#like they wanted the audience to forget in Masque

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This has next to nothing to do with the latest chapter of Missing You in the Soulbond, but I just can't get over Batman: Masque. From the timeline, we should be due for Batman: Love Never Dies any day now.

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Day 4 Books (13 Days of Halloween)

There are so many books perfect for reading in the fall. Many people read with Halloween in mind at this time of year and I happen to be one of them from about July through mid November. At this time of year, we gravitate towards Stephen King and now Joe Hill or the latest big name. Sometimes we forget about the classics that started it all or we don’t think to look in our own backyard for new favorites.

Today I’m going to share a list of 13 of my favorite spooky classics mixed in with brand new hits on my to read list. And as a bonus, I’m including a list of Rhode Island authors of Supernatural fiction, Mysteries, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller, and more to keep you enthralled as we get closer to Halloween.

Let’s check them out!

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

For those who know me well, they know the special love I have for The haunting of Hill House. Last year I even got the crazy opportunity to direct the play at the Rhode Island Stage Ensemble because they knew of my crazy obsession. I might talk about this book too much. That being said, I will keep it brief today. Read it! Go! No, you have not experienced it through Netflix or even the play. They’re wonderful, amazing interpretations, but they are very different.

To truly know Hill House and the people staying there to study it, you need to read this book and get trapped in the mind of its not quite reliable narrator.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Speaking of Netflix, on this list is another psychological haunted house thriller that has just been made into a streaming hit in The Haunting of Bly Manor.

The Turn of the Screw is a short but not so sweet story with an atmosphere of slowly growing tension. This is a great quick read for a rainy day home alone to get your nerves just the right amount of frayed for when the trick or treaters start knocking.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Another classic is the travelogue Dracula! With any other title, people would question how a travel journal could be scary, but Dracula needs no introduction. If anything, time and popular culture has added so much to this story that when we go back and look at the original tale we are terrified all over again by the simplicity of atmosphere and characterization over props, costumes, and all the other added layers.

There’s a scary bit of truth to this tale as well, one that even connects back to Rhode Island! Did you know that Bram Stoker was inspired by the story of Mercy Brown? Yes, news of her tragedy and horrific exhumation made it all the way to London! Stay tuned this week for our 13 Haunted RI Tales for more on Mercy.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

While we’re in the Victorian Era and talking about classic monsters, we can’t forget about Frankenstein’s monster! This is another one that’s been taken apart and put back together by so many different writers, directors, and actors that we forget how terrifying the original is.

What really makes this story stand the test of time even past the language changes that can make other stories written in the same period slog along, is Shelley’s understanding of human nature.

We all question the meaning of life and death and Frankenstein has a way of helping our imagination come up with the most terrifying answers.

Edgar Allan Poe

How could we discuss Horror classics without the twisted tales of Edgar Allan Poe? I can’t even pick a single story to discuss for this list, just trust me and get a collection of his stories if you don’t already own one. You won’t be disappointed.

Haunted houses? Evil animals? Disease? Death? Human Nature? Poe has covered all of the best horror tropes and even invented a few himself. If I had to choose a favorite to start with… one that sticks with me and makes me shudder to even think about is The Lighthouse. It’s the rats. They get me everytime and unlike the suspense they bring in The Pit and the Pendulum, the rats in The Lighthouse just bring terror and an overall sense of disgust. Happy reading!

His Hideous Heart Edited by Dahlia Adler

While we’re on the subject of the laste, great E.A.P. I bring you a fairly recent edition to his fandom.

His Hideous Heart is an anthology put together by 13 well known YA authors for a new, contemporary audience. Edgar Allan Poe may be gone, but his works and their themes have stayed with us and in our classrooms with a love their surprising and unsettling nature.

Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining “Ligeia”), Kendare Blake (“Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), amanda lovelace (“The Raven”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”).

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Continuing to move forward in time, I find myself thinking of Ray Bradbury. Bradbury has a wonderful way of slowly seeping discontent into the reader but with Something Wicked he seems to put pedal to the metal.

This is the only book on my list to feature a nightmarish carnival and Bradbury might be why. I somehow walked away without a fear of clowns or carnivals but reading about them… still gives me the heebie jeebies. Now that I think about it, this book might have something to do with why mirrors creep me out too.

Readers be warned. Something Wicked This Way Comes has all the marks of a beautifully written coming of age tale, but the themes stick with you like a shadow well into adulthood.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

If you haven’t read this book, you have definitely heard of it. That book with the weird typography, with the backwards words and print in the margins and all that weird stuff? Yes, it’s House of Leaves and “all that weird stuff” makes for one exciting and unsettling ride. People I give this book two either firmly LOVE it or HATE it, but I recommend it today because 8 out of 10 are on the love side and passing around their copies to others because it’s hard not too.

