50 Shades of Grey by E L James

50 shades of grey is a very controversial book. I had not even heard of it till I found it on Goodreads and thought it sounded good. Then my sister made the comment of how she is reading it and how it was pretty steamy. Now my sister who hasn't read a book in 2 years and the fact she is excited to read the series got me wanting to read it. Then the next day I heard on the radio how they wanted to pull the book of the shelves because of the smut. Well after that I had to rush home and order it off of Amazon. Honestly after reading it I don't know what the big fuss is about.


Anastasia Steele is getting ready to graduate college in Vancouver, Washington. She is a virgin who has never touch her self or really has even had a real boyfriend.  Her bestfriend/roommate needs her to go interview some billionaire. Enter Christian Grey. Grey is so good looking that everyone women seems to want him. Yet he has dark secrets that very few people know about. 


Grey's dark secrets is he is in to bondage,dominance and submission. Sorry if I am ruining the book for you guys but that is all it is about. There is more sex in this book then actual story lines. What story line that is in the book I do like. Ana is funny and stubborn. Sometimes I want to kick her in the butt with some choices she makes but she is still learning. Greys character is as he says "fifty shades fucked up." What the reader gets to learn in this book about him, I would agree. That is one of the main things that will keep me going to read the other two books. I wanna know more about Grey's past.  I also like the fact once again the book is in my home area of portland/vancouver and even Seattle. I don't think the author did as horrible right as some people have been posting. I also do not think it's a five star book.   People have over reacted to this book. I don't see why they want to pull this book off the shelves. There are worse movies and books out there on the shelves. I think people need a book to over react with. If you want a book with lots of sex then this is your book. I think if it had a little more story with a little less sex the book would be better. As it is I give it a C-

http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345803485

Sorry its been so long

Well I know I have been away for months. I had way to much going on and well honestly I didn't think my book reviews were the greatest. A certain friend has kicked my butt and told me to keep at it. So with that said I am back! Now I must choose what book to review first...My choices are Fifty shades of grey, The Rock Stars daughter, or When it happens. I will end up reviewing them all I just don't know which one to choose first!

Afterlife by Claudia Grey

The last and final book in the Evernight series. I'm just going to let you know a head of time that there are going to be spoilers in the review. I found my self frustrated with this book a few times. In the start of the book Lucas is surprisingly not pissed off at Bianca for letting he become a vampire. I think that Lucas has done a lot of growing up in these books. I how ever get mad at Bianca for being upset with Balthazar. It was Lucas choice to go off with him. Both Lucas and Balthazar were mad with grief over her dying. I wanted her to understand that. Luckily she does later on become aware of that. I always have had a special place in my heart for him. There were times I found my self wanting him to be the one she ended up with when I found Lucas being a little child. When Lucas goes back to Evernight to seek help learning how to be a vampire I question if it was a safe idea. Which it turns out yes and no. It was nice to see him learn to control the blood lust in some form. When finally learning Mrs. Bethany's history and plan for the wraths I feel that everything got over way to quickly. It was great to see everyone from different sides banning together but it seemed it was over fast. Then ending was great but a little depressing. Having them have a happy ending but knowing their ending will end and Bianca will be with at Lucas at some point was a little depressing.

For this last book I give a C plus. I have to many questions of what happened to everyone else. I hope we get the answers in Balthazars book.

Hourglass by Claudia Gray

This is the third book in the four part series. Bianca and Lucas are now with the Black Cross. Of course the Black Cross are still under the impression that Bianca is human and that her vampire parents kidnapped her. So now hiding in the one group sworn to kill her kind she must hide who she is really is in order for her and Lucas to stay together. But getting caught in the act of drinking blood by her best friend who ends up telling the Black Cross her secret causes the couple to go on the run. They turn to their friend Vic who helps find them a place to stay for awhile. Bianca begins to find her self getting sicker and sicker with out knowing the reason why. Can her and Lucas' love keep her from dying?

