I am in the midst of book 8 and hopefully will have finished it by Sunday which would be 8 books in the month of February. I currently have 20 books on my shelf and will not be counting cookbooks which I don’t necessarily read all of otherwise I’d count the cookbook I looked entirely through today but didn’t read all recipes as I wouldn’t be interested in a lot of them.
Book 6 was “Hate List” by Jennifer Brown. I admit this one stuck with me and still is with me and was such a powerful book. I confess I was hormonal at the time and therefore it made me emotional. The story is about Valerie. Her and her boyfriend have long been outcasts and together create the Hate List. She has no idea how seriously he took the list until the day he opened fire in the Commons at their school. She is shot just before he shoots himself. A few months later she goes back to the same school to finish out her senior year. The story itself is mixed with ‘articles’ from the time of the shooting. It’s a wonderful book and far exceeded my expectations. I will read it again one day.
Book 7 is “Blood Memories” by Barb Hendee. I am not sure how I feel about this one. It was a quick read and I’ll read the sequel as my 9th book but I’m not sure I really enjoyed it. Things happened with little or no explanation which bothers me. I hope those things will be better explained in book 2 of the series. I will copy the synopsis from amazon so you can judge for yourself. ”Eleisha, a vampire, is far older than she looks-and makes men yearn to care for her. Then she usually kills them, since self-preservation comes first. So when an old vampire friend kills himself, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds in his home shows how world-weary he had become- hoarding corpses and keeping records of vampires’ actual names and addresses. Now the police know who Eleisha is, and more alarmingly, what she is. But she soon realizes that being known may have its uses-even if it puts her and her kind at risk…”
Book 8 is Dark Light by Jayne Castle and it is a part of a series I’ve been reading. I will finish that this weekend I am hopeful.
