Need

One word….Pixie. I don’t mean the ones from Disney universe pixie that are small and help nature. The kind of Pixies I am talking about are our size and normally that contact the human world at all. Well until the Pixie King is driven craze with bloodlust and sends his servants to the human world to capture young men to torture to fulfill his bloodlust until his queen is evidentially found. So yeah…these are diffidently not what expect from pixies but they do still have gold dust like Tinkerbell but I don’t think that happy thoughts will make you fly with these dust. With qualities like this it’s a no wonder that Zara White named a new phobia after them Pixiophobia the fear of pixies.

To clarify on why I started this blog with a description of creepy and bloodthirsty paragraph I should tell why I am even talking about pixies. The latest book that I have obtained and nearly finished is written by Carrie Jones and is about Zara white (mentioned in first paragraph) a normal girl who suffering from a deep depression after her stepfather just died. Her mental state became so bad that her mother sent her to live with her grandmother from her stepfather side, to live in a sleepy small town in Maine. So far it seems everything is going on normal until Zara realize that there is some guy who is stalking her everywhere she goes and is leaving a trail of gold dust behind. But that isn’t the worst part of this situation no the worst part is that no one else can see this creep. Well until she arrives at Maine and meets Issie and Devyn who can also see him. But they both came into a conclusion that this stalker is actually a Pixie and is stalking Zara so she can be his queen. Also did I mention that there are werewolves in this book? Actually there called Weres or shifters because they have a variety of animal transformation.

But everything else in this book is somewhat normal (or not). But you have to read this book to find out what will happen to Zara. But I am not completely sure because this is a series and I am almost done with the first book Need.  So I will have to read more to find out what will happen as well because I really like this book. But what I most about it and it was also the first thing I noticed about this book is that this book has no chapters. Instead every few pages is split into sections that has a phobia titling the section along with a description on that phobia. I should also explain something else about Zara, she has a particular habit of chanting Phobias and what they mean. This habit is probably why I picked up this book in the first place because I really like learning about phobia. And if you like phobias too you might also like this book too.

Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

 Not so long ago I was in the library trying a book to read. I stumbled upon a section of books on the table that had a rainbow bookmark inside all of them. When I picked one up I realized that I knew that book which was called Beyond Magenta and it was about non-fiction book about real people who were transgendered or something else completely. When I opened the book and saw the bookmark I realized that this section of books were all 2015 award winning LGBT books. I decided to look thought the section and found a book with this odd title which was called Cinnamon Toast and the end of the World by Janet E. Cameron. This book is different from other books I have read and no not because the protagonist is gay not that at all because I have already read other books with a LGBT main character. It was the fact that the setting was in Canada and the character is Canadian which is so weird because I have never read a book with a Canadian lead.

Other than discovering a book with Canadian Protagonist I really liked this book so much. I would not put it down because I wanted to know what would happen to Stephen in this fictional coming of age book about him. I especially like the parts when he is reminiscing about his past when he was much younger because it so hilarious how messed his childhood is and it makes me wonder if his parents were hippies because this book was placed around the 90’s or 80’s timeline even though it came out sometime in the 2010’s. My favorite part of this book is the beginning because it start out with Stephen thinking the world has ended because he is in love with his best friend Mark. That part was very unique because you don’t normally start out with a book with a melodramatic confession like that.

This is a truly good book and I recommend it to anyone who wants a light-hearted coming to age story or one that has a LGBT character. But unlike other LGBT stories this isn't depressing story or even an overly emotional either. In fact it is really funny but it does have some sad moments considering our protagonist Stephen is in love with his best friend who is actually a huge homophobic so right away you know that Stephen is going to be heartbroken somehow. But remember this is a coming of age so you know he is going to get past this somehow. But overall this was a great novel and good job to you miss Cameron for a great first novel debut and if you write anymore books I’ll gladly read them.

Warm Bodies

Have you recently seen the movie Warm bodies? I have not read it but I know it came out in 2013. It’s a zombie romance-comedy movie about well a zombie falling in love with a living girl. But did you know it was a best-selling novel written by Isaac Marion. Because I had no idea it was a novel until recently and I finished reading the book a week or two weeks maybe. But anyway I really liked the book and I was thinking about watching the movie even though seeing the trailers that the movie might not follow the book exactly. But I think I would still like the movie if it still had the basic plot in the book.

In the book the zombie R who has been dead for some time is like any zombie. He grunts and eats brains like any other, except he is in much better condition than his other zombiefied companions. So one day he was abnormally hungry and so he and a smaller group of other zombies went out to hunt. They find a group of humans and devour them. R eats this human guy named Perry but something strange happens when R eats Perry. Normally when a zombie eats a human they get brief flashes of that humans life that fulfills the zombies own miserable existence. But when R ate Perry he had a full-out flashback of Perry’s life and about Perry’s Girlfriend Julie and his feelings towards her. In that moment R, for the first time in his undead life he felt alive. So now him being slightly less dead and eventually falling in love with Julie it’s pretty like any love story. Well except that he is dead and ate her last boyfriend it’s pretty much like any love story.

A thing that I noticed is that in the movie, Julie didn't mind that R ate her boyfriend who also is in fact her ex-boyfriend. But in the book Perry was actually still her current boyfriend. Another thing was that Julie in the book didn't exactly know that R ate her boyfriend which made things kind of awkward for R.

After reading this book I wanted to find something that had zombies in it but not any kind of zombies. I wanted to find ones that would scare me senseless. But it has to be a novel or book series because I have absolutely no tolerance to any kind of horror movies. But luckily I did find one and perhaps I’ll do a blog on it. I just hope that this new book wont scare me too much.

Shadow Falls

A few months ago my friend started to read this series called Shadow falls and she became obsessed with it even now after finishing the series she is still into the series. She even sent an email to C.C Hunter, the author of the Shadow Falls series if she would write more books to the already completed. She would talk nothing of the book and it would get on my nerves because she would not shut up about it. She even kept bugging me to read the books and at that time I thought that Shadow Falls would be nothing but a boring and generic love story about a normal girl learning about a supernatural world and having a love triangle with some not-quite-human love interest.

But no, I was very wrong because over a week ago when I was so very bored and felt very lively that day to read another apocalyptic themed book I thought why not, maybe I should read the book I might even like it. I loved it. I was so blown away because it was amazing and nothing like what perceived it to be. I mean it still had a girl finding out about a hidden supernatural world and there is still had a love triangle between a werewolf and a half-fae (yes! not a vampire, no Twilighting here!). The character Kylie Galen isn’t actually human but the thing is they don’t know what she is because the only thing that isn’t normal about her is that she can see ghosts. But I think that was truly original idea from the author when she doesn’t reveal the identity of Kylie’s species because it keeps the reader on edge from trying to guess what she is. I’m already on the third book Taken at Dusk and I still have no idea what species she is.

What I also like about this book is that Kylie isn’t perfect or popular which makes more of a real person. Instead she is a drifter and has no real placing in this world and even has no placing the supernatural world which would make anyone feel completely depressed but she keeps going on because she wants to find out what she is and along the story I presume that she is also finding out who she is inside and the kind of person she wants to be to others.

I admit I was wrong about this series which my friend took real pleasure from telling me so. But I was glad that I didn’t follow through with my misconception because if I did I would have never known about Shadow falls and Kylie as well. Misconception and books can keep you from finding out a great story and my message to you today which is the cliché of clichés but still utterly true is never judge a book by it’s cover.