tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43461660619477776272024-03-12T21:56:36.096-07:00Books are a GardenA book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb ~Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-70856757061502248232016-02-09T19:06:00.000-08:002016-02-09T19:08:12.322-08:00Derek Rocket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08020738502042292569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-51092542194770519682016-02-09T19:05:00.002-08:002016-02-09T19:05:43.176-08:00"I prefer ugliness to beauty, because it endures" - Serge Gainsbourg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ugliness lives, through Holocaust teachings and tomb stones. Sadness lasts eternal, while happiness only a few short steps. Yes, the ugly truth lives until death, but it doesn't <u>live</u> until death. No appreciation is present for the plain, grotesque, and simple. A world of gray, unlike the bright lights of beauty. Beauty is a star. Bright flash and nothing. Existence for the ugly is dull, but grows with non-existence into reality. Anne Frank was a mute until guilt came to be. In debt to beauty. A warm house, a present bulge, does that make awareness perceptive to ugly, or just a murky view through finger smudged lens?</div>
Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-45222052421119170622011-06-30T22:55:00.000-07:002011-06-30T22:58:10.020-07:00The Quicksilver Faire by Gillian Summer Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Genre: Fantasy <br />
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Pages: 329</div>
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Gender: Girls</div>
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Publication Year: 2011</div>
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Story Plot: 3/5<br />
Description: 4/5<br />
Characters: 5/5<br />
Writing: 5/5<br />
Other: 4/5<br />
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Total: 21/25<br />
Percent: 84%<br />
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Sorry, I haven't posted a review in a very long time. I probably still won't post that often, but here is a review anways. I read this book a few weeks ago so, yeah. And sorry for spelling errors ahead of time.</div>
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The Quicksilver Faire is about Keelie Heartwood who is the main character the Faire Folk Saga. She is a half elf and half human/fairy being. Well, she is going to Canada to go stay with the Northwood elves and go to the Fairy High Court to exterminate a fued. (The fued is about a leak in magic, but really it is just because elves and fairies really hate each other.) When Keelie "messes" up in helping the high court fairy queen, Keelie feels the fate of the world like a heavy weight on her shoulders. Bum Bum Baaaaa.</div>
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Well as you see from my terribly vague plot discription. This book has a very common plot. A average teen or maybe not, has gone on many adventures and has learned a lot and now this very teen must save the world. But don't get me wrong I liked the plot, but it was just very common. But that was not my main problem about the plot, it is was it would of gotten a four. My main problem was that the book series has gotten way bigger. I don't mean in length I mean how many people it affects. Part of the reason I like the first trilogy in this saga was because it affected a small group of people and it made it seem way more likely, even if this book series is a fantasy series. But in this new trilogy, expecially in this book, the events that take place affect a lot more people. I know, that that is supposed to hype you up and make you excited. But it just makes me kind of bored and I don't feel as big as a warm familiar feeling when I read the book. That little writtne rant didn't make any sense, but anyway other than those to problems that plot was as good as any plot can be as a chick lit fantasy novel.<br />
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I don't really have that much to say about the description in this book. It didn't have any fancy detailed language in it. But that is really not what people are looking for when they read a easy read teen chick lit book. Anyway it is from the point of view of a teenager (well, kind of it is in third person but still). Do you expect any fancy descriptions from a highschool mall brat (if you put it in Keelie's words)?<br />
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I thought the characters were well developed. They had four books before them to develop the characters. So you already have Keelie pretty developed. But during this book series they always kept the beach boy elf boyfriend Sean, as just an empty shell made to please or tick off Keelie. But in this book they added a little more to his character and made you wonder about him (though he still seems kind of empty headed). They could of developed the fairy queen more and make her seem more like a good loving queen and sister so there is a more surprised reaction in the end. But thats ok. The authors also spiced up the character as Peascod, which was fun and made him much more interesting to read about. One thing that bothered me is that I'm not really sure if the authors want the trolls to be more like animals or humanoids. Because in the the Shadows of the Redwoods this elf is half well elf and half troll. He was a humanoid. But in The Quicksilver Faire the trolls seemed more like animals that just chewed on stuff. The only really humanoid thing they did was dance around a flag pool. If they aren't human like and more animal like, then that is kind of gross. Because the elf/troll person's mother must of been slightly disturbed.<br />
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The only other thing I have to complain about is that I think they should have kept this series at a trilogy, like it was originaly planned to be. Though I am enjoying this series dispite all of my complaining. I just this new series is somewhat pointless. It is also darker which takes away some of the fun from me, for this was pretty much my only light and happy series I read. The cover is also not very attractive, if I haven't been reading this book series for the last four years I certaintly wouldn't have picked this book up. I have not other problems.<br />
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Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-17403094348381559562010-09-18T15:42:00.000-07:002010-09-18T15:42:35.738-07:00Carrie by Stephen King Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDv8idkxbsA_CcuWYEwutEIXdEbgdMn2whf4FJrnkCBEYszDd55qPDJ1TwK6huEneDMyAVCAZXiNPJozQNGsvLChVK5rOS2mtn_pK3YIwSv30oxA9Jdb43RLEeYGUWxfgsB9Z3WmkN9r4/s1600/41JZB-ZyUwL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDv8idkxbsA_CcuWYEwutEIXdEbgdMn2whf4FJrnkCBEYszDd55qPDJ1TwK6huEneDMyAVCAZXiNPJozQNGsvLChVK5rOS2mtn_pK3YIwSv30oxA9Jdb43RLEeYGUWxfgsB9Z3WmkN9r4/s400/41JZB-ZyUwL.jpg" width="271" /></a>Genre: Drama and Horror</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: Adult</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 245</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Female (Maybe male)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Publication Year: 1974</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Story Plot: 5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 4/5</div>Characters: 5/5<br />
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The plot as from fantasticfiction.co.uk: <em>A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time. </em><br />
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<em>Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie.</em><br />
I think the plot is very interesting. It seemed original and scary. Though as I read it I realised that it was not that frightening, since the first half of the book is very much like a drama, it only turns into real horror for the around the last fifty page. That doesn't ruin the book, it is still very interesting.<br />
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The description in this book is good. Nothing spactacular. I did like what words the author used in describing Carrie compared to the other girls: "Carrie stood among them stodily, a frog among swans." I just like that comparison at the end. I also loved how Stephen King described her right before she started going crazy when she got her period: "Carrie stood dumbly in the center of a forming circle, water rolling from her skin in beads. She stood like a patient ox, aware that the joke was on her (as always), dumbly embrassed but unsurprised." I don't know why I like it I just do. So the description was good, but not amazing.<br />
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I loved the characters. They were the opposite of flat. I felt so sorry for Carrie. All she wants to be is normal, but her mom makes that impossible. Then when she does get the chance to be normal, it is all ruined. So I don't blame her for going on a rampage. Sue was a good character too, since she was a very realistic character. She had her faults and her strengths. She was very mature since she would be willing to not go to prom just to make up what she did. Most people wouldn't do that. I also think a lot of the other kids in the book are just atrocious. Carrie's momma is just downright creepy. Anyone that would be that into religion that she would think that is a sin to do anything and that she herself can not get pregnant should live in a mental institute. So I think Stephen King did a good job making her creepy.<br />
