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By: Andye ReadingTeen,
on 5/7/2015
Review by Natalie VELVETby Temple WestPaperback: 416 pagesPublisher: Swoon Reads (May 12, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon After losing both her parents before age 17, aspiring designer Caitlin Holte feels like her whole world has been turned upside down, and that was before the terrifying encounter with a supernatural force. Then, she learns that her hot bad-boy neighbor, Adrian--who
By: Andye ReadingTeen,
on 9/17/2014
"Review My Books" Review by Erin FIREBUGHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (September 23, 2014)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon Ava is a firebug—she can start fires with her mind. Which would all be well and good if she weren’t caught in a deadly contract with the Coterie, a magical mafia. She’s one of their main hitmen . . . and she doesn’t like it one bit. Not
By: Andye ReadingTeen,
on 3/12/2014
THE FOREVER SONGSeries: Blood of Eden (Book 3)by Julie KagawaHardcover: 416 pagesPublisher: Harlequin Teen (April 15, 2014)Mark on GoodreadsBuy the book: Amazon Review of The Immortal RulesReview of The Eternity Cure VENGEANCE WILL BE HERS Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster? With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer. MONSTER Allie will embrace her
By: *Andye*,
on 2/3/2011
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.
One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school’s star quarterback who suddenly seems more interested in partying than playing ball; her nosy frenemy Kayla, who’s way too concerned with how things are going with Heath; her uber-tough geometry test tomorrow. The next, she’s Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all of those who are Marked do.
, I thought I would give it a try. So, I did what I do for all books I can't get motivated to read, and checked it out on audiobook from the library.
By: AMY ~ ReadingTeen2,
on 12/11/2010
By: *Andye*,
on 9/2/2010
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (August 31, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061976245
ISBN-13: 978-0061976247
"You are deluded, Romeo. Vampires do not have the capability to love. They are heartless."
The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don't realize is how deadly their love will turn out to be—or what it will mean for their afterlives. . . .
This riotous twist on the ultimate tale of forbidden romance is simply to die for.
This is not the type of book that I normally pick out to read. Especially after my mom read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The storyline follows pretty closely to the original story, with small changes splattered across the pages. Yes, I say "splattered" because many of those changes involve blood. Not surprising, considering Juliet's entire family, the Capulets, are vampires, who would love nothing more than to be let loose on the human population. However, they have to deal with the vampire-hunting Montagues, who are just as eager to dole out death and punishment to all the vampires. The writing is prose instead of verse, and it used more modern day language, though it was still set in 1462. But this time the story takes place in Transylvania instead of Verona.
All of the same characters appear in this book. Mercutio and Tybalt are just as rash and infuriating, Romeo and Juliet are just as love-sick and ridiculous, and the Montagues and Capulets are just as blind to the destruction they are causing in their families. There were some difference though. Romeo and Juliet were much less self-absorbed in this book. They actually cared about the feud going on between their families before they even met. And Juliet would do anything to escape killing a human, because she believed that it was wrong, regardless of what her family told her. Then there was the blood....let's just say the "sword fight" between Mercutio and Tybalt had a little livelier end to it!
Even though I have known this story most of my life, I still foun
By: ~Kit~,
on 8/25/2010
Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours.
But Evie’s about to realize that she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.
So much for normal.
My Review:
I've started quite a few books lately that have been very disappointing, and I thought maybe I was just getting picky after reading so many amazing books. I think my mom got sick of listening to me complain about the ones I was reading and she said, "Just go read Paranormalcy right now!" Needless to say, I finished it in less than one day. Paranormalcy has officially been added to my favorites list (which includes Sea, Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Harry Potter :) I ADORED THIS BOOK! It is hilarious, quirky, and completely unique! I don't care about your stupid "TBR Pile." Read Paranormalcy instead. Period. End of story. It is absolutely, utterly, entirely amazing.
~Kit
My cousin gave me her set after she'd finished with them, because she's a compulsive series reader, but didn't really care for the books. I'd been thinking about reading them, so she passed them along to me. Now I have 7 or 8 books sitting here, waiting to be read and I don't want too! :(
Finally! Someone else who hates this book!!! So awful!
