Stephanie

This is a fantastic read! I'm such a sucker for books that involve pop culture references and that is basically the premise of this book. Miix in there that it's also pulling from some clearly dystopian themes and you have a book made perfect for reading. I loved the plot. Ernest Cline's adventure was fast paced, filled with enough details and riddles to keep the reader engaged, and also pulled you back to some of the great things from your childhood. Even if you were never a gamer, children who were raised in the 80s of have an appreciation for that era will appreciate the references to 80s bands, movie, and novelists. I especially liked the FlickSync challenges that the main character had to go through. I found myself hoping that if our world ever goes to shit, that someone will be smart enough to build an OASIS for me to play around in.

So overall, fantastic read. I really enjoyed it.

A really great, quick read. Diana Peterfreund's characters are lively and hilarious. Her view of secret societies at a fictional Ivy League college are hilarious. I also liked the little tricks she put in there to make the read more interesting. The lists, the footnotes..sometimes that makes a book seem trite and gimmicky but I think she pulled it off pretty well. I will definitely be continuing this series.

What a great book! This one had an ending to die for. It made me incredibly excited for the next book in the series. Lauren Oliver really has a hit series on her hands with this one.

The quality of the novels have been getting better since the downhill trend that started around book 13. We still need an answer to who she's going to choose and it looks like it's getting close to who I thought it was! Funny book as usual. Lorelei King is a great narrator and does all the different character's voices brilliantly.

A great book in the Heist Society series. I really loved the development in Kat and Hale's relationship. This series is definitely one of the better young adult books I've read.

A great debut novel and a quick read because of how engaging the plot and characters were. I finished it in one session over about a 4 hour period and could not put the book down. I'm excited to see what the next story holds.

Funny book with some interesting characters. It's good for people who need a mindless read that has some kick to it.

An honest attempt, it was laugh out loud funny during some parts but I still felt like it wasn't on par with the earlier novels in the series. Overall it was a good time though, I really enjoyed it.

Great police procedural!

This book really does live up to its name in which all the characters are fighting, running from, or speaking about this unnamed War. No one seems to know how it started, how long it's been going on, or who are the leaders everyone just knows that they will either kill or be killed.

I enjoyed the first person and journaling feel of the text. I think it was especially effective during some of the action scenes and the scenes filled with suspense because you can really get a feel of how paranoid the central character, Joe, is going through. It almost makes you want to check that no one is following you or plotting your untimely demise.

I'm curious to see whether a follow up has been planned because there was definitely room in the story for there to be a sequel written. It would definitely be something to look forward to if there was.

I loved it! Can't wait for Blackout!

Finally, we're getting somewhere with this series! I think this along with Explosive Eighteen coming out in November have the potential to put an end to the Stephanie Plum series. The books have become a lot of repeating themes and story lines and frankly, they're not as interesting as they once were. We know this world and these characters now I think it's time we put them to bed. I appreciate that this novel was a lot better than the last...four novels. I'm excited for Explosive Eighteen in November.

This is another amazing reworking of a fairy tale we all know and love. I appreciate the author's ability to make me think twice about the childhood stories I've grown to love. In this one, o do believe it was slow to begin but once it picked up pace I was glad to read it. I enjoyed the twist at the end. I was actually surprised by that and it added some more depth to the theme of seeing/looking that permeated the book. A really great and enjoyable read.

I think this was a very good first novel and a great addition to the thriller genre. This is your typical serial killer book in most ways except one: it's written so well and which such imaginative prose it feels as if you're reading some sort of contemporary literary fiction. Can't wait to devour the next book in this series!

I definitely think it's an interesting read. It's one of those books where several people's lives collide and they end up touching each other in some form of the other. I like that there are some big questions asked in this book. Questions such as what makes a person successful, what do you do when you regret parts of your life, and how do you people relate to another. For that reason, the psychological aspects of this book make up for the lack of clearly defined protagonists, a solid plot line, and the disjointed narration that others have complained about. Though I still don't understand why this book won so many awards I can say it is a solid book that deserves to be read.

I don't know if I can sufficiently describe what this book is about or how deeply it affected me but I guess I can try.

