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Post by Emily on Jul 3, 2011 16:21:06 GMT -5
The emotions in this book had me laughing one minute and crying the next, As Dani struggles to forget the past, having watched her father an abusive parent and wife beater kill her older brother and the only stability in her life. Her mother's quick descent into alcoholism as well as defending Dani's father she quickly moves through to the adoption system. Some families were good occasionally getting back to her mother but still her mother refusing to ever fully stop having self pity on the situation her life had dealt her. Dani ends up back in the system and with the family she now knows and loves as her parents the Thompsons. They support her and help her through her life like parents should. Her best friend from the first time she came to live with her parents is secretly the love of her life and she writes songs filled from her love and pain. Reese is the one thing in life she can't live without or so she feels. But she is to scared to tell him that he's not really like a brother to her but her one love. It takes Collin a guy from her past from a bad foster home to help her realize that somethings aren't always best locked away and people aren't always what you picture or seem. That some emotions are reciprocated and that forgiveness, life, love and death all make us the person we are. In that she gets the courage to tell Reese how she feels, To find out that he feels the same and that Colin is one of the best friends she never thought she would have. It's a captivating and heartwrenching tale with a surprise twist at the end and the happiness that everyone longs for eventually as well as the strength to not dwell in the past but live for your future.
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Post by Emily on Jul 3, 2011 11:59:44 GMT -5
First, I'm going to start by thanking our Author Frank Riganelli For offering up his book when I first had reviewed one. He has not disappointed me. It took me an unfortunate time to get around to it but I have not been disappointed. Legend Station was full of Suspense, page turning and I loved every second of it. So much so that I Implore You all to pick it up and read it. I loved the balance of action and the frights, Things seemed just right as I flicked my kindle button I could not put it down wanting to know what would happen next. The characters were perfect as well as the atmosphere of the scenes and settings. Each emotion was allowed it's own chance to play with you. The religious references and the way the agnostic views filled in had in no way or shape to offend anyone and even allowed me to question somethings myself making it all out for a great read. As stated in a previous review I loved horrors of all kinds the frights give me a little tickle to feel reading, watching a movie or just getting told a fable from a local legend and this book kept me with that feeling, Something that I hadn't had for a while until now two of my recent reads. So to Frank I ask MORE please more as well I say great job!
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Post by Emily on Jul 2, 2011 22:34:49 GMT -5
I found myself clicking the button every second I could as this book pulled me in with it's compelling story. The coming of age story with a girl learning to cope with the sudden disappearance of her best friend for years and the realization that she had inherited her grandmothers gift to see the dead. The mystery unfolded more as Ariel moves through her day to day life her school year back after her friends disappearance, More people begin to disapear and more of her friends or would be friends turn on her. She makes a new friend of the new girl Theo and gets her first crush in Henry the new guy in school as she faces each drama that unfolds and tries to figure out slowly what is going on in her home town of Hell and where all the kids are starting to disappear to what they have in common with the old orphanage and why things seem to be happening most of all to her. It's the first in a series that I'm already eager for the next book in. I can't wait and hope that you all will find this just as good a read as it was for me.
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Post by Emily on Jun 29, 2011 11:44:48 GMT -5
Some say you can never go wrong with a classic no matter what form it's in. This was a nice short read with the twist like all the others say of Beauty and the Beast. It was a nice story set short and to the point sometimes that's all you need when you read a good short spurt and your done. Other than that it was good. I know this review is short and to the point and perhaps I'm taking a page from the book as I write it. I wish it had been longer but the details to the story were beautifully done and worked out. Hopefully we will see a little lengthier work from her at a later time.
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Post by Emily on Jun 24, 2011 18:07:51 GMT -5
This was a fast pace story and I almost wish there was a little more from the other side than the few small sections there was. Just to show the cruelty and deceptiveness that has come to grasp our young adults. It's a very accurate and sometimes disappointing betrayal of how the teen girls and guys of generations have come to be. Down right vindictive and cruel for no other reason than they can be. It's a very good story with a touching moral and proof that you need to be sure of what you want to do with your life and the choices you make.
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Post by Emily on Jun 23, 2011 17:57:21 GMT -5
This is book Three in the Series Game of Thrones. I love this series. I know some people say that he isn't but I feel for this generation he is our own Tolkien. He never fails to keep one guessing what is going to happen next and I have yet to find in any of the books a moment where I'm not surprised, Happy, Sad, Angry or just drawn into the characters their lives, loves, losses and gains. Each battle each hill and each torment something new comes about where you find yourself either loving or hating someone you never expected to hate or love. The more I read the more I want more and eagerly can't wait to read the next in this series so I can await for the fifth installment coming this July. The series honestly has pulled me back into that medieval fantasy world that I use to love and dream of as a child.
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Post by Emily on Jun 18, 2011 14:56:58 GMT -5
www.amyachronicles.com/I found this comic at Emerald City Comicon, they were a small group just started. A group of friends that role played Dungeons and dragons and things of the sort. It was how this story came about. I found it pretty cool and when I read the comic I fell in love with it. Though they are currently personally published I thought them a good addition to our book club and it's wonders. Above you can find their webpage where they have new comics and you can purchase from them as well.
