is also a douche. Me no like douche. Johanna, the wonderful MC, is an idiot. I hated her. I didn’t even remember who the hell she was. I knew she was in On Dublin Street and I was trying so hard to remember who the hell she was. And then it came back to me. The money-digging chick who wanted to bang Braden. Oh yeah. No Miss Jo, I do not like you. I do not like you at all. ‘How can you take Malcolm and all those other guys’ help but not a friend’s?’ Because it’s a totally different thing! Hah. Yes, she is like that. Now you know why I don’t like her. Oh, and check this quote from the book’s description: Johanna Walker knows what she wants. Really? She knows what she wants?? No, she doesn’t. That’s a huge pile of bullcrap right there. Why? Because the whole book is based on how Jo is unable to make up her mind about what she wants from her life. She is a stubborn woman who makes a shitload of bad decisions. And she gets to be a main character in a book I was really looking forward to reading. Yay me. Thankfully, I was pretty. Tall with legs that went on forever […] Legs go all the way up? Cam on the other hand was not such a bad character, when compared to Joe, of course, but I didn’t like him much either. This is because of what a huge dick he was to Jo just because “he felt too attracted to her”. This gave him the right to be a total judgmental jerk, it seems. He made it up to her later on but I lost track of things when everything got too boring to handle. And I mean boring. They got together halfway through. As in together together, meet my family and all that shit together. That’s when things got too bad for me to even bother reading the rest of the book. It was just filled with useless drama. Did Young do this only to increase the page numbers of the book? It sure felt like it. So, is Down London Road worth your money? It sure as hell was not worth mine, to tell you the truth. I would recommend you buying it only if you enjoy reading mostly romance books. Romance noobs might like it as well. As for the rest of us anti-romance, or partially anti-romance people, that’s a no. Ignore your hormones when it comes to this one. Review also posted on (less)
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Warning. Review might contain minor spoilers. Read at your own risk. Oh, and it’s long as fuck. Just sayin’. The Collector by Nine Inch Nails anyone? So...more Warning. Review might contain minor spoilers. Read at your own risk. Oh, and it’s long as fuck. Just sayin’. The Collector by Nine Inch Nails anyone? So I recently finished playing DMC Devil May Cry. It’s a game about a Nephilim, half angel half demon, dude who’s a demon hunting vigilante, pretty much an arrogant asshole, and doesn’t take shit from anyone. He looks like this: ![]() ![]() And his name is Dante. Ring a bell? Do I need to tell you the reason why I even picked up this book? Well, if you didn’t catch my drift, the Book Dante seems to be a perfect replica of the Game Dante. I have had a crush on the Game Dantes (yes, there is more than one Dante – the original and the reboot, and you are seeing the pictures of the reboot) for about five years now, and I’ve been wanting to read some fan-fiction about them for ages. Book Dante should have been a good replacement for Game Dante. And he was for about half the book, before things went horribly wrong. However, The Collector barely managed to scratch my DMC itch. But that’s a story for another time. I started this book thinking that I will simply replace Book Dante with Game Dante. The female lead’s name will be Kat. She is a Wiccan graffiti artist who opens gates into Limbo (a parallel world between Hell and Earth where demons go bump in the night) and she looks like this: ![]() Copyright you say?? Nonsense. So having the characters already sorted out, I was ready for some fun! And it was for, I repeat, half the book. You will hear me say this a lot by the by. The good half, and the bad half. *sigh* Anywhoo, Book Dante was fun! Victoria Scott sure did a good job with him. He made me laugh out loud. Really laugh out loud not just the meh lough out loud. The dude is an entertaining fucker. Let me give you some of my most favorite quotes. I’ll write them between the spoiler code because, you know, spoilers and shit. (view spoiler)[ Apparently Charlie doesn’t have a car. “But don’t worry,” she tells me, “we can walk to school from here.” Thrilling. It’ll only take a few lifetimes, what with her limp and all.(hide spoiler)] Laugh out loud material. Love it! I did like Dante. I mean yum. Sure, I still have the image of the Game Dante in my mind but Book Dante’s personality is there. He’s funny, and charming, and most importantly evil. But there are many things that bothered me about this book, Dante and Charlie, the female lead. Number one, he starts being attracted to Number two, there is no way in Hell such a “playa” would fall for someone like Charlie. I mean the girls is all right, if you’re into below average looking girls – hey don’t give me that look, it’s how she’s described by the author – but Dante’s feelings are not really justified. Yeah she’s got a good soul and she might be the next Jesus, ridding the world of evil and all that (creepy), but his nature wouldn’t allow him to fall for such a girl. Not that hard at least. And not that fast! The big bad L word popped up so fast I could not believe my eyes. “I love you, Dante. I’ve loved you from the start.” Gag. I mean really. Gag. If I only knew that things will get even worse later on.. Charlie is an OK character, not too bad, not to good. She would make a perfect YA contemporary romance lead. My problem with her is that she’s too damn plain. She’s supposedly “speshul” because the author tells you so. She did not do anything special in this book, she did not show her powers, she didn’t do anything useful. That’s why I’m insisting on Dante’s feelings not making sense. There’s nothing much to fall for. I will protect this girl with everything I have, because if something happens to her, I will lose myself. I will cease to exist. And I will take everyone with me. You see, this shit is what gets me angry. A character as cool and as evil as Dante would never go that low. What the hell?! I pull my hands away from my face, because I have to see her face. I have to see how she’s looking at me now that she knows. When I do, I can no longer stop the tears. They crash over my cheeks and free-fall to the ground. Because her face. He is acting like a love-struck teenage girl, ladies and gents. Gather round and throw some rotten tomatoes at his head, maybe he’ll snap out of it. God these things piss me off. You had such a great character and you cut off his balls like this. The whole book is ruined for me and I sure as hell won’t even go near book two. I don’t want to witness more useless fucking drama between Dante and Charlie. I simply don’t. The Collector had the perfect start of being a very good and entertaining book. If only Victoria Scott had Dante fight some crazy demons or something, removed Charlie and removed the stupid romance. A badass book, I tell you. Oh well, too late for that. Rating points: Dante: first half – 4 stars, second half – 0 stars -> average - 2 stars Charlie: first half – 2 stars, second half – 0 stars -> average - 1 star Story: first half – 3 stars, second half – 0 stars -> average – 1.5 stars Lolz: first half – 5 stars, second half – 0 stars -> average – 2.5 stars Demon hunting: first half – 0 stars, second half – 0 stars -> average – 0 stars ---------------------------------- Average score: 1.4 stars Review also posted on (less)
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Please tell me this is the last book in the series. Please!! O﹏o Yes! Yes it is!! ![]() It’s over! IT’S FINALLY OVER!! All the pain, the suffering. THE ANGST....more Please tell me this is the last book in the series. Please!! O﹏o Yes! Yes it is!! ![]() It’s over! IT’S FINALLY OVER!! All the pain, the suffering. THE ANGST. THE FUCKING ANGST!! Just thinking about it makes me want to smash my laptop to bits!! Breathe in. Breathe out. In. Out. Calm. I’m calm. Ok. To Hell and Back, the, I quote, pulse-pounding finale to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series featuring Dante Valentine. My pain and suffering. My pissed on expectations. My waste of time. Hours upon hours of hoping that it will get better soon. That it will end with a bang and make me forget how utterly stupid books 2 to 4 were. That will make me forgive Saintcrow for turning the characters I loved into douchebags… Nothing. I got nothing. I read, I yawned, I skimmed, I lol’d, I skimmed some more. And then some more. And then it was over. It felt like a chore. It really did. Blah. All I can say now is good riddance Dante Valentine. Burn in hell. Oh wait. Review also posted on (less)
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*spoilers ahead Hell has nothing on Saint City What is up with the cheesy lines? If it weren’t for Working for the Devil I wouldn’t even bother with...more *spoilers ahead Hell has nothing on Saint City What is up with the cheesy lines? If it weren’t for Working for the Devil I wouldn’t even bother with a book that had that rubbish on the cover. I feel forced to read this. I know I have one book left till I’m done with this series and I’m extremely happy about it. Saint City Sinners is all about crying, shrugging, almost bruises, manhandling, unspoken feelings and annoying monologues. Maybe the cover should look more like this: ![]() What else is happening in Saint City Sinners? Japh is still an insensitive dick. ![]() Yeah yeah, I know, he’s a demon and he doesn’t understand how humans work, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s behaving like a dick, and the fact that I very much hate him. As for Dante.. :fart sound: She’s such a bore with all her tantrums and bullshit. She bores me. This book bores me. This series bores me. Oh, and about the heart-breaking deaths, I feel like I’m supposed to feel sad for Eddie dying. I’m supposed to be even sadder for Gabe dying. But I’m not. I feel like Saintcrow is trying too hard to make this book sad. Hell, she’s been trying to make all this series sad. Trying too hard. And it’s obvious. And it doesn’t work with me. So I’m just left scratching my head and wondering how the hell I’m going to conjure the patience to finish this book. Or all her other books. Minus Working for the Devil, of course. Working for the Devil was awesome. In the end I don’t like any character anymore. I don’t like the events that are taking place. Thinking about it, I don’t like anything related to the Dante Valentine series anymore. Just be done already!! Review also posted on (less)
