Thursday 14 July 2011

Book Review (Fever)

(read: 12/July/11)
      Fever

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Leopard People series, ominous, prequel novella & book 1
Pub: 2006, US by The Berkley Publishing Group
Author: Christine Feehan
Cat: paranormal romance (shapeshifters)
Format: paperback (mid); 00 pp w/ 00 chapters
Whose: Bandt & Maggie/Rachel & Rio
Age Range: adults

                Synopsis
In "The Awakening," a beautiful naturalist's dream comes true-to live among the feral jungle creatures. But an untamed, irresistible beast of another sort inspires her to explore her own wild side.
  
Wild Rain's Rachel Lospostros has escaped from a faceless assassin and found sanctuary thousands of miles from home, under the towering jungle canopy. In this world teeming with unusual creatures she encounters Rio, a native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, and possessed of secrets of his own. When Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood, Rachel must decide if he is something to be feared-or desired.
 
      my Thoughts (review)
we start with the start and that’s ‘the Awakening’, this book, though it had great characters and the story, wonderful it wasn’t really all that interesting, to me. There was something missing in it and made me not particularly want to read the books—like if I had to actually go out and buy the next I wouldn’t have read any more of this series. But....
     
The book was about a child that went missing, though there was a story to why, and in her loss her soul mate, and the one she had been promised too, new she was out there but couldn’t find her. Frustrating, right? so he gets her to come to the jungle—since if he couldn’t the story wouldn’t have been able to begin, and then pretty much makes her fall for him. I’m not talking like (wow, I did this bad, sorry it’s the weird mood I woke up it)—the worse thing is that’s what he did, only she couldn’t really help falling for him, being that they were soul mates and all. And so they fell in love, and with that love he realised what he had done wasn’t really, well, right but she was happy right where she was.
     
Now to the book; Wild Rain is like the one above and yet totally different.
     
So Rachael is on the run and she finds herself in the jungle, trying to escape she finds a hut she thinks is for passersby but really belongs to a pacific person, Rio. Who, believe it or not, isn’t the most popular of leaped people. And that’s when the story really takes off, a lot of falling and wondering why, flashback of a time long forgotten. And a story of two people falling in love and who fit together better than any other characters I have read about in a long time. They complete each other even while she believes she’ll never be able to keep him. Not without getting him killed.
     
I actually really like this story even when I thought I wouldn’t, it wasn’t that it grabbed me, or held me there at the end of my seat, it was a lulling story one to read when your winding down or hit a ruff stop, there’s just something peaceful about this book, or at least I thought so, maybe I’m seeing something there that there’s not, but it’s one of the only books I’ve read in awhile, and especially in this genre that hasn’t had that heart beating ending. But it’s not saying there isn’t sauce on this burger, just... it was more... I don’t know, the book just seemed relaxing, even when the people in it weren’t.

Fav line:
“Did you really think I was going to go crawl in a hole and live a miserable life without you? What kind of man do you think I am?”

Series
 [tb], Burning Wild, Wild Fire, Savage Nature,

book review (twilight series)


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Twilight
Series: Twilight series, book 1
Pub: 2005,
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 434 pp w/ 25 chapters
Age Range: YA

            Synopsis
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
    
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret.
    
What Bella doesn’t realize is that the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And it might be too late to turn back...
    
Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, Twilight is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page.

     Thoughts
Okay, so this was the book that brought books into my line of sight, and at the time (you know when I thought there wasn’t any better) I liked it. Though Bella annoyed me, so did the language, like really, do teenagers talk like that? Still it was good; making a good start to a semi okay series. It’s the one where we learn about Edward and she falls in love with him at first sight and him with her. I actually really like the back of the book where she does the part where Edward first sees her, it’s really good.
    
To be honest until the movie ruined the whole I idea of her vampires, I actually liked that swing, making them stone, and even still with all the questions about...um...sex, I still liked that she went with something different. That you weren’t going to get it anywhere else. Though I actually prefer the more original take on vampires, ‘cause there isn’t as many (this thought gets to graphic, sorry) I liked that she went somewhere new with it all. 
    
Anyway, Bella ends up being chased by a... I’m not really sure, a tracker or something and then Edward hides her and she goes and meets the man anyway and then she’s bitten and Edward sucks the venom out of her vein’s proving to himself that she’s safe with him?
    
Yeah I’m not doing a very good job at this, sorry, but I haven’t actually read them in a long while.
    
