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StarCrossed
StarCrossed
Josephine Angelini | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
4
6.8 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book seemed to get dragged out for an extra 150+ pages, and I expected some really big cataclysmic showdown in those pages after all the build up of the previous 400 but nope. Instead of a bang it ended with a pop.

I was very disappointed, although I had been losing interest since just over half way. There was just too much filler and not enough happening in the book to keep my interest.

My interest in YA Paranormal has just nosedived completely. I won't be continuing the series.
  
Touched (The Marnie Baranuik Files #1)
Touched (The Marnie Baranuik Files #1)
A.J. Aalto | 2011
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really really really liked this.

The style was easy to get into and the storyline, though a little gory at times, was interesting and unique.

Between the two men in her life I have to say I'm all for Mark Batten . That's not to say I don't like Harry, he's nice and seems he'd do anything for her but Mark seems the same way and he's only human.

I'm very eager for the second book in the series so I can see what happens next between these three.
  
At The Earth's Core
At The Earth's Core
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"I was 12 or 13 when was introduced to the fantasy/adventure books written by the author of the famous Tarzan series, and first read this novel. The idea of a huge mole machine burrowing to the center of the earth and discovering flying reptiles and other dinosaurish creatures was magical. The writing style now seems somewhat formal and clumsy, but as a young reader I was whisked along into the unknown. Later, in the 1930s, the author has Tarzan make the journey, too. How could that not work?"

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Drowning in Rapture (Rapture, #1)
Drowning in Rapture (Rapture, #1)
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
2.25 stars.

This wasn't my kind of erotica. I prefer the less graphic wording and for come to spelt "come" instead of "cum", trivial I know but a pet peeve of mine.

Strangely I quite liked the plotline, as ludicrous as it was, I just didn't gel with the characters and their actions. They just seemed to run away or get pissed off for no real reason.

As tempted as I am to continue the series, despite my low rating, I won't be continuing it.

Not for me.
  
Prodigy
Prodigy
Marie Lu | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance, Young Adult (YA)
6
8.7 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
It took me a while to get into this, what with it being a few years since I read the first book, but I remembered bits.

There was a bit of a surprise thrown in but by the time it came about I was kind if expecting something like that to happen anyway.

I'm going to have to read the third and final book in the series just to see if they manage to reunite the Americas but I'm not too excited about it all.

Off to start it now.
  
UNDER GRAND HOTEL 3
UNDER GRAND HOTEL 3
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
4.5 stars.

Admittedly I got a bit confused at times with not knowing what they were planning in the end, with the pushing of each other away and that last bit but hey ho, it all worked out in the end and they got their wish to kiss under the sun--which was so cute!!

Shortest manga series I've read so far but I really liked this one. Swordfish really grew on me. Sen was a little tougher for me to like but by the end... *sigh*

I'm happy for them.
  
The Haunting of Hill House- Season 1
The Haunting of Hill House- Season 1
2018 | Horror
It gripped me from the start (0 more)
I wasted too much food spilling it when I jumped (0 more)
Made me jump so much I spilt my dinner down me on more than one occasion
I loved this series and not sure why as it scared the life out of me a few times and gave me nightmares but it gripped me from the start and had me hooked! I lost so much sleep staying up late to binge watch then too scared to sleep or waking from a nightmare but it was great and would recommend.
  
The continental
The continental
2023 | Action, Crime, Thriller
7
7.5 (2 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
How did Winston get to be the manager of The Continental, the hotel for hitmen in the John Wick films?

Not a question I ever really thought of before, but that is more or less the driving premise behind this 1970s set prequel (of a sort) to the John Wick movies.

The series is 3 episodes long, each roughly about 1.5 hours long, with each themselves more or less split into 3 acts. In all cases, I found the middle part (and the middle episode) to be the weakest.