Sad end to what could have been a brilliant saga

I read all the books and heres what I think for whats its worth. Meyer is never going to set the world alight with her literary skills. In"Twillight" she created a believeable world and a perfect little story that was very satisfying to read so you could forgive her flaws as a writer."New Moon" not as perfect but pretty good too. This final book unfortunately showcases her glaring lack of writing talent with a poor storyline and some downright ridiculous moments. It has already been said by other reviewers but I feel she chose the lazy route with the story line and padded the book out to the last with pages of unnecessary waffle to fatten it up. I hope the screen play for the film strips all this padding from it and makes something better of it.

Bite me!.

Stephanie Meyer writes vampire fiction as many teenage girls do -- overblown writing, sexy cold vampires, and a vacuously attractive heroine who serves as the readers' stand-in.<br /><br />And so it's hardly surprising that her mega hit debut"Twilight" is essentially a teenage fantasy about finding the Perfect Hot Immortal Coverboy Who Longs For You Alone. Innocuous sparkling vampires, buckets of pointless teenage angst and a plot tacked on at the last minute leave this one of the more bloodless examples of vampire romance.<br />

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

My 12 year old son requested this book. He couldn't put it down - and didn't! He thoroughly enjoyed it.

Can't wait for the next one!

I was given the boxed set of books 1-8 for Christmas, and long before I finished book 8, I ordered this book, because I just wanted to keep reading and find out what was going on next! I love this whole series of books, and am really looking forward to Dead In The Family.

True Blood Boxed Set (Sookie Stackhouse Vampire)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading these books and went through all 8 of them in the set in just over a week. I found them very compulsive reading and 100% better than the televised series would lead you to believe. The series does not do the books justice. I am looking forward to the next book in the sequence.

The Bored Symbol

I was really looking forward to a fast paced storyline, instead I was bored, bored bored....<br /><br />What appeared to be a promising book, especially since the author mentioned the Upanishads in the beginning turned out to be predictable and just a complete and utter waste of my time.<br /><br />It was obvious what the real identity of the vilain was miles off before it was revealed.<br /><br />I just felt that the author dangled some promising material in the beginning and then didn't really use it. I was bored and this book did not hold any surprises and was a major let down.<br /><br />I used to think that Foucault's pendulum was the thinking man's Da Vinci Code. Now I think that the da Vinci code is the thinking man's The Lost Symbol. It almost seems that the author took away any form of intelligence from Robert Langdon. It almost feels like after the Da Vinci code episode, Robert Langdon has undergone a lobotomy.<br /><br />As for his side-kick, she just seemed to be made of cardboard. A woman with no depth who is manipulated by her brother into her area of study. I cannot count the number of times that the author mentions her beauty. This unfortunately culd not distract from her almost comical depiction. It seemed like a completely immature and what I would definitely not regard as being an intelligent woman.<br /><br /><br />Just a really disappointing book, and very poorly written. The characters were very one-dimensional and poorly thought out.<br /><br /><br />

Underwhelming.

As a fan of the True Blood television series I decided to see whether the books were as addictive as everyone claimed they were. I received the boxset of the first eight novels for my birthday a few weeks ago and found them easy to read and very compelling. Two of my friends warned me that before the sixth novel I should read this short story collection to gain insight into what had happened to Sookie's cousin Hadley as they both had read the book feeling slightly confused to what had occured and hadn't realised there were short stories relating to the novel's until after they'd finished all nine books!<br /><br />I'm glad I took their advice and read the first three stories in the collection (apparently the last two relate to later books that I haven't had chance to read yet) as they filled in a bit of the background to strands of the story that had been hinted at overall. I must say, I felt slighly underwhelmed as I received the impression that the author has simply written the stories due to demand from her readers- and not because she felt the stories were important to the overall Sookie saga. <br /><br />

House of Night Fan Loves Fallen

I ordered this book for my 14-year-old daughter who is not a big reader, but managed to devour the entire House of Night series in two weeks over the Christmas holidays. I then bought her the Twilight books, wanting to encourage her sudden thirst for reading and thinking that was the next obvious series. She said she didn't"quite connect" with the characters in Twilight the way she did with the House of Night characters. Then I saw Fallen. Hmmmm, angels. Maybe that would be a nice anti-vampire twist on the good/evil theme. It sat on her bedside table for weeks. Until the other day, when she came up to me and said,"You know, I finally finished reading Fallen." I assumed that meant she struggled with it. "Not at all," she said."I really liked it. I was just busy with school and stuff. I'm looking forward to the next book. When's that coming out?" The things a parent is expected to know...sometime the end of the year, I hear ;).

