Eleanor & Park is a book that’s been rightfully reviewed on this site before. It’s a book about first love, first heartbreak, family, and the people that you find that make everything better. I’ve actually read this book before, when it first came out, but last week a friend of mine read it for the first time and I was inspired to read through it again. Fair warning, if you haven’t yet read it (and you should!), there will be spoilers about the ending ahead. […]
Fallen – Angels, Past Lives, and Humans: Oh My!
What’s better than a book about angels? A book about fallen angels. So I think, anyway. Angels typically annoy me with their goody-two-shoes-ness. Fallen is about those fallen ones, but most of the book doesn’t actually involve them. Being the first of a series, this is the set-up book where you’re introduced to the heroine Luce, short for Lucinda. I was hoping for Lucifer, personally, but we can’t always get what we want. This book is really about her and the beginnings of what hopefully turns […]
The Firey Heart – It’s about vampires, not some kind of STD.
School is really getting in the way of my reading and reviewing. Who needs an education anyway? Onto the good stuff! The Firey Heart is the 4th book in Richelle Meade’s Bloodlines series, which is a spin-off from the 6-book Vampire Academy series. I’ve been reading these since the first VA book came out about seven years ago, and I’ll be dammed if I stop reading them now. I have a horrible compulsion to see these things through, no matter how terrible the series gets. I have […]
The Secret History – The ‘Girls’ of Novels
I should start by saying I hated this book and the only reason I finished it was so I could write a review and not feel guilty for leaving it unread and looking up the ending on Wikipeadia. Basically I did it for you, Cannonballers. All for you. To me, this book was a literary equivalent of the HBO show Girls. Annoying, pretentious, holier-than-thou, and self-centered. I wanted to punch every, single character in the face. And you know what? I think that’s exactly what Tartt had […]