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The writing was good and different. I loved how he wrote Carries side thoughts out in. It made the book extra creepy. This book didn't really have any parts where the writing just lost you. The book is also nice and fast.<br />
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This book held my interest and it was fun. I really had no problems at all with this book, except for the cover since it is really boring and doesn't catch your attention, also it doesn't have the book title or author's name on it.<br />
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So in all this was a wonderful books with a main character you feel really sorry for.Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-61800380595674480132010-09-12T17:02:00.000-07:002010-09-12T17:02:06.822-07:00Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman? by Eleanor Updale Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgMazvwnf_HqC_48jqU-bIWTPAPLMxdqlCcqbTEYoRg2Ueig01Z_8i4tMpGEseuoylJjfm_jU6ErIaKSG0qPyFcrUlP_SutxgyLFipKkbOR7EQ-2BkNfAHZC8QEj_sAt1OwNUkkdYCz8/s1600/montmorency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgMazvwnf_HqC_48jqU-bIWTPAPLMxdqlCcqbTEYoRg2Ueig01Z_8i4tMpGEseuoylJjfm_jU6ErIaKSG0qPyFcrUlP_SutxgyLFipKkbOR7EQ-2BkNfAHZC8QEj_sAt1OwNUkkdYCz8/s400/montmorency.jpg" width="248" /></a>Genre: Historical Fiction and Thriller</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: Young Adult</div>Pages: 233<br />
Gender: Male <br />
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Plot: 10/10<br />
Description: 8/10<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The plot was absolutely wonderful. Here is the plot that was takenback of the book: London, 1875. When a petty thief falls through ad glass roof while fleeing from the police, it chould have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. The thief is sewn back together by a brilliant young surgeon, and before long he's become the chief exhibit at medical gatherings across the city. It's at one of these learned discussions that he first hears about an amazing addition to the London streets- the sewer- and an idea begins to form. The sewers are the perfect escape route for a series of daring robberies, and the thief is the only one with the ingenuity to pull them off. He takes on two identities- the wealthy, sophisticated gentleman Montmorency and his filthy, corrupt servant, Scarper. But Montmorency must constantly be on guard. His whole life is bulit on lies, and the slightest mistake could betray him. Sorry that I didn't write the plot myself, it is just that I decided that this is much easier. Well, anyway I think that the plot was very original, even though the location and time is not.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The description in Montmorency is nothing to call home about. But there wasn't anything bad about it. So I gave it a 8/10. I did like the authors description of his scars though and for sure the descriptions she used to describe his character.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The characters were great, absolutely great. The characters were very flawed. Montmorency was very interesting because he is a bad person really, since he steals, but when he is not stealing things he seems like a very kind person. So it really is like their is two characters in the same character. So I think that characters diserve a 10/10.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The pacing of the book was very fast, so I had no trouble getting in to it. Since it was quick it was a very easy read. You could probably finish it in about two hours.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I was really interested in this book, since I love books about criminals and based in Victorian England. So this book just called to me when I saw it at the used bookstore. I would recommend it just for it's creative plot.</div><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The cover is very nice it looks mysterious and interesting. I would also just pick this book up just for the cover.</div><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Sorry, this review has taken me a long while to put up and I have not written much, I just need to get back into the habbit of writing. So hopefully I will have some more reviews up tonight. Also if you have any ideas for a new grading system please comment, since this one is giving me some trouble. :( </div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-83098110183510531102010-08-19T11:56:00.000-07:002010-08-19T11:56:26.700-07:00The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDwBFO8MM1znGPUy5OmuVYYplnSWgSn-Vv4-9z1rIIUC9rIfX3cWmUUq7d2RvcjJLbu_uQ08BOV3FDOrCOjq72McM787Q4v7OJzTAysA8aj31_-c9ZusghllWn66nszY0XOOiSX1BAvw/s1600/n5281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDwBFO8MM1znGPUy5OmuVYYplnSWgSn-Vv4-9z1rIIUC9rIfX3cWmUUq7d2RvcjJLbu_uQ08BOV3FDOrCOjq72McM787Q4v7OJzTAysA8aj31_-c9ZusghllWn66nszY0XOOiSX1BAvw/s320/n5281.jpg" width="189" /></a>Genre: Drama, Horror, and Romance</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: Adult</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 435</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Male and Female</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Puplication Year: 1992</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Total: 62/75</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Percentage: 83%</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Grade: B</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> This book took me a long time to finish, as most of the other books I read by Anne Rice. It was an ok book, not the best but still worth reading. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The plot was interesting, but at points ridiculous. The anti hero of the series, Lestat got an offer to switch bodies with this man who had the power to switch bodies for a short period of time. The man gave Lestat many warnings that he was a not very trustworthy man, but Lestat wanted to be human, so against all his friends advice he switched bodies. So in this book you get to read about how Lestat tries to be human, and many other slightly interesting things.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The characters in all of Anne Rice's books are very well developed. You really get to feel as if you know them. The characters really should get ten, but I have one problem with Lestat. He is just extremely annoying, he always does really stupid things. Then he mopes around feeling sorry for himself and that just makes me extremely irritated so I only gave characters a 9.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Their is one, singular reason why these books take me so long to finish. The pacing of them. They are always really slow and it is not really a even slow either. In some parts it goes just slow and in some parts it goes really slow. But maybe it is just me who thinks that.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Anne Rice has a wonderful writing style. I don't know how to explain it, but it is just epic. To if you are looking for a book with excellent writing in it, this is definetly a series for you.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Since I read some books in this series already, my interest level was pretty high. I recommend this book to people who like vampires but not really in the horror area but more in the drama area.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> There is not really anything else that bothers me with this book except for the nun character in this book. She is supposed to be a nun, but she doesn't believe in God, so why is she a nun? That's my question.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The cover for the edition of this book I read was just hideous, nothing really else I can say about it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> This book was an ok edition to the vampire chronicles. But it definitly is not as good as the first book.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Plot: 8/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Characters: 6/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pacing: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Writing: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Interest: 8/10</div>Other: 10/10<br />
Cover: 2/5<br />
Memorable: +0<br />
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Total: 63/75<br />
Percent: 84%<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Grade: B</span><br />
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I thought this book was going to be great, it didn't turn out that way. I am not saying it was bad, but there was a few things that bothered me. Mostly the characters, but other then a few things, it was a decent read.<br />
