secret rules to follow and shocked by meg cabot; the january booklist
This month was helped by the discovery of the fabulous book communities of livejournal. ebookshare, snookslibrary, and lastreads. The last one which has formed a book club that I'm gonna participate in, so if you're interested you should wander over there.
01. Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
02. Big Boned by Meg Cabot
03. Jinx by Meg Cabot
04. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
05. Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
06. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
07. Under the Rose by Diana Peterfreund
08. She Went all the Way by Meg Cabot
I went on quite the Meg Cabot kick, and it started from last month's Heather Wells mystery, so the second and the third book in the trilogy are at the top of this month's list. They were both pretty good, and since I read them so close together they sort of blended in my mind. By the third one it was getting kind of ridiculous that all these murders were taking place in the same dorm, so I am glad that the author realized that and made it a short series. I didn't actually know when I read the third one that it was the last one, but by the end of it it was pretty obvious. Like the fact that everyone gets paired off.
Jinx was next and I think I expected alittle too much from it, I adore the author, and the story was about a red headed witch. But it ended up reminding me too much of The Craft. There was the love spell gone awry creating a crazy stalker guy, another witch that the good one had to bind to stop her from hurting people, and the wiccan shopkeeper that could tell that the heroine was a good natural witch. So yeah, not awful, but not the best.
Queen of Babble and Glass Houses I started at about the same time, I was sort of disillusioned with Meg Cabot, but I knew that I liked her other books so yeah. Glass Houses was one of the better post Buffy vampire novels that I've read, the main character Claire is a bit like Meyer's Bella. She would stumble her way into bad situations and I had trouble looking away from the train wreck that would come from it. There was also a nice relationship buildup and when it happened I hadn't seen it coming, which is a rarity.
Queen of Babble was amusing, I went through it pretty easily, and there were only a few times when I wanted to smack the babble queen because she really did have issues shutting up. And oh wow, dirty! There was only one scene, okay well two but the first doesn't count, but I really wasn't expecting it at all. There isn't a huge difference between her teen & adult books so I forgot at times that it was written for adults.
The Secret Society series took me by surprise. I meant to start 'She Went all the Way' but the ebook refused to format properly for my ipod so when I was out of town for the weekend I started the first book just for something to do while waiting for my friend to get off of work and continued to read it every free minute I had. I think I finished the first one that night and continued on to the second, and finished it pretty quickly as well. I'm a Gilmore Girls fan, and some of my favorite fan fic stories center around Rory joining The Life and Death Brigade, and this series is very much like that. The story takes place at Eli, which is an ivy league university in New Haven, and quite obviously Yale, and follows the student editor of the school's Lit Mag as she is tapped for some secret society. And I'm now impatiently waiting for the third.
She Went all the Way finishes this month's list. I almost abandoned it a third of the way through, because it employs the 'I've spent more then five minutes alone with someone and realized that I'm madly in love in them!' cliche. But it was a mystery and I wanted to know who hired the bad guys. The answer was kind of boring, it didn't click and make me think "Yes! It's gotta be!" and up until the very end I was hoping that it was a red herring and she'd come up with the perfect person who'd tie it all together. It was had it's fair share of dirty scenes, and she won't surprise me again, next time I'll see them coming, I swear! Still nowhere near the level of some of the most recent Anita Blake books. Even through my disappointments I still adore her though, I'm sure more Meg Cabot books will pop up in my lists.
01. Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
02. Big Boned by Meg Cabot
03. Jinx by Meg Cabot
04. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
05. Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
06. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
07. Under the Rose by Diana Peterfreund
08. She Went all the Way by Meg Cabot
I went on quite the Meg Cabot kick, and it started from last month's Heather Wells mystery, so the second and the third book in the trilogy are at the top of this month's list. They were both pretty good, and since I read them so close together they sort of blended in my mind. By the third one it was getting kind of ridiculous that all these murders were taking place in the same dorm, so I am glad that the author realized that and made it a short series. I didn't actually know when I read the third one that it was the last one, but by the end of it it was pretty obvious. Like the fact that everyone gets paired off.
Jinx was next and I think I expected alittle too much from it, I adore the author, and the story was about a red headed witch. But it ended up reminding me too much of The Craft. There was the love spell gone awry creating a crazy stalker guy, another witch that the good one had to bind to stop her from hurting people, and the wiccan shopkeeper that could tell that the heroine was a good natural witch. So yeah, not awful, but not the best.
Queen of Babble and Glass Houses I started at about the same time, I was sort of disillusioned with Meg Cabot, but I knew that I liked her other books so yeah. Glass Houses was one of the better post Buffy vampire novels that I've read, the main character Claire is a bit like Meyer's Bella. She would stumble her way into bad situations and I had trouble looking away from the train wreck that would come from it. There was also a nice relationship buildup and when it happened I hadn't seen it coming, which is a rarity.
Queen of Babble was amusing, I went through it pretty easily, and there were only a few times when I wanted to smack the babble queen because she really did have issues shutting up. And oh wow, dirty! There was only one scene, okay well two but the first doesn't count, but I really wasn't expecting it at all. There isn't a huge difference between her teen & adult books so I forgot at times that it was written for adults.
The Secret Society series took me by surprise. I meant to start 'She Went all the Way' but the ebook refused to format properly for my ipod so when I was out of town for the weekend I started the first book just for something to do while waiting for my friend to get off of work and continued to read it every free minute I had. I think I finished the first one that night and continued on to the second, and finished it pretty quickly as well. I'm a Gilmore Girls fan, and some of my favorite fan fic stories center around Rory joining The Life and Death Brigade, and this series is very much like that. The story takes place at Eli, which is an ivy league university in New Haven, and quite obviously Yale, and follows the student editor of the school's Lit Mag as she is tapped for some secret society. And I'm now impatiently waiting for the third.
She Went all the Way finishes this month's list. I almost abandoned it a third of the way through, because it employs the 'I've spent more then five minutes alone with someone and realized that I'm madly in love in them!' cliche. But it was a mystery and I wanted to know who hired the bad guys. The answer was kind of boring, it didn't click and make me think "Yes! It's gotta be!" and up until the very end I was hoping that it was a red herring and she'd come up with the perfect person who'd tie it all together. It was had it's fair share of dirty scenes, and she won't surprise me again, next time I'll see them coming, I swear! Still nowhere near the level of some of the most recent Anita Blake books. Even through my disappointments I still adore her though, I'm sure more Meg Cabot books will pop up in my lists.