I finished this book in one sitting... As soon as i received it by mail, i was on the couch devouring this little thing... Its a really short read...just over a hundred pages and the font was quite big, so it wasn't that hard for me to get through it as fast as i did... After all, its a Rapid Reads book! :) It was fast, engaging and entertaining.
Moving on to the plot, it follows a young police constable named Nicole Patterson, who comes across the body of a high school student, Maureen Grey, lying in a snow covered field outside of town. It soon becomes apparent that Maureen hailed from a very unstable family, shifting suspicion towards the drunkard father.
Though under-qualified, Nicole starts an unauthorized investigation into the murder among the local folk, fueled by a personal obligation.
The author has blended a riveting plot with a host of interesting characters, tossed in a mystery to solve and come up with a winner. It didn't take me long to plow through this one because i simply could not put this down. It had me guessing till the very last chapter and trust me, don't even try, you will never guess the ending!
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had a really hard time rating this book.... i was torn btw 3 and 4...and finally ended up with 3 bcoz it was not as good as some of the books i rated as 4....
its kinda refreshing to read abt something different...like "gays and how they try to fit in" and stuff....i mean u dn come across such stuff very often... this is an easy read...but its not sso hard to put it down...it was a little slow for me to get into at the beginning...and i only got into it halfway thru... it was a bit depressing at places... i mean the hopelessness of the characters...and getting all silly and emotional over the most frivolous things got to me a bit...but there was Tiny Cooper to make up for all of it! Loved his character! Amazing! If only i could see and live life like him! :)
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Across the Universe starts off with Amy, a 17 year old, being cryogenically frozen with her parents to board a space ship called Godspeed, on its three century long journey to a new planet called Centauri-Earth. Amy is in for a shock when she is brutally woken up 50 years prior to the landing of the spaceship, by a murderer.The rest of the book consists of the politics within the ship which is ruled by an Eldest. She soon forms alliances with the successor of the Eldest, that is, the Elder and their search for truth behind the ship and the murders.I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Though i have been hearing rave reviews about it for so long, i never thought i would even like this book which was being described as a sci-fi dystopia. Therefore, i kept pushing it further away in my TBR pile, but somehow i finally got down to it and am i glad! Though a little slow-paced, it was a really good read. The character ddevelopment was interesting. I started off hating Amy and Elder, i mean i just couldnt get them...but at the end of the book, i grew to love them and somehow start to understand why they acted that way when they did and that's very important in any book. You HAVE to like the lead characters in order to empathize with them. Overall, a great read.... Cant wait to read A Million Suns
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OMG! I loved this book!! Dint expect to, somehow i hate novels set in desert lands (yes, i'm weird that way) but i had heard so many rave reviews about it, i had to check it out... and boy, am i glad i did! this has turned out to be one of my favorite books of 2012...one of the best dystopians i have ever read!..okay,, okay, i gotta stop gushing... but i do love this book!Blood Red Road is about a girl named Saba fighting against all odds to keep her promise to her twin brother, Lugh and save him from the bad guys.... The story-line aint so different from many others but the story definitely is... I loved Saba, her language, her strength, her flaws, everything about her... Usually we come across female protagonists who are too good to be true, both physically and emotionally "perfect"..... but Saba aint nothing like that... she is mean, she is selfish, she is rude, she is arrogant etc etc..She has sooo many flaws, yet we tend to love her with all her flaws...The character development was amazing! especially in Saba and Emmi... they started out thinking the world started and ended with Lugh but by the end, both of them realized they were just as strong if not stronger than Lugh.The romance was also okay...i mean i like that there wasn't much of it...it kind of just lingered throughout the story... there was neither rushing nor gushing... and that's good.Last but definitely not the least, Nero! Oh how i wish i had a crow for a pet! Haha...loved him, loved him, loved him!The writing style didn't bother me much, i didn't have any difficulty following it (maybe as a result of years of IM-ing and SMS-ing).Overall, an amazing, adventure-filled read...i definitely recommend it (if you still couldn't make out from all the gushing ;)
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