As you read, you follow two stories. The main story is about the Navidson family moving into a new home where some very strange things begin to happen. The second story takes place in the footnotes where we follow a man named Johnny as he finds, reads and obsesses over the first story which is referred to in the book as The Navidson Record. Now, I have set out with the mission of not spoiling anything for anyone today, especially since most the books on this list are of the thriller or suspense genre so I will stop here, but know I really, really want to tell you everything that happens and everything I think of it! Go read this crazy work of art and message me. We’ll talk.

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker

I said it earlier and I’ll say it again, I have a soft spot for a good haunted house. Now, haunted by people or haunted by spirits… I think both are the best kind. Those who have started reading my series The Monsters Within can probably guess that I love the “Humans are the Monsters” horror trope. And, well, nothing brings out the monsters in humans faster than the particular fear that comes with staying in a haunted house. Or at least, a house perceived to be haunted where your mind can play such glorious tricks on you.

Twelve Nights at Rotter House is admittedly slow to start, but I like and recommend this title because that slow pace is there for a reason. We get comfortable when nothing much is happening, when the pace is slow and friendly. I think it makes everything that comes next that much more exciting. Give it a chance and let me know what you think.

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

The Twisted Ones is a delicious cocktail of Suspense, Thriller, Horror fiction, Psychological Fiction, Occult Fiction. It’s everything I wanted M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village to be when the trailers came out back in 2004 and everything it wasn’t for me. Add into it the the main character is cleaning a hoarder’s house in the woods… yeah! Sold, this is creepy and gross and sets off all my alarms, I’m reading it with ALL the lights on.

And somehow, through not being able to put it down and finding myself breathlessly speed reading , I still found time to laugh. There are these little gems in the main character’s personality and the story telling that are so relatable and likeable that it adds an effortless humor on top of the effortless horror. This is the only work I’ve read by this author, but she is absolutely on my follow list and I hope she makes yours as well.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Some might recognise the name Leigh Bardugo from popular YA fantasies but fear not (or do for that matter) Bardugo can write the hell out of terrifying adult themes. Ninth House is almost impossible to out down in its fast paced, constantly twisting and turning mystery and terrifying ghost story.

[Now, I feel the need to mention before we move on that this is an award winning piece and it is loved by too many to count, BUT if you are on my blog then you may be here because I write about mental health and mental illness and all the emotions dark and light that come with psychology. I try my best to do so in an educated and realistic way that relates back to what I’m going through with good intentions. I try my absolute best to write realistically without including triggers. That being said, as someone who has mental health issues, this story did trigger me. Did I still enjoy the read and do I think you would too, absolutely! I wouldn’t have it on my list otherwise. But if you have anxiety, depression, ptsd, or are overcoming assault you may want to do some further research into the adult topics of this novel before reading. Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments regarding this topic. Thank you.]

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Moving into this year’s releases there is the ever popular The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. This is another one that seamlessly works in some brilliant comedy into the spooky plot.

Some have compared this to Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula and I’d just like to throw in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the cherry on that brilliant summary sundae.

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

I had the pleasure of studying under Emily Danforth while going after my BA in Writing at Rhode Island College. At that point, she had just published The Miseducation of Cameron Post and I was completely enamored. That being said, I have kept up with her writing and oh man am I glad because Plain Bad Heroines was GREAT!

There are so few great additions to their horror genre that I just want to paste gold stars all over this beautifully written, funny, sexy, and utterly disturbing coming of age hit. I hope you love it as much as I did and if you do, be sure to review! This book is brand spanking new and new book sales depend on reviews to help audiences find them. Get out there and post what you liked or even what you didn’t about everything you read. In the end, even negative reviews help new readers find something they will enjoy.

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Monthly Wrap Up: January

Wow, for starting a new reading year, things are going really well for me. First I read 13 books this month, which I am so surprised by, especially since 6 of this books were 500 pages or over. I attribute that to not tagging as many books, in fact I only did that for 7 of them. Aside from my high book count, I'm also on my way to achieving some personal reading goal's of mine. One is to complete 5 series, and I completed 3 this month. I also want to read more diverse books, and while I didn't read any authors of color, 3 of the books that I read featured diverse protagonists. Of the total books that I read 5 were new (one was a non fiction book, What Color Is Your Parachute, which is a great book for job hunting), and 7 were rereads. I also participated in 2 reading challenge's this month, one is the year long PopSugar 2019 Reading Challenge, which I did last year, and the other was a Pick My TBR challenge from the Reading Frenzy group on Goodreads, which will also be a year long challenge. I was able to read the book that was selected for the Pick My TBR challenge and I completed 8 of the prompts for the PopSugar challenge, which is a strong start. Something I also accomplished this month was reading books from several different genres, which is a long term reading goal of mine. There was paranormal romance, climate fiction, classics, contemporary, and even a few fantasies. In terms of my opinion of the books I read, I was all over the board. Now 5 star books, but there was everything from a 4 star to a 1 star. Still I would say January was a good reading month and hopefully the rest of the year continues on a similar note.  

