Category: Book Reviews

Review: The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Review: The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 10, 2012 | 0 Comments

Where do I even start? This book was creepy and riveting! It was so, so much better than The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (which I rated 3.5 stars – good but not great). The pacing was much faster and picked up earlier on, and there were also interesting things happening more frequently. I had some trouble remembering what happened in the first book because it’s been a year since I read it. But thankfully this one has plenty of reminders, so […]

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Review: Afterlight by Elle Jasper

Review: Afterlight by Elle Jasper
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

I had trouble getting through this one. Why? Because it was a cookie-cutter of Twilight. (Am I the only one who noticed this?!) Sure, there were some differences…it had some colorful icing and fancy sprinkles added for camouflage. But the basics were disturbingly similar. I should have known in the prologue when Riley said she was ‘utterly, irrevocably in love’ with a vampire, and my first thought was easy, Twilight. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. *shakes fist* The book was fairly […]

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Early Review: Splintered by A.G. Howard

Early Review: Splintered by A.G. Howard
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’ve only seen the first Alice movie once, forever ago, and I’ve never read the book. But I loooove retellings! Howard did a fantastic job at making Carroll’s twisted world even more twisted. I think the world-building was one of my favorite parts of this story, because as I was reading I was able to picture everything vividly in my mind. The imagery was beautiful! Let me just say one thing first….I. LOVE. MORPHEUS. Seriously. I am so Team Morpheus all […]

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Books I didn’t finish: November 2012

Books I didn’t finish: November 2012
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’m afraid to say that this month has been a God awful reading month for me. I’ve started at least 4 books that I haven’t seen all the way through. I don’t think I’ve ever had more than 1 a month. As of today, I seriously haven’t finished a book in SEVENTEEN DAYS. That’s extremely bad (for me, anyway). I don’t think I’ve gone more than a few days without finishing a book in over a year. At least since I […]

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DNF Review: Zom-B by Darren Shan

DNF Review: Zom-B by Darren Shan
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

**Caution: May contain spoilers** Let me just say: This synopsis is NOT the one I read. If I had read this one, I probably wouldn’t have even bothered with this book. Despite it’s short length, I didn’t actually read all of it. I made a valiant effort. Really, I did. But the lead character, B, was such a douchenozzle that I simply couldn’t go on. I usually don’t rate things I don’t read all of, but I think I read enough […]

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Review: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Review: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’ve been dying to get my hands on this book for months, and had to wait patiently (not) for my library to order it. Then I got it, and I was nervous to finally read it, because what if I got my hopes up too high? What if it wasn’t worth the hype? There were VERY mixed reviews on Goodreads, after all. Either love or hate, with almost nothing in between. I am extremely happy to say that I fell […]

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