Spirit Bound(Vampire Academy 5) by Richelle Mead book review

 Wow! This one is about Rose(MC) as her along with the rest of the VA cast recover form her going M.I.A to go find D(Dimitri) after he had turned strigoi and like I said wow! First off the whole idea about Rose trying to save D by first killing him while he's still strigoi and then bringing him back to life using the magic of spirit was interesting. After the way the last one had ended I was just going to assume the R and D was just going to spend the rest of their lives hunting each other down and trying to kill one another(like I've seen in a lot of other books with the same idea) but  I guess Mead thought that D was too interesting of a character too lose that way and at the last moment decided to work up a way to save his soul so that he could be back in the world of the living well sort of.  Call me crazy but I kind of liked D as a strigoi because he as moody and as confusing as he is when he is a dhampir. L(Lissa) is still as dependant of R(Rose) as every. Well no in this one I did see a little bit of independence on her part. There were parts where she managed to think and act on her own and I was glad for that. I was also glad that her and C(Christian) got back together because frankly their feeling toward each other was getting on my nerves. They would start arguing in the most odd times and places and like I said it was annoying. I was glad to see that M(Mia) had got an even amount of say so in this book. In the last book she was pretty nonexistent! OK I HAVE TO GET THIS OUT THERE !!!!! D still loves R , why? this man was willing to go through an entire army of guardians just to protect her, her the same girl that he constantly keep telling to go away! I mean come on! Ok and now on to my favorite parts:  when D was restored to his former self, when they were in court and R called the Queen a sanctimonious b*thc(I was literally clapping and jumping up and down on my bed when I read that part). Oh when C was trying to protect L during the strigoi attack. So now on to the ratings! As for the characters I give them a 10 stars out of 10 stars(everyone was wonderful in this one!) The setting a 4 stars out of 10( only because they spent so much time at court and it began to get boring). The plot 5 stars out of 10! And overall experience a 10! Yes I will be moving on to the next and huh the last of this series!

Blood Promise(vampire academy 4) by Richelle Mead Book review

 As I have said before and will say again I love this series and am quickly becoming a Richelle Mead fan(though I haven't read anything else that she has written but if her other series are as interesting as this one then yes call me a fan!) With my love of this series out of the way I am going to go on saying that this one was a slow read but still interesting but still very slow. This book follows the after math of the attack on the school and Rose(MC=main character) losing the love of her life (Dimitri) to the world of the strigoi(the bad vampires) and I have to say that this is a slow ,slow read. It starts off with her in Russia and the slowness just continues from there! This story took long to get to the point(which is her finding Dimitri and killing him because he has now become a strigoi and she promised to do so in the third installment of this book) but the story kind of went on and on and on before getting to the really juicy parts( her finding and killing D, the whole if she can do it part, what(besides a strigoi) would he look like to her in her eyes now that he has changed....you know the the great build up! And then when this great build up comes it to me was quick and rushed. Mead waisted a lot of time with scenery and different cultures and a whole lot of other stuff that could have been cut down so that the big meeting between Rose and Dimitri could have been more magical, more suspenseful! I mean the scene plays out like this: she stops to help this old lady, the old lady's face gives away that there is something scary behind her(Rose), Rose turns around and then bam! There's Dimitri, the guy that she has been all over the place looking for and then bam there he was right on the side walk, standing right before her eyes and of course she can't even think clear enough to get off her a** and start fighting him because she was in too much shock that there he was all casual and cool , standing there on a busy city side walk. When that happened I was like wow Mead I love you but you could have done better with that! I was thinking that given D's nature that he would had been held up in some cabin somewhere away from people because of the  monster that he had now become and wouldn't had turned into some kind strigoi gangster complete with a gang boss(Galina). Seriously where did that even come from! It was like bam, hi Rose I used to be good and kind and the type of person that wouldn't work for any one else but now I'm some kind of strigoi gangster oh and by the way your about to join me!  But on to other things, Lissa is a b*tch for not going with her best friend(the scene that I am talking about is in the third book but still....) the entire time she just tried to pretend that Rose didn't exist  and that she was the selfish one when the whole time I was thinking that Lissa was selfish for not understanding why Rose needed to run off and go kill D. I was like for God's sake the girl ust lost the only man that hse has loved and sleeped with she needs closure stop thinking about yourself and who's going to protect you and be there to help you with your b*llshit! I was mad that Mia only got one(sorry two) part(s) in this book and some nody that was only in book three for like 15 minutes(Jill) had more say in this book.Rose herself has grown in this book and I like a character that continues to grow as the series goes on. Christian has grown too and I like that, he is not so ....b*tchy anymore now that he is teaching other good vamps to fight with there powers so I guess he just needed an outlet to express his rage sort of, kind of ? So to wrap it up for overall book experience I would give this one a 5. Characters a 5 and a half. Scenery/setting a 10(the way she discribed Russia was beautiful) and would I read this again, I give that a hell yeah. Would I read the what's next in the series , I give that a double hell yeah, in fact I just bought prt 5 & 6 and can't wait to get started!

