Right on the heels of the last review this is the second book in the Inside Out series. Sadly I don't have the third book but as soon as I get it and read it there will be a review up as usual.
The whereabouts of Rebecca are still unknown. Sara has to deal with her past a lot quicker than she planned with the tormented artist Chris Merit. She wants every bit of the romance promised but she isn't sure if the safety that comes with it is also promised. Her connection with Chris is tested again and again. Once things seem to be perfect something, as usual, comes along and messes it up.
I loved this book as much as the first book, but I found myself getting frustrated in a good way. Everything that I had good to say about the last book also applies to this book. As the reader we find out a lot more about Sara and it just makes us sympathize with her more. There are a few points where I want to slap her for being stupid, but then again I think we all come across that point with characters. If this series where still a trilogy I do think this would be an excellent middle book. Chris and Sara's relationship gets tested a lot in this book, which keeps things interesting. I wouldn't say the testing is with anything huge multiple times, but small things. There was one huge thing, though, one huge, sad thing. The ending was yet another, but smaller cliffhanger.
There was one thing that I did not like about this book. In the book world when there is a series or a trilogy, the main couple tend to break up in the second book. At least I have noticed this a lot through my years of reading. Unfortunately this happens to Sara and Chris. I was hoping that Jones would stray away from this. I understand that authors need to keep their books interesting to keep readers with their books and to get new readers, but I really would like to read a series where the main couple doesn't break up in the second book. Though the break up wasn't a long break up it was one nonetheless.
Overall I really enjoyed reading this book, and I read it all in one day. The ending just makes me want to hunt down the next book and read it as well. Once again I do recommend this book to others but as a warning it is an erotic romance, so there is sex. Even with the trend of couples breaking up in the second book I was still very pleased with this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 351 pages (paperback)
Price: $15 (I got if for around $9-$11 at Sam's Club)
Next Book: Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan
Thank you for reading!
~Jade
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones
This is the first book in the Inside Out series. It is no longer a trilogy there are 5 books planned, including the first 3 that are out already. There are also quite a bit of novellas planned and a couple out already, I do what to get those and read them. Once I do the reviews will be up for them.
In this erotic romance book, a school teacher is turned on to so many things that she didn't know existed. Best friend of Sara McMillan gives her a key to a storage locker, that she won off of an auction. Inside that locker lies a journal of a woman named Rebecca. She has this crazy love with a man who is never named and Sara get wrapped up in the ecstasy of her life and love. The journal entries come to a halting end and Sara becomes consumed in finding out what happened to Rebecca and travels down nearly the same path that she did.
Holy hell my peeps! This book was a crazy one that I could not stop reading I finished in a day and I wanted so much more of it. I loved every bit of Sara and man oh man, Chris Merit is a hunk. Every turn and bump in the story was interesting to figure out how Sara was going to overcome it and how Jones was going to take it. I found that I loved quite a number of characters and I loved to hate Sara's new boss at her new job. If you liked Fifty Shades, then you will enjoy this book. Everything that you wanted from Fifty is in this book. I was terrified that it was just going to be another repeat of Fifty and having nothing but a erotic sex plot and nothing else, but it isn't. There is a lot less sex than Fifty but there is still some. I would also classify this book in the mystery genera though, just not as hardcore as other mysteries are. Sara's love for paintings is something new that I haven't read about, and was a welcome change.
Really I didn't not like anything about it. I wish it were longer of a book but the ending was a good one. Hint: cliffhanger. There were a few spots of predictability and only one major thing that I knew before it was exposed. I wasn't too disappointed simply because I didn't know what would come from it.
Honestly I loved this book, I devoured it in one day like I said before. It is a quick read for those who read quicker than others. I do recommend it to others just keep in mind there is sex in this book. So if you don't want to read a book with sex in it, don't read this book. This is my personal copy and I want all the novellas that are out and coming out along with the rest of this series. I do hope that this series stays just as good as this first book. I would most definitely read this book again.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 340 pages (paperback)
Price: $15 (I got it for around $9-$11 at Sam's Club)
Next Book: One more book review before I reveal what I am reading next, it isn't a big surprise I just want to put it where it belongs.
