Title: Velvet (Velvet Trilogy #1) Author: Temple West Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Publisher: Swoon Reads Genre: Young Adult, Romance Find It: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, Book Depository Source: review copy from publisher Rating: 4 stars – stay up late First rule of dealing with hot vampire bodyguards? Don’t fall in love. After losing both her parents …
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I am always a little wary going into a popular series that people love. I think the expectation is just sometimes too high and I end up disappointed. It may have helped that I saw the movie first and liked it. The film also gave me a good primer on the world here and it was easy to jump in. There were definitely changes from book to film but the overall spirit and plot of the book remains intact and I didn’t find any huge differences.
Maddy and Ella are identical twins but they could not be more different. Maddy is popular and vivacious. People seem to gravitate towards her. Ella on the other hand, is quiet and is more interested in getting into art school than who’s going with whom to the Snow Ball. Maddy and Ella used to be best friends until high school, when Maddy got a whole new group of friends and there seemed to be no place for Ella in Maddy’s new life.
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Laureth’s father has gone missing. At least she thinks he has. He won’t return her calls and her mom dodges her questions about his whereabouts. When his notebook is found in New York, Laureth decides to take her little brother to New York to find him. I didn’t really know what to expect with this book, but the premise intrigued me. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book from the point of view of a blind protagonist before. While I thought Laureth was a well written character with a really unique point of view, I found other aspects of her personality to be very frustrating.
I have so many mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, at the core of it, I think that there are some interesting ideas and the seeds of what could be a really fun world. On the other hand, the execution of this novel left a lot to be desired. There is little world building despite the fact that the book is set in a very different world than ours. Instead of slowly introducing the reader to the history and nuances of this new world in engaging and subtle way, the author crams hundreds of years of history into large sections of info dumping. We barely begin to get to know one world when Paige is suddenly taken away to a completely new world. The excessive use of nicknames and slang was also confusing. There is an extensive glossary at the back of the book to help with this but it makes it hard to read a book when you have to look up a word every few sentences.
I just finished this book and I have to say wow, I really liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Though I’ve heard lots of great things about Jenny Han (I have her Summer series one shelf waiting to be read and have met her and find her think she’s funny and adorable), contemporary YA novels aren’t usually my thing and I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this. However, the pretty pink cover drew me in and I decided to give it a chance, and I’m so glad I did. To All the Boys is fantastically written, with well developed characters and relationships that make for a standout novel. - -
Title: Under The Never Sky (Under The Never Sky #1) Author: Veronica RossiPublication Date: January 3, 2012Publisher: Harper CollinsGenre: Young Adult FictionFind It: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, Book DepositorySource: ARC Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered.This was …
Obsession (An Arum Novel) by Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication date: 31 May 2013 by Entangled Publishing ISBN 13: 978-1-62266-160-2 Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | iTunes | Kobo Category: Adult Paranormal Romance Keywords: Aliens, romance, Happy Ever After Format: eBook Source: Purchased Synopsis from GoodReads: This is a …
The Madman’s Daughter (The Madman’s Daughter #1) by Megan Shepherd Publication date: 29 Jan 2013 by Balzer + Bray ISBN 10/13: 0062128027 | 9780062128027 Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository | Indiebound Category: Young Adult Historical Fiction Keywords: Historical, romance, re-telling, science Format: Hardcover, eBook …