Frostbite(Vampire Academy #2) by Richelle Mead book review

 I just finished this book and went blazing right into the third one because Mead books( as for this series) are that good!  First of all I loved how Rose(main character) has improved from the first one, I almost found myself hating Rose in the first one because even though she keeps going on and on about how she is suppose to be this big important, wise guardian some day she found herself getting caught up in a lot of immature / she shouldn't be worrying about these types of things .....um situations but she is showing that she is growing up and I like that in a main character(especially a young one like her). Lissa( other main character) to seemed stronger in this one which is a good thing because I hated how weak she was in the first one. She always seemed like she couldn't do anything without Rose which was annoying to me. I love the chemistry between Rose and Dimitri( her  7 yrs older than her teacher). I usually don't get to see a relationship like there's , usually if there's a love interest for the main female character than that love interest would be either a yr older or a yr younger but I have never seen a whole 7 yr difference between two characters and yet they just seem perfect for each other, it was a refreshing change of pace in a book like this! I love Christian's attitude(really, no sarcasm intended!) he so truthful and in your face but at the same time completely a loner and with his parents reputation and his attitude it just makes him so wrong for Lissa that he's right!  Finally I felt really sorry for Mia and Mason, at some point I had thought that Mia was going to go strigoi because the lost of her mom and Mason.... well I never saw that coming... wow...the way he died ..terrible. I thought Mead was going to keep him around like the rest of the characters but wow.  His death was so sad but I guess she might had killed him off because it was always going to be the same sorry with him and Rose( he wanting her but she's too caught up in Dimitri, so he would still go out of his way to defend and love her and she would probably never feel the same for him).  Hmm... all in all the characters I would give a thumbs up, the setting did improve some so yeah a thumbs up, the plot a somewhat thumbs up and the over all experience a two thumbs up! I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!!

Vampire Academy#1 by Richelle Mead book review

 I am going to start off by saying that at first I did not like this book but towards the end I was totally hooked!  The two main characters(Lissa & Rose) seemed very self-centered and preoccupied by non important things is the reason that I did not like it in the begging. But the way the story flows dose take some time to jump into especially if you are not currently a high school aged kid but once you settle into it's definitely a good ride. It was so good that I immediately after reading the first one went right into reading the second installment and the only other series that I could not put down like that was the twilight series!  With all my likes with this book it was hard to find a dislike but here it is: the school, I did not find there security around the school very convincing because through out the whole book people could easy go to and get into places that they should not be so if this a well hidden private school with lots of security around then she(Richelle Mead) did not make that fact very believable to me. The two main characters lack of interest in important things. I know that they are teenage girls that live in a dangerous world where things like strigoi(the bad vampires) could just grab them at any moment and do horrible things to them but Mead had them focus on stupid things through out the world book. Things like: boys, who is spreading rumors about them, clothes, and what some random mean girl(Mia) is saying about them. I was thinking that if the strigoi could attack them at any moment then they should be concentrating on that and not the stupid that they probably wont live to see if the bad vamps get to them first . Rose(main character) was annoying only because she seemed to have a lot of responsibility but she just kept getting caught up into different unimportant things but other than those things that I disliked I loved!!!!!!! this book!

Blue Bloods #1 -Melissa de la Cruz review

 Okay I first Have to start off by saying that I loved the cover of this book! The cover really draws you in! Then I like the setting of the book. It was set in New York City and I was thinking that was great because a lot of vampire books that I have read are set in some small town in the middle of nowhere and I always wondered how would a vampire story go if it was set in a more populated area( you know with a lot more than maybe 50 people in a town, where everyone knows everyone by their first name). I would say to myself that there was no way a vampire could hide who they really were in a big town but the way Melissa wrote it was good, she made her vampires some of the richest and most powerful members of society which in that case they really could do whatever the h*ll they wanted to do without anyone really noticing( poor people only pay attention to what rich people are doing when they are doing a job for them and have to get paid from them, otherwise no middle class or poor person can really afford to pay any attention to what the rich are doing).  The whole vampires are fallen angels thing was pretty unique when you think about it and it seems to me like they were only doing such good things for New York so that they can get back into heaven which if I was a fallen angel I would try to get back on Gods good side(if you know what I mean). It was a little confusing at first with the three person point of view/narration but eventually I did catch on and really began to get into the story. I love the visual references about New York's surroundings(especially because I have never been there before) they really made me feel like I was there in the story, at the parties or really in the nightclubs! Bliss(one the three main female characters) could have been a bit more stronger, she was such a follower and pretty much just went along with whatever Mimi said or did. Especially because she was the IT girl at her old school in Texas, so she should of had more of a mind of her own. Mimi could had been a little bit more realistic. The whole blond -pretty-girl-gets -everything -that- she -wants- all- the- time is a little old and realistically that wouldn't happen(they would have at least  had one moment of that not happening or a moment where they too would fall or something that they didn't like would happen to them just to show that they are 3 -dimensional). Schuyler was... predictable but likable( I really can't think of a complaint for her). I didn't care to much for Jack because he didn't stand with Schuyler and to me that makes him a wimp! If he really loves her than I thought he should stand with her no matter what! Oliver is  a very good friend for forgiving her for turning her back on him for some random,rich, cute boy who barely even notices her(Schuyler)! And I really felt sorry for Dylan because it seemed like all he really wanted was to be with the girl that he couldn't have(Bliss) and every time they got together something or someone would get in the middle, that was terrible for them any way! But overall I would give this book on a scale of 1-10(1 is the worst and 10 is the best) a 7. Characters a 6, setting/backdrop a 11 and just the experience and the joy of reading this a 9. And yes I would be reading the next book and I would love to reread this one!

What's going on today?! prt 1

What is going on today indeed? Lately I have been looking around for different kinds of ebook readers. Why? Because the HP Ipaq 3950 pocket computer that I have been uses  as a book reader for  a year is starting to give me some trouble. Details about this pocket pc  can be found at http://pocketpccentral.net/  and   http://www.ebay.com/  .  With all of the book readers that's on the market today it's enough to make your head spin! There are small one( 4 inch screens on up to 6 inch screens) and big one ( 5inch screens on up to 10inch screens) and I don't know where to start! But there is on out there that has caught my attention. The Augen "The Book" book reader/mp3 player/video player/web surfer.  Now I haven't tried it out yet but the price, features, and size dose look appealing to me but on the other hand I have been reading some reviews about this device that makes have second thought about it. One con that a lot of people keep mentioning is the slow web browser and poorly written user manual and that fact that if you set something as your favorite on the device in the favorite menu that you can not get it off of that menu no matter how hard you try! Hm.. I say just don't set anything as your favorite and only browse the web on it if the moment is necessary and as for the manual just do your very best to get around it(especially for the small price that it is being offered at! Well I'm going to give it a try and then come back to this topic and really say what's on my mind about it!

Fallen by Lauren Kate book review

 This review is about the book Fallen by Lauren Kate and I will be going into some details about the book, so if you don't want a spoiler than don't read this! But if you do want to know about the book before making your own judgement than read on!