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My thoughts before reading A Little Wanting Song - The Dark Side (a super secret group I’m a member of) birthday read. Mandatory. Not so happy about ma...more My thoughts before reading A Little Wanting Song - The Dark Side (a super secret group I’m a member of) birthday read. Mandatory. Not so happy about mandatory books; - [after reading the summary] Ugh, that doesn’t sound too good; - [after checking out friends' ratings] Lots of five stars. I wonder why; - [175 pages on my Kindle] Short book, so if it sucks I won't have to put up with 400 pages of misery. :happy dance: - [after staring at the book’s table of contents for more than 10 minutes] I will soooo dump your ass if you suck, birthday read or not. My thoughts after reading A Little Wanting Song The first thing that hit me was the way Cath Crowley describes her shit. Here's one of many examples: So I pulled out my guitar case, cold and dimpled like the skin of an orange. ![]() This is weird to say the least. I feel like her writing style is extremely weak. Also, the problems the main protagonists are facing are extremely trivial to me. I am not interested in hearing about them, nor do I want to find out what they do to fix them. This being said, I find no reasons left for me to continue with A Little Wanting Song. Dropped around 20%. To read or not to read? Are you a teenager? Do you like to read about other people’s problems in order to forget about your own? If you answer yes for both those questions then I would say yes, read it. Review also posted on (less)
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At least I’m not alone. I have Death to accompany me. Long story short After her daughter is taken by a band of raiders, Emma leaves her family behin...more At least I’m not alone. I have Death to accompany me. Long story short After her daughter is taken by a band of raiders, Emma leaves her family behind and embarks in a trip to bring her back. The trip makes Emma cross paths with an old lover, Arthur, who is set on winning back her heart. Together they join forces to infiltrate the kidnapers’ group in order to get Emma’s daughter back. My thoughts Finding a good post-apocalyptic book is difficult because most of them follow the same story. 75 percent of the population is dead and the rest is suffering to survive in a post-name-your-disaster world where even toilets could bite your genitals off. This makes me judge books in this genre according to what makes them stand out from the crowd. Fallen, book #1 of the After Trilogy, impressed me through its characters and interesting idea regarding the supernatural powers that the apocalypse brought. I was hoping that Cold Light would be a nice read, but I was badly mistaken. My first problem is the too sudden start. I feel like I was dumped into the story with no explanation whatsoever. Emma’s daughter, Beth, was taken. Why? How? What? Deal with it. My memory isn’t the best out there. I have read Fallen approximately one year ago, and now I don’t remember much of it. I even forgot the main characters’ names. Cold Light has minimal reminders of what happened in the previous book. It took me a while to get what’s going on in the story. Emma bothered me a lot throughout the story. Her decisions were extremely strange, and she was constantly contradicting herself. I felt that the story was useless, and just an excuse to get Emma and Arthur together. This means that the focus of the story shifted from finding her daughter to hooking up with Arthur. I wasn’t too happy about this, but I still pushed myself into finishing the book. Or at least I tried up to a point. Around 50 percent of the book Emma shows her true self. She is a selfish woman who likes to act like a bitch because she can. After she stupidly puts herself in danger, she gets saved by the people who once were her friends. How does she repay them? By making a PMS worthy scene. She was unbearable. Emma’s attitude and the idiotic shift in the story made me give up the book approximately 67 percent along the way. I will not continue reading this series. Review also posted on (less)
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I zing for public safety, to save Otto's head, to save myself. ![]() Get it? Bazinga! Heh. First impressions After reading the book description, I was expecti...more I zing for public safety, to save Otto's head, to save myself. ![]() Get it? Bazinga! Heh. First impressions After reading the book description, I was expecting a fast-paced book full of action, murder and romance. Justine faces a crisis of conscience as she tests the limits of her new powers and faces an impossible choice between two flawed but brilliant men - one on a journey of redemption, the other descending into a pit of moral depravity. This gave me high hopes that the love triangle will finally die. I did not consider Justine’s crisis of conscience part. Big mistake. The cover seems nice enough. I like the colors and the cover model does match my version of Justine. However, something bugs me. ![]() This guy here! ![]() Why is the mysterious knife still there? There was no mention of that knife in any of the first two books. Remember, Mind Games had it as well. It would make you think that Justine wields a knife like a pro, doesn’t it? A tad misleading. The plot Double Cross starts rather abruptly with Justine trying to zing a weird woman called Ez. It seems that Ez can control people in their sleep. Yes, I’m talking about mind-control. Pretty cool, huh? Through a minor incident, Justine drags Packard into the mess as well. Now, not only can the two of them be mind-controlled, but they can share dreams. However, the dreams they share are far from sweet. It seems like Packard has a dark past, darker than anyone would have thought. Will these dreams bring Justine and Packard together or tear them apart? Even so, the problems don’t stop here. A group of evildoers called the Dorks [really??] is going around murdering highcaps. To make matters worse, it seems that they have a talent of telling if a person is a highcap or not. Dangerous waters for our favorite dissilusionists. My thoughts You would think that Double Cross will be full of action, right? Well, that’s where you’re mistaken. Justine is stuck struggling through an inner battle between what’s right and wrong. And I mean 70% of the book stuck. Yes, I had to go through her whining for most of the book. ![]() If only one could slap a fictional character. Life would never be the same again. This is the main reason why I’m taking two stars away from my rating. I was also hoping that Otto was dead or on a long vacation away from the book. Wrong. He was still alive and present throughout the book. I was trying my best to act mature and not make fart noises each time Otto appeared in a scene. Anyway, Justine is still madly in love with him aka isn’t done with her hero worship yet. I’m counting down the pages until she dumps his sorry ass. Another discovery I made is that Justine isn’t the brightest bulb out there. She’s supposed to be a strong lead having awesome superpowers [quote the book description], and yet she’s not even using them throughout the book. As for the strong part. No. Just no. Why is Carolyn Crane giving so many details during Justine and Otto’s sex scenes and close to none during (view spoiler)[Justine and Packard’s (hide spoiler)]? It’s just wrong. It disgusts me. Otto disgusts me. Why are you torturing me like this?? ![]() And the ending. ![]() Really Mrs. Crane? REALLY?? What’s all that even supposed to mean? I mean. Why?? It’s like destroying everything you worked so hard to build. Is this your way of making up for the dull story? Because it bloody worked. It made me super angry and super sad. The scene with Packard in front of the restaurant when he found out that (view spoiler)[Justine is engaged to Otto (hide spoiler)] was heartbreaking. Humph. Mind Games. I guess the title is fitting because Carolyn Crane likes to play mind games with us. A short conclusion Mind Games was most of the time uneventful except for the dream from Packard’s childhood and the cannibal sleepwalkers’ attacks. Justine was a bit too whiny for my taste. I hated Otto with all my heart and fell for Packard even more than before. However, the ending makes up for all the negative points. It simply threw me off my tracks and made me start Head Rush, The Disillusionists #3, right away. Favorite quote "There was a time when all I could ever see was the way people were doomed to behave--their tendencies, their reactions to their own idiotic histories. Misery, delusions, compulsions, all of it. I would use that to control them. But you're not like that. The way you look at people, the questions that you ask--you make me remember that people can be more than all that. You make me remember that nothing's decided. Nothing's known. That is what you gave me."(less) | Notes are private!
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House of Night: The Graphic Novel. First question, why the hell would anyone waste their time, effort and money on a House of Night graphic novel? Mil...more
House of Night: The Graphic Novel. First question, why the hell would anyone waste their time, effort and money on a House of Night graphic novel? Milking the cow much? No, TOTAL FAIL. However, even the awesome graphic work can't fix the absolutely terrible story, crappy dialogues and horrible characters that belong to P.C. Cast. Oh, I’m sorry. I just noticed that I mentioned the word “story” in the same phrase as P.C. Cast. My bad, P.C. Cast doesn’t write stories, she writes down unimportant sounds that teenagers make when they want extra attention because they realized that they have crazy hormones controlling their bodies. The next part is taken from P.C. Cast’s intro of House of Night #1. WOW! The making of a Graphic Novel is a complex, crazy, creative, and absolutely satisfying experience! ![]() Seeing Zoey, Stevie Rae, Damien, Aphrodite, and the twins come to life, along with the school and even the secondary players (Nala! Dragon Lankford! Persephone!) had Kent and me tearing up with emotion, especially as we saw the different and exquisite artistic interpretations of the Goddess of Night herself, Nyx. IT'S JUST SO DAMN COOL! ![]() ARC courtesy of Dark Horse Comics via NetGalley(less) | Notes are private!
