Summary:
Meena is a script writer for a very popular soap opera, Insatiable. She's all set to fight for a promotion, when her arch rival shows up already having gotten the promotion, and is taking the show in an impossibly horrible direction. She's going to add vampires, which are, of course, all the rage right now. Her show is about to start a vampire war with their rival show Lust, and Meena thinks the whole thing is stupid. Meena is upset, and feeling downtrodden. But after a early morning (read: 4am) walk with her dog that resulted in a bat attack against her and a handsome stranger, though, things start looking up. The only problem is that Meena doesn't realize she's stepped into a real-life vampire war, and her knight-in-shining-armor is right at the center. Oh, and Meena knows how everyone's lives will end. She's magic like that.
Thoughts:
Anyone that has read anything from me over the last few years knows that I am hopelessly in love with Meg Cabot's writing. This was no exception. Granted, I'm starting to get sick of the vampire wars as much as the next girl. (I still maintain that they don't effing sparkle, and they never will. Dumb books.) But this was a nice twist on the norm. Sure, Meena falls for a vampire and has ridiculously hot sex with him, but she hates the idea of it, and wishes she never heard the word "vampire." She at least isn't crazy in love with the idea of living forever, and doesn't want to die to be able to do so. Cabot's writing was flawless, as usual, though the subject matter was bordering on cliche at this point. The ending left things far too wide-open for my taste, but I'll give her a pass, because I love her so much. Also, there's apparently a second book in the series too. (Shocker, with that ending.) Don't worry, I won't jump on it yet. You do know what a sucker I am for a series, though!
Book 32 of 50
Pages: 464 pages, read as an e-book
Genre: Fantasy, romance, and vampires
Grade: B+
Would I Recommend?: If you're into vampires, sure. If you like Meg Cabot, sure. If you like a fairly good romance novel, sure. Otherwise, it's not a must-read.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
She Went All the Way (Meg Cabot)
Summary:
Lou Calabrese and Jack Townsend board a helicopter to get to the set of the movie that Lou wrote, and Jack is staring in. They hate each other, but figure they can handle a few minutes stuck in a small moving vehicle. Little do they know there's a plot against Jack's life, and the helicopter pilot has been hired to kill Jack. They fight off the pilot and the chopper crashes. Oh, did I mention that this is in the wilderness of Alaska? For the next few days, they fight to stay warm and alive. Will they ever figure out who's out to get Jack? (Or how to get themselves back to some sort of civilization.)
Thoughts:
Awesome, as always with Ms. Cabot. I have loved Ms. Meg for many years now, since the first Princess Diaries book, (no, I haven't read them all. I got bored with them about four books in) and have loved just about everything I've ever read of hers. I have about six books of hers to cover still. I want to hold off, though, because I don't want to kill all the Cabot joy and never have more from her to read. Ah, but back to this one.
Lou's an awesome character. Jack too. It is, of course, the classic romantic comedy plot line. Girl hates boy. Girl and Boy get stuck in some sort of situation where they have to be in close quarters for an indeterminate length of time. They both start falling for each other, but won't tell the other one. They fall into having sex eventually. They get back to their regular life, having to avoid each other because it's just "too weird." One does something daring to win the other's heart for good. The end. The thing about Cabot is that she makes you actually want to get to those points. She makes you want to see them fall in love. Plus, she's fun about it.
Pages: 354
Genre: Chicklit, Mystery, Romance
Grade: A
Would I Recommend?: YES. Anything Meg's, I'll recommend it, except the Queen of Babble sequels. Those were surprisingly bad.
18 down, 32 to go!
Lou Calabrese and Jack Townsend board a helicopter to get to the set of the movie that Lou wrote, and Jack is staring in. They hate each other, but figure they can handle a few minutes stuck in a small moving vehicle. Little do they know there's a plot against Jack's life, and the helicopter pilot has been hired to kill Jack. They fight off the pilot and the chopper crashes. Oh, did I mention that this is in the wilderness of Alaska? For the next few days, they fight to stay warm and alive. Will they ever figure out who's out to get Jack? (Or how to get themselves back to some sort of civilization.)
Thoughts:
Awesome, as always with Ms. Cabot. I have loved Ms. Meg for many years now, since the first Princess Diaries book, (no, I haven't read them all. I got bored with them about four books in) and have loved just about everything I've ever read of hers. I have about six books of hers to cover still. I want to hold off, though, because I don't want to kill all the Cabot joy and never have more from her to read. Ah, but back to this one.
Lou's an awesome character. Jack too. It is, of course, the classic romantic comedy plot line. Girl hates boy. Girl and Boy get stuck in some sort of situation where they have to be in close quarters for an indeterminate length of time. They both start falling for each other, but won't tell the other one. They fall into having sex eventually. They get back to their regular life, having to avoid each other because it's just "too weird." One does something daring to win the other's heart for good. The end. The thing about Cabot is that she makes you actually want to get to those points. She makes you want to see them fall in love. Plus, she's fun about it.
Pages: 354
Genre: Chicklit, Mystery, Romance
Grade: A
Would I Recommend?: YES. Anything Meg's, I'll recommend it, except the Queen of Babble sequels. Those were surprisingly bad.
18 down, 32 to go!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The 1-800-Where-R-U? Series (Meg Cabot)
When Lightning Strikes, Code Name Cassandra, Safe House, Sactuary, and Missing You.
Read between January '07 and February '08.
Summary:
The basic story is that this girl, Jess, gets struck by lightning, and suddenly wakes up the next morning with the ability of being able to pinpoint exactly where any given person is, so long as she sees a picture of the person, or touches something of theirs. In each book, she finds herself under more and more scrutiny over her ability, and she has to fight off everyone that tries to stand in the way of her finding those kids.
Thoughts:
It's an awesome book series. The main character, Jess Mastriani, is a strong girl who, at first, is wiggy about her new ability, but eventually takes it all in stride, and manages to embrace her ability. She, like any other teenaged girl, has a crush on a hunky guy, and things progress fairly well on that front through the series.
Cabot knows just how to write a story with enough angst to get you hoping for a happy ending, and then she delivers said ending with enough time for you to digest the ending, and still have a little left up in the air so that you want to keep reading more.
I loved this series, and the only reason why it took me so long to finish the 5-book series is because I wanted to drag it out a little bit for myself because it's just so good.
Pages: Unknown.
Genre: Teen lit/Chick lit
Grade: A to B, depending on the book, but averaging about an A-
Would I Read Again?: Absolutely.
Read between January '07 and February '08.
Summary:
The basic story is that this girl, Jess, gets struck by lightning, and suddenly wakes up the next morning with the ability of being able to pinpoint exactly where any given person is, so long as she sees a picture of the person, or touches something of theirs. In each book, she finds herself under more and more scrutiny over her ability, and she has to fight off everyone that tries to stand in the way of her finding those kids.
Thoughts:
It's an awesome book series. The main character, Jess Mastriani, is a strong girl who, at first, is wiggy about her new ability, but eventually takes it all in stride, and manages to embrace her ability. She, like any other teenaged girl, has a crush on a hunky guy, and things progress fairly well on that front through the series.
Cabot knows just how to write a story with enough angst to get you hoping for a happy ending, and then she delivers said ending with enough time for you to digest the ending, and still have a little left up in the air so that you want to keep reading more.
I loved this series, and the only reason why it took me so long to finish the 5-book series is because I wanted to drag it out a little bit for myself because it's just so good.
Pages: Unknown.
Genre: Teen lit/Chick lit
Grade: A to B, depending on the book, but averaging about an A-
Would I Read Again?: Absolutely.
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