Fallen

This story is one that most people call the "ultimate love story" "perfectly magical" and so much more. They are SOOOOOO right!! It starts off with this AWESOME prologue and then jumps to Luce Price who has been sent to Sword & Cross because of an "incident" at her last school where a fire started and accidently killed a boy she kissed named Trevor. This is a school for troubled teens. Almost immediately she meets bad boy-looking Daniel Grigori. Luce feels as though she has met him before, even though he won't even give her the time of day and is down right rude to her from the second the smile leaves his face. She also meets Cam, this strange sweet boy who is so sweet to her while also being tall, sexy, and charasmatic to boot. He, unlike Daniel, would love to get it on with Luce, except Luce isn't sure what to think or do, since Trevor died. There is also the girl who is becoming a good friend Arianne, and another Penn (short for Pennyweather) who is becoming her best friend. This is definitely more then just a tale of forbidden love, it is a tale of love that is unjustly ripped away almost every time the two lovers kiss. This is a story that I absolutely loved and cannot WAIT to read the sequel too. Overall grade...A+ since nothing else would do of course!!

Beastly

By the title alone you can tell that this is a story that is kind of like Beauty and the Beast. Actually, it's a LOT like that. The main difference is that the "Beast" Kyle Kingsbury, is a teenager, not a prince, and a much bigger snob then the original Beast was. Kyle Kingsbury invites a homely looking girl to the dance at his school even though he already has a date, just to make fun of her. His first date demands an orchid as her corsage, while the other girl wants a plain white rose. Kyle's maid Magda gets him a white rose and while at the dance his first date, Sloane doesn't accept the rose, he instead gives it to the girl sitting taking tickets as an act of kindness. Since two petals had fallen off the rose the homely looking girl who is actually quite beautiful, and a witch, she agrees to give him two years to fall in love with a girl and have her love him back and kiss him in order to break the spell and make him into himself again. The biggest difference that I noticed was that the girl in the story didn't really come in until nearly the end of the story. More then 150 pages pass before Kyle, now calling himself Adrian, has the girl come live with him. Other then that this story is pretty much just like the original Beauty and the Beast. Adrian/Kyle even has two people living with him, Will and Magda, who could represent characters from the original story. Will happens to be Kyle's blind Tutor and Magda does all the cooking and cleaning. He even has a magic mirror that allows him to see whoever he wants too. So with that, overall grade...B-

Ephemera

This is a book that contains both poems and short stories. There's really not much you can say about it besides most of the poems were very well put together and fit together well. The short stories were also pretty good, though I have to say my favorite was definitely The Lowliest of Humans which involved a man with a gunshot wound who feels it isn't serious and goes about his day all day long bleeding. This book may have been short but also kind of had an impact in a strange way. Though it was short it wasn't really a book that you could read all in one sitting, mostly because though the stories fit together, they kind of needed to be taken in at different times to really understand what the author was saying. Since short stories have to pack so much in such a short amount of space I have to say the ones in this book were definitely some of the better ones out there. Some of them I could even see becoming novella's, though most not novel's since they seemed just a bit to much too the point for that. So, the overall grade of this book would have to be B-

Bachelor Boys

This here is a book that I'm extremely glad that I didn't listen to most reviews. Most reviews said all it was about was sex, sex, sex. Well, they were wrong. It was about love, love, and well...love. Love for the mother you never had, love for the boy you always wanted, love for those around us. This particular story is about Cassie. Cassie is a women who's childhood was at first filled with absent parents and a nanny who could care less. This was before she met next-door neighbors Phoebe, her two sons Frederick and Ben, and Phoebe's husband Jimmy. Though Jimmy isn't as present in the story as Phoebe you still feel for all the characters when you learn how Jimmy had recently died of cancer and now, Phoebe was as well. Phoebe has been more of a mother to Cassie as a child and an adult then her mother ever had been. So, as Phoebe's dying wish to see her two sons married off before she passes Cassie reluctantly agrees. This story involves a few flashbacks to Cassie's childhood that really help solidify the reason's why she isn't close to her real mother. Besides the fun-loving, silly parts of this book that make up most of the parts with Frederick and Ben, parts of this book will honestly drive you to tears. As the story progresses and you see Phoebe weakening you can't help but wish she wasn't. You can't help but wish there was something more you could do then sit there and watch it happen. This is a book that you won't be able to put down from beginning to end. This is the type of book that most anyone would enjoy if they just stopped judging and listened to the words. That's exactly what I did and I was not dissapointed in any way. I thought the characters were developed in a great way and I loved how quirky some of them were. So, overall grade...A+