Thank you so much for reading! Sorry about this one being short I didn't want to give anything good away
~Jade
In this erotic romance book, a school teacher is turned on to so many things that she didn't know existed. Best friend of Sara McMillan gives her a key to a storage locker, that she won off of an auction. Inside that locker lies a journal of a woman named Rebecca. She has this crazy love with a man who is never named and Sara get wrapped up in the ecstasy of her life and love. The journal entries come to a halting end and Sara becomes consumed in finding out what happened to Rebecca and travels down nearly the same path that she did.
Holy hell my peeps! This book was a crazy one that I could not stop reading I finished in a day and I wanted so much more of it. I loved every bit of Sara and man oh man, Chris Merit is a hunk. Every turn and bump in the story was interesting to figure out how Sara was going to overcome it and how Jones was going to take it. I found that I loved quite a number of characters and I loved to hate Sara's new boss at her new job. If you liked Fifty Shades, then you will enjoy this book. Everything that you wanted from Fifty is in this book. I was terrified that it was just going to be another repeat of Fifty and having nothing but a erotic sex plot and nothing else, but it isn't. There is a lot less sex than Fifty but there is still some. I would also classify this book in the mystery genera though, just not as hardcore as other mysteries are. Sara's love for paintings is something new that I haven't read about, and was a welcome change.
Really I didn't not like anything about it. I wish it were longer of a book but the ending was a good one. Hint: cliffhanger. There were a few spots of predictability and only one major thing that I knew before it was exposed. I wasn't too disappointed simply because I didn't know what would come from it.
Honestly I loved this book, I devoured it in one day like I said before. It is a quick read for those who read quicker than others. I do recommend it to others just keep in mind there is sex in this book. So if you don't want to read a book with sex in it, don't read this book. This is my personal copy and I want all the novellas that are out and coming out along with the rest of this series. I do hope that this series stays just as good as this first book. I would most definitely read this book again.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 340 pages (paperback)
Price: $15 (I got it for around $9-$11 at Sam's Club)
Next Book: One more book review before I reveal what I am reading next, it isn't a big surprise I just want to put it where it belongs.
Thank you so much for reading! Sorry about this one being short I didn't want to give anything good away
~Jade
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
This is the first book in The Strain trilogy. It took me a long time to get through simply because college picked up big time. But I will have 2 other reviews up along with this one so stay close by for those as well. I do want to thank those of you who have viewed my other reviews of books, I appreciate it!
When an airplane comes in completely dark and no communication can be made, everyone assumes the worse at New York's JFK Airport. The CDC's rapid response team is called in and Dr. Eph Goodweather is with them. When the board the plane to see what is wrong no one is prepared for what they see. From that point on a virus spreads through the city, consuming with a endless hunger. A Holocaust survivor working in a pawnshop know that his nightmare has come true and a war with vampires has began.
From the very beginning I was hooked, I hated to put the book down because it seemed like every time I picked it back up, I was a couple pages away from something good happening. There is a beautiful back story that you get bits and pieces of, and it makes the story that much more interesting. I also love the fact that Hogan and Toro took the "normal" vampires and made them something different. *SPOILER-ALERT* Instead of having fangs, they have a stinger of sorts that comes out of their mouth to get their victims blood. And not all that are turned are smart, they have one basic need and that is to feed.*SPOILER-ENDED* They do take some of the myths that came with vampires and use them, which I love because lets be honest, new age vampires are just annoying sometimes. This was released in 2009, but it is a welcome to get vampires back to "normal". I do love two characters in particular and they are the Holocaust survivor, Abraham Setrakian, and Ephraim Goodweather. I'm not sure why I like them, I just do and I think a lot of people who read this book would say the same (at least I hope they would). They are just two of the few main characters.
