Diary of a Bookworm

T itle: Lies Beneath A uthor: Anne Greenwood Brown S eries: Lies Beneath B ook #: 1 P ages: 303 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.74 P ublished: June 12th, 2012 Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily. Easy enough—especially as Calder has lots of practise using his irresistible good looks and charm on unsuspecting girls. Only this time Calder screws everything up: he falls for Lily—just as Lily starts to suspect that there's more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends tha...

Goodreads Pavati drew closer, putting her arm around my  my shoulders. "Get invited to the huse, Cal." Her breath was still warm from the Mississippi Delta, and her full lips brushed my ear as she said, " Meet the parents. Be the boyfriend." I nodded. The proposed seduction played out in my mind like a movie —the fake smiles, the deceitful kiss...  "Get Jason Hancock to trust you," Pavati continued. "Tell him you've never been fishing. Let him invite you out on the lake."  I closed my eyes.  "Then we'll show up," she said brightly.  I pictured the three of them transformed, circling the boat like sharks, their lithe bodies cutting through the water, then slinking over the rail.  "Then what?"  "He'll beg for mercy. He'll ask us why," Tallulah said, her voice ringing. ...  "And then we'll take him down." Tallaluah leaned her head agaisnt my shoulder.  "Slowly," Maris added....

T itle: Waiting A uthor: Carol Lynch Williams S eries: n/a B ook #: 1 P ages: 337 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.77 P ublished: May 1st, 2012. After her brother’s death, a teen struggles to rediscover love and find redemption in this gripping novel. Growing up in Africa and Latin America as the children of missionaries, London and Zach were as close as could be. And then Zach dies, and the family is gutted. London’s father is distant. Her mother won’t speak. The days are filled with what-ifs and whispers: Did Zach take his own life? Was it London’s fault? Alone and adrift, London finds herself torn between her brother’s best friend and the handsome new boy in town as she struggles to find herself—and ultimately redemption—in this authentic and affecting novel from award-winning novelist Carol Lynch Williams. T aschima's POV : "Maybe I'll never get better from Zach's leaving us. Maybe I'll carry all that around with me forever, heari...

T itle: Altered A uthor: Jennifer Rush S eries: Altered B ook #: 1 P ages: 336 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating: G oodreads  R ating: 4.17 T.B.P ublished: Jan. 2nd, 2013. When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe? Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities. Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that sh...

That is the question. Right now I'm looking at my 'read' shelf and I'm thinking to myself, why do I feel the need to keep all these books after I have already read them? Well, I answer to myself, there are lots of reasons why. Like for example... Reason number 1, To Re-Read. When you have nothing else to do, if you are bored, or maybe only because you have forgotten something important of the plot. Seems like a great reason to me. I want to re-read Harry Potter so badly. But I have all this other books to read so, it's kind of difficult. So, If you are not going to re-read them, why keep them? Which leads us to reason number 2, Sentimental Value. Some books you have had since you were a toddler and you just don't want to let them go. Or some remind you of some part of your life that you just can't let go. Want and need. Need and want. You get the drill. But what if you don't want them for any of these two reasons? Which could possibly be another reason t...

T itle: The Dark Divine S eries: I Don't Know B ook #: 1 A uthor: Bree Despain P ages: 372 P ublisher: EgmontUSA R eading L evel: Young Adult T o B e R eleased: December 22, 2009. R ating:  "True Loves First Kill" Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared--the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in his own blood--but she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night held. The memories her family has tried to bury resurface when Daniel returns, three years later, and enrolls in Grace and Jude's high school. Despite promising Jude she'll stay away, Grace cannot deny her attraction to Daniel's shocking artistic abilities, his way of getting her to look at the world from new angles, and the strange, hungry glint in his eyes. The closer Grace gets to Daniel, the more she jeopardizes her life, as her actions stir resentment in Jude and drive him to embrac...

T itle: Everneath A uthor: Brodi Ashton S eries: Everneath B ook #: 1 P ages: 370 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G ood reads   R ating: 4.05 P ublished: Jan. 24th, 2012 by Harper Collins Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen. As Nikki's time grows shor...

Good reads Jack : "Okay. Friends talk. Friends help each other." Nikki : I nodded. Jack : "Friends don't eat friend's souls." Nikki : I smiled. "Got it." Oh Jack, my heart beats for you... but there is one piece missing in the puzzle, the piece that fucked it all up, and I am sure that piece has your name all over it. Can't wait!!

"I reached for his hand , then hesitated as I remembered that face. The one with the brown eyes. The boy with the hands that fit mine just right. I'm not sure how, but I knew if I went with Cole, I'd never see that face again. The boy with that face was not an Everliving.  He was a human, and he was on the Surface. Where I'd left him. I knew it like I knew I needed air to live.  "No," I said. I pushed away from him and stood up on my own. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew I had another choice. "I'm going home." ... "I closed my eyes and pictured the boy with the brown hair, and as I took in my first really deep breath of Surface air, a name to math the face came to me. A name I'd been trying to cling to for a century." What am I liking about this book? I like that the story starts by the end of the story and then we have to work our way back to see why the main character did what she did and how was her life in the past whil...

Okay guys. Answer me honestly, do you continue books that bore you to death? Books that should have taken you nothing to finish, but every single time you set yourself to read them you just abhor the thought of digging into them again? I am reading a book right now that I have been reading for days, it is only 157 pages but it is not enjoyable. It has made me chuckle like 2-3 times, but that is about it. My question is, should I continue it? I feel like I should, but I really don't want to. If I do finish it is to see if there are any redeeming qualities, and to write a review that can say "I read this entire book, and it sucked", but I just as well could write "I tried to finish this book, and couldn't because it was just boring".

Goodreads ... and I can honestly say that I don't see what the fuzz is all about. I am only halfway but I've already wished on several occasions that I could put the book down and just read something else. Throughout the story there is little to no real conflict and that makes me oh so very bored. I guess the Magicians is supposed to be "Harry Potter for grown ups" but really, what fun is it? Harry Potter needs no help being accepted by any age group, there is no necessity for an appropriate age adaptation. So The Magicians is not Harry Potter for grown ups. The Magicians turns out to be just a coming of age story which happens to center around a magical preppy college for geniuses. It is at times very depressing, there is little to no dialogue, and you don't really get to enjoy the time spent at said college. If anything The Magicians tries to take the magic away and turn what should have been an escape into just another ordinary setting. The characters are dull,...

...What do you do? Do you want to throw the computer out the window? Renounce Blogspot for ever and ever? I do. These past few days, hell for as long as I can remember really but it's really been bothering for the past few days, Blogspot keeps messing with my posts! And it angers me because I write them exactly as I want them, with the exact amount of spaces, and to have Blogspot add or delete or just screw up my perfectly well organized posts ... well I have definitely screamed at this thing once or twice. Am I the only one that this keeps happening too? If I'm not, isn't it infuriating? Why can't the people who run Blogspot fix this thing? HTML is HTML and I just don't understand how this blogging thing can mess up with the HTML. So if you see some of my posts all messed up it's because of Blogspot. You can scream at it to your hearts desire. I know I do.

T itle: The Walled City A uthor: Ryan Graudin S eries: n/a B ook #: 1 P ages: 432 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.97 P ublished: Nov, 4th, 2014 730. That's how many days I've been trapped. 18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out. DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible.... JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister.... MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window..... In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate...