Book Review 5

5. Touch of Frost - Jennifer Estep
359 Pages  Finished 1-19-13
Main Characters: Gwen Frost Daphne, Carson & Logan.
Book 2: Kiss of Frost
Ok mythology based book.  Good voice, sounds like a teenager talking.  Some foul language & inapropriate references to drinking, drugs, & sex. Could've done without all of that.  Points for use of the word, Froufrou. Cool device - She can see the history of objects she touches.  She goes to a school where everyone is a warrior from some group of ancient warriors.  There are Trojans, Spartans, Amazons, and even some samurai.  But Gwen is different. She becomes friends with Daphne and Carson and falls for Logan. Good story.
Slight recommendation.

Book Review 4

4.  Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas
404 pages  Finished 1-16-13
Main Characters - Celaena, Dorian, & Chaol
Book 2: Crown of Midnight
Excellent Fantasy. Well written, great grammar.  Light cursing that I could have done without but not too bad.  They all have crazy names but they are at least all crazy.  I would read this one again.
Calaena is an assassin that is released from a horrible prison to be entered in a contest to be the king's champion.  She doesn't want to go back to the cave prison so she agrees. She gets close to the captain of the guard that trains her.  And the prince.
I recommend this one.

Book Review 3

3. Talents - Inara Scott
293 Pages  Finished 1-12-13
Main Characters - Dancia (no idea how to pronounce), Jack & Cam.

Pretty good book. I really liked that the girl picks the good guy over the bad boy.  Its a good book but I don't know that I really need to read the sequel. Dancia has the ability to make things happen and does when someone is in trouble.  She gets a scholarship to a private academy called Delacroix.  She meets two boys there, Jack - a troublemaker and Cam - the good boy.  They both like her.  As I previously said she picks the good one.  My other thought was that she has some odd attachment issues.
I wouldn't read this one again. So I wouldn't recommend this book.

Book Review 2

2. Amber House - Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, & Larkin Reed
349 Pages   Finished 1-8-13
Main Characters - Sarah, Jackson, & Sam
Part 1 of 3 Book 2 - Neverwas
Great paranoralish novel!  Like nothing I've ever read, deliciously creepy in some places.
After going to her grandmother's funeral Sarah meets Jackson and they become friends while checking out her families ancestral home called Amber House.  Her brother Sam has Autism. Her parents are in the process of a divorce.  She discovers an ability to "see" the past lives of the women that lived in Amber House.  It has a amazing twist that I wouldn't spoil for anyone reading this for the wide world!
I HIGHLY recommend this book!!

Book Review 1

1. The Unnaturalists - Tiffany Trent
305 pages  Finished 1-6-13
Main Characters - Syrus, Bayne & Vespa
Pretty good Steam-punk novel.  Left unfinished in my Opinion.
Takes place in Victorian London.  But of course its different.  Its about Vespa, a girl that helps her father out at a museum for Unnaturals.  Unnaturals are things like pixies, and monsters. She is fascinated with the work.  Syrus is a tinker, his family is into working with "machines." They end up joining forces to overcome an evil group thats exploiting people, but in a much more devious way. They use the unnaturals to power their machines.

Book Reviews

I am going to start transcribing my book reviews onto my site from my book journal.  I have read quite a few that I would read again and some that were fine to read once.  Unfortunately there have been a couple that I hope no one else ever reads. That part of why I wanted to not just keep my reviews to myself.

Indiana

My mom and I have been down in Indiana for the last week and a half.  My aunt and uncle were in a really bad car wreck and needed some help so we came down.  The weather was amazingly lovely so I took advantage of it and went out and took a bunch of pictures.   These were ones that I really liked out of the pictures I have shot. My doggy friend is Buddy.

 Night moon

 Center lake Lion

 I threw an acorn in the water for this shot

 How is there still a dandelion still "alive"

 Awesome reflections in the lake

 For Megan!!

 perfect fall reflection

 Nature Encroaching

 One Lone Leaf

 Shattered stick

 Me and my Buddy

 A

 lowered vibrance on swingset

 Red berries

 The lake

 Loved this fallen log with the vine growing over it

 awesome blending

 Purple flower still living

 ripple in the water

 rope in sepia tone

 swing with intense color

 swing with muted color

 the woods

wild grasses.