Kindle-ization →
I wonder if this is going to be any more successful then when it was tried at Princeton, where it a failure and the students decided they’d rather have text books.
The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller
With a title like the eternal ones, I was expecting another vampire novel and wasn’t all that excited about reading it. Then I realized it was by Kirsten Miller, the Kristen Miller, as in the Kristen Miller who wrote the Kiki Strike books which I loved. Speaking of which, Kristen Miller, when is the next Kiki Strike book coming out? It’s been forever since The Empress’s Tomb.
So the eternal ones. Haven has been having visions of another life since she was a little girl. She remembers places she’s never been and people she’s never met and can’t shake an unnaturally strong desire to find someone named Ethan who she’s sure is in New York. Getting to New York isn’t so easy. Haven is now 17 and her small town in Tennessee is convinced she’s possessed by a demon. Haven sees a boy on TV and she knows he’s Ethan. Haven runs away to New York to find him, and discovers she’s remembering a past life, and Iain (the guys she saw on TV) was Ethan, her true love. Maybe. In Haven’s past life, both she and Ethan died in a fire and Haven can’t remember who set it. Was it Ethan himself? Is Haven destined to live out life after life betrayed by the one she loves?
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Bethany is an angel who has been sent to Earth, along with her brother, Gabriel, and sister, Ivy, to fight the Dark Forces loose in the world. They have been assigned to the small town of Venus Cove, and in human form they begin their work, helping people to come together for good, and keeping a lookout for the Dark Forces at work. Bethany enrolls in high school and isn’t there long before she finds Xavier and the two fall in love. Angels are suppose to care for humans, but not form Earthly attachments as Bethany has done. She and Xavier must fight the fact that at any time Bethany could be called back to heaven, as well as the Dark Forces emerging in an unlikely place.
"The Hunger Games" vs. "Twilight" →
Interesting points, but I still disagree. Bella is way more of a passive milksop than Katniss is. I think Katniss gets a lot more passive and wishy washy in Mockingjay. I don’t think she has to embrace her makeovers in order to be strong.
Children's Books You (Might) Hate →
I loved The Giving Tree as a child, and The Runway Bunny. I thought they were nice, it meant that my mommy would never leave me. That was comforting. I do see her point of view though.
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
So. It’s been a couple weeks now since I read Mockingjay. Why did I not immediately put up a review? Well, because, I was conflicted and I was thinking about it. And I needed to talk about it with people first. Then think some more. Now a week has gone by and I have not come to conclusion and I’m beginning to think it might be something I’ll have to revisit later and THEN I’ll come to a conclusion. But that doesn’t help you. So here it goes.
Mockingjay, the third and final instalment of the kickass Hunger Games series (if you haven’t read any of them OMG what have you been DOING with your life?) begins with Katniss in the once thought to no longer exist District 13. District 13 lives a fairly Spartan lifestyle, in both the frugal and the military sense. District 13 is heading the rebellion against the Capital, which by now almost all the districts have joined in. Katniss has not. She drifts around, unfocused, unwilling to help, worrying about what the Capital is doing to Peeta. The leaders of District 13 want her to become the mascot of the rebellion, the Mockingjay. Katniss finally agrees when she realizes that she can agree to be their mascot in exchange for things that she wants, such as Peeta’s pardon if the rebellion wins.
A major issue to this plan is that Katniss sucks at being a mascot, so she’s sent out into the actual war, with her camera crew following her in the hopes of getting good footage. Katniss as the Mockingjay does inspire people, and the tide turns against the capital. The rebellion is even able to take over the Capital’s airwaves and begins broadcasting promos with Katniss on TV. Then Katniss sees Peeta on TV, and he’s broken and beaten and sickly, and something else seems strange as well. Katniss completely falls apart, and a rescue mission is sent in. Peeta is saved, along with some of the other victors from the last Hunger Games, but Peeta is very, very changed. Now all Katniss can think about is killing President Snow.
If you haven’t read the book yet, don’t do the jump.
