Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Beautiful Creatures by: kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Summer Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Review
  The story begins with Ethan Wate, the whole story is written from his point of view. This book was simply amazing it drew me in sooo fast it only took me 3 days, because it was so good. It's prety much one of those mortal falling in love with a ***** sorry it would be a spoiler. So it's pretty much the fight to be together and it was amazing! I loved every page of it.
 Of course I give this book  5.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Looks By: Madeleine George

Summary
Despite her massive size, Meghan Ball is the most invisible person at Valley Regional High. People say things in front of her as if she doesn't exist. And most of the time, she feels like she doesn't - until Meghan sees Aimee Zorn. Aimee is as skinny as Meghan is large, and as outwardly angry as Meghan is inwardly sad. Meghan instantly recognizes a kindred spirit in Aimee, another person using her body to say what she cannot. Alone, they are powerless, but together, Meghan and Aimee join forces to get sweet revenge against the one girl in school who hurt them both.
Review 
 Well, let's start with how I got this book, a cheap whatever-book, that was in sale. I didn't expect much, and yet I did expect too much. Looks, takes  you into the life of Aimee Zorn and Meghan Ball. One fat, one skinny.  Madeleine did an amazing job in catching the suffering and hurt of the two girls due to their eating disorders. I do think she did very well on that, however the tone of the book, was a bit slow, and the climax was not until the last 3 chapters something like that. I did breeze through the book, but I still didn't love it it was O.K. 
 I give this book a 3 for it's great description and feel of the suffering and hurt, but it wasn't that interesting.