I did say that I was hooked from the beginning, but that was short lived. By time I got to the middle of the book I pretty much knew everything that was going to happen, and what was tried to be kept secret. It was predictable and I was disappointed with this. Toro is the same man who many of people know as a director, and I was expecting something a lot better. The last 150 pages of the book seemed to drag on and take forever. Once the ending did come I did know how it was going to happen pretty much down to specifics. If the book would have continued being as interesting as the beginning I would be less disappointed. I do know that there are two other books after this one with it being a trilogy, but I don't know if I would read the second book anytime soon. There is a lot more to this book and I think that is another problem. It all is relevant to the story, but it seems to be too much for just one book. There are lots of characters that Toro and Hogan cut to after a few pages, and sometimes you forget who they are and how they are relevant to the plot. I didn't like this because I had to keep going back and rereading who was who. That isn't for everyone but it is for a few people.
My disappointment overrides how much I like this book almost completely. I do recommend this book simply because someone else might love it more then I do, but I would also warn them about what I didn't like about the book. Like I said before I am not sure if I would read the second book anytime soon, if I do you guys will be sure to know.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Page Count: 585 pages (paperback)
Price: $9.99 (this is my personal book, but I got it a bag sale my library does from time to time)
Next Book: None. I have two more reviews coming today so stay tuned!
Thank you so much for reading!
~Jade
When an airplane comes in completely dark and no communication can be made, everyone assumes the worse at New York's JFK Airport. The CDC's rapid response team is called in and Dr. Eph Goodweather is with them. When the board the plane to see what is wrong no one is prepared for what they see. From that point on a virus spreads through the city, consuming with a endless hunger. A Holocaust survivor working in a pawnshop know that his nightmare has come true and a war with vampires has began.
From the very beginning I was hooked, I hated to put the book down because it seemed like every time I picked it back up, I was a couple pages away from something good happening. There is a beautiful back story that you get bits and pieces of, and it makes the story that much more interesting. I also love the fact that Hogan and Toro took the "normal" vampires and made them something different. *SPOILER-ALERT* Instead of having fangs, they have a stinger of sorts that comes out of their mouth to get their victims blood. And not all that are turned are smart, they have one basic need and that is to feed.*SPOILER-ENDED* They do take some of the myths that came with vampires and use them, which I love because lets be honest, new age vampires are just annoying sometimes. This was released in 2009, but it is a welcome to get vampires back to "normal". I do love two characters in particular and they are the Holocaust survivor, Abraham Setrakian, and Ephraim Goodweather. I'm not sure why I like them, I just do and I think a lot of people who read this book would say the same (at least I hope they would). They are just two of the few main characters.
I did say that I was hooked from the beginning, but that was short lived. By time I got to the middle of the book I pretty much knew everything that was going to happen, and what was tried to be kept secret. It was predictable and I was disappointed with this. Toro is the same man who many of people know as a director, and I was expecting something a lot better. The last 150 pages of the book seemed to drag on and take forever. Once the ending did come I did know how it was going to happen pretty much down to specifics. If the book would have continued being as interesting as the beginning I would be less disappointed. I do know that there are two other books after this one with it being a trilogy, but I don't know if I would read the second book anytime soon. There is a lot more to this book and I think that is another problem. It all is relevant to the story, but it seems to be too much for just one book. There are lots of characters that Toro and Hogan cut to after a few pages, and sometimes you forget who they are and how they are relevant to the plot. I didn't like this because I had to keep going back and rereading who was who. That isn't for everyone but it is for a few people.
My disappointment overrides how much I like this book almost completely. I do recommend this book simply because someone else might love it more then I do, but I would also warn them about what I didn't like about the book. Like I said before I am not sure if I would read the second book anytime soon, if I do you guys will be sure to know.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Page Count: 585 pages (paperback)
Price: $9.99 (this is my personal book, but I got it a bag sale my library does from time to time)
Next Book: None. I have two more reviews coming today so stay tuned!
Thank you so much for reading!
~Jade
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Books Coming Out!
