Mimi.Reads.Smut’s Comments (group member since Dec 06, 2013)

Mimi.Reads.Smut’s comments from the Fangirls Read It First group.

Living in Brittany in 1485, Ismae has escaped a cruel future with her abusive father and an arranged marriage. She finds refuge with a convent – one dedicated to St. Mortain, the god of Death, and she learns that she has been blessed with deadly gifts. If she accepts them, the sisters will allow her to be trained as an assassin and serve as Death’s Handmaiden. First though, she must decide if she is willing to take the lives of those the god marks for death.

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Stray a debut novel by author Elissa Sussman was an absolute delight. Reminiscent of the Disney and Grimm stories most children grow up with.

"I am grateful for my father, who keeps me good and sweet. I am grateful for my mother, who keeps her own heart guarded and safe. I am grateful for my adviser, who keeps me protected. I am grateful for the Path, which keeps me pure. Ever after."

Princess Aislynn and her peers at the elite academy recite this mantra over and over to keep them on the path set before them. This is the path to grand balls, suitors and a marriage to a husband they will be obedient to and protected by. Their path cannot allow for any common fancies or trysts along the way and absolutely no magic!

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In The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks, Azoth is a guild rat who wants nothing more than to escape that life. He is routinely beaten, threatened, and assaulted for no other reason than he is a poor kid from the wrong side of town. Then along comes Durzo Blint, professional wetboy. If someone needs to be dead, he is the man to go to. He begrudgingly takes Azoth under his wing and trains him. He routinely tells Azoth “Assassins have targets, wetboys have deaders. A target can be missed, but if a wetboy takes the contract, that person is dead. They just don’t know it yet.” Durzo and his associate, Count Drake, change Azoth’s name to Kylar Stern, and pass him off as the spawn of a noble family that lives outside the country to avoid suspicion.

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After Emily Benedict’s mother dies, she is sent to North Carolina to live with a grandfather she never knew she had. As Emily settles into Mullaby, she begins to notice that everyone treats her differently. She starts to wonder if it has to do with her mother. Why did her mother never talk about her life growing up here? How could she not mention Emily’s grandfather? What happened to her mother that would make her leave and never look back? The mystery goes even deeper when Emily meets a boy named Win Coffey. As Emily and Win grow closer, everyone around them becomes intent on keeping them away from each other. When Win tells Emily a devastating secret about her mother, her world is changed forever. Now Emily must find out the truth behind her mother’s complicated past and do everything she can to make it right again.

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I have been a fan of Melissa Marr and her fae stories for years. However, her newest book Made For You is completely different from anything she’s ever done before in Young Adult fiction.

Eva comes from old money, which makes her popular in her small Southern town. She’s going through the motions with her friends and her boyfriend (whom she tolerates rather than loves), living the life that’s expected of her. Eva’s the popular rich girl: attending wild parties, getting drunk all the time, and dating the perfect guy. What she really wants is for her old friend Nate to notice her as more than a friend.

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Lindell “Lindy” Wellbrook is a therapist who had just opened her own practice. One of her first clients was a little girl named Molly, who captured Lindy’s professional interest with her obsession with dolls, the imaginary world she has created called the Land of Pretty, and (most intriguing of all) an alternate identity. Pen, an adult male personality, was created to protect Molly from the horrors of her life before she began therapy. He was abrasive, crude, and caused Lindy to fear for her client’s well-being. Believing that she has found the root of Molly’s issues, Lindy decided to help her get rid of Pen and bases her future treatments on that premise. Certain that she was on the right path, Lindy got a major shock when Molly committed suicide after showing signs of improving.

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Every month, our club votes on the book that we want to read for that month. October’s winning book was Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die. The following review is based on a verbal discussion at October’s meeting.

Spoiler-free Synopsis:

Amy Gunn is a typical teenage girl, living in present-day Kansas with her mother and their pet rat Star. Like the rest of the world, she grew up with stories of Dorothy Gale and her fantastical trip to the Land of Oz. She saw the movie, read the books, heard the famous song about the rainbow over and over. Also like the rest of the world, she believed that it was all make believe, until a tornado (yes, a tornado) picked up her trailer from the park that she calls home and deposited it in – you guessed it – Oz, where Amy quickly discovers that the legendary land is not at all like it was supposed to be. It turns out that Dorothy returned to Oz and was still there, wreaking all kinds of havoc. Oz is not what it used to be. Good is wicked. Wicked is good. And it’s up to another girl from Kansas to put things right… if she can figure out what “right” really is.

