thebacklistbook's Reviews (304)

He wrote this one while in a deep depression, get out while you still can.

Well, that went very quickly. If you do one thing today, go buy or sign out this pamphlet. Iterating grace shows us that we take ourselves far too seriously by telling the story of a man who was thrilled to be eaten by llamas. 

Have I got your attention yet?

This book was the movie on steroids! this is a good thing, a great thing. it means that the movie stayed incredibly true to the book :) they key difference is how it all ends. 

I adored Weir's writing style, and the nerd in me rejoiced at Watney's antics even more than I did with the film. Of course, having seen the film first, I kept picturing Matt Damon. Mental Fan-casting ruined. Alas, it was totally wicked :) Suffice it to say that I get why they picked Matt Damon, the character felt written for him.

This book was just getting into the action and bam! cuts off. I have to go request the next one now. Thanks for that. Seriously though, it was amazing. I absolutely adored the world building as I did with The Jewel. 

We join Violet Just after the end of the first book. This is something I really love in writing, the story picking up precisely where it left off. When books start down the road and then revisit through memory, or worse don't tell you what happened it drives me absolutely batty. Batty, I tell you.

Prenna wears coke bottle glasses, is extremely strong in physics, in love with the boy down the road, and she's from the future. When she is from, the world has been decimated by a terrible blood plague, the likes of which we have never seen before. 

In order to escape this disaster a group known as the travelers have taken it upon themselves to mooch off the past for protection from the future. Their only hope is that they will die before the plague begins...

This book was phenomenally written and I fell in love with the story just as swiftly as I did with the Sisterhood books. She knows how to turn a pretty word.

This book was surprisingly good, it was just one of those books that you pick up at the library, as you do. It didn't call out to me or anything, I just grabbed and signed it out. 

The imagery was fantastic, I really enjoyed picturing this world and what a part-bird part-dragon might look like. Echo is definitely one of my more favorite characters this year. She is a smart-ass, independent, young woman with the world's biggest chip on her shoulder, and did I mention she's a thief; world class from what I read. 

If you haven't started reading this series, I highly recommend it. I've only read one and I'm hooked.

Wow. Not. What. I. Expected. At all. Here is what I think i learned. 


Heaven is real, it is really called Magonia, and you only go there after death on earth if you were born there to begin with. Magonians are where the myths of gods come from. They live on a series of floating islands and ships.


In Magonia, Magic is real. Storms are made by whales, lightning by sharks, and wind by song. I didn't so much enjoy this book, as was enthralled by it. I couldn't put it down, even though it was hard to follow and barely made sense to me. I give it a 4/5 for brilliant imagery. However, since it was not my personal cup of tea, overall rating is a 2/5.

Shakespeare writes so many sex jokes into this play that it takes away from any true development that might have been had. Literally nobody learns any lessons, they just all go on a seriously wild ride.