I am a very, very bad blogger. So much so, that I have (twice in a row) forgotten to post for three weeks. Again. To make up for this, I shall give you a big list, as can only hope that you accept my sincere apologies.

Fourth Comings, by Megan McCafferty

Perfect Fifths, by Megan McCafferty

Perfect Chemistry, by Simone Elkeles

Reckoning, by Lili St. Crow

Rules of Attraction, by Simone Elkeles

Leaving Paradise, by Simone Elkeles

Chain Reaction, by Simone Elkeles

Return to Paradise, by Simone Elkeles

The Goddess Test, by Aimee Carter

City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare

Born to Bite, by Lynsay Sands

The Reluctant Vampire, by Lynsay Sands

Hungry for You, by Lynsay Sands

The Renegade Hunter, by Lynsay Sands

Simone Elkeles has nearly overtaken Sarah Dessen as my favourite author, because I LOVE THEIR WRITING :)

The Goddess Test

The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall.

Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.

Kate is sure he's crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride, and a goddess.

Let me start by giving you the sequence of events that occurred with this book. Picture this:
I walk into the teenage section of the library, sit down, see a book on the shelf, go to pick it up. I don't bother looking at the cover, instead I read the blurb. It sounds like a pretty cool concept. Hades, Greek gods, a retelling of Greek mythology? Hell yeah! Then I looked at the cover. Is it just me, or does the girl on there look like she's ill and is about to throw up? No? Just me then...
I'm not going to do a page by page analysis (because I'm not that weird) but main points here:
Plot: a bit rushed
Characters: Kate was WAYYYYY too goody-goody
Writing: meh
Ending: rushed

The reason why i'm not absolutely hating this book is simply the concept. So, overall meh.


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TMI. Go Die.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistably drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love.

Ok, first things first: I read this purely becuase of the hype. And I was expecting some epic tale about battling demons to find your love, taken away when you were still in that cutesey honeymoon period.

Well, they do say to never judge a book by its cover. So, Clary's humdrum life become suddenly intersting when she meets a fit guy, snogs him, and imagines herself in love with him. Let me list a few problems with this:
1. this is not an epic love tale.
2. a snog in a greenhouse in the middle of the night does not constitute a realtionship
3. HE'S HER BLOODY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!
way to go, Cassandra Clare. Not only have you name your female protagonist after yourself, you save her a lot of heartbreak by conviently revealing that snogging love interest no.1 is very, very incestuous. (You'd think one would have a natural aversion to snogging one's own brother, wouldn't you? I mean, the whole gene pool thing) also what creeps me out is that they don't talk about it. It's like: "oh, you're my brother, how cool, never mind that I unwittingly had an incestual relationship with you". This is utterly unrealistic and idiotic. She should be completely and utterly weirded out by swapping saliva with her brother.
Complaint no. 2, the 'mystery' of her father is sooooo predictable. I mean, couldn't you have made it so that her mother had been having a torrid affair with a werewolf? Just to add a little interest?

I can tell this is going to end up with a Twilight-sized DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO DIE sticker slapped on it, with red warning lights stationed at strategic positions to make you jump the highest, so I shall stop.

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Perfect Fifths

Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Now a young professional in her mid-twenties, Jess is off to a Caribbean wedding. As she rushes to her gate at the airport, she literally runs into her former boyfriend, Marcus Flutie. It’s the first time she's seen him since she reluctantly turned down his marriage proposal three years earlier–and emotions run high.

Marcus and Jessica have both changed dramatically, yet their connection feels as familiar as ever. Is their reunion just a fluke or has fate orchestrated this collision of their lives once again?

SO GOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! But I do have one complaint. In this book, there is a chapter written in haiku, and a chapter written in a poem-y sort of thing. However, instead of choosing a different font to set these apart, they have chosen one that is indecipherable. That font is worse than my own handwriting. The only words that I could make out were MARCUS FLUTIE and SEX, mostly because these were in capital letters. But other than that, an excellent ending to this series.


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Fouth Comings

Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Is the real world ready for Jessica Darling?

At first it seems she’s living the New York City dream. She’s subletting an apartment with her best friend, working for a magazine that actually cares about her psychology degree, and still deeply in love with the charismatic Marcus Flutie.

But reality is more complicated than dreamy clichés.

When Marcus proposes—giving her only one week to answer—Jessica must decide if she’s ready to give up a world of late-night literary soirees, art openings, and downtown drunken karaoke to move back to New Jersey and be with the one man who’s gripped her heart for years. Jessica ponders this and other life choices with her signature snark and hyper-intense insight, making it the most tumultuous and memorable week of her twenty-something life.


I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!! There are not many times I can say that, so I'll say it again: THE ENDING I PREDICTED WAS WRONG!!!!!!! (Although, I did have my doubts, as I read the blurb for #5 before this one, so....
BUT! I am very pleased with this book just because I didn't predict the ending.

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A List Mainly Comprising of Lynsay Sands and Megan McCafferty....

I know. I have been shameful. I have not posted since 17th December, nearly three weeks ago. Therefore, to make up for this, here is a gingantigous ist of all the book I have read since 17th Dec.

A Bite to Remember, by Lynsay Sands

Forever, by Maggie Steifvater

Hades, by Alexandra Adornetto

The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore (which I read every year, without fail on Christmas Eve)

Bite Me If You Can, by Lynsay Sands

Fury, by Elizabeth Miles

The Accidental Vampire, by Lynsay Sands

Vampires Are Forever, by Lynsay Sands

Vampire, Interrupted, by Lynsay Sands

The Rogue Hunter, by Lynsay Sands

The Immortal Hunter, by Lynsay Sands

Sloppy Firsts, by Megan McCafferty

Second Helpings, by Megan McCafferty

Charmed Thirds, by Megan McCafferty

...and there you have it. My Christmas/new year reading list :)

Charmed Thirds

Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she’s more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if he’s at a Buddhist college in California?); and she’s making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope.

But Jessica soon realizes that her bliss might not last. She lands an internship at a snarky Brooklyn-based magazine, but will she fit in with the überhip staff (and will she even want to)? As she and Marcus hit the rocks, will she end up falling for her GOPunk, neoconservative RA . . . or the hot (and married!) Spanish grad student she’s assisting on a summer project . . . or the oh-so-sensitive emo boy down the hall? Will she even make it through college now that her parents have cut her off financially? And what do the cryptic one-word postcards from Marcus really mean?


This was definitely the hardest book in the series to read. At times, I did feel like giving it up and throwing it across the room. Which would have been disastrous, as I read the kindle version. But I persisted. I have subsequently noticed a pattern in Jessica Darling endings.

Within the last 10 pages, here is what happens:
book 1: She nearly sleeps with Marcus
book 2: she sleeps with Marcus
book 3: she sleeps with Marcus
and, here are my predictions for books four and five:
book 4: she sleeps with Marcus
book 5: she sleeps with Marcus

I do have to say, the ending of this one seemed a little too contrived. And very abrupt, like she thought 'Ooh! I have only 10 pages left to write! Marcus must show up on her doorstep and they must have beautiful make-up sex!'

Not that I have an issue with this, but.... most books don't feature the heroine sleeping with three different guys. Just sayin'.

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