Broken Soup

Jenny Valentine is like a breathe a fresh air in the reading world. That is what I thought the entire time while reading Broken Soup. Not only is this book set in London, but it is written differently from almost all other books I have read, especially lately. In a time when writing quality has dropped significantly, Jenny Valentine shows that it is possible to be a great writer and pack a TON of content into a semingly small book. When I picked up Broken Soup I thought it would be just another easy read but I was very mistaken. Broken Soup took very real parts of life like grief, love, sturggle, and turned it into something incredible. Her story started with a negative of a photo that she didn't even know existed, and ended with and incredible journey that leaves you wondering just how well you really know those around you. This story follows Rowan from the time when a beautiful stranger, the mysterious Harper Greene, the New York wanderer, gives her a negative, to when she meets Bee, the girl who she thinks her dead brother Jack would love, had he lived long enought to meet her. This book starts off strong and follows through to the end. It starts of as though it will be a story of self-worth and ends as a story of self-loving and just so much more. This story makes you realize that you have it better, that you can be, do, are better then you may ever realize. So, overall grade...A.

Wild Things

So, surprisingly a lot of people I know have never seen this movie. Some haven't even HEARD of it. And I think that is just not right!! How can you play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon without this movie?? It is CRITICAL!!! The reasoning behind it....Matt Dillon, Denise Richards, Bill Murray, and Neve Campbell!! So, any movie they starred in can now be used to connect someone ELSE to Kevin Bacon!! (I know this because we somehow connected Hannah Montana and Shirley Temple to Kevin Bacon, it was AWESOME!!) Anyways...this movie has it all, sex, drugs, violence, backstabbing, double-crossing, murder and soooo much more. This movie starts off with a millionaire's daughter, Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) accusing her teacher (Matt Dillon) of raping her, probably because he wouldn't sleep with her. Then Kelly's trashy classmate Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) accuses him as well. So, after loosing the respect of everyone he used to work with and his community Sam Lombardo (Dillon) hires freelance lawyer Ken Bowden (Bill Murray) to defend him in court. This is where Ray Duquette (Kevin Bacon) comes in. He's the one investigating the two girls claims, but the deeper he digs, the more sinister things seem to become. This movie was wild and crazy, and kept you guessing until the very end. And actually, even at the end, you kind of wanted to go back and see what you missed. I really enjoyed this movie, but some of the double-crossing got a bit confusing since it kept happening so much, so quickly, and sometimes it was hard to follow. With that said, overall grade.....B!!

Curse The Dawn

I realized that I had yet to review an actual ADULT book, only young adult, so I decided to review an adult fantasy book. That book just so happens to be one of my all time favorite books of all time. CURSE THE DAWN!!!!!!! This is the fourth book in the series which is partially why I love it so much since by this time it has gotten even better then I ever imagined it could. This series Cassie Palmer, the chief clairvoyant, along with her friend/maybe/might be lovers Pritkin, a war-mage-demon-hunter-half-incubus and a few other cool things. There is also Mircea, who is Dracula's oldest brother, and also Cassie's sort of lover, since they do love each other, but he's a vampire and centuries old, and she's twenty-four. This book starts off with a bang and just keeps getting better, from Pritkin and Cassie accidently switching bodies, so Cassie's brain in now in Pritkin's body and vice versa. There is also the god Apollo who is trying to get Cassie to join forces with him and let him rule the worls and make everyone pay and make her his servant. All in all this is definitely one of Karen Chances BEST books and I cannot WAIT until next June when her next book comes out!! Overall grade...A+!!!

Project Sweet Life

This was the type of book that I'd call a "feel-good novel." It just makes you feel pretty darn good at the end. This book was from the perspective of Dave, and it followed Dave and his two best friends Curtis and Victor. They are on a mission, a mission to save their last summer of freedom. They are fifteen and that's the last summer before they HAVE to get a job, they COULD, but they don't want too, so they set out to make enough money legally, and not doing any work!! I thought this concept was new and such a good idea!! You follow these three boys through ten weeks of the summer and the best part is how they just keep screwing up!! But, in the most comical ways!! One including getting held-up only to be saved by an old lady who claims all the reward for herself!! They need 7,000 dollars to fool their dad's into believing they truly have jobs but it may not be as easy as they once believed it to be. One of the best parts about this book however, was how well developed all the characters were, they all seemed to fit together and get along in the best way possible. I truly enjoyed this book and I think so many others would as well. Overall grade...B

