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4 | This was a reread for me. | At it's most basic levels books fall into just three categories, books I start and then cannot finish (boring), books I do finish but wont read again (okay, but kinda boring) and books I read and will read again (love them).<br /><br />Warprize is in the last category. I bought this book when it came out and so far ha... | [] | 0425240541 | 0425240541 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,329,843,312,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Easy to use and oddly addictive. | This is the fourth Ed Emberly Drawing Book we've bought, we have the Orange, the Green and the Purple and so far, my son says this one is his favorite because he loves to draw Christmas pictures.<br /><br />Like the previous books, the book starts out with the easiest step by step drawings, first off drawing fruit; str... | [] | 0316234354 | 0316234354 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,329,841,357,000 | 6 | true |
4 | 365 soups, almost 200 that I would eat, I call that great! | I'm a sucker for One Course or one ingredient cookbooks, books with titles like, 1001 Nights of Salad or Potatoes for Everyday of the Week always warrant a second look from me. But, often, the recipes are so out there that I just can't believe the author or anyone would want to eat Tuna Peach Pie ala mode, much less m... | [] | 1616281677 | 1616281677 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,329,727,232,000 | 7 | false |
5 | I love this book so much, I've pushed it onto strangers | I'll admit it, I'm a book pusher. But I'm trying not to be. Sometimes when I love a book, no, actually, when I really, really, hearts and birds singing, love a book, I just want to share my joy with everyone.<br /><br />I really love this book. I've read it about once a year since my good pal loaned me her copy. I ... | [] | 0743498712 | 0743498712 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,329,414,919,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Amazed and alarmed | I've read a lot of book reviews, several from professional book reviewers and there's a phrase that crops up like a bad smell with stunning regularity, tour de force. I thought tour de force was just a fancy schmancy way of saying something is 'great.' Actually, the dictionary states that 'tour de force' is an except... | [] | 1455503061 | 1455503061 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,329,157,986,000 | 1 | false |
1 | A girl, a guy and a bird. | This review will take the form of prose, in the style of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but with examples taken from the story itself.<br /><br />How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.<br /><br />I hate thee for thine bizarro, unpunctuated, over-the-top prose that peppers this story from page one on.<br /><br />'I ha... | [] | 0062085484 | 0062085484 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,328,560,867,000 | 900 | false |
2 | Eleven minutes of interesting story then deadly jazz hands | Think about your favorite fictional characters, the ones you truly love, now consider for a moment what you like best about them. If you are like me, your fave characters are the ones that most seem like friends or that if they were real you'd be friends with them. You know stuff about them, the things they don't sha... | [] | 0802723098 | 0802723098 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,328,302,968,000 | 5 | false |
2 | Not as fun as I'd hoped it would be | I'm not a huge fan of short stories. I read Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut and since then, I've kinda pooped out on other short story collections.<br /><br />So, knowing that, it isn't that big a surprise that this short story collection wasn't very fun or interesting to me. But, I kinda hoped it would ... | [] | 1441889221 | 1441889221 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,327,549,494,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Two stories, one is fun, the other is pretty slowwwww. | Ember Miller doesn't live in the same world as you and me. New York and L.A. are not cities anymore and things like the Bill of Rights have been put on leave, indefinitely. Laws are made by soldiers with guns and reading the wrong book can land you in prison or worse.<br /><br />But Ember knows how to slide by. The ... | [] | 0765329581 | 0765329581 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,326,999,845,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Hard to put down Historical romance | I remember my first historical romance, I found it in a box of free books at the laundromat, it was The Marquis Who Hated Women by Barbara Cartland, it was written back when woman hating men were called women haters instead of *$%bags. Anyways, I liked the book okay, the romance wasn't great, but I loved the setting a... | [] | 0778328481 | 0778328481 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,326,993,849,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Trivia hounds rejoice! | I'm not a huge fan of celebrity cookbooks. I'm sure there are several celebs who are well known home chefs, perhaps some have even worked in the food industry, but by and large, judging by their humdrum recipes, vague directions and general lack of knowledge, it seems to me that most celebs eat out more than they stay... | [] | 0757315968 | 0757315968 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,325,835,326,000 | 23 | false |
3 | Nothing but blue skies, from now on. | Someone once said that YA fiction is just fiction with teen characters. Under the Never Sky qualifies for this statement. Aria lives in the Domes, a protected environment of plenty. Her mother is a scientist who does top secret medical research and Aria spends her time with her best friend Paisley (yep, lame-o name,... | [] | 006207203X | 006207203X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,325,450,788,000 | 1 | false |
