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Dear John- Nicholas Sparks

I heard about the movie and knew it would be a must see for a girl’s night out, but also knew that I needed to read the book first.
For some reason when I go see movies based on books first, I never want to read the book because I have all these preconceived ideas about the book.

So I read the book and it is very classic Nicholas Sparks, but don’t take that as a slant. I’ve found Sparks’ books to be very romantic and heart felt. Although I did see this and it made me laugh really hard.

Anyways, I will say this. I liked how the movie turned out a lot better than how the book turned out. That said, I still totally recommend the book.
Classic Sparks’, nothing new there, but it’s a good read and I enjoyed it.

4 out of 5 stars.

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Review of The Curse of the Spider King- Christopher Hopper and Wayne Batson

I just finished the Curse of the Spider King and I must say, I REALLY enjoyed it!

It was one of those books that transported you to another realm and immersed you in a new and interesting world.

I love how they intertwined the history of the world within the story of the children.

It is a fantasy Christian fiction with crazy creatures, Elves, good, evil, all the counter parts to the good, well rounded story.

The only drawback for us “adults” is that it is a young adult book written for a younger audience. It gets a little “high school” at times in the rhetoric, which is obviously understandable knowing the age it was written for. But I didn’t feel it took away from the story. It was also a little short for me as well. I wish it was longer.

BUT it left me wanting more and very excited about the next book.

I am giving it 4 stars and totally recommend it!


Here is the Amazon description:
The Seven succeeding Elven Lords of Allyra were dead, lost in the Siege of Berinfell as babes.  At least that’s what everyone thought until tremors from a distant world known as Earth, revealed strange signs that Elven blood lived among its peoples. With a glimmer of hope in their hearts, sentinels are sent to see if the signs are true. But theirs is not a lone errand. The ruling warlord of Allyra, the Spider King, has sent his own scouts to hunt down the Seven and finish the job they failed to complete many ages ago.
Now 13-year-olds on the brink of the Age of Reckoning when their Elven gifts will be manifest, discover the unthinkable truth that their adoptive families are not their only kin. With mysterious Sentinels revealing breathtaking secrets of the past, and dark strangers haunting their every move, will the young Elf Lords find the way back to the home of their birth? Worlds and races collide as the forces of good and evil battle.  Will anyone escape the Curse of the Spider King?

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The Hideaway- Dean Koontz

What a great book!

I had just read a short summary on Amazon and it tickled my fancy and is an older book so it wasn’t very expensive, so I just thought, “Hey, why not!” Dean Koontz is a pretty solid writer. You never know what type of genre his books will fit in because even though he’s been pegged a horror writer, he really isn’t. Most of his books I wouldn’t even label thriller. More just like murder mystery, but this book is definitely a thriller.

I was so pleasantly surprised by this novel.

It’s a little on the creepy side with this derranged serial killer who after he kills his victims, he sets them up as mannequins revealing their true nature and let’s them rot in his underground lair.
But it also has love rejuvenated and adoption and coming to grips with childhood death and more. It kept me reading and thinking about reading when I wasn’t reading. That’s always a good sign. Plus it has this supernatural element that’s not overtly corney.

This book has a lot of different aspects to it that were very page turning and I definitely recommend it and will give it 4 stars.

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Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

So my lovely friend Nikki mailed me this book all the way from Dallas to Brussels after hearing me complain that they didn’t have a Kindle version available.

They just made a movie about this book and so before the movie came out, I wanted to read the book.

You know, so I could get irritated at how much better the book was than the movie.

I liked it.

I mean, it’s dark. Don’t get me wrong. But I enjoyed the book.

I’m going to go ahead and give it 4 stars and say I would recommend it.