*spoilers down below*

This book I did enjoy. I felt for both of them just trying to find a way to be together and live what life they can. I did get a kick out of the fact Vic knew everyone was a vampire and how calm he was about it. That even becoming besties with a vampire. I had a hard time watching Bianca die. It broke my heart knowing that she couldn't really touch her one true love. That is in till I learned she has major ghost mojo and can make her body really for a bit at a time. Charity confuses me though. I see her weird crazy logic of wanting to hurt Bianca and the going after Lucas because he is tied to Bianca but I still in a weird way feel like her character just comes out of left field a lot. Then her turning Lucas totally shocked me. I wonder though how pissed he is going to be when he wakes up.

I give this book a B.

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2)

If you have not read the first book then I would not read the summary of this book. As I do not want to ruin anything about the first book for you. With that being said.........

Grace and Sam finally have each other. Isabel's idea we found out at the end of the first book worked on Sam. Now our two love birds can finally plan a future together with out the worry of Sam becoming a wolf. What they do not realize is there will be some issues on the way that can stop there happy ending. First there is Cole, whom Isabel can not keep away from. He is one of the newly made wolves that Beck had bit. Then we have the problem of Grace herself. She is getting sicker and sicker but what is reason why?

I have to ask did the green ink throw others off too? Did the last book have blue ink to match the cover also? I had to shut my eye and then open them to double check and see if I was seeing things. If the last book has red ink I'm going to have to say that is pretty cool. I have not known anyone to publish a book that way unless it was a children's book. For this book I have a hard time really loving it. I don't hate it but I don't think its the greatest. I do think it is better then the first. Seeing some signs of anger from Sam was nice. I love Isabel's straight to the point thinking. She keeps everyone in check. I do enjoy seeing thing from every one's point of view but I also feel a little disconnected from everyone. I'm lacking that finally connection that keeps me from putting the book. I found I could walk away from this book. Actually I had to talk my self into finishing it. I can't place my finger on what exactly keeps me from fulling loving this book. Maybe I'll figure it out soon. 

The story is pretty original and its a nice twist with the science of things so I will give this book a C+

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins

This book is second in the series of the Hex Hall. We catch up with Sophie at the end of her first school year. She is still recovering from finding out she is a demon and her crush belonging to The Eye. After adjusting to her new bad ass reputation and making her all sorts of popular at Hex Hall, she is informed she is going to go to London spend the summer with her missing for most her life father. Cal and Jenna join her. As she learns to control her demon powers she begins to uncover deep secrets of her and her fathers past. The question is can they survive the secrests?

I adored this book even more then the second one. I love the sarcasm and random made up words that Sophie comes up with. She talks the way I do and it love it. I found my self laughing out loud at certain parts which caused my boyfriend to look at me funny when I tried to explain it why. It was nice to actually have a main character actually have a brain. She doesn't make stupid choices and tries to do the correct thing. Even when thing go to crap it isn't her fault.

I give this book a solid A. Now I have to wait till 2012 for the next one....

Devoured by Amanda Marrone

Megan is haunted by her twin sister, Remy. Ever since a car accident that also put her father on life support. She once tried to tell her best friend Nicki about it and ended up having to see her therapist a lot more. So for nine years she keeps this secret. Megan is seeing Ryan who is has admitted that his best friend Samantha has confessed one drunken night that she thinks the two of them are soul mates. Thus making Megan insecure and taking a job at Land of Enchantment to keep a watchful eye on the both of them. As she was getting her costume for her snow white outfit her sister Remy shows up and gives her a frightening vision of a a girl who looks like her with her heart cut out. Passing out from this vision Luke shows up and admits he can see her sister too. He admits he can see ghost and later on we find out his grandma is an empath. Megan and Luke must find out what Remy is trying to say in to them before its too late.

I really enjoyed this book. I think what I liked most about it was the fact they have people who can see ghosts. That even the extra characters, a few could hear Remy when she was being most powerful. I truly believe in ghost and I know that empaths do existed since my best friend is one. The main character had her issues but who wouldn't watching your sister die and basically your father die too. I think she was easy to connect to. I loved her best friend Nicki who was a tell it like it is but not in a bitchy way. I always love stories when they add the connection to fairy tales. The only part I had problems with is the ending. I wanna know if the family was related to Snow White and the woods man?

I give this book an A-. I enjoyed it and its a book if I found cheap I know I would like to add to my collection.