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Feb. 18th, 2010 09:34 amAnother song that will probably never fail to return me to my teenage self: The Freshman. Oh, Verve Pipe, you brought me at least two really good songs. Why does no one love you like I love you? *muses*
In other news, due to Friday's snow-pacalypse being shared with the residents of Hell (it snowed here. DUDE.) I missed work because the parentals didn't trust the roads and my brother was busy getting hammered. So I read Sea Glass which is the second book in the Glass trilogy, which takes place in the same world the Study trilogy did. (You. Go read Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder now! Thank me later, read now!) and then wept because the back of the book with its little tease said I had to wait until 2011 for the next book. (Good Reads assures me this is a vicious, horrible lie and I'm willing to believe that.) Perhaps most of my misery stemmed from the fact that I loved Storm Glass but found Sea to be filled with instances of Opal being a complete and utter twit who whined waaaaaaaaay too much, even considering her frequent jailtime adventures. Neon signs told her things were bad ideas. Other characters told her she was being stubborn and willfully doing stupid things. Did them anyway. Bad guys told her that she was walking into their traps and they expected better and she was still hellbent on doing them. ALL OF THIS I CAN OVERLOOK. It's the fucking whining that goes on that made me want to read faster to run away from it.
In short, it suffered from being book 2 in a trilogy. It happens and it wasn't so painful that I had to fling the book away from me like, I dunno, Order of the Phoenix or something. By the end you wanted to smack Opal around. A lot.
Still, since it's only early 2010 and I lack book number three yet, I switched to another book. That is apparently also going to be a series. o_O Are they giving series away like candy? Write one book and then make a million more in the same world only? I digress.
This is one of those books I saw while at Books-A-Million before Christmas. I thought the cover was beautiful. It is. Look at that. Someone did a fantastic freakin' job right there. I want that baby postersized or something. The little blurb above tells me to expect thrills and chills.
You might notice I'm spending a lot of time not discussing the actual book. There might be a very good reason for that. Prime example of do not judge book by cover. Cover. Gorgeous. Haunting. Actually a little scary because you sort of expect her hands to move and her face to either a) be crying blood or something or b) be horrific.
The book? Not... so much. I wanted to like it. I really did. It even reads quickly and isn't awful. It's just... I expected something else? ( spoilers, man. ) In summary, dude. Not scary at all. What the hell was P.C. Cast reading to make her think this was at all, in any way, scary? Or, for that matter, sexy? I'd wanted to read those books but now I wonder...
Anyway. I liked a lot of the characters, actually, but they were all put through their paces in order to reveal something most of you could probably have already guessed. The others? I don't think would give a right royal damn. So... I'm conflicted as to whether I'll pick up book two.
In other news, due to Friday's snow-pacalypse being shared with the residents of Hell (it snowed here. DUDE.) I missed work because the parentals didn't trust the roads and my brother was busy getting hammered. So I read Sea Glass which is the second book in the Glass trilogy, which takes place in the same world the Study trilogy did. (You. Go read Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder now! Thank me later, read now!) and then wept because the back of the book with its little tease said I had to wait until 2011 for the next book. (Good Reads assures me this is a vicious, horrible lie and I'm willing to believe that.) Perhaps most of my misery stemmed from the fact that I loved Storm Glass but found Sea to be filled with instances of Opal being a complete and utter twit who whined waaaaaaaaay too much, even considering her frequent jailtime adventures. Neon signs told her things were bad ideas. Other characters told her she was being stubborn and willfully doing stupid things. Did them anyway. Bad guys told her that she was walking into their traps and they expected better and she was still hellbent on doing them. ALL OF THIS I CAN OVERLOOK. It's the fucking whining that goes on that made me want to read faster to run away from it.
In short, it suffered from being book 2 in a trilogy. It happens and it wasn't so painful that I had to fling the book away from me like, I dunno, Order of the Phoenix or something. By the end you wanted to smack Opal around. A lot.
Still, since it's only early 2010 and I lack book number three yet, I switched to another book. That is apparently also going to be a series. o_O Are they giving series away like candy? Write one book and then make a million more in the same world only? I digress.
This is one of those books I saw while at Books-A-Million before Christmas. I thought the cover was beautiful. It is. Look at that. Someone did a fantastic freakin' job right there. I want that baby postersized or something. The little blurb above tells me to expect thrills and chills.
You might notice I'm spending a lot of time not discussing the actual book. There might be a very good reason for that. Prime example of do not judge book by cover. Cover. Gorgeous. Haunting. Actually a little scary because you sort of expect her hands to move and her face to either a) be crying blood or something or b) be horrific.
The book? Not... so much. I wanted to like it. I really did. It even reads quickly and isn't awful. It's just... I expected something else? ( spoilers, man. ) In summary, dude. Not scary at all. What the hell was P.C. Cast reading to make her think this was at all, in any way, scary? Or, for that matter, sexy? I'd wanted to read those books but now I wonder...
Anyway. I liked a lot of the characters, actually, but they were all put through their paces in order to reveal something most of you could probably have already guessed. The others? I don't think would give a right royal damn. So... I'm conflicted as to whether I'll pick up book two.