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Trip is postponed until April 21st. We weren't worried so much about more earthquakes or a "meltdown," but food and power shortages are just too crazy right now. Hopefully things will settle down by then and we can enjoy ourselves.

What a load of sappy melodramatic teen horsepucky. I am ashamed that I spent even the few hours it took to read this book. Horrible characters + terrible writing + absurd plot = shittiest book I read in 2011.

Daaaang, she's just killing people left and right! But how come the way they die has to be so crazily dramatic to the point of absurdity? I probably shouldn't laugh at these parts, but there just isn't any tension or emotion in any of these scenes. And these people are dying so she can find her boyfriend, whom she's known for all of, what, a few months? This is just ... just ... dumb.

"My heart falls out along with my stomach." Yeah, see, I said you should go see a doctor! Stuff should not be falling out.

"Something in my face must show my fear, because he throws his hand and rails off the side of the couch. He staggers toward me before falling on his knees in front of me." That's not melodramatic or anything.

"'You still do not trust me?' His face is a broken branch." Um, no. I see what you were going for, but that does not work. You could say his face is like a broken branch, and even though that would still be strange, it would make more sense.

Argh. She's squeeing again. And with that, I'm done for the night.

She keeps having her characters do things that have no baring on the plot and nothing to do with the scene. "He lifts his leg up, bends it at the knee, and starts fiddling with his sock. It's argyle, a grandpa kind of sock, and looks soft, like cashmere ... He lets go of his sock and stands on two feet again." So, he held his sock while balancing on one leg and carried on a conversation? Awkward AND pointless.

So, someone just got eaten by a giant wolf. This was both strangely anti-climatic and comical. Samuel L. Jackson getting eaten by the shark in Deep Blue Sea comical.

So we've had chapters that started with news channel blurbs, a facebook status, a blog post, and now a tweet INCLUDING a hashtag. This is some high quality literature here.

"His eyes are soft, mushy looking, but strong." Ewwww ... mushy eyes? Not the descriptor I would have gone with.

"The thought of it makes me squee." No no no. Please don't use this word in a published book.

"My heart whooshes into my spleen." Oh really? You might want to have a doctor check that out.

Ok, now she's put a facebook status at the beginning of this chapter, in place of the news blurb. Why, oh why.

It hasn't been the WWF since 2002.

This girl smells like coconuts, that girl smells like lavender. This boy smells like pine, that boy smells like Dove soap and mushrooms. I get it. You have a heightened sense of smell. I don't need to know what every person in the fucking room smells like.

Please don't tell me that every chapter is going to start with a blurb from the local news station highlighting what happened in the previous chapter. This is beyond stupid.

Cuz I'm a jerk and I don't do what I'm supposed to.

The last 5 books I read were either 1 or 2 stars for me. This makes me sad.

I'm sorry, did I just slip into a Merry Gentry novel?

Awesome, she's stripping again. That's not cheesy and doesn't ruin the mood of the scene AT ALL.

She just used the word "liminal" 9 times within 4 paragraphs.

Man, Barrons is such a DICK.

The number of times she orgasms is ridiculous.

This is going on hold because it's due back at the library and I don't really want to read about pregnancy for awhile.

"You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill." Right. Because that's how every father talks to his daughter while helping her with her school work. Uh huh.

I wish I hadn't been reminded that tomorrow is Fat Tuesday. I want a paczki so freakin' bad and after searching for the last 20 minutes, I think it's safe to say nobody has them here. :'(

The MacHalo? ::groan:: ::facepalm::

"it's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress." Really, Mac? Really?

If some of the lights burned out in the alley between the store and the garage, making it easier for the shades to get her, why can't she just get back in the car and drive around to the front of the store and park there instead?