Book Review #2-Tempest by Julie Cross

My Rating: ****/5

Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Action



The novel Tempest by Julie Cross is one I never thought I would actually read. But when a book is really cheap on BookOutlet, it is hard to resist.

Tempest is about a guy named Jackson Meyer who is a time traveler, he can only travel back only a few hours maybe a few days into the past. He lives in the year 2009. But one day when a couple of guys with guns break into his apartment and shoot his girlfriend Holly, all of a sudden, he is transferred to 2007. Somehow he traveled back 2 whole years. But now he can't travel back to his own time, he can travel only to years earlier than 2007.  Now him and his partner Adam must try to figure out what is going on, and find out hidden secrets about his past. Plus, while hiding it from Holly of 2007, because a girl can tell when you are lying.

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Jackson is an interesting character, he is a player, a bit arrogant, he doesn't like girls for very long, until he meets Holly. Cross plays with the idea of, if you are in a relationship with someone, how much of their past have they told you? Jackson learns more about Holly's love for gymnastics, and even though he is a sophomore in college (attending NYU with Holly) going back and pretending to be 17 again kind of changes him. The way Holly and him message each other it is like he is back in high school, while she is still there, he is not. Plus, how far he is willing to go to be near her, by faking a resume to become a janitor at her job. It is a bit high school. He is willing to give her up, because he loves her that much. Not even just breaking up with her-but never letting himself meet her...

The relationship between Jackson and Adam is just ridiculous, Adam is probably my favorite character in the book. If anyone watches the show Teen Wolf, he is the Stiles of the Time Travel world, no powers, really smart, and can always solve a mystery even with ridiculous ideas at some points. Adam doesn't even seem to freak out much, he just becomes really curious. *********

The one thing that saddens me at some points is Courtney, he is willing to drain himself so much to go see her for four hours, which causes him to faint.  It is really cute how Courtney takes on the information so easily.  Though it is sad how every time he sees her, she asks how she is in the future, he has to lie because he doesn't want to tell her about her death.

Though I am still a little bit untrustworthy of Tempest and the CIA group, even of his father-I think I would trust him, but I feel like Jackson's father is still lying to him about something-how can I not be weary of his actions.

The reason I didn't give it five stars because at some points in the story it got very confusing, when he was given info about some things, when he tried to make sense of things, it really didn't to me. But other than that the plotline was great and I love her writing style.

That's all I have to say, I'm a monkey lover and I will see you guys later! 

Book Review #1-My Favorite Series-Shadow Falls Series by C.C. Hunter

My first review is going to be on  my favorite book series Shadow Falls.

My Rating: *****

Description:

Sixteen year old Kylie Galen is going through a lot, having a stalker (whom she calls Soldier Dude-due to his soldier uniform) that nobody seems to see, her boyfriend Trey breaking up with her, and her parents are splitting up. Kylie decides to go with her best friend to a party to get her mind off of everything, but when the cops show up; everything goes to hell. Her mom "The Ice Queen" decides to send her off to Shadow Falls Camp for Troubled Teens. Though when she gets there, she learns it's not for people as troubled as she thought. Supernatural teens take up refuge there for the summer, either to get away from the human world or to be with their own kind, or both.  Now Kylie learns she is not human, but she doesn't seem to have a place among the supernaturals either. She meets her two roommates who already want to kill each other half the time, Della-a kickass vampire and Miranda-a humorous and a boy-crazy witch. She also meets Derek a dreamy boy who knows how to get inside her head... and Lucas, a boy Kylie shares a secret past, who is a fine thing to look at. Kylie has no idea what she is, but with her new found abilities, she knows Shadow Falls is where she belongs.

Supernatural Beings: Shapeshifter, Witch, Vampire, Werewolf and Fey.

These books just took me away. I truly started to believe that this was a real place. If I were a supernatural, I would probably be a Fey. I actually for some reason went crazy and went looking for episodes of it online, for a good half hour I was thinking about how it was such a good television show, when it isn't (not yet anyway). Yea, you can imagine the scenes and characters so well you truly believe it is real.  I own every single book, even a bind up of books I already have (actually I am missing the second bind up (but it is of books I already own). That is how obsessive I am with it.

I have read the series 3 times and read Born at Midnight 4 times...yeah if I put that reading energy toward all of the unread books on my shelf, I wouldn't have this problem... This is a magnificent series, a true piece of art that gets into your head.

This is not even including the Spin-Off series Shadow Falls:After Dark about Della's Life. When the trilogy is officially finished, I will do a review on that when the final book in this amazing trilogy come out. Plus, June 30th, 2015... she is coming out with a novella about Miranda's life. Because the one sad thing about the Shadow Falls series, is you know almost nothing about Miranda's life and the world of witches.

Now the one thing that kind of annoys me is in every character's life there is a love triangle,
Lucas-Kylie-Derek.  Steve-Della-Chase.  Perry-Miranda-unknown

**SPOILERS AHEAD** (and I mean I do not hold back) 
(Also everything is scattered all over the place)

I know this happens at the very end of Chosen at Nightfall, but I like how they made Trey and Sara involved again. Sara is hardly mentioned throughout the story, and I like how she kind of figures out some of the supernatural world without Kylie's help, though begs the question, will Sara ever know the full truth?

Okay, if you are reading this, you had to expect this... That first make-out scene between Kylie and Lucas, OMG I have simply reread that whole scene over and over again because of how well written it was. It is such a romantic scene.

Though when I found out about the whole marriage thing, I so became Team Derek, I was so furious I seriously wanted to cry.  But like I expected, it was Team Lucas that won. Though they are really cute together, and now werewolves can shove those traditions down their throats because seriously, Kylie is kickass...

Speaking of, I kind of expected her mom's boyfriend of being involved in the beginning, then I started to trust him...then when I found out the truth I was so mad at myself like, OMG I expected it but put my guard down.  But what I never expected was for him to go stabbing Mario!

Oh and even though Red was evil, I was crying hysterically when he died, more over him than Ellie.

Okay I get it, it was literally like a list of spoilers...but I will get better.

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I just want to explain a bit about what this blog is. It is supposed to be about book reviews and writing ideas or short stories or whatever. I am also willing to write here and there about big news stories. I am also willing to write about the lives of authors or whatever I guess comes to my mind. I've never been good at this blogging thing, on others I have posted one post and never posted again. So you can say I'm not the best blogger but I'm going to try.

I am also willing to do movie reviews and whatnot. I have an obsession with movies and especially television series. So if you want a review on one, just email me the name and I will try and watch it and see what I can do. I am probably going to have too much fun with this...

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