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A Countess Below Stairs was about a Russian countess names Anna. After the Russian Revolution leaves her family in ruines, Anna, her mother, and her brother move into her governess's house in England. After a little while Anna decides to get a job to earn her family money. So she goes to work at Mersham. After a short bit of time she becomes widely accepted among the other servants. The reason why she was hired was because the new master of the house was coming home from WW1 with his fiance who happens to have a pretty nasty attitude. This book is pretty much about her life in this house and at the very end her love life with the Rupert. When I picked it up it sounded like a pretty good plot. So I gave it a 8/10.<br />
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The description in this book was just spectaculor. The best part of the book in fact. One of my favorite descriptions used in this book is this: "Mersham was honey-colored, graceful, light. There was a central block, pillared and porticoed like a golden temple plucked from some halcyon landscape and set down in the hollow of the Wiltshire hills." Isn't that just great? Since this book was such beautiful description in it I gave it a 10/10.<br />
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The characters were my real problem with this book. The main character Anna, is in my opinion, one of the most boring characters in literature. She is just way to perfect. Characters are supposed to have flaws. She has absolutely none, except maybe not being drop dead gorgeous. She was just so unreal. You couldn't relate to her at all. Other then her all the other characters weren't that bad. So I gave characters a 6.<br />
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The pacing was good. But at times, mostly when they were focusing on the side characters it got a little slow.<br />
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The author's writing skills were really good. Everything about it was good. All the author needs to do is work on her characters a little bit.<br />
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My interest level in this story was pretty high, since I love reading books based around the time of WW1. <br />
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I had no other problems with this book.<br />
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I think the cover is just horrible. There is nothing on it that would make me want to pick up this book. It looks like they only spent a few minutes making it.<br />
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The book was not really memoreable at all.<br />
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This book was a pretty good read if you like romances and historical fiction. But if you like a good interesting main character. I would not suggest this book to you.Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-20529409339314276612010-07-12T17:53:00.000-07:002010-07-12T18:02:18.670-07:00We Hear the Dead by Dianne K. Salerni Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyi61o4N3ojg29_595zJHaH7SkU8XvCbEkbX6GkgFtNEp0p-RcdrMsNmc02GVDfeidovAUcqCgWQTVmXjnquyVbGJd71cV703HrTA_G5bhz53SDMbNEGX8dQPOpRzsHcK-pOFy9wYimBE/s1600/We%2520Hear%2520the%2520Dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyi61o4N3ojg29_595zJHaH7SkU8XvCbEkbX6GkgFtNEp0p-RcdrMsNmc02GVDfeidovAUcqCgWQTVmXjnquyVbGJd71cV703HrTA_G5bhz53SDMbNEGX8dQPOpRzsHcK-pOFy9wYimBE/s320/We%2520Hear%2520the%2520Dead.jpg" width="212" /></a>Genre: Historical Fiction and Romance</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: Young Adult</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 422</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Female</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Publication Year: 2007/2010</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Plot: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 8/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Characters: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pacing: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Writing: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Interest: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Other: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cover: 4/5</div>Memorable: +2<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Total: 71/75</div>Percent: 95%<br />
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Sorry for the temporary break. But I'm back with a review about a book I read while I was in England. I must say, I'm impressed with it. It totally drew me in.<br />
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The plot was very interesting. The story is about the Fox sisters, who are said to have created Spiritualism. The story started with Maggie and Kate Fox playing a prank on their family to get their neice (who was way older then them) to leave. Their prank starts becoming very serious and before long the sisters become entwined in it. Eventually, they end up practically making a new religious. The story mostly followed Maggie. For the first half of the book it described how they became stuck in a hoax. In the last half it describes Maggie's love for Dr. Elisha Kane and how she thinks of quiting her Spiritualism business. It is really quite a great plot. (Though I think my description is a little lacking.)<br />
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I don't remember anything quite exceptional about the description, but it was not bad. I remember thinking that they should of described the characters appearences. So I gave it a 8.<br />
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The character were really well done. In other books with real people as main characters, I find that the characters are as flat a cardboard. But not with this. The characters had depth. I loved reading the story from Maggie's eyes. I also liked the few chapters where Kate talked. They were just so insightful. Even though I loved Maggie's character, I think if they made the book from Kate's point of view it might of even been more interesting. The character Dr. Kane was also very good, but sometimes he was quite annoying, his family just seemed to be controling him way to much.<br />
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The pacing was great. The story just flowed perfectly, absolutely sucked you in. Nothing else you can say about it.<br />
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The writing was good as well. I don't remember much about it, but I don't remember having any complains about it.<br />
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My interest level was very high. 1800s, spiritualism, those two just go so well together. Since I have already heard of the Fox sisters it was even more interesting. I recommend this for people who like Historical Fiction and romance, but also like their stories to have a dark twist.<br />
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There was nothing else that really bothered me about this book. So I gave the other section a 10.<br />
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The cover is really nice, but I really don't think it fits the book. I think it fits more with a book about a circus, not one about spiritualism. It was also not really accurate, since the real Maggie Fox doesn't really have red hair. The first edition of the cover first this book it really good though.<br />
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The book is semi-memorable. I will remember it since it was a great interpretation of a true story.<br />
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In all this book was an outstanding piece of Young Adult literature and a definite read for people who like young adult books with Spiritualism in it.<br />
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</div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-35786284733092578212010-07-02T09:42:00.000-07:002010-07-02T09:44:26.128-07:00Under the Jolly Roger by L.A. Meyer Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPYOLpNcIJlcW-T_Bn3PdE8zGrx7nlKGggQPiXGllRXwiI-zv_ggmS_9F_VF3mBGgZ9bco753VyBKj5Bfoh9vHbRvznS3r8EM-VdR9QHGLbm9ToA4F3XkAe9pPTiJ2Y3V37Vgg2GIew4/s1600/UJRcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPYOLpNcIJlcW-T_Bn3PdE8zGrx7nlKGggQPiXGllRXwiI-zv_ggmS_9F_VF3mBGgZ9bco753VyBKj5Bfoh9vHbRvznS3r8EM-VdR9QHGLbm9ToA4F3XkAe9pPTiJ2Y3V37Vgg2GIew4/s320/UJRcover.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure, Romance</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age 12+</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 518</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Female and Male</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Publication Year: 2005</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Plot: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 8/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Characters: 9/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pacing: 8/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Writing: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Interest: 10/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Other: 6/10</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cover: 5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Memorable: +4</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Total: 69/75</div>Percent: 92%<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The third edition in the Bloody Jack series thrilled me. It was a perfect mix and history, romance, and adventure. I first started reading the Bloody Jack series about 2 years ago. I absolutely loved the first two, but after I read them I never seemed to have the time to read a series book, but finally I did. I enjoyed it immensely. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The plot was wonderful. After Jacky leaves Boston she goes to London in search for her love of her life, Jaimy. But when she gets there she sees holding the hands of a beautiful maiden. Jacky immediatly thinks that he is not smitten for her anymore. So she runs off, but right after she runs off she get pressed into the navy. You think the captain would let her go immediatly after he found out she was a girl. But no, he decides to keep her on for vulgar intentions. Soon Jacky figures out that the ship is a mess and she decides she is going to fix that. In this book she has many adventures and the story is utterly satisfying. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The description in the book is good. I really have few complaints, but I sometimes had a hard time figuring out what was happening on the ship because I don't really know what all those ship words mean, but that is completely my fault. Other then that I love Jacky's descriptions of things.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I adore the characters in the Bloody Jack series. They are all so unique and interesting. I think the character Jaimy is just charming. But sense he was not in this book for the most, I had to choose another character to adore. So I chose Georgie, he just acted so cute. But the end was just so sad! There is one single reason why I gave characters a 9/10, it is because Jacky, don't get me wrong I love her character, but she just did so many reckless things, yes, her doing reckless things is what makes the story interesting, but it just makes me so worried!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The pacing was pretty good. There were times when it went a little slower then needed, but in all it was pretty good.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I love the writing in this book series. Exspecially the first book. I love all the written accents. I jsut love everything about the writing.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> My interest level for this book was very high. Everything in it was interesting. The historical facts, the romance, the whole plot was interesting!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> There was only one other thing that does not fit in the other sections that bothers me. Near the end of the book Jacky says the world crap, this bothers me because this takes place during the early 19th century. And the word crap didn't enter the dictionary until 1846. I know it is not anything horrible, but it still bothered me. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The cover for this book is just beautiful. I have always been fond of Cliff Nielsen's work.<br />
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I think this book is very memorable. So I gave it a +4.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> This book was just so good. I would recommend it to anyone who liked the Napolean War and to anyone who likes adventure stories.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-14953174193003078012010-07-02T07:56:00.000-07:002010-07-02T07:56:50.245-07:00Blogger Hop!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It is time for another Blogger Hop hosted by the wonderful blog <a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com/">Crazy for Books</a>. If you haven't heard of it go and check it out now. Hope you have a nice Friday! Oh yes, I am also going to try to write my two book reviews right after I am done typing this.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV0mt83b3_gWn8J9MQCEoOMheyVz86mFiCb3rE7mSlDbL1cIITTa5vIUDUw4A9gKI2Sccnvs68sez-Oz8ZyeiNyCn4yBhINwO_qegOpjnDsQzaUOBX4dsSRUdY2vX2gsfhCgzR8ceGAA/s1600/cfb+meme+button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV0mt83b3_gWn8J9MQCEoOMheyVz86mFiCb3rE7mSlDbL1cIITTa5vIUDUw4A9gKI2Sccnvs68sez-Oz8ZyeiNyCn4yBhINwO_qegOpjnDsQzaUOBX4dsSRUdY2vX2gsfhCgzR8ceGAA/s1600/cfb+meme+button.png" /></a></div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-63657260670266431172010-07-01T12:36:00.000-07:002010-07-01T12:36:25.300-07:00NewsSorry I haven't posted a review in a while. The reason why is because that I was in England for for 6 days. Since my last post I finished two books. So I should have those reviews up soon. I also made a new grading system I am going to test out and hopefully like. I was trying to make it add up to a hundred, but I could only think of enough to add up to 75 if you have any ideas just post it is the comments. I would highly appreciate it. I also plan to make a color scheme for my blog that is much lighter colored and I also want to make little pictures to put with the letter of each grade. But that might take a long time.Thank you for reading.<br />
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New Grading System:<br />
Plot: 10<br />
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Description: 10<br />
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Characters: 10<br />
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Pacing: 10<br />
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Writing: 10<br />
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Interest: 10<br />
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Other: 10<br />
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Cover: 5<br />
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Memorable: +_<br />
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Percent: _% <br />
Grade: _Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-42651203515042505102010-06-18T09:33:00.000-07:002010-06-18T09:33:46.867-07:00Blogger HopA new Blogger Hop! Yay! Blogger Hop is a meme hosted by <a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com/">Crazy for Books</a>, a wonderful blog. Anyway thanks for visiting! <div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNbJW13RDt9eWUbsR1PVlH2nfNQIb7Ob7PDRacsYX28D_LGwOZI4dUZQmbVfTbspk6z8Ts3CODf_CfZFE9ajFhjGaUEb98vT_d5QVooFw1L5ItnSVVn5XMQbuMGUuFtI0O_ZuQRxh6TVI/s1600/cfb_meme_button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNbJW13RDt9eWUbsR1PVlH2nfNQIb7Ob7PDRacsYX28D_LGwOZI4dUZQmbVfTbspk6z8Ts3CODf_CfZFE9ajFhjGaUEb98vT_d5QVooFw1L5ItnSVVn5XMQbuMGUuFtI0O_ZuQRxh6TVI/s1600/cfb_meme_button.png" /></a></div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-39269627517876795902010-06-17T12:14:00.000-07:002010-06-17T12:14:23.186-07:00Pandora by Anne Rice Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_Hcx1ZBpb_Q4npDQ7A1F92l8kYCkMPHZT_d31CHusPebfIyx9QZokN2k1JqTuG56PqUp5viddXB0os672sUz8-I1Jh-bIoMQ5mEiSHU-75iesXy55FO037HYlaKwJHrWoBkyFTOLTdQ/s1600/pandora.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_Hcx1ZBpb_Q4npDQ7A1F92l8kYCkMPHZT_d31CHusPebfIyx9QZokN2k1JqTuG56PqUp5viddXB0os672sUz8-I1Jh-bIoMQ5mEiSHU-75iesXy55FO037HYlaKwJHrWoBkyFTOLTdQ/s320/pandora.jpg" width="192" /></a>Genre: Horror and Historical Fiction</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: 13+</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 344</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Male and Female</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Publication Year: 1998</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Plot: 5/5</div>Description: 4.5/5<br />
Characters: 5/5<br />
Developed: 4/5<br />
Fast Paced: 5/5<br />
Cover: 2/3<br />
Memorable: +1<br />
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Total: 26.5/28<br />
Percent: 95%<br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Grade: A</span><br />
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This book was awesome. I don't know why it got so many bad reviews on Amazon, it was just awesome. My second favorite Anne Rice book (I have read four). But before you read this at least read up to Memnoch the Devil, becuase I made the mistake of only reading up to Queen of the Damned and at the beginning this book gave away things that happened in The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil. So just make sure you don't make the same mistake as me, for even though this is not really part of the vampire chronicles it discusses some things in it. But this book was still very enjoyable.<br />
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The plot was fantastic. It was about Pandora, the vampire born in Augustan Rome. It tells mostly of her life before she turns into a vampire. It gives you a lot of facts about Rome as you are reading it so you can also learn something. It tells of her love for Marius and of how she had dreams that might suggest she was once a vampire before in a past life. It tells of how Marius watched over the Akasha and Enkil. So if you have read some of the other books you will know what I'm talking about. It is truly great to read of Pandora before she was a vampire.<br />
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The description was just great! But the author could of described a little less at some parts.<br />
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The characters were brilliant. Pandora was full of depth. They were all very interesting and fun to read about. I was exspecially fond of Flavius, for the short time he was in the story. Anyway the characters were throughly enjoyable.<br />
