Otherworldly

The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan

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Summary

Danny knew not to open that door. He knew that this house was deserted, but something inside was telling him what was beyond that door might be a vault and a vault with lots of money.

Danny is a common thief. But one day he decides to rob the wrong house. The house he decides to rob is actually a secret entrance to an area where the MI6 and the CIA are working on the Project and Danny by accident enters and is captured. In this novel, it describes how Danny is caught up in a world of the MI6 and the CIA and the world of the supernatural, and the Sword of Wrath. Its time to start to accept that there is another world. One that Danny is about to be introduced to and one that Danny will have to get to know really well if he hope to save himself. Oh and the rest of the world too.

Review

This book was O.K. The storyline was interesting and it kept you reading but it was a little too out there for me. I know that I have reviewed book about vampires but when you pick up that book you know what it was about. This book was a bit of the natural and a bit of the supernatural.

It was interesting. It was really a book about OOBE’s – Out-Of-Body-Experiences – and the supernatural. That was really all the book was about. Herbie Brennan has written quite a few books about OOBE’s because he “claims” to have experienced one once. Some of the things in this book are real and he tells which of them are in the back of the book but almost all of this is based on what is believed to be real – OOBE’s, astral planes, and demons. This book was interesting because it kept you into the story, but it was definitely a one time read. This was because what was going on was really easy to understand and the storyline was OK. It was just another book.

Click here to see Herbie Brennan’s website.

Also if you want to read up on OOBE’s click here and read some more on Wikipedia. Not completely reliable but you will get the idea.

Anyway, enjoy the book.

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

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Summary

Nora Grey just cannot find the right boy for her. But what does she care. Right now she wants to graduate High School with stellar grades so she can get into a really good College. But when she is put next to a boy named  Patch, she realizes that there is something quite odd about him. He seems to know all and he will not stop appearing wherever Nora is. So she just has to find out more. The only problem is that if she finds out too much, she just might put her life, along with others, in danger.

Review

I thought that this book was actually quite good. I had heard a lot of really good reviews of it on other book blogging sites, but when it first came out I decided not to read it. But when I was in the library the other day I saw the sequel to it and I thought, ‘Huh, maybe I should look into it.’ So I ordered the first book and my mother brought the book home and in one day I had completed it. It was not a hard book to read but the story was really captivating. It was a love story with the twist of other worldly beings – archangels. The characters were described really well and some chapters in the book were flirtatious but it never went to the part of girlfriend and boyfriend. I am dying to read the next book because this one was so good.

Another reason for me wanting to pick up the book was because of the cover. It shows this archangel falling from the sky. It made me wonder what the book was about. I really believe that a good cover makes a person want to pick it up. I have pick up quite a few book recently because of their covers.

So I would definitely recommend you to read it. Also I really think that this book would make an amazing movie and I really hope it will be. It would be like twilight, but a little less popular. So tell me what you think of the book and enjoy.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Summary

In this 114 year old novel, Bram Stoker tells the horrorfying story of a century old vampire terrorizing Mina Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan, and many others. This story is about the fight of the fittest. The fight between the Immortal and the Mortal. Between the Dead and the un-Dead. With Dracula loose in town there is no telling what will happen, when it will happen, where it will happen. This is no bed time story – and there is no happily ever after.

Review

Finally, after many hours of reading this book it is finished. I think that this is the only book that took me about two months to read. You might be wondering why it took me so long to complete this novel. It was because of the writing. This book is written in proper English. Not  simplified, modern-day, easy-to-read English. You might think that reading Stephen King is hard because it is adult writing, but if you compare Bram Stoker to Stephen King, King is so much easier. This is because this book was written 114 years ago and the writing style was very different then. So, if you are planning to read this book be prepared for longer sentences (I mean like paragraph long sentences with lots of commas, semi-colons, colons  and so on), complex ideas, complex words and smaller print.

Also this book was not written in the third person but in different views. It was written like a journal of all the characters mushed up. It is hard to explain how it was written but it was an interesting style. You will have to read or look at the book to understand what I am saying.

