Monday 26 August 2013
Tomorrow!!!
Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout comes out tomorrow! Finally! After the heart breaking cliffhanger of Opal, maybe Katy and Daemon can rescue each other. Cannot wait for this. I may just stay up until midnight! Look at that gorgeous cover. *swoon*
Thursday 1 August 2013
Goodreads
Hey guys! I just wanted to let you know that I am on Goodreads. @Jessicascheshirecat
If you're on there then shoot me a friend request! All of my reviews are on there as well. Here is the link to my profile
http://www.goodreads.com/jessicascheshirecat
Cheers,
Jessica
If you're on there then shoot me a friend request! All of my reviews are on there as well. Here is the link to my profile
http://www.goodreads.com/jessicascheshirecat
Jessica
Young Love Stupid
This is a review for Young Love Murder by April Brookshire (1 cat review):
This Review Contains Minor Spoilers necessary for my rant:
First here is the Goodreads synopsis:
First love’s a killer, but so is seventeen-year-old Annabelle Blanc. The teenager was raised to be an assassin and taught to never fall in love. She lives for the job until she meets Gabriel Sanchez, the son of her latest target.
Wealthy, spoiled and self-indulgent, Gabriel Sanchez is a teenage playboy. Setting his sights on the beautiful Annabelle, he's drawn to the mysterious new girl who's playing hard to get. Gabriel also finds himself drawn into a world of deception, violence and murder.
Off-centered for the first time in her life, Annabelle struggles to fight her doomed attraction for the handsome Gabriel.
This book was one of those ones that made me want to stab myself just so I didn't have to finish it. It was 50 chapters of pain and suffrage. This book was so long I wanted it to end half way through. Throughout reading it I kept checking to see where I was in the novel. Time seemed to move slower. It was as if every chapter was only 1% of the book done. No book needs to be this long!
I was very intrigued by the idea of a female assassin. I thought it was going to be exciting and epic. But this...was not.Just...not
.
I swear these kids are sociopaths.You DO NOT love someone after they murder your father. It does not happen. Then Gabriel, being the utter man whore that he is and Annabelle being the crazed black widow murderer that she is, shoot each other back and forth. Literally shoot each other. She's all like:
shoot me if it makes you feel better
and he's all like:
I am a crazy insane person having a mental break down so I am gonna shoot you!
Then there is the constant I love you, then I hate you, then I love you, but wait I hate you again. Its the worst kind of love-hate relationship ever created.
And the constant sex was just gross. Is that seriously all that teenage boys think about?? The only thing I liked about the characters was Jackson and Anna's sibling banter. It was cute and I loved it. It was similar to how my brother and I are.
Rant Over:
Sorry about that jumbled mess of thoughts up above there. It was just how I was feeling at the time and still am, but less angry. Young Love Murder had an intriguing idea and that's the reason I decided to give it a go. My main concern was how long it was. This book takes place over 3, very horrible years. Most books take place over the course of a year or a few months. Not 3 years. It is just too long. Time starts to blur together and situations become unbelievable.
Gabriel was one of the stupidest and egotistical male characters that I have ever read about. All he cares about is sex and finding the hottest girl (ug *puke*). Seriously his life is about as shallow as my cat's milk dish. And that's shallow cause' my cat is fat.
Annabelle, our oh so charming a witty main character (I hate her) thinks she is seductive and alluring when she is about as tempting as cow poo. She goes through life murdering people and not caring about the mess she leaves behind. About 3/4 through the novel, Gabriel corners her in her apartment and takes her right there. After throwing her down a practically raping her. Except she likes it I suppose. For someone who claims that she can take care of herself and won't let anyone best her, she sure gives up easily. Her will power is practically non-existent, especially in sexual situations. She continually does things to make me mad and I wanted to jump into the book and strangle her.
If this is the kind of thing teenagers are reading about and liking it, I am afraid for my generation. Things like this book do not happen in real life. I happen to have multiple guy friends and none of them act remotely similar to Gabriel. The author is implying that all teen boys are like her character-over confident, prone to asshattery, and girl crazy (among other things).
