Category: Book Reviews

The Treachery of Beautiful Things Blog Tour: Review and GIVEAWAY

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on August 6, 2012 | 17 Comments

“This place isn’t beautiful. It’s two-faced and treacherous, and so is everything here.” Aside from the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning and Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa, this is one of the top books I’ve read about fae! I didn’t love it necessarily, but I really really liked it! And to be honest, I didn’t expect to enjoy it half as much as I actually did. I’m kinda picky about faerie stories, and let’s face it, there’s a lot of […]

Review: Dance With the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on August 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

“You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you?” “Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it.” I think this one has been my favorite of the series so far! I loved Zarek already from reading the last book and was really looking forward to reading his POV. Kenyon did not disappoint! Zarek had been through so much crap in his life it was a miracle he even survived. It was easy to connect with him with all […]

Review: Fateful by Claudia Gray

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 30, 2012 | 5 Comments

I was a bit disappointed with this one, as I had pretty high hopes. I loved the movie Titanic and love werewolf stories, so I was eagerly anticipating a book that mixed the two together. I couldn’t connect with the characters at all, which dragged the book down for me. But my main problem? The romance. I understand that it’s on a ship and time is limited, so things have to move fairly fast, but there’s a difference between fast-moving romance […]

Books I didn’t finish: July 2012

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

Hardcover, 390 pages Published by HarperTeen (9.27.2011) Series: A Beautiful Dark (#1) Source: LibraryAdd to Goodreads On the night of Skye’s seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Complete opposites—like fire and ice—Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. Their sudden appearance sends Skye’s life into a tailspin. She has no idea what they want, or why they seem to follow her every move—only that their presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she […]

Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 27, 2012 | 8 Comments

I’ve been wanting to read this book forever, and with the depth of that desire and all the hype surrounding the book, I was afraid I was going to be disappointed. That was definitely not the case. Meyer painted a beautiful and vivid world that I enjoyed living in! This is only the second fairytale retelling that I’ve read (Beastly being the first). While there were a few similarities between Cinder and its inspiration, Cinderella (evil step-mother and two step-sisters, the shoe, […]

Review: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 26, 2012 | 1 Comment

I had some trouble getting into this one. To be honest, I wanted to put it down in the first half. I’m glad I didn’t, because the last quarter was pretty good! I think I was bored early on because there wasn’t much happening action-wise. This is only the second true zombie book I’ve read, and I was expecting an overload of flesh-eating zombies. But, they hardly had an appearance except for the very beginning and very end, which disappointed me […]