Bram Stoker did a very good job writing this book because it was exciting, and things happened which you didn’t expect. I am not going to say that it kept you turning pages because sometimes I just did not want to turn the page because it felt a little boring in places. I was dragging this book out. When I said that it was “boring” and  my mother heard me say that  she said that I found Dracula “boring” because most YA books are so packed with action. It is like boom, boom, boom one thing after another. Like movies in 3D, lots of action and noise to keep you going. Books today have much shorter sentences. You don’t have to concentrate so long. Just compare a Dan Brown paragraph to a Bram Stoker paragraph, then you will see just what I mean.

This book was a gift from my Secret Santa from the Holiday Swap and as soon as I opened the box in December and I saw that book I was like, “GOT TO READ IT.” My mom warned me that it was going to be different. She warned me that it was going to be harder. But being the person that I am, I ignored her. Now that I look back, maybe I should have listened and waited a bit. Now that I have finished this book, on my vacation, I am going to have a Dracula Movie Fest and watch all of the Dracula movies. The one with Bela Lugosi, the Mel Brooks spoof, and any other one which I am allowed to watch. Let’s see who does the best version. Stayed tuned for more!

I hope that there are a few brave souls (don’t want any sole-less people reading this now do we?) out there would will embark to read this book. If you do, enjoy, and if you do not, I hope that you do read it one day.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

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Summary

Teenager Clary witnesses a murder. A murder of a person covered in tattoos and she cannot report the murder because no one else can see the person and the body vanished. She learned that the teens were called Shadowhunters (teens who kill demons and monsters.) But these Shadowhunters will not believe that Clary can see them because after all she is only a mundane (human.) Shortly after watching this happen her mother is kidnapped and it all seems to be relating to her. It also all seems to be revolving around something called the Mortal Cup. In this book with friendly werewolves and vampires, Clary must find her mother, retrieve the Mortal Cup and stop loving Jace. But will all of this stop the Cup from being used for the wrong reason and her mother being killed? The other question is where is her mother and where is the Cup?

Review

This was definitely a Buffy-like book. It had the action, it had the romance, it had the friendship clashes. For those people old enough to know who Buffy is (I am not that old, I only found it on Netflix and I enjoy watching it), Clary  is the modern-day Buffy in the sense she fights vampires and demons and the creatures, when they are dead, vanish.
I received this book from my Secret Santa and when I saw it, I nearly fell off my seat with joy. My mom could not take me to the library so I could borrow the book, so when I received it I was enthralled. My mom did not want me to read it just yet because I am reading a lot of vampire/demonic creature books. But I read the excerpt and I read the prologue and I just could not put it down. I read the book in just over three days because it was so good.
The story line was interesting, it kept me turning pages, and it was fun to read. The characters were described well and the story was consistent. It did not jump around all over the place like  some books do. A lot of the chapters ended in suspense and that was one reason it kept me going. The cover was interesting and not because it has a picture of a guy with a shirt off but because it has a cemetery, a city, and a boy with weird and swirly tattoos.
I really do hope that you read this book because it was really good. They also might be coming out with a movie for it some time in the next two years – hopefully. They have a directory, a screen writer, and a person to play Clary. Keep your fingers crossed and happy reading.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3

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Review

I am not doing a summary of this book because to do a summary of this book would be too hard for me. I would give the whole book away. Just to look at it in a nutshell it is about a fireman – in the future – when firemen do different things and it is about firemen and books and this one fireman and his adventure (not an adventure around the world but mentally) with the books and his experiences. If you are going to read this book do not go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble to read their review because it gives the book away. Ok so that is what the book is about but what did I think about it? I personally loved this book. It was exciting, and it made you want to read more. I know that a lot of people would not find this book interesting and that was my opinion when I first tried to read it about 2 years ago but one I started it I actually liked it and now that I have read it again I liked it even more because I am older and that helps because I understood it better. You have to be mature and be able to understand complex sentences because it was pretty hard to understand. This book is not arranged in chapters but in sections and there are 3 sections. I really do hope that you will try this book because it was wonderful. I gave this book a chance and so should you because it is not what it seems. Enjoy.

Read my other review of another Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes.