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Arkib (50 Buku Setahun 2011)
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Random Reads by Syahira Sharif
57. Kresley Cole - Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Finished with the whole series... shall be waiting for the next one in 2012. Got to say - the male lead, the reincarnated Berserker, is the most masochistic from the bunch... he's in a very gray area of good and evil, the actual side-antagonist of the previous book.. see #56.
all the books from The Valkyrie's series (besides the first one) have nearly 50 chapters and weirdly enough I didn't get tired from reading most of it. Someone should make a movie out of the books.... The Lore in this books is very fascinating, like having all different kind of dolls to play... not a monotonous supernatural series at all - like Christine Feehan.
Note : Valkyrie/Berserker/Torture/Imprisonment/Wendigo/
58. Lisa Cach - Come To Me
Note : Succubus/Medieval/Sorcery
59. Lisa Cach - Wake Unto Me
Lisa Cach is one of the adult authors who are able to make a satisfying young adult readings. No good author should start with the young adult genre.
60. Lisa Cach - Dream Of Me
Note : Incubus/Medieval/Sorcery
61. Ilona and Gordon Andrews - Curran
note : short2 stuff
62. Ilona Andrews - Silent Blade
note: futuristic/assassin
63. Ilona and Gordon Andrews - Fathers and Sons
note: Ilona wrote most of it, Thats why I like it.
64. Jeaniene Frost, Meljean Brook , Ilona Andrews - Under Her Skin
note: 3 short stories
65. Nina Bangs, Lisa Cach, Thea Devine, Penelope Neri - Seduction by Chocolate
note: reading for a hot day.. except for one story, the rest are painfully boring. I could write things better than this
66. Vanessa N. Gilfoy - Masquerade of the Cursed King
67. Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
Yeah I spend nearly a month laying off the book after a couple of pages. sue me but I hate Gale AND Peeta. Seriously, without them bringing the drama, Katniss would be happier.
68. Carol Grace - Her Sheikh Boss
boring2
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There's no story (or it'll be a short, bland one) if they didn't bring any drama.
Khairul H. wrote: "Syahira wrote: "67.sue me but I hate Gale AND Peeta. Seriously, without them bringing the drama, Katniss would be happier."There's no story (or it'll be a short, bland one) if they didn't bring a..."
It reminiscence of the Red Riding Hood movie. Its still a story without the boys too. meh
69. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
I'm glad it end. Most books turn sour after several sequels. Tortured Peeta is much better than annoying Peeta (if you havent realize it already, half of what I read have mentally and physically tortured male leads.. its the sadist in me who like damaged characters). But theres not much character development with Gale, he's ceased from my mind now. Thankfully, everything doesnt end with sappy happy endings with everyone happily ever after except for those two.
70. Carole Mortimer - The Prince's Love-Child 
yep.. whenever I had depressing books, I usually read trashy paperbacks
71. Sandy Blair - The King's Mistress
Im bored, I just pick this randomly. Cant understand half of it anyway. Too bad it have a good premise.
72. Rae Monet - The Lost Wolf Warrior 
Another random picks by viprasys... yawn.. its interesting and then suddenly it became the Virginia Henley old scottish books... despite racy 3d cover, its quite mild and chaste.
73. Christine Warren, Marjorie M. Liu, Caitlin Kittredge, Jenna Maclaine - Huntress
note: I like a lot of stories from this. Bought it around rm7 or something at bookxcess' bargain bin, earlier this year
74. Keri Arthur - Beneath A Rising Moon
note: werewolves/serial killer
75. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Devil May Cry
note: Greek/Sumerian/Ancient gods/History lesson/a bit bondage hahaha/bought it at PPUKM
rereading these a lot, funny how it became a real movie in mind eye
76. Rae Monet - The Solarian Raven
someone sing until 2am, several kicks in the head and an ear infection made it hard to sleep. Really sad and evolving characterizations. Satisfying gory ending. Justice served.
77. Rae Monet - A Viking's Vow
the second book is much better. Kinda inconsistent story telling. I couldn't quite sure but the viking description in this one is soooo like Alexander Skarsgard.
seriously need some distraction from both female and ear pain. crappy day.. *headache... maybe I should start reading that 10th Kingdom book that I laid off 10 years ago...
78. Mark Logue & Peter Conradi - King's Speech
the autobiographical nature of the book made it quite a fast read. Unlike the movie, the book actually gave more depth of the relationship between Logue and George VI. My speech therapist friends would love it.
79. Frank Herbert - Dune
The book is a bomb. Yes, I could have finish it months ago. Oh well, now its done, maybe I'll read Dune Messiah later. Whenever I watch the 84's and 00's Alia, I look at my niece Alya and think, ok, she could have been more scarier than she already is now.
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Khairul H. wrote: "As long as it was written by the late Frank Herbert, it's okay. Don't read the ones his son and the other sci-fi writers wrote after Frank died. Waste of time and paper."LMAO. Well, I've seen a lot of them at BookXcess but none seems to caught my interest.
80. Christine Feehan - Burning Wild
This is one good book. No Twilight bs.
