“The Coward With A Kiss”by Sarah Rees Brennan

06.05.2011

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12.000 words. This is my favourite of short stories set in the Demon’s Lexicon ’verse. It’s about Jamie’s ex-best friend, Mark Skinner, and set on a not so normal school day before the events of the book. Since Mark is quite worried that ( Read more... )

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First read: 15.06.10

7000 words. I liked the combo of supernatural beings with genetic engineering but it didn't really go anywhere. Also, who the fuck thinks of engineering ethernal life out of vampires? That's the biggest plus!

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +vampires, + ( Read more... )

First read: 13.06.10

6000 words.

2010, 2010: short-story in english, book-2010, *author: female, @read in english, #cuento/short-story, +supernatural, author: Sarah Rees Brennan

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 "Her Fearful Simmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger

First read: 17.10.2009
Comments: The Time traveler's wife set really high expectations for Niffenegger's second novel. Then when the topic at hand: twins, turned out to be much to my taste it seemed like i had won a literary lottery of some kind. Turns out I handn't, the novel, although not bad, it's not ( Read more... )

First read: 22.02.2009

Comments(pretty spoilery): What can I say? One of my favourite authors and she delivers this incredibly hard to read (even though is quite short) piece? At moments simply boring with its landscapy descriptions, then exciting but fucked up with an incest that is never a great deal and never quite mutual. And then you add a ( Read more... )

First read: 2006

Comments: The ending of this one gave me the feeling the story is done, which would be fine seeing as Meg Cabot has obvious problems if she keeps writting after the romance is done. However, if she choose to continue she has plenty of story lines to explore i would be delighted to read about.

First read: 2006

 "Avalon High" by Meg Cabot

First read: 2005

Comments: Funny, witty. It’s far fromthe best YA book, far from the best Cabot YA but I liked it, the references tothe Middle Ages were especially amusing.