Suicide Notes

The first thing I noticed about this book was that it was written very well. I loved the style that Michael Thomas Ford wrote this book. It spans over a time period of 45 days. Those 45 days are the time that fifteen-year-old Jeff spends in the Psychiatric Ward of the hospital. The reason he's there?? He tried to kill himself. The reason he tried to kill himself?? You have no idea. This story sounds like it would be super depressing and sad, but here's the thing, it's NOT!! Not at all!! Jeff is sarcastic, witty guy who thinks the four other patients are the crazy ones, not him. He makes up these silly names for the nurses and his shrink. One is Nurse Goody Two-Shoes, real name Nurse Good, Moonie who's name is Nurse Moon, and my all time favorite. Dr. Cat-Poop. Dr. Katzrupus. (Though I think Cat-Poop sounds a bit better!!) From the very beginning Jeff sucks you into his world. One of the best parts about this book however, was that it felt real. It really felt like this was a real person living through all the things he had to do. You follow Jeff from his first day in group therapy with Julie who is in love with Bone, Alice who's the nuttiest of all, and Sadie, the girl who tried to drown herself but was saved by a man named Sam that she now idolizes in a very strange way. As some of the patients end their 45 days or just go crazier then before, you meet a few new people. Some who have a more serious impact on Jeff, like Rankin, the creepy football player, and Martha who never talks except for one time to Jeff. Then there is Squirrel, who is just some weird guy. You do eventually figure out/find out why Jeff tried to kill himself, but before you do you discover so much about him, and about everyone else too. This book was just so good, and so my overall grade has to be an A+!! Anything less just wouldn't do for this particular book!!

Spell Hunter (Faery Rebels #1)

When I first saw the cove of this book I thought it was going to be a silly little children's book, like something that I would read in elementary school or something...boy was I wrong!! This was anything BUT a children's book!! It was DEFINITELY meant for teenagers. This book starts off with one of my favorite YA book themes...Faeries!!! From the very beginning it just got BETTER and better!! When I first started this book I thought that the back cover was wrong, since I didn't realize I was reading about Knife, I thought I was reading about another character. You learn a bit later that she changes her name to Knife, which makes sense with the story, obviously. Knife travels outside her home, Oakwyld, and discovers Paul, after almost being killed by a crow of course, and after she gets trapped inside his house, starts befriending him. This is of course directly disobeying the Faerie Queen, but Knife doesn't care, she's not afraid of anything, and actually, befriending Paul may just save them both. This is a gripping tale that will leave you wanting more, and thankfully there is a sequel!!! This is a one-of-a-kind story that I could not put down and truly loved. It was unlike any other story I had ever read, since in this one, the faeries had lost almost all their magic mysteriously years ago, instead of most others where all faeries may have too MUCH magic. I really enjoyed this story and so would most anyone else. Overall grade...A.

Breathe My Name

This story didn't hit home exactly, but it did have some similarities to my own life, which made this story an even better book then I originally thought. Francis is now living with her adoptive parents and having a pretty alright life. The thing is, she didn't use to be Francis, she used to be Shine, and she lived with her three sisters and her birth mother Afton Jelks. That was before Afton had a psychotic break and tried to smother all her children. She almost succeeded, since only Francis escaped. Her mother went to prison for her crime, but now she's out and she wants to finish what she started. Francis meets Nix, this all around pretty much perfect guy...which kind of got annoying at times, since he just seemed TOO perfect sometimes. Francis dealing with her past as well as her new mother and father, plus her birth mother being released is obviously the main problem, which was great, it was interesting and not easily solved with just the push of a button, Francis had to really face her demons to overcome them. There were alternate chapters, some in Fireless where she was Shine, and others in the present where she was Francis again. This really helped you understand why it was so difficult for Francis and how she came to be who she was. This story was one I truly enjoyed and would definitely read again. So, overall grade...A-

