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August 10, 2013 · 2:42 am

The Heist by Janet Evanovich


The Heist (O'Hare and Fox, #1)The Heist by Janet Evanovich

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Warning: Book not for people younger than like 16!

I liked this book a lot more than I thought I would. I’m not a huge huge fan of Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels and at first I thought this would be the same as that, but it wasn’t. This books is a mash up of the best of USA network’s shows. It has a little bit of White Collar, In Plain Sight, Covert Affairs and even Burn Notice. (Sorry I watch a lot of television). My only problem with this book is the fact that it is an adult book. Don’t get me wrong, I can handle a little smut every now and again but it’s not my most favorite of things to read about. I still live in the Teen and Kids fantasy section of the bookstore most of the time.

The main premise of this book is mostly the same as the premise for White Collar with a few twists. Nick Fox is a con-man who is being perpetually chased by this one FBI agent named Kate O’Hare, kind of like the Peter and Neal relationship, but she finally catches him in the most amazing way possible (read to find out). The only problem is that this captivity doesn’t last and to Kate’s surprise, was never meant to. Nick “escapes” and continues to be hunted by the FBI but Kate isn’t on the case. However, this being her life’s work and all, Kate can’t let it go and she finds herself on an assignment she could never have dreamed was possible. The FBI decides to secretly use Nick and Kate to do all of the things the FBI can’t to catch the bad guy. So the fed. and the criminal team up to pull off what turns out to be the most elaborate con yet.

They’re after someone who’s gotten away with over half a billion dollars of embezzled money with a feeble crew and an insane plan. There’s parachuting, explosions, fake drug cartels, and Toblerones. Everything you could ever want from Covert Affairs, and Burn Notice with quirky and sexy main characters reminiscent of Neal Caffery (Matt Bomer) and Mary Shannon (Mary McCormick), mashed up with Nikola Tesla (Sanctuary) and Helen Magnus (Sanctuary).

I guarantee that you will fall in love with them faster than you fall in love with cute cat videos on the internet.

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April 24, 2013 · 9:00 am

Kobo Mini


I am not being paid to say this! (I’m not being paid to say anything on this blog. Would it be nice? Yes, but it’s not happening).

So I’ve had the free Kobo app for a very long time. I got it because Borders was advertising it and was selling their eReaders for some time (before it closed of course). Well, after Borders went away I still had the Kobo app, but no real way to get a eReader to read the books on other than my laptop. 1.) eReaders in general were way too expensive 2.) I still preferred physical books. 3.) I didn’t have anywhere to buy the Kobo and I wasn’t getting a Kindle or a Nook because their books are way too expensive and their eReaders were even more expensive. But then just this past year the Kobo Mini came out and I swear it was love at first sight.

The Kobo Mini was nice because it was a touch screen, it was small (only a little bit bigger than an iPod Touch), and it had an anti-glare/anti-fingerprint screen. The best part about it however, is that it costed less than my cell phone did at the time. This eReader has web browsing capabilities, games, books (obviously), and other awesome features. Now you’re probably wondering why (since I got it five months ago) I am writing this now. Well, I have been receiving multiple requests for reviews and most of them are eBooks, and most of them are Kindle eBooks.

I always knew that the Kobo could handle ePub books and PDF files and .docx files, along with multiple picture files. But what I didn’t know until yesterday was that it also holds Mobi files. Apparently, this is the type of file that the Kindle apps use, or at least are capable of using them. That means that I can now carry Kindle books on my Kobo Mini. that is EXTREMELY convenient and amazing so I thought I’d share. Plus this thing is amazing and I love it and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an eReader but doesn’t want to pay a ton of money and carry something tablet sized around. (I mean come on if I wanted a tablet sized thing I’d buy a tablet, it’d probably cost less and do more).