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Post by Emily on Jun 15, 2011 9:48:07 GMT -5
This book took me back to a time when I was a kid. When we all use to hide under the covers from the boogyman, listen for the monster under the bed, or in our closets. When you would gather with your family on a camping trip, or just spend the night outside with your sister or brother camping in the back yard and telling ghost stories trying to scare each other more. It's a fond and fun memory and so this book is a fond and fun read. Definately neat to know and hear some of the old and some of the new ghost stories. I suggest getting a copy and reading it if nothing but for nostalgia and the fun memories of nights and youth past. Who knows maybe you really could be reading about yourself. kidding. But it's a blast to give yourself that little bit of a scare.
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Post by Emily on Jun 14, 2011 14:55:35 GMT -5
I won this book in a contest on my book clubs forums, it by no degree sets my decision against this book. However when I first read this book, I was enthralled the writer pulled me in with my fondness of paranormal and my worry that as with much of witches and vampires it would glamoure to the new regime of Twilight lust. I was pleased to find that this is in no way a Twilight knock off. I know some people swear by Twilight and I'm cool with that. To each their own but it was not one of my favorites. However, this book Bloodspell was in my thoughts and mind a way better story and something I urge others to read.
The characters are thought out, the surprise ending is something you wouldn't expect and not everything is a perfect ending. It's good but it leaves it open for more to follow for there to be a chance to see more in Tori's life and to have options open to her as well as her beloved Christian. All in all I recommend picking this book up and reading it. I don't want to divulge to much but I say you will most certainly not be disappointed. At least I know I wasn't.
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Post by Emily on Jun 12, 2011 16:44:25 GMT -5
A Young wife, was a splendid read. I found myself captivated and pulled into the authors account of her grandmothers troubling journey through growing up and the theft in so many ways of her innocents. The story unfolds in the beginning of a young girl cousin to Sanders wife asked to come live with them to take care of said wife as she lays dying. Upon the woman's death Minke, the young wife in said book is thrown into a whirlwind of life. Marrying, living, loving and finally being betrayed by family and people she loved with all her heart she has her first born child stolen and kept hidden from her. I found myself rooting for the girl as she finally grew a backbone and took care of herself. Found her stolen son and pulled her life together. Going back to the place her one life in Comodoro. It's a book that will make you laugh, cry , and cheer as this young woman braves her world and comes into her own. Standing up for the justice she deserves and sees the evil of man only to steal back her happiness and life before it's to late.
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Post by Emily on Jun 10, 2011 22:32:29 GMT -5
This was a concept that took me by surprise drawn to the book I found that it was a great story once I got past that first chapter. The First chapter almost deteered me but once sticking it through I found that the story and the feel within it seemed to take it's self into a page turning enjoyment. The man obtaining what he wants and desires with the aid of the reaper always showed that the age old saying of careful what you wish for you just might get it. Is all to true. It's also what I like to think and say, Never trust death for in the end he's just there to collect no matter who it is. I think that this would be a great movie if it's directed correctly it almost read a little better that way as I thought about it in my mind. But who knows what the future holds. All in all it was an interesting read.
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Post by Emily on Jun 10, 2011 22:17:38 GMT -5
I was turned onto this book by the TV show. Hoping that like always it would be way better than what I had currently found a love for. I'm pleased to say that I'm not disappointed. Both are great. The show sticks close to the book better than some I have ever seen which made reading the book all the more great for me. To have faces to put to the names and people I grew to love as I read. The book follows just as it states a game of sorts. The drive of kingdoms and men to select a king to the throne of kings landing. The Lannisters are true villians that you grow to hate. The spiders and snakes are just as evil in the whisperings of the court. You hope that the Starks prevail and even in some ways you cheer a little for Daenrys to get what she is rightfully owed after seeing her life as it is now since the death of her father and family the Mad King Aerys. It's a great read and I myself can't wait to pick up the next one I suggest others to pick this up too.
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Post by Emily on Jun 6, 2011 12:11:49 GMT -5
Thank you it's good to see someone else posting and I'm interested and will look into a copy of this book. THANK YOU.
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Post by Emily on Jun 5, 2011 15:59:50 GMT -5
The story is about six friends close to each other. Just leaving sixth grade and enjoying their summers before their middle schools tear them apart. The town is seperated by a river and in this half are on one side and the other half are on the other. With the river being their meeting point. The tweens begin a summer journey that will change their lives forever when one of them goes missing. Taken by a man in a world they thought didn't exist telling themselves it's not real not true they soon learn that somethings are better left to be discovered. I enjoyed this book, It was intriguing and brought me back to some of my childhood days when things were still imaginary and we all still had those dreams. The ones that there might be something under your bed. Just the usual fun of being a kid I can't wait for more of the chronicles to emerge just to know what happens to these kids.
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Post by Emily on Jun 3, 2011 12:49:22 GMT -5
The Help By Kathryn Stockett a Review This book is written in the time of white and black segregation. Showing the life of maids and how it was for colored people to work for white families. Raising their children and cleaning their homes but still being treated poorly. It's about a young woman yearning to be a writer and to express even her discontent with how the help is treated after learning that the maid she was raised by and loved like a mother was fired for no good reason. It's a touching story and really makes you angry as some of the idiocies and racism that was bred into people during that time. How so many years close mindedness and the push of people kept others down. I loved the book, it was page turning and riveting even having you wonder what some of these people were thinking. The worst part was reading how some families even treated their children and the help unable to do anything to stop them for fear of retaliation. Definately a book I suggest to others. www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/9510-review.jpg/8587372-1-eng-US/9510-review.jpg_full_600.jpg[/img]
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