KindleObsessedJust another random rambling!!

Hello! my fellow Kindle-ites, lucky for you I had a complete lack of motivation today and as a result;  I shuffled aimlessly through a whopping 2,500 Kindle downloads and found a few free ones that look interesting.  No, I have not read these yet, yes they are on my Kindle waiting patiently for my attention, and of course, when I am done I will write a snarky little review just for you reading pleasure, until then…live on the edge, grab that bungee cord and jump your bored ass over the bridge.. THEY ARE FREE!!! DOWNLOAD THEM!!!! What are you going to lose? Your pride? I promise… I won’t tell.

Happy Reading!

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Let the Feeding Frenzy Begin!

I never thought “Roe Vs. Wade” would get so wildly out of hand, but in “Unwind” that is precisely what happend.

Imagine that you have a child, and 14 years later, while your sitting at a bar drinking martinis you decide, “Uh… I really don’t want this child anymore, he’s expensive, his grades are crap, and he doesn’t floss.”

No problem! The government can take care of that pesky little problem for you. Take him off your hands… or rather, just take his hands off.

“Unwind” is an entertaining story, regardless of how completly screwed up it is.  It follows the lives of 3 teenagers, who for one reason or another have been signed over to the state, and scheduled to be unwound.  It follows the struggle for their exstance, their search for whats left of human compassion, of people who believe in the edict to make your own choice, to weave your own path.

The trio is faced with forging through a society that would rather use them for their parts instead of their abilities as a whole. “Got a healthy heart? Great…you really won’t be needing it anymore so lets just give it to someone who is worth a damn!”

Along the way they meet an “end of the worlder” with blue hair, and boy who has power problems and crudly drawn shark tattoo, you get to see what happens when your brain short circuts, and best of all you are introduced to an Admiral with a shady background and a disturbing set of teeth.

It is well written, the charachter development is supurb, and most of all, it makes you think. Which I guess could be considered good or bad for some of y’all out there.  My vote? Read it. You won’t regret it.

Happy traveling my peeeps, and remember your life is what you make it. So make it good, or I may take your eyes. Mine are crap and I’m tired of wearing contacts.

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(5/5)

A cop thriller….hum…never, EVER would have guessed that if I was a “judge the book by the cover” type of girl.  Good thing I’m not.

I was a little apprehensive about starting “Fade.” After the disastrous beginning of “Wake” I was concerned that “Lisa McMann” would back slide and start this book the same way. I am please to say…she did not. My brain thanks her immensely.

If you read “Wake” then you know the background for “Fade” damaged girl who walks in peoples dreams meets cute damaged boy who has daddy issues and is an undercover cop.  You also learned that Janie signed a contract with the police force offering her services as a “mental narc.”

Enter book 2.

“Fade” was well written.  It picks up a few months after the 1st ended and follows Janie and Cable through the battles of their next assignment…Catching a sexual predator”

The main problem? Janie is the bait

The underlying problem? Cable doesn’t handle it very well…no, let me rephrase that…Cable doesn’t handle it at ALL.

It had condescending gym teachers, creepy secret journals, wandering hands, exploding beakers, and a boy who has fairly significant commitment issues.

Overall? I liked it.

Again…I knocked it out in 3 hours so obviously it didn’t take an exorbinate amount of energy to read, but… was still detailed enough to keep me going.

There is a 3rd book (still in the works) called “Gone” and it will be the LAST installment in this series. I will (believe it or not) be anxiously awaiting its release, because at the end of the day, of all the books I have read in my life, of all the characters I have met and come to know like the back of my hand; I relate to Cable the most…and all I want for him is happiness.

Merry Wednesday my lovelies..and remember: If your Chem. 2 teacher offers you a meatball…kindly decline.

(4/5)

The beginning of “Wake” was horrible… I’m not going to lie.  The writing was bland, and all over the place.  I felt like I was stuck on a choppy roller-coaster with 5 different tracks and a conductor who was clueless as to which one he wanted to take. Thankfully…the book got better.

If you can stick it out through the first 4 or 5 chapters it is worth it.  The story line finally eases up and a solid plot forms, not just the previous ramblings of a lunatic author that was confused by her own concept.

I enjoyed this book.  It was a fast read…and I mean fast as in “I read this book in about 3 hours complete with interruptions and the occasional Facebook wandering.”

Janie the narrator see peoples dreams…or better yet, is actively involved in them, and Cable is the boy who is freaked out by it. Why? Well, because he dreams of some pretty psychotic things (think Freddy Kruger meets Firestarter) and to add insult to injury…he dreams of mugging down with Janie herself. (You see where I’m going with this?)

The story had plenty of surprizing twist, and a pretty hefty “WTF?” moment about 70% of the way in.

