Freefall
by Traci Hunter Abramson
Lieutenant Brent Miller arrived in the Middle East with one
objective--get seven hostages out of a hostile country. The plan almost worked.
But now he has been left behind--with one of the hostages. It's up to Brent to
get Amy Whitmore, a US Senator's daughter, across miles of desert to safety.
What he doesn't know is that to survive, he needs her as much as she needs him.
This
is a book that I have had for many years and just never got around to reading
it, and now there are 7 books in the series. Needless to say I decide it’s about
time I start reading them and picked up Freefall as my first book to read for
the challenge.
This
was book one of seven about a squad of Navy Seals called the Saint squad. Amy is working in the Diplomatic Corps and was
in Abolstan when a group of terrorist bombed her hotel room and took her and
six others hostage.
LT
Miller and his team where the ones sent in to rescue her and the others. During
the rescue getting everyone onto the helicopter the helicopter had been hit and
had the door blown off causing Amy to slide out. Lt Miller grabbed her arm just
in time and held on to her while dangling out of the helicopter. They never
where able to get her back in so Lt Miller made the decision to have Amy and
himself stay behind and work their way out of the city by foot.
So
it started out with enough action to grab my attention and kept a pretty reasonable
amount in the book the whole time. It’s not a book that has a big mystery to it
trying to get you guessing the whole time, but has enough in it to keep your
attention, and not too much of a love story. It is a bit predictable and a
little ‘too perfect’ having everything working out with not many complications.
But over all I enjoyed the book that I
will be reading the other books in the series to find out about the other team
member’s stories.
Challenge:
Book
owned but never read
Book
by Female author
Love
Author never read
Marked by P.C Cast
and Kristin Cast
Enter the dark,
magical world of the House of Night, a world very much
like our own, except here vampires have always existed.
Sixteen-year-old
Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre and joins the House of Night, a school where she
will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the
Change - and not all of those who are Marked do.
It sucks to begin
a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no
ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx.
Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust
and an unfortunate ability to Imprint her human ex-boyfriend. To add to her
stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special
powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's
most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep
within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny - with a little help from
her new vampire friends.
Wow! Where do I start? I probably should have read the back more
carefully. THIS BOOK WAS AWFUL. It might just be able to list why:
1.
First of all if you
are going to write a book about vampires, learn how to spell the word vampire.
If you notice in the description of the book vampire is spelled vampyre and
that is how it is printed on the back of the library audio book box, and also
on goodreads. I’m curious to know if the paperback is also like that. Who knows
maybe it’s a new type of creature.
2.
Even though this isn’t
based off a movie I couldn’t decide what movie it was like, Mean Girls, Harry
Potter, Twilight and even a little of Sydney White.
·
Mean girls- New girl
comes to school popular girls ex-boyfriend likes new girl mean girls plot and
plan evil ways to get rid of new girl
·
Harry Potter- A group of friends that has the really smart one, the
reluctant chosen one, and the funny guy. Also Dividing into different
classes depending on who you are, with a vampire, oh sorry, a vampyre Goddess over
each class the struggle with choosing good or evil
·
Twilight-
Imprinting, but at least it wasn’t an adult imprinting on a child this time.
·
Sydney White- New
girl goes up against leader of the Dark Daughters in school and rallies up the ‘dorks
and misfits’ of the fledglings to help her out
3.
When writing about
vampires I understand some want to make them all cute and nice but to have them
have nothing that resembles a vampire shouldn’t be allowed to be a vampire
book.
·
So instead of being
bitten and becoming a vampire, it is a scientific mutation that are in some
peoples genes and as they get more hormones they can change, but they only
start changing once they have been makred, which all for that is some vampire
comes points to you and pretty much tells you to become a vampire, you then
become really sick and will get worse until you get to the house of night and
can be around others, and a tattoo of a blue moon appears on your forehead.
·
They don’t even have
fangs
·
They eat normal food
·
Most of what they
did reminded me of witches not vampires.
Maybe I was too harsh with this book but it was so hard
to get through and if I want to know what happens I have to read the next book,
and there are 15 books in the series. I guess the author was 16 when she wrote
it, but she also had the help from her mom which I would like to think that would have helped it some but like I said there were just too many ideas, too many different movie stories put together and just badly written. It was hard to get through. Also it never really had a point or a buildup of something big
coming just a bunch of everyday life teenage drama of girls being mean and plotting to get even. Even when it got to the point where you think something big might happen and actually make all the reading worth it, it just doesn't happen. I will have to be pretty
desperate to read any more of this series. And I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. One more thing that bugged me this claims to be a young adult book, well with the drinking, sexual innuendo, and drug usage I don't think I would want my 10-18 year reading it. But that's just me
Book
Challenge:
Book
with a one word title
Book
about magic
Book
set in High school
Book
published by someone under 30
Book
with a love triangle
The Fault in Our
Stars by John Green
Despite the
tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has
never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer
Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and
raw, The Fault in Our Stars is
award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet,
brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive
and in love.
I
really reading this book, it was fun fast paced and had a good message. When
starting this book I knew it was about cancer and would probably get emotional
at times and I even knew how it ended. But I still really liked it. You always
hear stories and see movies of cancer patients but I feel that this book really
gave you an entire different outlook on how you may see cancer. I love how he
developed the characters and how he kept humor in it the whole time. It was described as raw and emotional, I can see how those words fit. I don’t
want to say much and spoil it for anyone who wants to read and hasn't yet, but I
do recommend it. It will make you smile, make you mad make you laugh and if you
are an emotional person you probably will cry and if not at least get emotional. I didn't end up crying myself
but I did get a little choked up with it. Despite the ending, the last
paragraph in the book will have you laughing and crying at the same time. After reading the book, it makes me want to go out and watch the movie, but I almost don't want to since a good portion of the books made into movies always end up making the movie bad.
Challenge:
Made
you cry (almost did but not quite)
Book
turned into a movie
Heat Wave by
Richard Castle
A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a
Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a
brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out
their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes
another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty
little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay
hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest. PulitzerPrize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren't her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest. PulitzerPrize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren't her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
This
book was a good entertaining mystery book to read. If you have ever seen the TV
show Castle, then you would be familiar with this book. Because of seeing the
show, it helped me picture the characters better when reading which I think
made it a bit more fun.
The
story is pretty much just like a short TV show, a crime happens, detectives
investigate throw some twist and turns, keep you guessing who did it and solves
it by the end. I’m always up for a good mystery and this did keep me guessing.
I also love the banter between Heat and Rook. It made the story and kept it
from being too serious. I believe there are 6 books in a this series and I
would read more of them. I would recommend this book if you just need a quick read without a lot of thinking, Just like a an hour long TV episode in writing.
Challenge:
Book
based off a TV show
