The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have no idea whether I liked this book or not. I just finished it about five minutes ago and I sort of feel like crying. My heart's beating pretty fast and I'm thanking God for my life.
I took about two months to read this book as most of the time I read for 10-20 minutes at a time, so it seemed a lot longer than it probably is, but most of the time it seemed really depressing and to go on and on forever. It was pretty frustrating. Everything that could possibly go wrong in someone's life went wrong. I just felt so bad for the main character at the beginning, her life sucked. I can't really say I liked her though. She was pretty boring, but you had to pity her. But something I found interesting was how her life just seemed to be so horrible, no one liked her, she had no future, and then all of a sudden you find out that two hot guys were head over heels in love with her and in addition with her brother, were all just trying to protect her the whole time. I guess you can look at that as "hey, people really do care about you, you just don't always realize it", but I felt like there were a lot of things like that that just didn't seem to add up 100% all the time.
Most of the time I was waiting for some juicy romance or something, but unfortunately that never really came like I thought it would. There was a ton of suspense throughout the book though, that's really what kept me going. You want to know if she's gonna get the guy, if she's going to marry that other guy, if she ever gets to see the ocean, or what in the world is going to happen.
I have no idea how someone could come up with so many separate events of everything just going wrong. I'd have to just set the book down at times because I just couldn't take another failed plan. It's just so depressing!
I'm not a fan of fantasy at all and I've never really read an apocalypse/zombie story before, so this was a new experience for me. I wasn't really afraid of the unconsecrated until the end when you realize just how much they can take away from someone.
It was "easy" to read in the sense that it was simple language, but difficult to read because it was just so darn frustrating! Props to the author for being able to write something like this.
I can't really say if I liked it or not, but at the end it definitely did get to me. I do plan on reading the next book, I need to know what happens, I've already spent so much time reading this book!

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Love Hina, Volume 1 by Ken Akamatsu

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I was rather alarmed by the amount of totally unrealistic sexual happenings in this book. I felt like every other page a young girl was at least half naked. Aside from that, it was sort of funny, though not all that original.
By the end of the book though, I was curious as to what would happen next.



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The Moon is Down

In a history course I just completed, we read The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. We didn't focus on WWII much in the class, but this was our glimpse at WWII. At first I didn't really care for the novel, but now that I've finished it, I absolutely love it. It's so short, but good! It has a strange feel to it, distant, but close, dreamy, but serious. It's also incredibly interesting to read the introduction and to hear about how much controversy it caused. There's some amazing themes and such going on with freedom, standing up for what you believe in, and matter of the heart and mind. It's a wonderful read, inspiring, unique. Maybe someday you'll pick it up, it won't take long to read!

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Oh, Dimmesdale...

Ever since I finished reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, whenever I go to church I somehow compare the priest to Arthur Dimmesdale. It makes life really awkward...The strangest thing is that the last two weeks I've heard two of the best homilies (sermons) that I've ever heard in my life. I can't help but being reminded of Dimmesdale.