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Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer
- Rated 2 stars
“I was a bit disappointed in the last book. The author has a real talent for making the reader feel the characters' emotions, particularly the pain, frustration, and love. The author also is very inconsistent, particularly that this book didn't have the same emotional delights of the previous three books. I was looking forward to a dramatic climax of self-sacrifice and redemption before the happy end arrived, and the end just fell flat.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, November 5 2008. ( reply | permalink )
New Moon

by Stephenie Meyer
- Rated 4 stars
“It took me two days to read this one, but only because they were work days. Again, not giving it five stars because it's great writing, but I couldn't help devouring it and being upset when three different book sellers/libraries didn't have the third book...”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, October 29 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer
- Rated 5 stars
“I'm not giving this five stars because it's wonderfully written or thought out, but because I devoured it like a vampire in a single day. I'm looking forward to the movie probably as much as most of the adolescent, prom-dress-wearing girls that would give anything to trade places with Bella.

It's incredibly sexy. I have to say the author does capture the sensuality of vampires and the intensity of their love very well, and for that we'll forgive the cheesiness.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, October 29 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Inkspell

by Cornelia Funke
- Rated 4 stars
“Much more mature than Inkheart in the development of the characters. She knows how to create her villans, and she knows how to give her heros serious flaws. And some of the characters are somewhere between a hero and a villan. This and Inkheart are the kind of books that will make you cry, laugh, sigh, gasp- only to read in the next line that the book characters cry, laugh, sign, or gasp as if they are really coming to life!”

marysnyder wrote this review Monday, March 17 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke
- Rated 5 stars
“Perhaps the idea of books coming to life is not entirely unique (i.e. Jumanji, and the Never Ending Story, among others) but this story is still fresh, creative, and well-told. Like J.K. Rowling, I see this author as an excellent story-teller first. Yet her passages on the main character's love of books are so beautiful and touch me deeply (as a lover of books), as only literature can. The characters are complex with few that are all good or bad, which always makes a story much more three-dimentional.”

marysnyder wrote this review Monday, March 17 2008. ( reply | permalink )
by Fisher Staples
- Rated 5 stars
“I read this in 5th grade when a teacher lent it to me. It remains a very memorable book, a beautiful story of what becoming a woman means in a very foreign culture.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, February 13 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Ruby Key (Moon & Sun)

by Holly Lisle
- Rated 5 stars
“It's been a while since I've read such an engaging young adult book. This won't be released until May 2008, I got an advance copy at the American Library Association. It is the first of a series and already I'm impatient for the next book. As my fiance says, they've got me hooked like a fish.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, February 13 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen
- Rated 3 stars
“I had gotten tired of Carl Hiaasen's books for adults, but this was a nice relief. Yes, it is somewhat predictable, but still clever with interesting characters.”

marysnyder wrote this review Sunday, January 27 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

by Jim Fergus
- Rated 3 stars
“Okay, maybe it's a three-and-a-half-star book. I think about it often several years after I read it, so it's definitely worth the read. I was facinated by the cultural differences between the white people and the Native Americans, esp. that their children don't cry. I found myself reminded that it is a man writing in first person as a woman, and was annoyed when every female character gets pregnant at the same time.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, January 9 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Wicked

by Gregory Maguire
- Rated 1 stars
“I really did not like this book. The author was very sloppy in his story construction and added many details that he did nothing with. I have no idea how this book has become so famous.”

marysnyder wrote this review Wednesday, January 9 2008. ( reply | permalink )