Abhorsen by Garth Nix: I really disliked Lirael but I knew I was going to read this one since I just had one more book and I already had the entire trilogy. I didn't bother tabbing the book because I gave up on that during Lirael and I didn't expect this book to get much better, so this review is going to contain all my spoilery thoughts on this book. First the things I liked about this book. I liked the animal companions. I liked Mogget in the first book but his appearance in the second book felt a bit awkward because of events at the end of Sabriel. I didn't like the Disreputable Dog at first because she just felt like a bit of a replacement for Mogget. In this book I really enjoyed both of them because I felt like they had distinct but likable personalities, while being these grounded companions but also ancient cosmic creatures. I also liked the magic system. The Charter magic/ Free magic and the Clayer library were the best aspects of the previous books. I think the Abhorsen bells are really cool, how each one has a different role, and all the history behind them that gets revealed. I also think Lirael improved in this one. She was fairly whiny and mopey when we're first introduced to her, but in this book I felt like she matured and did a fairly good job at dealing with her position as the Aborsen-in-Training. It was also nice to have Lirael and Sabriel finally meet since they are both Abhorsen and half sisters. The last thing I liked was that there was no romance. I did not like the forced romance between Sabriel and Touchstone, so having to read another unnecessary romance would have made this book that much worse for me. Now onto what I disliked about Abhorsen. I still really disliked Sam. He wasn't as irritating as he was in the previous book, but he still felt pretty useless and unnecessary. The title of worst character shifted from Sam to his friend Nick. He was as irritating as Sam was in the second book, but he purposefully did things that were reckless and destructive. Dislike of the male characters, and frankly the majority of the characters, aside, I also had issues with the plot and general story. I read this book at the very beginning of the month, and I honestly forget everything that happened, probably because there was a lot of filler. All I remember is being disappointed by the ending because of how underwhelming and predictable it was. I do think it's better than the previous book, but that might be because my expectations were so low. It's one of those endings, where everything is just fixed and everyone survives despite the world ending stakes. As a whole the Abhorsen trilogy has a few interesting elements, like the magic system, animal companions, and Clayr's library. Unfortunately I think this series is just mediocre and not as dark and scary as it could have been. Abhorsen received 2 out 5 stars.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: I first read this in sophomore year of college and it was at the same time I got The Virgin Suicides. I really liked it the first time I read it because there was a lot that I could identify with and I thought it was very well written, however I recently reread The Virgin Suicides and hated it. I thought I was going to end up hating The Bell Jar too, but I wanted to give it a try before unhauling it, and I'm glad I did. There is something very thought provoking and familiar about story. The protagonist, Esther, struggling with her identity which leads her into a depressing downward spiral, is something I can personally relate to, but I like how Plath tells the story as well. She has a sort of dry, precise writing style which I normally don't like but Plath also seems to be sure to have that raw, emotional element to it. The story also had a realistic feel to it, not just in the subjects that it deals with but also in the ending. There are some books I've read where things just seem to get suddenly better at the end so that everyone gets a happy ending, but it doesn't feel realistic because it just suddenly happens with no build up or long term effort to fix the initial problem. In The Bell Jar the ending is rather ambiguous, with the audience being unsure of where thing actually stand for Esther and if she'll actually be released from the pysch ward. I will say that this book is pretty depressing and is full of trigger warnings. Esther's story was sad enough before she went to a mental hospital, but then things take a grim turn when she is constantly subjected to electro shock therapy. Again it's a depressing story but I do think is worth it if you can handle it. It's a modern classic for a reason, and while there are some dated aspects of the story, the overall theme and feel of the book is timeless. The Bell Jar received 4 out 5 stars.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: This is a classic that I had never read. I grew up on the movie version of this book, but my sister read it when she was young and loved it, and as the years passed I felt this pressure to read it. I finally decided to pick this one up since I want to read more classics this year and there were several PoPSugar 2019 Reading Challenge prompts that this fit. I had a hard time with it at first for a few reasons. The language was a bit off putting, the March sisters felt immature and annoying at the beginning, and I had the movie version playing in my head the whole time. I really liked the movie and while the book is similar there are a few differences and some things are gone into more detail. It took awhile to get into the book, like I was so tempted to quit it, but I pushed through and by the second half things improved. In the second half they start feel more like mature women who are leaving their childhood's behind to manage their own lives. Each still having a distinct personality, but they come across as more complicated than they did at the beginning of the book. Meg dealing with a married life, and while not being as wealthy as other girls, she's happy and never far from home. Amy, who went to Europe, still enjoys luxuries but seems to understand there's more to life than that. Jo becomes a responsible woman, understanding herself a bit better but never losing her fire. It's a story that you have to get the full thing in order to appreciate it. It has themes of wealth and poverty, family, growing, and love, all being well done but again the payoff doesn't really come until later. The sisterly bonds I really liked seeing because I don't often read a book that does a good job of portraying sisters in a realistic yet positive and loving light. I will admit I had mixed feelings about all the romances. Meg and John's is cute and while it isn't my favorite I do like that we see them struggling in their marriage at times, yet always overcoming it. Amy and Laurie's romance was always my least favorite one in the movie because Amy is my least favorite character. In the book I can appreciate it a bit better because they both clearly try to better themselves to be worthy of the other (still don't love it though). Jo and Professor Bhaer are my favorite relationship in movie, like I tear up at the final scene when she asks him to stay. I think that they are so well suited for each other, and he really represents how much she has grown as a character. In the book though, I didn't really get emotional over them. There was still the same scene at the end that I loved, but most of the differences between the book and the movies involved their relationship and the timing of when certain events happened, and I just prefer how it's done in the movie. As more time passes I appreciate the book more and more, I think because the whole story was well written, despite the long and difficult beginning. It's a coming of age classic that I would recommend to anyone, but to young women in particular. Little Women received 4 out 5 stars and was my pick for the PopSugar prompts “book becoming a movie,” “book with 2 word title,” “book that includes a wedding,” and “book about family.”        

