Book reviews written by Vannessa M

“The ending really disappointed me. This will be spoilery.

Katness was Independence, and in the end, she gets convinced to have kids that she never wanted and settles for a general contentment. All we find out is she's married with kids. We don't know 1) what her job is, 2) her roll in society, 3) if she's happy. And I get tired of books that end *cough*HarryPotter*cough* with some ambiguous ending with them in the future married with kids and we're supposed to assume THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF THEIR EXISTENCE.

I wanted her to walk off into the forest alone, on her own terms. The whole theme of "human's have a good side too and love conquers all" is tired.
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Vannessa M wrote this review Tuesday, May 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

Bite Me

by Christopher Moore

Rated 3 stars

“Fun, but not as good as the other two. There were stupid mistakes in characters' actions as well as in plotting. A bit disappointing, but still a nice conclusion(?) to the series.”

Vannessa M wrote this review Monday, December 20, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

The Passage

by Justin Cronin

Rated 3 stars

“I wanted to rate this book better, because the writing was superb, the characters great, and generally the plot was good but:

1) time jumping annoys me, not just the 'big' one, but other missing time throughout the novel.
2) the ending annoyed me to no end. (I'm not going into details to avoid spoiling people.)

If it were not for those two aspects of this book, I would have given it a 5.”

Vannessa M wrote this review Wednesday, December 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

The Notebook

by Nicholas Sparks

Rated 2 stars

“Maybe I should have not read this book, because romances are not my thing. Within these pages were bulging muscles, twuwuv, more bulging muscles, switching POVs, cliche and expected reactions... The half where they are older dragged on with repetitive concepts. I think the entire story could have had more power if it was shorter, cleaner. Anyway, for those who are not romance readers you might scream at it as I did... though for the plethora of people who loved it, I don't understand you, but to each her own.”

Vannessa M wrote this review Tuesday, June 15, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson

Rated 3 stars

“I did the audio version, and perhaps that wasn't the best way to do this book. It has lovely prose and many layers of meaning within it, but I found myself spacing through the heavy introspection portions of the book and realizing I'd missed whole sections. Too much introspection for me. Plus, I'm pretty bookish, but she used quite a few words I hadn't heard of before. I feel like the author had a thesaurus at hand, ready to wow the world.”

Vannessa M wrote this review Tuesday, June 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

The Plague of Doves

by Louise Erdrich

Rated 2 stars

“Random. The story is all over the place from different points of view from members of this one community. Some are tied together, but others don't feel like they are. I wish there had been more cohesion.”

Vannessa M wrote this review Monday, August 17, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

On Writing Horror

by Mort Castle

Rated 3 stars

“This book should be titled About Writing and Horror. It had a few tips on how to write well, but most of it was about the horror genre, publishing, etc. It never told me how to write a good horror scene, how to scare people, etc.”

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Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins