The Power of Six

Living in the middle of nowhere isn’t very fun. I’m busy and don’t want to drive an hour to a bookstore, (well the closest bookstore just closed) so maybe an hour and a half one way to a book store. Because of this I have been ordering books online, but waiting for them to arrive is almost as bad as a three hour round trip to the bookstore.

I pre-ordered The Power of Six, and it didn’t arrive until Saturday afternoon, so of course I was excited to read it. I loved the story of I am Number Four, even if I did have some ‘problems’ with how it was written. I’m not an alien type of person, but I like the Lorien’s and am rooting for them to win their war.

This book has a few of the ‘old guys’ in it: John Smith, Sam, and Six (we learn her name this time around), but it also added new Lorien’s. We spend about have the book in Spain with Number 7, and meet a few others along the way.

Pittacus Lore does a nice job of helping us connect with his characters, but I still feel a little disconnected. At places I feel like Six is telling the story, and then in the same sentence it feels like John is talking. I had to reread these parts to understand whose voice was telling the story. I do feel it was an improvement over I am Number Four where it felt like a diary or journal.

In conclusion I really really enjoy the story/ plot of the Lorien Legacies, I just have to look past my ‘voice’ issues with the series and enjoy the story.

The Magnolia League

So this last weekend I read a few books. The first one was: The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch. It's about a girl (Alex) who grew up with her hippy mom on an organic farm in California. Tragedy strikes when her mother dies in a horrible car accident. Knowing nothing about her family she stays at the RC (organic farm) until one day a lawyer for her grandmother shows up to take her to Savannah, Georgia to live with her grandmother.

Savannah, Georgia is the equivalent of the other side of the world to Alex for all the differences between her world and her grandmother’s world. She dreams of ‘going home’, but when she gets there it’s not the same, and she strangely wants to go back to her new normal.

Slowly she starts to become part of her grandmother’s world of southern bells, and debutantes, but she knows something isn’t right. The more she finds out the weirder it becomes. Her grandmothers group the Magnolia League is using hoodoo to fulfill their deepest desires, and Alex it drawn to this mysterious power.

I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys modern day fairy tales, supernatural books, and magic. It has good twists, and a cute guy. Happy Reading -- Enjoy

Geography Lesson anyone???

Oh the agony of waiting for books ordered online. I ordered my books last Saturday, and now it’s Friday, and I feel like I will never receive my books. I know I live in a small state (Iowa) in the middle of nowhere; flyover country for most people. Looking at the tracking they gave me, I wonder if someone needs a few lessons in geography. By the looks of it my books are doing more traveling then I am this summer.

'Wildefire' by Karsten Knight

Wow, is all I have to say! I just finished 'Wlidefire' by Karsten Knight. It was one of those books I just couldn't put down. The book was good until I reached the last paragraph, and it turned from a good book into a GREAT book. I dropped my book as I finished it, because it took a turn I didn't expect- but probably should have seen coming.

'Wildefire' is about a girl named Ashline Wilde who is trying to get a fresh start by moving across the county to a small private boarding school. While she is there she learns that she and some of her new friends are gods reincarnated in to moral bodies. As she is learning to cope with this new twist in her life some of the demons of her past come back to hunt her and her new friends.

This YA novel has all the requirements of a great series:

1. A hot love interest
2. Bonds of friendship
3. Action
4. And of course the most important thing… A good plot.

If your a lover of the YA novels like I am then I recommend this book.

Happy Reading