Kari
I just didn't like it. I want the series to be over so it pretty much is for me. I'm done. Bleh. So boring.
Not the best of the Camel Club, but not horrible. You can read my full review here: http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2012/09/hells-corner_2.html
Of the fae, when a mortal touches Gancanagh they become obsessed and begin to wither away from want. That's pretty much how I feel about the Wicked Lovely series.
In retrospect, these books were ridiculously unnecessary, but I loved them. When I finished Ink Exchange I wasn't ready to be done with Leslie, Irial and Niall's story. I thought more could be told and this was perfect. I can see how both of these set up the next stories and it only makes me want to read them more!
In between reading Immortal Beloved and Darkness Falls I decided that I must read her other books and I would start with the Sweep series. I hated them. The characters were annoying and over the top. Not enjoyable at all. Then I started wondering if maybe Immortal Beloved was a fluke and I would hate the next two books. Thankfully, that wasn't the case.
Nastasya is getting better and better at River's Edge. She's starting to accept that she can make a better life for herself and be a good person. We get a lot of flash backs of the not-so-nice things she'd done in the past and we also get to see a bit of what River was like as a young immortal.
But things start to go awry and Nastasya begins to believe that she can't control the dark magick inside her so she decides to leave River's Edge to keep everyone else safe. And then then the bad stuff really starts to happen.
A good follow up to a great book. I think I'll have to jump right into Eternally Yours!
Just not my thing.
After reading the entire Bone series this was....disappointing. The art just wasn't as rich and detailed as Bone and it wasn't really all that exciting to look at. And I just wasn't into the subject matter. Maybe because Tesla played such a big part and there was SO MUCH EXPLAING I just couldn't get into it. Not that I don't think Tesla is cool, but Odd Apocalypse was all about Tesla too and I'm just a little burnt out at this point.
I'm not sure if I'll read the last one. I got these three at the same time from the library and they don't have the fourth so I'm probably not going to go out searching for it. Just....not my thing.
A little slower than its predecessors, The Cloud Searchers takes us to the skies on the hunt for a city that is thought to have been decimated. Myths say that the Council took the city to the clouds to protect and rebuild.
Even though there was a lot going on, I felt like nothing happened. How does that make sense? I don't know. But surprisingly, Luger is becoming one of my favorite characters. He kind of reminds me of Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I love, love, love this little series. I was afraid that things wouldn't get wrapped up in this last edition, but Chmakova did a really good job and it without rushing everything. It does end with a little hint of maybe more books to come (especially since the title is ‘Nightschool: The Werin Books'. Maybe next time will be the Hunters or Vamps or Shapeshifters. Whatever it will be, I'll read it!
So much history packed in such a small book!
My full review on the entire series can be found on my blog at http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2013/01/y-last-man.html
Things got a little confusing in Papua New Guinea (I don't even know how they got there), but it's all good now.
My full review on the entire series can be found on my blog at http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2013/01/y-last-man.html
I liked it, but it was really short. I understand that it's supposed to be a 6-volume limited edition thing, but seriously??? I love Mark Crilley's work though and this is no different. I can't wait to get my hands on the other ones!
That ending SUCKED! UGH. But again, fun to read thanks to the Kevin Smith style. Walt's Etrigan was way better than the Green Lantern Quiver Etrigan. I did find Ming in the book too!
brilliant. read my full review here: http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2012/10/room.html
This was slow and I kept getting annoyed by the main character. I think I expected something more akin to David Baldacci's Camel Club and I've enjoyed the comics Brad Meltzer has written so I think my expectations were a bit skewed. I picked up the second book to give it a chance because I can definitely see potential in the story.
I wasn't really expecting much with this ‘novella' and that's pretty much what Meyer delivered. I'm not even sure what the point was. Who cares about Bree? Pointless and uninteresting. She should have written a story from Jane's point of view. We already knew why and how Victoria was doing what she was doing. It would have been much more fun to see things from Jane's twisted point of view.
