Reading progress update: I've read 37 out of 304 pages.

This one really started out at full speed.

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Fairest - Review

Review:

Interesting back story for Levana with hints at the histories of other characters. Read this one, but only after you read Cinder, Scarlet & Cress.

This book tells the story of Levana from the time she was a naive, self-conscious young girl (with a huge crush on a married guard) to when she becomes Queen. I am completely hooked on The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder, Scarlet, & Cress) and waiting patiently anxiously for Winter to be released. I enjoyed reading this book and finding out some of the background on other characters as well as Levana. The book also includes the first couple chapters of Winter, which I didn't read because I am torturing myself and waiting until November.

Levana is never a likable character, even knowing the horror she suffered at the hands of her older sister, Channary. With a sister like that, and parents who didn't care, it is understandable that Levana became the person she is throughout the series. But, reading her thoughts and what she was willing to do made me realize she was always a self-centered girl who used her powers to control others and get what she wanted and never seemed to feel bad for any of her actions. In other words, she is irredeemable and awful. So, don't worry about feeling sorry for her and not being able to hate her as we readers have from the beginning.

This a short, easy to read story. It doesn't have the power or energy of the other books, but it isn't really supposed to. This is just a background of Levana, some insight into her character. It helps you appreciate the rest of the series even more.

Recommended to:
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles (of course). I highly recommended this series to fans of fairytale re-imaginings paired with a bit of fantasy and sci-fi.

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Sweet Dreams - Review

Review:

Color me unimpressed. This book didn't keep my interest much at all. I managed to finish it but let's just say that I didn't enjoy the journey.

The story follows two different men, one a business man and one a police officer. A bombing in a market & a massacre at a prison (that kills only prisoners) manage to bring the two together, in a way, eventually. Whatever. I have to admit that by the time the truth behind everything was revealed, I wasn't that concerned with the truth.

I will admit, there was one point when I honestly went WTF?? It was completely out of the blue and totally different from everything the book seemed to be. But, I was already bored.

Recommended to:
Hmmmm... I don't really recommend this, but if you like crime stories with mysteries, give it a try.

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60 Books to Read Before They're Movies

Reblogged from: Hunger For Knowledge

Read The List Here.

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Fever - Review

Review:

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.
-Chapter 4

Also: I'm thinking about the lake. What if u r right. What if it was in the lake. What if it is in us.
-Chapter 9

Good book, if you don't go into it thinking there might be something supernatural involved.

This book was recommended to me by a friend as "the kind of book you would like". And it is, but.... I looked at the cover and it looked like the story would be scary or at least have a supernatural component. Let's just say, it didn't.

So, on the basis of the story itself, the book is good. Set in a small town, one girl has a seizure with unknown causes and ends up in the hospital in a coma. As other girls begin getting sick, parents begin questioning things and guessing about what might be the cause of the girls' problems. Parents are understandably worried about the girls, and the girls are freaked out.

The story is told from the point of view of one of the teenage girls, her brother and her father. You get to see how each of them deals with the sickness that seems to be taking over the teenage girls in town. The brother wants to be a good man and he wants to protect his sister. The father, of course, wants to protect his children but he doesn't know what he is protecting them from. The girl is trying to figure out why her best friends are being affected and she isn't.

I didn't see the final reveal coming. But, I spent most of the book trying to figure out what evil force was responsible for the sickness. The cause ends up being twisted and surprising but not supernatural.

Recommended to:
People who like reading about teenage girl drama and issues. Just don't expect anything remotely magical.

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