5 | What do chefs eat at home? Here's your answer. | I had a friend whose mother was a dental hygienist and yep, she was a floss nazi. Floss and toothbrushes for Christmas, mouthwas for birthdays and graduation. Now, clearly, dental hygiene is an interesting and varied subject, but it isn't something you would encounter everywhere, right? I mean besides the obvious of... | [] | 1608197018 | 1608197018 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,324,016,308,000 | 10 | false |
3 | The Future is Grim and Odd. | I have to admit that of all the fairytales, Cinderella is my favorite. I think it was all the chores she had to do and how ungrateful her stepmother and stepsisters were, or perhaps it was that she faded into the background. She was so dirty and small, she was easy to overlook. As a shy chubby kid with a mean stepfa... | [] | 0312641893 | 0312641893 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,322,858,004,000 | 11 | false |
3 | My expectations were too high | I'm not sure if this is a trend or that I have been picking out cookbooks with a lack of photographic common sense, whatever it is, it makes me steaming mad! I know this will sound rude, but I don't care about the sous-chef de cuisine, the line cooks, the saucier or the pastry chef. My indifference is so great that I... | [] | 0307720497 | 0307720497 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,322,445,254,000 | 48 | false |
4 | I hope none of my vegan friends read this! | We don't eat a lot of meat, not because we don't like it, partly because I grew up eating a lot of it as a kid and didn't particularly care for it. Mom would toss a roast in the crockpot with carrots, potatoes and a can of cream of mushroom soup, eight hours later, it was done.<br /><br />I remember seeing pictures of... | [] | 1935554654 | 1935554654 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,322,418,514,000 | 11 | false |
5 | Spartans, Lies and Talking Statues | You know the story, unremarkable girl leaves dull, unremarkable life to attend a mysterious and exclusive boarding school where romance, betrayals and fashionable shoes ensue. This book would have been another in a long line of what I refer to as boarding school sizzlers, 'cept for one crucial thing, the story.<br /><... | [] | 0758266928 | 0758266928 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,321,383,951,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Vagina Crafts and Games, what's not to like? | This is a review of a book about vaginas and vulvas. If you faint at the sight of Janet Jackson's breast or if spicy talk makes you swoon, best keep moving, things are about to get real.<br /><br />First off, when people are talking about vaginas, the region they are speaking of is actually the vulva, the vagina is onl... | [] | 1442208007 | 1442208007 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,320,947,576,000 | 20 | false |
2 | Werewolves and riding in cars with boys. | Something strange and sinister is happening in Wolf Springs, Arkansas.<br /><br />Vampires!<br /><br />No, just kidding, it's werewolves (I know, totally shocking). Oddly, throughout the book obvious things happen and the people in the book seem bowled over with surprise when they do. But what really shocked me was t... | [] | 0385740980 | 0385740980 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,320,708,452,000 | 5 | false |
3 | I've read better Dodd than this | There were so many things I liked about this book that it was a bit surprising when I finished it and had a, What-the-hell-was-that moment? But this is just one of those books, the sum of it's parts never added up to a believable or terribly likable story.<br /><br />First off, the heroine of the story and how she end... | [] | 0451221737 | 0451221737 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,320,605,134,000 | 0 | false |
3 | I have a confession about this book | I didn't start reading this book until after the show started. The terribly shameful thing is, I've had this book for months! Way before the show came out.<br /><br />I am so slow and lazy sometimes. In my defense, there were a ton of cool books coming out around the time I got this book, Mockingjay by Suzanne Colli... | [] | 0061869708 | 0061869708 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,319,749,366,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Hard to like super heroine ruined this for me | I had high hopes for this book. Zombies, a girl with a brain tumor making a last pilgrimage to the campsite that she spent time at with her longdead parents and a handsome military dude love interest, what's not to like?<br /><br />Well, as it turns out, the main character, plus a lot of improbable stuff that happens ... | [] | 1606841750 | 1606841750 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,319,744,462,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Lots of giggling and excitement for this book | This is a review from a kid and his mom;<br /><br />I liked how Harvey was really evil, like Darth Paper evil. And also how all the girls, when they saw Harvey's Darth Paper Origami they said, 'oh, he's so tiny! Can you make me a pink one?' This book is pretty funny, but also, there is an adventure here because they ... | [] | 1419700278 | 1419700278 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,319,176,120,000 | 5 | true |
2 | Part of the story | I'm feeling very grumble-grumble-snort after reading this book. For me, it seemed that every time I got excited about something in it, by the next chapter I was disappointed because it never panned out.<br /><br />Here, in no particular order is what really stirred my interest and then failed to deliver;<br /><br />1.... | [] | 054758136X | 054758136X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,318,012,978,000 | 9 | false |