81. Kathryn Wesley - The 10th Kingdom
Its kinda weird that the tv movie change the twin tower montage but the cover (post 9/11) doesn't.
If you wanna skip the book, you can watch the tv movies. Its basically same thing.
First Part of the First 10th Kingdom episode
while watching last part of 10th kingdom episode... fun fact : I've read 25,574 pages... and my eyes didnt go that bad... oh well, words counts is much better anyways.hmmm.. i think I'll redo my personal target, gonna read 50k pages by the end of the year
82. Anita Clenney - Awaken the Highland Warrior 
The author say something about her book in a group thread and I just had to read it to see what she's been talking about. She could have just warn me first, gosh I really want to smack that clueless guy with my saucepan. I'm glad she made him a bit real but heck, male chauvinist creeps me out.
83. Caitlin Crews - Majesty, Mistress...Missing Heir
Lmao, I was checking my reading challenge and found something odd. This book was read on may 2011. How weird... oh well..
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Khairul H. wrote: "Has it been included in the list in May? If yes, then it can't be counted again."Its been there all along. I just didnt update it on this list
84. Andrea Cremer - Nightshade
honestly, i'm not sure if I want to read Wolfsbane after this. The plot jumps around and didnt actually answer anything much.
85. Neil Gaiman - Harlequin Valentine
Maybe I should read the manga version and learn about the play first to fully appreciate this.
86. Becca Fitzpatrick - Crescendo
I was right, I like Fallen series better. Patch is an emo bastard and Nora need to stop making stories and theories in her head. Its damn confusing in this POV.
87. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Glad that it was a tad different than the movie. Sometimes I hate reading stuff that are totally the same as its film adaptations. I dont like too many spoilers.
88. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Acheron
I guess, I'm irritated that one Stephanie Meyer big font book was the longest book in my stat. Since I read Katra/Sin book, eventually I need to read about Acheron again too.Trust me, rereading 800 pages book with tiny font is hard. But I always did like Acheron (apparently, I pronounce it right all these years), and half of the book was about his mortal life of childhood abuse and eventually rape, prostitution, degradation and torture before he reached his true godhood. Its not really a good read for those with faint of heart and wanted light romance thing. It carries a bloody, graphic abuse on children until young adulthood in times unrecorded by history. Proceed with caution.
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Retribution had just released. I was lagging with my SK's reading list.
89. Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
It started with Brian's preface on the book about how readers didn't like how Paul life after Dune - the whole main protagonist became lesser protagonist thing. oh, seriously, suck it up, read a romance or something.. happy endings are overrated.
Personally, I feel bad for Irulan. Another character needed to be lightened up. Grow a spine or something.
Best character... Duncan Idaho. I cant resist... "Puppy-eye!!!" reading this while watching Children of Dune part 1 is not helping too.
90. Mari Mancusi - Bloodties
Not lurking fb anymore. Nearly missed out the 2/8 date. Sunny's book, normal sunny's drama... but it balance out with the Disney one.
Cant wait for the next Rayne's book.
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just now, Mari tweeted me.... hehehe
@marimancusi Mari Mancusi
@syahirasharif Thanks girl! Glad you liked Blood Ties!
8 minutes ago
hah.. always did like this woman. I never had an writer who randomly tweets and fb comment me like she did. I still owe her a rayne cosplay gothic loli post. meh... apparently i'm the 11th reviewer.. haha
91. Sherrilyn Kenyon - Retribution
Funny how I watch Cowboys and Aliens before reading this book.
Therefore, this is how I imagine Jess would be. Dang.
I'm surprised that Sherrilyn is doing the Native American lore now. I always did like House of Nights because of the whole Kalona and Aya thing. Kinda refreshing besides all the greek, atlantian and things.
And another character called Ren.... sigh... Wolfbane, here we go.
92. Andrea Cremer - Wolfbane
gorgeous book. death, sadism, sword fighting, wolf biting. much better than the first twilight theme, this book was totally season 3 the vampire diaries. but I love Ren's name. The ending sucks!!! Why its once a year thing! its too blardy short!
93. Kate Hill - Lock
lame ass 3D cover but good story
94. Bella Andre - Candy Store
95. Marguerite Kaye - Bound to the Wolf Prince
finished reading them last week, I just update the GR reading list. Too lazy to update this forum... been spending my spare time playing final fantasy 9 and watching kdrama.
Bella Andre retweeted my vote and so I remembered that I forgot to update here. -_- slow month
96. Richelle Mead - Bloodlines
The cover is not that pretty like the rest of VA but the book is much better. More mystery, less damphir action and a bit more guesswork needed. Besides, an 18 year old doing a 21 Jump Street. Who could resist?
97. Bella Andre - Game for Anything
its an okay harlequin-like book. one time read
98. Aisya Sofea - Gelora Jiwa
I was bored, my sis kept reading the book (sgt kusyuk) so I read it... then speed read it... damn this thing is filled with filler. It remind me how I hate malay romance novels. If you didnt notice it already, most of what I read IS romance... but rarely I read malay romance... because I would destroy it with my reviews on how mind numbing it is.
WARGH!!!!
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