Bloodlines - Rachel Mead

A new paranormal series by Rachel Mead.
I hope this is better  than the Vampire Academy series.
I didn't like the main character in there,  Rose too much...and haven't completed the series.
But this whole new series, have the same characters from the VA series, including Adrain (I read somewhere) & set in the same world.

Anyway this is what goodreads says:

When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.

Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood

Sounds interesting.

Morganville Vampires Book 10.

BITE CLUB

Rachel Caine's lateset novel in the Morganville vampire series.
This series is by far the best vampire stories published in the 21st century that i've read.

I am not yet finished reading 'Bite Club'.
But this is what goodreads says:

After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble.

There's a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Internet: bare- knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against each other-or humans. Tracking the remote signal leads Claire- accompanied by her friends and frenemies-to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville...

YA Fiction Series that I quit..

Some YA fiction series gets me bored after reading one one or two of the books.
For an example; Maximum Ride By James Patterson.
I liked the first, and second book, but by the third book, I was starting to grow fed up of it.
I don't like that too much of a 'hero' or 'heroine' characters, you know? And Max was becoming a bit too much like that not to mention a bit highty tighty.
If anyone read this series, they'd probably see what I'm driving at.
Take a simple scene at the end of the fourth book 'The Final Warning'. The 'Global Warming' speech, that a fourteen year old is giving to the world..That's when I quit.

Another YA Fiction Series I quit on the way was:
The Gone Series By Micheal Grant.
I liked the character of Sam Temple that Micheal Grant portrayed.
But the plot, the Drake, Cain and their cronies 'activities' were a bit morbid don't you think? And a bit drawn out?




P.S. Anyway my thirteen year old sister is enjoying both the series very much. What can I say?
F.E.

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

 

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

I have just completed the Hunger Games Trilogy. Sad to say, but I was kind of disappointed by the final book.

The Hunger games begin with Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the story, volunteering to take the place of her little sister, Prim, in the cruel Games the Capitol host yearly.  

Each year one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen are picked to participate in the annual Hunger Games, to fight until death on live TV.

And thus begins an  interesting trilogy, of a country based in the future called Panem, a Capitol surrounded by twelve districts, where once stood North America, and is now ruled by an evil President Snow.

Catching Fire - The second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy.

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, are now victors.

Unfortunately, that is not the happy ending. Because if you don't play the game according to President Snow, he'll just have to show you how you have to play, or else...

And so the second book begins, with a whole new challenge awaiting Katniss who finds herself the face of an uprising rebellion.

 Mockingjay - The Final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy.

Katniss Everdeen, against all odds, has survived the Hunger Games twice.

And President Snow is not happy at all.

With a full war on, against all her family, friends and District 12, Katniss is now finally, but not truly by her own will, the Mockingjay.

With everyone in danger, and Peeta unsafe somewhere while being ruthlessly tortured, Katniss is determined kill President Snow herself. 

Anyway, the first book was the best - New, thrilling and full of suspense. I hated the love triangle between Katniss, Gale and Peeta. It seems like these days, most of the young adult fiction authors’ loves writing romance and can’t avoid bringing in this common style. I can list many books that I’ve read recently with this theme, and honestly? I’m fed up of it!

Anyway the turn in character of Katniss Everdeen, her disloyalty and total inconsideration the way she had treated Gale towards the end, was totally selfish not to mention unjust.

Last but not least, I have to admire Suzanne Collins poems.

The two poems that I’ve read in these books were wonderful!

Deep in the Meadow’ and 'The Hanging Tree.

I am going to post them soon.

 F.E.