I have heard that The Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy has the third book coming out in April, and hopefully my library will have it. I am really anxious to finish that trilogy, and I found out as well that Laini Taylor has a novella out called Night of Cake & Puppets. I haven't seen it at my library but if it comes in I will be sure to grab it up and get a review of it up.
Another book that is coming out is the third book in the White Rabbit Chronicles by Gena Showalter. This is another highly anticipated book for me. Supposedly the release date for that book is in really late September. If anything changes on the date I will let you all know.
Hopefully I will have the review for The Strain up soon, only one more week left of college for this term!
Thanks for reading, and see you all soon!
~Jade
Another book that is coming out is the third book in the White Rabbit Chronicles by Gena Showalter. This is another highly anticipated book for me. Supposedly the release date for that book is in really late September. If anything changes on the date I will let you all know.
Hopefully I will have the review for The Strain up soon, only one more week left of college for this term!
Thanks for reading, and see you all soon!
~Jade
Friday, March 7, 2014
Reminder
I used to have another blog with the same exact reviews. I didn't like the name of the last blog so I made this one. Thank you to everyone who is putting up with my sporadic posting. College has really taken over my life, but I will continue to put a review up as soon as I can. Feel free to comment, and follow this blog, I hope you all have a wonderful day!
~Jade
~Jade
Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate
In the Fallen series this is considered a side book from
the series. It is not a "full" book. It is short and
contains four short stories that all have the same background. I
would recommend reading this book after reading Passion but
before Rapture. It takes place inside of Passion, but
actually having these things happen would have thrown the book off.
All four stories intertwine in some way or another.
Four love stories all intersect over the course of Valentines Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby have an unexpected love. Roland learns a lesson in finding love and losing it. Arriane pays a price for her love, which is so passionate it burns. Daniel and Luce spend a night together for the first and last time, and it isn't like the others.
Miles and Shelby are two of Luce's friends that end up going back in time to find and help her out. They never get to Luce, always a few second behind her. Well Daniel tells them to head back to the present time and not to worry, where he is going they can't. So they listen and leave, and in the meantime they get lost on the way back. They end up in medieval England, the day before Valentines Day. They run into Roland and ask for his help. Overall this was a very sweet and romantic blossom of love between Miles and Shelby. They don't even seem like two people who would end up together under normal circumstances, but these are not normal times.
Next is Roland. After finding Miles and Shelby and agreeing to help he goes off to do just that. On his way we find out some things about Roland. He used to be madly in love with a human female from that exact time. Of course he thinks about her and thinks about going back to her. Just before he can, he finds out that she is wedded to another man and is a mother. Roland could have easily killed the husband and said it was a travesty of war. Instead he gets her husband out of going to war. Joining the ranks he runs into Arriane and finds that she too hasn't had that great of a time in England. Roland's story was very bittersweet. He is head over heals in love with this girl and knowing that it would never work with him being immortal he leaves her. Couldn't get any worse, from this bittersweet love right?
Wrong. Arriane's story is very sad but sweet in spots. Arriane chose Heaven over Hell and her love Tess chose Hell over Heaven. They could never be together properly. But nonetheless the try to be together. It isn't as simple as it seems. Even when they are together they are sad, knowing that in the end they have to leave each other. As the reader you can tell they love each other very much. Tess makes a mistake and thinks that she can get Arriane to join the ranks of the fallen angles. This causes a rift and Arriane takes off, thinking for good. Tess feeling terrible takes a starshot (the one thing that can harm and leave marks on angels, and kill) and mutilates her wings. Arriane is devastated, because of the starshot infecting Tess's blood Arriane gets burn marks from where Tess's blood touches her. I thought with this being around Valentines Day things would have been more happy. Nope. Things are just sad in this story.
This past lifetime of Luce's is not in Passion, though it does not differ very much from the others. Lucinda (past Luce) is very sad. She thinks that once Daniel (past Daniel) had found out that she is just a commoner he will not want to be with her. So she tries to go on with her life. Our future Luce shows up and cleaves (slips inside of her body without anyone noticing but future Luce herself) with the past Luce. She goes the Valentines Day party and has a good time. Cam shows up and tries to warn her of everything he can without spilling the truth. After he leaves Daniel finally shows up and they leave together to have some alone time. In the end everyone is at the party and enjoying themselves as much as they can. This last story wasn't as sad as the rest but it wasn't as happy as Miles and Shelby's. I would have taken this story over Arriane's if I was given the choice.
If you are expecting a happy Valentine's Day short stories, for the most part they are not. What happy moments you are given you are happy for because it lightens up the very sad mood. This is a boon in the Fallen series and I wouldn't mind owning, even with the sadness in it. There is a insert of Rapture in the end.
Rating: 4 out of 5.
Page Count: 201 pages (hardcover)
Price: $15.99
Next Book: The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chick Hogan
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed!
~Jade
Four love stories all intersect over the course of Valentines Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby have an unexpected love. Roland learns a lesson in finding love and losing it. Arriane pays a price for her love, which is so passionate it burns. Daniel and Luce spend a night together for the first and last time, and it isn't like the others.
Miles and Shelby are two of Luce's friends that end up going back in time to find and help her out. They never get to Luce, always a few second behind her. Well Daniel tells them to head back to the present time and not to worry, where he is going they can't. So they listen and leave, and in the meantime they get lost on the way back. They end up in medieval England, the day before Valentines Day. They run into Roland and ask for his help. Overall this was a very sweet and romantic blossom of love between Miles and Shelby. They don't even seem like two people who would end up together under normal circumstances, but these are not normal times.
Next is Roland. After finding Miles and Shelby and agreeing to help he goes off to do just that. On his way we find out some things about Roland. He used to be madly in love with a human female from that exact time. Of course he thinks about her and thinks about going back to her. Just before he can, he finds out that she is wedded to another man and is a mother. Roland could have easily killed the husband and said it was a travesty of war. Instead he gets her husband out of going to war. Joining the ranks he runs into Arriane and finds that she too hasn't had that great of a time in England. Roland's story was very bittersweet. He is head over heals in love with this girl and knowing that it would never work with him being immortal he leaves her. Couldn't get any worse, from this bittersweet love right?
Wrong. Arriane's story is very sad but sweet in spots. Arriane chose Heaven over Hell and her love Tess chose Hell over Heaven. They could never be together properly. But nonetheless the try to be together. It isn't as simple as it seems. Even when they are together they are sad, knowing that in the end they have to leave each other. As the reader you can tell they love each other very much. Tess makes a mistake and thinks that she can get Arriane to join the ranks of the fallen angles. This causes a rift and Arriane takes off, thinking for good. Tess feeling terrible takes a starshot (the one thing that can harm and leave marks on angels, and kill) and mutilates her wings. Arriane is devastated, because of the starshot infecting Tess's blood Arriane gets burn marks from where Tess's blood touches her. I thought with this being around Valentines Day things would have been more happy. Nope. Things are just sad in this story.
This past lifetime of Luce's is not in Passion, though it does not differ very much from the others. Lucinda (past Luce) is very sad. She thinks that once Daniel (past Daniel) had found out that she is just a commoner he will not want to be with her. So she tries to go on with her life. Our future Luce shows up and cleaves (slips inside of her body without anyone noticing but future Luce herself) with the past Luce. She goes the Valentines Day party and has a good time. Cam shows up and tries to warn her of everything he can without spilling the truth. After he leaves Daniel finally shows up and they leave together to have some alone time. In the end everyone is at the party and enjoying themselves as much as they can. This last story wasn't as sad as the rest but it wasn't as happy as Miles and Shelby's. I would have taken this story over Arriane's if I was given the choice.
If you are expecting a happy Valentine's Day short stories, for the most part they are not. What happy moments you are given you are happy for because it lightens up the very sad mood. This is a boon in the Fallen series and I wouldn't mind owning, even with the sadness in it. There is a insert of Rapture in the end.
Rating: 4 out of 5.
Page Count: 201 pages (hardcover)
Price: $15.99
Next Book: The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chick Hogan
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed!
~Jade
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