The book basically, to me, has the chick who can’t do anything but be a girlfriend to Edward, and yet because of that—even though she’s suppose to be like older in ways of thinking, she’s more a teen than anything else threw the book. It’s like...yeah, well obviously it wouldn’t have been all that good for her not to run off by herself, and all that was actually a great part of the book, but still... it’s just one of those book that is all about the teenage crush, and dropping everything to be with this guy and falling so in love, and you can’t do anything without them, and like yeah. That’s it really. A vampire twist to a obsessive teen girl relationship. It’s the one thing that my mum didn’t like about the idea of it, about the story (though this is more of talking about it and movie, I don’t believe she’s read the books). She thought it wasn’t that great a book to allow your teenage girl to read because of its total obsessiveness towards a male. Like she’s can’t live without one, can’t grow up without that boyfriends. But then she thinks that about a lot of the books out there. I just use this in this book because this series is very much like that. Like she’s no one without Edward.

Oh, and there’s a story at the end—a chapters, in Edwards head when he first meets Bella, and to be honest it’s actually good, even with its old school thought process. It’s called Midnight Sun
☼☼☼

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New Moon
Series: Twilight series, book 2
Pub: 2006, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 563 pp w/ 25 chapters
Age Range: YA

            Synopsis
‘Shoot,’ I muttered when the paper sliced my fingers;
I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.
It all happened very quickly then.
“No!” Edward roared... Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm – into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
    
For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important that life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may be just beginning...
    
Passionate, riveting and deeply moving, New Moon, the compelling sequel to Twilight, irresistibly combines romance and suspense with a supernatural twist.

     Thoughts
Has got to be the crappest of all the books, and though it’s more about Jake, and that’s fine it’s just a bad book. But she does the whole heart break thing really well, I thought. Like any teenager who had lost their ‘soul mate’ *eye roll*
    
Okay so this one Edward leave and instead of her being safe she’s hunted down by the mate of the dude from the first book, who wants to punish Edward for killing the dude that she’s going after Bella for her revenge, only problem, all the teenagers in the reserve are turning into werewolves.
    
Oh, and Edward ends up thinking she’s dead and goes to get himself killed, so she has to rush to save him, and meets there vampire leaders who are interested in her ability to block them.
    
But all in all, boring as book, though you can’t really miss it, if you want a full scale of the series, even from the movie point of view... man, even worse, she can’t act love sick. Anyway, it’s just one of those books that you have to lug yourself threw to really get a few things.
☼☼☼

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Eclipse
Series: Twilight series, book 3
Pub: 2007, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 628 pp w/ 28 chapters
Age Range: YA

            Synopsis
‘Bella?’ Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine – like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.
    
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob – knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolves. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: but which is which?
    
Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer’s captivating saga of vampire romance.

     Thoughts
Is a better book, like the first I thought. And is about a vampire, the one from the book above, who is building an army to come and kill them all. Only all it does it gets the vampires and wolves working together. This one is all about Bella choosing between the two boys, though we all knew it was always Edward and a proposal.
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Breaking Dawn
Series: Twilight series, book 4
Pub: 2008, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 754 pp w/ 39 chapters
Age Range: YA

            Synopsis
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
    
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan.  Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.
    
Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life – first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse – seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?

     Thoughts
The last book is, well, the end. Bella and Edward marry, they go off to the honey moon, were she winds up pregnant and then they come home.
    
This book is in three parts, and the only thing that saves it is that the second part is Jakes and is about him helping to protect Bella and her unborn baby from the pack killing them.
    
Then the kid is born and Jake... well if you don’t know I don’t want to ruin it.... and part three starts with Bella being a vampire. And it’s all about her adjusting and the head vampires coming to kill her kid after someone told them they converted a child.
    
Which is a big no no in there world.

Series
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, [tb]
☼☼☼
Overall view: Okay so they are about a girl going to live with her dad ‘cause her mother is selfish and wants to run wild with her new husband. Only at the place she hates she meets Edward and Jake and falls in love with one, and into something with the other, and then she makes a choice, has a kid and everyone lives happily ever after, the end.
☼☼☼
Parental note: this book is... well, if you let your kid watch the movie, then let them read the books, seriously. So there is sexual context though chase, and more in the later books, and though there is one part that is spoke threw sex, it’s not really that noticeable unless you’re really thinking about it (like it took me, till the second read to realise, and I know what I’m reading about). Anyway, it’s chase, in a teen way, and very much, I think, on spot, so yeah.
☼☼☼
Other work in this series: the short second life of Bree Tanner.
Other books: Host.