Reviews written by Jasmine

I swear I thought of every crazy (non-paranormal) idea on who could have been the killer and yet, I was so completely wrong in the end. Although, I did have a fleeting thought about the “why” that was right, I was so completely wrong about the who. McNeil is a...

/Awaken/ left me feeling luke-warm. I didn't hate it, but it didn't pull me in and leave me wanting for the sequel either. I'm starting to think I've become a cynic when it comes to the whole "young love" thing. I scoff when a girl...

I loved experiencing all the different authors takes on what would be in the box and all the different illustrating styles. Some of the stories were really fun and made me want to check out the authors immediately while others were a little too ambitious for their short length. Overall,...

Well that was...something. I'm not sure where to start, so I guess I'll just go straight for the strange. I can't really get into it since it's the big hook at the end, but seriously? What is up with that? I mean, I was down with the...

Uncommon Criminals and I sadly didn’t get along quite so well as I’d hoped. Part of it might have been that I wasn’t in the mood and part of it could be too high expectations, but it all just kind of felt a bit predictable. I was hoping to learn...

I have pretty much the same feelings about Dark Eden 2: Eve of Destruction as I did about its predecessor. Which is to say, it was a good, quick read, but it wasn’t fantastic. I still didn’t really care for any of the characters much one way or the other....

Oh man, did it really have to end that way?! I really don't know where I got the idea that this was an “issues” contemporary, but that's what I was thinking for the longest time. The only thing that changed my mind was all the reviews popping...

I’m sad to say I was a tad disappointed by The Spindlers, but I think that’s completely due to the fact that I idolize Miss Oliver. It really was a cute, quick adventure. That’s another thing: it took me a little over two days to finish when it really should’ve...

I'm feeling a little o the fence about Breathe. I liked it for the most part, but it's one of those that I just enjoyed while reading and will probably forget about shortly after returning it to the library. Three Narrators: I don't really feel one way...

When all is said and done (or read, as it may be) I’m just not really a fan of Masque of the Red Death. I don’t generally like to debate the merits of love triangles since I find the general hate for them a bit silly, but...

What’s Left of Me is awesome, awesome, awesome. It’s officially one of my favorite books of 2012 and one of the series’ I’ll be impatiently awaiting to hear more from in the future. For some reason I was kind of thinking of What’s Left of Me as...

The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy is a super cute, fun take on Hansel and Gretel. First of all, Hansel and Gretel is my favorite fairytale so I had pretty high hopes for The Sinister Sweetness and Loftin didn’t disappoint. I love the idea of using school...

Scorch made me feel, but the problem is it just made me feel rage. There were plenty of chances for me to feel sad (lots of people died) but I just didn’t. It was more like a distant pang of “oh, that’s sad” instead of anything really heavy and feely....

The concept of Storybound had me a little confused before I started reading but Burt does a great job of introducing the world of Story. And to me, that’s what Stoybound was: an introduction. There’s a self-contained story arc of its own, of course, but everything works toward he higher...

BZRK was really strange. Not strange in a totally-weird-and-out-there way, but strange in the holy-crap-this-is-probably-possible-which-is-really-disturbing way. I spent the entire time I was reading being absolutely terrified of every little itch and tickle I felt thinking it might be a nanobot. Sure, it’s fiction, but you’re still...