Lectus

I really should stop buying books because of the cover.Anyways, Brook is filthy rich (supposedly) and while driving her Ferrari she is kidnapped. Her abductors rape her from all angles and inside out. Gross. The part of Brook captivity is really gross, disgusting, and, I found it to be very real. I mean, Hawkinson didn't hold back in the description and the language. If you have issues with women being raped don't read this book. I found the beginning of the book (yeah, the captivity part) to be very good. I know, I already admitted I am a weird psycho so...The problem with the story started when Brook escaped and is rescued by Lance. After TWO months of living with Lance she wants him. On page 228 she tells Lance "I want you. I want you so badly."Let me stop right here. Don't rape victims need counseling, therapy, treatment or something before they are able to "love" again? And only two months and you already want to have sex? After your anus was broken and...?On top of that, they go for it but Brook stops because (thank god) she is concerned about having some STD and passing it to Lance. And Lance? "I'll take my chances" he said. Seriously, the woman was repeatedly raped by three unknown low life deviants and you don't care that she might have gotten some STD or HIV? Way to go Hawkinson. I am not saying that rape victims shouldn't get their lives back, but a little reality here would've made this a good book. Hawkinson went from hardcore pornography straight to romance. Sorry, I needed something in between.

Another pathetic zombie story. What a waste! I want my money baaacckkk!!!!

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/mis-fortune-by-melissa-haag.htmlThis is totally weird, I have more bad things than good things to say about the story yet I loved it!If I fell in love with a dog in the previous book, even more reason to fall in love with Emmit who, unlike Clay, spends his time in his skin.Okay, so Michelle is running from a bad guy and meets Emmit. Oh! But I don't know, I felt everything Michelle felt when she saw Emmit.The bad parts:#1) The story is slooooww.... yet addictive.#2) Every single detail is given... as a whole, I think it was necessary.#3) They seem to spend a lot of time eating breakfast!4) Michelle is the typical weak, shy, useless, I-flush-of-my-own-shadow heroine. Annoying... yet, I think that the story wouldn't had worked any other way. Darn it!The sooo good parts:#1) Do I need to say I fell in love with Emmit?#2) I never wanted to bite some neck so badly in my life.#3) At 82% in my Kindle, Michelle and Emmit finally kiss. BUT what a kiss. I never felt a kiss like this one (since Twilight). I swear I was the one kissing Emmit.Overall: Damn slow book that was so good! I definitely need to make out with someone and claim him. This is a new, different, unexpected, out of the ordinary, etc., etc., etc. werewolf world.

I read this book because David liked it.The summary doesn't say anything about the book! Well, I'll give my own.Gabby has an unusual ability of seeing the "light" of people. Not the aura but like... well, a light. Think of the X-Men when Xavier concentrated and could see where each mutant was. At least that is how I imagined it.Anyway, very very few people have this "ability" and those who do, have an unusual pull that make men notice them and... well, become obsess. Because of this talent (or whatever) Gabby is a potential mate for werewolves. Eventually, Gabby is introduced to a werewolf community, and she has to decide if she wants to be "claimed" by one of these werewolves or if she is going to live her own life and go to college, get a job, etc.This is where we meet Clay, Gabby's... destined mate. When Gabby meets Clay, she feels a "pull" that means they are meant for each other; however, Gabby refuses to accept that because she has other plans for herself. What is Clay to do? I liked that despite knowing that she was destined to be with Clay, Gabby refused to do so and Clay had to win her. Now the weird bad parts that made the story good:#1) What the hell Clay? He didn't talk AT ALL. Not even to say yes. This was totally out of the ordinary! I was wondering what the point of making this guy mute was and bam! I got used to that too.#2) We have minimal Clay in his skin; must of the story he is in his fur. Odd... but I got used to that too.#3) Gabby falls in love with Clay when he is in his dog form! Seriously Haag? There is even a scene where Gabby longed to touch his paws. Damn! I fell for the hairy dog too!#4) The book is all tell and no show. A lot of "I learned that werewolves ... this and that..." and "because werewolves... blah blah blah ..." So, a lot of explaining and little show. #5) The beginning of the book is totally weird, slow and stupid (don't get offended Haag).#6) Totally annoying the part of Gabby having this pull of men. I mean, it was fine that men couldn't stop looking at her, but I felt it was totally weird that she was constantly saying so.#7) Also, Gabby went to lives with a roommate, Rachel. Interesting enough (or magically?) every single man is attracted to Gabby but Peter, Rachel's boyfriend. How convenient. I was wondering when Clay was going to speak, or if at the end I was going to discover that he was actually mute and communicated through telepathy or something.All throughout the book I was "what a piece of crap" and then switched to "how sweet." Love won and I ended up loving Clay and loving the story despite its oddness and simplicity.This is a totally different werewolf account that made me have constant mixed feeling for the book. As I said, I was constantly changing from "I like it" to "I'm totally giving it 1-star." And last night I dreamed about the book all night! What the heck?