4 | Almost as good as the comic for Vork | Clara is my favorite character from The Guild. She's a married gamer with little kids who has a serious addiction to her RPG and spends little if any time taking care of her family. Somehow or perhaps in spite of this, she comes across so funny and Clara'ish, that I can't help wanting to see more of her.<br /><br />J... | [] | B005NQKD0I | B005NQKD0I | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,317,599,385,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Perfect book for a hot summer day | I've read just one book by Moning, it was a Highlander book and while I liked it and finished the book in a couple of days, I can't say that I thought it was so phenomenal that I ran out to buy the rest in the series.<br /><br />The situation with this series is so different. I whizzed through this book. I was so eng... | [] | 0440244390 | 0440244390 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,315,600,335,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Prediction: Tookie will be the new expletive for 2012 | Tookie, according to the urban dictionary is an adjective used to describe a) a shotgun killing, in particular those of notorious Crips Gang founder, Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, and b) a female sex organ.<br /><br />After having read this book, I think I can safely say that Ms. Banks is not alluding to Stanley Williams... | [] | 038574059X | 038574059X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,315,174,401,000 | 90 | false |
4 | Finished this in one sitting | It was the front cover blurb from Suzanne Collins that caught my eye. I've read the Hunger Games three times and if Suzanne says this book is 'excellent' then it at least deserved a second look.<br /><br />I grabbed it along with a copy of Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep (which is super duper, btw) and found a place ... | [] | 0545290147 | 0545290147 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,314,590,809,000 | 75 | false |
3 | Kinda boring, but believable and funny | I finished this book weeks ago, which is a big sign that I didn't care for since it took me this long to get around to reviewing it. There isn't anything specific I can point to that would sum up my middling level of dissatisfaction, this was an okay book, it just wasn't very fun, exciting, interesting or thought prov... | [] | 0375868917 | 0375868917 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,314,122,604,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Bittersweet ending to an amazing series | I really liked the first book, Once A Witch. Tamsin Greene, the only non magical child in her family has changed since the events of that first story. She and Gabriel are a couple and she isn't without powers now, but it is the power she has that causes problems. She can stop other people from using their powers, wh... | [] | 0547224850 | 0547224850 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,311,091,886,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Body Flipping was never so Fun! | I wasn't sure what to expect with this story. The premise was pretty straight forward, fourteen year old Alex wakes up in a strange room, the room is in a house he's never been in, in a city he's never traveled to. A woman is calling for someone named 'Flip' to hurry up and get downstairs for breakfast. Then he sees... | [] | 0385739907 | 0385739907 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,310,754,072,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Rude but true | The Title alone made me cackle like a mad woman. As parents we've all been there, long, exhausting day, finally a moment to stretch out on the couch and veg and then the pitter patter of little feet derails that plan.<br /><br />Each of the pages illustrates one tired daddy's attempts to get his daughter to go to slee... | [] | 1617750255 | 1617750255 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,310,752,541,000 | 3 | false |
5 | "What sort of God makes rats and plagues and dwarfs?" Tyrion | I went to bed early, well, early for me, determined to get a good night's rest. It wasn't to be, I couldn't sleep with the almost finished A Dance with Dragons sitting in my living room. I dozed a little and my thoughts bounced around from Bran to Jon to Tyrion and Quentyn. I thought about what it would be like to l... | [] | 0553801473 | 0553801473 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,310,564,335,000 | 22 | false |
4 | If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! | I don't really like Bionicles. I have a too-be-read stack as high as my waist and adding this book to it (by my oh-so-helpful son) seemed a burden to me. But it isn't often that my son insists that I read a book, so I read it. It isn't a long story, so it took just one evening to finish. But the rewards are frigging... | [] | 0439627478 | 0439627478 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,310,510,853,000 | 3 | true |
2 | This was a slow read for me | I read a lot. I have books scattered throughout the house, on every available surface. I carry an ereader with over a hundred titles so that at any time, waiting in line at the grocery, hanging at the park with my kid or stuck at a boring party I can have instant access to a book.<br /><br />If you said I was spoiled... | [] | 0441020313 | 0441020313 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,309,218,346,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Just go with it | What happens when you take a dreadlocked, vegetarian, California girl from a communal farm and plop her down in an antebellum southern mansion in Savannah, Georgia?<br /><br />Apparently, hoodoo is the answer.<br /><br />I'll talk more about hoodoo (no that isn't a typo for voodoo, I really did mean to type hoodoo).<br... | [] | 0316078492 | 0316078492 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,307,814,637,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Heart pounding romance that I've read over and over again | My mother signed up with Zebra romances to get a box every month. Once a month the box would arrive with four shiny new books, this book was in one of the shipments. I can't remember what else was delivered, a lot of romance authors wrote for Zebra, some of them I really liked, Penelope Neri, Kay McMahon and Phoebe C... | [] | 0821718053 | 0821718053 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,307,469,876,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Chock full of info, but low on recipes | Books about food are a recent phenomena for me. Cookbooks I get, they have recipes, pictures of the recipes, pictures of the tools used to create the recipes but a book just for talking about food, I can't get too jazzed about. Maybe I am not as much of a foodie as I thought.<br /><br />That is problem number one for... | [] | 0252036204 | 0252036204 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,307,468,147,000 | 1 | false |
