Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

So this is my random book reccomendation. I stumbled upon this book actually. One thing I like to do when I go into Borders is walk around and look at what they have laid out for the week or month or whatever. I saw this and read the back:

"This retelling of Cinderella follows the oft ignored character of the fairy godmother, who may or may not be a mentally ill New Yorker. Lil, as this godmother is known, is now living in New York City, broke and employed at a bookstore, years after being exiled from the kingdom of fairies for betraying her charge. Condemned to live as an old woman, her wings bound to her back as penance, Lil is overcome by longing for what she has lost, slipping in her recollections of her idyllic past into the harsh present. When she meets Veronica, a young woman perpetually dogged with man problems, Lil sees an opportunity to redeem herself."

This is a very interesting take on Cinderella. However, if you're expecting fairies everywhere then you'll be disappointed. The ending, in my opinion, is very good. The book does make you start to wonder what's true about the story though.

Author's Website: http://www.carolynturgeon.com/

Recommendations: Hm...I really don't have any that I can think of that would go well with this one. If you do, feel free to let me know.

Southern Vampire Mysteries (aka True Blood)

Funny how after Twilight's success we have True Blood come out. After I watched the first episode and did some research I found out it was based off a book series, I decided to read the book Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. It was actually really good! Very hot too! I like it better than Twilight, but Twilight is still great in its own ways. After I read the first book I went out and bought the rest of the series. If you like vampires and the supernatural then I'd totally recommend this for you!

Dead Until Dark is the first installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series. It follows the adventures of the Bon Temps telepathic barmaid. In this universe Ms. Harris has the vampires come "out of the coffin" so to speak. Basically due to synthetic blood invented vampires revealed themselves to the world. With the synthetic blood they present themselves as no longer a threat since they don't need to feed off humans. The first book has Sookie meeting her first vampire, William "Bill" Compton, as none have lived Bon Temps since the Great Reveal. However, there are also strange murders occuring of waitresses and Sookie might be next! Vampire Bill becomes Sookie love interest as well. There are other numerous great characters. Sam Merlot, Sookie's boss, isn't all he seems either--you'll have to read the book to find out what he is though. Eric Northman is the local vampire sheriff and owner of the bar Fangtasia. (Yeah, Fangtasia.)

As of now there are 10 other books that follow Dead Until Dark; as well as an 11th book to be released in May 2010. As I don't want to ramble on about the other books here's a complete list of them in order.

1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
5. Dead as a Doornail
6. Definately Dead
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
9. Dead and Gone
10. A Touch of Dead (This is a compilation of Sookie shorts.)
11. Dead in the Family (To be released May 2010)

Author's Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/

Recommendations: Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs, Demonica Series by Larissa Ione, The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox

Twilight Saga...Yeah I know...

So I've been busy but I really do want to put up this blog for fun. =) Anyways, I figured I'd start off with something easy. I'm sure you're tired of hearing about Twilight, but I don't care! haha! (Also I'm lazy and taking this from my other blog.)

Twilight itself was pretty good. One of my favorite books. New Moon was okay, but Edward wasn't in most of it and Bella was wallowing too much in her self pity. Yes, I know how bad it hurts but hell, I would've hooked up with Jacob. He was there for her. I liked the fact that she turned into kind of an adreline junkie. What irked me though is the fact she could cliff dive, walk up to strangers, and ride motorcycles, but she feared impending death from vampires. Where's the logic there? She claims she wasn't suicidal but come on! If she was just an adrenaline junkie then being that close to the vamps would've been a rush. Hello?

Onto Eclipse...that one was good. The turmoil from being with Edward but hurting Jake at the same time. Good drama. Loved that there was a battle at the end too. Kinda iffy on the whole this is the first of whatever though! Suddenly because Bella is the center of focus in the vampire world all this new stuff/first of something starts happening?! Starting to sound like a fanfic to me. Speaking of fanfic that's what the last book (Breaking Dawn)was! My thought was OMG I paid to read this when someone could've just written it on FFNET. Yes, I still enjoyed it, but there were so many weak spots. I didn't like the Jacob POV much. I understand it's need though since Bella was pretty much incapacitated and we needed to see what was going with the pack. [SPOILERS] Here's where Bella is def a Mary-Sue though: she has such control over herself. Drinks blood as a human. Can immediately control her mental shield. The ending was pretty anticlimatic too. Come one I wanted a battle and at least one of the Volturi to die/be vanquished. [END SPOLIERS]

On another note, I heard that this isn't the last of the Twilight series. Meyer may be planning to write other books, but Edward and Bella won't be the center of it. I'm thinking either some of the other vampires, the pack, or Jacob/Nessie. I'm interested to see what she comes up with. And although I've ranted for the most part on the bad things of Twilight overall I do like it. It just has some weak points. I'm really pissed about Midnight Sun though. So I guess I'll read the manuscript she has on her site. So sad. Peeps if you just wait the best is yet to come. Now it may never!!! I'm the most impatient person I know, but come on! I could've waited. That's what fanfiction is for!!! Read it or write it buddy! I might come up with my own Twilight fanfic. I just need to develop a consistent character and background before hand otherwise it'll be crap. That's it for now.

Author's Website: www.stepheniemeyer.com

Recommendations: The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith, Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs

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This is a spur of the moment blog idea for me. Basically I'm just gonna blog about the books I own and make suggestions for some. [For example: If you like the Twilight Saga then try the Southern Vampire Mysteries.] That's all I have time for tonight.

Until next time.