Great premise.. dispointing story

I have a start off that I am a huge fan of KC and I usually give her 5 stars on any thing she do. I just received my copy last Friday and I wolfed down this book. I still didn't finish the last bit in it but I am already disppointed. the story is writting in her usual qulity but I didn't feel the charceters. Lucia and Garth story is like a bridge to other part of the seris but not main part of it. I found it hard to get into it and the charecters 2 diminshal. I will still buy her books but i need to waite and see other ppl comments before I do that anymore. I expacted better from her.

Amazing

This is quite simply the best book I have ever read. I won't go in-depth on the traits and comparisons to modern life, I will leave that to other far more intelligent writers. But I will say how much this book keeps you gripped and evokes thoughts I had not considered prior to reading it.<br /><br />If you read it with the modern world in mind, it may just change the way you read the news! READ IT!<br /><br />Alan<br />

What's happened to Feist ?

I have read every word Feist has written and been sucked into Midkenia and all his other worlds within a few pages.<br />The Mistress series actually made me cry in places. Farewell Papeweo.<br /><br />This book promised to be a block busting finale to"Rides a DreadLord" which, frankly was good but it also lacked the descriptive and dramatic magic of all Feists previous books including the co-authored ones.<br />This second book had me wondering if Feist actually wrote any of it.<br /><br />The chapters were dull, boring even. Lots of stuff going on but nothing 'happening'. <br />I was confused by the writing which demonstrated little of the historic power Feist has to tell a story.<br />There was no tension so nothing to build as the pages turn. Pug is almost a 'walk on' part. Yes he is upset at the loss of his wife (who wouldn't be) but as a character he fails to shine.<br /><br />ANY of the principal characters could have been slain by a demon and I would have felt nothing.<br />The death of Papeweo (Mistress) turned me into a complete whimpering wreck. Where has that power to touch the reader gone?<br /><br />ALL of the 'stuff' to draw you in is missing. At times, I would say to myself,"That is not the way Feist would have said that". His descriptive language is so addictive that I would normally read one of his books in a few sittings as I could not abandon the characters I could not fail to identify with, such was the power of his writing in ALL but the Demonwar books.<br /><br />When I see errors like"Ridged" (page 282) instead of"Rigid" and Elves referring to their dead by name (when no elf will mention the name of the dead, and will say 'son of one who was brother to one who ruled' for instance) I wonder what has happened to the keepers of the Lore.<br /><br />I am about 10 pages from the end and I am STILL not yet drawn in.<br />The beginning of the book says nothing of the book before so we have no idea what we are doing when we open the book for the first time.<br /><br />Based on the number of books I have read that were not Feist (and these were frankly rubbish in comparison), I can only assume that Feist didn't write a word of this or he has abdicated all editorial control.<br /><br />I have read all of Mr Feists works, some as many as 4 times over the years since 'magician'.<br />Papeweo still destroys me even though I know what's coming.<br /><br />The Demonwar Daga has been a major disappointment.<br />Where is Raymond E. Feist and what have you done with him?<br /><br />

Best Horus Heresy yet

With more details on the pivitol points of the Horus Heresy long been demanded by fans, its hardly a surprise that this is one of the fastest selling titles by the Black Library. What Graham brings to the fore is the ability to make the legion personable, whilst other Brotherhoods of the Astartes are just combat mad warriors here we have the thinkers who question decisions as well as taking the field to achieve the objective through brains as well as brawn. Beautifully written it's a cracker of a novel that takes this legion into the shades of grey rather than the simplistic black and white of other books out there. No wonder it's a popular title as McNeill really does give this his all.

Series just gets better!

