You might be if you've been running around like I have the past week.
I don't think anyone will be left out this year. I even managed to get an AWESOME gift for a little girl for the Angel Tree Project.
It was a giant blue fuzzy elephant.
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| Picture the Elephant in BLUE and that was my Angel Tree gift. |
How's everyone else been doing? NaNoWriMo is done as you probably guessed since it's now December and ... let me tell you ... I lost.
Again.
Once I made it to the 30,000 word mark, it went ALL downhill. I lost my momentum, I forgot where the nonexistent plot was going, and I couldn't keep my characters from running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It was annoying and I got tired of dragging them back to their respective corners to give them a stern talking to about running away from their author.
It's quite pesty when that happens. ANYWAY!
Tomorrow is Friday. It's been another week. And ... I'm considerably poorer from Christmas shopping but it has been 100% worth it because this year, I have HAD the funds to go all out for people. I'd share what I've gotten but ... some of my readers are that list and then the surprise would be gone.
Lots of people are getting books (no surprise there, have ya met me?) but they already know that because DUH, it's me and there may or may not be some gift cards involved. One place that I need to hit again is World Market.
Their jewelry is really cute. I love their bangle bracelets and am regretting not putting some of them on my Christmas list because I think I'd wear them ... like ... every day.
Moving on again,
You will be pleased to hear that I have indeed read Divergent by Veronica Roth which I mentioned in a previous post.
And ... I'm in love with the series now.
Tris Prior was raised in the Abnegation (Selfless) Faction and is now at the age where she will be tested to see where she SHOULD be. Will she remain with the Abnegation and her family or will she walk away to be in another faction?
Basically, her test was inconclusive and that makes her a Divergent or essentially someone who defies the simulations that were performed in the test. To save her life, the person who tested her ERASED her results and hand wrote in Abnegation.
Tris, who has no idea why Divergent is so dangerous in the first place, thinks nothing of it other than she has NO CLUE what she's going to pick on Choosing Day.
Deciding to hide among the Dauntless (Bravery), she chooses them as her faction.
There, Tris meets new friends and one young man in particular named Four who seems to know more about her than she realizes.
What does Divergent mean? And why is the Government and the Factions so threatened by it? Tris Prior finds out in this epic dystopian novel.
From Divergent, I have moved onto the fifth and final book in the Shadow Falls series, Chosen at Nightfall by C.C. Hunter.
In this series, we're FINALLY getting to the end of the actual conflict in the series. Kylie Galen has gone from normal girl to supernatural to freak of nature to ... chameleon?
Basically, the author decided to cop out and say that Kylie is not JUST a supernatural (i.e. werewolf, vampire, shapeshifter, witch or fae) but she's what is called a chameleon (not a lizard) and she can take on the elements and powers of all the other supernaturals.
She had left Shadow Falls Camp to train her newfound skills with her longlost grandfather and great aunt, but it only lasts four chapters before she winds up right back at the camp. This seems to be C.C. Hunter's only desirable setting and it gets quite obnoxious because nothing ever changes at the camp except for when some of the supernaturals get rowdy. *rolls eyes* So you can get my disappointment when Kylie leaves this new setting and returns to ... the camp.
Then the mention of her archnemesis Mario comes up again and the reader gets all excited that something is about to happen ... and you're disappointed again. We get little jumps of adrenaline whenever Kylie 'sees' something in the forest and that turns out to be nothing until the very end when we actually get a CONCLUSION to this too long series.
I give this book only 2 stars out of 5.
NEXT on the list ... of books that I have read recently.
I finished Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer. Again, another book that I mentioned in a previous post so if you want to see the covers of these books, visit www.bn.com and you'll get all the information you need about each book. Including cover, titles, and prices. (I'm a huge Barnes & Noble fan)
Wolfsbane!
So it LITERALLY picks up right where it left off at the end of Nightshade by Andrea Cremer.
This book is the continuation of the story of Calla Tor, the Alpha of the Nightshade werewolf pack and her forbidden love with Shay, who she turned into a werewolf or Guardian as they are called in Andrea Cremer's series.
I actually really recommend these books. Calla is a strong female character who knows who she is and she really suffers from indecision at times the way REAL PEOPLE do.
Basically, book two is all about how she has made the decision to walk away from the Keepers who have bossed around the werewolves their whole lives and they expect no questions asked of them. The Searchers are providing those answers. But Calla has more decisions that she has to make regarding her former love, Ren and where he fits into the Keeper's plans for them. Andrea Cremer knows how to write a story that keeps you enthralled to the last page and I know that this wasn't my most epic review of a book for you ... but I just have to say that this book gets 4 out of 5 stars from me.
Pick up Nightshade by Andrea Cremer! You won't regret it.
I feel like that's how I should end this entry. With all my book reviews. Sound good, huh?
I hope that you enjoyed this week's entry and I'm really hoping that I'll get back on track with the Monday/Wednesday schedule. This is what happens when you work in retail.
Be Open, Be Loving, Be Yourself,
Taryn
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