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I have no idea why I wanted to read this book. I just saw the cover and felt like I had to do it. Are they trying to brainwash me? Quick, bring me my...more
I have no idea why I wanted to read this book. I just saw the cover and felt like I had to do it. Are they trying to brainwash me? Quick, bring me my tin foil helmet! Snow White and the Huntsman comes as a pretty good concept. I like the idea of the Raven Queen, the creepy forest, the Huntsman *coughchrishemsworthcough* and Snow White being finally useful. But imagine having to squeeze all this in 200, give or take, pages. It feels hurried. Many scenes end up shortened, stiff and uninteresting. The character development is nowhere to be found. It just ruined everything for me. But, thinking about it, I don’t think the fault can totally fall on the book’s length. I’ve read Neil Gaiman’s Coraline recently and it was half of Snow White and the Huntsman’s length. It did not feel hurried at all. In fact it was quite fascinating. So this makes me turn the blame on the author. Authors. Lily Blake, Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini. What? Why, in the name of all that is pure, do you need four authors for this book? I really fail to understand the role of everyone. And I’m too lazy to do research. So whatever. My point is that the book is too simplistic and I could never think that four authors worked on it. I was tricked into being excited about the illustrations I was supposed to encounter throughout the book. ![]() I love this type of chapter art. But guess what? You get only three illustrations. This one, another chapter design - which is not interesting at all - and some cute ravens at the beginning of the book. The rest? Nada. So there goes my excitement for the illustrations. Remember what I said at the beginning of my review? Snow White being finally useful. Guess what? She’s not. First of all she has no personality whatsoever. She has no spark. She’s a blob. She’s a Mary Sue. She’s frail and yet at the end of the book she fights alongside her army. Bitch please. She feels like a plastic doll that blushes from time to time. That’s all that Snow White is! Try comparing this to Jim C. Hines’ The Stepsister Scheme. You can’t. That’s my point! The only good thing in this book is Chris. Erm, I mean Eric. Yeah. This has nothing to do with my crush on Chris Hemsworth. Nothing at all. I think they forgot to print the epilogue though. Ha! Of course they didn’t forget to print it. Because it smells so much like a sequel. Snow White and the Huntsman is a total waste of time. If you really want to read it then go ahead. But don’t say that you were not warned. P.S. If it ended this way I would have given it an extra star. ![]() Ask a cool author to write the story and it would get another extra star. Make Snow White a kickass heroine and you get a fucking five star book!(less) | Notes are private!
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This review will be for the WHOLE Nana series Ok, so I FINALLY finished Nana and I’m jumping up and down because of how happy I am. This was one of the...more This review will be for the WHOLE Nana series Ok, so I FINALLY finished Nana and I’m jumping up and down because of how happy I am. This was one of the worst stories I’ve read in a while, and trust me this says a lot. I can’t believe Yazawa dragged this useless story- Oh wait, I totally forgot. This series DOES NOT HAVE A FUCKING STORY! It’s all about useless drama thrown all around for the sake of what? Putting some manga artwork to good use? Maybe. But I still fail to see what the story is there. The drama of the two Nanas? Them being together until the end? More drama?? Drama drama drama and more fucking drama. I felt like I was watching a fucking soap opera, that’s what it was. Armando ¿cómo pudiste hacer esto? Or naaah, scratch that. I’ve got a better one: Armando, estoy embarazada! Oooooh, and guess what? One of them actually got pregnant. OH SNAP! As I said. Useless. But you know what? I actually enjoyed the beginning of it. I was thinking hey it seems interesting enough. Nana was cool, all punk rock and shit. Hachi or whatever her name is (I suck at Japanese names) was annoying as hell. Ren was awesome, another reason to read the damn 21 books!!! (overkill much????). However, some characters were cool for like 5 books. But 21?? Dude, seriously. 21??? For this?? This story?? This fucking drama?? .. Nah, fuck you but nah. Dee, I wanna apologize right now for bashing it so much, I know you love it and all but it got me so damn angry. I didn’t know how angry I was until I started typing my “review” (if you can call it that). Funny thing that. Yeah, so.. 21 fucking books. And (view spoiler)[she kills Ren in the end (hide spoiler)]. And she doesn’t even end the series. Amazing. Fucking amazing. But I won’t be a total asshole. It seems like Yazawa is sick and has been hospitalized for some time. Now she’s back home and writing again probably. Ok, I’m sorry for her being sick and all, my best wishes for her health and I hope she gets well soon.[end of nice moment] But 21 books???? REALLY??? I can’t seem to get over that.. If I could rate the series I’d give it two stars out of five just because the beginning was kind of interesting. The rest went downhill till it reached a manure wagon, made it explode and covered everything in horseshit. Good times.(less) | Notes are private!
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I walked right into this one. I admit it and I know it’s my fault, and I probably deserve what I got. However, that doesn’t mean it makes it less pain...more
I walked right into this one. I admit it and I know it’s my fault, and I probably deserve what I got. However, that doesn’t mean it makes it less painful. Sweet Evil is the most idiotic book I’ve read this year. And I mean it. I totally mean it. I could tell I was going to regret getting it since page one. Running had become my new pastime five weeks ago, after I’d read how my body is the “temple of my soul.” Healthy temple: check. Wha?? Ok, it’s not THAT bad but I still had a feeling deep down my heart. It was telling me ”Put the book down and walk away.” As you can tell I chose to ignore it. Aaanyways, lemme tell you what Sweet Evil is all about. So we have this girl Anna. She is goodness personified. An angel. The perfect girl, pure, sweet hearted, kind, shy, invisible, smart, always does her homework, reminds the teacher that she forgot to check the class’ homework, fucking retarded twit. Yes, she is retarded because I sure can’t figure out how a person can behave the way she does. Higgins wanted to create the perfect sweet little heroine. She failed miserably. Why? Because she made her too perfect to the point that she is not perfect AT ALL. Am I making sense? And yes she does see herself ugly but in reality she is so hot that all the boys from their school want to bang her. ![]() So we have Saint Anna who is a misunderstood little hipster. She has her Bella Swan mood going on, she’s anti-partying, anti-drinking, anti-drugs (even though she practically drools over alcohol and drugs – but that’s her little secret, shhhh), whatever evil thing you may imagine – she’s against it. Did I mention she’s a virgin? But oh no, she’s far from perfect. I mean she has a freckle!!! At the end of her upper lip!!! And people STARE at it when she talks!!! Ugh eeewww that’s so disgusting!!!! Oh yes, this makes her a more believable character. SHE HAS FLAWS!!! “They only think they like me because they don’t know me,” I said. They don’t know me, no one knows me cuz I’m all deep and stuff. ![]() Yeah, so Saint Anna is a special kind of bird. She has this mood-ring thing going on. You remember those little things? The mood rings? You put it on and it changes color. And you look at a little chart that tells you what that color says about your current mood. It’s actually a fun thing even though it doesn’t really work. I wish it did though. Anyhow, Anna is a big flat chested mood ring. She sees people’s emotions through the colors they are emitting. And she has a superhero olfactory sense. Being able to hear and see and smell everything within a one-mile radius was major sensory overload. Then can you sense how overly stinky this book is? Can you Saint Anna??? All is normal and boring in Saint Anna’s life until she goes at a concert and lays her innocent eyes on a devilish drummer. This vile creature breaks the poor girl’s circuits and turns her into a vixen. Oh my! “That guy, the drummer? Get this. He’s a killer musician, he gets tons of chicks, his dad’s loaded, and as if that wasn’t enough, he’s got a friggin’ English accent!” Yep, another mysterious handsome rich British-accented teenager. Very original if I do say so myself. Why do they all have British accents again? Because they’re smexy? And the funny thing is that mostly American authors feel the need to specify that the hottie has a British accent. That adds to their sexiness. I agree that the accent is special but I’m not falling for it anymore because the idea is being overused. Not fun anymore people so move on! So this dude Kaidan, as you can already tell, is another perfect being. Everyone seems to be perfect in this book. Except for her mum, but I’ll get back to that later. So he seems perfect from every way. Wrong. He is actually a stuck up asshole. A big fat loser. And har-di-har-har he’s a demon that feeds on sex. ![]() I’ve read many books where demons were actually behaving like the mischievous creatures that they are. They don’t even compare to this guy. Teenage visions of hotties. You suck. Except for Daughter of Smoke and Bone’s Akiva. He’s a piece of art. [about his name] Kai, like Thai, only yummier. Gah! Who was this girl invading my brain? No, I’m pretty sure that’s the real you. A fucking idiot. Good gracious, he was sexy—a word that had not existed in my personal vocabulary until that moment. Right? It makes you wonder how Higgins sees teenagers, does it not. The purity!! It BUUUUUUUUURNS!!! I tried to focus on his words and not his luxuriously accented voice, which made everything sound lovely. ![]() Gosh, his eyes were gorgeous—the color of tropical honeymoon waters ringed in dark sapphire and enclosed by thick lashes. Tropical honeymoon waters you say. Honeymoon. Sex. She’s such a vixen right now. Oh and by the way he is special too. I forgot to mention this earlier. He has the same mood-ring color bullshit going on as our sweet little Saint Anna. Or at least something similar to that. Useless details that I don’t give a shit about. Back to the story. So Kaidan is probably there (I’m not 100% sure about this since I dropped the book around 40% of the way) to guide her towards their people, since they have the same traits and all. Predictability dangerously close to 80%. “Then what am I?” I asked with apprehension. ![]() Oh, you’re not joking about that? You’re actually serious? Why am I not surprised? Why oh why dear heavens? DANGER! Predictability has reached 100%. Prepare to abort mission. And the thing is Patti (her mum) knows about Kaidan being a sexual deviant. She’s not her real mum though, our dearest virgin is adopted. But first thing first, a short introduction for Saint Anna’s mum. OVERPROTECTIVE /end of introduction So Saint Anna wants to go meet her real dad who is a bad angel of sorts in order to bla bla bla nothing important. And her mum’s too busy to take a day off (???) so she sends her virgin daughter with Kaidan. On a road trip. The two teenagers alone. For a couple of days. And she comes up with the idea herself. ![]() You’re sending your daughter with a demon and you think she’ll be safe. You go crazy over a party that Saint Anna wanted to attend. You called the parents to make sure the kids will be supervised and all. We wouldn’t want some random jock choke on a glass of beer now, would we? And now the Virgin Anna wants to go out of town with the hottest dude on the planet that happens to be a demon. And you’re ok with it. That’s great parenting Patti, you should write a book about it. Eventually they go on the trip and poor Saint Anna is trying her best to avoid being seduced by the sexy Kaidan. She rents one room for both of them, stalks him, kisses him, sees him buck naked the morning after. Next thing you know she’ll be wiggling her ass in front of him and will wonder ”Am I giving the wrong signal?”. Well pumpkin it depends on what kind of signal you’re referring to. You’re currently stuck on the bang me one. ![]() Oh dear lord the cheesiness! It feeds on your brain cells like a drunken leprechaun feeds on four leaf clovers. A short conclusion? Saint Anna is a fucking idiot, she tries her best to act smart but she fails miserably. Kaidan is the hottest guy on the planet and we keep on getting reminders of that on every page of the book. Patti is the most retarded parent you could ever meet. Predictable. Bullshit. Idiotic. Cheesy. Unoriginal. Boring. Dropped.(less) | Notes are private!