An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock: I went into this book expecting it to be a great story because I heard a lot of key things that made me think I would love it. A deformed princess whose best feature is her brain, I always love intelligent heroines. The prominent relationship would be the friendship between the princess Isabelle and her loyal body guard, Jean-Claude, and while awesome female friendships are my favorite relationships to read about, I always love a platonic male/ female friendship. Isabelle being shipped off for a political marriage, and last year I realized that arranged marriages that turns into real love and partnership is something I really like. A mystery with political intrigue, and I love stories with political intrigue. There's also sorcery next to steamships. Basically everything I heard about it made it sound like it would be something I loved. Once I read the book, though, it wasn't exactly what I expected. All of the stuff that I had hoped for was there, but it wasn't utilized in the way I wanted them to be. Isabelle is smart, she writes mathematical papers and speaks a language that is forbidden to women, and this is shown and made useful a few times in this book, but there other things about the people around her that she didn't pick up on that should have been obvious. That can be blamed on her harsh and isolated background both because of her deformity and the shear cruelty of her family, which is something I see a lot of in fantasy. Having the main character come from an abusive or neglectful family is a stable of fiction that I would like to stop seeing so much of. I do like that their was the father/ daughter dynamic between Isabelle and Jean-Claude, but it was just kind of there and I don't feel like I got enough development of it. I was also a bit underwhelmed by Jean-Claude as a character, because he pretends to be drunkard (which he only keeps up for less than half the book) but is actually a highly skilled musketeer with a strong sense of nobility. I didn't think there was anything fun or interesting about him. I thought that he was a pretty flat and shallow character, and he was so slow to figure out who was behind everything that it really makes him seem almost incompetent. I like the relationship for what it is, but I don't get a sense of history or devotion between either of these characters. Onto the potential romance, I liked that Isabella's worried about both her political standing and what her would be husband will think of her, since everyone but Jean-Claude sees her as an inconvenience at best. The fact that she keeps wanting to communicate with him before seeing him, but he takes no initiative to do that, does help build up the tension. Upon their first meeting at a masked ball though, I wasn't feeling any chemistry between the two. I won't reveal the twist at the end, but I will say Isabelle and her fiance are suddenly very close by the end of the book and it makes no sense. Like they knew each other for a short time, not even a full week, there was hardly any dialogue between them, and yet they are acting all lovey dovey and it just doesn't make any sense and I feel zero chemistry between them. Like the I shipped them more before they met, which means I liked the potential of the relationship much better than the actual relationship. The sorcery and steamships are two distinct pieces of world building and while I liked both overall, I had separate issues with them. The steamships are central part of the world because the kingdoms are all on floating land masses, so while it's important and fun to see something like that in a fantasy, I was a little thrown off by it at first, and it took about a quarter of the book for me to fully understand that piece. The sorcery bit of the world I really, really liked. There's the Sanguine's, which is a type of blood magic seen Isabelle's native court, and is indicated via red shadows. Then there's the sorcery in her fiance's court, which I believe was called Glasswalking, where one can walk through mirrors, and it's indicated via silver eyes. There are other abilities out there, and they are all tied to the history of royal bloodline and great deal of effort is put into preserving these bloodlines. Each ability was distinct and I loved the detail and technicality put into each one. Sometimes these abilities felt like plot devices and were used in a way I didn't like, and I also wished I could have seen more of them rather than just the 2. Lastly, and probably my major issue with the story, was the narrative itself. As I stated at the beginning I went into this expecting it to be a mix of political intrigue and mystery, with the mystery aspect being more of a side thing. Any political aspect of the story was sacrificed for the sake of furthering the mystery narrative, which might have been okay if the mystery was good, but it wasn't. I guessed who was behind the whole thing before either of the characters did. I thought for a mystery it relied on several overused tropes, which again made it feel so obvious, and I thought the villains whole motivation and plan wasn't good because 1) it was insane and was never going to work and 2) the first book of a series is not the place to be putting stakes that were as high as they were. There were several enjoyable aspects of this story, but ultimately I thought it was underwhelming and disappointed me in almost every way. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirror received 3 out 5 stars from me.        