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The story was well developed until after Pandora was made a vampire, after that the story got a little choppy and thin. But it didn't ruin the story, even though the end was choppy it was still enjoyable. But I think the author could of added more stuff at the end to make it better.<br />
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The book was very, very fast paced. As I said earlier, this is the fourth Anne Rice book I have read. It took me a week to read Interview with the Vampire. I took me around a month each to read The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned (in my defense I was reading other books at the same time). I read Pandora in a day. So obviously it was much faster then the other books. Actually, this was the fastest I have ever read an adult book. So it was super fast.<br />
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The cover is okay. It is pretty, but so much more could of been sone with it. Exspecially since it was such a great book. <br />
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I gave it a +1 for being memorable since it is a Anne Rice book and all Anne Rice books are memorable.<br />
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This book was a great book in all (face that you one and two star amazon reviewers). I suggest this book to anyone who likes the non-Twilight vampires and Rome.Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-28542810891577627732010-06-17T11:18:00.000-07:002010-06-17T11:37:15.341-07:00Grace Hammer by Sara Stockbridge Book Review<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirUEeGYzfxI0aE0KoyhiWhxpvXh8mktpvN_Y6qkgRqtFfxYHbkVEwrtmsZ_dCdTX5Us-pbPn1SJKwQmAxba4eb_2bbqAG3vkcsg44wfzcsJUIAdl2bLXu09g2EOE9h4QlD6ilFGPag570/s1600/3879501686_ce72afea48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirUEeGYzfxI0aE0KoyhiWhxpvXh8mktpvN_Y6qkgRqtFfxYHbkVEwrtmsZ_dCdTX5Us-pbPn1SJKwQmAxba4eb_2bbqAG3vkcsg44wfzcsJUIAdl2bLXu09g2EOE9h4QlD6ilFGPag570/s320/3879501686_ce72afea48.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Genre: Historical Fiction</div>Age: 13+<br />
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</div>Plot: 4/5<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 4/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Characters: 3.5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Developed: 3/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Fast Paced: 5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cover: 3/3</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Memorable: +1</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Total: 23.5/28</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Percent: 84%</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Grade: B</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I originall found this book at my local library. I intended to check it out but I decided not to since it was only a one week rental. So I bought on Amazon for a few dollars a couple months ago. I finally decided to read it. It was ok, but it had some major flaws, well at least in my eyes it did.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The plot was good, but the problem is that the author went off and just had to talk about things that had nothing to really do with the plot. The story was about a women named Grace Hammer. She lives in Whitechapel in the year 1888 (I know such a wonderful year to live in Whitechapel) with her children. Grace is a thief, in fact it is the only way she really gets money. Apparently she is really good at being a thief because she lives a well life for living in East London. But her past is coming back to hunt her, because she stole a precious gem from this guy she used to work for, Mr.Blunt. You see, Mr.Blunt is a easily angered man, so he now wants his gem back, but he does not want to stop after getting the gem. There is really not much else to the plot. There are a lot of little side plots though. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Since I finished this book awhile ago, I barely remember anything about the description used in it. All I remember was that I wasn't astounded by it, but I wasn't disappointed by it. I remember that the author never described the setting well. So I gave it a 4.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I believed the characters were never fully developed. There was nothing really anything unique about the characters except that they had all their teeth. Jack is a player and Grace is a thief. Her children are smart and good looking. Mr.Blunt is angry, he kills people. They are as flat as a piece of printer paper. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The story was poorly developed. Mostly because they kept going to different people's point of views. The author never made you care about the characters, or what happened to him. The story just seemed to go in a pointless direction. The characters did things for no apparent reason. The author told us things that the story didn't need. It was just so pointles, nothing really had any depth.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The story was generally fast paced. If you aren't put down by the changing point of views. Then since it is short and has big print you should be able to just zip through this book.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The cover is really good. Except for one thing. There are these orange splatters on the cover. First I thought someone spilled something on my copy, but once I looked up the picture on the internet apparently all the covers have the splatters on it. I don't know if it is blood or supposed to be lights or something, but the cover can for sure do with out it. Otherwise the cover gives the book a mysterious look to it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> This book was a little bit memorable. I remember it because another one of my favorite characters in the book was executed (In almost all the historical fiction I read, if there is a execution in it, it has to be my favorite character.)<br />
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This book was not the most impressive book in the world, but it is not the worst either. I recommend this to you if you like historical fiction.</div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-4044902440276801792010-06-11T06:58:00.000-07:002010-06-11T06:58:35.802-07:00Blogger Hop!The Book Blogger Hop is a wonderful meme by <a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com/">Crazy for Books</a>. It is where new people can find your blog and you can find other peoples' blogs. To any readers who have been here before, sorry I haven't posted musch this week, because I read a book full of short stories and I have no idea how to grade it. Anywa, have a good week.<br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV0mt83b3_gWn8J9MQCEoOMheyVz86mFiCb3rE7mSlDbL1cIITTa5vIUDUw4A9gKI2Sccnvs68sez-Oz8ZyeiNyCn4yBhINwO_qegOpjnDsQzaUOBX4dsSRUdY2vX2gsfhCgzR8ceGAA/s1600/cfb+meme+button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV0mt83b3_gWn8J9MQCEoOMheyVz86mFiCb3rE7mSlDbL1cIITTa5vIUDUw4A9gKI2Sccnvs68sez-Oz8ZyeiNyCn4yBhINwO_qegOpjnDsQzaUOBX4dsSRUdY2vX2gsfhCgzR8ceGAA/s1600/cfb+meme+button.png" /></a></div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-14986476561269025532010-06-06T20:09:00.000-07:002010-06-06T20:54:51.480-07:00Black Rabbit Summer By: Kevin Brooks Book Review<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-NVZmCoWBpHVJhbHGq_dNCK96aXRCuMkaayVHAVe_tE4L_WekAlVbCY82iIdybW-a1G-WWp5JqZyBEUvrt1NRTAr4MXbEssSh0z18ptwyKICx9C7io1U0WOJ0HyKdQMSJxZ8tKaLhu0z/s1600/black%20rabbit%20summer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479874923082033730" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-NVZmCoWBpHVJhbHGq_dNCK96aXRCuMkaayVHAVe_tE4L_WekAlVbCY82iIdybW-a1G-WWp5JqZyBEUvrt1NRTAr4MXbEssSh0z18ptwyKICx9C7io1U0WOJ0HyKdQMSJxZ8tKaLhu0z/s320/black%2520rabbit%2520summer.jpg" border="0" /></a> Genre: Realistic Fiction<br /><div>Age: 12+</div><div>Pages: 488</div><div>Gender: Both</div><div>Publication Year: 2008</div><div>Plot: 5/5</div><div>Description: 5/5</div><div>Characters: 5/5</div><div>Developed: 5/5</div><div>Fast Paced: 3/5</div><div>Cover: 2/3</div><div>Score: 25/28</div><div>Percent: 89%</div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Grade: B+</span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;">Black Rabbit Summer.....Pretty darn good book. First, the plot! The main character Pete is just leting his summer go by, sitting around the house basically doing nothing. Then he gets a call from one of his old time pals, Nicole. She wants him to join a get together with the others(which he doesn't really want to go and afraid his new, good friend Raymond) at their old hideout. He decides to go bringing Raymond. Not a good start when they bump into a really bad "tough" bully, Campell. But things get a little better with meeting Pauly, weird, high teenager, Eric sister of Nicole, and Nicole herself, the peppy, cool acting girl(I'll explain Raymond later). They talk a little, remembering past times, then after they all leave and after the weird run in with Nicole, Raymond and Pete head into the carnival. They do what everyone does at a fair. Ride rides, consetion stands and what not(visiting more people). Raymond wants to visit the Madame Baptiste