2 | The power to change the past is surprisingly dull | I really wanted to like this book, actually, correction, I wanted to love it.<br /><br />I was really in the mood for a story with characters with special abilities, namely, a time seeing ability like Emerson Cole's. Emerson has had a hard life. Her parents are dead and her selfless, loving and endlessly patient olde... | [] | 1606841440 | 1606841440 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,307,464,450,000 | 23 | false |
5 | Grabs you and wont let go | It's hard to relate to a character whose situation in life is so radically different from your own. Saba lives with her twin brother, little sister and father. They live next to a dry lake. Their mother is dead and they are all alone, just the four of them, day in and day out. About once a year they have visitors, ... | [] | 1442429984 | 1442429984 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,305,834,262,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Still not entirely sure if I liked this book | I'm in sort of a tough place when it comes to this book. I know it sounds weird, but I'm not sure if I like or hate this book. I guess I'm just pretty indifferent to it.<br /><br />First off are the main characters, of which there are really only two;<br /><br />Ellie - your average seventeen year old High School stu... | [] | 0062002325 | 0062002325 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,305,830,110,000 | 1 | false |
1 | Still waiting for the Infinite Bliss | I love vampire stories. I also love angel stories (well, okay, I've loved two of the three angel stories I've read so far) so from the title alone, I thought this book was appealing.<br /><br />Sadly not.<br /><br />The book starts out on a seemingly ordinary day for the heroine, Barbey Bardot. Barbey is the most bea... | [] | 0615377661 | 0615377661 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,303,408,961,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Horrifying Vision of the Future | Take every possible terrible scenario you've ever considered for the future and throw it out the window, this book will blow you away.<br /><br />I'm a huge fan of dystopian fiction, I loved Hunger Games, Shipbreaker, Z for Zachariah, World War Z, The Passage, 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, but with Enclave, Ann Aguirre... | [] | 0312650086 | 0312650086 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,302,622,950,000 | 176 | false |
2 | I really hate to do this, but . . . | If this wasn't a book by Melissa Marr I would give it three stars instead of two, but since I've read her other work, frankly I think I'm being generous with the two stars<br /><br />Yes, I know that sounds harsh.<br /><br />And, yes, it is kinda mean.<br /><br />But, seriously, this book is not very good when you comp... | [] | 0061826871 | 0061826871 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,302,568,899,000 | 13 | false |
4 | An Education in Bread | I like books about baking. For years I'd pick them up, stare greedily at the tasty pics and then sigh, put them back onto the shelf and slump away, my shoulders down and my mouth frowny. My failure to create bread was a source of anxiety and shame. I've made biryani, cherries flambe and eggs benedict with real holla... | [] | 1600852971 | 1600852971 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,301,529,724,000 | 20 | false |
5 | Great Resource for Home Cooks | I've never watched an episode of Emeril's show. I'm not a big fan of watching cooking shows, they always seem a bit false, the way everything is super organized and neat. The tiny ingredient saucers, the matching pots and pans, the super sharp chef's knives and spotless aprons, not only do they intimidate me, I can't... | [] | 006018535X | 006018535X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,300,907,193,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Easy to get lost in | I'm a big fan of urban fantasy. I love Charlaine's Harris'quirky Southern Vampire series, Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld, Richelle Meade's Dark Swan, Patricia Brigg's Iron Kissed, The Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston and Mike Carey's Felix Castor books. So when I read the preview for Midnight Riot, I was pretty excit... | [] | 034552425X | 034552425X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,300,396,366,000 | 2 | false |
2 | this is a review for the Illustrated version by ranzin | Like most everyone else who has reviewed The Hobbit, I've owned several copies over the years. From a tiny, dog eared paperback that I got free from a RIF event (Reading is Fundamental - they give books to school children) to this graphic novelization. Which is why it is so hard for me to write something bad about th... | [] | 0345445600 | 0345445600 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,300,153,500,000 | 35 | false |
