Reading Splurge
I've gone on a bit of a reading splurge lately. Been a long time since I was into reading. Must be the writer's block. *nods* Unfortunately reading these books keeps sparking my interest in other stories I've started but not the one I want to write. *grrr*
This was really interesting. It's about this tattoo artist apprentice who finds a story in a dead guy's apartment. The story is about an imagined documentary about a troubled family that moves into a house that's bigger on the inside than on the outside (I hate it when that happens), where doorways and hallways appear mysteriously, and there is an endless corridor into darkness. It's a horror story, but it's so much more than that and touches on so many topics. It's one of the most ingenius things I've ever read. I was kind of disappointed by the ending but it was a good story and definitely kept your attention. It went out with a whimper instead of a bang. But the writing style while people are trapped in the corridor was really cool and made you feel the tension of the characters because you have to turn so many pages so fast. I'd recommend it just for that. If the Blair Witch Project was a book it might have been something like this.
A friend gave me this for my birthday last month. It's about a girl, Jaenelle, who is witch, a legendary powerful being that only appears every few millenia. It's a trilogy, if you hadn't gathered that already. I loved the world, I loved the main characters. The first book was very well done, definitely my favorite of the three. It had a clear concise plot unlike the other two. So much is skipped around and glazed over that you really wish wasn't. Kind of like SVH #2 Secrets. I really wish we could've gotten a glimpse into Jaenelle's mind, I think that'd be a fascinating place to be. It was a cool series. The first book was the best. I don't even like fantasy.
I read this book for the 100th time. It's about Sweet Audrina Adare and her memory full of holes and her family full of creepy liars. V.C. Andrews is famous for the incest in her stories but here the be no incest. Instead a selfish father who wants his daughter to believe in him completely and love him unconditionally. At any cost. Throw in a insanely jealous cousin (rightly so), a weak mother and aunt, a haunted, guilty boy, and a retarded sister and you've got one hell of a story. I wish the ghostwriter would quit writing under her name so people could see how good her books really were, and this was the best of them. It's dark, creepy, unsettling, and most of all, haunting. It's kept me up many a night after reading it thinking of the events that took place. This is one of the best books I've ever read.
This was really interesting. It's about this tattoo artist apprentice who finds a story in a dead guy's apartment. The story is about an imagined documentary about a troubled family that moves into a house that's bigger on the inside than on the outside (I hate it when that happens), where doorways and hallways appear mysteriously, and there is an endless corridor into darkness. It's a horror story, but it's so much more than that and touches on so many topics. It's one of the most ingenius things I've ever read. I was kind of disappointed by the ending but it was a good story and definitely kept your attention. It went out with a whimper instead of a bang. But the writing style while people are trapped in the corridor was really cool and made you feel the tension of the characters because you have to turn so many pages so fast. I'd recommend it just for that. If the Blair Witch Project was a book it might have been something like this.
A friend gave me this for my birthday last month. It's about a girl, Jaenelle, who is witch, a legendary powerful being that only appears every few millenia. It's a trilogy, if you hadn't gathered that already. I loved the world, I loved the main characters. The first book was very well done, definitely my favorite of the three. It had a clear concise plot unlike the other two. So much is skipped around and glazed over that you really wish wasn't. Kind of like SVH #2 Secrets. I really wish we could've gotten a glimpse into Jaenelle's mind, I think that'd be a fascinating place to be. It was a cool series. The first book was the best. I don't even like fantasy.
I read this book for the 100th time. It's about Sweet Audrina Adare and her memory full of holes and her family full of creepy liars. V.C. Andrews is famous for the incest in her stories but here the be no incest. Instead a selfish father who wants his daughter to believe in him completely and love him unconditionally. At any cost. Throw in a insanely jealous cousin (rightly so), a weak mother and aunt, a haunted, guilty boy, and a retarded sister and you've got one hell of a story. I wish the ghostwriter would quit writing under her name so people could see how good her books really were, and this was the best of them. It's dark, creepy, unsettling, and most of all, haunting. It's kept me up many a night after reading it thinking of the events that took place. This is one of the best books I've ever read.