I gave them a serious try, up to 3 books in the series. I was a trooper! The author is local and I REALLY wanted to to like the books. I didn't for some of the same reasons you listed. But, I do know many that love them, so I guess as usually to each his own. I still want to do a House of Night pic tour sometime though. Some of the places the author writes about are neat places in the city I call home. I DO like that aspect, just not the content or story of the book.
I wish Allie Carter would have put her books in Tulsa's setting. haha
BJs?? Really??? Making out after one conversation? Soooooooooo off my TBR list. Thanks for saving me from what sounds like a book I wouldn't like at all!
*whew* I thought I would always be the only person who hated this book! LOL Seriously, I thought it sounded like a little kid trying to force a story out. They lost me when the character said "Poopy". lol
I read the first two books, they were awful all the way through them and then there's excitement at the very end. But the writing and the characters annoyed ALOT....but anyways, I agree with you, not worth the time when there's other good books to really try.
I totally agree! I just read the most recent one and was stunned beyond measure. It was AWFUL!
Wow, I finally find someone who agrees with me! I tried giving the book a chance, but it only lasted two chapters into the first book. I really didn't like it. I didn't quite capture my attention.
It's funny, I expected some backlash about this post, but it seems like everyone hated it! Haha!! How on earth is this book so popular?
Hmmm I have the first four sitting here on my self that I either picked up from the used bookstore or from bookmooch, but I have not even remotely felt like reading any of them. Maybe I will just take them back to the used bookstore and get something else. I don't want to waste my time reading something I won't enjoy when there are so many great books out there just waiting for me. Thanks for the honest review - I really enjoy reading exactly what people think of books and this helped me out a lot. :)
This review made me laugh. I can't comment on the bad audio cause I've not heard it, but you're dead on about the story itself!! I've questioned how it's so popular for a very long time!! I actually didn't totally hate book 1, cheesy and stupid yes, but didn't hate it. By book 4 I'd had enough of it though and it went from silly waste of time to ridiculous. The series just gets worse and worse. I'd love someone to explain why it's so popular, I really would, because all I got from it was very cliched, irritating characters and a very weak, dragged out story.
I HATED this book so much that I wanted to rip it up in shreds and strangle zoey. apart from being trashy and discrimminative, she was just PLAIN DUMB.not to mention that the writing was just horrible and extremely juvenile. I suppose the authors wrote it that way because they wanted to make the characters look hip and cool, but instead they just came across as silly. all in all, the book was terrible.
I read one book and I agree with all the posts about this book. It was bad all around and I tried to read the next book but couldn't get past the characters.
I am so with you! I listened to this series when I was new to YA paranormal and didn't know any better. Now that I have a lot more books read, I don't think I would even finish this book. You're right about the reader too - so bad.
I agreed to try this series with my friends daughter. Of course she loved them, and I couldn't make it through half of the 1st book. Not exactly what teens need to be looking at for a good book. The mother/daughter team tried too hard to be "cool" and it showed.
Loved the review.
Kat @ A Journey Into Reading
YES!! I felt like it was some old lady calling her daughter saying, "what's the teen word for 'groovy'?
It was just utterly ridiculous. I can't tell you how many times I rolled my eyes. You should seriously listen to the audio. You will gag! :P
I didn't finish it.. I quit around the first mention of BJ's.
I didn't even understand it and it was sooo dule! so boring!
I think it's so popular because
a) It's all teens that love it.
b) it's adultish..
& c) it's dumb.
I've already read so much better books that I wish was as popular as this series. But, nope.
I found this series to be quite a disappointment (I only made it through two and half of the books). It was easy to tell that it was written by two people because it a) didn't flow very well and b) was just trying to hard to be popular and appeal to the general masses with out providing any actual content worth reading.
Thanks for sharing your toughts. ^_^
This review was PERFECT. I laughed out loud and shared it with my coworker! I too hated this book. I stopped at book 1 and never continued. I have bought the entire series for my library, but never recommend them. Bravo and thanks for speaking up!
You know, I have had this on my maybe I will buy list forever. I still can't seem to get myself to read it. I don't know if I'll give it an opportunity but if I do, it will be much later after I have finished some other greatly reviewed books, like Anna and the French Kiss.
Thanks for the review, and the honesty.
Val @ Truth Be Told