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed:  I had this one on my TBR shelf on Goodreads for awhile, and while I was intrigued by the premise, I kept not picking it up. This month I had to read it since it was chosen by someone else to be the book I read, as part of a monthly reading challenge group. The book met my expectations of it, I'm glad that I read it. The premise is that new girl Grace sees messages written into the walls of her bedroom, and when she asks about it she learns that the girl that previously lived in that room was gang raped. Instead of having the boys face consequences, the whole town pretends it didn't happen and label her as a slut, including those that believed her. Grace and her new friends create The Nowhere Girls in the hopes that this will change things for the better for the women of the community, then things take off from there. The story follows mainly 4 POVs. There's Grace, a chubby girl with a religiously liberal mother, and Rosina, a queer punk Latina, and Erin, a girl with Asperger's Syndrome who enjoys Star Trek. I was a little surprised by the diversity in this book because all 3 of these girls are ones that I don't really see as protagonists, especially in YA contemporary, and I while I was glad to see that kind of diversity, I loved that these girls were more than just their labels. The 4th POV is titled Us, and in those chapters we actually get snippets of multiple perspectives of unnamed people (though some you can guess) just going about life, and what I loved about these sections was how it highlighted not only the flaws in our society, but also how simultaneously simple and complicated life is. The girls friendship is nice, but I just don't feel like there was enough depth and development for me to be fully attached to it, which was a bit disappointing. The romances were all really cute, each one having their own ups and downs, but I liked that they were kept a minor part of the story. All the girls struggle with their relationships with their parents in various ways, and that's something that I didn't like about the ending. For 2 of the girls, their relationships just seemed to get fixed with very little discussion, which felt too clean and unrealistic, and the other one's parents are completely absent from the second half of the narrative. The only two complaints I have about this book is that I wish the friendships could have had more depth and development instead of just being there, and I also didn't like the ending. I'm glad it ended on a positive note, that's what I need with these kind of narratives, but everything to just suddenly get fixed and the readers are rushed into a clean ending of a messy, underdog narrative. That being said I still liked this book and think it's a good book that discusses rape culture (that being said there are trigger warnings for sexual assault). I don't know if it will be one of favorite YA contemporaries, but it was a highlight of this month and is definitely more along the lines of the kind of contemporary I want to read. The Nowhere Girls received 4.5 out 5 stars and was my pick for the PopSugar prompt “a book with multiple POV's.”

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: Based on my reading preferences, Twilight is not something that I would have any interest in picking up, in fact it's the exact opposite of that. So why would I read it? I've held onto the entire Twilight series for so long and as I'm trying to tackle my rereads it's just standing out to me. I know I'll probably get rid of it but I haven't read them since middle school (and I graduated from college so it's been about 10 years since I've read it) and I wanted to read it and form my own cohesive opinion. Upon rereading it I can clearly see that Edward and Bella's romance is pretty toxic. I was also surprised by how terrible Bella, like I had heard multiple times how flat she was, so I was excepting a really bland, passive character. While she was definitely that, she was also a whiny, bratty character that I really hated. She's supposed to be very plain, but all the boys are instantly attracted to her. Of course she looks down on all of them until she sees Edward who she immediately becomes obsessed with. She also looks down on the other human girls, and the series does a poor job of portraying any female that doesn't like Bella as either bitchy or slutty. Bella is a character that we are being forced to like, not due to her on merits and traits (with her only trait being clumsy), but by having everyone fawn over her and seem beneath her. The writing was also bad. The sentences were choppy, for lack of a better word, and it didn't feel natural. While reading it I thought that this was something I would expect myself to produce in a high school writing class. It read as very amateur and unedited. This entire series is about a romance between a high schooler and a vampire, and there is so much wrong with. It almost symbolizes being in relationship with a bad boy with a nice streak. He works hard to be good, but there's always the threat of him doing serious damage. For whatever reason this isn't a deal breaker for Bella. Neither is the fact that he's several years older than her, stalks her, watches her sleep, and is rather possessive of her. At one point he even calls her heroin, which is not something I would want to be compared to because it's a toxic drug that kills people. I don't really understand Edward's obsession with Bella either because other than his inability to read her thoughts, there wasn't anything compelling about her. Despite the abysmal romance, protagonist, and writing, this book managed to have a few surprises to it. First I liked learning about the Cullen's different backgrounds, and that remained true through the series. Alice being a mental patient who had visions when she was human, and being the only victim that escaped James, was an interesting part of her back story that wasn't included in the movie. I forget if it was in this book, or one of the later ones, but Edward tells Bella that a vampire's abilities are reflective of their human personalities, which is kind of cool. What drives them together and makes them so close is that they strive to be better and not hurt humans. The Cullen's had a really nice familial relationship, which is more than I can say for Bella and her father Charlie. Second is once the action did pick up, with James hunting Bella, I did like that. It made it easier to fly through the novel, and other than the romance, was the overarching conflict for the first 3 books (though it really could have been 2) but I liked that there were long reaching consequences based on this event. I still don't really get why Bella wasn't made into a vampire at the end of this book, since the venom was in her. It's hard to predict what the rest of the series would have been like had that happened, but I like to think it would have been better, a more equal power dynamic between Edward and Bella. It's easy to see how iconic it is an the influence it has had, but I also think it's very much a product of it's time. Twilight received 2 out 5 stars from me and was my pick for the PopSugar prompt “a book with 1 million ratings on Goodreads.”  

