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A Perfect Mess (A Perfect Secret #1) by Zoe Dawson - Starting March 12th 2014
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whoa Sarah, you are really fast! I'm only chapter 7 now. I wonder whether Booker and Boone are usual names? I never heard and read those names before.
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Yeah, characters name in this book are kinda weird for me. But then, characters name in YA/NA these days are usually unusual name.Chapter 7, (view spoiler)
Sorry girls but I didn't get to start today. I have been off the past two or so days with tonsillitis and haven't had the energy - which I killing me. I cannot deal with not reading for so long!! I am going to try and catch up tomorrow. I can sit up comfortably now so I hope I can catch up with both of my buddy reads tomorrow. Oh, and Sarah did we have something organised for the 13th - or just Being Hartley on the 14th?? :) Sorry I am all out of sorts at the moment. :)
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Okay. It thought it was just that but I had to check. Thanks Sarah. I do too!! :D I am going to miss my school's sport day tomorrow which sucks! :(
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I don't actually participate in the sports but its more fun than actually going to school and working!! :) Hopefully, I can. :)
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I hope you get well soon, Rachel,I just finished the book, by the way. Sarah, regarding the epilogue (view spoiler)
Rachmi wrote: "I'm reading it now. [spoilers removed]."Aha that part made me laugh! Completely random but funny.
Rachel wrote: "10% (halfway though chapter two) - Wait, three brothers who are the residential "bad boys" of the town. One of them a reputed "skirt chaser" and one named Braxston. This is Home & Away!!!And you ..."
Ugh...I didn't like characters names in this book either. They are too made-up. It feels like the author wants her characters have cool name but since I never heard it before, it makes me hard to connect with them.
Rachmi wrote: "Rachel wrote: "10% (halfway though chapter two) - Wait, three brothers who are the residential "bad boys" of the town. One of them a reputed "skirt chaser" and one named Braxston. This is Home & Aw..."They are really, really stupid names! Booker!? How the heck did she come up with that. But Braxston isn't that uncommon of a name.
I am a little mad that she seems to have copied that element out of H&A. Is this author Australian? :)
Rachel wrote: "Rachmi wrote: "Rachel wrote: "10% (halfway though chapter two) - Wait, three brothers who are the residential "bad boys" of the town. One of them a reputed "skirt chaser" and one named Braxston. Th..."Yeah...Braxston isn't that unusual but other characters names are quite weird for me (River Pearl, Verity and Aubree instead of Aubrey?).
What's H&A?
Yeah they are all weird names. I hate when authors do that. What is wrong with normally spelt names?? :/Home & Away. A really popular Australian TV show. The main characters are three "bad boys" (one of them named Braxston) that sound exactly like these three brothers.
Dammit my kindle keeps running out of charge. I cannot read 'til its battery is refilled. :(
Rachel wrote: "Yeah they are all weird names. I hate when authors do that. What is wrong with normally spelt names?? :/Home & Away. A really popular Australian TV show. The main characters are three "bad boys" ..."
I don't like it either! Unfortunately most of YA and NA books nowadays have unusual names.
Just check on the author profile, she's from USA but you might be right if it has a lot of similarity.
It's time for you to read another book that isn't on your Kindle, then. I once force reading from my eReader while it was charged and then it needed more time, more than usual, to charge and not long after that. It was error! So you better keep it recharge now and leave it alone :)
I hate that they all have weird names especially in the NA genre! In Blue Bloods they all had really weird names like Bliss and Perfection.Hmm maybe its just coincidence.
Yeah, my kindle hates it when I read and charge at the same time so its on the kitchen bench charging at the moment while I get up to date with old reviews that need to be written. :)
Rachel wrote: "I hate that they all have weird names especially in the NA genre! In Blue Bloods they all had really weird names like Bliss and Perfection.Hmm maybe its just coincidence.
Yeah, my kindle hates i..."
Perfection? are you kidding me? I thought Bliss only exist in Cora Carmack book, Losing It, never thought that another character from another book will have it too :D Aside Bliss, I also got Fable, Rush, Rule, Pepper (but I think this name isn't that weird since I find it in another character in different book) and I forgot what other unusual names I've read. I forgot them easily :D
Ah...so it's time for you to write those abandon reviews, then :D
Nup, her name was really Perfection!! I have heard Bliss before but it is such a stupid name. Fable? Pepper? Rush? What is with authors?? Seriously. I have heard of Rule quite a few times before but is still stupid. The other name in Blue Bloods that was weird was Schuyler which sounds made up!!Yep. Sigh. There are so many I need to catch up... :(
I know right? Maybe the authors think it's cool to have that made up names while we thought it's weird because to me character names can connect me to their story. So if they have unusual names, I tend to think that I don't really care of their story since it sounds unrealistic. I haven't read The Selection by Kierra Cass and (might be) never will because of the main character name is America Singer (who actually can sing! go figure).
I agree wholeheartedly with you! There unusual names do make it harder for you to connect with them. Maybe they think giving them unique names will make them memorable... and it kind of works doesn't it? I certainly remember weird names but not for good reasons so I don't know if its quite successful.Oh my god! Really!? Okay. That there is the stupidest name I have ever heard, ever. Wow, that's bad!!
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Sarah wrote: "I've only heard of 'Booker' as a surname, not a first name. A book that Abbie and I were reading the other day had the main character whose name was 'Tandoori' - now that is ridiculous. Who would n..."Oh, yeah...I forgot about Black Dagger Brotherhood series. But I sometimes can ignore the "unique" name in fantasy or paranormal books. I don't know, maybe it's because it's fantasy after all, the world building and all are beyond our real life, unlike contemporary.
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, the girl on the cover is called 'Mei Xing', which of course sounds remarkably similar to 'amazing'
Sarah wrote: "I've always liked the weird names but some of them are pushing it. I'm reading , the girl on the cover is called 'Mei Xing', which of course sou..."Is she Chinese or has Chinese ancestral? In Chinese Mei means beautiful.
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Sarah wrote: "She's American/Chinese (and the book is historical~ish/steampunk), there's nothing wrong with 'Mei', it's the way that the other characters run the two names together all the time. they rarely call..."As far as I know, Chinese (and also Korean) names are mostly consist of 3 names, first name is their surname name and the other two are their first name (there are two ways written their first name, it's either mei-xing or meixing. Just like Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, Zhang is her surname while Ziyi is her first name. Actually if it's written in Chinese word it consist of 2 names/words, Zi and Yi). I think there's nothing wrong with the way other characters called her mei-xing :)
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Sarah wrote: "I have no idea, you obviously know more about it than me ☺ It wouldn't even have occured to me that it sounded like amazing, but the characters in the book complain about it."Hehehe, I once learn Chinese language. It's one of the hardest language I've ever learn. And the writing gave me headache most of the time. One letter consists of one word in Chinese but I love learning it. Each word has meaning, so it isn't just word.
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I know what you did last summer.
Aubree Walker, the perfect girl most likely to succeed, is sure there’s only one person who knows what she did.
Booker Outlaw, one of the three Outlaw brothers—all identical, all gorgeous, all from the wrong side of the tracks, and all pure bad boys. He was always the unpredictable one, the one who would be brash enough to make it big self-publishing horror novels on the internet. He promised never to tell, but everyone knows you can never trust an Outlaw.
Then a year later, in the middle of the night, she receives a phone call at Tulane. Her aunt, who took her in after her mother’s death, is in a coma under suspicious circumstances. Now she has to face that one person who knows all about what she did that summer—sexy Booker.
Returning to Hope Parish to be with her aunt, stirs up all those ugly memories. When Aubree starts getting threats, she can’t help but wonder if what she did last summer was tied to her aunt’s “accident.” Afraid, she turns to the only person who knows the truth and Booker doesn’t hesitate to offer his broad shoulder for her to lean on. But Booker has a secret of his own that could crush their fledgling relationship.
As the hot, sultry summer days move on, she finds that even a perfectly smart girl can lose her heart to a perfectly bad boy. What is she going to do when someone starts asking questions Aubree doesn’t want to answer? She’s knee deep into a terribly dangerous, wholly life changing, who-can-she-really-depend-on perfect mess.
A Perfect Series: Three perfect girls, three perfect secrets, one unholy trinity
A Perfect Mess, Book #1 – the girl most likely to succeed, an unpredictable Outlaw, and a dangerous secret that could be the death of her.
A Perfect Mistake, Book #2 – A preacher’s daughter, a reckless Outlaw, and a secret that will change her life forever.
A Perfect Dilemma, Book #3 – The town’s poor little rich girl, a sweet-talking Outlaw, and a secret that will ruin all that she holds dear.
Rachel, Rachmi and I will be reading this from March 12 2014. Everybody welcome ☺