There are annoying uppity rich kids, several accounts of bad parenting, a drugged out best friend who craves attention, 2 lesbian dream sequences, and 1 very cute cop. Seriously? Who could ask for more?

There is indeed a follow-up titled “Fade” and yes I will be reading it, cause once I got passed the headache cause by 8 years of flashbacks and dream swimming, I couldn’t help but wonder about the future of these two very damaged characters.

So happy reading my peeps, and remember…If you wake up one day, in the library, with a Snickers bar in your hand…don’t question it…just eat it.

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(3.5/5)

It’s not often that I pick up a book and am pleasantly surprised by sarcastic humor. It’s not often that I finish a book in 1 day, and it’s also not often that I rewrite the beginning of a book review 5 times before finally settling on telling everyone that I rewrote it 5 times, but alas… that is just what I did.

“Shiver” was a good book. Epic? no, Enjoyable? yes! It was a nice read, no twisting confusing plots, wonderful character development and…ta da… funny. As a matter of fact it was laugh out lout funny in several parts.

But…with great happiness will inevitably come great pain, and I will be honest with you… I did cry. It was brief and yes I hid it from my husband who makes fun of me every time a book gets to me, but sadness to me… in a book anyways… is a good thing. It tells me that the author was good enough to evoke realistic emotion and make me believe in what I am reading.

This book was about a wolf…not a werewolf…but a wolf…who turns into a boy…a boy that saved a little girl and then stood watch over her for 8 years until one day a sad twist of fate left him naked and bleeding on her back patio.

It is also about a girl…who was attacked by wolves as a child, who has parents that are oblivious to her,and her unhealthy obsession with the creatures that tried to end her life.

You as a reader will experience what happens when obsessed morphs into compassion…into love…into a desire to shelter and protect regardless of its personal cost.

There are “pack” rifts, a best friend who spends her free time hopped up on coffee, German poetry, and a set of yellow eyes that will shock even the most stable of people.

What you get…is a story that stands by itself. There is no need for a book 2, there is no need for an upheaval of other mythical creatures, all that is needed is a wolf, and the girl he falls in love with. It’s a simple as that.

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(4.5/5)

Not often am I at a loss for words, almost clueless as how to judge my feelings about a book, but “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” had me… admittedly… a tad bit stumped.

I finished this book last night, and normally the second I’m done I rush to my computer to spill my guts and slings some words, but last night? No… I just put my kindle down and walked off.

This book is a zombie book.  There is absolutely no other way to describe it, and I LOVE zombies.  I flock to the walking dead like most girls flock to Harlequin romances, but this particular book left me…well…emotionally drained.

In the opening of this book you are introduced to Mary.  Mary lives in a world not many of us would be able to deal with. She is shut off from “society”, she lives in a village stuck in the middle of the woods surrounded by the Unconsecrated and an entire cathedral of overbearing nuns.

She is faced with abandonment early on, then betrayal, then hatred and in the end has to choose between a life of easy happieness or constant struggle.

Emotionally, as I already mentioned,  this book is overwhelming, it tears at strings you didn’t know you had and makes you appreciate the ability of free will.

There are weird marital ceremonies, a David Koresh like mother nun, a damaged boy named Travis and a bitter best friend, but in the end…the exact things that make this book odd also hold it together.

Should you read it? Yes…even if all you get out of it is a life lesson in “appreciation”, cause one thing is certain…that is the exact thing I got out of it, and it made my morning a little bit brighter… even if it was raining outside.

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(4/5)

What do you get when you combine a massive power outage, an alcoholic author, a pregnant teenager, a mayor with authority problems, and a deep fried husband? ZOMBIES!

I wanted to hate this book, honestly…I have been so disappointed by my free Kindle finds lately that my hope for this book was completely shot before I even started the 1st chapter. Thank God, I am stubborn and decided to read it anyways.

The writing was average, but the story was compelling in that “I swear… this is one of the weirdest things I’ve read since Black House” kinda way. I was not expecting the walking dead, I was not expecting creepy descriptions of missing brain matter but alas that is what I got, and as messed up as this is about to make me sound… I Freaking Loved It!

The book was separated into 3 sub-books (which normally I hate) but with “Moonlight” it worked. “Keith Knapp” set up an average/everyday cast of character and followed each in their journey to the “epicenter of disaster.”; the different books merely helped in separating the parts of their eventual convergence.

I do not, however, think this book is for everyone. If you don’t like bloody descriptives, stay away cause this book is full of them, but if you are like me and love a good knock down, drag out, mind control, innocent people stuck inside a high school while the rest of the world goes mad sort of book, then by all means… get going, you have a lot of catching up to do.

