Books read in May

[ladysophiekitty]

Stealing this idea from katayla  and thinking of making this a monthly thing! I might not always have commentary, sometimes just a rating.

68. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Rating: 5/5
Comments: As always, Riordan's books are fun and entertaining. I used to read a lot of Greek mythology, so it's fun being reminded of it or "I knew that!".  Look forward to the next book in the series! And it was nice seeing some familiar faces from Percy Jackson.

69. Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
Rating: 3/5
Comments: I'd read a good review about this book and seeing as how I love Victorian era novels, I thought I'd check it out. It was...ok. The descriptions of poverty in Victorian London was good and it was certainly compelling, but also very cheesy and overdramatic and I felt like it was more of those penny novels that people sold at the time, with a girl who's poor but is such a true and good character that a fortune/man comes her way and she gets a happy ending.


70. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Rating: 4/5
Comments: This was an interesting book, especially since it almost took a backwards story telling. Each section was a few years earlier.

71. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson ** (reread)
Rating: 5/5
Comments: This was a very difficult book to read because of the subject matter and how deep into the mindset of an eatng disorder, self cutting, depression, and the guilt of having someone die Anderson goes, but it was a good book, and  powerful.

72. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Rating: 4/5
Comments: A very different take on the vampire novel from most stories I've read! I also spent most of the book quite hungry, since the main female character works in a bakery of her stepfather's restaurant.

73. Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman ** (reread)
Rating: 5/5
Comments: Not sure if this counts as a reread, actually, since it's been so long that I didn't remember a thing (other than her steady shooting hand). I'd read this in elementary school and it was fun reading it again! Will have to check out the rest of the series.


74. Landing by Emma Donnaghue
Rating: 3/5
Comments: This was the first book by this author that I've read, and I've heard she writes more Victorian era novels. (I think I just checked one out from the library, actually). It was entertaining, but there was something about this novel that made it so that it wasn't OMG LOVE. I'm not really sure what.

Comments

[katayla.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love seeing what people are reading. I used to copy and paste my GoodReads reviews for my lists, but it was too much work and nobody seemed to appreciate them much. So now it's a list and a rating and they can ask me if they want to know more. :D

And I actually just bought Sunshine this weekend! I read it when it first came out and enjoyed it, but that was before Twilight and the huge vampire craze, so I'm curious to see what I think about it now.