Review of Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

Oh lordy... Theia Alderson has spent her entire 17 years holding back, being exactly the girl her father wants her to be. But when she meets the gorgeous Haden, the girl she once thought she was begins to fray at the edges.

Theia is instantly drawn to Haden, he is hot and mysterious and bad, he is literally the man of her dreams - She met him while she was asleep BEFORE he turned up at school.

Theia is swamped with confusion over Haden. Why is he appearing in her dreams? are they really dreams or something else? Does he remember her at school? Why does he act like he hates her one minute and loves her the next?

The truth is terrorfying.

This book rocks, to say the least. It has so many lovely horror moments, more so than most paranormal romance books which are usually very angsty. While this has a sufficient dose of teen angst too, it also has some very vivid macabre scenes which I just loved. 

Theia is a good character who is in constant battle with herself over how she should and how she wants to act and think. Haden is appealing, maybe more so as he is similar to the protagonist in my own novel-to-be. The other characters all have their purpose and none of them particularly got on my nerves!


It is well written, very easy to get lost in. I love horror movies, and although I wouldnt call it 'scary' it has skeletons and monsters and all things that go bump in the night which was really cool. Gwen Hayes has a wonderfully demented mind, in the best possible way :)


The story itself is great too, again had some similar themes to my novel-to-be! I do recommend it to all you YA-Para-Rom fans out there, plus the cover is a front runner for my cover of the year! so beautiful :)


I GIVE IT 4/5

COMP TIME: - Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens

OK, so I'm giving away (internationally) a paperback copy of Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens. To enter, i've set a bit of a quest...

The first person to correctly answer what book the following quote is from gets the book!

I'm not sure if its easy or not, but i didn't want to make it too obvious. So it is probably hard. If no one gets it I will make it easy I promise :)

Go to the Misha Fitts Book Bitts Facebook page discussion tab to enter!
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=33&uid=128942693844584

Review of Awakened by P.C & Kristin Cast

Book 8, eh? No it wasn't as bad as some of them. I am a fan of the House of Night and will definitely read everybook in the series. My main problem with Awakened was the same problem I have with most of the books. Zoey. And the general dialogue of the teens.

So Zoey and Stark are back from the Otherworld, Neferet is still a psycho, Kalona is still a douche with wings and Stevie Rae is in love with a bird. Good times? No! I didn't feel like much happened throughout this latest chapter, except at the end it got great with some unexpected and expected-but-good plot twists. 

I think if you are wanting to get into the House of Night books, it is worth it. I did enjoy Marked, Book 1 a lot. Don't try to start from Awakened though as it will make no sense at all!

So the characters. For some reason, Zoey drives me nuts. She is no Gabry, but I just can't empathise with her and have always found her to be the kind of girl I would not wanna know in real life. I hate the way the kids talk. I havent been 17 for awhile, but I don't remember talking that way, nor have I overheard anyone actually speak that way. For example: "I heart me some Jack" or "bullpoopie". And then there is Kramisha's poor grammer. It all is really irritating and childlike. 

This one can have a 2/5 because I like Rephaim and Cats. 


 

Better World Books Comp ends this Friday 25 March at 12pm UK time

http://mishafittsbookbitts.blogspot.com/2011/03/competition-time.html 
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here is the blog from a bit ago with all the details!

Review of the L.A Candy series by Lauren Conrad

I read the first two books, L.A Candy and Sweet Little Lies, a while ago now. I remember thinking they were alright. The books are basically The Hills in print form, so if you like the show than you would most likely enjoy the books.

I wouldn't call myself a massive Hills fan, in fact I gave up watching it a long time before it finished as it really started to get on my nerves, and I guess thats how I feel about the book series as well.

I was only a few pages into Sugar and Spice and I was already cringing. I always finish a book even if it isn't what I had expected, but I really struggled from those first few pages.

The story is this: Jane Roberts is a nobody from Santa Barbara who gets discovered when she she moves to LA with her friend Scarlett Harp. They get signed on to appear in a new reality TV show called LA Candy made by PopTV. They are cast with two other girls, Madison Park & Gaby Garcia, and meant to be insta-friends.

Jane begins dating a guy called Jesse but has feelings for a friend of hers called Braden. Madison gets jealous that Jane gets all the attention on the show and plans to destroy Jane's girl next door rep. Scarlett hates the whole thing and Gaby is a blip on the celebrity radar.

The fact that this story could pan over three books was odd, but then the fact that the Hills could be a show for so long was odd too. The only good thing about the books was Lauren's constant jabs at how fake the whole 'reality' tv thing is, which everyone knows anyway, but some parts of these books felt more fact than fiction.

The story is basically Lauren Conrad's life. It has the Heidi character, the Lo character, the Audrina and Whitney, even the Jason. 

I'm afraid, sadly, I don't know how it ended, I did what I never do and took it back to the library after three chapters. I just couldn't handle the way it was written. I could have probably finished it if i didn't have to read the words "Soooooo" and "Ummm" every paragraph.

I'm really sorry to anyone who loves these books or the show. I don't want to offend anyones tastes etc. and as I said I did like the first two enough, I think I've just been reading some really great books this last year or so and I really wasn't in the state of mind for the last installment.

I give the entire series a 1.5/5