Shift is the 5th book in Rachel Vincent's Shifters series and picks up a week or so after Prey. Faythe and her Pride are still deep in mourning for the loss of one of their own and busy plotting their revenge against Calvin Malone and his supporters for that death. But things take an unexpected and very dangerous turn when they are attacked out of the blue by Thunderbirds. Giant bird shifters with deadly hooked wings and talons, putting the werecats at a big disadvantage by their ablilty to fly. Faythe is determined to get to the truth behind the attacks, but can she do it and take care of teenage tabby Kaci? With her personal life in turmoil and Malone determined to have both tabbies for himself, it's going to be far from easy. But Faythe's never been one to back away from a fight.<br /><br />I loved this series from the first book, and it's grown on me with every book. The characters are vivid and flawed, but have grown a huge amount throughout the series learning from mistakes and the difficult decisions that have been made along the way. Shift sees Faythe trying to deal with the consequences of one of her biggest mistakes, sleeping with Jace, without hurting either him or Marc. Jace has grown and changed a whole lot since Ethan's death as well. He's not content with playful flirtation with Faythe anymore, or being a low-ranking enforcer. He's showing potential that shocks those closest to him and gives greater depth to his character.<br /><br />I couldn't help but feel for both Faythe and Jace as they worked together through this book, against the thunderbirds and Malone's cats. My heart ached for Marc and his place in the situation too, loving Faythe and wanting her to finally commit to him, unaware of her actions with Jace. And Kaci, a young werecat who knows little of their world and yet finds herself in the middle of a war, trusting in Faythe to keep her safe. Faythe is facing huge decisions, both personally and professionally, in the hunt to save those she loves and I felt every up and down, twist and turn along with her. I love how she's gone from a mouthy brat in Stray, to someone who has great potential to be a very good leader.<br /><br />The action started on page one and never really let up. The thunderbirds were well described bringing them to vivid life, and something that gave me chills. There were some really great twists and I was never sure what was going to happen until the end. The tension built through the book right to the intense ending, but there were a couple good lighter moments that made me laugh too. I think this has replaced Prey as my favourite book of the series, although it doesn't hold quite the level of shock Prey did, it was so well put together and created a real tension that made it impossible for me to put down. I really feel for all the characters and the troubles they're in, and Faythe in particular, as she makes some really tough decisions. Things are a long way from over for any of them, and I really can't guess what's going to be thrown at them next! The whole series has improved with each book, in every way, the writing, the characters, the way it's all brought to life. I'll be sad to see the series finish, but I also can't wait for the final book, Alpha, to come out so I can find out what happens to these characters I've really fallen for.

Exceptional

I have to say, without sounding too cheesy and cliche; This is the best book I have read in a very long time. <br /><br />I read it in only a day or too. I could not put it down, it was addictive. As its Becca Fitzpatricks first book, I am so excited for Crescendo to be released! If her first book is this amazing...<br /><br />Its a brilliant, plot, storyline. I was intrigued, spooked, and didn't know which guy was the good guy? It makes you feel just like Nora, the heroine of the story. Its brilliant. <br /><br />And Patch, At first you just love to hate him... <br /><br />Its an awesome read, and i'm trying not to say too much. So just read it, and I can promise you that you wont regret it.<br /><br />*****

Decent read

This is a decent read overall and the sookie story is developed well. However despite many interesting twists and turns this book is definately an"inbetweener." The book is lacking the spark of earlier novels and therefore is not a good place to start reading if you want to fall in love with the series. For fans it ties up some loose ends and has some interesting developments (Eric/Sookie) but may also by kind of irritating in the Quinn department. He was around for like 5 minutes and then everything fell apart in a lame sort of way considering that he appeared in the beginning as a strong character that other shifters were in awe of - in the end he became kind of pathetic and whiny. Nevertheless a good continuation of the sookie saga and good enough to keep reading and enjoying the series, not to mention look forward to the release of the next installment.

sookie rules

yet another great novel from charlaine harris. her open writing style really draws you in to the storyline, and her humour warms your heart. sookie stackhouse is one of the great heroines of the century - funny, beautiful, compassionate, sexy and strong. and oh those vamps and shifters! give me more!

Slow service

I ordered this book over a month ago, and it still has not arrived. I am aware that there is a postal strike in England, but I have had other packages sent to me which arrived in time. I just dont think this acceptable.