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Welcome CD! I love your motto :)

I chose to review The Red Pyramid because I love books/ series that take a creative twist on mythological and historical events. This one was far from disappointing. Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings with a strained relationship. After their mother passed away, they were separated. Carter travels the globe with their father researching ancient Egypt, and Sadie lives with her grandparents due to a nasty custody battle involving a spatula fight (read the book!). During one of their visits, their father destroys a priceless museum artifact and releases five Egyptian gods, including Set, the god of evil.

After he banishes their father, Set turns his attention on the kids, who barely escape. Now they are being hunted by the minions of Set and also the House of Life, an order of magicians who date back to ancient Egypt and have a grudge against anyone who aids the gods. On top of all this, Carter and Sadie learn they have magical powers dating back along their lineage to the pharaohs themselves and only have five days to learn how to control these abilities before the world ends. A lot of pressure for a couple of kids.

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The Icarus, a luxury space cruise liner, is suddenly pulled out of hyperspace by a strange planet’s orbit. The only two survivors (it seems) are Lilac LaRoux, daughter of the richest man in the universe, and Major Tarver Merendsen, a war hero on leave to hob knob with the galaxies most elite. The two teens from completely different worlds must now rely on each other to find a way off this bizarre planet. After Lilac starts hearing voices and having visions, they begin to wonder if the planet on which they have crashed on is really so desolate and uninhabited. When Tarver begins to seeing the visions too, they realize that there are other forces at work on this planet; and it seems the forces are trying to tell them something.

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I had wanted to read Tease by Amanda Maciel because I had met the author at a book signing and the premise sounded fascinating. Tease is about the bully’s point of view instead of the victims. In main character Sara’s point of view, she and her friend Brielle were a little bit mean to the new girl, Emma. And soon after Emma goes and commits suicide. Now Sara and her friends are up on criminal charges of bullying and harassment.

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A review written/summarized by Amanda.

Every month, our club votes on the book we will read for that month. September’s winning book was Michael Crichton’s Timeline. The following review is based on a verbal discussion at September’s meeting.

Spoiler-free Synopsis:

Timeline, published in 1999, reaches across multiple genre lines (namely mystery, romance, history, and science fiction). It tells the story of a group of young historians and archaeologists who travel to 14th century France to rescue their boss, Professor Edward Johnston.


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Awesome answers Domoni :) I'd be right there with you, trying to decide which books to save haha!

Here are my answers to the prompts:
1. Louisa May Alcott collection - it was a gift from my grandma, Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (first edition), and my Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories.
2. I would go on a road trip with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, just to listen to their banter :)
3. I would change my name to Princess Consuela Bananahammock. Because Phoebe!
4. When I was in middle school, I was told that I looked like Britney Spears. I think the person needed glasses lol.
5. My personal motto is either "hakuna matata" or "live and let live"

Don't worry, you don't have to answer ALL of the questions unless you want to!

Hi there :) If you're reading this, it's probably because you love to read! So do we. Each month, our book club votes on which book we want to read. One member hosts and they choose three books for us to choose from. Each month's book will be posted here, on our "Currently Reading" or "To Read" shelves. Feel free to read along with us and participate in discussions here!

You can also check out our review blog, where our Fearless Leader will write up a collaborative review of the books that we read.

This is a safe, non-judgmental group for people who love to read. Our group motto is "It doesn't matter what you read, only that you!" Please check out the rules and introduce yourself in the Introductions section!

Hello! Welcome to the group. My name is Amanda and I am the Fearless Leader of the Fangirls Read It First Book Club :)

Introduce yourself to the group! If you need a bit of help, use any of the following prompts:

1. If your house was on fire and you could save three books from your shelf, what would they be?
2. If you could go on a road trip with any famous person (dead or alive) who would you choose?
3. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
4. Have you ever been told that you look like someone famous? Who?
5. What is your motto in life?

Already paired up:

Cory and Laci

Ashley and Kayla

I'd like to try an experiment!

One of my goals for this group is to expand literary horizons - try new things and find new books and authors to enjoy

The experiment is this: I will pair the participants up randomly and each person will pick a book for the other to read. It should be a book that they haven't read yet, preferably in a genre that they don't usually read.

Interested ladies should reply to this post and include the genres that you read the most, and the ones you read the least! You will need to agree to read whatever book is recommended and give it a fair shake! When you are done, let us know what you think! There is no time limit on this. Once your book is chosen, you can take as much time as you need to read it.

Ready? Set. Go!