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“Club Dead” By Charlaine Harris Review

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Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill’s sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own

The book series gets better and better with each book so far. Im still not the biggest fan of this series but I find it enjoyable.

The plot here is good but it had the potential to be even better if some of the events would be better written and described. 

The writing style here is okay. To be fully honest the written style in this book and in this whole series so far is very typical YA style. But it is a good mix with the easy plot. 

The characters here are meh. The only character which I really like in this book and in this whole series so far is Eric and the rest of the characters in this book are okay. But they could have been better.

All of the characters tend to be more on the annoying side than on the likeable side but I still had my fun with them. 

This book and this whole series is a very good pick when you want to escape the reality but you don’t want to use brainpower. 

This book was a very slow especially in the beginning. Which really made me want for it to be faster and more action than what it really was.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” By Stephen King Review

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“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 — and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it — fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

This book was a very short story about Stephen King’s life and some of his advises which he has for people who want to become writers.

This book have a lot of really good advice for people who want to start writing books which I personally enjoyed reading.

This book is a really quick read. It is as well interesting, enjoyable and fun to read. But there are couple of moments here and there which made me personally bored. 

This book gives us a view to him as a person and what he does when he is writing his amazing novels. Which I personally liked to learn about. 

The writing style here was pretty okay. It felt like classic Stephen King writing style but I personally felt like there was something missing when it comes to writing style in this book. 

For the most part this book was a mix of an autobiography and an advice book to new writers or people who want to become authors.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Living Dead in Dallas” By Charlaine Harris Review

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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins. The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges – and soon Sookie’s in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that’s easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.

This book is the second book in the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse series.

I wasn’t a fan of the first book but this book got better than the first and I liked it much more. 

There is a lot of action in this book and a lot of happening which makes you engaged in the book. And the action is interesting which makes it harder to pull yourself away from the book. 

The ending was super messy and it was super hard to keep track of at least for me personally. However the beginning and the middle of this book was super fun and I had good time there.

The characters here are begin to become better and less annoying for me personally. And I really came to some what like them in this book which I gave this book some extra points for that.

In this book we get more backstory for Bill, and Eric here becomes more likeable than in the first book which I came to enjoy. 

The writing style in this book was simple and easy which really suited the plot and the rest of this book.

Overall this book is very good read when you just want to turn of your brain for a bit and have cozy time with something. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Five Feet Apart” By Rachael Lippincott & Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis Review

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Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals

To be honest here this book feels like the generic cliché of YA romance book where the teenagers are too sick to be in love.

This book follows to characters and it switched perspectives between the two main characters who are Stella and Will.

The characters here are okay for the most part. But there are moments where the characters act like the most generic YA characters which doesn’t work for me personally. 

This book was interesting, enjoyable and fun to read. This book is also a quick read and very easy read which means that it is possible to read this book in a day. 

The writing style here is very easy. And to be honest the writing style here is very YA style.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Graveyard” By Ed Warren & Lorraine Warren & Robert David Chase Review

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“Ghosts are always hungry,” someone once said—and no one knows how ravenous they really are more than Ed & Lorraine Warren, the world’s most renowned paranormal investigators. For decades, Ed and Lorraine Warren hunted down the truth behind the most terrifying supernatural occurrences across the nation… and brought back astonishing evidence of their encounters with the unquiet dead. From the notorious house immortalized in The Amityville Horror to the bone-chilling events that inspired the hit film The Conjuring, the Warrens fearlessly probed the darkness of the world beyond our own, and documented the all-too-real experiences of the haunted and the possessed, the lingering deceased and the vengeful damned. 

So this was book written by none other than Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ive watched all the movies in the Ed and Lorraine Warren Cinematic Universe and this book is a nice little additional resource to the cinematic universe of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Ive mention it before on this website that I’m a huge skeptic so I don’t believe that the stuff which is written in this book is real and that it happen. I just treated it like a good horror story as it should be treated.

This book is not about a specific case but rather about about graveyards and how it can be used by “ghosts” to communicate with humans. 

This book doesn’t bring any evidence supporting the “paranormal” existing it rather gave us some stories from people who allegedly saw ghosts in graveyards and it gave us some insight from Ed Warren & Lorraine Warren together with some quotes from other books about ghosts.

The writing style in this one was super incredible, it really shows that Ed and Lorraine Warren were good writers and good story tellers if you will. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Thinner” By Stephen King Review

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Billy Halleck, good husband and loving father, is both beneficiary and victim of the American good life: He has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding career as a lawyer but he is also fifty pounds overweight and edging into heart attack country.

To be honest this book doesn’t feel like a Stephen King book maybe because Stephen King tried to write it as Richard Bachman. This book is a fiction book and not a typical Stephen King horror book. 