Watchmen

The reason I picked this particular movie was because I am a Greys Anatomy lover. I am in LOVE with that show!!! I watch it EVERY SINGLE Thursday PLUS (almost) everyday from 6 to 9 on Lifetime. I just LOVE syndication. Anyways, the REASON for picking the movie Watchmen was because Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Comedian) in Watchmen also played Denny Dukett on Greys Anatomy and was one of my favorite ARC characters. So, without further ado, Watchmen. First off, I'll start with the GOOD things. The score (music) of the movie was FANTASTIC!! If I could grade a movie on JUST the score this would be one of the only movies to EVER receive and A+, however, I can't. So, the other good things about this movie...the guy who played Rorschach was quite good, I really enjoyed his character. as well as Jeffery Dean Morgan as The Comedian, and not just because of Greys Anatomy, I didn't even regocnize him the first time I tried to watch the movie. Also, Ozymandias did a fabulous job and I really liked his character, even though he wasn't in there much till the end. So, now on to the bad things. Silk Spectre 2...well, no offense to Malin Akerman, but your character was slutty and stupid, I really just didn't like her at all. And sadly, a LOT of people agree with me. I had to try THREE TIMES to watch this movie all the way through, then when I finally did, I watched the directors cut, which added about a half hour to an already TOO LONG movie. There were some serious issues with the violence in this movie. It seemed to be there just to satisfy the males in the audience, I'm not being sexist, it's just true. I also believed that hiring a bunch of B-movie actors to play for a (shoulda-been) A-movie did not go over all that well. This movie had a TON of potential, but failed to follow through. Parts of this movie were good, parts of it were actually pretty funny and quite good, but overall, this movies good parts didn't overcome the bad parts. So...I guess I have to give a grade now...well, sad as it is since some VERY good actors were in this....overall grade....D-

Shadowland

Shadowland was what I originally thought would be the end of the Eternals series. When I started reading Evermore, and Blue Moon, I thought there would only be three books. And I was kind of counting on that. I turned out to be VERY VERY wrong. I used to really love Alyson Noel's books, I thought she was a very good writer who kept you interested from beginning to end. When I read Evermore and Blue Moon, that was the case, while reading Shadowland however, this was a lot different. There were a lot of parts that just kind of lagged and became kind of boring. I felt like this book was more of a filler for the next book then anything. Nothing really went on in this book exactly. There were things you discovered, like how by becoming Immortal Ever and Damen are now not allowed to ever cross over with Ever's family. Also that Ever is kind of maybe falling for Jude, and apparently in all her other lives she has been too. Well, until Damen came and swooped in and claimed her. This book was alright, since I really do like Alyson Noel, but this book was definitely NOT up to par with what she usually writes. So....sadly the overall grade will have to be...C-

Princess For Hire

One of the first things I noticed about this book is that I should have read it the MOMENT I got my hands on it, well, ALMOST the moment. This book is one of those cute, fun reads that leaves you wanting more!! Now, there are ACTUALLY not all that many out there doing that!! Most series nowadays are serious or suspenseful to keep the readers interest, this book doesn't do that. While there are serious moments, it's still has many laugh out loud moments that just fit so well with the concept of this book. The concept being that anyone with enough MP (Magic Potential) can become a fill in Princess (or Prince) or basically ANY royal, and even a few non-royals for training purposes. Desi is one of those with MP, enough of it to be fit for training. Though there are problems of course. Like when she risks getting in trouble with her boss, and maybe even facing the Court, in order to help out the girls she takes the place of. This book is on that I truly enjoyed and will definitely read the sequel since it was just so bubbly and fun-loving that you can't help but like it!! The only real problem I noticed was how it became a bit predictable at parts, until it suddenly CHANGED!! Which was both good and bad. I liked how this book kept you guessing while at the same time you knew sort of what was going to happen. Overall grade...B-

Fifth Warped Musing

Well...I received some VERY exciting news today!!! I got my COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE LETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was ECSTATIC!!!!! I had some (TOO MUCH) trouble sending transcripts and such, and FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY I GOT IT!!!!!! I had heard that I had a good shot and all, but to really RECEIVE IT!!! to GET IT AND HOLD IT IN MY HANDS is something else entirelly. It was one of the best moments of my life. The funny part is I kind of always knew that I would end up going here. I have dreams of one day going to Chicago and then to Las Vegas to work on doing Lighting Design, but this letter just makes it feel so much more tangible, like if I can make it there I can make it anywhere kind of. I know that my dreams (winning a technical award from the Academy) seem silly and might never happen, but to have that hope, and to take steps to reach it, it just makes you feel so whole and so filled with joy. I know that I sound CRAZYYYYYY, but I'll bet that one day I will not only get to Chicago, but also to Las Vegas to do tech work. I have walked around for almost an entire day at a Theatre Conference with my hair in curlers, and that was nothing, so going to Chicago will be even less nothing....it's the studying part and getting a job that might be tricky. Thoughhhhhhh, if I improve my writing skills who KNOWS what might happen!!! If Tina Faye could make it through Second City by Stage Tech and Writing, well....I'm already halfway there!!!! Also, I noticed that there are a TON of books out there with "Dark" in the title. I know that's extremelly RANDOM, but I did, I can think of three off the top of my head...plus I KNOW there are DEFINITELY a lot more then that out there. It's just so strange to see how the work Dark fits into the story, since the three I thought off are all so, well, different.

