So um yeah! I read Virals which was recommended to me by Greta and it was pretty much exactly what I expected. Awesome book, cool characters, fun plot twists and WHY AREN'T THERE MORE BOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THIS??
It's really fun and cool, highly unrealistic because there are a LOT of lucky breaks, and the whole flare thing just doesn't make much sense AT ALL and is very contradictory, but its a really good idea, and it's addicting, and I pretty much loved it and want to read the next one NOW because I read the preview and was like CANZ I READ NOW PLZ. But no because libraries are stupid and take forever because the IDIOT MAYOR CUT THEIR FUNDING GAHHH
So I was looking at the Facebook page for Virals and found the question: What character do you like best? I just had no idea. The obvious answer is Cooper because he's awesome, but Tory is SUCH a great main character and thinks just the way I wanted her to think and there's no WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID? moments. And then Hi is hilarious so I have to love him. Ben is eh, I sense a romance between him and Tory (He was the most common favorite, Tory was a close second... probably because he's the one everyone wants to date *MAJOR eyeroll). He's strong and silent- not my type. Then Sheldon is a problem. I don't want to say he's not my favorite which automatically makes him last basically, but I'm kind of forced to because he has no major roll and like there's not much of him. NEED MORE SHELDON TO JUDGE. So that hurt when I was like I can't decide Hi, Tory, Cooper... wait... Sheldon is the only one left (besides Ben, but eh moot point). ADD MORE SHELDON MS AUTHOR LADY (no idea what her name is... she wrote Bones... I read the bio for once).
That's the Virals story, I really liked it. Highly recommended!!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
The Name of The Star (with added tidbits for Mostly Good Girls)
So basically I was watching one of John Greens videos from a while ago, and he mentioned Maureen Johnson had written another book.
LITTLE INTRO: Two summers ago (before I knew about the Green brothers), I was obsessed with Miss Maureen Johnson, and I pretty much read ALL of her books, so I had kinda forgotten to look for new ones by her. It's actually funny because this summer at the Newberry Book fair (I live right across the street), I got Girl at Sea cause I remembered it and was like I want to read this again :D:D:D (plus it was only like two bucks). And I read it over spring break late at night in the tub (cause that's how I roll). It's still my favorite book of hers <3. So the ressurection of my love for Maureen Johnson begins! (Well it's not really a resurrection since it never died, more like a very well timed unburying.)
BUT this book was pretty good. It's about this girl who learns she can see ghosts (yes, you have to know this before you read it because the first 100 pages go nowhere and you're like... where the fuck is she going with this? All that's happening is the Ripper stuff which is great and all, but she's not involved as much as she needs to be for me to stay not bored (and it gets like super obvious where she's going with it after like 150 pages if you read the back cover and see that there are GOING to be ghosts because she keeps like exaggerating the strangeness of some things)). So yeah, eventually, she learns how to find ghosts yada yada, buncha awesome conflicts and mind games n shit, and it's cool and fun and original. The only thing is, this is Maureen Johnson's first time writing like, fiction that's super fictitious in a supernatural way (that I remember, maybe Devilish was too) and that's kind of obvious. Some of the introduction to ghost passages you read make you like, yeah, this just sounds... not right? And it's really common in like people who don't really know how to write in the amazing way that you stay hooked and not brought back to real life until it's over. So yeah, you can tell in certain spots that she's not totally situated in this sort of writing, but it's AOK because she's an amazing writer in so many other ways. She just sticks to the realm of possible fiction (as I'm going to call it to clear up confusion) for a reason.
ANYWAY, she probably felt like her readers would get bored of another exotic adventure or some other possible fiction type thing and wanted to try something new, and there's nothing wrong with that cause I liked it, and I spent all night reading (and got sick the next day because of it... and got my friend sick... so she had to go allll the way back to Midway to get home and in bed :'( Sorry, Kat!). It's got some mild horror (because it's Jack the Ripper themed obviously), which is REALLY nicely done because it's not so scary that you're like AHH WHAT THE HELL, it's like a slow, uneasy feeling that she tries to sooth a bit but doesn't really feel right (this is the second half of the book though, the first half is cute and funniness that's very extremely enjoyable), and it's another way to keep you hooked. So it's a good starter to horror books.
