Jessicas Guide For Dating On The Darkside
By Beth Fantaskey
Published By Graphia In 2009
Pages 372
Subjects/Themes:Vampires, Romance, Family, Royalty
This book was about Jessica Packwood (a.k.a Antanasia) who starts her Senior year off by being followed by Lucius Vladescu who tells her and her parents that he is Jessicas betrothed and that she is a vampire princess. Her parents let him live in the house and during that whole time she is trying to wrap her head around the fact that shes a vampire and tries to think of a logical explanation about all the weird things that are happening. The whole book is a journey for her to except her true self.
I have to say this book was very good and had lots of drama that kept you going. But at the end it got very boring with politics in the vampire world.
4/5 Stars
Goddess Of Yesturday
By Caroline B Cooney
Published By Random House Books For Young Readers
Pages 254
Themes/ Subjects: Fake Identity, Gods, Greek, Treason
First Line:" I was six years old when King Nicander came to the island of my birth, demanding tribute and hostage."
This novel is about Anaxandra who is taken from her birth island when she is 6 by the King Nicander who takes her to the island Siphnos to accompany his daughter Callisto who is not able to walk. There she shes new things and is taken in as a hostage daughter. The Kings family, which includes queen Petra his wife, don't see her as a simple peasent. They see her as a daughter and think of her marked by her goddess of yesturday, whom they worshiped back on her old island. But as six years pass their island was sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Callisto burned to death, Nicander stabbed in the back, and Petra is taken as a slave as soon as she was forced to walk on her husbands body. Anaxandra scares off the pirates by taking an octapus on her head and impersonated Medusa (who is really said to have an octapus and not snakes on her head). When King Menelaus comes to the island seeing the smoke from the buildings, Anaxandra takes the identity of Callisto and is taken to Sparta where Menelaus rules. But his wife Helen does not believe that she is Callisto. Than Paris of Troy comes to Sparta to get a blood debt from killing a baby and he seduces Helen. He takes Helen to Troy to marry, which is treason. Anaxandra is forced to go with in Helens daughters Hermoine since everyone knew she would be killed. There she falls in love and has to fight for her life.
This was one of my favorite adventure books so far and I could not put it down. It had very interesting facts and many battles.
4/5 Stars
Wicked: Witch & Curse
By Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
Published By Simon Pulse In 2006
Pages 627
Themes/ Subjects: Witches, Past Generation, Revenge, Covens
First Line: "Oh Great."
These two books combined are about two rival witch covens that have a long, old history: The Cahors and the Deveraux. 17-year oldHolly Cathers was in Arizona for a vacation and they were rafting in the Grand Canyon when there was a huge storm and all of the people including her parents, best friend, and tour guide. She was the only survivor. She goes to live with her best friends mom but she is severly hurt and no one knows why she won't get better. So she goes to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire Cathers-Anderson, her uncle Richard, and two 17-year old cousins Amanda and Nicole who Holly didn't know existed until her parents died. While there in Seattle she gets a deaf, completely white, blue-eyed cat named Bast, after a goddess. Whenever Holly tells her a wish it comes true. Then she meets Jer Deveraux, whom she didn't know was her families enemy, and she falls in love with him even though they are not able to associate with each other. Throughout the rest of this book Michael, Jer's father, tries to kill the rest of the Cathers family. This trails on into the next book where Holly and her cousin Amanda start there own coven and practice their wizardry. They battle the Deveraux etc. etc.
The rest of the book drags on and it made me really bored with it.
2/5 Stars
Heart On My Sleeve
By Ellen Wittlinger
Published by Simon Pulse in 2004
Pages 214
Themes/Subjects: E-mails, Relationships, Family, Love
First Line" Hey Julian!"
The main character Chloe goes to Connecticut for a weekend to check out a college and she meets a guy Julian. They get to know each other in many "ways". When Chloe leaves she starts emailing Julian and thinks that maybe she should break-up with her boyfriend Eli who is also her best friend. Chloe launches herself into a world of e-mails and IM-ing. She can't wait until Julian comes to Boston and while shes waiting the whole summer for it to happen her sister comes out of the closet, she goes to volunteer at the camp which is her second home and meets ANOTHER guy that she thinks is a jerk but then starts to really like in the end. Her whole summer is full of drama, big crushes and learning to accept the new.