Prada And Prejudice

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of this book is that it is just so heart-warming and funny. It may be kind of an easy read, but it did not disappoint. From beginning to end you just want the best for klutzy Callie. She is this kind of geeky girl who is just trying to fit in with the popular girls on her high school trip to London. To show that she is one of them she goes out and buys a pair of fabulous Prada heels. Then, being the klutz she is, she trips and falls, and lands in 1815!! Callie meets Emily, who thinks that Callie is her long-lost friend from America (which she kind of is, except for the time thing) and Emily's cousin, Alex, who is not only a hottie duke, but also an arrogant jerk!! Callie and Emily become fast friends, and Callie learns that Emily is in a horrible engagement, even though she is in love with someone else, and Callie starts thinking up ways to save Emily. Plus win Alex's heart, AND not fall on her face and land back in her own time before she can fix everything. Alex may seem arrogant at first, but you quickly learn just how sweet he can be...when he wants too. The biggest problem I saw, was the build-up. Once you got used to Callie in modern times, she was sent to the past, once you got used to the past, she was sent back to modern times. This book is a fun-loving story that will have you laughing at Callie's antics while you root for her to come out on top...overall grade...B-

The Uninvited

So, while i was reading this so many people kept asking me "Is that like the movie????" Well, no, it's not, even though I haven't seen the movie, it's not. The Uninvited was a book that I expected to be much more suspenseful and more of a thriller then it actually was. Though don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this book was not good and very enjoyable, because it was, it just seemed like it would be more suspenseful. But anyways, this story starts off with Mimi Shapiro who has just run away from her first year at NYU to Nowhere, Canada because she has been having an affair with a teacher, a teacher who is not only married and her fathers age, but ALSO madly in love with her and kind of stalking her as well. So Mimi runs away to her fathers old summer house, only to find someone else already living there...her half-brother she never even knew existed!! This should be joyous, but Jackson "Jay" has been having some problems with someone messing with his recordings, and leaving things for him, like a dead bird (GROSS!!!), so he naturally accuses Mimi of this. Though after they realize who they are to each other, they start trying to work out a system of having this new found family member. They become closer even when their stalker strikes again by filming Mimi with her own camera and then when they get robbed while they are away with Jay's girlfriend Iris at her family's summer home. This is a tale of discovery, both of new family and of their selves, and a quest to find purpose behind so many things. This story is one that makes you just say "Woah!!" It's a good story that all would enjoy, and best of all, it's NOT predictable!! Well, not in the way you think...So overall grade?? B+

Dark Visions!! Book Bind!!

Dark Visions includes The Strange Power, The Possessed, and The Passion. This is ANOTHER of L.J. Smith's FABULOUS book binds!! (She wrote the Night World series and Vampire Diaries!!) I have really come to LOVE L. J. Smith's writing style and technique and in these three books she definitely did NOT disappoint. This particular tale follows Kait/Kaitlyn. She has to power to draw the future, though she cannot control when or what she sees, and she can't tell what her drawings mean most of the time, only that they will ALWAYS come true. Soon enough she and four other psychics (all who have different powers) are flown out to California to study and be tested and that Zetes Institute. And, true to most every book bind, Kait finds herself falling for not one, but TWO guys. The good angelic Rob who has the power to heal, and Gabriel, the black hole to Rob's sun, the typical "bad boy". What would a book bind BE without the bad boy?!?! Anyways, this story is cute and while somewhat predictable, still very entertaining and so very very good. It just gets better when the five psychic link with each other!! They can ALL communicate through their thoughts and emotions with each other!! And they can't turn it off!! The story gets even better when Kait and Gabriel learn just some of what Mr. Zetes really wants to use them for!! This book follows these five through a surpisingly short period of time, but still ends up being very good. I truly enjoyed this book and so...overall grade...B.

