"4" Rated Books

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Thea's Review)
The more I think about this book, the less I like it. Simply put: it creeped me out (and NOT in a good way).I am torn. On the one hand, I can appreciate what Ms. Niffenegger has tried to accomplish. She has attempted to write a sweeping epic love story with a peculiar quirk. Instead of infidelity or mistrust, the problem is completely out of the hands of the couple--Henry De Tamble is an unwilling time traveler that can flicker in and out of time at any second. While I can appreciate the pains Ms. Niffenegger took to make this time traveling love story accessible, I just couldn't really buy it. I really did not like Henry De Tamble at all. He struck me as a selfish, self-pitying clod for the entire story. Clare was only marginally better--but perhaps to best discuss my qualms with the book, I should explain a bit more...(Read More)

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
I have absolutely no idea on how to write this review.

I usually follow a pattern where I present the characters, the plot and then talk about what I like/didn't like.

If I were to do this with Werther, it would take me one paragraph. Seriously. Like this: The book is a compilation of letters written by young Werther to his friend William telling him how he has been spending his days in a fictional town in Germany, observing Nature, talking to the simple folks, reading Homer and sketching until he meets this girl Lotte who is betrothed to another, falls in love, becomes OBSESSED with her, can not think of anything else, until he kills himself because "Oh dear Lord one of us MUST die". The end...(Read More)

No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole (Thea's Review)
Well, it’s no secret that I am not a huge fan of Kresley Cole. I found book 1 of this series silly and over-the-top (review here). So it was with extreme wariness I began No Rest for the Wicked, steeling myself for more of the same.While I can’t bring myself to recommend this book, I did find that it was significantly better than A Hunger Like No Other. Maybe because I went into this book knowing exactly what to expect from Ms. Cole (lo and behold, sexy scene one takes place on pg 3), or because I have a bit more experience with more paranormal romance now (emphasis on romance), I wasn’t so taken aback by this one...(Read More)

Dagger-Star by Elizabeth Vaughan
You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when something just doesn’t go the way you expected? That icky sensation that something, somehow has gone wrong? Disappointment. That’s how I felt about two chapters into reading Dagger-Star. As I mentioned above, I loved Ms. Vaughan’s Warlands series. The universe was rich and compelling, the love story built slowly and drawn to a sweet fruition over the course of the three books. More importantly, I felt like I got to know and understand the characters in the series—especially Lara and Kier. Dagger-Star however does not accomplish any of these feats, and left me cold and frankly disappointed....(Read More)