NON-FANTASY

I'm afraid I've been getting a lot of non-fantasy books sent my way, hence the lack of reviews added. Although I really should of just written some about the books I've already read. *Palm smack*
Plus while I'm talking on my fantasy slacking I may as well add that I've also been catching up on watching what I missed of Pretty Little Liars *EKKK* (If you watch this, you will forgive me and know a must when you see one ;) ......) On a better note this week coming should see the delivery of my June batch of fantasy fill. I'll be reading a range from James Herbert's Once to Kami and Margaret's Dangerous Deception *YAAAY* (which I should of read by now in all fairness.) Anyway I hope you all have a ridiculously brilliant Sunday.........

Dancing with Cupid by Jennifer Stevenson

I just reviewed this, review did not save. *ARGH* 
This is one of them silly Romance books (you know the type.) (I also mean no offence when I say that.) 
Kama is the god of love (as in sex god) each month he needs to top up sex or he will spontaneously combust. (Cheesy? I know.) 
Rathi is a power woman in a suit. This is his next conquest. Who also turns out to be a reincarnation of his goddess wife.
Easy readable (I mean that when I say it) it took me round about three hours in total and that was multitasking.
I would recommend this for when you've run out of things to read (no offence again, but it ain't everyone's' first choice) or if you happen to be into this kind of romance. (you'll no it by the cover, I know that sounds ridiculous by - never judge a book by it's cover standards- but these type always have a similar thing going on.) 
Over all it didn't bore me but that didn't stop me from noticing every cheesy part.
What I consider 'fantasy characters' were misused for sop. Which ruined  it for me. There is so much you can do with ideas. But I must admit I don't think I've read one similar to this.
So give it a read if you think you can stomach sooooo much cheddar. 

Angelfall by Susan EE

There is something brilliant about the apocalypse. That sounds weird. What I mean is there is something I find brilliant about authors who put there on take on the apocalypse. Susan EE does this and it is great. You find yourselves wanting to know what happens next. Peryn is such an amazing lead. She's kickass. She will do what it takes. Her sister has been took by evil angels. Raffe an enemy angel who had his wings cut off is the only help she has. Together they go in search of an invalid girl and Raffe's wings. They get caught by an army of human and have to escape. They keep finding people that have been ate. And you well, you get to see them become friends in an argumentative kind of way on top of everything else going on. So if you like evil angels, devil made things and a hero thats brilliant this is for you. Serious though you could picture this being the end from a teenagers prospective. She has had to grow and fast. Imagine angels swooping down one day and everyone thinking omg beautiful, and them start burning things down, killing people, trashing every city. The fright of something you thought was kind and lovely. All this happens. If you don't fall in love with Raffe and maybe even Peryn, there is something wrong with you ha ha. Go read.... Sorry for the short, but you really have to read it.

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Okay so I love Rincewind. He is like the best wizzard I have ever read about. Yeah you're right, there ain't actually that many wizzards floating around are there. But, there are a lot of wizards and he is better than all of them. This book is amazing. Rincewind lives through every single situation put to him. The tourist Twoflower and his luggage (with thousands of tiny legs) (soon to be Rincewind's luggage) are the best companions you could ever imagine.

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

This is such a brilliant take on movie making. I kept putting off reading this one for some reason or another (even though I totally love each and every single one of this mans books) and as these thing go, I loved every second of it. The characters are always amazing with Terry Pratchett (got to state the obvious.) I could almost believe this was the real telling of how the moving pictures started (ha ha) and even if not then at least a funnier better version.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

When I was fourteen I found out about this. It was in 2005. I found this film in my neighbours' house. Then began my secret love of vampires. Well I say secret, but me and my friend from school used to try to write vampire horrors' only to have them turn out really rubbish. The one time my english teacher snached our little book of stories and read them to the whole class *cringe* I can still hear the laughter now. Imagine living forever. The only down is I'm actually squeamish ha ha ha. They are by far my favourite creature to ever roam the horror genre. This is the book and film that made them so. I mean there is an endless possibility to what an author can write about them. Anne Rice is BRILLIANT! Like come on a vampire going to a journalist? HA HA AMAZING! Imagine the guts that boy has to interview a predator.