Harvey

So I have decided that every Friday I think I'm going to review a movie, new old, young, famous, indie, whatever I really feel like, and I thought the perfect thing to start with would be Harvey!! It stars Jimmy Stewart, the ONLY person who could have pulled off this role SO fantastically, and it was released in the 1950's. It started off as a play on Broadway and, like so many others at the time, was created into a movie. At first when casting, they thought that Jimmy Stewart was too old to play Uncle Elwood, but after the movie was released and became so popular, no one could EVER think of anyone else who could play it the way Jimmy Stewart did. It starts off with Elwood Dowd's aunt's hosting an afternoon tea. You quickly learn that their Uncle Elwood is a bit odd, after you meet him and his friend Harvey, you begin to realize just how strange he really is. The man has a best friend who is a human-sized talking imaginary rabbit. A pooka to be exact. His sister tries to send him to a mental institution but since you don't find out until later exactly who he is trying to introduce all his guests too, you think he is perfectly normal. Then, when his sister keeps insisting that Elwood actually does have a six foot 3 inch invisible rabbit for a friend convinces Chumley it is she, not Elwood, who is hallucinating. After Elwood goes to his favorite bar Charlie's, and the doctor has "gone off with Harvey" everyone finds him and are convinced he did away with the doctor, and they summon the police. Elwood is swept off to the sanitarium even though the doctor really did go off with Harvey, but doesn't tell anyone. Much more madness and chaos ensues, but overall this movie is a fun-filled movie that anyone would enjoy. Overall grade A+ (and not just because I LOVE it!!)

The Body Finder!!

Violet was a likable character because of the fact that she was just normal teen facing the normal teen struggles expect for the fact that she could sense were dead bodies and killers were. It was interesting to learn more about her ability and see how it could solve the serial killer murder mystery. Further more, I loved Jay because in all seriousness I want my own Jay!! Since, he was sweet, trustworthy, defensive of his loved ones, hot and just an all around great guy. Further more, I liked how Jay and Violet were really great friends before they started anything romantic because it gave them a better sense of realness unlike in some books where two characters hook up without really knowing anything about the other. One of my favorite aspects of this novel was how the story just pulled you in from the start and didn't let you go until the end because of all the drama and suspense that surrounded the whole plot. Plus, Kimberly just added to this with her great writing. I cannot WAIT until 2011 to read the sequel!!!! This book was just TOO good to put down ,and even more then that, it was absolutely mesmerizing as well. Overall grade...A+ of course!!

Duplikate

Duplikate started off strong and stayed that way till the end. Kate and Rina, Kate's Simulife computer generated twin, comes to life, litterally. It was definitely a concept I hadn't read about before, which made me really love it. Kate is swamped with work, since she is trying to get into Yale to be with her boyfriend of three years. At first she just has Rina sit in the house, and BLOWS UP when she finds that she has gone out, to the MALL, and has been spotted!! So Kate lets Rina roam around the house as she pleases, as long as she keeps the curtains closed that is, after ANOTHER close call with a neighbor spotting her!! Eventually, Kate is just too tired. Rina starts making flash cards for her, highlighting things, she even writes an AMAZING paper for her, though Kate doesn't turn it in and does her own. Then, Kate even lets Rina go to school for her for a day, though this is after she lets her go off with her boyfriend while she studies, and her friends too!! Kate is desperate to get into Yale, but what will it cost her if Rina starts deciding that SHE'S the one who shoud really be going?? Rina starts getting mad, and even, with Kate for locking her up. This book takes a quick turn to becoming a bit suspenseful to see what will happen between Kate and Rina, and more importantly, between Rina and Kate's boyfriend, and Kate and her ex-best friend Jake. Things heat up quickly, but how will it all end?? Overall grade...B.

Five Minutes More

When I read this book I felt like brain matter was slowly leaking out my head. It was not exactly boring me to death, it was just predictable that I could tell what was going to happen from the very beginning. The book just laid everything out and was just to predictable, I hated how easy it was to tell what was going to happen to her and to the people around her. D'Arcy's dad died. We get it, it's hard, but also, the characters were SOOO inauthentic!! There were a lot of problems with this book, like the ending was extremely unclear, and most people couldn't really follow what was going on. The ending was supposed to be sad but it actually ended up just being annoying. I was wayyyyy to glad for this book to be over. The timing kind of sucked, and sadly I don't really remember all that much that went on in this book, because nothing EVER WENT ON!!!! All that happened was D'Arcy kept griping about how her father was dead, we get it, and how the police believed it was a suicide and how she doesn't know what would make him do that. We get it, she's depressed. That doesn't make this book any more believable or any better. I usually don't trash books, but this one deserved it since it was just a bad book. Something I practically NEVER say!!! So....overall grade....D.

