Not a Book Review...just a blog.

Hey there. So, as you may have guessed, I gave up on Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy. Yeah. It was one of the most horrible books I've ever read. Secret upon secret revealed. No, make that Irrelevant secret upon irrelevant secret revealed. This book was just downright BORING.

You may disagree, and that's fine because opinions are like butts. Everyone has one. :) haha.

Anyways, so I started reading Princess Ben and just didn't like it. I'm sorry, but a boring book is a boring book. And I'm not saying that Princess Ben was a boring book, but it was just...not my style, I guess. My intentions for reading that book was because that I liked Ella Enchanted, and on The Compulsive Reader's review, it said that if you liked Ella Enchanted, you will like this book. But this had too many spells and stuff. I'm sorry. :)

Well, now I am reading The Tattooed Rats by Jerry B Jenkins & John Perrodin. It is breathtaking so far. Sure, you may not be a Christian (this is a Christian book, BTW), but this book is EXCITING. It's kind of a spy/"Ima Rebel" type of book. Well, so far at least. I'm not even that far into it yet, and I love it. I'm on page 42/233. Yeah.

I LOVE the cover-art, which is one of the things that drew me to it in the first place. The reds...the yellows...the oranges. I love it. Just take a look at the pic I have of it in "MY CURRENT READ(S)."

I'm also working on another book, too. It's called Wolf Tower by Tannith Lee (sp?). So far, it's kind of a mixture between Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I like it so far, I guess. I'm not that far into it, yet, though. So...I'll tell you how I like it later. :)

I need to go.

Oh, and b4 I go.......
HAPPY SUMMER! :P

~Priscilla/Pryss

Reading-In-Progress Post: CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY

Okay, so so far, I'm on page 191/236 of Ally Carter's Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy. And, honestly, it's boring me to almost-not-reading-this-anymore syndrome. I'm sorry, I just don't find it interesting so far. And I'm like two-thirds into it already. They keep talking about this secret stuff, and then Cammie (main character) figures out the secret. Then it happens again. And again. And again. And it gets boringer and boringer with every secret.

Maybe it's just because I like fantasy better than these kinds of books, but I just don't like this book so far. And if it ends up with yet again, another irrelavent secret, then I'm going to cry. So far this books stinks.

Book Review: Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Okay, so I know this is another Gail Carson Levine book, but this book's cover was so tempting that I had to read it..................... So this book IS fantasy, as you may have guessed. It's based off of "Snow White." Anyways, to the plot....

Aza believes she was born singing. "Most babies were born crying. I was born singing," she says in the beginning. That was the first line, and let me tell ya, that was when I fell in love with Aza's character. Aza was abandoned by her real parents at the Featherbed Inn. The innkeeper and his wife, whom Aza comes to know as "Mother" and "Father," hear her wailing--or singing, as the wife puts it--and sees her lying there on the bed with a velvet blanket. So, as you probably have guessed, the innkeeper and his wife adopt Aza as their own. This part is fairly predictable.
Once Aza grows to be a child, she realizes she is as ugly as ugly can be. Aza is big-boned and wide, with chubby cheeks and big eyes. But as her adopted brother, Yarry, said, her singing makes up for her ugliness. But not all of the Featherbed's guests get to hear Aza sing, so they automatically stare straight her way during the meals when they see her, making her feel horrible.
Then one day a troll comes along to stay at the Featherbed. His name is zhahM. zhahM makes a prediction that he will see Aza again in Gnome Caverns; and Aza will be in danger.

That's all of the plot I'm going to give away. You have to read this amazing book by Gail Carson Levine for the rest. It's unbelievably better than Ella Enchanted, in my opinion anyways. I'm going to search for a book better than this one, just to see if there is a better book than "Fairest."
Gail Carson Levine draws the characters very well, and answers the question of: "Why is Snow White all-of-the-sudden the fairest in the land?" There IS romance here, like "Ella Enchanted," and there IS humor here and there, and it IS interesting, and it IS easy to read, but in "Fairest" there's something that "Ella Enchanted" doesn't have. There's action. Sure, Ella meets up with some ogres, but she doesn't----okay. I'm giving away more of the plot.
I'd definitely say READ IT AND BASK IN IT AND ALL THAT JAZZ for "Fairest." I give this one a 1,000,000,000,000,000,999/10.
NOW GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY AND GET THIS BOOK AND READ IT AND BASK IN IT AND ALL THAT JAZZ !!!

My FIRST Book Review: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

"Ella Enchanted" was one of the BEST, and I mean BEST books I've ever read. Some people might say otherwise, but to me, it's honestly my all-time favorite book. Gail Carson Levine doesn't just make it romantic, she makes it funny. She doesn't just make it romantic and funny, she makes it thrilling at times. She doesn't just make it romantic and funny and thrilling but she makes it easy to read (sometimes when I read fairy tale type books they only use SUPER-HUGE words). And what's more, Gail Carson Levine makes it interesting. I'm a part-time-writer-part-time-reader, and making something romantic and funny and easy to read and interesting is VERY difficult. Most of the time, "romantic" books just have line after line of mushy-gushy stuff. Most of the time, "funny" books just have (supposedly) punch-line after punch-line of stupid jokes. Most of the time, easy to read books are text books. Most of the time, interesting books don't consist of all of the main genres, but "Ella Enchanted" does. I highly highly HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this book. It's the best one that you'll read. (maybe)