4 | I hate cliffhangers, but I still loved this book | I only picked this up because it had a recommendation from Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy, Dark Swan) on the cover. If not for that I wouldn't have gotten past the generic, prom-ish photo op.<br /><br />Unearthly is anything but generic. Cynthia Hand has taken the angel mythos and run with it to new and dare I say, e... | [] | 0061996165 | 0061996165 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,295,977,734,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Zombies, nanotech, steamships and romance? YES! | First off I should say that I've been a longtime fan of romance. I started off with Barbara Cartland paperbacks, tattered, smelling of cats and V0-5 hair pomade and then moved onto regencies by Mary Balogh and Catherine Coulter before discovering the holy grail of 80's romance, the historical romance novel.<br /><br /... | [] | 0425236676 | 0425236676 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,295,552,286,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Mean Girls? More like shallow and bored girls with too much $$$$. | I'm not a fan of stories about the super rich. I prefer stories about regular people. Teens who live in apartments with their divorced moms and ride the bus to school instead of being driven in a bentley by a chauaffer. Prada Princesses and exclusive prep school dandies are not my favorite.<br /><br />So this story ... | [] | 1416999515 | 1416999515 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,295,507,978,000 | 0 | false |
1 | Reads like a student documentary on Oil Scarcity | I hate to be so harsh, really, I do, I don't give one star reviews without a lot of soul searching (and whining to my pals about what a lovely story this could have been), but Empty is a great big disappointment to me.<br /><br />Following are my three reasons for giving this such a low rating;<br /><br />One, the char... | [] | 0545172780 | 0545172780 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,295,506,113,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Sleeping Beauty was never so dull | I love retellings of fairytales. Beastly by Alex Flinn (a retelling of Beauty and the Beast), Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (Sleeping Beauty), Ice by Sarah Beth Durst (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) and Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) are just a few that I've read and love... | [] | 0310721431 | 0310721431 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,292,102,943,000 | 15 | false |
3 | Sometimes funny, always entertaining | If the title lured you in and you thought you were embarking on a vampire-meets-girl-epic-love story, you will end up surprised (maybe disappointed by this book).<br /><br />From the first chapter the reader is invited into the seriously dull and average world of Sophie Mcgee, High School student and writer for the sch... | [] | 0061989711 | 0061989711 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,290,303,233,000 | 8 | false |
4 | Creepier than I thought it would be | I don't read as many horror stories as I used to. I spent most of my teen years shivering in bed, flashlight shaking as I breathed in the frightening tales of Stephen King, Peter Straub and William Peter Blatty (spelling?).<br /><br />I'm not sure when I became such a scaredy pants, maybe when I moved away from home a... | [] | 0373210205 | 0373210205 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,288,298,008,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Practically Perfect in Every Way | Samhain Corvus LaCroix leads a humdrum life. He works at Plumpy's, a hamburger restaurant. His job is boring but easy and he spends his evening hanging out with his friends Ramon, Brooke and Frank, not a bad way to spend time for a college dropout drifting through life.<br /><br />The tedium of making and selling Plu... | [] | 0805090983 | 0805090983 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,285,957,544,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Not what I was expecting - Better! | I double heart loved the first book, The Iron King. Mostly because of Ash. He was cruel, cold, brilliant and vicious. Yikes, kinda makes you wonder about my choice in guys, doesn't it? Anyway, his transformation from heartless [..] to protector and gentle boyfriend (the term boyfriend seems so juvenile in relation ... | [] | 0373210132 | 0373210132 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,285,198,569,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Fun, fast and interesting | I almost loved this book. There are many reasons to like it and it hits all the right highs and lows.<br /><br />There's a big secret. One that Evie, the heroine, doesn't even know.<br /><br />There's Lend, the mysterious boy with a strange shapeshifting power. He isn't even sure what he is and Evie, with her years ... | [] | 0061985848 | 0061985848 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,284,759,581,000 | 55 | false |
2 | Mixed feelings | I love Fae stories. When I read about this book a month before it was released I happily added it to my wishlist and counted down the days until I could buy it.<br /><br />What really got my interest was the unusual set up; an arranged marriage between a convent educated woman and the son of a Fae Lord. Oh, also, the... | [] | 1402236522 | 1402236522 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,282,581,247,000 | 200 | false |
4 | Romantic Quickie Read | I'll admit that it was the title of this book that caught my attention. Without the obligatory descriptives of Billionaire, Sheik, Prince, Virgin or Secret Baby this book fairly jumped out from the shelf at Target right into my hot little hands.<br /><br />In fact, I didn't even read the back cover before buying it, th... | [] | 0373527780 | 0373527780 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,282,418,192,000 | 7 | false |
2 | I wish I could give this 2 1/2 stars | I went into this book with high hopes. I'd seen a review calling this Hogwarts without magic. Not that I don't like stories with magical setups, I do, I love them. It's just that I read Ranger's Apprentice and I liked it so much I was ready for a story with protagonists who can't fall back on spells or wandwork to g... | [] | 1416991433 | 1416991433 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,282,062,749,000 | 5 | false |
