I sped through these latest three books in Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series this weekend in record time. Her books are such page-turners. I’m glad I gave the first book a second chance because these book #3 was so damn good.
Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2) by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
The second novel [...]
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
Ah, vampire teen fiction. It’s like digging into a bag of Cheetos.
It took me a second try to get into this book after reading Mead’s Dark Swan series for adults. The beginning of novel is definitely the hardest part to get over. There’s teenage drama, vague actions [...]
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
2 of 5 stars
I recently read Norwegian Wood and was plagued with a sense of nostalgia. Others have remarked that Murakami’s a master at nostalgic scenes, and while that may be true, it turned out that it wasn’t the cause of my particular case of it. I had actually [...]
Thorn Queen by Richelle Mead
4 of 5 stars
I dove eagerly into Thorn Queen as soon as I finished reading Storm Born. Richelle Mead is a straight-forward writer and an excellent story-teller. Her descriptions of the other world and supporting characters made it incredibly easy to relate to Eugenie Markham, the main [...]
There’s a phrase in Chinese, chi ku (eat bitterness), which Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls exemplifies perfectly. From one end of the book to the other, there’s nothing but hardships and heartaches.
The first hardship I found is not actually in the story in the novel, but comes from the novel itself. See writes in the [...]
I started watching Showtime’s True Blood last year and really liked the first season, so I was curious to read the books the show is based on. A few people had recommended it to me. The first book, Dead Until Dark, is loosely what the first season of the show was based on.
It was [...]
