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Now I'm reading Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielso
I just finished Second helpings by Megan McCafferty - sequel to Sloppy Firsts. Hmmm, I kinda felt restless in the first half and after a while i couldnt handle so much raw angst @ the world. second half was better but overall not compelling anough for me to read more of the series. pLUS @ 100K+ it felt little long...
Tried to read Fat Cat by Rob1n Brande, but I had to give it up. Way too many aspects of the book were either stupid bad cliches or made no sense:
-fat people spend all day scarfing massive amounts of junk food nonstop (stupid cliche)
-all fat people are entirely unappealing to the opposite sex, but it's okay for a fattie to get with a fattie because their standards are lower because they can't get with a real person (stupid cliche)
-losing weight=getting the hot guy (stupid cliche)
-a high school teacher would let a teenage girl engage in disordered eating for seven months as a science experiment (senseless)
-a high school teacher would have a student do a science experiment whose outcome has no measurable parameters (senseless)
-students should do top secret science projects and speak to no one about them, rather than seek advice and help from peers/librarians/smart people (senseless)
She may try to turn some of these cliches on their head, but I can't keep reading. The eating becomes slightly less disordered as the book goes on, but it's all conspiring to drive me insane.
I'm 150 pages into Vampire Academy and it is well written and the MC's kinda cool but for some reason I'm just not into it?
Probably b/c I'm more of a contemporary kinda girl. Not sure if I'll keep going? Mainly as I have some really enticing books in my TBR pile.
Anyone else read the Vampire Academy stuff? I've heard it's a really good series.
I'm 150 pages into Vampire Academy and it is well written and the MC's kinda cool but for some reason I'm just not into it?
Probably b/c I'm more of a contemporary kinda girl. Not sure if I'll keep going? Mainly as I have some really enticing books in my TBR pile.
Anyone else read the Vampire Academy stuff? I've heard it's a really good series.
I'm 150 pages into Vampire Academy and it is well written and the MC's kinda cool but for some reason I'm just not into it?
Probably b/c I'm more of a contemporary kinda girl. Not sure if I'll keep going? Mainly as I have some really enticing books in my TBR pile.
Anyone else read the Vampire Academy stuff? I've heard it's a really good series.
I'm 150 pages into Vampire Academy and it is well written and the MC's kinda cool but for some reason I'm just not into it?
Probably b/c I'm more of a contemporary kinda girl. Not sure if I'll keep going? Mainly as I have some really enticing books in my TBR pile.
Anyone else read the Vampire Academy stuff? I've heard it's a really good series.
I'm reading the fifth book in the series, Spirit Bound. I have to admit I didn't like the first three books, but the last two are really good.
I found it to be awful. Yay statutory rape? The worldbuilding is very thin, the characters are whiny cliches, the writing is lousy, and the big dramatic reveal at the ending is more than LOLable.
I found VA refreshing amongst all the vamp books, because the MC was pretty strong, and the LI wasn't like "woe-is-me-I-love-you-but-shouldn't-so-I'll-read-poetry-and-weep", and the writing was pretty strong, imo. But. I thought the secondary cast were poorly developed and some of it veered into melodrama for me, but I'm also a contemporary girl, so I think my preferences are playing into that.
Either way, I wasn't motivated to pick up any other books in the series, but I thought it was a decent read.
I put off reading VA for months because I was jaded by a lot of the YA post-Twilight stuff that came out, but I quickly got into it when I finally picked up the first one. I liked the second book a lot more than the first, though, and I'm starting the third in the series soon (I'm drawing them out so I don't have to wait as long for the last installment in December). Maybe give the second one a try and see what you think?
I'm a big fantasy fan, though, so my bias shows in that.
Someone mentioned this in the earlier pages, but I'm reading City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and it's really good.