Author Blogs

Okay this is new, but for today's post, instead of me going on about random authors, I want you to see their blogs. Cool right?

John Green (Looking For Alaska & An Abundance of Katherines):
http://www.sparksflyup.com/weblog.php

Libba Bray (A Great And Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, & The Sweet Far Thing):
http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/

Jennifer Anne Kogler (Ruby Tuesday & The Otherworldlies):
http://www.jenniferannekogler.com/category/blog/

Cassandra Clare (City of Bones & City of Ashes):
http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/

Sarah Dessen (Just Listen, The Truth About Forever, Lock And Key, etc.):
http://writergrl.livejournal.com/

Elizabeth Scott (Stealing Heaven):
http://www.elizabethwrites.com/blog/

Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons, & Magic's Child):
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/

Maureen Johnson (Girl At Sea, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, etc.):
http://maureenjohnson.blogspot.com/

Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, & Ironside):
http://blackholly.livejournal.com/

If anyone else knows any other authors who keep cool blogs, just comment on this post and I'll add their link. For the rest of you guys, enjoy! Also, John Green's blog has a really cool question running for anyone to answer that I think many people will be interested in answering.
~~MP

Other Books

I lost my master list of book that I have read, so I guess I will just have to put down my ratings for the books that I remember for now.

Just Listen (Sarah Dessen) ~ 5 Stars

Worldweavers: Gift of the Unmage (Alma Alexander) ~ 4 Stars

Worldweavers: Spellspam (Alma Alexander) ~ 5 Stars

Evernight (Claudia Gray) ~ 5 Stars

Firestorm (David Klass) ~ 5 Stars

Whirlwind (David Klass) ~ 4 Stars

That Summer (Sarah Dessen) ~ 3 Stars

Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague (Brandon Mull): 3 Stars

Someone Like You (Sarah Dessen) ~ 4 Stars

Messenger (Lois Lowry) ~ 4 Stars

The Great And Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray) ~ 5 Stars

Rebel Angels (Libba Bray) ~ 5 Stars

The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray) ~ 5 Stars

~~MP

Fearless: FBI by Francine Pascal

Okay, so I was ridiculously bored so I went over the library and started walking the aisles. This is a series of four books which I picked up and read all of them in the same day. The picture you see is of the first book, Kill Game. The other titles (in order) are: Kill Game, Live Bait, Fear Out, and Naked Eye. They started off good, but soon got depressing. Very depressing. So Gaia (the main character) has this off-and-on relationship with one of the other characters during the entire book. In the end of the fourth book though, he dies. Seriously. Not even worth reading. And of the four main characters: Gaia, Will, Kim, and Catherine, one ends up dead (Will) and another ends up being a traitor (Catherine). They were okay, but when will the depression stop? I just kept reading them because I have this thing against putting a book down when I'm halfway through it.

~~MP

Rating: 4/10 (Depression Factor Was Major)

I Am A Freak

Okay, I am a serious freak. I can't believe I have neglected books for that long. I'll do a full review of a couple of books, but I'll just list the other ones.
~~MP

Book Ratings

Jeez, I promised myself I wouldn't fall behind on reviews. Oh well, and since I've read a million books recently, I'll just write down the title and my rating on it.

Bewitching Season (Marissa Doyle): 10/10

Into The Wild (Sarah Beth Durst): 8/10

Wish You Were Here (Barbara Shoup): 9/10

Bratfest At Tiffany's (Lisi Harrison): 6/10

The King's Arrow (Michael Cadnum): 8/10

Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson): 9/10

The Mediator: Shadowland (Meg Cabot): 9/10

13 Little Blue Envelopes (Maureen Johnson): 10/10

The Magician (Michael Scott): 10/10

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr was a really original plot line. In most books that I have read, one or two details I have recognized from a different book. In this book though, the plot line was so original that even though I had promised myself I'd read about half of it yesterday, I ended up reading the whole thing, staying up until three a.m. until I was done. Yeah. That's how amazing this book was. Aislinn was a strong protagonist, along with the fact that she had an amazing name. Keenan, the almost-Summer King is forced to continue tricking female mortals until he has found the right one to be his Summer Queen, and only then will he get the full powers he is entitled do. It's only his luck to find that the Summer Queen is actually probably the only girl on the face of the planet that is immune to his charms. Will Keenan be able to convince her to be his Summer Queen in time before the Winter Queen completely takes over?
~~MP

Rating: 9/10

Beastly by Alex Flinn

This book was, pardon the pun, beastly. Alex Flinn (who is, by the way, a girl) did an amazing job of taking the traditional story of Beauty and the Beast and turning it into a modern-day classic. The main character, Kyle is turned into a beast after rudely making fun of an "ugly" girl in front of the whole school. Little does he know that she is, in fact, a witch. Now he has two years to fall in love and have the girl fall in love with him back or else he will have to stay a beast for the rest of his life and live in hiding. But what is a fifteen-year-old guy to do? He begins searching for the perfect girl, only to find that true love is harder than it seems in storybooks and that if any girl will ever fall in love with his ugly exterior, he has to put a lot of work into it. Then, one day, a guy breaks into his Brooklyn flat in an attempt to rob Kyle. Kyle is about to kill him until he offers his daughter, Lindy, in exchange. Will Kyle fall in love with Lindy and have her love him back within the two years? Even though the ending was predictable to anyone who has seen or read any version of the story, I still loved every moment of the book.

~~MP

Rating: 9/10

Aurelia by Anne Osterlund

Aurelia by Anne Osterlund was everything I expected in the book from the minute I picked it up. It had mystery, adventure, and a little romance on the side too. Aurelia is the crown princess, but when she starts to have assassination attacks, the king's former spy's son, Robert comes back to court to investigate. Never did he known that on the way he would fall in love with the stubborn, hard-headed princess too. I loved Aurelia, because it was one of those books that made you feel what the characters were feeling, despite whoever was narrating the story at that exact moment. At the end of it, I admit that I almost cried due to the way it ended. The author, Anne Osterlund, plans to make it the first in a trilogy, and I hope she does. It doesn't matter what kinds of books you usually read, because I know you'll love this one.

~~MP

Rating: 10/10