My mini little library :) And the top row has 2 layers of books! Talk about obsession. Been really obsessed with books lately that I buy a book almost every week. Just this year alone I've bought more than 50 books, and the year's not even half through! How I wish I have a library in the house.
Let me introduce some book that I've read recently :)
The Infernal Devices series. This is a must must read! It's the prequel to the Mortal Instrument series, but I have yet to read those yet. The story is trully gripping and keeps you eager to find out what happens next. Set in the victorian era with steampunk features, having mechanical beings, supernatural creatures and the main focus, shadowhunters, whom are humans with extraordinary abilities. The female lead is quite lovable and not to mention the 2 male leads! <3 I have found my replacement for Edward Cullen (infernal devices fans are gonna kill me for comparing it to twilight, don't get me wrong, this book is nothing like twilight, I just thought that the male lead here is sweeter and better than Edward Cullen :P) haha, ok, I'm getting on top of myself.
The plot is pretty unexpected and there are still much unanswered questions by the end of book 2. There are a total of 3 books in the series, Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess. The last one is scheduled to be released March 2012, can't wait for it to be released. In the meantime, I shall read Mortal Instruments, and there's a movie coming out for it if you guys didn't know :)
Another series that I've read is The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series. For Twilight Fans, especially Jacob fans, I think you're going to love this. Instead of vampire romance, we now have werewolf romance! However, this series didn't quite work for me. I find it rather disturbing at the beginning as it started off with the female lead being attracted to a wolf she always saw in the woods, and not just any normal attraction, she was romantically attracted O.O I mean, if she knew it was a guy, fine, but she knew nothing of it, but she just somehow fell in love with it, romantically.
The storyline was quite slow paced and nothing much actually happens. I didn't really see much growth in the plot as most parts are just how the couple spends their time. Even now sitting here thinking of it, I can't exactly recall much that happened, I guess because there aren't much to begin with. I'm done with the first two but have yet to start with the final one, I will eventually, but I guess I'll finish up some other books first before I do.
The next series is what I'm reading currently:
Fifty Shades of Grey. If you've heard of the book, don't judge me just yet. If you havent, well, don't judge me after you've found out what the books about :) I actually came across this book while going through the new york times best seller list, and the title caught my attention as it sounded mysterious. I googled more on it I saw that it's on several other best sellers list as well such as amazon, goodreads, etc. And after doing my research, I found out that it's actually some erotic BDSM novel, which made me go "wert...". Not long later, I started spotting them in bookstores and they're becoming best sellers even here! And apparently, the author started writting this story as a fan fiction
for twilight! Yes, you didn't read wrongly, it's a twilight fan fiction
that somehow got converted into a book and became viral and made it to
the top of the best seller list. So, curiosity kicks in and I just had to read it.
Now the verdict: I have no idea how did it manage to climb its way to the top of the best seller list. The plot was fine, I loved the love story in it, both of them really cared for each other, the guy's sweet and funny and cute (at times) and the girl, well, she's ok, I like it that she stands her ground at times despite having an over controlling husband, kind of a typical love story. But other than the little love story in the book, the rest of it is just plain 'blegh'. Some parts of it didn't make sense and if you were to take the erotic / love making scenes out, the book would only be half the size. Yes, that's how much scenes they have. You might think that love making scenes would make the book interesting, but too many of it makes it bland and tiresome to read especially when each and every scene are pretty similar, despite the variety of methods the author tries to put it, it's still the same old sequencing. And don't get me started on the writting. Gosh! I have no idea how did the writting even pass through the editor, must be a real terrible one if you ask me. Not only are there many, many mistakes around, the book seems as if she writes using a template. I have no idea how many times have I have read the phrases holy crap, inner goddess, rolling eyes, bitting lips, subconcious, etc etc. It seriously annoys me to the max that I skim through them when I see them, especially when she talks about her inner goddess and subconcious.
If you look carefully at the plot and characters, it does indeed resemble twilight a lot, but i won't really notice if I hadn't known that it came from a twilight fan fiction, so kudos on that. But I guess if you're a real observant person you just might spot the similarities even without knowing that it started as a fan fiction :)
Well, I wouldn't exactly recomend this book to conservative peeple, but if you're open minded to erotic BDSM scenes then go for it, the story aint that bad, just the writing and adundant love making scenes that ticks you of, put those aside and the plot is actually pretty interesting.
P.S. I just realised that I've compared many books to twilight, haha!! I don't know why but it's a very nice example to use. Maybe because most people are familiar to it? oh well...