The Chosen One

First off I have to start off by saying this book was amazing. It was also terrifying at the same time. This book follows thirteen-year-old Kyra, who has grown up on a polygamous community with her father, three mothers, and twenty brothers and sisters. Scary right??? This book is EXTREMELLY intense. Kyra usually follows the rules with no questions asked, that is before she starts making secret trips to the Mobile Library on Wheels , something forbidden, and meeting the boy that she hopes to marry, instead of having one chosen for her. This is before the prophet declares that she must marry her 60-year-old uncle. The one who already HAS six other wives. This doesn't stop the boy she loves from confronting the prophet, claiming that he loves Kyra and wants to marry her. This gets them both a severe beating. Kyra keeps going to the Mobile Library on Wheels, and starts trying to think of ways to escape. She especially wants to leave when one of her mothers, the one who gave birth to her, becomes sick because of her pregnancy, and Patrick, the Mobile Library on Wheels driver, tries to help her out. Patrick pays for his help in the worst way possible, but afterwards, Kyra can't help but want to leave even more. Will she get out before it's too late?? Will she marry the boy she loves or her old, creepy uncle?? This book was amazing and I couldn't put it down. Overall grade?? A+

Seven Tears Into The Sea

First off, i have to say that I read this book YEARS ago. And even though I did, I LOVED it!!! I distinctly remember that. I also distinctly remember that this was the first book I ever read about stalkers...well sort of. At first the book begins with Gwen Cooke being ten years old and being saved by this mysterious creature from the ocean. Then seven years later, she returns to the sea to help her grandmother with her bed and breakfast for the summer. She quickly meets Jesse, and (of course) falls in love with him, there is no doubt about it, the problem is, she knows practically NOTHING about him!! She quickly does learn things about him...things she'd rather not know now that she an obligation to fulfill, since he just so happens to be a selkie. Though the reader may THINK they have figured out this story, they are wayyy off (I know I was!!) and sadly while the ending will leave you craving more, there will sadly never be a sequel. The best part about this book however, for me, was that it was the first book I ever read about Selkie's. Since then I have read one or two tales, but nothing compares even remotely to this book. Though it might be more appropriate on the British Isles or something, have a Selkie story on the beach in California just made it that much more special. Overall grade...B-

Fourth Warped Musing

Since I realized that I haven't done a random rant in a while, I decided to do one today. Usually my rants involve books (something one of my friends decided to point out) but I think (HOPE) I won't have to do that today since I kind of HATE the book I'm currently reading right now. It kind of makes me VERY angry when I read it, which is probably not very healthy, but anyways, enough about that book. I guess today my rant will have to involve my school...the school of DOOM that CAN'T SEND OUT MY TRANSCRIPTS CORRECTLY and is PISSING ME OFF!!!!! Okay, all better!!!! But I (FINALLY) got them MAILED out (And they are OFFICIAL!!! YAY!!!)so *fingers crossed* they should get there by today!!! I also have some problems with our mail service. I was super nice and polite to the lady I had to deal with while sending my step-sister books and she was SOOO rude to me!!! And they STILL haven't gotten to her, which is alright, maybe they will soon...hopefully...ANYWAYSSSSSSSSSS I played this EPICALLY fun game this morning called "Munchkin Quest" and if you've never played, you should go out and find it and play it!!! You build you game board with each turn and it has to be one of the FUNNEST games I have played in a LONGGGGGG time!! I even included a picture so you know what to look for!! And trust me when I say this, at first I thought it would be lame, or weird, and many other things, definitely not fun and exciting, but it was MOST definitely!! Some of the monsters are SOOOO awesome!! Like Psycho Squirrels and the Coldly Logical Itsy Bitsy Spider, I mean how cool is that???? There is even a room called Den of Thieves that includes a sign stating "Members: Please Stop Stealing the Furniture." I also started following this blog called "The Armchair Critic" I really LOVE his blog (though his reviews are a BIT mean at tiems I must say) so I decided to start following him since he's pretty funny and well...pretty right as well. check him out if you want too, and I think that I may have to change some things around pretty soon. Who knows?!?!