Overall this book was very drawn out and sometimes you got bored with the long messages and you just skip over those parts. There were some very good parts to it but at the end you just think "Well that wasn't worth the time" This wasn't the worst but not the best
3/5 Stars
I found out about this on Zakiya Ladywings blog (Butterfly Feet Walking on Books)
Anyone can join
All you have to do is the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two "teaser" sentences from that page
*Be Careful Not To Include Spoilers!(Don't give away too much information about the book)
*Share the title and author as well, so other Teaser participants can add that book to their TBR
My teasers this week are from Wicked:Witch and Curse by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
"She'd pushed and finally he'd opened up just a crack"
"She was beginning to wonder who had really done all the work on it"
(from page 188)
book: The Dead And The Gone By Susan Beth Pfeffer
Published By Graphia 2008
Pages 308
Themes/Subjects: End Of The World, Survival, Faith In God, Family
First Line:" At the moment when life as he had known it changed forever, Alex Morales was behind the counter at Joey's Pizza, slicing a spinach pesto pie into eight roughly equal pieces."
This book was about Alex Morales, a 17 year old puerto-rican boy living in New York City. One day while at work an astroid hit the moon and pushed it closer to the Earth causing catastrophic events which cause most of the people in the world to die. His Father, who was in Puerto-Rico when this happened, his Mother, who went to work in Queens that night, and his brother Carlos, who is in the Marines, are never to be heard of again. He is left to take care of his two younger sisters, Brianna, who is 14, and Julie, just on the verge of 13. He sends Brianna off to a convent where she would get food and warmth. This would help Julie and him save food since it was all running out around the world. Just as soon as things couldn't get worse, all the volcanoes in the world start errupting causing ash to block out sunlight.
Then, many bodies started appearing on the streets so Alex and his friend Kevin go bodyshopping to get coats and many other things to trade for food. This goes well until Brianna comes bad with a horrible case of asthma which was caused by all the ash in the air. All three of them struggle through December, and they are hit with grief. Kevin died while body shopping with Alex and a tree limb fell on his neck, and Brianna died on an elevator going up to the floor they are on, with her inhaler and rosary beads in her hands. Alex and Julie finally get a way to get out of New York before they run out of food.
This book was not the best because Alex was always ordering his sisters around and he didn't care if they wanted to do it or not. Also because they had a lot of dead bodies in it which were described very well and gave you a bad image. I would recommend this to anyone who is a guy and won't get grossed out at the descriptions.
2.5/5 Stars
So i just found out i have won the Oh My Blog award from Zakiya and i am jumping down right now. One things for sure is that i wasn't expecting it since i only started my blog last week. So thank you Zakiya :D
Rules:
1. Get Really Excited that you got the coolest award EVER! (Already Done)
2. Choose one of the following options of accepting the OMB Award :
- Get really drunk and blog for fifteen minutes straight , or for as long as you can focus.
- Write about your most embarrassing moment.
- Write a "Soundtrack Of Your Childhood" post
- Make your next blog a "vlog" (video blog). Basically your talking to the camera about whatever.
- Take a picture of yourself first thing in the morning, before you do anything else (hair, makeup, etc,) and post it
3. Pass the award on to at least three, but preferably more, awesome bloggers. Don't forget to tell them
I can't drink the wine, and i will not be posting videos or pics and i will have trouble doing the songs so i will do the embarrassing moment.
My embarrassing moment is from this past May when my whole grade went on a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we went to a buffet at the end of the trip and me and my friends were cracking up about something and then another girl told us that something weird was going on in the womans bathroom so me and my other friend followed the other girl (we were still cracking up and not paying attention to anything) so when we got to the bathroom my crush happened to just appear out of no where so me and my friend shrieked really loudly.
I think i shall pass this along to Paperdoll at Book Memoirs , Elyssa at Broken Daydreams & A Literary Odyssey, and Julie at 5-squared