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer: After finishing Twilight I was so on the fence of if I should read the rest of the series, but I ultimately decided to continue on with the rest of the series because I know I'll fly through them, and I did. I finished New Moon in one day. Going into this one I knew it was going to be my least favorite, and it definitely was. I had only 8 tabs in this book that's over 500 pages, and 5 of those tabs were for stuff I disliked. First there's Bella being depressed about her birthday because that means being older than Edward. It could make for an interesting discussion about mortal/ immortal relationships but in this case Bella is just being over dramatic. Her desperation to become a vampire so she won't be older than Edward makes no sense. She's turning 18, not 30, and she's still in high school so she's still fairly young. Also it's okay for a woman to be the older in the relationship. The toxicity of Bella and Edward's relationship continues, in this one it's emphasized how neither can live without the other. Edward says he'll kill himself if he can't live without Bella, breaks up with her, than due to a misunderstanding he really does try to put himself in a situation where he will get killed. It's even worse on Bella's side because for the 3-4 months that Edward is gone, she's basically a zombie. She's completely become a passive blank slate that ignores all her “friends” yet refuses to move on, even when her dad tries to help. It's either that or she's doing reckless things because that causes her to have visions of Edward, which she considers a good thing. The only thing that partially brings her out of it is her friendship with Jacob, which I'll get back to in a minute, but in the end Edward and Bella are reunited, and Bella completely forgives him and starts functioning like a normal human being. This makes it seem like Bella's entire existence revolves around her 100 year old vampire boyfriend, which is not only unhealthy but also makes for a lousy character. Back to the Jacob thing, I liked Jacob before his werewolf transformation because he seemed like a chill guy that really tried to help Bella, without any romantic hintings. Then once he became a werewolf, things went downhill. Despite knowing that Bella knew about the vampires, and how much she needed him at that time, he went for weeks not talking to her, or coming clean about the werewolf thing. Based on stuff in the later books I really think he went downhill as a character once he entered the paranormal, but I also disliked the werewolf thing in general. It felt like it was put there just to have something to oppose the vampires, even though there never is an actual conflict between the two, and create the love triangle between Jacob, Bella, and Edward. We do get introduced to the Volturi, who are basically royalty of the vampire world, and that is as close this series gets to world building. This entire book focused on a toxic romance, and didn't really have any action to it, so it had fewer positive attributes than the previous book, which made it difficult to get through but the length and bland story and writing made it possible to finish this in one day. That and I was determined to get this book done as quickly as possible. New Moon received 1 out 5 stars from me.      

