shidoburrito's reviews
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Hm, how do I feel about this book. I'm not quite sure. It wasn't BAD, the characters were okay, no one really bothered me too much. And they developed well enough through the story. But I still feel like this book had so many ideas and wanted to be so much, but only had time to scrape the surface of each tidbit: time travel, dragons, cults, love triangles, twin brothers set against one another, gamer girl main character trying to support her and her grandpa since her mother and father are dead, conspiracies... see what I mean? It was too much. The time travel bits had some holes in it too, I'm not quite sure how it works, and I don't think the time travelers know either, because I think stuff was just made up on the spot. The main element that had me intrigued were the dragons. I guess Emmy is cool. I dunno, I just wasn't feeling this book. It has its moments of older-teen gore, but the writing style is perhaps 11+. I'll read book two, but hopefully it picks a direction and sticks with it.

A cute little story for kids about a dad's time traveling adventure while out one day to pick up some milk. One thing that stood out to me: in the beginning of the story Prof. Steg is a "he" but near the end of the book it starts referring to the dinosaur as a "she". Anyone else catch that?

What a strange book.

So take a look at this cover and judge what the book will be about, like I did. I set this book aside because my judgement was: "Oh the girl on this cover looks pissed, and judging by the title, she must have gone through a tough breakup and is out for revenge." It looks like that, right? WRONG! I could never be more wrong! This book is amazing and creepy! No, this girl, Veronica, is haunted by ghosts, like everyone else in the world, because after the Event, images of people that had departed the world come back for brief moments to play out a snippet of their life, to be played over and over again. And no wonder she looks haunted, her dead father appears at the kitchen table at the same time every morning to read the same newspaper and take the same sip of coffee before disappearing. Everyone is haunted by these images, and while many have learned to live with it, some can't. Like Veronica's friend. Or her history teacher August Bittner, who is haunted by the girls he has killed, and he will kill again, because Veronica may be the one whom he can kill to bring his daughter back to life.

Yeah, Mr. Bittner may have been one of the creepiest characters I have ever read. Even though this book's events of the Event and ghosts/images are unrealistic, the character of Mr. Bittner was realistically insane.

Again, a cute book in what I guess will be a series. Always quirky (or should I say, "quarky"?) and funny, the world of Kazam is a mishmash of technology and magic, and magic is making a comeback.

I don't know why, but this book seemed so much better than the first one. Maybe because I knew what to expect this time and I was able to enjoy it for what it was: a twisted, teen murder mystery full of suspense and gruesome details! Not a Dexter read-alike, like I had thought when I picked up book one in this series. Thankfully, this book was so intriguing and fast-paced, the series totally redeemed itself and was able to make my opinions of it take a 180. Well, maybe only a 90 degree, because the first book was good too, but Game was so much better!

You know what? This really was a really great book! It's original (to me, I've been on a werewolf/vampire break for years) with great characters. Especially Asia, I hated her with a passion! OOoooooh! And the romance doesn't become Twilight-y with impossible, against-their-nature human and werewolf romances. The Others are not human, they view humans as meat, they don't care what happens to most humans, and you won't be lead to think otherwise. Which is good. I didn't need a book with wimpy characters. Although... Meg was wimpy enough of a character that she filled that quota herself. That's not a total insult, she was raised to be ignorant and helpless, and it's her nature to be innocent, but sometimes she kinda got on my nerves. No matter, this book was way too awesome for that to make a difference!

The companion graphic novel to "Boxers", which taught ignorant me about this moment of history called the Boxer Rebellion, wasn't as good as the first. Or maybe my opinions were skewed because book 1 was so much more in depth with Bao's character, that when we see Vibiana's side of the story, as a Christian in 1899 China, I'm still reeling from Bao's story. In this shorter side of the tale Vibiana's character doesn't know who she wants to be or what her vocation is. It's another great graphic novel, don't get me wrong, but I feel Gene Yang didn't try as hard to make us like Vibiana. She was quite plain.

Again, the story was meh but the art was cute.

Kinda makes me think of the prince as the Doctor. Hmmmm. Well you're thrown right into the action and adventure with not much of a premise but for a note to Rose (another Doctor similarity) as to how the Prince and the fox are off to save planets from the evil influence of the Snake. Pretty simplistic. The art is cute, but the stories just seem to be lacking.