teresainohio10's reviews
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I loved [b:Monkeewrench|44783|Monkeewrench|P.J. Tracy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170269112s/44783.jpg|911663]and recommended it to many people, as the plot was strong, characters well defined and a good mystery. The follow up [b:Live Bait|764356|Live Bait|P.J. Tracy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178148215s/764356.jpg|1190995]was a great follow up to the debut novel and another good mystery. Well Dead run, lost it all, there is no great mystery and the team is divided in half. The woman have a case to solve and they go off on their own, leaving the men at home to run the operations. Within hours they are lost and the car is broke down, so they stumble into Four corners and a nightmare. There are soliders patrolling the deserted town, the good guys could/are the bad guys,and the mystery makes no sense. The best part of the book is Harley's obsession with the catcus and closing the book.

I really enjoyed the first book [b:Bitten|11918|Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, #1)|Kelley Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166490275s/11918.jpg|2606334]and it was my first foray into werewolves. I couldn't wait to get the second book but it was a huge disappointment. This one centered around a very selfish man named Ty who thought he could capture the supernatural and use them for hunting events. Bauer, an assistant of his, decided it would be so much fun to use Elena saliva to become a werewolf. Wrong!!! It also didn't have very much Clay and Jeremy in the story. The story got better when Clay and Jeremy arrived on the scene, but by then I just wanted it over.

What a different take on the whole shifter/werewolves/vampire/ world, Quince is in high school by day and at night runs the family restaurant. Only it is not a normal restaurant, the theme is vampires. The story starts off with a bang, and the fall out from that, just keeps coming. As Quince and her uncle scramble to find a chef with 10 days to opening, that is the least of their problems. Along the way, everyone is not whom they seem to be, and who is the good guy and what bad guys should you run from? Because some of the bad guys will actually help you while the good guys stab you in the back. The only reason not a 5, is having to struggle through the setting up of characters, actions and settings. I wish more debut novels would just tell the story, instead of setting things up for further stories.

This book had such promise but by the middle I was wishing for an editor. A doctor is ran over by a car and even though it points to an accident, his daughter and son believes otherwise. I really enjoyed learning about Asperer's and how people function with it. I didn't like how it dragged in the middle and seemed lost. When it got back on track, it was a great read to the end. I never saw the who of the mayhem until the author told me. That first disgusted me, then it all made sense.

As with any book on software or the internet, it can quickly become dated as with this book. But it still gave me a greater insight into facebook and introduced me to new applications and a better understanding of facebook. I normally just play games on the site, now with this book will be making it more me.

I learned a lot from this book and left with even more questions. There has been much discussion about how/when/where the world would end and what would happened. In this novel ( had to remind myself many times it is fiction) which is backed by many references to the bible, we learn that people just vaporized into thin air, leaving everything they were wearing and everyone behind with no clue as to what happen. Through the telling of three main characters we begin to see how they disappeared and what is coming. After reading this novel I need to check some things out and then begin the next volume in this saga.

It took a while for this book to get started and I am glad I stuck with it. Bella is about to graduate high school and her life will change forever. But before she gets there she must confront all the feelings and chaos that surround her. It seems Victoria has another attack planned and the vampires must work with the werewolves to win. This was the funny part of the book reading the conversations between Edward and Jacob about Bella and how they would/could work together to save her and resist the new vampires. The reasons this book won't get a 5 from me, is because of Bella indifference to Jacob and his love. This is a triangle love story but so much different at the same time. Bella admits she is in love with both of them, but must stay with Edward. I feel for Jacob and his pain and Bella needs a wake up call to understand that in order to have friendship she MUST not let him thinkt her could be more.

Another book that puts Joe in the forefront and Cole hovering in the shadows, I wish since they are PARTNERS, they could be equals in the book. Joe's past comes knocking on the door, when a friend is murder in a home invasion. Quickly the cops believe his past is why he is killed but Joe seeks the truth. He quickly learns that it wasn't the family under attack but the nanny. It seems the nanny has a past through her family that is quite violent and disturbing. I don't enjoy reading about gun runners, government battles and such, so the plot didn't hold my interest.

Closer to 3.5. Cassie lives with her grandmother and has a normal upbringing and typical life until she sees THE MARK. She has seen this before, but didn't understand it. Her grandmother explains to her, that it means she can see death. Cassie looks back at her life and finds examples to support this. As Cassi struggles with this and tries to figure out does she tell the person or not, people come and go in her life with different takes on it. This book is disjointed and some things just didn't quite work but if it is a series, this book did a good job of laying the foundation for future books, if a stand alone it just didn't quite work.

The book is always better than the movie right? I haven't seen the movie but the promos about it made it seem good and I really wanted to read the book. Well the book just didn't work. I understand the need to write the style she wrote, but it still fell flat. Presious has been abused all her life and never given a childhood. Noone has ever stepped in to help her or save her from this horrible life. After her second pregnancy she finds an alternative school that gives her options. She is able to save herself but her life will always be hard.