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Goal: Read a light book and laugh my ass off. Result: Read a stupid book that made me want to cut it into little pieces. Overall Goal: Happiness. Overall...more Goal: Read a light book and laugh my ass off. Result: Read a stupid book that made me want to cut it into little pieces. Overall Goal: Happiness. Overall Result: A sh*tty headache. All my friends gave Can You Keep A Secret? a high score, all of them loved it, all of them asked me to read it. So I did. Yep. And I ended up having a headache. Literally. Mrs. Kinsella you owe me a pack of meds and a nice foot massage. So why did all my friends love this book and I didn’t? I have no idea, to tell you the truth. I just know this: Emma is an idiot. A shallow clownish stupid boring insecure clueless loser. She’s the reason why I hated the book. ”'Please promote me,' I say desperately. 'Please. I have to get a promotion to impress my family. It's the only thing I want in the whole world, and I'll work so hard, I promise, I'll come in at weekends, and I'll … I'll wear smart suits.” Facepalm compilation in 3 2 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And btw, wtf is this Panther Cola crap? Is it cola that panthers drink or cola made out of panthers?(less) | Notes are private!
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This one’s for Madu’s Birthday! Yes, it’s a birthday read! Hurray!!!! I’m sorry I’ll f*ck this one up Madu. I tried to like it but… I didn’t O_O So the...more This one’s for Madu’s Birthday! Yes, it’s a birthday read! Hurray!!!! I’m sorry I’ll f*ck this one up Madu. I tried to like it but… I didn’t O_O So the question of the day is: what is The Wedding Bargain about? Even an idiot can answer this question. Yes, it’s about a freakin’ wedding bargain. However, let me tell you the story in a better way. Behold the dialogue! Max: I love you Pandora, you’re the hottest girl out there. Let’s get married! ![]() That’s probably how I look while reading the wonderful books that belong to the Historical Romance genre. And I’ve always wondered why people stare at me in a strange way while I’m reading these in public. Now I have my answer. You know what would make HRs ![]() Now that would be a book I’d read! Anyway, The Wedding Bargain is a very boring book. Idiotic even. But Pandora does own a pistol. That would make it more exciting, right? I have another point to add. I really hate this thing they’re always using in these books. He was the most eligible bachelor. The most handsome and most virile. And he had the hots for only one extremely annoying and boring woman: our heroine. Guess what? This only happens in the mind of naive girls who are still expecting Prince Charming on a white horse to sweep them off their feet and elope or something. Well guess what? Sh*t like this doesn’t happen. These dudes will never waste time on normal girls. They’re overly busy banging bimbos and porn stars, getting drunk and high, and spending money on horribly expensive things. So quit daydreaming about this sh*t because you’re too old for it! *ugh* totally stupid useless god give me patience with these books!!! *ugh* Ok I’m calm now… *clears throat* I'm terribly sorry but not one's cup of teah, old boy.(less) | Notes are private!
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When he put his hands on his hips, she could see his big gun, and not the big gun she was interested in, either. And so starts my most wonderful adven...more When he put his hands on his hips, she could see his big gun, and not the big gun she was interested in, either. And so starts my most wonderful adventure into Hornyland. That’s right folks. Don’t miss this chance for nothing in the world! This book is a must-read! *sarcasm ends here* . . . ![]() What. The. F*ck. . . . Seriously. Another book involving a horny city girl and a pansy village guy. Nothing new to see here. No humor, no story, no character development. Only stupidity thrown around in order to fill in 200-whatever pages. Oh the joy! I was actually planning to enjoy this, you know. Maybe even compare it to Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ books. Laugh a bit, wipe a tear from my eye, that sort of thing. What did I get? Anger and a bad case of bleeding eyes! The conclusion? Everyone in this book is an idiot! My dear book how I wish you were this plastic cup ![]() So I could crush you! (less)
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If I could hug myself and kiss the hell out of my brilliant Anyways, Married With Zombies was such a great book! Well.. not really sooo great, but pretty nice. More than nice. Great. Is a three-star rating equal to great? No? Nice? No? WHATEVER THEN! So yeah, it was really funny but something was missing. Some liiiiittle thing that wouldn’t make such a difference but at the same time it would make a big difference. Do you get what I mean? I liked Sarah but the whole drama she’s making out of Dave’s video playing habit is annoying. My husband is a class-A gamer, as he would describe himself, and I’m not far away from his rank. I love playing video games and I see them as a perfect pastime activity. And since we’re both into it we have so much fun playing them together. Sarah bitching about it and not even trying to join Dave on the fun is crap from her side. And her hating Nirvana.. I’m not even going to comment about that. But those things are minor and won’t affect my rating. Much. The sad part is that the book became quite boring after some time. I guess all zombie books have a point where they lose their originality. Thinking about it, the stories are the same: normal day at the office and all of the sudden your colleague John tries to bite your arm off. ZOMG everyone’s a zombie, RUN FOR COVER!!!! And then the fun goes to hell. (Heh, hell. Get it?) But you know why I actually liked this book? Because of the humor. It’s so fucking good! I mean check these quotes out: “We — we’ve obviously had some technical difficulties, folks,” he finally said as he shook himself awake from his stunned fog. “But I assure you we’ll work to keep you updated on the situation with local coverage on the ground and try… well, we’ll try to get back with Henry shortly.” ![]() Muahahahaha that’s so funny!!!! Wait. They were totally better in the book. Oh well.(less) | Notes are private!
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WARNING: If you’re actually into this genre and want a serious review avoid this. There be demons ahead! You may think I’ve lost my mind for reading th...more WARNING: If you’re actually into this genre and want a serious review avoid this. There be demons ahead! You may think I’ve lost my mind for reading this but there’s a reasonable explanation for it. I’m in the mood to make fun of something. My friend Aly, who’s a huge fan of historical romance novels, couldn’t finish this. So of course I did the obvious thing. ![]() No, I didn’t kill it with fire you silly monkeys. I got the book and set out to read it just to make fun of it. You know, make the routine go away and all that. It had nothing to do with the chick wanting to bang Death. Absolutely nothing to do with that. So what I was expecting? Cults, necrophilia, suicide, curses and floating underwear. Of course I skimmed most of it (I can’t handle reading a historical romance without skimming) while hunting for some creepy scenes. What I got? A cheesy pun loving peeping tom Death and a desperate female novelist owning a sick imagination. Meh! I actually found some pretty good stuff around here. Let’s have a look! "Am I to die?" I asked, and he stopped, raised our joined hands to his mouth and gently kissed my knuckles. *chokes on the apple she was eating* Lord Black never emerged from his town house, which was across the street from her uncle's town house. This reminds me: ![]() It’s perfectly normal to mix things up; you’re an innocent girl after all. Good thing you have me to open your eyes *winks* "Would you let me learn everything about you? Discover you as I want?" Does that include a dissection? "My lord—" she warned as he angled his head, lowering his mouth to hers. Wtf?!? Who in this world names her main character Black? That’s just lame.. Bla bla bla magical objects got stolen bla bla bla he who owns them will rule the world bla bla bla stupid story skim skim skim I was expecting this to be more.. blasphemous. I’m really disappointed with this! I mean come on you had it right there! Why did you make Black be just a normal person who’s cursed or whatever the hell’s wrong with him?? No freaky events, just boredom *sighs*(less) | Notes are private!