LIL SIDE NOTE: One interesting thing is that there's never a real description of the main character, which I really REALLY like because I get to imagine. It was only because I was paying attention that I know she has dark frizzy hair that she wants to look black. I can't even remember her name... yeah no it's not coming to me. (The main character in Mostly Good Girls name is Violet, and it was only because I was paying really close attention that I found her last name which was written ONCE only I believe. See if you can find it... if anyone reads this post then reads the books...)
All in all, it was a great book, I was addicted. At the end I wasn't like, whoa this is the best book I ever read mind blown away, as I am with some books (like many from Maureen Johnson and Mostly Good Girls, but I was stressed and upset and tired when I wrote that post so it didn't seem like it), but it was worth my time and was great. The ending is so so cause you expect more blood n guts... but it's okay... And yeah I see a possible sequel. The beginning middle and most of the end were really really good, and I definitely recommend this book!
LITTLE INTRO: Two summers ago (before I knew about the Green brothers), I was obsessed with Miss Maureen Johnson, and I pretty much read ALL of her books, so I had kinda forgotten to look for new ones by her. It's actually funny because this summer at the Newberry Book fair (I live right across the street), I got Girl at Sea cause I remembered it and was like I want to read this again :D:D:D (plus it was only like two bucks). And I read it over spring break late at night in the tub (cause that's how I roll). It's still my favorite book of hers <3. So the ressurection of my love for Maureen Johnson begins! (Well it's not really a resurrection since it never died, more like a very well timed unburying.)
BUT this book was pretty good. It's about this girl who learns she can see ghosts (yes, you have to know this before you read it because the first 100 pages go nowhere and you're like... where the fuck is she going with this? All that's happening is the Ripper stuff which is great and all, but she's not involved as much as she needs to be for me to stay not bored (and it gets like super obvious where she's going with it after like 150 pages if you read the back cover and see that there are GOING to be ghosts because she keeps like exaggerating the strangeness of some things)). So yeah, eventually, she learns how to find ghosts yada yada, buncha awesome conflicts and mind games n shit, and it's cool and fun and original. The only thing is, this is Maureen Johnson's first time writing like, fiction that's super fictitious in a supernatural way (that I remember, maybe Devilish was too) and that's kind of obvious. Some of the introduction to ghost passages you read make you like, yeah, this just sounds... not right? And it's really common in like people who don't really know how to write in the amazing way that you stay hooked and not brought back to real life until it's over. So yeah, you can tell in certain spots that she's not totally situated in this sort of writing, but it's AOK because she's an amazing writer in so many other ways. She just sticks to the realm of possible fiction (as I'm going to call it to clear up confusion) for a reason.
ANYWAY, she probably felt like her readers would get bored of another exotic adventure or some other possible fiction type thing and wanted to try something new, and there's nothing wrong with that cause I liked it, and I spent all night reading (and got sick the next day because of it... and got my friend sick... so she had to go allll the way back to Midway to get home and in bed :'( Sorry, Kat!). It's got some mild horror (because it's Jack the Ripper themed obviously), which is REALLY nicely done because it's not so scary that you're like AHH WHAT THE HELL, it's like a slow, uneasy feeling that she tries to sooth a bit but doesn't really feel right (this is the second half of the book though, the first half is cute and funniness that's very extremely enjoyable), and it's another way to keep you hooked. So it's a good starter to horror books.
LIL SIDE NOTE: One interesting thing is that there's never a real description of the main character, which I really REALLY like because I get to imagine. It was only because I was paying attention that I know she has dark frizzy hair that she wants to look black. I can't even remember her name... yeah no it's not coming to me. (The main character in Mostly Good Girls name is Violet, and it was only because I was paying really close attention that I found her last name which was written ONCE only I believe. See if you can find it... if anyone reads this post then reads the books...)
All in all, it was a great book, I was addicted. At the end I wasn't like, whoa this is the best book I ever read mind blown away, as I am with some books (like many from Maureen Johnson and Mostly Good Girls, but I was stressed and upset and tired when I wrote that post so it didn't seem like it), but it was worth my time and was great. The ending is so so cause you expect more blood n guts... but it's okay... And yeah I see a possible sequel. The beginning middle and most of the end were really really good, and I definitely recommend this book!
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