4 | It's Perfect Too! | Not until I started to write this review did I realize this is the second Elizabeth Scott book I've read this year. I didn't like her other book, but I love this one.<br /><br />Kate is having a hard time. First there's her dad, wearing a carrot hat and selling Perfect You Vitamins (it's his dream job, honey) after q... | [] | 1416953558 | 1416953558 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,281,631,559,000 | 0 | false |
5 | This is my favorite retelling of Beauty and the Beast | I've listened to just the first two discs of this unabridged audio version of Beastly. I know, I know, you're thinking, 'how dare she post a review if she hasn't even finished the book! What a traitor!' Okay, maybe you weren't muttering, 'traitor,' but it is still not entirely solid to post a review BEFORE reading a ... | [] | 1441849661 | 1441849661 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,279,822,764,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Solid Entertainment, but nowhere near as good as the first book | I'll admit it. I read the first book in this series, His Majesty's Dragon, four times. What can I say? I really liked it.<br /><br />It's hard to keep a series fresh and exciting. Some books are a follow up to a successful novel and there's not a lot going on except a thin attempt to repeat the same situation that ... | [] | 0345496892 | 0345496892 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,279,759,674,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Not the kind of book I usually read | Sometimes you have to try something new. Order a different sandwich at the deli. Take a different approach to dealing with a difficult person. I have a tendency to stick to what I know I like. I do this with most everything; music, food, people and especially with books.<br /><br />But when I read the description f... | [] | 1439159823 | 1439159823 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,278,999,083,000 | 6 | false |
5 | This Book Saved My Life | I know the title of my review sounds exaggerated but it isn't. Allow me to explain. Ten years ago I had Postpartum Depression. Postpartum Depression is such a small phrase for the crushing mental agony I experienced. Each day seemed worse than the last and I counted the hours until my husband returned home so that ... | [] | 0385333501 | 0385333501 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,278,889,260,000 | 5 | false |
4 | I Am Number Five | I like this book. I like the idea of this book, I like the plot, I like John Smith and his protector, Henry.<br /><br />I like the little details, stopping for gasoline, renting places that are isolated and in small towns.<br /><br />There were tons of things I loved about this book.<br /><br />But there was one hugem... | [] | 0061969559 | 0061969559 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,278,230,439,000 | 1 | false |
5 | The Glove Means Love | A few years ago someone gave me a copy of copy of Tithe by Holly Black. I didn't read it. I tried to read it, I got about eighteen pages in and pooped out. Maybe it was too close for comfort, the opening scene at the bar, the negligent mom and nasty boyfriend, whatever, it just didn't 'do it for me.'<br /><br />Fast... | [] | 1416963960 | 1416963960 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,278,001,368,000 | 0 | false |
3 | The Unwritten Lesson | If he doesn't like you enough not to date your shallow, manipulative, drama queen friend, then you should move on to someone else.<br /><br />Sarah liked Ryan first. Ryan liked Sarah back and due to a strange and clearly unforgivable lapse in judgment on the part of Brianna (Sarah's best friend) and Sarah (for forgivi... | [] | 1416978917 | 1416978917 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,276,276,983,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Conflicted, not in a good way | The story starts out pretty great. I'd put it at the top of my imaginary list of the best first chapters I've read this year. But from the second chapter out it lags. I wanted to love this story. I got so excited when I read about this book on a favorite fantasy blog. I ran up to my husband with excited squeals of... | [] | 0765321505 | 0765321505 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,275,948,380,000 | 9 | false |
5 | Touching and romantic | I sliced my thumb open cutting up onions tonight, so this will be a brief review on account of my typing one handed.<br /><br />I love this story. Bet, otherwise known as Elizabeth has a small life. She reads in the evening, mends clothing and walks in the garden. As the daughter of a dead housemaid, her position in... | [] | 0547223080 | 0547223080 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,275,624,202,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Funny and heartwrenching | Stella Hardesty is angry. She has a lot of pent up rage inside her post menopausal self and she's channeled it into helping women.<br /><br />When her no-good-wife-beating husband died (yep, she killed him) for a while things were bad. Very, very bad. She drank and didn't leave the house.<br /><br />But, like a marr... | [] | 0312643233 | 0312643233 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,275,080,457,000 | 1 | false |
2 | I wish I could quit you | I didn't finish this book.<br /><br />I know, I know, how can a person write a review for a book they didn't finish?<br /><br />I tried to finish it.<br /><br />I got the book and sat down with a cup of coffee and a bowl of pretzels, and then nothing. No zing, no falling into the book and hours later realizing that yo... | [] | 0152063900 | 0152063900 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,274,997,339,000 | 1 | false |
5 | First rate drawing book | So many how-to-draw books don't really show you the step by step process to creating something.<br /><br />I don't mean to sound ranty, but I just checked out an animal drawing book at the library and the lessons went something like this, 1) draw a circle, 2) draw an oval next to the circle, 3) draw the rest of the hor... | [] | 093921749X | 093921749X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,274,386,302,000 | 4 | true |