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“If you have a preferred god, Sentinel, I suggest you start praying. And soon.” Pray that Neill will put this series out of its misery ASAP, that is. F...more “If you have a preferred god, Sentinel, I suggest you start praying. And soon.” Pray that Neill will put this series out of its misery ASAP, that is. First impressions This is the last chance I’m giving Chicagoland Vampires. Screw this up and I’m out. Hell, I’m actually expecting a screw-up, but maybe it’s for the best. I don’t really feel like continuing this series anymore. All of this because of how things evolved between Merit, Ethan and Mallory. Well, when you put it that way it’s almost everyone in the book. So yeah, there you have it. I’m being dramatic, I know. Whatever. The plot Ethan is back from the dead and he isn’t a zombie. Yet. Mallory is still on the run, endlessly chasing after the big evil book, the Maleficium. Why is that? To publish another Chicagoland Vampires book. Duh! Merit and Ethan join forces, of course, to stop the evil Yes Miss Neill, a worthy punishment for a person who switched to using black magic and almost destroyed the world is to wash dishes. ![]() Even so, the danger is not over. The freaky binary fission produced another worthy enemy. An evil angel – ![]() I’m sorry, but I can’t be serious when talking about this. First gnomes. And now angels. Getting desperate Miss Neill? Anypoodle, as I was saying. Another enemy, a fallen angel, who – surprise, surprise – wants to destroy the world. Can these people get a bit more original? Everyone wants to destroy the world. Can’t they just threaten kittens with guns or something? Ugh. So yeah, he wants to destroy the world and our golden couple, Ethan and Merit, is the only hope this dear planet has. ![]() My thoughts Now this was a total waste of time. I’ll save you the bother of reading till the end and tell you now that I won’t be continuing the series. It’s obvious that Neill either lost her touch or is going through a bad state but the Chicagoland series is going to hell in a handcart. I don’t give a shit about Merit’s relationship with Ethan anymore. I want a good story not a bunch of pages filled with useless romance. And that’s where my problem lies. The good story. I used to think that the whole evil witch thing was not nice. And now we get fallen angels. FALLEN FUCKING ANGELS! What are we in Disneyland? Throw in all the mythical creatures you can, I’m sure the peeps will love it. ![]() No, the peeps won’t fucking love it! At least not me! And twin brothers? One good one evil? Cheesy much? Apart from the angel issue I got hit in the head with how slow and boring the book’s pace is. Action scenes? No thank you, we should totally focus on Ethan’s emo phase because emo guys are SOOOO popular these days. ![]() Emo my ass. Merit and Ethan’s relationship weakened dreadfully. I don’t feel the passion between them; I am not interested in them getting together even. This is totally going to happen, btw. It’s TOO obvious. Merit will never go for the other guys. Why? Because they are better than Ethan. It’s a book rule. Chicks never go for the obvious choices. They go for the emo ones. Mallory’s redemption was also pure filling. Her sole purpose was to bring Ethan back, since Neill was out of better ideas. She served it and now she’ll get back to normal. Mark my words. I was going to give it two stars but the twin-Tates incident is why I’m removing one star from my rating. The A short conclusion Biting Cold is full of tasteless romance and the story is not good enough to make up for all the other weak points. Which are far too many. I can’t begin to express how disappointed I am with it. I was hoping to give Chicagoland Vampires a second chance but Biting Cold sealed the deal. I won’t be continuing the series anymore. My advice for Chloe Neill, four words: just kill it already. Favorite quote [empty] *Buddy read with Dee. You can read her review here.* Review also posted on (less)
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I didn’t want to start this book. Many people are praising it but I’m simply not into erotica, it’s too cheap for me. But here I am in the mind of the...more
I didn’t want to start this book. Many people are praising it but I’m simply not into erotica, it’s too cheap for me. But here I am in the mind of the innocent waiting to be devoured by the big bad wolf. Sounds pornographic, doesn’t it? That’s because it is… ![]() Christian Grey. A hot dude that melts a woman’s panties off with just one look. The perfect sex toy set out to conquer an innocent girl. Grey (the sick f*ck) is considered one of the hottest characters out there but he doesn’t get to me. His dominance is too much for me to handle and his attitude tends to be annoying and slimy. Plus he’s just wrong in the head so there’s no need to add more about this creep. ![]() Anastasia is an immature insecure desperate idiot who wants to become the whore of Babylon. She just wants to listen to her inner goddess (wtf?!) and have creepy monkey sex with Grey. She has no personality nor will whatsoever, she gets excited over the smallest and most idiotic things you can imagine and even though she sees how wrong Grey (the sick f*ck) is, she still goes for it. She’s always mooning over Grey like he’s some kind of god that she’s supposed to worship. He tells her that he doesn’t want a serious relationship just sex and she’s still ok with it. Why? Just because he’s hot? He’s a damn disgusting pervert. He hurt her the first time they made love, she was a virgin for Christ’s sake (and I don’t buy the crap with it being perfect, surely she had vaginal cracks after that), and is treating her like a slave. Even though he’s a successful businessman and he’s rich and famous he still can be a psychopath. Just watch American Psycho and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Now to pick on one of my biggest problems regarding this book: THE CONTRACT. WTF may I ask? Signing paperwork in order to have sex with him? Is he a natural hazard or what? I get the whole Hey look at me I’m badass, I have my own company and helicopter gig ‘cause the guy is stinking rich but the contract??? Isn’t anyone getting angry with this? ![]() I guess not... “Why would I do that?” Wtf?? All women want to please him? Why? ‘Cause he’s hot? He’s a perverted assh*le that’s what he is. He’s acting like he owns everyone! Aren’t you guys angry? ![]() “I have rules, and I want you to comply with them. They are for your benefit and for my pleasure. If you follow these rules to my satisfaction, I shall reward you. If you don’t, I shall punish you, and you will learn,” Learn this! *kicks him in the groin* Creep! “It’s about gaining your trust and your respect, so you’ll let me exert my will over you.” Heh *right eye twitches* exert my will *eye twitches again* Aren’t you guys angry with this yet?? ![]() ![]() … Question for all the people who gave this book great scores. If Grey wasn’t so hot would you still have given it such great ratings? I doubt you would. So this means that the reason why you love the book is mainly Christian Grey being hot and an uber alpha? Shallow much? Or maybe you’re into all the Christian Grey induced monkey sex and torture. Psycho much? But who am I to judge. This book is just a desperate woman’s sick fantasy to be treated like a sex slave. I’m sorry but it doesn’t work for me. I DNF’d this because I find it disgusting and degrading. P.S. (I have to mention this because some people are too smart to get it) MY REVIEW IS STRICTLY RELATED TO FIFTY SHADES OF GREY AND NOT BDSM IN GENERAL. So take a chill pill and GTFO.(less) | Notes are private!
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“Cassio,” she whispers. “Get me out of here.” Girl of Nightmares starts with Anna being gone. Remember the previous book? The whole jump straight into...more “Cassio,” she whispers. “Get me out of here.” Girl of Nightmares starts with Anna being gone. Remember the previous book? The whole jump straight into a fiery pit thing? Anyhow, it’s beet months since the little “accident," and Cas can’t stop obsessing over her. He hears her laugh and sees her, or things that remind him of her, everywhere he goes. He can’t focus on his ghost killing job. School sucks, and his friends can’t seem to stand him because of his douchey attitude. No surprise there. Cas also can’t stop trying to get himself killed. Ok, maybe he’s not trying to get himself killed, but he’s not doing a good job staying away from trouble either. All of this is in the name of love! He will stop at nothing in order to get Anna back into the world of the living. Even though, you know, she’s dead and all. I could tell there’s something fishy going on with Girl of Nightmares since page one. First of all, it did not suck me in since the beginning like Anna Dressed in Blood had and secondly, I could tell that it was obviously different than the previous installment. ![]() My main problem regarding the book is Cas. He seems to have been replaced with a bitter old man. Yes, I know that it could be understandable. He lost his lover girl. He is suffering. He is constantly moping over Anna. Boo-hoo. However, this is not a decent enough reason to get on my nerves and ruin a perfectly good book. If only Girl of Nightmares was a perfectly good book, that is. I liked the first book, Anna Dressed in Blood, and I was ok with the romance that was going on between Cas and Anna. Now, it’s been a year, give or take, since I read it, and I’m starting to have different thoughts about the two “lovebirds." The whole “I miss you, and I might just love you” part seems a bit unhealthy for Cas. I mean, ok, hooking up with a ghost. Good luck getting to second base with that. But a ghost that is capable of mutilating people? And is full of blood, stab wounds and gore most of the time. Well, I think one would need a strong stomach even to think about going to second base with her. Just sayin’. “ […] in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I can’t tell. She’s missing half of her face. I mean come on. You’re still starry-eyed after this? Earth to Cas. She’s missing half of her fucking face. Just scream and hide under the desk already. ![]() Let’s pretend this never happened. “Anna is waiting in my bedroom. Her head lolls as if on a broken neck; her eyes roll up to mine. Cas , don’t you feel like kissing her? Not even a little bit? “I don’t try to read her lips. Too much black blood spills through them. He’s so going to make out with her right now. His girlfriend. Ghost girlfriend. Someone’s going to die a virgin. I think the moral of this story is: love prevails over all. Or something. “ “I love her.” That means you’re having a shitload of problems coming your way, kid. Do you see what I’m talking about? How can I even remotely like this book with all this nonsense going on? A short conclusion I admit I don’t have the best memory out there. This means that I don’t remember much from Anna Dressed in Blood. I do remember the main events but not the little details. However, the thing that impressed me the most in Anna Dressed in Blood were the terrifying ghosts, carnage and the environment's overall dark and chilling feel. All these elements are absent in Girl of Nightmares, which reads more like teenage angst slash romance than horror. This is a very sad thing because Kendare Blake has a good talent in creating amazing horror concepts. I am extremely disappointed. Favorite quote: “She’ll see her dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’s suspended in water, eyes black and shining. And when she does, she won’t be able to catch her breath. P.S. I’m still waiting for the real Anna #2 to come out. This one was probably just an April’s Fool joke. Barely 3 stars.(less) | Notes are private!
