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About to start Wither by Lauren DeStefano. A lot of buzz about this one so hopefully it lives up to it for me.
Started THE IRON QUEEN by Julie Kagawa yesterday and will likely finish it today. All of the Iron Fey books have a strong unputdownable quality, in my opinion.
I really need to get to a book store. I'm outta books.
I really enjoyed The Shifter. I feel like I've read a lot of novels in the past little while with suspicious-to-shoddy worldbuilding. This was definitely not one; a breath of fresh air, really.
Great-- I'll pick it up!Blue Fire is just as good, if not better. Janice is amazing. Can't wait to see what she has in store once The Healing Wars Trilogy is done.
You're not. At least about the eyes-- I guess hair 'shades' can vary. So I won't throw TP.Blond hair and blue eyes are recessive genes, so while two dark-eyed, dark-haired people can have a blond-haired (or red-headed), light-eyed child, the opposite cannot be true. Unless I'm totally misremembering that from school, and I'm pretty sure I'm not...
Finally read If I Stay. I liked it a lot, I think (it sometimes takes me a few days to digest novels, and to decide how much I really like something). I read it very quickly. In two sittings (would have finished in one, probably, if I had not started it at 11pm the previous night).
One thing that irked me throughout the novel - and it's so minor and unimportant that people will probably throw toilet paper at me - is that the main character felt she didn't quite fit in with her family, partly because of her appearance. Her entire family was blond-haired, blue-eyed, while she was a dark-eyed brunette. Er... that's just not biologically possible. Blond hair and blue eyes are recessive genes, so while two dark-eyed, dark-haired people can have a blond-haired (or red-headed), light-eyed child, the opposite cannot be true. Unless I'm totally misremembering that from school, and I'm pretty sure I'm not...
Anyway, as I say, it's not really important. But it bugged me.
I totally forgot that part about it. Not even sure why it was put in there??
I got bugged by a similar thing in Beatle Meets Destiny. On the second page the author claims that all twins who are born a day or so apart have to be fraternal twins because identicals must share the same birth sac. Actually, it's not at all true. Some identicals do have separate birth sacs and it depends on what point in embryonic development the cells separate completely. It caught my attention because my dad's a twin, born 3 days apart from his brother and we've always maintained that they're identical (he may not be because they never had DNA testing, but I like to think they are). It bugged me for like the first 50 pages because the author makes such a huge deal of it, states it as a fact, and it's completely wrong. But I set my angst aside in order to enjoy the story, which was really good. But if you want to be bugged about authors getting science wrong -- I'll PM you that one if you want.
It's not too late for your dad & his twin to get tested, by the way. It might be neat to find out....
I totally forgot that part about it. Not even sure why it was put in there??
I got bugged by a similar thing in Beatle Meets Destiny. On the second page the author claims that all twins who are born a day or so apart have to be fraternal twins because identicals must share the same birth sac. Actually, it's not at all true. Some identicals do have separate birth sacs and it depends on what point in embryonic development the cells separate completely. It caught my attention because my dad's a twin, born 3 days apart from his brother and we've always maintained that they're identical (he may not be because they never had DNA testing, but I like to think they are). It bugged me for like the first 50 pages because the author makes such a huge deal of it, states it as a fact, and it's completely wrong. But I set my angst aside in order to enjoy the story, which was really good. But if you want to be bugged about authors getting science wrong -- I'll PM you that one if you want.
Haven't read many books in verse-- not so into them. That said, Ell3n H0pk1ns does a damn fine job.So wondering if anyone else has read it, or what other's think of books in verse?