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Review: The Awakening and The Struggle

The Awakening and The Struggle by L.J. Smith My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don’t generally mind fluffy bunny-style vampire stories, after all I like Twilight, but this book was a bit too fluffy for my taste. As with other young adult vampire stories, the two books were filled more with purple prose than anything that might be even… (more…)

Review: Blue Moon

Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was certainly not the best in the series nor was it the worst. The series itself has a lot of strengths, but even as far into as Blue Moon falls, there are too many flaws to fully enjoy these books. Blue Moon lacked any sort of… (more…)

Review: Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris My rating: 3 of 5 stars In last year’s Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris took her once quirky characters on a journey to a place much darker than they’d been before. She managed to court some controversy with the “younger sibling” of Eric Northman, since that character was based on the real-life Alexei Romanov,… (more…)

Review: Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was really hoping not to be disappointed by this book, especially after I really enjoyed The Killing Dance. It was quite good, but not as good as that particular book. Burnt Offerings was great, though. The Council coming to town added a little flair that the series… (more…)

Review: The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #4)

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #4) by Laurell K. Hamilton My rating: 4 of 5 stars As with Circus of the Damned, I enjoyed the book. Also, as with the 3rd Anita Blake novel, I felt that it was not as well written as it could be. The stories are very intriguing and, despite their flaws, help keep… (more…)

Review: Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar My rating: 5 of 5 stars Gossip Girl, the first of the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar, was surprisingly fun to read. It didn’t seem like my type of book when I first ran into it a few years ago, but I finally decided to give it a chance. Even though I… (more…)

Review: Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks My rating: 3 of 5 stars When I was a teenager, I read this book (along with some of the others that were written by Beatrice Sparks). I thought, at the time, that it was a pretty good book. I’ve since come to realize how absolutely ridiculous it is. The book is pretty much… (more…)

Good Glee Goes Bad

Last year at this time, when I would hear about Glee, I would fee annoyed. It seemed like a weird premise, and the way that it was done seemed like the unrealistic musical style that you see done everywhere. Then, I watched it, and I liked it. I liked that as the season went on, the characters began to grow… (more…)

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