Obsessing About ANOTHER Book

Hey. I'm probably the only one reading this, but whatever. Here we go...

Yesterday, I finished reading Starkissed by Brynna Gabrielson.

I liked this book. I started reading it at, like, midnight and stayed awake until 3 in the morning, just reading it. Then I woke up early and read it nonstop until I finished it. That means it's good.
I would give this one 4 stars. It was entertaining, but...there was some stuff that annoyed me a bit. Like, she didn't really like Grant the way he thought she did until the end, and she made some stupid mistake because she wasn't thinking about Grant.
Okay, overview so you're not confused.
Sydney Kane is ordinary, invisible. She is one out of six sisters, and all of them have the same blonde hair, tan skin, and blue eyes...except her. She's brunette, pale, and green eyed. Automatically, people assume that she's a cousin or something.
Anyways. Sydney takes a trip to NYC to visit one of her sisters--Alyssa--and ends up at a LIMA without her sister. She accidentally runs into a guy named Grant, with good looks, a perfect smile, and a guy that looks around every time he hears something strange. He kisses her outside, right in front of dozens of paparazzi.
Turns out, Grant was the famous Grant West--an actor that is huge. Sydney's life is turned completely upside down back home. People pretend to be her friend, everyone stares, and there's always the whispering. Finally, when things go back to normal, something else happens and she's back in the spotlight again. Grant comes back and apologizes, but she pretty much hates his guts.
Then he asks her on a date, wanting to get to know her. She refuses, since there is still Colin--the guy she's practically been in love with for over three years. He'd finally seemed a little interested, but then Grant came to town, scaring him off a bit.
She has to choose--Grant or Colin?

Okay, that was a bit long, but you get the idea. I could keep going for a long time, but I don't want to give it all away. The thing is...I'm happy with the ending, but not happy at the same time. I do like Sydney--she kind of reminds me of myself...very clumsy, invisible, and she sees things as they are, not how she wants to see them. The popular kids started talking to her, but she told them off, saying that they really didn't give a crap about her, so stop pretending you do. I liked that. The only thing I didn't like about her--and this wasn't her fault--was that she was easy to read. If she was even slightly uncomfortable or embarassed, her face was as red as a tomato.
I didn't really like Colin because he only really wanted her when she was taken. I didn't really like Grant because he cared a lot about how people saw him. When he kissed Sydney, it was because he didn't want to look pathetic in front of the press, since his famous ex was there with a date.
Other than that, I liked Colin, and I liked Grant. Granted, I liked Grant more, but that's because I've got a thing for zombie hunters, even if he's only the actor and isn't really a zombie hunter. He's just...soooo mighty fine.

Anyways, the title of the post wasn't lying, I'm obsessive. Wait... Arianna, Alyssa, Ava, Sydney, Angelina, and America! BOO-YA!! I can say all of the sisters, and I finished the book YESTERDAY, over twenty-four hours ago. Wow, I'm good.

Well, I'll let y'all get back to your lives.

Thanks for reading.

--This Nerd

More News--I know, I like saying 'news' in my titles!

Hello, everybody (even though I haven't been getting any pageviews, so this is like saying hi to myself)!

Okay, so I've finished a lot of books, but I don't really feel like telling you about them since it's getting a bit late. I also can't really talk to them because I finished, like, 6 yesterday, and I can't remember their names. They were good, though.

Anyways, I do want to talk about a tv show, Doctor Who. I know, I know, I'm obsessed with it a bit right now. I watched if for over 8 hours today, since I didn't have school. It was FANTASTIC!!!!
I wish I had the Doctor's intellegence, but he does kind of scare me sometimes. In an episode I just watched--Season 4, Episode 16 (and don't ask me how I remembered that) he was kind of freaky. It was the first time I'd ever seen the Doctor so...power crazy. He wasn't following his own rules; he changed a time that was fixed, and...I've never seen him like that. At least he immediately realized what he'd just done, what he'd just said, and he was normal again.
I would love to be the Doctor's companion. I would get to travel anywhere, to any time. I could see any planet or any star. I would get to help people, just like he does. I would do it in a second.