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My thoughts before reading the book What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. Oh god, why am I going to read thi...more My thoughts before reading the book What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. Oh god, why am I going to read this??? *looks at the cover model's eyes* ![]() Yes master... I shall read the book... My thoughts while reading the book ▪ Pagan? What kind of name is Pagan? ▪ Of course he’s gorgeous, just look at that damn cover!! ▪ Ugh please don’t let it be a love triangle!! ▪ Give me more of the dead dude. ▪ Fair hair for the good guy dark hair for the evil one? Typical. Is this why I have a thing for dark haired men? ▪ Meeeh love triangle ಠ_ಠ ▪ She ended in the nuthouse. How fitting. ▪ The ending = barf. My thoughts after finishing the book [and after taking my anger out on my blind neighbor] This could have been so much better. ![]() ![]() Yeah, yeah, you’re right. It couldn’t have been better.. Everyone’s boring in this book; they have no personality whatsoever. When Pagan speaks I feel like I’m listening to a thirty year old woman and not a teenager. Not that a thirty year old woman would always be boring. I know some than are more immature than a sixteen year old. But that’s beside the point. Pagan is boring, Leif is super boring and Miranda is a desperate girl drooling over anything that has a penis. Dank is the only one standing out. Because he’s meant to stand out. Compared to the rest of the characters his presence is like Lady Gaga attending an award show. ![]() If you don’t know what I mean then read on my friend.. Read on.. Dank is too exaggerated because he freakin’ stands out too much. And, oh noo, guess what? He’s Death. I mean Death aka The Reaper. Bitch please. Death. A teenager. That happens to be in a rock band. Who falls in love with an insignificant teenager. Twilight much? What, vampires are not popular anymore so Abbi Glines said ”What the hell? The formula seems to work so why not Google some creature, make him hot as hell and- oh wait. Hell. The Devil! No, no, that’s too much.. Everyone sees Al Pacino as the Devil. He’s not sexy enough. Oooh, I could die for an idea right now! Wait! Die! That’s it! I’ll make him Death! But not the black caped creepy skeleton thing but a sexy model like guy. Oooh, Ian Somerhalder but younger and even hotter! Brilliant!” No Mrs. Glines, it’s not brilliant. It’s bullshit. My thoughts on the next book in the series Barf.(less) | Notes are private!
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I wasn’t so excited to start this book. Why? It may sound shallow but it was the title. Yes, I thought “Oh demon lover, typical romance story. *yawns*...more
I wasn’t so excited to start this book. Why? It may sound shallow but it was the title. Yes, I thought “Oh demon lover, typical romance story. *yawns* Boring stuff”. But (again shallow, I know) the cover was great and I had to make sure it’s alright by reading the summary. After it passed inspection I requested the galley. After a few days I got the confirmation email *happy dance* and started reading. And I had such a wonderful surprise. The story was amazing (I probably was in the mood for some nice paranormal romance – but it turned out to be more of an urban fantasy so never mind that) and the book seemed to be a gold mine. ![]() Demon Lover has a bit of a fairytale-ish feel to it. Fall in love, break the spell, get married, live happily ever after with your 10 kids, one dog, three cats and a pet hamster. I’m a sucker for these stories, so I was having the time of my life, as you can imagine. This lasted for about 25% of the book, the rest ending up mediocre. I’m so angry that the book didn’t continue on the Road of Awesomeness it walked on at the beginning. I can still see the scene in front of the house, heavy rain falling down and Callie seeing the beautiful demon’s face between the droplets. It got stuck to my mind. *sighs* But back to reality. Why am I so disappointed? Good question. The book got into too many details. It made me feel like I’m watching Lost again (and I’m not happy about this, trust me). So many mysteries and very few answers. All this made me feel confused and close to getting a headache. ![]() Callie was a normal heroine. Nothing much was standing out with her. I didn’t love nor hate her. I actually find it difficult to make an opinion on her, how strange is that? Liam (duh) and Ralph (yes, I’m talking about the mouse) are my favorite characters. Thinking about it, I didn’t actually love (aka obsess about) any characters in the book. I either liked them or was having neutral feelings towards them. I was excited about the incubus at the beginning but since the story morphed into something else he was gone. *sniff* Some characters were nice but some seemed useless. Probably there will be more books to come and they will have an important part in them. But speaking of Demon Lover, they didn’t please me. I got bored pretty often while reading the book. ![]() Ah and before I forget, more scenes with the incubus please! The ending made the book earn an extra star. It was too much of a tease but it made me want to read the next book. I guess I’ll be keeping an eye on this series.(less) | Notes are private!
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bla bla bla ZombieHazard bla bla OMG! Thank you Lord for giving me the strength to finish this! One more hour of this and I’d be forced to hurt someon...more bla bla bla ZombieHazard bla bla OMG! Thank you Lord for giving me the strength to finish this! One more hour of this and I’d be forced to hurt someone. ![]() AAAAAAAAAAA my ears!! They bleed!!! I seriously don't recommend this audiobook. The story - meh. The lady talking - meeeh! Her "Italian" accent cracked me up. The result? MEH! Me don't likey. At all! It's tooo close to BDB. I thought maybe this one will change a bit but I was wrong. I've been listening to the audiobook while working. My first audiobook *yei* Not so bad I guess (if you ignore the sexy lady talking). It’s easier to be distracted while listening to this. Better to cope with the I'm not in the mood for PNR lately. I want a book that offers a deeper story and a bit more of a tease when it comes to the relationship between the main characters. Midnight Breed is a mediocre series. I try so hard but can’t get myself to like it. I’ve read worse books of course and this probably isn’t the worst in the genre but *British accent* not my cup of tea! Maybe it gets better later on but I don't have the patience to read all 10 books in order to get something good. I'll probably (big probably there my friends) give the next book a try later one when my mood improves. Sooooo… One star. Sorry Dante, love the name but that doesn’t make up for anything.(less) | Notes are private!
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`~ Romeo’s song ~` There comes a time in every weird underweight scar-faced teenager’s life when another soul inhabits her body and does a quick repair...more `~ Romeo’s song ~` There comes a time in every weird underweight scar-faced teenager’s life when another soul inhabits her body and does a quick repair to her life. This may be also known as growing up to some, but to others this is called Juliet Immortal inhabiting your body to fight the forces of evil. WARNING. Long quote ahead. Read it or you won’t get any dessert! He is a romantic, a dreamer, and never afraid to play the fool. He is fearless and reckless and brave and I love him for it. Desperately. Love for him steals my breath away, makes me feel I am dying and being reborn every time I look into his eyes or run trembling fingers through his brown curls. I love him for the way he sprawls on the freshly scrubbed stones, strong legs flexing beneath his hose, as if there is no cause for worry, as if we have not broken every rule and do not face banishment from the only homes we have ever known. I love him for the way he finds my hand, presses it to his smooth cheek, inhaling as if my skin smells sweeter than the petals clinging to his coat. I love him for the way he whispers my name, “Juliet”—a prayer for deliverance, a promise of pleasure, a vow that all this sweet everything he is to me will be forever. Forever and always.[…] ![]() Saying that I’m impressed with the author’s writing skills would be an understatement. This is wonderful and amazing and I’m in love! Ok, I’ll stop exaggerating. I admire her skills and I am really impressed with the first quarter of this book. The rest.. Go see Figure 1. ![]() What’s wrong with Juliet Immortal? The love story and all the drama going on bored me. I wanted the book to be more like what it was in its beginning, a constant fight between Romeo and Juliet, lots of action, terrifying scenes and emotional moments. What this book offered me was a 700 year old teenager having her first crush and an overly annoying thoughtless selfish mean spoiled best friend who’s always begging for a Despite all the mentioning of supernatural elements, like her guardian (the Nurse), the Mercenaries and whatever (I don’t even remember them all), I didn’t get any scenes related to them that would explain wtf is going on. Who are all these beings possessing people out of the blue? What’s this nonsense about soul mates having to end up together else one of them dies? Cupid syndrome? What’s the purpose of everything? When will Juliet be free? What’s the deal with those mirrors? What’s the secret recipe for McDonalds fries? So many questions left unanswered… I still fail to understand why Stacey Jay messed up a book that had such good potential. Why do [almost] all authors take this venomous path when it comes to YA? Well, at least it didn’t have a love triangle. Or it did.. No, I don’t consider this a love triangle. She loves one of the guys and wants to dig the other’s eye out with a paintbrush and feed it to the crows. One has to love both guys in order to be in a love triangle. Am I right? (view spoiler)[I’m not entirely happy with the ending; I find it weird that they’ll reset the story. I was hoping for something else, especially considering Juliet. I mean wtf did they do to her?? She got shot in the head and didn’t die. Then she takes the hand of her zombie self and wakes up in the cemetery, 700 years in the past. In a coffin. Under the f*cking ground. And what do you know? Past Ben is there to rescue her. And he doesn’t even flip out when he sees a girl that’s supposed to be dead rise from her grave. Ooooh yes, plenty of people go through this.. that’s why he sticks his tongue down her throat like there’s no tomorrow and confesses his eternal love on the spot. (hide spoiler)] Since Romeo is my favourite character in the book (yes, I love him) I can truly say that I’m excited about Romeo Redeemed. I will read it for him and him only! “This is better,” Romeo whispers in my ear. “Better to die than to be turned or stolen away to the mist.” His voice catches and something damp falls on my neck. “You can rest now, sweet Juliet, and perhaps that heaven we haven’t dared believe in will be there for you after all.” ![]() The final chapter found me smiling while switching off my Kindle.(less) | Notes are private!
