The Bibliophile

Wow. Violet often compares her life to a snowball rolling down hill, picking up speed as it goes. I have to say that's a great analogy for this series. Most of the time I was reading this book I had no idea what was going on. The second read was a little better but still, it's a lot of information and running around in circles most of the time but I just couldn't stop reading. Hence the reason this is my first post in like.. four days. "My snowball has finally reached the bottom of the hill," I tell him sounding halfway hysterical, as I angrily bat away the tears. "I thought I'd boulder through or just simply splat . Turns out there's a third option." "... I'm forced to continue rolling again in a different direction. It's starting at a crawl, building up those layers much too slowly to help me out at the moment," Seriously the snowball analogies are on point to describing the complexity of this book. Violet comes off as na...

I started this blog two weeks ago because I like to read and I read fast. I've never really been good at writing so this has been a bit of a struggle for me, though I still honestly like sharing my experience with others. I told myself I could do a book review a day because I usually can read a book a day, what I didn't account for were series and how difficult it is to write a review a day when reading through a six book series. I mean they all kinda blur together so I can never remember when one book ends and the other begins. This week I've been obsessed with the All the Pretty Monsters series by Kristy Cunning. I recently wrote a review for book one and I should have a review up for book six to wrap it up soon. I'm also writing up a review for her The Dark Side series as well as a post about all my favorite time travel romance novels but I'll have those up at a later date. This is all a work in progress so please be patient with me. Show some support by follow...

Kristy Cunning's All the Pretty Monsters series is great, I'm currently re-reading it so I'll start off with book one. I think she did a fantastic job with this series. It's well thought out, unique and entertaining. This story revolves around Violet, or January Violet Carmine. Violet is a twenty-five year old gypsy woman who after finding out her mother just died and left her everything in a small town called Shadow Hills moves to take over her mothers Gypsy Magic business, making healing potions as well as recreational "gypsy spice", and a bunch of other things. Violet is many things, a Portacle Gypsy being only one of those things, she has many secrets and layers to her that we very slowly begin to learn in book one, Gypsy Blood. At her mother's wake, where she's the only one in attendance Violet meets her ghost best friend Anna who literally enters riding her mothers casket wearing nothing but some lacy red underwear and becomes my favorite charac...

You know that kids show Monster High? Well imagine that but the adult version where they go to college and there's a lot more sexual innuendos and other adult themes. Monsters by Katie May is hilarious. Seriously had me snickering out loud all night long. I haven't read any other books by Katie May but I probably will try some out because I really liked this one. Monsters centers around the protagonist Violet the daughter of Dracula, and although she's a vampire and has been a monster her whole life she's not a very good one. She's soft and clumsy, and cares about kindness to others. Dracula, her father decides it's time to send his daughter to Prodigium an academy for monsters where they teach you how to hide a body, the history of other monsters and other various classes. At the academy she meets of plethora of different monsters who Katie May gives her own unique take to. There's Vin Van Helsing, Frankenstein's son Frankie. Jack and his other half H...

Did you ever watch that 90's tv show Gargoyles when you were younger? Well this series is the urban fantasy, reverse harem 90's Gargoyle story that I never knew I needed till now. There are four books in this series featuring the protagonist Ace Bisset a homicide detective and her four gargoyle guardians Jacques, Hassan, Gilbert and Thomas. Ace releases the gargoyles from a thousand year imprisonment in stone unknowingly after she inherits her great aunt's house. She's been working on a case that involves multiple dead bodies that have been bled to death and their bones in their arms ripped out and eaten. Ace is the detective they call when the case doesn't make any sense and has strong paranormal themes like exsanguination or puncture wounds on necks. This case however leaves her baffled until she goes to check out her new home and awakens four stone guardians in the process. Of course like anyone who has never believed in the supernatural and is thrust head first...

A Lost Paige is book two in the Hidden Kingdom Trilogy, the first being A Torn Paige by L. Rose. I read the first book accouple weeks ago and debated writing a review about it in my Favorites of November post but decided against it. I wanted to love this book, and in some aspects I liked it but I found it severely lacking. This series centers around our heroine Paige Alice who in the first book we discover that she is the Ghoul Queen chosen to rule by the former queen shortly before she died. Paige meets Asher, the vampire, Nate, the wolf shifter, and Alex, the mage when she goes to meet her family at a restaurant being held captive by a demon. Paige kills the demon and comes into her power, enter man number four Thorne, the ghoul. I liked the beginning of the first book, I think it started really well but as I got deeper into it I got a little bored. Paige and her four new boys along with her hellhound Ezra end up going to the Ghoul Queens castle where Paige takes over as queen and f...