Fortune-Teller. Pete gives in. Madame Baptiste let's them in and gives Raymond his fortune. But what she sees troubles her. One of the cards she drew were an Ace Of Spades. Raymond says it's a death card and asks is someone going to die? She dodges the question and says sometimes bad things happen. Tonight? She don't answer. Just sends them on their way. Later after that....Pete finds out that Raymond disappeared. Through out the book he tries to find out what happened to his friend while also discovering deep secrets within his old friends. The stuff that happens is really interesting and fun to read about. Now, the description is very precise in my opinoin. Like a movie, in a way. The characters are explained perfectly. You'd know their personality well and still wonder, and see if youcan find out what they're hiding. You really get into them. I said some of the characters already except for Raymond and Pete. Pete is the kind of person that you would think is quiet and sort of keeps to himself, but is very kind and do whatever it takes to succeed his goals. Raymond is super quiet and some think he is very weird. He thinks his rabbit talks to him. I think that kind of funny, not weird, just funny. Like hehe, funny. But that is all you get out of him I think. Because the author leaves him mysterious in a way which he did really good at. That leads to developed. Really good it is. Always tries to leave you guessing and lets you into Pete's feelings all the time. Fast paced, I don't think it is. As I said the feelings and thinking of Pete kind of stalls in the events that are happening. Cover is kind of good, but they could have done better. I suggest this book to reader's who like long books and enjoy a sort of twisting and turning of events. Very good and I almost couldn't put it down(especially at the end). ;) Now scram and get that book!!!!!! </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08020738502042292569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-68436595031755509382010-06-06T15:50:00.000-07:002010-06-06T15:50:57.615-07:00In My Mailbox (2)In My Mailbox is a meme created by <a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/">The Story Siren</a> (a really cool blog). In my mailbox is used to display what books you got this week. <br />
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Last week I didn't post anything because, of course because I didn't get anything. This week I got a book that I preordered in the mail and the library's reading program started so I get some cool free books.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>Sovay by Celia Rees</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">It's England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn't sitting for portraits, she's donning a man's cloak and robbing travelers—in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound, and rumors of sedition can quickly lead to disappearances. So when Sovay lifts the wallet of one of England's most powerful and dangerous men, it's not just her own identity she must hide, but that of her father. A dazzling historical saga in which the roles of thieves and gentry, good and bad, and men and women are interchanged to riveting effect. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em>(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Set in 1790's Covent Garden this book whisks you back to a bygone era. The narrator's colourful slang and confident I-will-tell-you-how-it-really-is, makes the story sparkle off the page. It is the tale of Cat Royal, an orphan who lives at the back of the real-life theatre in Drury Lane. It contains a wonderful colourful cast of characters - awkward actors, on stage, and off, barrow boys in the grimy marketplace, street gangs fighting for territory...and it's packed with local colour and authentic detail. And of course there is the diamond mystery. What more could you want?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em>(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>Shadows of the Redwood (Book 1, The Scions of Shadow Trilogy or the Faire Folk Trilogy Two) by Gillian Summers</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">The acclaimed Faire Folk Saga continues with a new trilogy starring half-elf Keelie Heartwood </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Summer is here, and all sixteen-year-old halfelf Keelie wants to do is visit her friend Laurie in L.A. Instead she, her cat Knot, and her cranky, medieval, elf-lady grandmother are on their way to help the Redwood Forest, whose tree shepherd is missing. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">With the help of the handsome Sean, and Scott, her father's former apprentice, along with a mysterious coyote, Keelie sets out to find the lost tree shepherd. But can she discover the deadly secret of the Bloodroot tree in time to vanquish the darkness and save the Redwood Forest?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</em></div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-58359132409468320692010-06-04T18:56:00.000-07:002010-06-04T18:56:47.072-07:00Untamed (House of Night) by P.C. Cast + Kristen Cast Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4zZUEnglBEwUT4CJs-cMmfeCS-M_c_CFEHtg2o_y4e3JQdwdVomrbwQzldmuYdmr5nyt2VP6EZuYE2wgRnl5ISArzpkAqf0s41mIEe6Qa5pzXRADSbdFrsHzuGUcMKtWQQZVOXqq4s0/s1600/Untamed_A_House_of_Night_Novel_House_of_Night_Novels-121678003136264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4zZUEnglBEwUT4CJs-cMmfeCS-M_c_CFEHtg2o_y4e3JQdwdVomrbwQzldmuYdmr5nyt2VP6EZuYE2wgRnl5ISArzpkAqf0s41mIEe6Qa5pzXRADSbdFrsHzuGUcMKtWQQZVOXqq4s0/s320/Untamed_A_House_of_Night_Novel_House_of_Night_Novels-121678003136264.jpg" width="213" /></a>Genre: Paranormal Romance and Fantasy</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Age: 13+</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pages: 338</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Gender: Female</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Publication Year: 2008</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Plot: 2.5/5<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Description: 5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Characters: 3.5/5</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Developed: 3/5</div>Fast Paced: 5/5<br />
Cover: 2.5/3<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Total: 21.5/28</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Percent: 77%</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Grade: C</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I obviously did not like the plot at all. Well, it just seemed, well cheesy. It is the fourth book in the House of Night series. In the last book, if I remember right she had three boyfriends. One human, Heath. One fellow fledgling, Erik. One vampyre, Loren. Well she was imprinted with Heath. Then she did the nasty with Loren, so the imprint broke making Heath upset, then while she was doing the nasty Erik came in and saw her. Then soon after Zoey figured out that Loren really loved Neferet, the really evil High Priestess, and that Neferet set up the whole relationship to get Zoey's friends mad at her. So all three boyfriends were ticked off at her. (That was all from the third book Chosen, so you really should read the first three books before you read this one.) Well, in Untamed, all her boyfriends are mad at her, and then this new apparently hot kid named Stark, who when shooting an arrow can never miss which is bad because he killed his mentor (well not in the story it just says so). Zoey feels attracted to him, how obvious. So she gets really upset when his body rejects the change into a vampyre and he dies. But no, he might not die, he could come back as a red fledging, how good for Zoey. Also Neferet is brewing up some trouble, first Zoey sees this crow like thing that hurts here arm, but don't worry it heals quickly, and it throws her into another big mess, mostly to do with a very old Cherokee legend. But with the help of her friends she might be able to solve everything. There is also a side plot about her boyfriend issues too.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I liked the description in this book, yes they used ultra modern phrases constantly to describe things, but there is nothing wrong with that. I loved how they described the Raven Mockers: <em>a creature that existed only because of ancient rape and evil.</em> That was a quote from the book. Cool huh? Well, anyway I liked how they described things in this book, a lot. Though there was limited amount of intelligent use of words, most good vocab came from Damien. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I liked all the main characters excluding one, the main character, Zoey. I just hate her so much, she is so disgusting and she still thinks she is right. You see, Erik was being nice to her in the last book by letting her still kind of be in a relationship with Heath, but then she gets all gross with Loren, and then thinks that she should forgive Erik for being mad at her. She is just so..... ew. If it wasn't for her this book might of been able to pull off a B-. Anyway I liked the diversity in characters, it is always nice to read a book that shows gay people in a good light, because they can't help being gay it is just the way they are. I also surprisingly like Aphrodite, not just because here name is also a name of a Greek goddess, but because she has character, and I like characters who have character. I like Stevie Rae too, but sometimes she acts a little corny. But even if there was a whole gigantic set of awesome side characters, nothing can make up for how bad Zoey is.