4 | I want to live under the sea, or, at least visit | If Dark Life was just a story of friendship, between a topsider (someone who lives in the overcrowded future America) and a settler (think of wagon trains heading west, or in this case, underwater) then this would be a fantastic story, I would love it and recommend it to all my pals.<br /><br />But this book is so much... | [] | 0545178142 | 0545178142 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,274,385,646,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Excellent drawing book for kids and adults | We've checked out a lot of drawing books and the main problem I've found is that they are not detailed enough. For example, a certain animal drawing book(which I can't remember the name of right now) had a pretty picture of a horse, drawn in just three steps! Yep, three. From a few ovals and circles, to ovals, circl... | [] | 0939217430 | 0939217430 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,272,997,877,000 | 6 | false |
3 | A Gray World | Something isn't right. Everything is dark. The town is practically deserted and electricity, food and school are scarce if not completely gone. Like the first book in this series, Life As We Knew It, the narrator is Miranda, high school student, ice skater and middle child.<br /><br />This book starts a few months a... | [] | 0547248040 | 0547248040 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,271,371,559,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Some freckles are special | I've never read a book with a teenage midwife, so I went into this expecting something a little different from this story than I do from other books. I was not disappointed. Gaia is not a character that falls apart when times turn sour and boy, do things go bad for her, pretty much from the start. She arrives home a... | [] | 1596435690 | 1596435690 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,271,367,576,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Almost Perfect | Sophie has a witchcraft problem. She doesn't think it's that big a deal, but the Council does and that's how she ends up at Hex Hall.<br /><br />On her first day she runs afoul of an angry werewolf, finds out her roomie is a vampire and meets the world's hottest warlock, Archer.<br /><br />There's a lot she doesn't kn... | [] | 1423121309 | 1423121309 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,270,451,481,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Hilarious romance | I loved this book. I wasn't super sure of it from the product description but after I read the first chapter, I could hardly put it down.<br /><br />Jenny, aka, Madame Esmerelda lives a life on the edge. She's only a few steps away from living on the street, something that is often on her mind and makes her less like... | [] | 0373774397 | 0373774397 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,269,552,297,000 | 0 | false |
5 | 5 stars with reservations | A creeping sense of doom pervades this moody slice of life book. The heroine, Samantha is a bitch. She knows it, so do her friends and everyone at school too.<br /><br />She's THAT girl. The one that has the perfect boyfriend, perfect clothes, nice family, perfect friends and has way more fun you ever will at High S... | [] | 006172680X | 006172680X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,268,942,086,000 | 2 | false |
5 | So good I'm going to read it again! | I got this book on Friday at 3:30pm and finished it at 6:30ish Saturday and no, I'm not a speed reader.<br /><br />I read Perfect Chemistry by Ms. Elkeles and liked it so much I read it two more times and when I saw this book, I bought it without reading the plot synopsis. But, in the back of my mind I wondered, "can ... | [] | 0802720854 | 0802720854 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,267,932,789,000 | 35 | false |
4 | Better than I expected | I read the reviews on this one and wasn't sure what to think.<br /><br />A dystopian future society with a cruel, death defying game, ala Stephen King's, The Long Walk and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, but there was a twist to the story in that the main characters (players) didn't have their memories of how the ... | [] | 0385737947 | 0385737947 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,266,526,741,000 | 1 | false |
3 | I liked this more than I thought I would | I wasn't sure about this book when I read the first chapter. I don't want to give any spoilers away, but it struck me as an odd way to open a book and the characters mentioned sounded almost too otherworldly for me to be able to not only understand, but like the story.<br /><br />But I did like it, with reservations. ... | [] | 0778326624 | 0778326624 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,264,113,926,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Something didn't translate | I have a certain love hate for fiction with a message. It always gets me riled up because it seems like the story gets lost in the 'greater purpose.' I wouldn't say that for this book, but I have to admit, I wasn't as riveted with the tale of Virgil and his mysterious ex-girlfriend as I'd hoped I would be.<br /><br /... | [] | 0143116525 | 0143116525 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,264,113,052,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Another weak kneed heroine, eee gads! | Luce (Lucid? Lucifer's Plaything, the play on the name really bothered me) is obsessed with Daniel, the byronic badboy at her new boarding school.<br /><br />As usually happens in this sort of story, the hero of the story, Daniel says, in no uncertain terms, "Stay away from me Luce, I'm bad news."<br /><br />Luce says,... | [] | 0385738935 | 0385738935 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,261,446,424,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Romance, excitement and mystery | If you are looking for excellent writing, deft prose and a tight story, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but this was written by a young woman, just starting out. She isn't exactly a Nobel Laureate when it comes to writing. But when it comes to spinning a passionate, thrilling tale, I thought this... | [] | 1595910557 | 1595910557 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,257,790,118,000 | 2 | false |
