Started Reading: June 4, 2007
Finished Reading: June 5, 2007

I’m reading All Together Dead and I’m not finished yet, LOL. But I still want to type a few things about what I’ve read so far -

I wish Sookie could make up her mind on who she likes and does not like. I wish she stops sleeping with almost every man she feels a chemistry with. D=

I wish the series doesn’t turn into another Anita Blake. =(

I hope this would end with an Eric/Sookie pairing. If not, screw canon. LOL.

I wish Charlaine Harris didn’t dwell so much on the lives of other people and instead went directly to the issue of the Summit. The few first chapters were a waste.

I continue reading chapter eight now. xD

EDIT: Alright, finally finished it!

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My friend and I were talking over the phone yesterday about New Moon. I’ve read the Eclipse chapter 1 excerpt and I can’t help but agree with my friend when we couldn’t understand why Bella was even hesitating to marry Edward. She said she didn’t fear commitment - and marriage is already the perpetual kind of love she claims she’d like to have with Edward. And to think she shuddered at the word “fiancé”. (T__T) If she really loved Edward, why shrink away from it? I pity him now, after Bella treated his proposal as a joke. It’s very clear that Bella’s love for him does not even come close to Edward’s love for her. Wasn’t it the kind of love and commitment she was looking for? Refusing to marry him would now be a contradiction to her claims of love she felt for him.

I can’t help but feel Stephenie Meyer is starting to make me dislike Bella’s character. She was fine the way she was in Twilight, but the major angst she experienced in New Moon destroyed what I had admired about her, and now, from the Eclipse excerpt I read, it doesn’t seem that Stephenie Meyer will be redeeming Bella’s character anytime soon.

My friend also expressed the same fears about the series’ growing popularity. D= I still hope it doesn’t escalate into a world-wide trend.

Started Reading: March 31, 2007
Finished Reading: April 1, 2007

Touch the Dark has interesting characters, though not all were as well-built as the female protagonist, Cassie. Most of the vampires had dark personalities (not that I’d expect anything other than that), but it’s very hard to see them as honest (as opposed to other vampire books that I’ve read - some vampires may be jaded, but they have honor and honesty). I mean, the best advice I’d give Cassie would be never to trust any vampire. Even if it was someone whom you thought was…good and gentle.

The plot was a bit dragging. The characters talked too much for pressing problems to be immediately addressed, and the book didn’t even give a conclusion to one of the major plots or problems - the battle between Rasputin and the Senate or whatever happened to it. Sure, Cassie became Pythia but it seemed that after that, the whole vampire deal doesn’t matter anymore. The book just stopped there. And that wasn’t a good closure if you’d ask me.

Otherwise, the novel was good. Not as good as, say, Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires but not as bad as Jennifer Armintrout’s Blood Ties. I’m hoping more things will be explained in the second novel, but I’ve read the first two chapters in Karen Chance’s website and it seems that Carrie has another problem to handle. I’m starting to suspect Mircea is an evil mastermind. D:

I give up. I am seriously tired of the story and the characters who can’t freaking make up their mind. I wouldn’t really recommend this.

Started Reading: March 30, 2007
Finished Reading: March 30, 2007

Hm. If I’d rate the book, I’d give it a three over five. The characters were very confusing, and their personalities not clearly mapped out. Carrie was always making choices too late - if she ever made one at all. Everyone’s in-denial, and a woman getting passed from one sire to another isn’t exactly the best plot you could have. I’m hoping it’ll get better with the second book. Hopefully the whole story wouldn’t seem to be scatter-y (memories here and there, et cetera). It was good read, but certainly, I’ve read better.