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> As you can see, this is not my favorite book in the world. The first book was ok, but not the rest. I seriously hate the main character. I recommend this to fans of Vampire Academy and Twilight.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-50944303827487219962010-06-04T06:22:00.000-07:002010-06-04T06:22:41.275-07:00Blogger Hop!Time for a new blogger hop! I am so happy because I actually got up early enough to be number 39 on the list! Anyway, Blogger Hop is hosted by <a href="http://www.crazy-for-books.com/">Crazy for Books</a>, go check the blog out it is really cool. Well, anyway, have a fun time hopping!<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> The plot was pretty good, but it was kind of odd hearing a lot of America's founding fathers were dead. This story is an alternative ending to the American Revolution. It is from the point of view of a 15 year old boy named Creighton Brown (isn't his first name great!). His mom hires someone to kidnap him and send him to America because she can't handle him. So once he gets to England he has to live with his uncle, but not for long because he has to go somewhere. So they both get on a ship, where the ship is attacked by Yankees, Creighton pretends to be his uncles indentured servent. So the Yankees set Creighton "free". Then they send him to live with Benjamin Franklin. His uncle asks Creighton to spy on Mr. Franklin. But after awhile Creighton's loyalties to England fade and he comes to question if he is doing the right thing.<br />
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I thought the description was good, I really have nothing to say about it. The author described the characters and setting well. But I think he could of described other things better, like he could of described Benjamin Franklin's funeral better. But I still gave description a 4/5.<br />
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I thought the characters were really good, exspecially Creighton. He was full of depth. I loved seeing him change to a not so mature kid who messes around all the time. To a person who doesn't just plays games and glorifies war, a person who knows what is right and wrong. Other then that I liked Sophie, because she wasn't perfect like some characters. I two things wrong with characters. First I think they should have developed Benjamin Franklin more. I was also very confused about Benedict Arnold. I though he was supposed to be really on the Britich side. But I still gave it a 5/5 because I think Creighton is a very good character. <br />
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The book was well developed, I guess. There were just some parts they could of lingered on more. I can't really say much about it.<br />
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This book was mostly fast paced there were just some parts I couldn't get into. Like as I said in the introduction, it took me a really long time to get through the middle part of the book I just kept picking it up and setting it down again. But I read the beginning and ending at a rapid speed.<br />
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If I had not already new what this book was about ahead of time and I went to the bookstore and saw this book on the bookshelf, I would not pick it up. I think it is quite ugly acutally. The only reason I gave it a 1/3 is because I think the cover fits the theme of the book. <br />
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This book was semi-memorable, I will remember it because of the alternative ending to the war that every American child over learns in school, but not really for anything else.<br />
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This book was ok, not my favorite, but not horrible. I suggest it to anyone who likes alternative history.<br />
</div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-25881545686350335972010-05-28T13:41:00.000-07:002010-05-28T13:41:55.271-07:00Comparisons of Covers- The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Ok this is just somthing I came up with after looking at some US vs UK covers post. I decided I wanted to do something like that but with any covers not just US and UK. So I decided first I am going to The Monstrumologist, a great YA historical fiction/ horror novel. If anyone wants to do this too they can. So here are the covers:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>A Spy In The House (The Agency) by Y.S. Lee</strong></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a colourful, action-packed Victorian detective novel centred around the exploits of 'agent' Mary Quinn. At a young age, Mary is rescued from the gallows by a woman masquerading as a prison warden. She is taken to Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls. The school, Mary learns, is a front for a private investigation agency and, at 17, she is taken on as an agent. In her new role she is catapulted into the family home of the Thorolds to investigate the shady business dealings of Mr Thorold.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>We Hear the Dead by Dianne K Salerni</strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It started out as a harmless prank. But soon enough, spiritualism was the fastest growing movement of the nineteenth century, and Maggie Fox was trapped in a life of deceit. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Meticulously researched by the author, We Hear the Dead reveals the secret of how the Fox sisters faked their rapping sounds and their motives for inventing the séance and founding spiritualism. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Maggie:</div><div style="text-align: center;">I began the deception when I was too young to know right from wrong. No one suspected us of any trick, because we were such young children. We were led on by my sister purposely and by my mother unintentionally. Only with the passing of time did I come to understand the consequences of my actions. As Doctor wrote to me: "Weary, weary is the life by cold deceit oppressed." </div><div style="text-align: center;">Kate:</div><div style="text-align: center;">My sister has used the word "deception." I object to her use of that word, for I do not believe that I have ever intentionally deceived anyone. Maggie has a different understanding of all the events that have happened since that night in Hydesville forty years ago. To her the spirits were always a game. For my sister Leah, they were a means to an end. For my mother, a miracle. And for me, they were my life's calling. I have no regrets.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ginger Snaps (Movie)</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">A movie that compares turning into a werewolf to puberty. One of the best movies ever</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The King's Rose by Alisa M Libby</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Life in the court of King Henry VIII is a complex game. When fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard catches the king's eye, she quickly transforms from pawn to queen. But even luxury beyond imagination loses its luster as young Catherine finds her life - and her heart - threatened by the needs of an aging king and a family hungry for power. Will their agendas deliver Catherine to the same fate as her infamous cousin, Anne Boleyn - sacrificed at the altar of family ambition?</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Engaging historical fiction with a throbbing YA heartbeat, this thrilling novel will draw readers into the intrigues and dangers of the Tudor court.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1776, the rebellion of the American colonies against British rule was crushed. Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old Brit, has just arrived in the colonies. Having been shipped off against his will, with nothing but a distaste for English authorities, Creighton befriends Franklin, and lands a job with his print shop. But the English general expects the spoiled yet loyal Creighton to spy on Franklin. As battles unfold and falsehoods are exposed, Creighton must decide where his loyalties lie... a choice that could determine the fate of a nation.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(from fantasticfiction.co.uk)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-21782945977244716222010-05-23T08:12:00.000-07:002010-05-23T08:12:58.920-07:00Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper Book Review<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-K8-zZl8do-lYMiujikdhyphenhyphen_YBJBlmS8sWQL_Hen_O3fI3iyzDRNtugy3xUC62OCQ7BG3zw9eZ9xBzr3et0yfPR1vylCYUlJXBfJLGSGTm2Jnd4wzhkl97jmB_bk_-MUYvipGrqbGnl8I/s1600/newes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-K8-zZl8do-lYMiujikdhyphenhyphen_YBJBlmS8sWQL_Hen_O3fI3iyzDRNtugy3xUC62OCQ7BG3zw9eZ9xBzr3et0yfPR1vylCYUlJXBfJLGSGTm2Jnd4wzhkl97jmB_bk_-MUYvipGrqbGnl8I/s320/newes.jpg" width="210" /></a>Genre: Historical Fiction</div>Age: 13+<br />
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Plot: 5/5<br />
