I've finished The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly. It's an excellent book! A little bit romance, a little bit thriller/mystery. The only issue I had with it was that it's a little too long, and seemed to draw things out, BUT I guess it had to tie up ALL the loose ends, so that's probably why it took so long.
Basically the book is about a young girl who lives in an impoverish part of London during the late 1800's. She loses everything except 1 family member because of murders or other deaths or sicknesses, and she wants to rise to the top. She immigrates to New York city where she makes her fortune, and decides to come back and face her past. Throughout the novel is a romantic tale of her love Joe, along with a tale of revenge.
I would recommend this to anyone who has a lot of time to read it (it's kind of unputdownable), but wants some romance with thriller twists.
Now I'm going to read The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Until next time, happy reading!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Roadside Crosses (~)
I've finished another book. This one is Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver. It's a thriller-mystery novel, which I haven't really read in a long time, so it was a nice change of pace. It's a well written book, a little too long for my liking. After the mystery was solved, I thought it should've ended, but of course the author wanted to tie up other loose ends. He also started threads of another story which kind of fell through at the end (some of those loose ends) which I didn't really understand why he would've introduced them in the first place. Overall, it's a good story.
This novel is about a police officer investigating roadside crosses which are left with a date on them which is that day's date or the day after's date (an indication of a murder/attack that was about to occur). It follows through to a blogger's controversial blog, and then to a teenage gamer. Like most mystery novels, there are twists and turns, and things are never as it seems.
I don't really know who I would recommend this to, but it's still a good novel either way. I don't really know what I will be reading next, so until next time, Happy Reading!
This novel is about a police officer investigating roadside crosses which are left with a date on them which is that day's date or the day after's date (an indication of a murder/attack that was about to occur). It follows through to a blogger's controversial blog, and then to a teenage gamer. Like most mystery novels, there are twists and turns, and things are never as it seems.
I don't really know who I would recommend this to, but it's still a good novel either way. I don't really know what I will be reading next, so until next time, Happy Reading!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Mercy (↓)
I must say, this is the first (and hopefully) only time I will be giving a bad review to a Jodi Picoult book. I don't know whether I just wasn't in the mood to read, or if the book didn't grab my interest like the others, but I really didn't enjoy it. Of course it's well written, I wouldn't expect anything different from her, but for me, it seemed to stray from the original story-line. Maybe I just wasn't reading deep enough and if I thought about it a little bit more, I could come up with some connection.
This novel is called Mercy by Jodi Picoult. It's about a man who smothers his wife and kills her because she is terminally ill and she asked him to do it. It's also about a police chief who has an affair. I don't really see the connection, but there might be one somewhere.
The one thing this novel did make me do was think about my own relationship with Andrew. If he and I were married, and he was terminally ill and would not get better, would I have the strength to kill him if he asked me to? Would he do the same for me? There was also a part in the novel which seemed to ring true. A relationship is never 50-50. There's always one person who loves or gives a bit more than the other. I believe this is true. I hate to admit it, but I almost think that A. gives more than I do for this relationship. It's certainly not fair, but what can you really do about it? I think that this is also what makes me think about whether I actually love him or not. But I must. I consider him in all of my decisions concerning my future, I think about how difficult things will be for us when I'm gone away to school, and how I will go about telling my parents that we will be living together...
This blog posting as turned a little more personal than I had hoped, but I think that's a good thing. Anyway, now I'm going to read a book of a different genre. More suspense/mystery. Until next time, Happy Reading!
This novel is called Mercy by Jodi Picoult. It's about a man who smothers his wife and kills her because she is terminally ill and she asked him to do it. It's also about a police chief who has an affair. I don't really see the connection, but there might be one somewhere.
The one thing this novel did make me do was think about my own relationship with Andrew. If he and I were married, and he was terminally ill and would not get better, would I have the strength to kill him if he asked me to? Would he do the same for me? There was also a part in the novel which seemed to ring true. A relationship is never 50-50. There's always one person who loves or gives a bit more than the other. I believe this is true. I hate to admit it, but I almost think that A. gives more than I do for this relationship. It's certainly not fair, but what can you really do about it? I think that this is also what makes me think about whether I actually love him or not. But I must. I consider him in all of my decisions concerning my future, I think about how difficult things will be for us when I'm gone away to school, and how I will go about telling my parents that we will be living together...
This blog posting as turned a little more personal than I had hoped, but I think that's a good thing. Anyway, now I'm going to read a book of a different genre. More suspense/mystery. Until next time, Happy Reading!
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