I can't believe how quickly time goes by, I will try to be better at updating this blog with what I've been reading.
So what I've read:
I got picked by House Party (Chatterbox) to review That Night by Chevey Stevens.
I had never heard of this author before so I was pretty excited to read
this book, and was glad that I really enjoyed it.
It’s about Toni Murphy who is convicted of murdering her
sister with her boyfriend. When she is
released 16 years later, she has to adjusts to her new life. When her boyfriend contacts her wanting to find out
who really murdered her sister, at first she wants to just move on, but soon
she is investigating and finds out what really happened. There was a great twist ending that I didn’t
see coming, I like how the author laid
out the story and how and when the flashbacks came. The parts of the book that took placei n the
prison reminded me a lot of Orange is the
New Black, which at the time I was reading this book I was finishing with
the first season. This was a good book
and I look forward to reading more from his author in the future.
I have also been reading the Dollanganger series by VC Andrews,
I discovered to blogs devoted to the books of
VC Andrews and really enjoyed their snarky take on the books, and decided that
I wanted to see what the deal was with the books. They are definitely a guilty pleasure kind of
book. I would never go out of my way to
read them again, because I do not like one character at all from these books,
they all have irredeemable flaws that I can’t get past. If I had to pick a favorite character it
would be Bart Sr, and that is probably only because he doesn’t make it past
book two. The worst is Christopher and
Cathy. I plan on watching the rest of
the movies that Lifetime is making, but after that I think that this will be
the end of VC Andrews for me.
I finished all by the prequel, which I think I’ve got half way through before I
wanted to read something with a bit more depth to it.
I’ve been on a Phantom of the Opera kick lately, watching
and listening to the 25
th anniversary version, which is
awesome.
Ramin Karimloo and Sierra
Boggess are the best.
I ordered new copy
of the book from Thriftbooks and while I was waiting for that to come, I was
reading fanfiction, so good and some just terrible.
Then I found
Unmasqued on my Kindle.
It’s
by Collette Gale. This is an erotic version of
The Phantom of the Opera, and according to the author the real
story of what happened, but let’s be honest this is just fanfiction, just as
smutty as any story you will find on FanFiction.net, clearly inspired by the
movie, since the Phantom is so hot, at least on one side of his face.
I found that the first half of the book was good, but the second half was terrible. Clearly most people, thanks to the musical want Christine to end up with
the Phantom and she does in this book.
The thing that I hated the most about this book was that the Phantom was
given a new back story and spoiler alert he is now the step brother of Raoul
and his sadistic brother.
If you want to
read a great book about
The Phantom of
the Opera read
Phantom by Susan
Kay.
Right now I’m reading
The Book of Life, the last of the All Souls Trilogy by
Deborah Harkness.
After that I am
eagerly awaiting the new Pendergast book from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
and then I want to reread the Hannibal Lecter series, I want to do this since I am in withdrawl since the show
Hannibal won't be back until next year.