I do not believe in God. This book did not change my mind. If anything, it only cemented the idea in me that people who do believe so strongly are completely unaware of the the realities around them.
I do not understand why the beginning of the book dealt with Todd Burpo's many ailments. It literally had nothing to do with the story and just made this somewhat short book feel hundreds of pages longer than it should have, but I kept going for surely there was a point to it. (There wasn't)
Where the book completely lost me is when the parents decide to make a three hour drive to their tiny town in Nebraska with a child who has been throwing up every half hour for at least 12 hours instead of taking him to a major metropolitan hospital. Because, why would they want good care for their child? God will heal him, right? Their cavalier attitude about their son's condition just kind of bothered me. They take him to this hometown hospital where the doctors completely miss a common and obvious diagnosis. Friends encourage them to take Colton to Colorado's Children's Hospital, but they don't want to go too far from their congregation. It's more important to them to be close to people who will pray from them instead of doctors who can heal them.
Over YEARS Colton starts revealing bits of how he went to heaven (despite never have clinically died) and saw his great-grandfather and dead sister as well as Jesus and other important religious figures. He describes what Jesus was wearing (white with a purple sash) and what he looked like (dark hair and a beard and really pretty eyes) and how he had marks on his hands. And somehow this is all stuff that a preacher's son wouldn't have known. How? The kid got bible stories as bedtime stories and went to Sunday school every Sunday. Added to that, the father would quiz them about things like ‘What is Good Friday?'
The thing is, everything this kid describes heaven to be is everything that every person imagines heaven to be. While I believe he thinks he went to heaven, I certainly don't believe any miracles happened here.
Another quick Patterson/Ledwidge collaboration. It was okay. It wasn't quite as repetitive as the last few, but it wasn't so intricate or unpredictable as it could have been. Everything seemed to have wrapped up rather quickly...there wasn't quite enough meat to the story.
You can read my full review on the Scott Pilgrim series on my blog here: http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2012/02/scott-pilgrim-is-awesome-like-ninja.html
I still enjoy these stories but I do wish we didn't have to go over the rules and read the same reactions to them every time. I feel like I'm reading the same thing over and over again.
I just found her story to be kind of boring and pointless. She seems like kind of a sweet person. After offending an Asian guy, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears she wrote them emails apologizing. But really there was nothing interesting in any of her stories. She portrays herself as this cute chick with big boobs who is just one of the guys but also hopelessly naive that you should think she's even cuter. Blech. Mostly, she really wants people to know she likes fart jokes. And ohmygod her voice. She has - hands down - the worst audiobook voice on the face of the planet. And when she imitates her father, get those earbuds out of your ears because you will cry. It's horrible.
Kept me reading, but it took awhile to get to the gist of it. She mentioned waaaaay too many times that she lived in a small town and just how small it was. Kind of predictable, nothing really surprising whatsoever, but it was well written and left you on a cliff at the end so hopefully the next one comes out before I forget what this one was about!
Agent Chu is reunited with John Colby, his former partner in the Philly PD. Now Agent Colby is working for the FDA with a bionic head. He hasn't changed much and he adds a lovely layer of ass kicking humor to the book.
Chu is on the hunt for this fruit that tastes like chicken. On a lead to the whereabouts of this fruit he runs into his brother who is opening a restaurant on the little island where the laws on poultry are much more relaxed.
Rumors of vampires start circulating when a body from the first book makes an appearance and Mason is still hiding out somewhere.
Not as funny or as gross as the first book, but it's still very entertaining.
I have to say, as a ending to a trilogy I was most disappointed in The Death Cure. I still have so many questions and none of them will ever be answered!
Thomas really bugged me. I get that he was confused and unsure of everyone - except Minho - but c'mon. The whole thing just pisses me off thinking about it. And I just lowered my rating from 3 stars to 2.
There was a lot of fighting and not a lot of purpose. Everything was glossed over or completely ignored just to get to an ending that was so darn predictable it was sad.
So if you plan to read the series read the first one and then stop there. Really.