A Reader's Addiction

Read: March 25-30, 2012 read in 5 days pages: 387 Hmm, where to begin...Well the cover caught my attention first so I pulled it off the shelf and read the jacket. Cyborg? Sure I'm interested in Sci Fi stuff and its in the young adult so its like a two for one, oh and for good measure throw in some dystopic themes which works for me. Not just any run of the mill story about a cyborg though, let's throw the Cinderella theme in there as well. Wait a minute, a cyborg Cinderella? Ok now I'm intrigued. You got me. I'm taking the book home and seeing what is going on here. *****Spoiler Alert***** The novel takes us into the future where we have encountered two more world wars and have managed to maintain peace for 126 years, yet there seems to be a looming threat of a new war with the Lunar people if an agreement is not met soon. The Earth has been divided up into these 6 countries, and the story takes place in the Eastern Commonwealth. While there are s...

Read: March 21-24, 2012 read in 4 days pages: 361 I give the novel 4 stars for the characters not for the story. The plot line and the story are just odd. There are many aspects of the novel that I don't quite understand and things that are not explained, yet being able to get into the novel and suspend your disbelief and take things as they pertain to the story you can sort of over look those things. Doesn't make it understandable just makes you think okay I'll ignore that and move on. For example I still don't know what the heck a "Brownie" is or what the "Strangers" and "Wykes" are that are found in the swamp, but hey a "Chime child" is someone who is born in the midnight hour making their birth date straddle two days and THAT is what gives them the second sight. The second sight is what makes that particular person able to see the said "Brownie", "Strangers" and the "Old Ones" as well. Oh and a ...

Read: March 12-20, 2012 read in 9 days pages: 311 Hmm, not too sure about this one. It took me a while to get into it. I am so over the Sookie will she won't she EVER just pick a guy and stick with him. Will she ever just BE HAPPY!?!? UGH. That was a complete turn off in my trying to read the book. Luckily I guess things did pick up and I was able to get into the book. The plots were weird; there were too many things going on and nothing really important seemed to happen. This was a stand alone odd book that did little to nothing to push the story line of the characters along. Despite the Eric and Sookie relationship that continues in this book it was weak. Just weak. Eric is not entirely Eric and things just could have been better in all of their times together. I think I'll step away again for a while before I read the next book. While I want to continue to see that Eric and Sookie do stay together and somehow patch up the mess that was the end of this book....I know how this...

ABANDONED Started: March 2 Stopped: March 10 pages read: 71 Started but am not going to finish. I read the first chapter at the library to see if I would be interested after reading the jacket and was interested enough to take it home. Now I've been trying to get into this book all week and I've decided its just not worth it trying any longer. I liked the premise it sounded like it could get really good and be an interesting story, but it just flopped. Nothing seemed to flow for me logically and I wasn't all that far in. Plus its going to be a series and I'm getting burnt out on all these books that are just series after series. Can the authors please come up with some unique stand alone stories?? Please?? Anyways I think there are too many other books I want to read. So at page 71, nearly to the start of the 6th chapter - I'm putting this one down and moving on.

Read: March 1-5, 2012 read in 5 days pages: 480 This turned out to be a new favorite of mine. I was sucked into reading it because it does have a gorgeous cover design and as per usual I am a sucker for checking out a book BECAUSE of its cover. I nearly put it down about 80 pages in when little to nothing was happening. Apparently this novel is a retelling of Grimm's fairy tale of the 12 Dancing Princesses. I knew nothing of the fairy tale aside from what I googled when I first started reading the novel. That said I think I didn't have as high of expectations as other people had who knew the Grimm tale and was really glad I continued to read it rather than put it down. I enjoyed the setting and the code of conduct that was required for the time. The corsets, the hooped skirts, the curtsying and the dancing. The proper etiquette for addressing gentleman and the whole courting aspect. I always love novels that give a glimpse of a time past. The mannerisms and the phrases like ...

Read: February 25-29, 2012 read in 4 days pages: 404 I wouldn't say this was a great read. I'd say it was an ok read. The fact that the character was a ghost was ok I could suspend my belief long enough to go along with that. What bugged me was one about the second or third page said ghost indicates that since she is dead she does not need to "breathe" the air. Yet throughout the book she BREATHES!! And at times after she has been involved with the boy she meets she even pants because she is so overwhelmed with emotion. Really? A ghost? That just seemed a bit too far out for me to go along with since the point was made early on that the ghost doesn't need to breathe. Its quite obvious that the author is going to work on another book and attempt to make this a series just like most of the teen books coming out now. I wish that authors had enough great stand alone ideas that there wasn't a need to constantly be coming out with series. For me the ending felt for...