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(4/5)

I have never been know for being a graceful person…as a matter of fact…most would say that I am clumsy, and not it that cute “every once and a while she slips in a puddle of water” kind of way; but more like the “Hey Misty, watch out, that is a flat surface, it can be a tad bit tricky to walk on” sort of clumsy. The…”She’s so clumsy she’s practically disabled” sort of clumsy, and after years of denying that I actually am as klutzy as people make me out to be, after last night I am inclined to agree.

See, it’s not hard to injure yourself if you really thing about it… the world is full of obstacles; doors, stairs, small yappy dogs, but it takes a whole new breed of people to almost break their nose in their sleep.

Yep, you heard me correctly… I almost broke my nose while 75% unconscious. I have this really bad habit of tucking my arms under my body while I sleep, and for anyone who has ever done this, for say…3 hours, you know that your arms will inevitably fall asleep. So here I am, snoozing away, drool on my pillow, husband snoring, a little piece of heaven in my tiny little insomniatic existence, when I decided…”Uh, I really hate this position… I should flip over”

Easy right? Yeah… not so much, remember how I mentioned the arms falling asleep predicament, well, it’s not very easy to adjust your body with you have limbs that are not wanting to cooperate. You can almost equate it to having 10lb weights tied to your upper torso that you have absolutely no control over. They just lay there, like dead fish.

So here I am… in desperate need to adjust my body into a more comfortable position only my body had decided to go a different route…the “Fat chance in hell your gonna flip over route” So I decided…desperately…to use physics to solve my problems. (Please keep in mind that the equations and relative outcomes of physics are not fully thought of when you are half asleep…this is a very important detail) So, keeping kinetic energy in mind I begin to rock my body, left…right….left…right, until I have just enough force to jut my shoulder and swing my uncooperative appendage to the other side of my body.

Ever heard of the theory; What goes up must come down.? Well, I am here to tell you that I have tested this “theory” and I find it highly accurate, seeing as how once my arm was directly over my head, my elbow (which was also non-responsive) decided it wanted to bend, now bringing my INCREDIBLY heavy arm and hand down onto the bridge of my nose.

Now, it is necessary that you understand my pain, so please…if you will for just a moment imagine dropping a 10 pound weight onto your nose from approximately 1 1/2 feet above you. Got it? Did it make you cringe? I hope so, because to me it felt like a WWF wrestler decided to use my nose as his own personal practice mat.

Keeping all of this in mind, I do feel an obligation to inform you that no, I did not actually break my nose, just my ego, and that amongst all the pain and suffering that I may have inflicted upon myself I can be rest assured that during all of this I did not wake my loving husband…who still continued to snore, through all the wailing, and pillow biting, and flagrant disregard for moral character.

Happy sleeping people, and just remember… where there is a will there is always a way, you just may need to verify your health coverage first.

Let me just start this review by stating… if you are author “Melissa De La Cruz” you should probably NOT read this review, unless you feel like crying today, and then by all means, please read on.

“Blue Bloods” summed up in 4 words = Is it over yet?

This book was a mindless ramble of Upper East Side-Soho name dropping. I actually started wondering, 6 chapters in, if De La Cruz was being paid endorsement frees for the amount of swooning she was doing. This book was SUPPOSED to be about vampires…which it was…abstractly; but if the author was being honest with herself it should have been titled, “How To Survive Rich Bitchy 16-Year-Olds Who Think They Rule The World” It would have been significantly more accurate.

The writing style was obscure, swinging from several different characters’ perspectives all at once, kind of like a book with schizophrenia, or multiple personality disorder, which… if I’m going to be completely honest, the writing “schizophrenically” or not was dismally spectacular to begin with. There was an alarming lack character development, lame “journal” entries, and hastily written unsatisfying angst scenes. Which lets be honest, are the glue that holds the vast majority of these books together.

I was not… even in the remotest way… interested in this book until about 85% in, when a formidable plot finally appeared. Unfortunately it disappeared just as quickly as it had been formed, galloping from a murder mystery tet-a-tet to a Sunday morning church sermon, complete with fallen Archangel and pathetic Gabriel references.

The last 5% of the book was good, but by that point… who even cares anymore?

I’m not certain if I’m going to even attempt to read the follow-up novel, but you never know…the mood may strike me and I may feel like giving De La Cruz a reprieve… until then, read if you dare, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Oh, and P.S. If do indeed plan of reading this waste of good Kindle storage, make sure you drink lots of coffee so you don’t fall asleep and ruin your pretty couch cushions with drool.

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(1/5)

Thought I would share a trailer with all of you.  I am very excited to see this movie, Yes,  I am warped… I have come to grips with this but you have to admit… this movie looks FANTASTIC!  Enjoy!!

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