The website for the free desktop app and other information on this product is: Kobo

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September 14, 2012 · 10:51 pm

Wicked Business


Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book follows Diesel and Lizzy on their hunt for the second SALIGIA stone. This stone is the Luxuria stone and it is rumored to give people unrestrained lust when they are in possession of it. The basic characters are back for the crazy adventure, Diesel, Lizzy, Glo, Clara, Wulf, and Hatchet. It follows the same basic plot, Diesel is trying to get to the stone and the tablet before Wulf does, but this one has a few extra twists and turns. From Diesel and Lizzy’s love interests heating up, to a new mean and nasty that comes and tries to foil all of their plans, to explosions and some temporarily lost powers. But I won’t say much more because you should read it for yourself. What I will say is this:

This wasn’t as good as the first one, for some reason it didn’t seem as funny and entertaining. It has much more geographical stuff, like streets and mountains and scenery. One thing I did like was the fact that we got to see more of Glo because she’s awesome and she reminds me of Kenzi from Lost Girl.
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Who is really very funny and awesome. I also liked that this search was more intellectual, you actually needed to think in order to find the clues and it was fun to have all of the different quotes. Then there was the Hatchet torture which wasn’t really torture but it was funny. Oh Glo, you need to learn how to use that book just a little bit better. One of my favorite quotes from this book was

Perhaps we should have relations sir so that I can get your powers and take over

That is probably misquoted but I read the book like 4 days ago.

So you should go read the book! Because there’s more awesome stuff in the book than what I just said.

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July 28, 2012 · 8:33 pm

Gregor the Overlander


Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was so much better than The Hunger Games, it kind of makes me wonder what happened with The Hunger Games. It’s the same author, but the writing styles are so different! So is the plot line.

It follows the adventure of Gregor and his little sister Boots, two kids who live in New York City. From the start of the story you learn that Gregor’s father is missing, and it seems that he just up and left. But Gregor soon discovers that that is not the case when his sister crawls through a rather large air vent in their laundry room. This air vent leads them to a place far underneath the City that seems almost like Hollow Earth from the Sanctuary tv series. It is a vast underground place made completely of stone.

It here that Gregor finds a city full of people, but they don’t quite look the same as us. They are called the Underlanders, as opposed to Overlanders which is what Gregor is. They introduce Gregor to a prophecy that holds the key to what happened to his father. But I won’t go into that because you’ll have to find that out for yourselves.

I personally liked this a lot. It made me laugh, and cry and a whole bunch of other things.

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July 26, 2012 · 11:17 pm

Rampant by Diana Peterfreund


Rampant (Killer Unicorns, #1)Rampant by Diana Peterfreund

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I absolutely love this book! It is so funny and awesome!

Okay this book is about a girl named Astrid who gets sent on this crazy quest by her mother to learn how to kill Unicorns. Okay I know what’s going through your head, “Unicorns? But they’re so pretty and graceful.” Right? Well you’re wrong, these unicorns are not the ones you grew up learning about. They’re deadly and venimous, they also have an attraction to the Hunters. Which causes problems for Astrid because she’s one of them. Through the training to and the actual killing of the unicorns Astrid has decided that she hates her mother and everything that this destiny involves.

But things aren’t so bad not when you have a HOT Italian-American who is in Italy for a language immersian program, and wants nothing more than to spend all of his time with you. This adorable guy’s name is Giovanni in this book and he is crazy adorable. I must say that I want one! Other than that, if you’re looking for a suspicious character, adventure and endless amounts of hilarious sarcasm you should totally read this book.

Oh but beware, if you read in the woods you might want to take care because unicorns, they’re everywhere.

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I didn’t post this when I read it and I don’t really know why…. So here it is.