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Well… my fangirl moment came to an end. I woke up reading the second book and I was thinking wtf did I see in the first one? This is bullsh*t! Yep! Ma...more
Well… my fangirl moment came to an end. I woke up reading the second book and I was thinking wtf did I see in the first one? This is bullsh*t! Yep! Maybe I’m having a multiple personality disorder or aliens were controlling my brain and were forcing me to like Nightshade. I guess that would be the logical explanation, don’t you think? In the first book we saw the world from the Keepers and Guardians POV which now is considered the enemy line. Now we get to see where the good guys stand. If they really are the good guys. I find it fascinating either way. It’s a new universe, new characters and a whole lot of pressure. Good stuff so far. The story itself is not bad. I mean some things were really cool, like the Searchers, a “flying/moving/teleporting” Academy (lol – WTF), some new characters and the villain which is still not evil enough for me to like him much. But these things didn’t make up for the stupid teenage drama that was going on. I’m close to turning 24 soooo I don’t have the patience needed to go through sh*t like this. Connor is my favorite character, after him comes Silas (these two fighting made my day!) and that’s it. Or not! I guess Adne was good also. Shame on you Shay! You betrayed my trust so I don’t like you anymore!!! My fangirl hypnotic state is gone!! I’m alive again!!!! Get ready to be criticized *evil laugh* muahahahahahaaaa Question! Do I really love Shay that much? Answer: (view spoiler)[Naw, I’m just kidding. I actually hate his guts. Calla’s too. (hide spoiler)] Why is Shay acting so soft and comfortable to that Adne whatever her name is chick? I mean hello the girl you love just woke up sleeping with the enemies (heh) after being shot and she’s not having such an easy time coping with this. She also risked her life to save your ungrateful ass and left her pack and family behind for the same reasons (not to mention the horrible things that happened to them because of this – I’ll get back to that later). Now this is proving that you’re not cute anymore Shay!!!! You’re a big asshole!!!!111223!! Calla doesn’t seem like an alpha wolf to me. She has many loose ends; she’s not cunning or cold blooded. She takes bad decisions and she abandoned her pack very easily for a stranger. In my book she is a bad leader. *sings* Flaws flaws, the air is full of flaws!!!! So let me get this straight. The Keepers use the Guardians as lapdogs. They control what places they live in, who they marry, when they have kids and probably when and how they die. Having this didn’t EVER make the wolves think of slavery? No? Anyone?... Wait! There’s more! So the Keepers make the wolves, right? If they can make them then they can also unmake them. But Calla just "made" Shay a wolf. That means that all wolves can create other wolves. So why can’t another wolf recreate one that was unmade? Isn’t that equal to, say, a PC getting formatted? You just install the OS again and done! Simple really. But of course it won’t work that way! The universe they live in is way more complex than my mere mortal mind… Spoiler for the next part. Deep secrets down there… (view spoiler)[Calla found out her mum died. Because of her. And her brother lost his inner wolf, which is kind of part of his soul or something deep and important like that. What is her reaction? A few tears and a "OH NOOOO" and then something close to "What’s for dinner?". Calla darling, you just killed your mum, subjected your whole pack to torture and also lost it for good. And your former boytoy is probably close to getting killed also. A dramatic howl? Broken furniture? Tear Shay into pieces? No? Just me again? Meh she probably didn’t even like her mum anyways... (hide spoiler)] Calla is (of course) making a drama out of her love life. Why would she settle for the guy she loves? Why would the frustration end easily? Noooo we have to go around in circles! She says she loves Shay and I don’t know when that happened even. She saw him felt a buzz and done! It’s amore!!! Total BS of course (but I see that happening to all characters in the book so I guess that’s the way Andrea Cremer sees the issue). And then there’s the big bad wolf Ren. Yes already Team Ren VS Team Shay… you have no idea how much I hate this sh*t with Team Ass and Team F*ck! It only gives fangirls a reason to fight each other like idiots. Just focus on football or something like all the normal gremlins living on this planet!!! Anyhow, Ren comes back and Calla will surely have "feelings" for him. What sort of feelings you ask? Probably lust. I’m sure she’s a pervert and she knows he’s good with the ladies so she wants a piece of him. In her. Hah! WTF seriously?? Why did I even like the first book so much???? I duno anything anymore!!! Well since Calla has such a hard time figuring out whom to choose I say dump them both and be a lesbian. It has a higher rate of success than wasting her time drooling over two boys at the same time. Or maybe she’s a pervert and is dying for a threesome. You can never know... Another though/proposition. Wouldn’t it be easier to go to war if Calla changed all the searchers into wolves? They’d be stronger and last longer on the battlefield or wherever they’ll fight. They can change forms which is an advantage also. Sharp teeth and all. No? Bad idea? And Shay turned into a total douche of course. Tilting the love triangle a bit. Ren should play the martyr and all, no? After that ending what can I say? Meh! Predictable… *bored tone* Oh gee! Can’t wait for the next book to be out! *yawns* That’s it, I’m done! No pictures for you because I hate you! Bye! Read the review on ZombieHazard.(less) | Notes are private!
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Hmmmm how to describe Return to Paradise? Well, imagine you have a nice glass of wine. It’s a decent quality brand, a pretty nice taste and all. Then...more
Hmmmm how to describe Return to Paradise? Well, imagine you have a nice glass of wine. It’s a decent quality brand, a pretty nice taste and all. Then you think should I drink it all at once or make it last a bit longer? Probably you’ll say ok I’ll make it last longer. The longer the better, right? So you take another glass, pour half in one, half in the other. But now you have two half-filled glasses and that won’t do. So the idea comes! Let’s put some water in each glass so they will both end up full. After you do that you taste one of them. Not so good now, is it? It felt like these two books should have been merged together. Lay off some irrelevant and silly details and you get a good book. My main problem in this Return to Paradise was Caleb. He turned out to be some piece of work. I guess it was too easy if he was his old self and the book wouldn’t occupy enough space after being printed. So we get a bit of stuffing for our chicken, yes? Caleb was an ass when he left. I mean I get it, he felt like he doesn’t belong anywhere, that he’s causing his family pain and suffering. But the girl you love is begging you to stay and you go with the drug dealer dude to live in a shithole and then, omg the surprise!!!, get arrested. Plus remember what he told Maggie. Leaving is a gesture of cowardice. Hmmmm hypocrite much? He left with the first occasion he got. But I guess Caleb likes to make a soap opera out of his life so we have to understand his decisions. *facepalm* ![]() Seriously Maggie’s a wuss. Yeah she’s a geek and all so I shouldn’t have high expectations from her attitude but she’s trying to act like she’s Xena Warrior Princess. She gets into dialogues thinking " Hah ill show them who’s weak!! Take that you caca smeared teddy bear!!!" does not work for me. As hard as she tries she can never be strong. She’s afraid of spiders for crying out loud! We also had the typical third guy gig. I really think they should find another solution for these stories. Adding the perfect guy who’s good to the girl and treats her well is old-school. We all know things won’t work between them the good dude will retire with a big fake smile on his face and turn into a damn psycho killer and the girl will end up with the hero have ten kids and die happy by the hand of the psycho killer. Fortunately Matt turned out to be “just a friend” and ended up back with his ex or whatever. Good save! Hmmm cute ending. No epilogue so we don’t know if Maggie and Caleb will get married, turn gay or move to Mars (surely people will live on Mars by that time). And as a conclusion what can I say? I’m not impressed. At all. It started as a decent concept but ended up typical teen love story. It got me bored, it didn’t have any exciting moments and the characters got more annoying (especially Caleb) with every page turned. A good read for all you hopeless romantics though. Top 5 quotes #5 "Haven't you ever heard the phrase, If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat? That goes for stray pubes, as well." #4 "Eww," Trish cries out. "Do you have to call it a stump?" "Would you rather I call it my partial appendage?" Matt asks, pulling up his sleeve and showing off what remains of his left arm. #3 I instinctively throw what I'm folding. Oops. A pair of panties, which he catches in one hand and holds up. It's a neutral-colored pair, without any designs. "Please tell me these are your mom's." #2 Lenny springs off the couch and envelops my dad in a huge bear hug. My dad steps back, totally caught off guard, but keeps his balance. I bet he's silently thanking his high school football coach for those balance drills in high school. "Nice to meet you, Dad," Lenny says. "Or should I call you Dr. Becker? Or Dr. B., or just Doc?" #1 Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she's got on. Read the review on ZombieHazard.(less) | Notes are private!