Asylum by Madeleine Roux

Age at the back 13+, just thought I would get it out there. I've seen a lot of bad reviews for this, but like I said 13+. People need to remember the age!
Now my thirteen year old self would have had the hairs up on the back of her neck. She would of kept peeking up the dark passage (while reading by touch light, with the bedroom door open)
As it is, my twenty three year old self disagrees. Never mind that though, because over all I can see where she was going with this.
Basically Dan crawford goes to a summer programme at a college/old asylum.

Busy, busy, busy....

So I've had a lot on this week. Sorry to anyone who reads this blog.... on the plus I've read a few books I haven't read before, so new reviews (fresh in the brain). Starting tomorrow night I will add a whole load of reviews/my thoughts (recently read and old). Hope you enjoy!!! *wave* *smile* see yaaaaa xx

The Curse Keepers by Denise Grover Swank

I really, really, really enjoyed this book (like really) I can not stress how much I was into it. I bought the next one before I'd even finished reading it. Ellie Dare Lancaster works in a diner. A hottie comes in who she instantly knows is trouble. He is going to touch her and she knows by her breathing she shouldn't let him.
In short there is a curse. Not on Ellie. Each member of her family will know the curse. Her father passed it down to her. They are the curse keepers. There is another family who are the second. There are only two curse keepers. One from each family. When the two meet and touch the curse is lifted, the gates to hell open and with it and well work that out for yourself.....

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Nine Years Earlier........ It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
Maggie is a killer for these lines to start off books. Tell me that have not got your interest, go on, I dare you!
Sean is on the beach with his father, today is race day. The beach is never safe, today it is dangerous. This is where you learn of the capiall uisce. The water horses. Deadly (meat eaters, including their riders). The men of the village race them, on race day. Sean takes to them naturally. Not that he will ride. His father rides a red stallion. Then dies by the teeth of a grey. Sean watches from the cliff.
I don't think often of my father's strung out body through the reddening surf. Instead I remember him as he was before the race: afraid. I won't make the same mistake.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

OMG! This book is a magical roller coaster ghost train ride! You go through every single emotion while reading this! Sadness. Horror. Happiness. Freaked out. You feel all of these things at any given moment! AMAZING. I originally bought this for my Son. As is tradition I read it first before giving it to him, so I know the contents.

The Dark Heroine by Abigail Gibbs

I read somewhere once that this girl was nineteen when she wrote this (or younger and it got published at 19). That has to be a huge thing for any author. Yes she may only just be getting into it, yes she has years till she become great but the point is that at nineteen she still had a huge fan base. (enough to get published!) I've read a few reviews where people say allsorts of bad things. In truth at that ages most novelists can not get published. I say good for her. At least she's gone with her dream. At least she put in the effort. Eventually the more she writes the better she will become.... I really enjoyed this book, yes it has it's flaws but so do people. Once I picked it up I had to pry it from my hands just to sleep for the night. The action starts from the very beginning which I thought finally. Violet Lee is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Trafalgar square. Where she ends up hidden (after a night out) while Vampires kill Hunters.

Abandon by Meg Cabot

Okay, so I read this in one night (due to easy reading, mainly) Pierce Oliviera knows what it's like to die (oh yes she do) .....Now Death wants her back (dun, dun, dunnnn.) Okay there is a good plot (it even includes greek myths.) This starts with... Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.
Then it describes persephone being took by hades and the narrator (Pierce) telling you it's just a myth. What happened to her, is not. So on, so on.
She then add... So take my advice: Whatever you do - Don't blink.
This page drew me in slightly, I wanted to know what happens to her when she blinks.

Devil's Bargain by Rachel Caine

Okay, so I've read all the morganville books by this author and I have to say I love her. (This book is more for Adults I'd say but there isn't anything that bad in it, so young adults could read aswell if you're into this sort of thing....) I love the fact this book is about something so different and yet she still nails it "HELL YERH!" (Think Wanted (the film where peoples' names come up and they have to kill them) cross Kim Possible (cartoon spy with a techno geek boss and sidekick best friend)...) So Jazz (the main) is one of them drink whiskey alone in a bar kind of detectives (I admire this, how a person can walk into a bar alone and not care about sitting with their own company.) I also love detective programmes (Miss Marple, Diagnosis: Murder, Poirot and sherlock holmes) although this was my first book do to with them.... It's not just detectiveness it is sort of about fate (making it happen/stopping it happening and so on) and the love interest (James) ain't that bad either (win, win) Jazz is a Badass and her business partner  Lucia is an even bigger Badass! Together they are thrown into this thing where they have to be somewhere to stop something or the other way around. The Cross Society send them red letters for every case they have (it's all kinda crazy, but a great change for detectives.) If they do this they will give them the means to help save Jazz's friend (he has been locked up for something he didn't do.) Then she gets on their bad side 'uh-oh'.... If you're into fate and a bit of action this is definitely for you. It's kinda strange and at first they have no idea what they have gotten themselves into but if you like this book you'll love the next although that is written from the partners prospective. Give it a go.

Splintered by A. G. Howard

This is technically for young adults. I seem to own a lot of these haha. This is a take on Alice in Wonderland and a good one at that. Alyssa Gardener is Alice Liddell's great-great-great-Granddaughter (or so she thinks ;)!!!). Madness has runs through the family ever since Alice. Alyssa's mum is in an asylum and Morpheus (the caterpillar/moth) keeps coming to try to take her to wonderland. Plants and insects talk to her. And so on. Then she ends up in wonderland *fist pump* (come on... Who wouldn't want to go there?) All the usual characters are in this but with a twist. I thought -once I got past the beginning and more into the wonder- that A. G. Howard done a marvellous job. She has made a famous story her own and rocked it (my opinion). I never seen the end coming or how much I would love Morpheus and Alice. My only problem was Jeb (the friend/crush) it felt like he got in my way *sigh*(maybe you will like him...) I would say it's definitely an amazing twist on the original so yerh if you're in the age group or even older you may enjoy this read. Don't give up (like I went to) it totally starts to kick in, see I don't even want to ruin it for you ;)....... And just look at that beautiful cover (don't you love it!!!)

Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampire Series) by Rachel Caine

This series is Fang-tastic. Claire Danvers sixteen year old accepted for college early didn't know what she was getting herself into when she agreed to go to texas prairie instead of her college of choice because her parents thought she was to young to go too far. What they didn't know was the choice they made her go to was less safe. This is the first in a fifteenth book series and what a brilliant series it is. A new problem in each book, you will not get bored once. (Not once I tell ya...)

True Fire by Gary Meehan

This starts off with a girl sixteen years old, pregnant. Sneaking out of her house where she lives with her grandfather and twin sister Gwyneth. Parents long dead. Her name is Megan and her plan is to meet the father of her baby Wade, who ran off when she told him she was with child. (JERK.) She met Wade because her sister was with hid brother (Holt) and coerced her into being with him. While she's with him near the corn fields basically arguing they hear loud cries (must be fighting at a tavern) Alas no It is the whole village screaming. Wade makes her hide and goes to see what's happening (although I'm pretty certain he hide her on purpose because he knew something and was scared for her) A man in black armour cuts his head clean off with an axe. *ARGH WTF*

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

Death goes missing! This is such a marvellous plot. If Death is missing what will happen? (Chaos) BRILLIANT. Terry Pratchett does it again. I do not know how some people do not like his books or even not like one over another. Each and every book impresses me. Death as it is, is fed up of being er Death and has gone to get a different job (working on a farm.) I love Death in these books, I never imagined I'd say those word (like ever.) My words fail me on how to write how great I found this book. The whole crew of the unseen university are in this one aswell (wizards) which who doesn't love these? Oh yeah people who haven't read discworld. What the hell are you waiting for? If Death ain't enough for you then you also have Zombies with flare digging their way out alone and joining a support group (Dead? Depressed?......), wizards that are so ridiculous it's believable and so much more. Death even saves a little girl by given her more time (showing he do in fact have feelings to a certain degree.) There is so many amazing characters just in this book alone (even if they only have a small part) this bloke was so good at people he gets types right to a tee! If you are a Pratchett fan you know you must read it (even if it is for a second time) if you are new what took you so bloody long!!

                                 THE END!

Unbreakable by Kami Garcia

Okay so I literally read the hell outta this one. One night and it was finished. Did I love it? Yes I did. Kennedy (the main) started to grow on me from the first moments and by the end I was ready to be bff's *snort laugh* I felt for her I really did and I don't often. This book starts in a graveyard with the main chasing after her cat (Elvis, I mean any cat named that is bound to be trouble), bare footed and alone at dark. Something moved between headstones (all panic about now) "Sorry" my voice wavered "I'm looking for my cat." The stranger didn't say a word. (wooooo, scary)

Grave Minder by Melissa Marr

The overall idea of grave minding drew me in. Imagine having to mind graves? "spooooooky" (ghost story type voice) I thought ghosts or maybe I don't know something but did I expect zombies? No I did not!