Anna travels a lot during this book and the author makes travel seem too simple. From personal experience, being a 3 time Europe go-er over the years, travel is not easy. You have to go through check in's, security, customs, annoying flight people, and long plane rides. Annabelle and Gabriel country hop like the would take a taxi around. Neither of them show any fatigue or jet lag, even after flying from US to Australia, or where ever the heck they go. Even from a short flight of 1 or 2 hours, I feel tired. It is stressful and it takes a tole on you. This was a big problem for me when reading Young Love Murder, especially since I read it on a plane while traveling!
Please save yourself and don't read this.
Cheers,
Jessica
This Review Contains Minor Spoilers necessary for my rant:
First here is the Goodreads synopsis: First love’s a killer, but so is seventeen-year-old Annabelle Blanc. The teenager was raised to be an assassin and taught to never fall in love. She lives for the job until she meets Gabriel Sanchez, the son of her latest target.
Wealthy, spoiled and self-indulgent, Gabriel Sanchez is a teenage playboy. Setting his sights on the beautiful Annabelle, he's drawn to the mysterious new girl who's playing hard to get. Gabriel also finds himself drawn into a world of deception, violence and murder.
Off-centered for the first time in her life, Annabelle struggles to fight her doomed attraction for the handsome Gabriel.
This book was one of those ones that made me want to stab myself just so I didn't have to finish it. It was 50 chapters of pain and suffrage. This book was so long I wanted it to end half way through. Throughout reading it I kept checking to see where I was in the novel. Time seemed to move slower. It was as if every chapter was only 1% of the book done. No book needs to be this long!
I was very intrigued by the idea of a female assassin. I thought it was going to be exciting and epic. But this...was not.Just...not
.
I swear these kids are sociopaths.You DO NOT love someone after they murder your father. It does not happen. Then Gabriel, being the utter man whore that he is and Annabelle being the crazed black widow murderer that she is, shoot each other back and forth. Literally shoot each other. She's all like:
shoot me if it makes you feel better
and he's all like:
I am a crazy insane person having a mental break down so I am gonna shoot you!
Then there is the constant I love you, then I hate you, then I love you, but wait I hate you again. Its the worst kind of love-hate relationship ever created.
And the constant sex was just gross. Is that seriously all that teenage boys think about?? The only thing I liked about the characters was Jackson and Anna's sibling banter. It was cute and I loved it. It was similar to how my brother and I are.
Rant Over:
Sorry about that jumbled mess of thoughts up above there. It was just how I was feeling at the time and still am, but less angry. Young Love Murder had an intriguing idea and that's the reason I decided to give it a go. My main concern was how long it was. This book takes place over 3, very horrible years. Most books take place over the course of a year or a few months. Not 3 years. It is just too long. Time starts to blur together and situations become unbelievable.
Gabriel was one of the stupidest and egotistical male characters that I have ever read about. All he cares about is sex and finding the hottest girl (ug *puke*). Seriously his life is about as shallow as my cat's milk dish. And that's shallow cause' my cat is fat.
Annabelle, our oh so charming a witty main character (I hate her) thinks she is seductive and alluring when she is about as tempting as cow poo. She goes through life murdering people and not caring about the mess she leaves behind. About 3/4 through the novel, Gabriel corners her in her apartment and takes her right there. After throwing her down a practically raping her. Except she likes it I suppose. For someone who claims that she can take care of herself and won't let anyone best her, she sure gives up easily. Her will power is practically non-existent, especially in sexual situations. She continually does things to make me mad and I wanted to jump into the book and strangle her.
If this is the kind of thing teenagers are reading about and liking it, I am afraid for my generation. Things like this book do not happen in real life. I happen to have multiple guy friends and none of them act remotely similar to Gabriel. The author is implying that all teen boys are like her character-over confident, prone to asshattery, and girl crazy (among other things).
Anna travels a lot during this book and the author makes travel seem too simple. From personal experience, being a 3 time Europe go-er over the years, travel is not easy. You have to go through check in's, security, customs, annoying flight people, and long plane rides. Annabelle and Gabriel country hop like the would take a taxi around. Neither of them show any fatigue or jet lag, even after flying from US to Australia, or where ever the heck they go. Even from a short flight of 1 or 2 hours, I feel tired. It is stressful and it takes a tole on you. This was a big problem for me when reading Young Love Murder, especially since I read it on a plane while traveling!
Please save yourself and don't read this.
Cheers,
Jessica
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