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer: The biggest complaint I have about this one was the absolute lack of action and how Bella is such a martyr. Both have already been clearly shown throughout the series but I want to talk about it in this one because I think it was the worst in this book. First is the lack of action, which is a stable of this series. Like you usually don't get to the action bits until the last 20% of the book, because the first 80% focuses on the romance. The second book really didn't have any action at all, but I didn't expect it to because I remembered the movie. As I was reading this one, I know it's building up to the big fight between the Cullen's/ werewolves and the new born vampires. We see that in the movie and get to witness some of this battle. That doesn't happen at all, there's just the brief scene with Victoria than we fast forward to after the battle. That was disappointing, because I was waiting for the action bits, and they never happened. This series focuses so much on the romance, which I'm not crazy about in the first place, but when it involves bland characters and toxic elements, that makes the entire plot insufferable and feel like filler material. Onto Bella being a martyr, that's been shown again and again. This series spend so much time emphasizing how special and pretty she is, but the majority of the time she comes off as a bitch. She tends to disregard her human friends and even her own father in favor of Edward but as soon as someone wants to kill Bella, she insists that efforts be put into protecting everyone but her. I think this is done just to portray Bella as a selfless and pure individual but instead it makes her seem stupid and have no survival instinct. I also hated the whole concept of imprinting because it's the sort of love at first sight, soul mates trope that I despise seeing in any narrative. There's something about the imprinting that takes it to a new, gross level but I'll discuss that more in my Break Dawn review. There was also a scene where Jacob kiss Bella without her consent, which made my already dwindling opinion of him plummet, but Bella punched him in response, which was good. Highlights of this book is Bella's sort of friendship with Angela, it's nice to see her around someone that is a regular human, wish there had been more of that. Also learning more about Rosalie and Jacobs back story added to their character and portrayed them in a new light, both tragic in different ways. Putting a background to these side characters is the only way they seem to get any sort of development, yet that little bit makes them more interesting than Bella, who's the main character. It's also interesting how many literary nods and parallels there are throughout the series, with the most prominent ones being famous tragic love stories, like Romeo and Juliet and Wuthering Heights (the latter of which I hated). Eclipse received 1 out 5 stars from me.    

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer: I first read this back in high school, and actually reread it a few times. I was a bit worried before reading it again that I wouldn't like it because of the main character being a teenager, but that was something I ended up appreciating. The characters all feel very human, flawed but trying to do what they think is right. This also comes across in their relationships, as we see the ups and downs, particularly Miranda's relationship with her mother. Miranda is a fairly typical teenager, she has a few friends, she likes boys, has some hobbies, and can be petty, but she's ultimately a good person that wants to see her family survive. I liked the diary written format of the narrative because it had a more personal feel to it, but I think was the appropriate format for a quieter apocalypse story. Something happening to the moon isn't a new concept for science fiction stories, but this usually creates some sort of epic plot. That wasn't this case in this book. Instead we get a year long story of 1 family trying to survive as the Earth becomes a more hostile environment, and there's progressively stronger feeling of isolation (due to both the amount of people dying or leaving but also the open, rural environment and Miranda's family being crammed in their house when the winter comes). That almost makes the story feel more realistic because everything that happens in this book is something you can easily picture actually occurring if this were to happen. I do wish that there had been a little more character growth, and I'm not sure if soft apocalypse is the kind of apocalypse narrative I like reading about, but it is still a quick enjoyable read. Life As We Knew It received 4 out 5 stars and was my pick for the PopSugar prompt “a climate fiction book.”  

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer: By the time I got to this one I was so wiped out by the rest of the series and just ready for it to be done. There isn't much to say about this one that I haven't already said about the previous ones, but there are some things I definitely need to talk about that were present just in this book. The first I'm going to talk about is something I alluded to in the Eclipse review, and that is the fact that imprinting seems to excuse pedophilia. There was already Edward, who's about a hundred years old, but is interested in a 17 year old high schooler, but in Eclipse Jacob tells Bella that one of his friends imprinted on a 2 year old girl. Gross! Then in Breaking Dawn, Jacob imprints on Renesme, Bella's half vampire daughter within minutes of her being born. I never liked this because 1) It's just yuck 2) It made Renesme feel like a prize since Jacob couldn't get Bella. I actually skipped over most of Jacob's POV chapters because I was really bored by them and there were only 2 major thins that happen in them. Him splitting from the pack and forming his own, which didn't happen in the movies, and Bella giving birth to Renesme, which is in the movies. The other thing I really disliked through the whole series (besides the romance) was Bella. I already discussed how she's such a martyr and the entire narrative takes the time to make her this plain but special person. I think it's most obvious in this book because of 2 things. The first is her ability to shield, which someone points out is a rare ability among vampires, so rare that it didn't have a name until the 4th book. I will that her ability is reflective of her personality, being unable to read her thoughts because she's basically a blank slate. The other special snowflake scene was when Bella first goes hunting as a new born and she smells human blood but is able to resist the urge to drink. Afterwards everyone is just amazed and proud of Bella for being able to do this, and I might have actually rolled my eyes at this scene because I was sick of the entire series beating you over the head with how amazing Bella is at the expense of other characters. Another minor thing I want to talk about briefly that bugged me, and that is when Bella is first comes to the conclusion that she is pregnant it's because she's 5 days late. I get that a late period is a likely sign that you're pregnant if you've had sex recently, but it's not a guarantee, especially if it's only a few days late. Menstrual periods are not something I see often in books, but there are even fewer instances where I think they are well done within the narrative, and this isn't one of those cases. I'm walking away from this series glad that I read it, but I can't say I enjoyed it or recommend it. There was a lot of wasted potential, with characters, relationships and morality, but all of that was pushed aside for a crappy romance, and that was the biggest tragedy of this series. Breaking Dawn received 1 out 5 stars and works for the PopSugar prompt “a book with a wedding,” since the big event in the first half of this book was the wedding.

