Book Review: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

First off the cover.
I have much love for it.
It's simple and intricate all at once.

Now on to the story.
From the first sentence.
When the words,

   I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it. I  stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it.

are said I was hooked.

 The main character is a roll with the punches type. Which considering her life is not surprising. She's currently pretending to be a psychic so when this woman, Susan come to her saying has a haunted house what she initially see's as an easy "pacify the rich woman with too much time on her hands and make easy money" job may turn out to be all too real.

 This is a short story so I don't want to say too much except I ended up really liking it and the way she spun the story keep pulling me in and kept me guessing long after the book was over, but there were a few mishaps along the way and even opened ended stories need certain thing fleshed out.

This was my first Gillian Flynn book and I'm definitely looking forward to my second.

                                           
 In the end I gave it 4/5 stars and for full disclosure I got this book for review in exchange for honest review from "Blogging For Books".

Book Review: Cain's Blood by Geoffrey Girard

(After finishing Project Cain (which I loved and reviewed - the link will be below), I of course needed to know more. I specifically wanted to know more of the gory details and this adult version Cain’s Blood provided those aspects.


For those of you who don't know Cain's Blood & Project Cain are companion novels, and take place at the same time but through different points of view. Project Cain is a young adult novel, and tended to not get into too much of the gory details. On the other side, Cain's Blood is an adult novel and doesn't shy away from these things as much.

I won’t be spoiling either of these books in this review (in my opinion) so you may read on.

Now while in Project Cain we followed the story of the government cloning infamous serial killers and what they wanted to do with them. In this novel the government raised these clones in different environments and situations, in order to learn more about Nature vs Nurture. In Project Cain we saw everything solely through the eyes of one of the clone's of Jeffrey Dhamer.
In this book, Cain’s Blood, we get a far more reaching view of the events taking place.

We get to see the point of views of the victims, various clones, various scientist, and of course the higher ups. Mainly though we see things from Shawn Castillos point of view, who was hired to capture six runaway clones who are currently on a murder spree.

I enjoyed being in Castillos head and seeing what his thoughts and interpretations were going through his mind. He's a former black op's agent who thought he's seen everything, and was sure in his beliefs. He had come to terms with some of the things the government does in order to insure the safety of his country, but in this novel he starts to question a few things.

We follow him as he and the clone he found (who is not part of the runaway six) embark on a cross country journey and find that there are even bigger secrets that neither had imagined.

Now this is an adult novel and in Project Cain, while certain things were alluded to here, we get all the gory details so if your not okay with that then just read Project Cain.

In the end I gave this a 5/5 stars because loved his his writing style and I hope to read more by this author one day.

PROJECT CAIN REVIEW:
http://theforsaken707.blogspot.com/2014/04/book-review-project-cain-by-geoffrey.html

Book Review: Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard

This story follows Jeff Jacobson who's life is torn apart when his father sits him down and tell him he's a clone of Jeffrey Dahmer someone hes never heard of before now but he's apparently one of the most infamous series killer and then his father leaves him with a thousand dollars and drives away leaving him completely alone.

Now for the whole story were in Jeff's head and and we see everything through his eyes and we see him struggle with the knowledge of how he came into this life, his relationship with his father who just happened to be one of the scientist who made him and Shawn Castillo who works for DSTI the company behind his unusual birth.

While in the start I wasn't much of a fan of Jeff. Couldn't stand some of his decisions but since I've never been in such a situation what do I know.

 I ended up empathizing with him and what he was going through. I worried for his sanity though.
Kind of hard not to as we journey along and watch him struggle about who he is and if his genes will determine who he supposed to be.

For this book the only other person we really meet is Castillo who is hired to track down 6 runaway clones.

Now Castillo seems nice enough I guess but since this is from Jeff's Point of view we mostly have to guess from his interactions with Jeff what type of person he is and we don't fully know what hes motives are where Jeff is concerned.

Which is why I'm glad there's a Companion novel from Castillo's point of view.(Which I ordered soon after reading this)

Now there was a lot serial killer name dropping. Some we were given more details on. Others not so much. We mostly get backgrounds about the who the runaway clones DNA came from.

Nature Vs Nurture. This is part of the reason Jeff and various other clones were made in the first place.
 Even as he makes his own choices goes though his own up's and downs will his genetic's determine what he will become?

I gave this books 5/5 stars I really enjoyed this novel it was a quick fast read and I look forward to seeing things from Costillo's Pont of view.

Let me know if you've read it and what your thoughts are or if you plan to pick it up anytime soon.

P.S. I read the first Chapter aloud if you would like to listen:
Fragmented #5 - Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iux4fLzYXnA

P.S.S. I plan to do a video review of Project Cain & Cain's Blood Hopefully sometime soon
Here's my YouTube Channel where it will uploaded to.
https://www.youtube.com/user/theforsaken707/videos?flow=grid&view=0

CAIN'S BLOOD REVIEW:
http://theforsaken707.blogspot.com/2014/05/book-review-cains-blood.html

We Discuss #5:Book Buying Turn Off's FT. Phil & Alyssa

If you Guys have any opinions on the matter let me know in the comments. I look forward to it.



