Ah, drama drama, drama... LOL Popularity always = drama!
In this cute little tale Hadley's world is about to change all in one summer. After her best friend moves away to Texas she decides to go and stay the summer with her grandparents in the Lake Michigan town of Grand Haven. And next door is lurking none other than Simone Hendrickson a teen Idol and TV star. Hadley and Simone become friends and the drama begins! Boys lies and backstabbing are the name of the game in this entertaining novel. This was a great little read. This is the second novel that I've read by this author and I have to say that I really enjoy her work. She writes in a way that is very easy to follow and easy to comprehend. Her stories are riveting and her characters are adorable to say the least. Her stories almost seemed to speak from personal experience which I think is what I like the most about them. They bring me back to the days when I was the age of the characters in the novels and having the same High School drama and issues that they're going through. It is very comforting in that way knowing that others have gone through what I have. Very real and down-to-earth I have to say that I am looking forward to reading more from Krysten Hager and would definitely recommend her books to others ❤️👍🏻💕
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HAHA! R. L. Stine is back on Fear Street ladies and gentlemen! Such a fantastic little horror novel.
Rachel is not as athletic as her sister. Or as talented, or as smart, or even as pretty. She seems to feel like the odd man out in any given situation. So when a handsome, although strange and mysterious, boy asks her to come to his birthday party Rachel is ecstatic! The problem? The party is taking place in a haunted castle-like mansion on an island only inhabited during the summer months. A small group is attending this party... but will they make it back alive when there are no rules to these party games? Ok, right off the bat, I'm a Goosebumps fan. I've been reading Stine since I was young. Love his works! I read this book for a Buddy Read on Litsy and I gotta say that I'm glad I did. This was such a fun little read! Suspense, horror, gore, intrigue with a hint of puppy love... Stine does not disappoint in this relaunch of the Fear Street series. I look forward to reading the other installments. True to form, this is a classic adventure piece at it's best! This was a great read with something new happening on nearly every page.
Axel and his eccentric uncle Professor Otto Lindenbrock discover an ancient text that happens to fall out of one of the Professor's coveted historical tombs. The text explains how to get to the center of the earth through a crater located in Iceland. The farther they descend into the earth, the farther back in time they seem to travel as they begin to see plants and even animals that lived on earth once long ago. With peril and even death lurking around every corner and down every passage, will Axel and his uncle (along with their guide) ever make it to the surface world alive again? However wrought with tons of scientific jargen, this book is not difficult to follow and instead proves to be quite easy for the reader to follow along. With exciting plot twists at every turn, Verne leaves you constantly wondering if our pros will EVER see daylight again. Simply a classic. "Six original novellas by the modern masters of vampire fiction. Awaken to Some Velvet Morning as Nancy Collins puts leather-punk vampire-cum-slayer Sonja Blue on the trail of an ancient witch who bathes in blood. Visit Tanith Lee's The Isle is Full of Noises where a woman embroiled in writing a vampire novel crosses the thin line between reality and fantasy. Tour Hollywood with Orson Welles, an undead private eye, and a teenage slayer in full Cinemascope splendor eith Kim Newman's The Other Side of Midnight....." Anthologies are always difficult to review. Every author has a different style and every story is written in a different way. Out of the six novellas here I personally liked two of them. They were well written and very sexy. The other four were kind of... meh. One of them was more of a cops and robbers type story. I'm sure that somebody who enjoys reading sexy vampire stories would enjoy this book.Anthologies are always difficult to review. Every author has a different style and every story is written in a different way. Dr. Jason Howard works for GHP and when his seemingly healthy patients begin to die of massive strokes and aneurysms he starts to lose his confidence and wonders what he's doing wrong in his practice. But when he starts to talk to colleagues and they confide in him that they are having the same problems with their own patients Jason begins to wonder if there isn't something on an epidemic level going on. When an eccentric colleague confides in him that he's made a major breakthrough in his research but dies before he can divulge what exactly, Jason is left to put the puzzle pieces together and find out what exactly is killing everyone. Can he find out before it's too late?
Perfectly written and executed story. Yet another great one by Robin Cook. He is definitely the undisputed Master of the Medical Thriller! I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I will definitely be recommending it. There's trouble in Camelot! Can Josh and his six Companions of the Seven Sleepers sent by the spiritual leader Goel keep Camelot from the grip of the Dark Lord? The Seven Sleepers may need more then Reb's sword skills, they will need the power of Goel to defeat the Dark Lord and save Camelot.
What a great little epic. Perfect for younger readers. This would be a great beginner book into the world of fantasy as only King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table can do. The story is well written and well laid out. The illustrations, though black and white, are very beautiful and add finishing touches to the story and it's chapters. The cover design is beautiful and eye-catching. I would definitely recommend this book for the younger readers and I would be interested in reading the rest of the series myself. "Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?"
I may be the only one who thinks this, but I could not get through this book. I found it to be a total snooze fest. The story was very uninteresting and the author's writing style was very difficult to follow the story line. I try to finish every book I pick up but this one I just couldn't finish. I bailed 👎🏻 Diana Montgomery has been sent back in time to undo what the Disruptor has done in changing time and thereby altering the future. Sent back to Scotland in the 1300s her mission as an Agent of Time Weavers, Inc. is to find the Disruptor and undo what's been done. In order to do this she needs to ensure that a Scottish Laird dies. But she has a problem... Torr MacPherson, the Lord she needs to ensure is killed. How can she possibly assist the demise of a man that makes her feel so alive? Can Diana complete her mission?
Sensual and deliciously sexy, this novel was a pleasure to read. Very well written and the characters were very well developed. This novel took my breath away at times. The authors descriptive powers seem nearly overwhelming as her characters and scenes jump right out of the page. I definitely recommend this book to all who need a little Highland romance in their lives 😉 In this futuristic dystopian novel, the world is in crisis. The Sun causes cancer more readily because the ozone layer is pretty much gone. Women have stopped conceiving. And there have been numerous UFO sightings. This causes world wide panic. People are actually stealing babies and even murdering pregnant women to extract the babies from their bodies and sell them on the black market. Looting and rioting are rampant. In the midst of all this insanity, John and Megan suddenly find themselves expecting a child. They figure that Megan conceived the day before worldwide conception stopped. Their baby maybe one of the last ever born if this crisis is not solved. But can John protect Megan from the evils of this world so the baby has a chance to be born?
A little slow to start but this book proves to be most entertaining. It was well written and planned out and easy for the reader to follow. The characters were well developed and believable. The story does not only give off a dystopian vibe but also has a feel of espionage in it. All in all this was a great story and I would definitely recommend this book. I think the editor of this book needs to work on their reviewing skills. There are tons of little typos and grammar errors in this book such as these: The gist of the story is that Layla finds out her boyfriend has been cheating on her when she discovers naked pictures of some girl on his phone. Layla attempts to text the girl but instead ends up texting the guy that she thinks is the biggest jerk in school. They continue to text each other however (under seudo names) and begin a relationship.
Though the story is cute in essence I feel that it was a bit forced. Or perhaps unrealistic? I'm not sure which. I know that I personally think that the book is WAY too revolved around the idea of texting. Perhaps its because I'm of the 90's generation that grew up without texting and smart phones. I just feel that that's really all the book was... two people texting each other back and forth. This may be interesting to some but it just didn't blow my skirt up. Perhaps this is written for the younger generations to enjoy. I'm not quite sure. However I'm sure that a younger person would probably get more out of it than I did. After this book gets recalled and retyped without all the errors, I would recommend this book to the right person. The story is cute. |
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