The Dead and The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer: This is the follow up to Life As We Knew It, and is set in New York City, revolving around Alex Morales and his two younger sisters as they struggle to survive when the moon is pushed closer to the planet. It manages to distinguish itself from the first book, but I didn't like it when compared to the first book. There's the characters, Alex and his sisters, Briana and Julie. I'll admit Alex is under quite a bit of pressure having to suddenly being in charge of his sisters during the apocalypse because his older brother is on the other side of the country and his parents are most likely dead. That being said, I can't think of anything that he did right or handled well. He seems to keep himself as unaware as possible, waits until the last minute to take any action to further their survival, doesn't help his sisters with any of the house work, and constantly yells at or talks down to his youngest sister. It's hard to be sympathetic toward him because he doesn't mature or change despite how detrimental his actions are, and he pretty much relies on entirely on other people in order to survive. I didn't even really enjoy any of the other characters because I either didn't know enough about them or I didn't like what I saw of them, which mainly applies to Alex's sisters. The older of the two, Briana, is very much a Beth from Little Women, where she's sickly but just “too pure for this world” and her sheer goodness mixed with denial of the harsh realities is what made her irritating for me and what ultimately lead to her demise. The youngest sister, Julie, has a lot of spunk but due to her young age (12) and Alex's bad attitude toward her, she comes off as a brat more often than not. To her credit, I think she improved the most over the book, but she still didn't reach the level that I hoped she would. The characters from Life As We Knew It just felt more complex and changed as the book progressed, where the characters in this book were either flat or unlikable. I will say I liked Alex's friendship with Kevin because that was something I wanted more of in the previous book and it was a nice surprise, that gets taken away about ¾ into the book. My biggest issue with this book was that I wanted more from it and it just wasn't delivering. The previous book was quieter because it was set in a more rural area, but it still had this harrowing feel to it. This one is set in New York City, and because it's a big city that's close to the ocean (the complete opposite of the previous book), I though the story would be more grim and the setting would be much grittier. In part due to the narrative and in part due to Alex's sheer ignorance, I didn't get any sense of identity from the city nor did I really get a sense of how desperate people could get to survive. Another thing I also think had potential but didn't take it far enough was Alex's morality. His family is devoutly Catholic, again quite different from the first book, so he goes to a Catholic school and mass every Sunday. I thought this would be a great way to bring up the topic of “Bad things happen in the world, how do I hold onto my faith,” or “I've done something bad, now I'm struggling with my morality.” There's only one small scene that addresses those kind of issues. Anything else is just people telling Alex to let go of his pride, and then him brooding about but not doing anything. Essentially this book took annoying characters and made them do the same thing until the end of the book, and normally I would get frustrated with that but I wasn't invested enough in the character to do that. I still think this book was decent but I don't think it was as grim or complex as it could have been, and I just didn't care about any of the characters. The Dead and The Gone received 3 out 5 stars from me.

Within the Sanctuary of Wings by Marie Brennan: The final book in the Memoirs of Lady Trent series, I was admittedly a little worried about this one because it's a series finale and I was a little disappointed by the previous 2 books. I do think it improved but I still think it's a disappointment. It's a book that crammed literally years worth of plot into a 450 page story, and the plot isn't the only thing that is glossed over. Isabella's a great character and I loved her passion, her ingenuity, and her growth over the entire series. In this book, I don't think her character underwent any kind of growth, and even her other core aspects aren't really displayed in the story. Yes, her passion for dragons is what drives her to go on the expedition in the first place, but that's it. And while she does have to use her intelligence to communicate with her rescuers, we're honestly told more than shown. There's also her relationships, which are just kind of there but don't do anything. She is very open with and supportive of her husband Suhail, and he supports her in the expedition because he wants her to get the academic credit that she thinks she deserves, but that's all there really is to their relationship. There was a lot more effort put into them becoming a couple rather than them being a couple, which I'm not a huge fan of. I don't mean to bash this book, I did still give it a good rating, but coming away from this book it just felt a rushed and there a couple of convenient plot points that I don't think were well done. As a series finale I have mixed opinions on it. I was spoiled for the big reveal half way through the book, so it didn't have the impact that I would have liked, but it was good series climax. I think I'm so used to epic series, with epic finale's, that it's an adjustment reading a quiet series finale. That being said I don't think the finale did the series justice because there wasn't any further developments to previous established parts of the series, I still don't like the lack of female characters, and the pacing made it come off as a series that just wanted to be finished. I do think the Memoirs of Lady Trent is a good, quiet fantasy that I would recommend, but I don't think this book lived up to what the previous books had set up and I ultimately come away from it wanting a little more. Within the Sanctuary of Wings received 4 out 5 stars from me and was my pick for the PopSugar prompt “a book that features extinct or imaginary creatures” since it's all about dragons.    

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