<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/7758859/?claim=rqn5nfw42fq">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>

Book Review: Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey

 Wow, Where to start? The Cover Perhaps?  I personally love it, and it actually has something to do with the book *Gasp* who would have thought that would be possible these days.

Moving on,

This book is about Braden a 17 year old boy who has a rare, legendary power that he calls "Witch Eyes". Witch Eye's give's a person the ability to see the world unfiltered. They can and I Quote: "Soak up everything like a sponge, See everything that ever happened in a place, to a person". There's more to the power but I think you guys got the point.

Braden who lives with his Uncle John, sets off by himself to learn more about his past and it land him in the City of Belle Dam. Where he is caught between two feuding witch families. Catherine Lansing and Jason Thorpe.

Braden who is revealed to Jason's son has been crushing on this boy Trey who turns out to be Catherine son. 

 Romeo and Juliet? We can only hope that their fates wont be as tragic. Especially considering Braden may be destined to kill him.

Moving on once again.

With all the lies, manipulation, and secrets going on. Who will come up on top? and Who is the driving force behind it all? Read to find out.

Braden: Is always on the going from the first moment he sets foot in this town. He wants to find out why he's drawn to this town and doesn't let much, Except from Trey, distract him from his goal. I liked that because I felt that characters forget how much danger they're in and do incredibly stupid and sloppy things. I didnt feel that way with Braden.

Uncle John: He raised Braden but his secrets are vast and I we only see the tip of the ice berg where his character is concerned. I would love to find out more about him in the future.

Trey: I like him and didn't like him all at once.Misguided fool.

There are of course a few more characters but I'll let you guys read and find them out for yourself.

 I like the fact that while's there's romance its not the center of the story.Though I do hope for more romance in the future but I don't want a "Love Triangle" of any kind.
 
Overall I loved this book  and I didnt give any ppoilers despite what it may seem like. It was an easy and faced paced read. I give it a 4/5 stars and I look forward to the 2 sequels.

Book Haul #50 - (3/7/2013)

Another Day. Another Book Haul. Y'all.

So here are some of the books that I got lately.

First off a Romance given to me by my sister.

1.) Along Came A Duke by Elizabeth Boyle
   *Just by the title you just know whats coming Lol

2.)Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck
   *I Own all the books but haven't read one yet. One Day Soon.

3.)Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
    *Oh double copy bad me

4.)Better Late Then Never (Gifted #2) by Marilyn Kaye
     *I Bought this because I thought I had the first book yet I can't seem to find it.

5.)Poison Study (Study #1) by Maria V. Snyder
     *I Head nothing but good things I can't wait to read it.

6.)The Farm (TheFarm #1) by Emily McKay
     *Synopsis reminds me of the movie Daybreakers

7.)Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike


*I filmed a video which I'll link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvi9I6fb3E

*Feel free to add me on Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/angel707

Hope you guys enjoyed this book haul. Let me know what you got recently I would love to know.

Until Next Time,
That's All She Wrote Folks.

Book Haul #49 - (2/25/2013) - Unboxing #8

So I thought I just start showing you guys some of the most recent books that I got. I've done a video on thses already but for those of you who just want a list of what I got then here you go.Though if you watch the video you can hear some of my thoughts on each one. Lol

So for this book haul I got my first Order from Bookcloseout.com and of course a few books from ebay.com I received the following books:

From Ebay:

Unwind - Neal Shusterman

Unwholly - Neal Shusterman

From BookCloseOuts:

1.) Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan(There's a story behind this I'll Link it below)

2.) Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan

3.) Die For Me by Amy Plum

4.) Incarnate by Jodie Medows

5.) Shadow ad Bone by Leigh Burdugo

6.) The Lost Code: Book one of the Atlanteans by Kevin Emerson 

7.) Every You, Every Me by Davis Levithan

So Let me know if you have read any of these book before and whether or not you liked them. Also if you haven't read them are any of them on your wish list? Comment all you'r thoughts below

Book Haul Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x069dgkJ4XU

Story Behind Glow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeFjppTtcc

Introduction

Hello and Happy New Year's :D(A Little Late I Know)



Hi, My Name is Ke-sha and I Love to Read Books. I originally was going to do my Blog solely on Tumblr but Since I'm a Total FanGirl my Dashboard was kind of Jumbled so I decided to start this.

Now I Also Love to Watch Movie's and T.V. Shows.

I Have two YouTube Channel dedicated to both my interest but since maintaining those two is hard enough this blog will Feature all of my Interest Combined.Books,Movies,And T.V.Shows.

My Book Channel is Called TheForsaken707 and my Movie Channel is called BookMe707 and Yes I know they should probably be Turned around. I'll leave Links below for Each.

The Book Channel:
 http://www.youtube.com/user/theforsaken707

The Movie Channel:
 http://www.youtube.com/user/bookme707


I look forward to starting this Blog and hope you all come along on this Journey.

In the mean time you can check out my YouTube Channel and My Tumblr to see some of the Book hauls & Reviews I've done so far.

Tumblr Link:
http://salazar707.tumblr.com/

I look Forward to this. So If You have any questions or suggestions feel free to ask and leave feedback.
Onward and Upward.

:D