It’s been crazy around here as we came into the end of term but there was time for a couple of books.
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick – One of the pupils suggested this. Apparently Waterstone’s has pushing it as a Twilight alternative. I’d agree it fits a similar space in my thinking. It was good and kept me gripped. Fallen Angels rather than a Vampire but a similar bad boy meets good girl theme – even more stalker than Edward Cullen’s watching her sleep option.
Speaking of the Edward – The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Meyer was also on
my reading list. Written about one of the characters in ‘Eclipse’ this short story was indeed interesting though I was disappointed that Meyer choose a character with potential to be like the Cullen’s rather than a crazed newbie vampire like Jasper’s beginning or like the rest of the Vampire Newbie Army. Having said that it probably wouldn’t have been the all teenagers welcome option if the main character wanted to nothing but slaughter humans for food – there was already quite a lot of that done by the other newbies. Meyer seems to like a bit of romance so needless to say Bree’s life may be short but least it had a bit of love. It does add a nice flip side to the story and what with the movie just about out no doubt it’ll help keep the publisher going.
So to round off the Vampire reading for a while Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris – 10th in the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series was just released here. It was good, much like the others though a slower pace and I felt better for the loss of the magical other realm for fairies only. Still not sure why that bugged when shape shifting humans and vampires all seemed to be okay with me. The real disappointment is that the publishers decided not only to make it a hardback but also that the cover features the TV show cast – a number of whom either don’t exist in the books, died in previous books or barely resemble their fictional counter parts.
