book_nut's Reviews (2.91k)

A cute little story that tries to do too much: best friend anxiety, coming-of-age story, first love. I liked the main character, Violet, and I think the 10-12 crowd might find this Deep and Moving. But that's about it.

Totally cute. Totally sweet. Totally had me hooked from the first page.

A very cute premise -- girl deals with boys and 6th grade at a co-ed middle school (after going to an all-girl school) by using the instructions in her dog training manual -- for a very cute book.

Read Twilight: it's good. The rest aren't worth it.

I love Jacob -- he's awesome. Bella's irritating. And eventually, she starts becoming normal again... and then ALICE shows up and they have to race to Italy to save Edward from the evil Volturi. Bah.

Meyer does interesting things with the vampire lore, and writes sensuality incredibly well. An engrossing read.

A really cute modern-yet-not take on Romeo and Juliet. Not deep, but a lot of fun.

Initially, I thought this book was a poor rip-off of John Green's Looking for Alaska, but although there were some similarities, this went in a different -- and interesting -- direction. In the end, while I wasn't super enthusiastic about it, I thought it wasn't bad.

It felt like a memoir, which was was a bit odd, and I kind of liked it at first. But then, the last half off the book she spent drinking and cruising through multiple (read: many) relationships, all which failed. The ending -- which was supposed to be happy, I guess -- fell flat. Blech.

This book has everything: girls dressed up as highwaymen! Broken engagements! Unrequited love! Revolutionaries! Spies! Adventure! Thieves and whores! Betrayal! Americans in Britan! Illuminati! Mad scientists! There's nothing it doesn't have (except pirates, but there's a highwayman named Captain Jack, so we forgive Reese for that omission.)What's not to like? (Well, except the labyrinthine plot, excessive roll of stock characters and wooden dialogue... but what's that in comparison to hunky Frenchmen and hydrogen balloons and midnight trysts in hotels? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing.)