Review: Sizzling Sixteen

Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I spent most of this book feeling like I had read it before. Same Lula gags, same relationship dilemmas (for God's sake PICK one and go with it... or both!!), same inept bounty hunter moments, Grandma issues... it was just so samey. It was magic for quite a few books, but I think it's time for Stephanie to maybe grow up a bit. She not getting any younger, or thinner... she really needs to make a few decisions and get on with it. Or maybe it's me who's getting older... argh!



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Review: Creatures of Forever

Creatures of Forever by Christopher Pike

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


More aliens, and reincarnations of past evils... this book kind of had the feeling that it was being made up as you went along. The aspect of Sita's past life that rears its ugly head in this installment had the feeling of being pulled out from a hat. Ah-har! Here's a new past life which we've never even hinted at before! Let's chuck it in and see if we can make a book out of it! It was fascinating enough to keep reading, if somewhat contrived. And there were typos scattered throughout which didn't help. And as for the ending... "she woke up, and it was all a dream.." is SUCH A COP OUT! Okay it wasn't quite like that, but Sita basically was able to go back in time to prevent herself from becoming a vampire... which means NONE of it ever happened. And Sita is such a saint! Even though she's thousands of years old and has taken many innocent lives... enough of that already! We get it!



All in all, I think I should have stopped after the third book in the series... I recommend you do the same. Those were pretty damn great. I reckon anyways.



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Feels like the first time...

Feels like the very first time! Mainly because there could actually be a person, or even two, who may read this.

I had a desperate urge to create and write a blog some months ago (perhaps longer...) and urged my poor Techie (not Trekkie) husband to make me one asap, dammit. He spent some time fiddling with codes and stuff (Drupal), and I spent quite a bit of time selecting the background, and agonising over a name... and then when the important decisions were made, I may have done one post... and a book review or two... and that was it. It was connected to our own personal and seldom updated corner of the world wide wicked web, and I didn't tell anyone about it either. So because no one knew about it or read it, I didn't add to it. And because I didn't add to it, I didn't tell anyone about it. Who wants to know about a blog that never gets written? And, being a member of Goodreads, I write the occasional review on there, and I am active on Facebook and it annoyed me that they couldn't all be connected in a simple way. I could connect Goodreads to Facebook, and Goodreads to my blog, but not all three. So that was annoying too.

At this early stage of the game I have no idea if Goodreads, Facebook, and Blooger... sorry, Blogger can connect. But that's ok. I'm pretty sure someone will read this anyway. It's a work thing, but I think that's a good thing.