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Robots Are Creepy!

January 22nd, 2010

Everyone loves a Fairytale, it’s what we grew up on…stories of Cinderella and her glass slipper, tales of Little Red Ridding Hood and her fight to save her grandmother’s life. We relish in the details, little girls spend hours pretending that their handsome prince is right around the corner, but what happens when there is no happy ending? Well, if you have read the original “Brothers Grimm Tales” then you already know, but for the rest of you…just imagine if the handsome prince wasn’t so handsome…imagine that after 5 months in the castle Cinderella concluded her new husband was a whack job…imagine if someone decided to twist the stories we grew up loving.

“Amanda Marrone” did exactly that in “Devoured” twisting and turning the story of Snow White in to a whole new tale of desperation and greed.

Megan has a little problem…her sister Remy is a ghost. A very small, very wet, very cranky ghost, who follows “Meggy” everywhere showing her glimpses of dead girls and throwing epic tantrums that cause light bulbs to shatter. Her father is in a coma, her mother spends every waking hour training a dog to dance, and there’s a new boy in the mix that turns out to be a “Ghost Whisperer.”

After deciding her boyfriend has a little too much freedom, Megan takes a job playing the part of Snow White, in the “Land of Enchantment” amusement park, and while she’s ok with fake smiles and dads who tend to grope she’s not ok with hiding from approaching death in an oven in the Hansel and Gretel ride.

The writing was fluid and the plot was intriguing, like I said before…”Marrone” took a story we all know and love and flipped it into a full out battle of psycho ancestors and a magic mirror with a warped sense of humor. The ending was a little bit abrupt, but by no means did it affect the story.

There were creepy moments inside a dark tunnel, a drunk mother who loves pink velour, haywire nursing home equipment, bad apples, a very dedicated father willing to do anything for his deranged daughter, hidden graves, and 1 very good reason to never loose your keys.

Overall I liked it… it was nice to see things from a different angle.

Get it, live it, love it…pass it on.

Happy reading my fellow Fairytale lovers and remember: never waste your 3rd wish.

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(4/5)

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Amanda Marrone, Devoured, Ghost, Snow White

Move That TREE!!

November 7th, 2009

Everybody’s definition of “rock bottom” is different, but is there ever a point, where the instability of your mind and life should lead to you opening your bedroom window for a vampire that has been stalking you for 3 months? Probably not right?

Unfortunately for Jordan… that’s exactly what it meant.

Jordan is in high school..not that she attends all that much, she would rather spend her time drowning her social anxiety in booze and coke, but being high and drunk is like second nature to her more than attending class is anyways…a way of dropping off the planet or making her “pitiful” existence seem a little more worthy.

What she doesn’t realize (until the end of the book of course) is that no matter how many bottles of her mother’s Peach Schnapps she drinks, her problems are still gonna be there after she’s finishing chacking in the bathroom.

Her life is a back hole…a downward spiral, but to add insult to injury, Jordan can’t leave the house after dark…not since an angry Vampire took up residence outside her bedroom window.

The plot is intriguing, depressing, and hopeful all at the same time. This is “Amanda Marrone’s” 1st YA novel, and she takes her audience (successfully) on an not so joyfull ride of teenage substance abuse, the ability to recognize failure, and the need to cope with mortality, all the while throwing in a kick ass subplot of “angry un-dead boyfriend.”

I enjoyed “Uninvited”. It was well written, and in the end had a moral that every teenager should heed to.

There was purple hair, friends returning from rehab, emotional breakdowns, a very uncomfortable basement scene, and one very life altering moment involving a cliff and several screams for HELP!

If you are the parent of a teenager, I advise YOU more than anyone else to read this book…to understand that this could be your child, and to recognize then signs if it is.

If you are a teenager…read it, like it…and then file it away into the “I will NEVER be like this” part of your brain.

And if you are the person looking for an uplifting read…you too should read it, because, while the first 80% will make you very uncomfortable and probably thinking I’ve lost my marbles, the ending will make you smile.

Enjoy and happy reading my fellow narcissist and remember… Not everyone is your enemy…sometimes they are your salvation.

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(4/5)