I was pleasantly survived with The Hunger Games and eagerly read the second installment. This might have tainted my opinion of the book. If I review several books in a series, I try to review right after I read them, or not read them one after another. I find it hard to look at each novel as its own separate entity without comparing it to the others. Catching Fire, just might be a casualty of how much I enjoyed the first book. Read More »
I Read a Lot of Books
I read a lot of books. Sometimes I review them.
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I resisted The Hunger Games for a long time. Why, you ask? Well, it seemed like it was the Twilight crowd that was jumping on the band wagon and saying how great the books were. No offense against that crowd, but Twilight isn’t exactly my thing. Read More »
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
A few friends suggested this book as a young adult read, and when my brother offered to lend it to me, I couldn’t refuse. I thought this JUST might be the thing to jump start another wave of fiction reading, as I have been focused on non fiction for a while. Sadly, no. This book did not meet expectations. Read More »
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
So we’ve finally come to the last installment of The Hunger Games Series. Straight off, I was disappointed. The story was not compelling in its entirety, nor was Katniss very likable, coherent, or believable in this last book. There are scenes within the book that I thought lived up to the promise of the original idea, but I found Collins using some pretty cheap literary devises to move time along quickly. Read More »
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
THIS is the kind of middle grade novel I love to read. The largest difficulty I encounter in the middle grade novel is that the author feels a need to dumb it down. Or when they try to be clever, they oversell it. The Mysterious Benedict Society was a refreshing change. Read More »
Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Can I tell you how much I hated this book? Yes, I suppose I can. This book was so beyond awful that I don’t know where to start. Read More »
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
I saw this book in the hands of my nine year old cousin-in-law once removed, and was intrigued, but as I began reading, my intrigue evolved into boredom. Evil Genius isn’t awful… it is just bland. It doesn’t help that better books with young, male, adventurous, protagonists like Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson were written prior to Cadel Piggot’s entrance into the young adult fiction world. Read More »