1st to Die (The Women’s Murder Club)
Author: James Patterson
Summary: Kind of like Sex and the City. Minus the shoes. Plus the death.
→ Yay
+ Short chapters. For real: 1 chapter = approx. 4 pages long.
+ Double yay for grrl power! (The 4 leads are women)
+ Rather creative ways of killing the victims.
+ Claire, the forensic pathologist (or something like that). The most likeable of all the 4 heroines.
→ Nay
- The short chapters. Choppy much?
- The story moved too fast so I thought there wasn’t enough time for the tension to build.
- Lindsay Boxer, the lead heroine, and her drama. Yeesh.
- Double nay for the unnecessary sex scenes between Lindsay Boxer and her beau. Double yeesh.
- How the killer manages to escape from the cops near the end of the book. Random and Stupid. Stupidly random.
0 Comments | January 5th, 2009 | Permalink
Coraline (Graphic Novel)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Illustrator: P. Craig Russell
Summary: Coraline gets herself in a whole lot of trouble. Whoopsie.
→ Yay
+ D-uh. Neil Gaiman.
+ A pre-teen/teen protagonist I could actually root for! Coraline was non-annoying, and smart. I like.
+ It’s a children’s story but even adults will get a kick out of it.
+ Double yay for the snarky, sort of sidekick black cat!
+ The character design for the “other mother”, the villain, was just plain creepy.
→ Nay
- I felt like the story ended too… cleanly.