Feed is about a post-apocalyptic America where a virus broke out and decimated the world's population and changed the way people lived forever. This book is set years and years after the fact where living with the possibility of a zombie outbreak is as normal as any other daily task. The readers take the point of view of Georgia and Shaun Mason. They are bloggers who get the chance of a lifetime to follow the campaign of Senator Pete Ryman who is vying for the highest position in America, President of the United States.

I can't tell you more without ruining the book. But this is more than a well thought out zombie novel. This is political espionage, this friendship, this is a dedication to the news so strong that it changes lives. Mira Grant accomplished one of the greatest last 1/3's of a book I've ever read. She successfully had me crying for a good majority of the ending.

I loved this book and I dare you to read this book and not think the same. This isn't your average zombie thriller. This is something better than that. This is something smarter than that.

Prepare to be wowed.

So, I began this book thinking it was fiction from the summary on the back of the book. About 30% of the way in I figured out that it was not when I decided to google one of the names Jon Ronson mentions so far. Then, because of my perception of nonfiction books I immediately began to dislike all of these anecdotal stories about weird people, strange people, and all of the people he encounters trying to decipher this mess of psychopathy and psychology and the business of madness.

Well then it got interesting. For someone who is studying to be a forensic psychologist the topic of psychopathy is a goldmine for me. I particularly enjoyed reading seemingly candid takes of what Robert Hare (the creator of the PCL-R) thought about psychopathy and his discussion with Spitzer about how labeling is ruining society. This was an interesting take on the field that I'm going into and I was really interested in his presentation of both sides.

A great ending to a very cute trilogy from Meg Cabot.

A really hilarious read. I loved Heather's character and the crazy situations that happen at Fischer Hall.

A cute light read that I finished while on vacation in summer. I loved the corny music lyrics that began each chapter and her relationship with Jordan (nonexistent but hilarious!) Meg Cabot did a great job with this.

A solid book. Ayn Rand's philosophy is something that has been hated and loved for ever. I became interested in her works once again after I went and saw the travesty that was Atlas Shrugged: Part 1. Anyway, great book. I really enjoyed it.

I thought this book was a really enjoyable, quick read. It's something for the kids who think caper crimes are pretty cool. I happen to be one of those individuals.

This book is really not as good as the Secret. Maybe when I was reading the secret I was a little more impressionable and open to the world, but reading the power just made me annoyed.

Remember when you were a child and you desperately waited every couple of months for your favorite series to release a new book so you could lose yourself in the lives of fictional characters? Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley University is one of the reasons I loved to read. This was one of the first series I kept up with until Francine Pascal stopped writing the books years ago.

So when I heard she was releasing an epilogue to the series I was super excited. Then I began to read it and that excitement turned into abject horror. This is NOT a good book. I don't know what happened. I'm almost positive Francine Pascal is not a terrible writer. She just couldn't get this book to...flow. She utilized this dual point of view which made the book so aggravating to read. Every other page became a flashback and every other chapter was a different city. I'm sure she could have told the story without using this method.

Then the actual characters. It's 10 years later and you'd hope Jessica Wakefield would have grown up a little bit but she hasn't and it's reflected in Pascal's writing. She writes Jessica in first person narrative and she's throwing in “like” everywhere and it made me want to hurl. I'm almost positive people from California actually don't speak like that and if that's the only way she thought readers would be able to discern Jessica's personality and motivations from Elizabeth's then she was sorely mistaken. Besides Jessica though these characters are at their most shallow which doesn't make any sense. We've sat with these characters for YEARS. How is it that she's reduced them back to their high school caricatures? The stereotypes that they began with? I was almost embarrassed reading this book because if these were the same characters that kept my attention for years then I question my own taste in books.

At the end, I appreciate the work she did wrapping up every characters' journey to their place in this book. It's bittersweet reading the ending to all these people you made friends with when you were younger. It made me tear up a little bit. I was invested in these characters and their lives. I felt like I put a piece of my own childhood to rest when I finished this novel.

That's why even though the plot was weak and the characterization was laughable that I will still give this book 3 stars because at the end of the day this book marks the end of an era for me and that deserves some respect.

Goodbye Sweet Valley, I wished the ending had done you justice.

This was by no means a bad book but it's not very ground breaking. There's nothing about these books that is going to change the FBI/Serial killer/Strong female lead genre. I just wish something in these books would surprise me. I say all this to say that it wasn't bad but there is a lot of room for improvement.