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“Drink. It’s the only thing that can save you.” And so it begins. I have to admit that I got so fascinated by the cover that I had to read it. Shameful,...more “Drink. It’s the only thing that can save you.” And so it begins. I have to admit that I got so fascinated by the cover that I had to read it. Shameful, I know, but at least I’m not pretending something else. I didn’t read the summary, as usual, so I went blindly into it. In the end I have to say that it was worth it. Nightshade is such a damn great surprise. Loved the book so much and I am already reading the second one. I’m sure I’ll fall in love badly with the series in the end. In Nightshade we have a view from inside the "cool" circle, after being used to having only creeps peeking from the outside. Most of the stories I’ve read so far (if not all of them especially when thinking about young adult ones) are from the POV of the tiny insignificant human who has a crush on the cool guy who’s actually God knows what creature of the night. In Nightshade the girl who’s the main character is the creature of the night and is pursued by a normal human. This means a nice turn of events and a breath of fresh air for me. The story evolved decently but some things kind of bothered me. The gig with the wolves having to pair up with whomever the Keepers choose is messed up. It kind of reminds me of how gypsies handle things. And Jane Austen books. Yep! Messed up pretty badly! Living in a society where people are forced to follow codes similar to that wouldn’t be something easy. I mean rape much? Geez... ![]() I’m a bit confused about Calla’s feelings. She says she doesn’t wanna do the union with Ren but yet when he touches her she reacts like she’s in heat. Is that her "inner wolf" reacting to him? Or what’s the deal? I feel like her true feelings are with Shay, and it’s obvious they are, but I can’t manage to understand her reaction towards Ren. I guess he’s using pheromones or something… God Shay is the cutest thing ever. Cuter than a baby kitten. Cuter than a monkey wearing a tux. Cuter than a K-Pop Asian band. Btw why do these guys look so gay? I mean it’s scary for me. Them taking pics with bunny ears. Wearing eye glitter. Being all silky smooth like girls... Eeeeew. ![]() Anyways, back to the REAL cuteness! Shay! I just feel like hugging him and pinching him and poke him with a stick and snuggle him and poke him some more. They should have dolls made having his face so that babies would smile again. Yes there’s a drastic decrease in babies smiles nowadays and Shay should do something about it. (view spoiler)[Why did I get the feel that Calla changing Shay into a wolf wasn’t dramatic enough? Yeah he felt pain and all but I dunno... It’s a big step so I expected more magic. (hide spoiler)] Nightshade ended up pretty roughly. Don’t get me wrong it actually had an awesome ending but if the second book wouldn’t be out I’d probably end up punching someone in the face. So lucky me I could get my hands on it. And from the looks of things it’s gonna be (hopefully) as good as the first. Fingers crossed everyone! Top 5 quotes #5 “And you look beautiful,” she added. “I look like a cake.” “But a beautiful cake.” #4 “It would be much better if I had a rose between my teeth. Wouldn’t I be dashing?” I started to giggle. “That would be ridiculous.” “Ridiculously dashing.” #3 He glanced at me and winked. I glared at him. If you wink at me again, I’ll be forced to pull your eyelashes out. #2 “Congratulations on your first kill. Your mother and I are very proud.” #1 He blinked at me. Then he slowly stretched out his hand, taking a few steps forward. He bent down. When I realized what he was about to do, I snarled, snapping at his fingers. He jumped back and swore. I shifted into human form. “You’re like a dead man walking.” I pointed an accusing finger at him. “Don’t ever, ever try to pet a wolf. It’s just insulting.” Read the review on ZombieHazard.(less) | Notes are private!
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YES!!! I’m done!!!! ![]() I can’t believe how difficult it was for me to finish this! Looking at all the good reviews this book has made me wonder why on ea...more YES!!! I’m done!!!! ![]() I can’t believe how difficult it was for me to finish this! Looking at all the good reviews this book has made me wonder why on earth I didn’t like it. Since I don’t want to be unfair or moody (or God knows what’s wrong with me these days) I said I’ll take a piece of paper and a pen, draw two columns, one with the things I liked and one with the things I didn’t like. So I did just that and placed my likes and dislikes there, drew the final line and compared results. Since I’m a nice girl I will share those results with you. Things I didn’t like: - Liv is annoying. - Cam’s POV ruins the "guess the dude’s feelings for the chick" game. - The book tends to go towards marriage counseling and not action packed adventure. - The desperate look Cam has each time he lays eyes on Liv. - For an unknown reason it got me sleepy each time I was trying to read it. My total fell-asleep-while-reading-this number ended up being four. Seriously is this normal??? Do you remember Tom (Tom & Jerry) not wanting to fall asleep and using matches to keep his eyelids up? I’m going to try to fetch and image if I can find one. ![]() (lucky me, I did!) That’s exactly what I’m doing right now. My eyes are betraying me! ![]() - I’m not a fan of the story. I didn’t like it. - Switching between the characters’ POV got confusing at times. - Too predictable. Things I liked: - Cam was a nice hero. Not the best but ok. - Interesting concept. Who needs chips when you can rack a person by blood. Omg, right? Those are the things I liked… Not cool. Close to the end I was stuck between giving it one star or two stars. So I said if I solve the "who’s the father" puzzle I’ll give it one star. If I don’t I’ll give it two stars. Check the rating. I’m that good.(less) | Notes are private!
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I started reading this as an accident of fate. Yes you read it well! Me and my friend Aly decided we should do a “group” (or whatever you wanna call i...more
I started reading this as an accident of fate. Yes you read it well! Me and my friend Aly decided we should do a “group” (or whatever you wanna call it) read. We picked a couple of books, numbered ‘em and then used an online random number chooser thing to pick what to read. This was the result. It was actually a nice experiment. Worked for my friend, didn’t work for me. This review will be a bad one. I hated the book; I won’t be nice so in case you’re into this type of books you should probably stop reading now. If you want my opinion on this, keep on reading. So we have the dude. He’s a writer and, in my personal opinion, a big loser. He’s still living with his family, hiding stuff from his mum, taking sh*t from his brothers and so on. He is a big fancy writer so I was expecting him to f*ck off everyone and live a depressed solitary life. But I guess that’s just me… ![]() The chick is a total idiot. Typical case of stuck-up, successful (to a point) city woman paying nature a visit. She acts all blonde, says stupid things (heh! She kinda reminds me of the Legally Blonde chick – did I mention I hate Legally Blonde??) and fears raccoons like one would fear a crazed crocodile. Yep, I shite you not! Now the whole feeling of the book is one big fat huge damn telenovela (did I mention I also hate telenovelas???). I duno who did duno what to duno who and he did duno what back to her. Highschool drama and broken friendships (that got fixed too easy – if I’m not wrong… did it actually get fixed? I don’t even remember). Too many kids (God I hate kids…) doing stupid stuff. Guys acting like machos and failing at it. B-O-R-I-N-G and annoying! I tried to like this book! I really did but it had too much sh*t for me to handle. ![]() Keri seems like a bad person (she’s even annoying during sex). I get that people break up when they’re young (and when they’re old so I guess that makes it all the time) but at least I’d expect her to show a bit of feelings. She’s talking about leaving Joe like she gave up some shoes she didn’t like anymore. She goes back to her hometown and meets the guy who’s gonna end up the love of her life and does what? Gets all hot n sweaty ‘cuz he looks good and remembers how perfect they were together and then talks about leaving so easily. So this shows lack of feeling and shows what a bad person she is. I can’t get to like her and I don’t like reading books where i can’t even like the main characters. I respect Joe fighting for what he wants or what he thinks is his but I can’t respect him for being an idiot. Yes he is an idiot. That’s the key word when it comes to Joe Whatever-the-hell-his-name-is. Get over damn higschool you’re a f*cking successful writer you can do better than that! Oh and speaking of the Mighty Joe, why does the author have to mention his erection every five pages? He’s horny, we get it already!!! Let it go!!! ![]() Aaand of course shell betray his trust, aaand of course we’ll have two more chapters of drama followed by tears and flying dishes, and in the end they kiss and make up and move to the city where Joe lives. They have kids and live happily ever after. I insist on mentioning that in 69% through the book when I’m writing this. Aaand in the end the story ended up like I said it will. I will be honest (and not harsh) and give it one star. Why? First of all I didn’t like any characters. And I mean it. Joe was an idiot, Keri was annoying, Terry was stupid and the rest of the characters irrelevant. Two, the story was nonsense. Too predictable, boring and mediocre. Three, lack of emotions between the main characters. Yes she wrote about them hanging out, making love and whatever the hell they were doing but i didn’t feel any spark between them. I didn’t feel any connection forming between them, didn’t have any reaction when they were in trouble or when they had the typical sentimental moments at the end. Four, the cover sucks. Sorry, I love a good cover so it has a part in my rating, however small this may be. Five, no epic quotes. I’m a quote monster so it matters to me. So that’s it. Harsh probably, but it was not my thing. I will avoid this series and probably the author as well. Top 5 quotes (yes, I still did one - ZOMG) #5 “Why did you kiss me?” she asked suddenly, her gaze like an interrogator’s spotlight on his face. “Glitch in the space-time continuum, I guess. Old habits die hard and all that.” Chickenshit. #4 “Dan. Take a breath.” “Oh, I’m taking so many breaths I’m hyperventilating. I need to put a fucking bag over my mouth. Or maybe put a bag over your head because your brains are leaking out.” #3 “That’s right.” Keri frowned at him. “How do you remember that? You were behind us in school.” “Her yearbook photos, especially the cheerleading candids. Sometimes I’d—” he paused, obviously remembering Steph’s presence, “—have them nearby while checking myself for ticks.” #2 "She likes me better because she doesn’t have to wash my underwear. Plus I’m better lookin’.” Mike laughed. “You keep telling yourself that while I’m getting laid out in the woods, my friend.” “You just like it out there because the mosquito bites make your dick look bigger.” #1 “If you’re looking for sympathy, it’s between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” Read the review on ZombieHazard.(less) | Notes are private!
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Caution: a lot of bitchiness will be used in this review. Fangirls beware! I have to admit that I didn’t start this with a smile on my face. My first t...more Caution: a lot of bitchiness will be used in this review. Fangirls beware! I have to admit that I didn’t start this with a smile on my face. My first thought when I saw this spinoff start was "But why?" I have a problem with authors (and not only) milking their products too much. That was exactly my impression when I saw this book. But then I said “Hey, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this will be the start of something beautiful.” Broken dreams… ”A picture is worth a thousand words” This is why my review will consist of more images than text. What better means to express my wonderful feelings for this book? Yeeii!!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s make a summary now, shall we? I’m sorry was this supposed to be a book or the diary of a boring kid? Gah, stupid story! It was plain old boring! Sydney could never be another Rose and Bloodlines will never be another Vampire Academy. I thought this spinoff was useless when I first saw it and I know now that I was right. They took the most boring characters, minus Adrian of course, and placed them all together. The poor dude can’t make the book good now, can he? I’m not going to give the book a good score just because Adrian is in it. A total waste of time! I’m so not continuing this series…(less) | Notes are private!
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