Showing posts with label Lauren Myracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lauren Myracle. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2009

Bliss


Bliss
Lauren Myracle

With it's stately, ivy covered buildings, Crestview Academy seems impossibly to newcomer Bliss, but full of promise too. It's here she hopes to make the sort of friends she never could growing up as the lone kid on a commune. With her crisp new uniform and manners gleaned from the wholesome TV shows her grandmother permits her to watch, Bliss feels ready for her new life at Crestview. Until she hears the voice. 
Crestview holds secrets in its stones, ghostly hints of a long ago death. Sensitive Bliss hears a voice that speaks of terrible things... and blood. Always blood. Her fellow students, with their sunny smiles and talk of makeup and dances, seem untouched by this darkness. Yet, as Bliss will learn, they too have secrets. When the simmering tensions of the present mingle with the dark secrets of the past, it is kindly Bliss who becomes the focus of a deadly struggle for power. 
First of all i just wanted to point out this was not as bad as my friends said it was. She considered it Generation Dead bad, and it isn't even close to that. Yes, it is a little creepy. Yes, a little weird and scary too, but that what comes alongside the guidelines of a horror story. This book, ends badly. And was a little bit poorly written. Some of the events are unrealistic, but then again it's a horror story. I believe it is set a couple of decades ago, and things were different back then, if you decide to read it. It is a little racist, and I, being of the African American race , could handle it, so can others. It's is sad, but it's also the truth of what happened. So for me this book was okay if you read it, but not life changing, and the world would keep turning if you didn't. 

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Patron Saint Of Pigs

The Patron Saint of Pigs
Lauren Myracle

In this installment of "Let It Snow", Jeb's ex girlfriend is suffering severe separation issues. She didn't mean to cheat on him with Charlie, and she definitely should have died her hair pink. Now Abbie, is trying to survive the Christmas Season, without Jeb. 

I really like the ending part of this book. It has all the characters from all three of the books meet in Starbuck's. She see's happy Stuart with Jubilee. The Duke with Tobin... This was though one of my most unfavoritest of the threesome. It was kind of slow and confusing. She makes it like that woman depend on man to live a complete life. It should seem that way though. I would give this book a B.