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July 10, 2012 · 7:21 am

Nerdfighters, Kelly Clarkson, and other stuff


Alright so I have not been very active in anything, whether it be this blog, the roleplay sites that I’m on, and tumblr. Well that is because I have been watching Vlogbrothers videos like a lot of them because there are 977 and I don’t even know how many of those I’ve watched… I think it’s at least a hundred or more. So that is what I’ve been doing and is what I will continue to do until I have watched them all. (I will post links to every single thing I talk about in the bottom of this post). Now the thing called Nerdfighters is basically a huge community of their fans which can be found in multiple ways. There’s youtube, the ning, and a whole bunch of other cool things. I absolutely love them and you should go watch videos because they are fun, granted watching all of them might be a little crazy so don’t do that unless you don’t like sleep or have an insane amount of time.

Alright so that is only one thing that I’ve been doing for the majority of the week is earning Kellebrities points. They are part of Kelly Clarkson’s new rewards system that will give you cool prizes and stuff. Which is awesome because I’m a HUGE fan and cannot afford awesome stuff after already buying all of her cds (which are also in the prizes). From this, I got the most amazing google chrome skin ever! Unless of course someone has one that features any of the things that are in the picture above my homepage.

As before I mentioned that I have other things to be doing, like roleplaying and tumbling (I don’t know if that’s a real word or not but I’m making it one so it is). All of the sites that I roleplay with are on the sidebar in little picture link things (the sites call them affs.). My tumblr is crazy so I wouldn’t really recommend looking at it unless you want to be drawn into my insanity. But if you do there’s a link in the links section of this post.

I also have books that I’m reading, and books I am writing with Camp NaNoWriMo, and grad. parties because I just graduated high school, and college stuff to do, and movies that I’ve seen, and other stuff like that. So yeah I’ve been busy, also there are charities that I’ve been trying to raise money for (unsuccessfully might I add).

That’s what I’ve been doing, and this post is very uninteresting and a huge block of text but I don’t really care because if you love me you’ll read it anyway. The aforementioned links are just below this sentence in a list, and have a wonderful rest of your day and hopefully you’ll see more posts if you care.

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Also, since I have shoved so many different teasers about stuff I’m writing, if you want like a chapter posted as a post, I will consider it just comment on this and tell me that you would like to read something and then I’ll make a poll and put it in a post and you can vote on which you would like to read. But for now: comments make for a happy blogger so comment!

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July 2, 2012 · 3:48 pm

New Computer


Hey so I just got a new computer and I’m still trying to figure out how to use it. But now that I have it I will probably be posting more on here than I normally do. Sorry I haven’t been posting, but I have another blog that I update more, and I have other things that I have to do before I post. Also, I haven’t really been doing anything all that interesting so doing this is probably just stupid and not interesting.

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June 8, 2012 · 11:21 pm

The Raven Boys


Maggie Stiefvater has yet another book coming out, and yet another contest! I can’t wait! I love all of the books I’ve read of hers. Anyway, here’s the book trailer watch it!

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March 3, 2012 · 2:55 am

Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton


Blood Magic (Blood Journals, #1)Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was absolutely amazing! I loved it! Nicolas reminds me of Nikola Tesla from Sanctuary, purely because of the what he wears and the hair gel, and the flask. Though Tesla would have wine… But other than that, it was very good plot wise as well. I loved all of the twists and turns and the puzzle that was figuring out who was who and who did what. The way it’s written sort of just drags you into the story, and you want to find out what happened with Josephine and Phillip and then Silla’s dad and Nicolas’ mother. I particularly love the ending, not that I will actually give that away, but it was good, and there were lots of tears… but then again I’m overly sappy and cry at everything so take that as you will.

This is also, a book by one of Maggie Stiefvater’s critique partners, and I must say that her book blurb on the top is very accurate.

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February 18, 2012 · 8:53 pm

Sailor Moon


Alright so I’ve been seeing a lot of revamped Sailor Moon fan stuff lately and I was just curious. Is there a reason for this? Are they starting to show the series again? Or is it just because the Manga are being reprinted in the United States again? I know I just bought the new apparel that Hot Topic is selling like the hoodie that I’m wearing and the t-shirt I’m wearing.

So tell me: What’s with all the hype? and Does anyone know where I can get the series on DVD for the English Dub.? Links would be nice.

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