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)

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

Tribute To M

So my friend, M has always had this obsession with "head-nodding," so since I am writing a book, I figured I might as well put it in there. Here's the amazing quarter-page:

I attempted to head-nod in response, but I’m not quite sure if it worked because Jasper stared at me strangely right after I had done so. “What was that supposed to be?” he demanded, looking as if he was trying really hard not to laugh at the moment.
“A head-nod,” I replied defensively.
“A head-nod,” he repeated, his eyes bugging out because he was trying that hard not to laugh.
“You know, when you nod your head up once in recognition of a person,” I explained.
He nodded his head up and down at this, though it was clear that he had no idea what I was trying to say.

~~MP