Dash and Lily!!!

Since my last few posts have been depressing and awful, I've decided to write a good one!

So I read Dash and Lily's Book of Dares and it's cute, funny, deep, and all the good stuff.  Both characters are great, funny, different and they come together and it's awesome, and there are lil unrealistic fluff bits that make it just really great.  It's a little bit of everything.  Very like John Green (especially when getting into Dash's deep thoughts).

One problem I had is that it's one of those books that's back and forth between two characters- which is fine, but once the book gets longer than a certain point, you (I, at least) start getting confused, I can't figure out what's going on anymore or whose voice it is, particularly if it's brother and sister (Kane twins- lookin' at you).  I feel like those kind of stories A) have to be really simple, as in the characters are totally contrasting and it's just impossible to get them confused (this never happens) OR B) It's short enough that you don't have time to GET confused.  As long as you keep it to... 200 pages? I'll be fine.  Typically though, I don't like reading books that short because if it's a good book, I want MORE of it.
BUT here's another, more PROBLEMATIC problem.  I start liking one character better.  This was particularly bad when I was reading Fablehaven.  I just started being like UGH I don't care about this character, give me back the other one.  (Of course, Fablehaven was a million times worse cause they couldn't figure out when to stop transitioning it to different characters.  YOU NEED TO KEEP IT BETWEEN TWO (MAYBE 3) CHARACTERS!!!! I DON'T NEED THE PERSPECTIVE OF EVERY CHARACTER IN THE WHOLE DAMN SERIES!!!!!!! )  Alright back to Dash and Lily.  So they're both GREAT at the beginning, both of them are likeable people, very awesome, very quirky.  Eventually, though, I started liking Dash better, and I'm not sure if everyone thinks this or what, but my personality type just fit better with Dash.  Lily was a bit... whiny? (Shrilly?)  Like, she was cute and all, but I was like... eh.  She has faults.  Dash had faults too, but I felt like all of them were justified or defended, while hers were just left out there for you to NOT like.  Like how she couldn't keep her mouth SHUT, and she screamed so much I could see why she had like no friends.  Before like half way through I loved loved loved her though, and the whole drunken thing was fine, just I couldn't get past Shrilly.  I would murder her if she was real, and she did that all the time.  Dash I couldn't really relate to as well, but I really loved his character.  The whole bookish nerd thing, and his personality was just dreamy.  He was pretty amazing as was his friends.  So yeah, I started being like BRING THE STORY BACK TO DASH!!!  and it just ruins the experience when that happens (Ugh that Sadie in the Kane Chronicles... UGHHHH).

So to recap: only short stories can transition back so much, and it really should be between only two (or three) MAIN characters.  I don't need the perspective of the villan unless it's all in third person.

All in all, I totally recommend it.  Totally worth my time, addictingness level through the roof and yeah :D .  Made me think.

Tainted

Anyway, I just read Mostly Good Girls.  It's a good story, I didn't love the main character, but I loved her voice.  I felt like I could really relate to both of the girls, how Katie couldn't live her life waiting for the day she wasn't lucky and her defiance, and how Violet had issues with getting a life (and boyfriend) to the point where she thought there was something wrong with her (ok, that's just me).  And I couldn't believe how jealous I was of their friendship.  I wish I had one like that.  Who are my friends now?  I haven't given anyone this blog, I'm fucking up every friendship I have or ever had.  What do I do?  Well anyway, the ending was adorable.  Sorry this wasn't an in depth analysis.  Maybe later.  Who'm I fucking kidding? I don't even have anyone to share this with.

Timeless and Flip

So I've been lazy recently, but I did read Timeless and Flip.  Timeless was pretty amazing (of course, it's going to be a series which I MUST read cause the cliffhanger ending was so good.  You know how I feel about reading series though.)  Flip started out so so, got really addicting, then was kinda depressing and meh but still addicting.  So pretty good?  I liked the ending a lot... it's hard to get through the book without knowing that he does switch back at the end.  So, I don't feel guilty mentioning that spoiler :)