Review-Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller) *Spoilers*

Broken Hearts by R.L. Stine

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is definitely one of my favorite Fear Street books. I loved the characters of the McClain sisters, Rachel, Josie, and Erica. Josie was my favorite character, she reminded me a lot of what I imagine high school Kristy Thomas would be like. I was bummed that she gets killed off midway through the book but I enjoyed the parts she was in. The reveal of who the killer was a shocker, although I could go back and see that the signs did point to that person, but not too obviously so. The first time I read this book, I had no idea who it would be. I definitely recommend this as a quick, frivolous read around Valentine's Day.



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Challenges: 100 Books in a Year, Read Me Baby One More Time, 2011 Young Adult Challenge, YA of the '80s and '90s Challenge

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? (8)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila at The Book Journey.

Last week I finished: nada

This week I'm currently reading:

1. Deadly Sanctuary by Sylvia Nobel. Yes, I'm still plodding away through this one. The only reason I don't totally give up on it is I only have about another 100 pages to go, and I do kinda want to see what happens in regards to the main character's love life. I couldn't care less about the actual mystery.

2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. My co-worker loaned all 4 books to me, so I've started reading it. Since I already saw the movie, I'm spoiled for what is happening in the book, but it's still pretty interesting. I'm towards the middle of the book now (chapter 14) and it's starting to get a bit slow. I adore Edward, though, he sounds like a sweetheart.

3. Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller) by R.L Stine. I decided to read this one now because it takes place around Valentine's day, and I wanted to read a V-Day book. It's a quick read and I should be done with it tonight (started it yesterday.)

I don't normally read more than one book at a time, but seeing as how Deadly Sanctuary is almost putting me to sleep, I needed something to read with it.

Up Next: No idea! I'll definitely read New Moon next whenever I finish Twilight, and then I'll move on to the pile of library books I got last week.

It's Monday, What Are You Reading (7)

It's Monday, What are you Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by The Book Journey

Currently Reading: Deadly Sanctuary by Sylvia Nobel (barely making it through it)

Next up: No clue. However...yesterday (during the Super Bowl, I'm not into that all) I watched the movie Twilight on On Demand. I've always said there were two series I'd never get into, the Harry Potter series and the Twilight series. I still have no intention of ever becoming a Pot Head (or whatever they call the Potter fanatics), but I LOVED the Twilight movie. I LOVED the characters of Edward and Bella. Yes, I know I'm so 2000 and LATE, lol. But now I must read the book. So maybe that will be next. We'll see.

In My Mailbox (3)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.

Received:

C.Y.A, Covert Youth Agency, The Case of Tangled Love by Jason Ancona (Head over to For the Love of YA to see how you can get an e-copy.

Downloaded:

I'm still broke, so all of these are freebies from B&N:

Murder a la Mode by G.A. McKevett

Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson

Love at First Flight by Marie Force

From the library:

1. Diamond Playgirls-Daaimah S. Poole (it's a renew, since I didn't start it last time)
2. Kindred in Death-JD Robb
3. Hot (Broke) Messes-Nancy Trejos
4. A Purse of Your Own-Deborah Owens
5. Pleasure Bound-Opal Carew
6. Right Package, Wrong Baggage-Wanda B. Campbell
7. All We Know of Heaven-Jacquelyn Mitchard (YA Novel)
8. Betty Crocker Money Saving Meals

What did you receive in your mailbox this week?

January Recap

Books Read: 8
Favorite Book Read: Promises in Death by JD Robb
Least Favorite Book: a tie between Work What You Got and Married on Mondays
Number of Books Purchased: 0
Library Visits: 1
Books Won/Received: Lot of 12 Fear Street Books won on eBay
Challenge Progress:
*100 Books in a Year Challenge: 8
*Mystery and Suspense Challenge: 1
*YA of the '80s/'90s Challenge: 0
*Show Me the Free Challenge: 1
*Read Me Baby, One More Time: 0
*Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge: 0
*E-Book Challenge: 2
*YA Reading Challenge: 2

Review-Step Up

Step Up by Monica McKayhan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was a really cute, YA novel. I was a little iffy on it at first, but it got more interesting as it went on.

I was kinda put off at first by the fact that the first couple chapters in the book are narrated by two of the main characters, Vance and Tameka. The reason this bothered me was because these two are not mentioned anywhere in the synopsis on the back of the book. Now I know all stories have subplots, but in this story it seemed more like this was Vance/Tameka's story, and Marcus/Indigo were the subplot and I would've liked for that to be mentioned in the book summary.

But I did get over that. Tameka is sixteen years old and pregnant with Vance's baby. Vance has gone off to Grambling State University for his freshman year at college. He makes all kinds of promises to Tameka before leaving, about how he loved her and would always be there for her and the baby. But you know what happens to folks once they get to college.

I really liked both characters of Vance and Tameka. Neither is perfect, and they were presented in a realistic manner and I didn't feel like either of them was wrong in this situation, just that they were both young and at the peak of their lives and made a mistake. I'm glad the story ended with both of them in a good place. The only thing I would've liked to know was if Tameka and Sean ever got together. He was a really sweet boy also, and I liked how nice he was to Tameka during their situation.

Then there was Marcus and Indigo's story, which mirrored Vance/Tameka's in that Marcus was going away during the summer for a program at Harvard University and leaving Indigo at home. Even though he wasn't a college student yet, he also got caught up in the new girls he met on campus. Mostly I found their story a little boring, especially since at first it was going to exact same way as Vance and Tameka's (minus the pregnancy of course). I did like Marcus' Korean roommate, Jae, whom Marcus was teaching slang to. In fact, the plot with Marcus and his roommates (Jae, Paul, Chris, and Derrick) was even a bit more interesting than his relationship with Indigo.

Anyways, I thought this was a good, interesting story that's a good eye-opener to how things can change when people are separated and when young adults begin college. I would definitely read more by this author and would want to read more about what happens with these characters.



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Source: Library
Challenges: 100 Books in a Year, YA Reading Challenge

Review-Confessions

Confessions by Sasha Campbell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Confessions started off kinda slow, but definitely picked up and was really good!

This story is about two best friends, Nikki and Trinette. Trinette is married to a good man, Leon, but they don't live together because he has a job in another state. Trinette is basically one of those "all about the money" women and will sleep with any man that will give her that money. She was really making me mad throughout the beginning of the story because she was basically acting like a straight up 'ho, but she does come to realize the error of her ways, but that's only after she loses Leon. Pure example of someone not knowing what they've got until it's gone.

While Trinette's story was interesting, I was much more intrigued with Nikki's. Nikki is also married, but her husband Donovan is away at war, and they've drifted apart in their marriage. Donovan sends her a letter saying it's best that they just move on with their lives. Nikki is devastated for awhile, until she meets the sexy and fine Kenyon. He seems like a dream come true, but of course you can't judge a book by it's cover. Kenyon proves to be straight up stalker crazy. Some of the things he was doing and saying, and Nikki and Trinette's reactions to him, had me cracking up at some parts.

I give this book 4 stars because it definitely kept me entertained. It started off slow and there were a few parts that I didn't like (mostly the parts involving Nikki's radio talk show host job) but other than that, I recommend it.



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Challenges: 100 Books in a Year