Description: 4/5<br />
Characters: 4/5<br />
Developed: 4/5<br />
Fast Paced: 5/5<br />
Cover: 2/3<br />
Memorable: +2<br />
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Total: 26/28<br />
Percent: 93%<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Grade: A-</span><br />
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After I dropped the book, The Silver Blade down is frustration, I went to my bookshelf and picked up Newes from the Dead, for I wanted a nice, short historical fiction novel to read really quickly. I then started the book around 12 o'clock at night. I could not put it down. I am not sure how long I was reading it, but I must of put it down around 2! This book was really exciting and just yanked me in. <br />
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The plot was really good, since I have been interested in the historical figure Anne Green for a really long time, of course I would think the plot was good, but anyway here it goes. There are two different "parts" of the books really. There is the part when it tells about Anne Green's life before she "died" and what led up to it. All this being narrated in first person by Anne Green herself while she is I guess, I don't know what you would call it. A coma? Well, she tells about how she was seduced by a Sir Geofferey Read and about everything else too. Then the other part of the story happens while she is in a "coma" thinking through her life. It is told in third person from the eyes of a medical student with a stutter named Robert. He has come to see Anne Green dissected, but soon he notices he eyelids flicker and a rattling sound comeing from her throat. He realizes that she is alive, so the doctors don't dissect her, but try to revive her! So it goes on to tell about how the doctors revive her. I think the plot is really good and very interesting so I gave it a 5/5.<br />
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The description was good, but not the best. They described the execution very nicely, but there were a lot of things that were just lacking. But it was a short book.<br />
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The characters were good, but I think they could of developed the character Robert more. From what the reader was told, I liked him a lot. But he was just lacking, the author didn't give enough information about him. Also the character Anne kind of annoyed me a times. She was so gullible. Did she really think that Sir Geofferey would raise her to power? Really? I just wanted to yell at her to think. She didn't see how much better off she would be with John Taylor. It made me so mad at her. I didn't like Sir Geofferey at all, he was really just so evil. <br />
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The story was pretty well developed for a book that short. I think they could of developed as I said in the character section, Robert more. But the author still did a pretty good job. There were some parts I wish they would linger longer at, though.<br />
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This book was very fast paced. As you see I read it in all of about 3 hours. I read two hours yesterday night and this morning I probably read less then an hour. It is a very good book, like as I said with Vampire Plagues, to read in between other, bigger books. A book that you can just relax with. <br />
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The cover looks nice. But I have a serious problem with the model. Isn't Anne supposed to have fair hair with blue eyes. The model has green eyes with blackish hair. Even thought the England hard back cover look very pretty since it has a painting on the front, it has the same problem. The England paperback does much better though. I go like the little swirly things on the cover, it makes it real pretty, The font is nice too.<br />
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I thought this book was pretty memorable, so I gave it a +2. It is memorable, to me at least, since it is a quite odd story and because the basis for the story is true.<br />
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I liked this book a lot. It was fast and very enjoyable. I recommend this book too people who like easy read historical fiction based on a real facts.Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346166061947777627.post-35363715464532295892010-05-22T15:38:00.000-07:002010-06-01T08:49:37.257-07:00Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue Book Review<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJG4QZyGff3zTsxUOqwvh6Dafo-Mq528fGBGZYAoTegQAN25K9_DLeBdHWr73gq4jLjuaQw88Y6BUUwIoYI6xchtZYiZsR-xkdcEbINn8QjVtnxOlsmj9goSPc1zHWvA2ug4fIwvN0Tk/s1600/slammerkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJG4QZyGff3zTsxUOqwvh6Dafo-Mq528fGBGZYAoTegQAN25K9_DLeBdHWr73gq4jLjuaQw88Y6BUUwIoYI6xchtZYiZsR-xkdcEbINn8QjVtnxOlsmj9goSPc1zHWvA2ug4fIwvN0Tk/s320/slammerkin.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Genre: Historical Fiction<br />
Age: 14+ (Strict Parents: 16+)<br />
Pages: 334<br />
Gender: Female<br />
Publication Year: 2000<br />
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Plot: 5/5<br />
Description: 5/5<br />
Characters: 4/5<br />
Developed: 5/5<br />
Fast Paced: 3.5/5<br />
Cover: 2/3<br />
Memorable: +2<br />
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Total: 26.5/28<br />
Percent: 95%<br />
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This book took me a little while to read, but it was not because it was bad, obviously by the grade I gave it it wasn't. I just was reading a lot of books at the same time and I didn't want it to end. Actually now that I am done reading it I have this aching feeling in my stomach to just pick it up and read it again, but I can't do it because it is a library book, but eventually I will buy and add it to my bookshelf. It was that good. I warn you though it deals with a lot of adult topics.<br />
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I liked the plot, even if it can be thought as a little disgusting at times. This book is about a girl named Mary Saunders who lived in 1700s England. At age 14 this girl longs to better herself up, have pretty things and such. Well, one day she sells her body to the ribbon maker so she can have a beautiful red ribbon. Well, eventually her mother finds her out because she got pregnant and through her out on the streets. There Mary is taken in by a prostitute named Doll. At first Mary refuses to turn into a harlot, but eventually she does. Oh yes, and she also gets rid of her baby before it is born so she won't have to care for it. Well the first half of the book tells about their life as whores in England. After that something happens and Mary goes off to Monmouth to live with a friend of her mothers and becomes a seamtress. There she has many very interesting adventures. This book is based off the few surviving facts about a girl named Mary Saunders who lived in the 1700s, who did something I am not going to say or it will ruin the book. Anyway I thought the plot was pretty good. <br />
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The description was good. At some parts a little too good. I absolutely loved how Mary described things, she was just so opinionated and she used some good words. So I think the description deserved a 5/5.<br />
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I liked most of the characters a lot. But I had one wee little problem. Well, when the character Daffy was first introduced I liked him a lot, he was infact my favorite character. But at the end (sorry I am going to be vague or I might give the plot away) he was just so uncaring to Mary, well at the very very end. Other then that I had no problem with the characters. On other reviews of this book some people found Mary unlikeable, but I actually liked her a lot. I thought Mrs. Jones was a pretty good character too, also was Abi. I liked Doll a lot when something happened to her in the middle of the book I was pretty sad. <br />
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As always I can't really say much for developed. I thought the author developed the story perfectly.<br />
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I gave the book a 3.5/5 for pacing because it wasn't really fast, but It wasn't slow either. I think the pacing was perfect actually. It was very steady. Except for at the end, but it was drawn out to make it more dramatic, which in my eyes worked very well.<br />
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Ok the cover, well I liked the Canadian cover way better. This one isn't my favorite cover in the world, but it isn't bad either. It fits the story really well and the ribbon is kind of cool. So I gave it a 2/3.<br />
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This book was memorable, not a +3 memorable but I almost gave it a +2.5. It was a very good book that a lot of people would not forget.<br />
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In all I liked this book a lot. I am for sure going to check out some other books by this author. I recommend this book for people who want to learn what women had to do to make money in the 1800s and if they just enjoy gritty historical fiction.Rachel Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13812077887544014609noreply@blogger.com6