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bookshelves: fantasy, part-of-a-series, young-adult
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by Cassandra Clare

Does the you know what have to do with an incestual twist?? Is it horrible that I am still rooting for them? There has to be a mistake right?! ]]> <![CDATA[Meagan added 'Magic Study']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71895239 Magic Study (Study, #2) by Maria V. Snyder
bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, part-of-a-series, young-adult
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bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: best-sellers, childrens-lit, fantasy, magic, part-of-a-series, young-adult
I am going to go 3.5 stars on this one although I will probably read one more in the series to give it another chance. I tried having an open mind to the fact that this is geared to a younger audience but there were some things that I could not get over. The whole cow and milking the giant teat while grabbing on, sliding down using the whole body and being drenched in milk...I did not love it. It sounded to close to some creepy guy's bizarre fantasy. Also, there is a definite lack of attachment to the characters. Maybe that is the hazard of reading children's lit (with the lack of details and all), but the only character I remotely liked enough to care what happened to her was the grandma. The book improved when she entered the picture since she was the one to give some more knowledge to the going-ons of Fablehaven where the Grandpa never disclosed information.

*Spoiler alert*
I thought the ending was rather anti-climatic. The big battle was a little bizarre considering how the whole book built up to the escape of this all mighty evil demon who we saw for about a whole five seconds before he was attacked by fairies who kissed their opponents as a war tactic. Once again: weird.
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I know I am being too critical of a fantasy based book that I am too old to be reading, but then again- are we ever too old to read a book? I just found this "best-seller" to have a lot of things that bothered me. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Meagan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79172921 Melanie's review of Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)
by Brandon Mull

You read that fast! I have been trying to read it but have not had much time...I have to put it down every couple of pages so it is very slow going. ]]> <![CDATA[Meagan added 'The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79229597 The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Paperback) by Jennifer Worth
bookshelves: to-read
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