This book is very quick to read due to its size. But it is still enjoyable and interesting. If you are a hardcore Stephen King fan like me you all find his book a little bit unusual because as I’ve said before it doesn’t seem like a typical Stephen King book. 

The characters in this book are okay but there were something missing and they just didn’t work for me. Because they didn’t have the depth which most characters in Stephen King’s books have. There are very few characters in this book and for the most part there are good characters but none of them aren’t super memorable. 

The plot here was okay for the most part but still it wasn’t on the level with some other Stephen King level when you compare it with the books he had written under his  real name. 

The premise of the plot was interesting but the way it was presented to us was some how boring in a way. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Old School” By Jeff Kinney Review

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Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That’s the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn’t cut out for an old-fashioned world.With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going “old school” just too hard for a kid like Greg?

This book is the 10th book in the “diary of a wimpy kid” series. And to be honest I haven’t gotten to this book before so this time around it was my first read of this book. 

I need to say that this book must be the best book in this series so far (for me). 

The whole plot of this book is that Greg goes for a car ride with his grandfather in his father car and the car ends up in a ditch. So because of this Greg decided to go to a school camping trip with his class.

To be honest I really liked this book because it showed me that I would be the same as Greg on a camping trip. Because I have no knowledge of surviving in the woods for a longer than a couple of hours.

Greg isn’t learning anything after getting into trouble, book after book. And he just continues to blame other people for being an idiot himself.

Of course Greg is 12 years old but still he shouldn’t blame everyone else but himself for his stupid plans and getting into trouble. 

Another problem with this series so far at least is his parents are really bad at parenting. Because they threat Manny (Greg’s younger brother) as a god and they just end up not caring what Greg and Rodrick are doing most of the time. They only get reminded of Greg and Rodrick when they get in trouble at school or with other kid’s parents.

This book wasn’t as funny as the 4 previous books because most of the moments were pathetic.

This book has around 220 pages (depending on which edition you get) and there is at least one illustration on each page which means that this book is really quick to read. And it can be fully read in one hour or so.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Night of the Living Dummy” By R.L. Stine Review

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When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist’s dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to “rescue” it, and she names it Slappy. But Kris is green with envy. It’s not fair. Why does Lindy get to have all the fun and all the attention? Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She’ll show Lindy. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things. Evil things. It can’t be the dummy causing all the trouble, Can it?

When I was a kid I loved Goosebumps TV shows, which of course made me read this book and start the adventure with this book series. 

I really wanted to rate this book high, but I just couldn’t because there were a lot of things that didn’t go well with me when it comes to this book.

One of my main problems with this book is the 2 main characters. Which are Lindy and Kris which are twins and 12 years of age. Every time we get both of them in the same scene in this book they are arguing about something or making a challenge about who of them is better at the thing they are doing. 

And if they aren’t together, they complain about each other to their friends. Which really made me so bored. It was like the main problem in this book was that the twins hated each other. And the spooky dummies which came to life was just a side plot.

The plot here was okay, but it could have been better if the twins weren’t arguing all the time, pulling rude pranks at each other or just complain about each other. It felt like I was reading a drama book about twins hating each other rather than a horror book.

May second problem with this book is the parents. They blame Kris for everything when Lindy is seen as the golden child to the parents. Which really made me angry because Lindy made much worse things than Kris but the parents decided to blame Kris for it rather than Lindy.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Young Zaphod Plays It Safe” By Douglas Adams Review

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Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn’t appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections. The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator. He guides some bureaucrats to a crashed spaceship which may be leaking some hazardous materials. The bureaucrats are determined to “make it safe”. The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams’ SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters

This short story is a prequel to the first book in this series. Which really surprised me in a good way of course. 

The characters in this short story were okay but I didn’t care about them at all. I wish that they could have got more time in a way.

The plot in this short story was really interesting and it annoyed me that it was so short. 

I expected this short story to be bad, I don’t know why. However it have surprised me because it was good. 

This short story was interesting, entertaining and intriguing. But at the same time I felt like there was something missing in it.

The writing style here was okay. But it had the potential to be so much better which the author didn’t use.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Life, the Universe and Everything” By Douglas Adams Review

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

To be fully honest after reading this book I can honestly admit that I don’t understand the hype with this series. In my opinion it’s okay and nothing more than that. 

The plot in this book was weaker than the previous book, and somehow I found the majority of this book edging on the side with boredom. Of course it had some good moments here and there but nothing more than that. 

The writing style here were okay. I wish it could have been better because it would have made this book and the entire plot better. 

The characters here, I became bored of them pretty quickly which I don’t know why. It felt like the character development didn’t happen and that the characters were just as the same as they were in the first book. 

In a way this book felt very confusing and I found myself zoning out while reading this book and starting to think about other things than this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5