An Overwhelmed Creative

  I think Marie Lu is my author goal. Meaning, when I grow up, I want to be like Marie Lu. The author of the Legend  series did not disappoint with the first part of this 2-book series. I'm getting book two for Christmas and I'm eager to find out how it's going to end. (As a side-note, I'm not too fond of long series anymore. I'm not a fast reader and I do other things besides reading, so I appreciate short series like these). The book takes a bit from the Ready Player One  book. It doesn't have all that geeky and 80s memorabilia, but it's about a virtual reality world in which people mostly go in to play a game Warcross. The virtual reality in this world feels like a possibility. Where you can wear a pair of contact lenses and you can read captions in your language when someone speaks in another language, or you can see each person stats . I know we've seen it before in movies like Minority Report or the TV series Black Mirror , but in this book that...

I used a credit from my Audible account to purchase this audiobook. I keep looking for book in the urban fantasy genre to be able to find similar authors to what I write (although it's been hard. I am yet to find someone who resembles my style). Anyway . . . I found this book from a recommendation in a Facebook urban fantasy group and when I read the reviews on Audible it looked good. It started great! The girl who wakes up the next morning to find everyone (well, almost everyone) who had attended the party dead. I was definitely hooked. But soon, the strange decisions that made absolutely no sense followed. One after the other. There didn't seem to be a goal to this story either. It was just . . . life. Like things kept happening with no purpose. Whatever was happening was also being driven from the most illogical decisions. It bothered me. The middle of the book was slow. Boring. I would need to rewind the story because I found myself not paying attention to what was happenin...

I am a FAN of The Selection Series and I love Kiera Kass for it. I had never read anything else by her and I had heard from a friend The Siren  wasn't very good. I still took a chance when Audible offered two titles for one credit and downloaded it. I loved the writing. It sounded a lot like The Selection , the female characters were great, the pacing and descriptions amazing. And yet . . . Okay, look. . . this is a book about Sirens. In this book, Sirens are human girls "chosen" by the ocean to kill people—AKA sink ships. Because apparently, the ocean needs human bodies to survive or. . . something. 💁 The story starts after the ocean's Sirens sink the main character's ship (along with her family!) and it spares her because she says she doesn't want to die. Riiiight. The girls need to "serve" the ocean for 100 years, during which they can't die or age and they can breath underwater and... oh, and their voices force humans to go drown themselves ...