Okay, I'm exhausted. I think I'm going to go to bed.

Goodnight.

Thanks for reading--if you're even viewing this.

Please, visit the site again. I need the views.

Bye.
Stay nerdy.

Awesome News Everyone!

Hey! Sorry for the extended absence, but I've been reading a lot. And writing a lot, too. I have to do a ton of stuff for this Language Arts fair, and the deadline is in a month.

The news, of course, is about books. I looked at free teen ebooks on barnsandnoble.com and downloaded, like, fifteen free books.

So, here's some cool reviews and overviews from yours truly.

First up, Elemental: The First by Alexandra May.
I loved this book! And, to make it even better (and weirder to read) it was written by a British author! It takes place in England, in this small town that is notorious for the aliens that they believed lived there.
This girl, Rose Frost, is used to the constant moving. What is new about this next move is that she has to leave by herself. Her mother drops her off with her grandmother, Daisy, and leaves.
Rose has always been...different. She has a gift. She can heal people by great concentration and with the help of this silvery mist-like stuff that comes from her hands when she's doing it. But, along with healing, she can also kill things with that touch.
Now, she's having dreams of this warrior-like woman. Are they dreams...or visions?
That question is answered when they finally attack her, ready to destroy the last person with the gift.
And Aiden, is he good or evil? Is he with his grandfather or Rose?

If I had to rate the book, it would probably be a good, solid four stars. That's pretty good in my book.

Next...Dream Whispers by K.L. Bauman.
Kayde Harper is desperate for one thing, to make it to Canada; the place his grandpa lived once upon a time. Now that his grandpa is deceased, he wants nothing more than to escape Texas and see what was so great about Canada. That was before his motorcycle ran out of gas at the side of the road in the middle of a Montana snow-storm and he loses his wallet.
Becca just wanted to go into the city for just a minute, getting her friend a book he wanted at the library. But she neglected to check the weather. That was when she saw Kayde at the side of the road in all of his leather-jacket, bad-boy glory. She decides to help him out and take him into town.
Kayde is forced to stay in Montana for a month, his father's punishment for him losing his wallet.
That's what frightened Kayde the most, not getting to Canada and escaping the dark music constantly playing in his head, wanting to be released. He has the ability to make people do anything he wants when he sings, and these dark songs haunt him, but if he releases them, people will get seriously hurt and maybe even die.
He becomes acquainted with Becca a little more, and they soon fall for each other hard. That is, until Kayde loses it and releases a dark song, almost killing Becca accidentally. He ended up dying because of this stupid mistake, and Becca loses a few months of her life, in her memory. When she wakes up at the hospital a few days after the accident, she doesn't remember Kayde at all.
But he remembers her. He's now a ghost, an invisible ghost. One that can't be seen or heard at all.
What happens now? Will Rabecca ever remember Kayde? Who is sending her these strange clues of a Kayde Harper? What is a music mage?
Is Kayde really dead?

I give this a full five stars. I loved this book. It was practically impossible to put down! Being a music lover, I liked Kayde's power a lot. I also liked his determination; he wasn't going to let his dark gift overcome him and make him do something he'd regret.

Lastly, Eternal Eden by Nicole Williams.
Bryn Dawson recently transferred from Stanford to OSU (Oregon State University) for the middle of her sophomore year in college. That was when she met William Winters, a transfer student.
Being forced to give this new rich kid a tour of the campus on a Friday night, she is anything but happy. All she wanted to do was get through school without getting noticed. If she wasn't noticed, no one would find out about her past...about her parents and how it was her fault that they died.
Right when she sees him, she feels this attraction to him. She doesn't want to, but she does. The first time he touches her arm, she feels this electricity between their skin, like fate was entwining their destinies.
Mysterious, charming, and protective as William is, Bryn falls hard for him. Little did she know how long he'd searched for her, loving her, wanting to finally meet her.
After almost drowning and being saved by William, she's changed. She learns that there are two kinds of beings, Mortal and Immortal. She learns Williams hard Immortal life that he'd lived and how all of his sanity and hope came from a vision of one girl...her. She learns about all of the strange laws for the Immortals, and finds that she has to keep her relationship with William a secret, or else they could both pay a terrible price.
But things can only go on for so long before they're caught together.
Will Bryn and William both die for love? Or will just one of them die?

