Amanda

Slow starter for me, but once she got to the prison, I was hooked.

Love the narrator's voice. Didn't much care for the beginning, but once the story settled down and stopped jumping all over time, I really liked this book.

Cute cute cute. Much better than Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, and probably about the same level as Nick and Norah. I liked Lily a lot. Dash not quite as much, but he was mildly annoying in a very realistic teenage-boy way.

Really liked this one, and the relationship between the narrator and her BFF. Had a little bit of trouble remembering or telling all the minor characters apart, but that's because I am not very smart.

Meh. Didn't hate it, but also didn't really buy the love triangle thing. Also was sort of irritated by the whole “only weak people need to take the green pill” motif. But maybe that's my anxiety disorder talking. Because I'm so weak and all.

Would've probably enjoyed this more if I'd read the Vampire Academy series first. As it is, though, pretty good.

Don't judge me.

I reread this book every year or two and I'm never sorry that I did.

So good. The ending was absolutely perfect.

I adore A Room With a View, but somehow this didn't hit the same place for me. Not sure why.

Love the characters, especially the dragons. I needed to reread some of the earlier books before this one, because it took me a bit to remember everyone's names and relationships. Mostly, I liked it, but the plot was a little meandering and the book felt like it just ended without a real climax or cliffhanger or anything. Fairly disappointing, especially if this is the end of the series.

I really liked Andi as a narrator. It's difficult to read, but depression is difficult to deal with, so I didn't have a problem with that. I didn't care for the dream sequence/hallucination/whatever toward the end; I didn't think it was really necessary for Andi's story to have this semi-mystical revelation about Malherbeau. The modern-day story was a lot more interesting to me, and I thought it lost a lot of steam when it was Andi in the 18th century, as opposed to reading/experiencing it via the diary. I'm also really tired of YA books painting medication for mental health as inherently bad - yes, it can be abused, and yes, it's not always the answer (or the entire answer). But both Andi and her mom had serious issues going on, and it bothered me to see them both apparently all better by going off their medication cold turkey.

Reread, and I think I liked this more a second time around. I'm more interested in the non-Nina storylines, and Parker seems like a total Nice Guy. I think most of the other things I want to say are spoilers, but yeah. Maureen Johnson is really hit-or-miss for me, but this is on the good side.

Eh. Not bad, but not great. I think this may have suffered from being read right after [b:I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated 6723170 I Don't Care About Your Band Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated Julie Klausner http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FjoctJuAL.SL75.jpg 6919324], which I liked a lot more.

This book felt like homework. Well-written homework, but still. I didn't ever really feel like Ida Mae was in danger of being outed, except for the one hardware store scene, which was well-done and kind of scary/ominous. I didn't ever really connect with any of the characters, except maybe Patsy, who I wanted to know more about. (And this isn't to say that Ida Mae's story wasn't interesting, because it was, but I'd never even heard of wing-walkers before this.) Also totally didn't buy the romance - it felt really thrown in, like someone was worried that people wouldn't be interested in the story without it. Ending seemed a little abrupt as well.

I don't read much mid-grade, but I enjoyed this. It sort of felt more like a short story collection than a novel, but that didn't hurt it for me. I would have liked more about Callie's parents, and some differentiation between her brothers - it felt like only three of the six had much characterization.

Meh. The essays on books I had read were pretty good (though there was distractingly bad copyediting throughout), but I feel like I'm a little younger than the target audience for this book and a lot of the YA novels written about I'd never heard of, let alone read.

Reread. Still adorable YA romance that's not too fluffy and doesn't involve supernatural beings.

I really didn't care for the choice to use dialect for one of the characters, and the book touched on a little bit of Nice White Lady syndrome. It wasn't as bad about that as I feared it might be at the beginning, though. The dialect, though. Man.

Fascinating and creepy. Loved the history of the church - basically none of which I knew before.

The flashbacks-within-flashbacks got a little confusing sometimes, especially with the characters who have changed their look over time, like Envy. Love the Vegan Police, and the playlist at the back of the book had so many of my favorite bands, it cannot be coincidence.

I love Wallace.

Placeholder review - longer one to come after I reread the entire series.

I was way more interested in the Vanger-centric mystery than the Wennerstrom-centric one, so once the Vanger one was resolved, the last 75 pages or so draaaaaaaaaaaagged. Overall, though, good not-too-deep mystery/thriller.

Oh, Meg Cabot, I like you so much, but I did not like this book. None of the characters had any spark (except maybe Meena's next-door neighbor, who was at least amusing). If vampirism is supposed to be a metaphor for something here, it's really confused and I can't figure it out. Both of the main dudes are creepy, but in different ways. (Also, “chafing” is not a sexy word, even when describing the aftermath of, you know, sex.) I wanted to like this one, but I just couldn't.