Hush, Hush

Sadly enough, this book was hard to review for me. Partially because I LOVED it SOOOO much and since I read and ARC which ended differently then the published copy, I wanted more!!!! I loved this book SOOOOO much that I actually REREAD the ending when I saw it in the bookstore!! I just couldn't help myself!! But okay...I have to get serious now....this story starts off with this EPIC prologue that sucks you right it!! Then it switches to Nora Grey, the girl who never had time for high school boys. Right off the bat her high school science teacher Coach McConaughy makes her best friend Vee move seats, leaving Nora sitting next to the typical looking bad boy type...none other then Patch!! He's brooding, stand-offish, everything that Nora WOULDN'T want in a guy. And yet, she finds herself drawn to him, but after several series of terrifying encounters, Nora isn't sure who to trust anymore. Then Nora finds the real truth about Patch, something she's not sure she can handle, or believe. The problem is, choosing wrong could cost her more then just her life. This story is more then just a typical love story. Actually, it's not what i would typically CALL a love story normally. This story was DEFINITELY not one of those typical trashy young adult fiction novels, this was more then just AWESOME, this was a gripping tale that had you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end, and left you craving m0re. Overall grade....A+!!! (PLUSSSS the sequel Cresendo comes out in Nov. 2010!! TOO LONG!!!)

Undone

First off, I guess I have to say that I kind of hated this book. While at the same time I LOVED it. You may know from the book jacket (if you read it) that Kori dies. Though it doesn't exactly happen that way. First off, the book starts off with the start of Kori and Serena's friendship, how it started, where, etc. It then quickly continues to where Serena develops a HUGE crush on Anthony Beck. Kori tells her to go for it!! I mean, what best friend wouldn't?? This happens shortly after Serena gets a random IM from someone thinking she's Kori. The same night when Serena first kisses Anthony Beck, Kori goes off with a guy named Parker to do something Serena has no idea about. It's about a third of the way through the book and then it hits. You know that it was going to happen but it still brought tears to my eyes. Kori gets in a fatal car crash, and Parker, the driver, is left paralyzed...even though the doctor's can find nothing wrong with him they know it's a guilt injury. Kori left a list, a list of five things to tempt fate. 1. Sing with Bleeder Valve. 2. Get a tattoo. 3. Work things out with Shay. 4. Confront D. 5. Tell Serena. Serena finds this list and begins trying to work out who Shay and D are, as well as what Kori wanted to tell her. Then Serena starts finishing her own list. 1.Be on the front page of the Kismet Courier. Heh. 2.Sing in front of an audience. Without puking. 3.Become BFFs with a cheerleader. Again-without puking. 4.Fall for a high school guy. Um... yeah, don't think so. 5.Find my father. A girl can dream, can't she? Throughout the rest of the book Serena starts doing all that Kori couldn't. The question still remains though...can she get through these lists on her own?? Without her sister separated at birth to help her through it?? This is a wonderful debut novel of friendship, finding yourself, forgiveness, and best of all...the secrets we keep from the people whom we are closet too. Overall grade...A+!!

Hex Hall

I have to start by saying this book was AMAZING!!!! I loved every minute of this book and cannot WAIT for the sequel. This book follows Sophie Mercer, a gifted white witch, to the exiles of Hecate Hall (better known as Hex Hall) where she finds she is not only rooming with the only vampire in the school, but is also got three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, one of which who is dating a gorgeous warlock that she has a seemingly futile crush on, and so many other creatures wandering the halls. It's when she learns who her father really is and what it means for her that things really start to heat up, well that and the fact that everyone seems to think her roommate is killing (or attempting to kill) witches in her school. Plus don't forget that certain secret society that's out to kill everyone that's like her!! This book was one unlike any I had ever read and definitely deserved an A+, five stars, glowing review, whatever it takes for people to realize how badly they should read it!! I loved this book and simply cannot wait for the sequel, and hopefully there will be one after it that I can read as well since this series is just heating up!! Plus the OTHER fabulous news is that this book comes out TODAY!!!! YAY!!!!! (Which HOPEFULLY means that the next book will be out soon??? ish??? HOPEFULLY?!?!?!?)

Crazy Beautiful

The first thing I noticed about this book was that it was kind of like a modern day Beauty and the Beast, but it was also VERY short, well it seemed that way since it didn't take much time to read since it captures your attention from the start. There were a few...issues I had with this book though, one was that Aurora didn't say NEARLY as much as Lucius so it felt unbalanced. Lucius blew off his own arms and now has hooks for hands. He's a modern day Beast if there ever was one. He wanted hooks because he wanted everyone to see that he's not normal, that he's not the same. Aurora doesn't notice his hooks, she's not afraid of them, all she wants is to have someone to love her the way she loves them, and she hopes that Lucius might be the one to give it. I also LOVED the cover of this book, it drew me in and made me really enjoy this fast-paced novel. Overall grade...B.