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/horns-by-joe-hill.htmlI read this book because, was it Faye?, reviewed and mentioned that Hill is Stephen King’s son!First, I have to defend Hill by saying that some bloggers, obviously disappointed in the story, accuse him of not being his father’s son. I find this totally unfair. If he was to write like King, we would have two Kings and… which one would we read?Back to Horns, Ig wakes up one day to find that he has grown two little horns on his forehead. The horns also came with a peculiar ability of their own. Interesting enough, people don’t see the horns; or... as a doctor told Ig, they see it but instantly forget about them which is why no uproar is caused by Ig walking around horned.The story started very interesting and the power of the horns is interesting. I lost interest because of the amount of characters coming and going. Somehow I got lost in so many words. It could be the format of the book (small) and the fonts (too tiny). But everyone has their preferences and I prefer to read easily; if I have to fight with the fonts to make out a word, I abandon the book. Reading should be a pleasure, not a fight. Anyway, I didn’t find the sequence of events amounting to anything. Since the horns are more like a metaphor and don’t really do anything, it is Ig’s new ability that finally helps him discover who killed his ex-girlfriend.Although I didn’t like Hill’s writing style, I admit that Horns was an interesting and enjoyable concept… jut not for me.

Horrible writing and a hard time trying to remember who is who. What a fucking waste of $10.00.

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/04/pretty-girl-13-by-liz-coley.htmlFinally, a book worth my money and worth blogging about. Half way through the book, the story reminded me of Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. They are not the same, but some twists are.Back to PG-13. From the summary, you know that at 13, Angie was kidnapped for three years, thus when she finally made back home she is 16. The only problem is that she doesn’t remember anything about the kidnapping and, for all she is aware of, she is just returning from a camp trip from the day before. My first thought was that Angie couldn’t remember anything because of amnesia. And yes, that was the case. However, her amnesia was much more than those other books where the character doesn’t remember anything and then, snap, everything comes back at the end of the book. PG-13 is nothing like that. In the story, we never see a devastated, depressed Angie; on the contrary, despite of what she suspects happened to her, she is very much full of energy and loving life. I say suspects because Angie isn’t stupid and she kind of knows that she didn’t spend those three years in Candy Land. But how would she be depressed if she (her subconscious) didn't really live that experience? I liked everything about this book, but especially that Coley spared the morbid details of Angie and her husband. I hate reading about child abuse and yet, somehow, I’m drawn to those type of stories (some type of mental disorder, I know). As Coley explained in the last pages of the book, personality disorders are more than what she just wrote, and it takes years of therapy to heal. In the book, she came up with a quick fix to Angie’s alters because… well, it is a book, a work of fiction! And it had to end. I loved Angie’s alters; they seemed so real that I almost cried with Little Wife. It is really amazing what the mind does to avoid pain. I also liked that Angie kept her innocence (mostly) because her alters took the abuse for her. I now wonder why I waste my time with zombie and end of the world books…?

What a waste of.... everything! Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/mini-reviews-good-bad-and-ugly.htmlWhat the heck? This is supposed to be a horror book but... wait, yes, I was horrified by the lack of horror in it.Owen is in the Bahamas and wakes up to find people eating each other. Why? Is there something on the island that turned people into zombies?Technical descriptions without feeling is all I got: how a lung hanged from a bloody hand. The narrative is too repetitive: I already got the point, people were eating other people, thank you very much. Owen teams up with other survivors and the rest of the story is about them running from one place to another.

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-lead-life-of-crime-by-kirsten.htmlI was really enjoying the beginning but when Flick got to the academy I got tired of his "supreme" attitude.I've read some claims that the story is based on a real-live academy... really? Well, whatever.I managed to finish it because I wanted to see what was going to happen at the end. It turned out to be another bland fiction story where a bunch of kids against trained (and successful) enemies save the day.This book, like the books I've read lately, started with a lot of promise. Something happens to the authors that they all end up writing the same piece of s*.And can somebody explain to me what the author means by saying that her books "has been compromised"? Is this how we are trying to get a buzz for a book now? Not helping.I must say that Miller is a superb writer, though. The story didn't work for me, though. The story wanted to be ruthless and gruesome but it didn't feel that way.