5 | There should be scratch and sniff stars too! | What teenage girl wouldn't swoon for a guy like Patch? Honestly? Really? Okay, sure, there are some girls who really want the dull letterman jacket wearing guys with the jacked up trucks who play music so loud that you and your neighbors can hear them driving by a mile away, swoonville, right?<br /><br />But for th... | [] | 1416989412 | 1416989412 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,256,680,922,000 | 1 | false |
4 | The good kind of shivers | I had to go back and read the original fairytale, East of the Sun and West of the Moon just so that I could find out how closely (or not) this book followed the story. There are some obvious changes and I loved them.<br /><br />I'm not always a fan of books that are set in a place with such a strange unrelatable geogr... | [] | 141698643X | 141698643X | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,256,679,629,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Mixed signals all around for this one. | There's a book called, He's Not That Into You, that I think the main character of this novel could have benefited from reading. I hate to be so harsh, but it is so obvious, to even the dullest of lovesick girls that Caspar (the sexy ghostie, doesn't like her in the way she so wants him to). By the ending of the book,... | [] | 1416978933 | 1416978933 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,255,153,671,000 | 5 | false |
3 | Why does the worlds most secure prison need dogs? | Why does the worlds most secure prison need dogs? I know, I know, I may be nitpicking, but it bothered me and wasn't the only thing that seemed a little too fanboy extreme in Lockdown.<br /><br />For the most part this is a prison novel. Alex the main character is not perfect. He's not terribly introspective or thou... | [] | 0374324913 | 0374324913 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,252,025,590,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Romantic, sweet and funny | I don't usually read this kind of book. I like vampires, ghosts, witches or at the least werewolves and angels.<br /><br />So I wasn't terribly enthused about this story, which seemed to me, a little slow.<br /><br />In fact, the only reason I started the book is because I grabbed it on the way to the dentist and was ... | [] | 1416968237 | 1416968237 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,251,093,491,000 | 27 | false |
5 | Magical clocks, romance and wacky family | I'm a pessimist when it comes to new authors. So, when I started to read Once a Witch I was waiting to be underwhelmed.<br /><br />The opening scene, with Tamsin and Professor Callum was okay, not the best first chapter I've ever read, but the setup, a girl without powers growing up in a family of talented witches, wa... | [] | 0547223994 | 0547223994 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,249,333,891,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Almost Swoonworthy | I wont regurgitate the blurb from the inside cover except to say this is a possession story with a twist.<br /><br />The story starts out action-y as Pen is infected/Possessed by the hero/villain, who by the by, the author describes in a very dishy way.<br /><br />Forward to bizarre and out of character behavior by Pen... | [] | 1416974342 | 1416974342 | AGLTXNHKNRY5SAZ62RG76WRBN75A | 1,248,315,128,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Beautiful illustrations, charming story | I loved the illustrations and humor in this book. The sibling dachshunds are as different as can be but they ultimately are best friends. Their antics and adventures around the house are very entertaining! | [] | 0062954474 | 0062954474 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,665,448,354,164 | 2 | true |
5 | Great gift for the Latin scholar - beautiful illustrations too! | Great Olivia character with charming drawings. My son used it for his Latin class. Make a great gift for Latin student or teachers. | [] | 1416942181 | 1416942181 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,520,622,583,588 | 0 | true |
5 | Great board book with charming and funny illustrations | Love this author and illustrator, great teaching book too. Entertaining for adults as well! Nice quality boardbook. | [] | 0689850883 | 0689850883 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,514,696,158,406 | 0 | true |
5 | Another Charming Olivia book by Ian Falconer | Charming children's book - the 8th in the Olivia series- with amazing illustrations - for boys and girls and adults! humor is dry and funny- recommend for 4+, and older kids will enjoy. | [] | 1481457950 | 1481457950 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,494,565,859,000 | 1 | true |
5 | All around sweet storyline | I enjoy these sweet books. There is always a nice story about friendship or manners included in them and Olivia just makes me laugh. My little girl (and her brother!) like the series as well. | [] | 1442436018 | 1442436018 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,473,185,841,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A top-notch overview of American design from the Bluegrass State | This is a beautiful book that anyone who loves the decorative arts will be thrilled to fine. I was especially interested in the furniture featured in the book and the overall beauty of the American design. The quality of the photos and publication is outstanding. | [] | 0813155673 | 0813155673 | AEW6OYMLEHMVLNHXOUSHZATAZ2UQ | 1,464,134,453,000 | 2 | true |
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