1. Reading in the Dark: This book isn't the type of book that I usually read but I ended up finding myself very invested in the main character and how he deals with discovering more and more secrets about his family and how learning the truth put a strain on his relationship with his family.
2. Catch 22: Since all I knew about this book before I read it was that it's a war book I assumed that I wouldn't like it but once I started reading it I found that I actually really enjoyed this book because of it's absurdist sense of humor.
3. Slaughter House Five: This is another war book that I thought I would hate but actually ended up enjoying although not for exactly the same reason, this one I more enjoyed that it had a science fiction element and a non-linear timeline.
4. Anna and the French Kiss: I really expected that I would love this book because everyone seemed to love this book and couldn't stop talking about how dreamy St.Clair was so I figured that I would feel the same way, I didn't. While I do think that the book was well written and it certainly isn't the worst book I ever read, I found that I couldn't get invested in the romance because I ended up hating St. Clair for flirting with Anna for months while having a girlfriend and I found that I didn't like Anna much better. I also found it really annoying that Anna was suppose to be a film geek but thought that Paris didn't have movie theaters because anyone who knows anything about films knows that the Cannes film festival takes place in France so anyone with common sense would assume that Paris would at the very least have a movie theater.
5. Lola and the Boy Next Door: Since I wasn't a big fan of Anna and the French Kiss I didn't think that I would like this one much better but to my surprise I found that I really loved this book. I found that Lola was a flawed but likable heroine and that Cricket was a very sweet and swoonworthy love interest and that I really loved the two of them together.
6. Splintered: I thought that I would like this book a lot more than I actually did because I thought the premise for this book sounded great but unfortunately I ended up not really liking any of the main characters so it made it hard to become invested in the story.
7. Miss Mayhem: I really loved Rebel Belle so I assumed that I would love this book just as much but I sadly found that I didn't love it as much although I still did like it this book didn't leave me eager to read the next book because I was worried that book would end up disappointing me as well.
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
Book Review: Rebel Belle: Miss Mayhem
Miss Mayhem Review
Miss Mayhem is the second book in the Rebel Belle and it starts off several months after the first book and shows how Harper is dealing with both dating and protecting David and how sometimes those two things don't work as well together as she hopes they would. Harper also as to deal with the add weirdness of her ex-boyfriend Ryan being the new mage and being her partner in keeping the oracle, David safe. Early on in the book Harper is told that she would have to go through trials to prove that she is the one that is best suited for the job of protecting David and most of the book seems to be leading up to those trials.
This book is one that I didn't enjoy as much as the first one it felt a lot less fun and interesting than the first book did which is a problem for me. In this book I felt like Harper was a bit too controlling of what she thought David's life should be and I thought that she crossed a pretty big line of trust in their relationship so when her and David broke up I side with him rather than her which is something that took away from my enjoyment of the book. I also felt like Harper seemed to resent David being the oracle and the role she was assigned with being his protector because he made her life less normal and this just bothered me because when you really think about it David as a lot less people in his life than Harper does her not wanting to be around him because he's the oracle doesn't really endear me to her. I just felt like while both Harper and David's life were turned upside in the last book David ended up with less than Harper. Harper still has her parents and her aunts while David now lives alone because the only parental figure he had ever owned was murdered last book; Harper has a best friend and an ex-boyfriend who she seems to be friends with that now about the supernatural while David's friends are completely clueless. In general I didn't like how Harper and David's relationship was portrayed from Harper's side for most of the book and I also felt like there wasn't enough David in general.
Overall I thought the book was good but that the first one was much better although I really do hope that this isn't the last book in the series because I feel like there's a lot more story left to tell and I hope that story will remind me more of the first book in the series. Please tell me your thoughts on this book in the comment section.
This book is one that I didn't enjoy as much as the first one it felt a lot less fun and interesting than the first book did which is a problem for me. In this book I felt like Harper was a bit too controlling of what she thought David's life should be and I thought that she crossed a pretty big line of trust in their relationship so when her and David broke up I side with him rather than her which is something that took away from my enjoyment of the book. I also felt like Harper seemed to resent David being the oracle and the role she was assigned with being his protector because he made her life less normal and this just bothered me because when you really think about it David as a lot less people in his life than Harper does her not wanting to be around him because he's the oracle doesn't really endear me to her. I just felt like while both Harper and David's life were turned upside in the last book David ended up with less than Harper. Harper still has her parents and her aunts while David now lives alone because the only parental figure he had ever owned was murdered last book; Harper has a best friend and an ex-boyfriend who she seems to be friends with that now about the supernatural while David's friends are completely clueless. In general I didn't like how Harper and David's relationship was portrayed from Harper's side for most of the book and I also felt like there wasn't enough David in general.
Overall I thought the book was good but that the first one was much better although I really do hope that this isn't the last book in the series because I feel like there's a lot more story left to tell and I hope that story will remind me more of the first book in the series. Please tell me your thoughts on this book in the comment section.
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Book Review: Rebel Belle
Rebel Belle Review
Rebel Belle is about a southern belle named Harper Price who is very involved in all areas of it school whether it be as a leader of an academic club, class president or as head cheerleader Harper's the go to girl and one of the top students in her class. Harper believes that her life is practically perfect until the night of homecoming when after witnessing a janitor dying she receives mysterious powers that make her a paladin a sort of knight that is bound to protect a certain person or place and the story goes from there with Harper discover and accepting her new abilities and finding out what she is destined to protect.
It turns out that Harper is destined to protect her long time rival David Stark a snarky boy who runs the school newspaper and is her only real competition for the spot of top student. The two of them are forced to work together through out the book do to supernatural forces and over the course of the book their banter with each other becomes a lot less hostile but no less entraining for the reader. Harper and David face several near death experiences with each other which leads to them developing a certain respect for each other and trust in each other and along the way they become friends and then start to developing feelings for each other that are more than friendly.
The characters Harper and David and their relationship with each other is what really makes this book for me with how driven and witty the two of them are about their goals and the fact that they are so similar when it comes to the core of who they are but are so different in the way that they present themselves is something that makes their dynamic really fun to read. The mythology and plot of this book is different from any I read before but still really easy to follow which is something that I always consider a good thing. Overall I thought that this book was really fun and had two great lead characters. Please tell me your thoughts on this book.
It turns out that Harper is destined to protect her long time rival David Stark a snarky boy who runs the school newspaper and is her only real competition for the spot of top student. The two of them are forced to work together through out the book do to supernatural forces and over the course of the book their banter with each other becomes a lot less hostile but no less entraining for the reader. Harper and David face several near death experiences with each other which leads to them developing a certain respect for each other and trust in each other and along the way they become friends and then start to developing feelings for each other that are more than friendly.
The characters Harper and David and their relationship with each other is what really makes this book for me with how driven and witty the two of them are about their goals and the fact that they are so similar when it comes to the core of who they are but are so different in the way that they present themselves is something that makes their dynamic really fun to read. The mythology and plot of this book is different from any I read before but still really easy to follow which is something that I always consider a good thing. Overall I thought that this book was really fun and had two great lead characters. Please tell me your thoughts on this book.
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