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/uninvited-by-scott-boddie.htmlI bought this thinking that it was a full book, but it is just a short story, about 26 pages? Anyway, I was mad pissed when I checked my kindle and all of the sudden I was 85% done!What the heck? I went back to Amazon and bam! Boddie just wrote a freaking, awesome short story.These were the best 26 pages I had read in a while (this was before reading PG-13). Damn good!

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/mini-reviews-good-bad-and-ugly.htmlA family goes on a trip to the beach and the father, Mick, has an "accident" and almost drowned. After they go back home, Mick starts seeing strange thing in the house next to theirs. The house used to be empty and now is not. Who are those people and where they came from?Everybody in the family has their own thing going on, but I didn't care for anybody and just got bored of their chit-chat. The story is supposed to be creepy but I didn't get that feeling. I felt Ransom was dragging too much so I got bored and didn't finish the book to know what or who the people next door were.

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/panic-by-sharon-m-draper.html Panic was a nice read that didn’t focus just on Diamond' story. We have Diamond, who is kidnapped; Justin, in love with a girl how has a boyfriend; Layla, abused (or kind of) by her boyfriend; and Mercedes, who’s problem I forgot what it was.Panic wraps around the lives of all these friends and their reactions to Diamond's disappearance while dealing with their own issues. I liked that Draper spared the morbid details of Diamond kidnapping; although I could perfectly imagine what was going on, Draper chose not to elaborate on that. Thank god, or I’d be thinking about it for days. Some reviewers complain that the story doesn’t focus in one particular character, and that is true. The story is sweet, short and to the point without dwelling on anyone in particular for too long, but that is precisely what made it a nice read.The story message, for me, is not only that you should not talk to strangers, but that you should not be so naïve and believe strangers! Diamond was kidnapped because she was too trustful; the lines that the kidnapper used are the same ones that predators use today, still.Young people, read and learn, read and learn.

I can't believe I paid to read something so stupid! Everybody dies and is living in an afterlife. In this afterlife they don't feel hunger, they don't feel pain, they don't even breath because they are dead, right? The possibilities are endless: they can orbit, so they go to space and the moon. They just have to think of a person or place and you are there.... I became bored of this pretty quickly. I didn't see the point of any of it. Lucy and friends wanted to save the human race but I just wondered, what human race, if everyone was dead? From other bloggers I picked that the first half of the book IS boring and the paced picked up for the second half but I didn't make it to the that part. I abandoned the book because "the next thing I knew" I wasn't interested in the story anymore.

What I liked most about this book was the cursing. Totally realistic. High school kids don't talk like saints! So Period 8 was refreshing in this aspect. So, this bunch of kids meet during period 8 with the guidance of a counselor to discuss whatever issues they have. The only rule is to always tell the truth.Then a girl, Mary, goes missing and things about Mary (also known as Virgin Mary because she doesn't have sex) come up. Like, the total control freak that her father is.The story covers cheating in a very realistic setting too. Sometimes you cheat because you want to, other times it happens and you don't even know how or why. I liked that.I also liked the cunning of Stack but I can't say more without giving the story away.Paul, the main character, keeps it real at all times. He is realistic and call things what they are, as in, let's rebound. The most interesting character was Virgin Mary, I wonder if another book could be written based on her?

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/05/mini-reviews-good-bad-and-ugly.htmlI've read a few reviews of this book and people either love it or half like it. Well, I half liked it too. I didn't find it all that, but it was interesting reading about these two sisters that grew up in the mountains. Something that I found odd was the speed at which they adapted to civilization. The story, in general, left me of the feeling of something missing, and probably that is why I didn't fully like the book.

Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/04/17-gone-by-nova-ren-suma.htmlI managed to finish 17 & Gone given that it was so boring.The writing is great, though, but the stories are not.Lauren "sees" the ghosts of girls who have disappeared when they were seventeen. Some of them ran away, some were abducted, one was still alive. The story goes from girl to girl without lingering in one long enough to make me feel sorry for her.I feel that the book was trying to get to my soft side by saying things like "no girl - no missing girl, no runaway - deserves to be given up on, just like I wouldn't want anyone to give up on me." I found those type of lines cheesy.I didn't feel any thrill; I kept looking to see how many pages were left and how many more stories would be added! I guess that people who have had somebody missing will love the book because, unless you don't have a heart, you should feel sorry for missing girls. Which I do - feel sorry for missing girls, that is - but this book didn't evoke any of those feelings in me. I asked my sister what she thought of the book just to make sure that I wasn't being a total bitch, and she said that she found it boring too. Alas! Looks like we are still in-sync... now, if I could just get her to read Angelfall.... my work here would be done :-)