Some Reviews

Are any of you avid readers?
I would like to know just because I don't want to post my thoughts on books if no one is interested in those things anymore :)

Lately I have been on a reading kick.
I love to read.
I always have.

Amazon is my best friend when it comes to buying books.
Now I love a good book store,
but the prices on Amazon can not be beat!
I have bought books for 1 cent through Amazon before.
I also love how I have a wish list of all the books I want to read but not buy right away.
And Amazon is great because once you choose one book to buy or throw on your wish list it suggests a ton more that you 'might enjoy'.
Sort of like Netflix I suppose but even better.
(and Amazon does not pay me to say these things... I wish!)

So here is what I have been reading and my thoughts:

(Disclaimer: I love fantasy and Science Fiction books as well as good ole fiction. So be prepared for some Harry Potter-esque book reviews.)

A Great and Terrible Beauty


by Libba Bray
this is the first in a Trilogy based on a young Victorian girl, Gemma Doyle. She grew up in India but after a tragic event she is sent to London to a prep school for girls. There, she discovers that a young man from India has followed her to England and that she can access a magical realm where things are not really what they seem.

I really really enjoyed this book. It is kinda of creepy but definitely draws you in. I loved the history that it offered on women in the Victorian era and combined with some magic... Well... that is just right up my ally.
The second in the triliogy was waiting on my door step yesterday when I got home! I can't wait to start it.

2nd
Girls In Trucks

by Katie Crouch
This book centers on Sarah Walters a debutante from Charleston, SC and her search for love an meaning outside the debutante, southern charm way of life.
This is a super easy read.
But I wouldn't say it is a good read.
I kept waiting for something to happen.
and I also kept waiting for story lines that were presented throughout the book to be resolved or better explained but they never were.
It was a pretty depressing, uninteresting book in my opinion. But again easy to read. I finished it in two days.

3rd
Sookie Stackhouse Series
Book 1
Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris
If you don't know already, These books are what True Blood is based off of.
After watching True Blood I decided I wanted to read the books.
I am only 3 chapters into the first of many more in the series.
And the story is very similar to episodes of True Blood.
But I always enjoy books better than movies or TV shows so I dont mind a little repetive story line to see how the books differ or if I like them better.
(you can get the whole Sookie series on Amazon for $32!)

4th The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson
I LOVE this book. LOVE!
Here is the synopsis:
this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption—at the same time, Larsson skillfully bares some of the similar horrors that have left Salander such a marked woman.

The Second book in this Trilogy is also out
The Girl Who Played with Fire

synopsis:
A few weeks before Dag Svensson, a freelance journalist, plans to publish a story that exposes important people involved in Sweden's sex trafficking business based on research conducted by his girlfriend, Mia Johansson, a criminologist and gender studies scholar, the couple are shot to death in their Stockholm apartment. Salander, who has a history of violent tendencies, becomes the prime suspect after the police find her fingerprints on the murder weapon. While Blomkvist strives to clear Salander of the crime, some twists help ensure her survival.

And The Third installment
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornetts Nest
is due out in May 25th.


So there you have it. My thoughts on my recent reads.
Any suggestions for what I should read next?

Peace,