In Good Book News....

Holy movie trailers, Batman! Just watched the new trailer for The Hunger Games last night. For lack of a more intelligent way to get my point across, I will just say that it looks BAD ASS! If you haven't read The Hunger Games trilogy yet, I'm going to go ahead and recommend that you watch the trailer, because, honestly it sums up the premise more clearly and bad ass-ly, without spoiling anything, than I would be able to. If you have read The Hunger Games trilogy, you should also watch the trailer. If you've already watched the trailer… you should watch it again. Here's the link

Its been a long time since I have been this excited about a movie, which I completely expected because when I read The Hunger Games, it had been a long time since I had been that excited about a book series. This series literally kept me awake nights. It haunted my dreams. Not in the way that a scary movie would haunt my dreams, but in the way that I was so sucked into the story and the characters that it encompassed not only my waking thoughts, but apparently my sleeping thoughts as well. Suzanne Collins, managed to create a detailed, and distrubing world without detracting from the plot. Meaning mostly that she managed to bring to life this world and these multi-dimensional characters that I cared about and understood, could visualize... without the prose driven, detail oriented fodor that I tend to get bogged down with when reading a lot of other…ahem..."well written" books for lack of a better term. Alright… seriously… what I'm trying to say, rather clumsily, is that it felt like I was reading the plot driven crap I usually read, while still managing all of the details, and character development that I sometimes miss out on, without making me want to skip a few pages to get past the description of the mideval castle and get to the good stuff. Still doesn't make any sense? Fuck it. It was really, really good. I liked it a whole lot. Please, please read it. And please, please, for the love of god, don't just see the movie like a big ole' dummy that never learned to read. How's that for well written?

Bloodlines --- Better than telling people you are reading Vampire Academy

I say that... but so far that is probably the only thing about this series that I actually think is better or even as good as Vampire Academy. Perhaps with the exception of the fact that Adrian is back, and it looks to be shaping up in a positive way for him...eventually. We all know the proclivity to have a love triangle in Young Adult novels is something that is rarely overlooked and I can already see that this series is going to be no exception.  Sadly this is one of the things that bothered be most about book one. It looks like there is a male "mortal" that is being pulled  into the plot line that seems to have no other purpose, but to totally fuck with the romance story in later books. Perhaps he will serve some other purpose... you know... have some power that we didn't know about, or turn out to be a vampire slayer, or something else that would make him remotely significant otherwise. But I'm going to go with the former for the time being.  I will say that I have a history of being on the wrong side when young adult love triangles are concerned, Vampire Academy I was "Team Adrian" all the way, The Mortal Instruments...we'll just say I was anti-Jace. So all I have to say is Adrian better be on the right side of the triangle this time.

This book also made me think that maybe its time for me to start reading more grown up books, as I saw the plot twists coming miles away. Perhaps just a little less foreshadowing would have served me better... either that or the characters should just be smarter, or at least not supposed to be smart, and than not figuring this shit out until the end.

All of those things said, I must have liked the book as a whole, as I zipped right through it in  a day or so. I think mostly I was just glad to have the characters back that I had gotten attached to, and to have the universe continue. It took a little getting used to having this book narrated by an Alchemist, that inherently finds vampires disgusting, but I think it will work out in the end. I will definitely be continuing the series as it progresses.