I think this was my favorite out of the three I've talked about today. This one is six stars out of five. I just LOVED this one! William is the perfect knight in shining armor, and I love Bryn's character. She's a fighter. She's determined not to let William get hurt, even if it means that they can't be together. She refuses to leave with him, knowing they'd kill him if they'd ever been found. I also like William, a lot. He does make some mistakes, but who doesn't? He's just worried about the girl he'd loved for over two hundred years.

Anyways, that's it for me. Sorry for the long post, I had a lot to catch up on. That wasn't even all of the one's I'd read. The other two were really short--less than thirty Nook pages each.

Thanks for reading.

Stay geeky.

List of Books I Finished

Hey everybody!

So, I'm sorry about not being on as much. I've been reading and writing stuff for my Creative Writing class at school.

Okay, first on the list of books I finished, Defiance by Shelly Crane.
This is the third book of the Significance series, and this one begins with Maggie and Caleb at the Reunification meeting. Marla continues her dirty tricks and tries to get the council against them, since she was sooo jealous that Maggie is the Visionary.
ANYWAYS, this probably doesn't make any sense. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then read my previous posts about the first two books--Significance and Accordance.
Okay, now that you understand....
I liked this one. I really, really did. The imprints are all coming back, surprises are around every corner, there is a ton of action, and more surprises and action! I will say this one was good, but I can't say it was better than the other two. They were both really good, this one was also good, but I don't know...It's a tie between the first two on the ones I liked the most.

Now, second on the list is Independence by Shelly Crane.
Yes, this is the forth and final book in the Significance series.
This one is mostly about Maggie and Caleb's wedding! It was awesome! There were also a lot of surprises, and some mystery, in this one but it was different than the others. Marcus and the rest of the Watsons are gone...or are they? Then Caleb gets a dream about Maggie dying from a bullet--dying right in his arms. Is it a dream, or did he borrow Maggie's ability in his sleep and see a vision of the future? Did he marry Maggie just to see her die?
But, that can't be possible--when they imprinted, Caleb saw the visions that were farther off. Some of them hadn't happened yet.
But the future is never set in stone.

I thought this one was amazing! I was all...WOW! I loved the wedding and Jen and Maggie and Caleb and Fiona and Bish and Kyle and Lynne and Jim and Gran and Peter and Rachel...and more people. I just loved that the action and mystery didn't ever stop, and just because Maggie and Caleb are married does NOT mean that things are going to be simple and easy. No, that never happens with Maggie. She always gets challenging and life-threatening.

Next on that list...Blank Confession and I don't know the author.
Shayne goes into the police station, turning himself in for murdering someone.
The story goes from Shayne telling the story to it going to the first person POV of Mikey, and then it will go back to third-person of Shayne talking.
Who did he kill? How did Shayne--who is a sixteen year old that looks twelve--kill someone? What is he hiding?
To answer these questions, there is a simple answer. I don't know. I haven't finished the book yet.
I will say that it's good, even though I haven't finished it.

Okay, that's pretty much it for me right now. I'll tell you really quickly that I am rere....(infinity amount of re's)...reading the Lux series since it has been two months since I've read them all. I know--that's such a long time!!!!
I'm trying to fit all of them into one weekend, along with finishing Blank Confession. I don't think I can do it, but I'm sure going to try.

Thanks for tuning in.

Let the geek inside out.