It seems like forever since the last time I bloged on Sunday. It seems like forever since I actually read, too, which really isn' like me. Perhaps I need my head examined... or a nice, extra large iced mocha.
This Sunday I'll be reading VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER by Lynsay Sands. I recently finished THE ACCIDENTAL VAMPIRE (also by Lynsay Sands) and I'm not really looking forward to V.A.F. due to the fact that T.A.V. was simply to... well, lame might be too harsh of a word, but I honestly can't thing of another word that fits. The story was just to mellow and unexciting for a novel not marketed as such. Character development was very thin, the ending was extremely anti-climatic, and the town of Port Henry?! Mayberry reincarnate. Sugary sweet is all well and fine, but come on! There are 6 vampires in town and somebody trying to commit murder, spice it up a bit!!
Perhaps it's the fact that I've come in at book 7 that it seems so week, but I seriously hope not. I still have to read VAMPIRE INTERRUPTED after V.A.F.
That would be another thing that makes me twitch. The titles. I'm sure Mrs Sands came up with her titles to be witty and cute, but shesh. Vampire Interrupted=Girl Interrupted, Vampires Are Forever=Diamonds are forever, A Bite To Remember= A night to remember, Bite Me If You Can=Catch Me If You Can... get my drift? She hasn't used One Bite Stand yet, but I'm sure that's either because Nina Bangs beat her to it or it's in the works and just hasn't been published yet. Ug, I hope not.
I will take an extra large iced mocha if anyone is giving them out.
ReplyDeleteSorry you are not enjoying your reading. You are a trooper for sticking with it. I don't even abandon a book I don't like, it just gets shuffled to the bottom of the pile when I add a few more to the currently reading pile.
Hope you enjoy Vampires Are Forever. I think Vampire Interrupted is a cute title, I don't know why. But the others, not so much.
Mochas all around!
ReplyDeleteI'm a shuffler, too. Don't like it, can't finish it, back to the pile and down to the bottom. Tired again, still can't get into it, ok, passing it along. I feel that starting a book and not finishing it is a bit of a waste of time, so I try to stick them out as much as possible.
I admit, VAMPIRE INTERRUPTED is cute, but it just causes the movie to pop into my head. My favorite would have to be TALL, DARK, AND HUNGRY. Don't know why, it just sounds dark and... yummy.
Contrary to the line taken by many of colleagues as a teacher I would encourage children to give up on books they had tried hard with but couldn't engage with. If you haven't got much reading time, give yourself a break and read something you enjoy. By the way, mine's a large pot of tea.
ReplyDeleteWanted to stop in and say hi! I am new to The Sunday Salon and still getting the hang of it.
ReplyDeleteI have this author's books in my TBR pile, but have read one yet. Look forward to it though.