wordsofclover's Reviews (2.16k)

Loved this book! I was so surprised at how much I enjoyed it - this has been on my TBR for quite a while so it took me a long time to get around and I think it was something added on a whim, or possibly when entering a giveaway. But wow!

Zenn Scarlet is basically training to be a vet - but not just any normal veterinarian, she lives on Mars and has to learn to treat all kinds of quirky, crazy-looking animals creatures.

Generally when it comes to creatures in sci-fi novels, it can be hard to picture exactly what they look like but I found the descriptions in Zenn Scarlet to be really fantastic. They were able to give me a really clear picture in my head of what they looked liked - from the spotted piggy hyena of a Yoke, to the two-headed, long-necked Sunkiller.

Add in a plot of the outside trying to destroy the school, and then Zenn's sudden strange ability to get inside an animal's head and you have a pretty interesting read! Oh, and have I mentioned Liam's smirk?

All Lucy knows is the small cottage on an island. Since she was a small girl, Lucy has been stuck on this island with her guardian with only one instruction - to never, ever, sing out loud. One day, Lucy breaks this sacred rule and is suddenly whisked away, falling smack into the middle of a castle - of an enemy she never knew existed. Lucy discovers that she is no ordinary girl and is, in fact, a Chantress - a witch who can conjure magic through song.

Suddenly Lucy is plunged into a great adventure - learning the ways of chanting with the only other Chantress left and vowing to destroy the book of shadows that brought about the destruction of her race.

This book was a pleasant surprise and a fast read. Lucy is a likeable character and the reader really roots for her during her training and feels when she fails at certain things. The friends Lucy makes are lovely and the blossoming romance Lucy has with a certain apprentice is also a pleasant step in the right direction.

The novel ends in a way that there is no immediate need for another one but the fact that there is one, is a great surprise. It's definitely one I'll be continuing.

3.5 Stars

Zoe lives in a world where emotion simply does not exist. Fear, worry, love, kindness, anger...it has all been evaporated. Except in some people. Some people in Zoe's world 'glitch' and when that happens, there's times they are never seen again. Zoe is glitching and she is terrified. Then she meets Adrien. Adrien saves Zoe's life and introduces her to a world she never knew existed. One that she can feel in.

I wonder how i would have felt about this book and Zoe's world if I hadn't read the Delirium series first. I couldn't help but compare the two, though there are slight differences in the fact that Zoe has technology implanted in her brain, similar to an android or robot, where in Delirium Lena would have surgery to eradicate the feeling of love.

I enjoyed Zoe's exploration of her different feelings and i really liked how she felt love and protection for her brother. Being a big sister to a brother myself, I understood that feeling of feeling protective and I really bonded with her over that. I also felt that while Zoe's relationship with Adrien could be deemed 'insta-love' it worked for me because Zoe had never felt (or been allowed) such feelings before. And Adrien had felt he'd known Zoe for well over a year with his visions.

The major problem I had with this book was Max. It was such a strange love triangle. There was nothing really redeeming about Max for me at all. He seemed cute and innocent at first and then he quickly turned into a sex-crazed lunatic. He was pushy, possessive to the point of being controlling and dangerous, and way too forceful when it came to sex and intimate interactions. Ew. What a creep.

Overall, I enjoyed the book and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

This book completely blew me out of the water. I definitely wasn't expecting to love it so much!

David and Sarah are struggling. They are on the brink of divorce and therapy sessions just aren't working out. Sarah is fed up of paying the bills while David plays video-games. And David is really sick of hearing of all the ways he failed Sarah. It's pretty much the end for a once-loving couple until the zombie apocalypse breaks out and they find themselves working together to bash the brains in of their therapist-turned-undead cannibal. Soon all those relationship techniques given to them by their therapist come in handy...when combined with zombie killing, of course!

Okay first off, I don't know why, but I immediately pictured Sarah and David as Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher from What Happens in Vegas. I think it's because of the scene in the movie where they are racing each other to the therapist's office? Take that scene and throw in some zombies, bam, perfect David and Sarah, haha!

I really enjoyed this. It was an easy, laugh out loud read. I find with other zombie apocalypse books, the main character is generally struggling on their own until they meet a new band of survivors and strike up relationships. With David and Sarah, we didn't have that - they already knew each other pretty much inside out, despite their marital difficulties, and they knew that they could depend on each other from the get go to help keep each other alive. The strength of their relationship and how they allowed themselves to break down, cry and hold each other after particularly bad experiences was truly genuine and something we normally don't see in other Z novels for quite a while into the story.

I like the fact that different issues in their marriage didn't just disappear with the apocalypse. They still bickered, and brought up some old resentments including Sarah getting annoyed at David's choice of car music following their first zombie kill, haha.

I'm really excited to see where David and Sarah go from here, and how they get on with Zombiebusters (LAWL).

So at first I enjoyed this book and I liked the dry way that Esther had of saying things and seeing things. It made me think that if she and Holden Caulfield had met up they'd be perfect for each other but where I loved The Catcher In The Rye and I enjoyed Holden's often witty and sarcastic views, Esther had me starting to curl into myself the more I read this book. It came to the point where instead of devouring each word the way I usually do when reading, I was skimming the pages with disinterest because she was making me feel strange and depressed. I didn't even understand exactly what it was that made her the way she was...all of a sudden she was attempting suicide.
I just didn't enjoy this book the way I thought it was and I'm glad to see the back of Esther.

I did enjoy this book but I wasn't as gripped with it as I was by Mistake and Choice.
I love Shannon and I had begun to look at her as a friend so I missed the absence of her presence in this book. Morrigan is more serious than Shannon and doesn't bring the humorous edge that Shannon can bring. I also found it hard to decipher all the different voices she heard and thought it is explained at the end makes me wonder did Epona ever talk to her in Oklahoma?
I also Mryna to be disappointing that she just ended up getting pregnant at 18 and married to a normal human. Even if she wasn't Epona's Chosen...I feel like the author could have made her something more like a healer or a teacher or something. I understand we need Etain for the future but I just wish Mryna had been more.

Overall though, Partholon had me in its grip once again and I found myself loving the land and its people who believe in magic, soul mates and love at first sight. The triumph of good over evil is always a powerful one and the fact that G-Pa got his Morgie back when he never got Shannon back made me happy!!