Book Club Review: Book 1 September

Cthulhurotica by Carrie Cuinn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Gave up on this one.
The stories are really well written but end to abruptly for my liking. While I thought this book may repulse me it did infact make me feel nothing. Nothing at all.
So while the stories themselves are beautifully written they are however boring.
I think though if you are into the whole Cthulhu thing, you shouldn't miss this book.



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Book Review: Phantom

Phantom by Lindsay Randall

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I loved this book! From the moment it started to the very end there were almost no pauses that I could get a good night sleep the story was just go go go.
Phantom has adventure, romance, monsters, magic and battles. There is nothing more I could have wanted from this story.
LOVED IT!



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Designer Dolls Release Dates

http://www.disneystore.com/designer-villains-collection/mn/1013203/

An intersting passage from the book I am reading

"A woman spoke of her Grandmother, who lived in the midwest. Her grandmothers idea of a really good time was to board the train to Chicago and wear a big hat, walk down Michigan Anenue looking in all the shop windows and being an elegant lady. By hook or by crook or by fate she married a farmer. They moved out into the midst of the wheatlands and she began to rot away in that elegant little farmhou... se that was just the right size with all the right children, and all the right husband. She had no more time for the "frivolous" life she once led. One day, years later, after washing the kitchen and living room floors by hand, she slipped into her very best silk blouse, buttoned her long skirt and pinned on her big hat. She pressed her husbands shotgun to the roof of her mouth and pulled the trigger.

Every woman alive knows why she washed the floors first"

At first I thought, I didn't know why, but then when I thought about it, of course I know exactly why she would wash the floors first and I guess so would I.

Disney Designer Villains

REALLY like this mug and it has my favorite Disney Villain, Maleficent, on it.

I looked it up on eBay but it was cheaper to order it direct on the Disney Store

So I put in my first order with the actual Disney Store.

It turns out that it was the same amount to add the note card set to the order as it was to order the mug off eBay so that's exactley what I did.

They are really cute cards too.

I am still holding out though for the Maleficent Designer Doll,

Though she is not available till sometime in September.

Book Review

Zombie Rain by Zach Sweets

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


You had me right up until the King arrived and blasted them with the light.
Beforehand though the book was great, the attacks were believable as were the heros reactions to them. I thought it weird towards the end when there was a bit of a role switch and perhaps they were a little too complacent in their situation.
Even with the beams of light and the rainbow rain all seemingly controlled by the King this was a fun quick read, and it was very quick read.



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Book Club Review #2 August

Oracle's Moon by Thea Harrison

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Its really more of a 3.5 stars as I really did enjoy this book. The last chapter though kinda ruined it a bit.
There is something bigger going on in the background the entire book from before it even began and as a reader you really get a sense for it. People are acting weird and the main characters don't seem to be able to grasp at what is going on, just that its different somehow. In the last couple of chapters we get to find out what is going on then there is a big confrontation on a completely different matter, that I guess was set up earlier but this leads to no time to really resolve the bigger issue that was present throughout the book and there for it is just commented on, which I found a little dissapointing.
The children in this book are actually quite adorable. The leading lady Grace felt real to me, though a bit young she does mature in her situation. Her struggle is heart breaking and yet rings true.
The leading man, Khalil is rather robotic as he is a Djinn and has not cared to bother himself with mortal customs and behaviours. He comes off as arrogant and bossy due to his nature but you really get a sense that he cares for first only the children then eventually Grace.
I actually really like this urban fantasy setting where there are several species and the whole world is aware of them. The magic and the strange coupled with the everyday just makes it seem plausable and helps to identify with the characters



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