okay okay, I realize that the price of one is free… but I’ve read a bunch of books lately that I meant to review and I don’t want to drag it out and make three different posts for them, hence the three-in-one deal.
First is Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky.
This is a book about sex. And not the in the usual way where there’s a killer plotline and sex is woven into it either to add drama or as an integral part of the story. Well, there is a plotline but I would hardly call it a killer one.
It’s the story of Dominique, the barely-been-kissed high school senior and her first love. The two quickly progress from IM-ing all night to fooling around in the back of Wes’ car. Long story short: they go to prom, have sex afterwards, etc etc then go off to different colleges. Now here’s the part of the book where I thought there would be major drama and cheating boyfriends getting caught when the girlfriend pays a surprise visit or something. But there isn’t. There isn’t anything really, just Dom and Wes growing apart and another conveniently placed boy thrown in towards the end that you can tell is going to hook up with her right after she and Wes break up. So, yeah, the lack of anything but various descriptions of them screwing around made this book kind of unimpressive. I don’t know about you, but I like my characters to have some personality. Anatomy of a Boyfriend gets 3.5 undressed Ken dolls out of 7.
Next up: Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz.
Have you ever wanted to break into a haunted mental hospital and film a movie in it? I’m going to assume that your response is “Hell yeah!” because that’s what I would say. Well, not really. I tend to go for abandoned amusement parks, personally.
Derik and his ragtag band of “actors”(I use that term very loosely) break into Danvers State Mental Hospital the night before it is due to be torn down. I did mention the place is haunted, right? So they run around seeing loads of creepy stuff. Like a doll hanging from a noose, singing a creepy song. And that’s just the beginning. Soon they get sucked right up into the fate of one of the hospital’s ghosts.
I don’t want to give anything away, so I’ll just say that this book was a cool one. All of the characters are really… real. They all have their own reasons for going along with Derik’s plan, and often misjudge each other’s motivations. Which is awesome because I hate flat characters. Okay, so 5 out of 7 on that one.
Almost done, guys. Wow, when I started, I didn’t think the post would be so long… ah well. I’ll keep the last one short, I promise. It’s for Marked by Kristin and P.C. Cast.
Pretty much your run-of-the-mill vamp story. Girl gets turned into a vampire, has to go to vampire academy, falls in love with super hot vamp boy, has to defeat leader of evil vampire chicks who summons ghosties on Halloween. Nothing really amazing here. It just felt like a bunch of books I’ve read before smooshed into one.
3 out of 7 glasses of wine spiked with vampire blood. Yummy…
So there you have it. Believe it or not, I still have more books to review, but I didn’t want to overload anyone. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, after all. Expect more reviews later this week. Of better books, too…
~Medeia~
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September 21, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Aella
I knew it was only a matter of time before your mad reviewing skillz would surface to drown me beneath a wave of awesome, Meds 🙂
September 21, 2008 at 8:41 pm
sERAFINA zANEs
Hey, there’s never such a thing as too many reviews! As soon as I find my list, I’m putting together a 45 reviews in one post post.
Marked. *shiver* I don’t talk about that book. But I had much stronger feelings about it.
Also, I’ve been meaning to read Project 17…I liked her Blue Is For Nightmares series.
Bring on more reviews! I’ve hardly had time to read anything lately, sadly…
September 21, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Medeia
45 in one post! *gasp* That would be incredible.
Mmm, I also liked Blue is for Nightmares. I recently found a sad imitation of it called Don’t Die Dragonfly. *sigh* Good physic mystery solvers are hard to find these days.
Aella: psht. Not. True. At. All.
September 22, 2008 at 1:39 pm
sERAFINA zANEs
Yeah, I’m trying to get it together, but I lost the list. As soon as I find it, the epic summer review post is going up.
Hmmm, I didn’t think Don’t Die Dragonfly was that bad. I would’ve read the others in the series, except none were in the library system. Or maybe I read the second….*shrug* Have you read Golden by Jennifer Lynn Barnes?
September 22, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Medeia
Can’t say I have.
September 24, 2008 at 1:30 am
khy
I did not care much for Marked either. Twas ok. I couldn’t stand Zoey though: “OMG hell! lyk I gotta save everyone b/c I’m lyk hell! de special markeded one hell! and oh noez I gots too many hot boyfriends hell! hell! why meeeeee?”
Yeah, I couldn’t stand the way she talked and narrated.
September 24, 2008 at 6:10 am
Natasha @ Maw Books
Your review of Anatomy of a Boyfriend was the first one I’ve seen that wasn’t postitive. I don’t like lots of sex in my books so have been steering clear of this one. You review reinforced that for me.
September 25, 2008 at 1:27 am
sERAFINA zANEs
You should, it’s quite good.
Zoey…she seemed irrationally cruel to all the people who were her “best friends”. Like, DUDE. You’re not that great, quit judging people.
plus, she called ‘Light My Fire’ a “Jim Morrison” song. WTH THERE ARE SEVERAL LAYERS OF WRONGNESS THERE.
September 26, 2008 at 2:24 am
Medeia
Zoey was incredibly annoying. I felt like she was speaking to a certain audience, one that I’m not part of. She said that watching Indiana Jones was geeky! As though that’s a bad thing… seriously, the Indiana Jones movies are just ones that everyone should see (except the new one… don’t get me started on that one).
September 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Serafina Zane
Oh, she was totally judgement of all things remotely cool. Like, she and her friends did stuff like watch Star Wars and she RAVED about how geeky it was. Ummm, not really. GET OVER YOURSELF.
But yeah, Zoey? Totallly totally totally trying too hard to be “teen”.
When she considered herself a rebel for shopping at places like Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister and how that made her sort of an outcast among her friends who shopped at “big mall stores”, I nearly died laughing. (That might’ve been in the sequel)
I mean, it was Just So WRONG.