Kari
Sarah Addison Allen's books are quickly becoming my favorite books! So far I've read this one and The Girl Who Chased the Moon and I loved them both soooooo much. There is a quiet magic infused into these pages, into these stories and I just want to savor them.
Love it. Great ending to a great trilogy (I hope - don't think I can take another book!). You can read my full review here: http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2011/05/dark-and-hollow-places.html
Lots of twists and turns and surprises, but I have to say I was kind of disappointed in what it was all about. Not that the “Boston Massacre” wasn't a terrible tragedy, but it just seemed like there were so many unnecessary lies and murders over something that was so trivial.
Super fast, but fun read! It was interesting enough that I'd like to read the next book to see what happened when Max pursues his new career!
While the writing was good I felt let down by the stories in general. There are no “happy” endings to be found here, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn't even that they were sad endings. They didn't feel like endings at all. Like we were left hanging.
Loved it! You can read my full review here: http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2012/10/wither.html
Well, I'm not very happy with this whole series. It started out promising, but then went downhill pretty quickly until we got to this final installment. Like the book before this there were just too many characters, too many things happening all at once and that made it so difficult to keep track of what was going on.
Ok. First of all there are too many characters. Let's make a list, shall we?
Sophie
Josh
Nicholas
Perenelle
Scatty
Joan of Arc
St. Germain
John Dee
Isis
Osiris
Tsagaglalal Virginia Dare
Mars
Odin
Hel
Palamedes
Shakespeare
Niten
Prometheus
Abraham
Machiavelli
Billy the Kid
Mars Ultor
Black Hawk
Zephaniah
25. I'm sure I'm missing someone. While it's true that we only might see a brief glimpse at a few of these, most of them have some history we have to learn about.
And it is so goddamn boring.
Can we just be done already? Can we just kill off John Dee and Josh and be done with it? Maybe? Yes?
The only person I really care about at all is Machiavelli. I liked him from the beginning and was kind of bummed that he was evil, but he's evil in a subtle way. I like Scatty & Joan of Arc too I suppose, but they're getting the raw end of the deal.
The four main characters, Josh, Sophie, Nicholas & Perenelle are my least favorite. How does that happen?
A fun read for a sequel. Lots of stuff going on and surprises around every corner. Definitely a cliff hanger ending and I can't wait to see where this new twist takes us!
There wasn't much excitement here and I thought the clues leading to the killer were a little too obvious, which then annoyed me that it took the knitters so long to figure it out!
Is there just anything that Jack Reacher is not good at? Is there any person out there that he will not save? He's just so awesome. I have to say that I didn't see that outcome - I didn't know what was going to happen. I can't really say more about that without giving things away and I don't want to do that! The other surprising thing was this was the first time I really noticed references to the previous novel. Please go out and read some Jack Reacher books!
It's been awhile since I saw the movie, but from what I remember it seemed pretty close. I wasn't in love with the graphics though. It was all very blurry and hard to make out. I guess I like more detailed work....
It's finally starting to get to me. The same-ness that is the In Death series.
It's still good writing, still good stories, but it's so very predictable that it kind of gets boring. There are a few motions of branching out, Peabody taking the primary role on a case, but so far it's not quite enough.
We know that someone is going to die and Eve is going to bring in Feeney & McNabb and they'll work with Roarke. Then she'll require a consult from Mira who will sit back while Eve shows off her great insights. Eve will preach about how important the badge is, how this is her city and she stands for the dead, yada yada yada. Then she'll tie up the case, but it'll come down to the killer trying to get Eve before she can get them, but in the end Eve always wins.
Sorry, did I spoil that for you?
I started seeing this book everywhere on all the book blogs I read. When I saw it sitting on the shelf at the library I picked it up, excited as if I'd gotten away with something!
I loved the everything about this story. Beatrice is the perfect heroine. She's strong and vulnerable. She questions herself yet at the same time is sure of herself. She is very human with her flaws. The antagonists are very easy to hate!
In hindsight I wish I had waited for the next two books because now I have to wait a year for the second and two years for the third!!
This was such an interesting read. Kind of fucked up and bizarre, but really, would you expect anything else from Holly Black? Loved the different take on mobsters - with the curse workers and all that. Loved the ending, too. Cassel was flawed, but in a perfect kind of way. He knew it, made no excuses for it, but he wasn't an asshole. He was always trying to do the right thing...more so than most teenagers in his place would have done. I'm curious to see if there will be another book in this series, strsnge nowadays to only see 2. Though it ended with an actual ending I could see the story branching off maybe to follow Lila and her rise to the top. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
This review is for all four volumes of 7 Billion Needles.
This was on the border of being really interesting and making absolutely no sense to me. Everything was good until volume three when the subspecies and the Moderator were the focal point and things got very science-fictiony. It was intense.
I think that ultimately the series was about friendship. It seems so simple and almost cheesy after all that, but when it all came down to it there seemed to be the overriding theme of loneliness. Once Hikaru was taken in by Nao and Saya she wasn't so lonely and was able to open up more. Which then prompted her to help Chika who she saw as herself before Nao and Saya. Hikaru became a spectator (who actually mostly just ignored everyone) to an active human. She participated in life which ended up allowing her to save the world.
More sci-fi than I usually read, but I enjoyed it thoroughly!
After a few bombs and forcing myself to get through the series just so I could be done with it a gem has finally reappeared and I'm completely back on track with the series.
Maybe it's because I was growing weary with the focus on the search for Bonnie and in Chasing the Night the focus was on a brand new character who, though very similar to Eve was also very much her own person. Catherine Ling was strong, vulnerable, charismatic, honest and vicious. She's one of the first new characters who isn't just a rude, obnoxious, selfish jerk and it was like a breath of fresh air. Kelly was also a great new addition to the cast. The whole setting kind of reminded me of when Jane first showed up on the scene.
Joe was toned down and instead of being just overly protective of Eve he was proactive and determined to help someone other than Eve. Eve didn't sit along the sidelines trying to get around Joe either, she fought and held her ground.
But in the end, literally, the last sentence kind of blew my mind and I am SO GLAD I have the next book, Eve, sitting on my bookshelf right now! Having to wait to get my hands on it probably would have driven me insane!
Thank you Iris Johansen for renewing my faith in the Eve Duncan series!
There is no other way to describe this collection of stories than to say it is very silly. Very, very silly. The end.
This was one of those short ‘novellas' that I usually love because they give me a little more insight into certain characters. This one was a little drab. Good for someone who LOVES this series, but other than that it was all mostly rehashed (in some parts a complete copy & paste) in The Iron Daughter. Not fun to read something and then read the exact same text in the next book.
Booo.