I want to start off by saying that I was very disappointed with the out come of this book!  When I first came across this book in the magazine/book isle of  a walmart I (like a lot of other people )was automatically drawn to the beautiful  cover art of this book. The cover: a white/vampire skinned girl with long black hair that covers one half of her face, in a dark and eerie forest setting, wearing a long black Victorian style dress while covering the front of her face with her white/vampire skinned hands(like she was ashamed of something) and while black birds loom over  her head. Wow! But needless to say that the cover was excellent and as I later found out very relevant to the actually story line but I will also soon discover that the cover is one of or the only things that I liked about this book!  The very beginning starts with two characters (that I  later find out are Luce and Daniel) in an Victorian era talking as if they have met before but they haven't sort of... needles to say that it is kind of confusing as the rest of the book is. I do like the the concept(which is falling angels). I think it was a refreshing change from the normal vampire books that are out there and I was excited that someone(Lauren Kate) decided to do something different but maybe and this is a slight maybe(and once again this is only an opinion) maybe this topic was too much for her or anyone else.  And I say this because fallen angels falls into a biblical/religious category and for some people it was a little to much and a little too wrong. And even though I am not one of those people and I do understand that this is just for entertainment purposes, some people may not and with fallen angels you kind of have to do your homework about this subject and I feel like Lauren did not!  Which brings me to my main dislike about this book, good and bad fallen angels!  If you know what an angel is than you would have to say that they are good and a bad one would be the only kind of fallen angel! That's it, period! You can not be a good fallen angel and if you were good than you wouldn't have fallen in the first place! The main character... hm... I like the twist that was presented about the main character(even though a lot of people didn't) the twist to me is that she's this perfect straight A student that ends up in a reform school with a bunch of D or F- low life students. To me that kind of says that no matter who you are you can find yourself in the worst of situations. But I do not like the reason the author gave for why Luce(the main character and narrator) was sent there. She was sent to this reform school in Georgia because she was found at the scene of a death of one of her classmates that she may or may not have something to do with, hm...if I was writing this story I would have placed her in a crazy home instead of a reform school because even if she didn't do it(which we never find out if she did or didn't) it would seem like that would be a traumatic event that would send anyone to a crazy house!  Now onto the reform school itself, there was never any real description of it except for a hallway here or library there so I ended up envisioning something that looks like a castle(I'm not sure what everyone envisioned but that's what I thought). And not only was there a problem with its description but it was unbelievable in the sense that it is suppose to be a reform school(you know with some really bad kids that could  try to brake out or go crazy and start hurting people) but there was a lack of supervision except for the completely useless cameras that the kids found ways to get around and at some point in the story Luce actually leaves campus! Are you kidding me! Which reform school that is out there where you can leave the campus in a black truck that nobody in this school seems to see or care about! That made me think that maybe the reform school is either magically or all in Luce's imagination(but that's not the case but it would make sense if it was). And the part that really bugs me is the plot. The plot is that Luce and Daniel have meet before but in a different life time and of course their in love but Luce doesn't remember all of this because every time she gets with Daniel she dies and comes back 17 years later with no memory of anything and anyone which would have been fine if  there was a more reasonable explanation for it. And I was thinking(forgive me if this is a dumb question) but if she keeps coming back every 17 years as  her self  in a different life but probably with a more modern version of her name than wouldn't that mean that her parents would have to either be immortal and keep having a baby every 17 years and keep naming that baby Luce or that somehow they themselves would have to keep coming back every 17 years to give birth to her so that she can play out this version of her life? And I ask this because in the story the main character even asks the same question about her parents coming back every 17 years too but the question was never answered for either of us(if someone can break it down to me I will be very happy) but I think an explanation that would be suitable for me is that she's a miracle baby and it doesn't matter who her parents are she will still return to life and somehow they(whoever her parents are in this life time) will end up naming her Lucinda but then her last name will not always be Price. But then if she doesn't have that same last name would she still be herself?  As for the rest of the character I can't really say much because there wasn't much of an personal or visual description of them. Oh and Luce is dumb like a lot of the female main characters of these kinds of books. And when I say dumb I don't mean 1+2= 100 kind of dumb I mean dumb as in  she don't get obvious things that you(the reader) and anyone else in the world could easily see(because the writer wrote it that way) and things that you won't expect her to get she dose !  But in conclusion to rate this book on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best  I would give the concept( the whole new fallen angels thing) a 5 ,the characters(main character included) a 3, setting/location(that ridiculous boarding school) a 2 ,the plot a negative 1, and the over all book experience a 3. And will I be reading the part 2 and 3 ? The answer is yes because there was a lot to be explained in this first one and  I want an answer ! But will I be paying for the part 2 and 3 ? Chances are no because I(like everyone now days ) do not have money to waste!