Blackrystal Female, 17, It's complicated. Roma, Italy

Amazing.

The principal character of the Sevenwaters Trilogy is always a woman (Daughter of the Forest -> Sorcha; Son of the Shadows -> Liadan), and even in this last romance the heroine is a girl: her name in Fainne; she's different from Sorcha and Liadan, because of her voluntair loneliness, her strong will and her rejectment towards love and friendship.

She's the daughter of Niamh and Ciaràn, and she carries the inheritance of four different generations, but she won't understand it. She believes herself an evil creature, because of her sorceress nature.

A person doesn't choose his family. The blood in his veins can't influence his entire life... Or can it? Is it possible to rebel against who use your lover's life against you? Is it right to sacrifice many innocent lifes to save the one you love?

It's a powerful, painful and interesting tale full of death, love, struggle for power and thoughs about our own nature.

I enjoyed this book very much.

Vote:9/10

Breaking Dawn, the fourth and last book of the Twilight saga, is divided in three parts narrated by Bella (1st), Jacob (2nd) and Bella (3rd).

The first book is sweet as honey, and tells us about Bella's and Edward's wedding and their passionate honeymoon. Lovely, but nothing special.

In the second part, I apprecciated Jacob's point of view (this man - err, werewolf! - is TOO funny!); I really loved Rosalie: OK, she was freaking out because her sick attachment to the baby, but I was frozing in disbelief while I was reading about Rose's and Bella's friendship! And what about Jacob's imprinting? WOW!
There's a negative part too: this book had described just the thoughts that the principal characters had about Renesmee.

I'm a bit disappointed about the last part: everything was TOO simple! Bella is a perfect self-controlled vampire with an amazing gift and a wonderful half human/vampire daughter... And what about the Volturi? I wanted a bloody battle! Everything fixed up talking and showing another half vampire: Alice has an unexpected sense of timing...

Breaking Dawn is unbalanced: full of love scenes and poor of action. Well, I know this isn't an action-romance, but the narration is really slow: the first two parts are all focused about Bella's pregnancy and the feelings of the protagonist about it, and the third one is totally unnecessary.

Anyway, I understand this was the only way things would have ended: aren't all the four books of the saga a celebration of an impossible, romantic, innocent love?

Vote: 7

Do you hear voices in your head? Don't worry, you're not mad. It's just your human host who wants his body back - let it be, it will stop soon... Or maybe not.

What to do when the host doesn't want his body back if this means to destroy his personal alien?
What if you fall in love with your prisoner's lover? How can a human and an alien live together?

I must confess I was prevented before reading this book. I had read so many negative comments, I was sure I wouldn't have enjoyed it.
But now I understand: you may love it or hate it. There's no other way.
It's true that it is a very slow book, with just few locations. But, at the same time, this isn't negative: it gives to the reader strange feelings, as if he was there with Wanda, suffering with her.

It's not an usual science-fiction book; OK, there are aliens soul-sucker, rebellions, technology and survivors, but that's not all: first, it's a story of friendship.

I didn't like Jared, and even Wanda and Melanie weren't (or wasn't?) my favourite characteres. Oh, but I loved so much Ian ♥

In the end, an original novel.

Vote: 9-

Romania. Five sisters live with their father in Piscul Dracului, an enchanted palace where a portal opens every FullMoon to allow them to partecipate to a marvellous dance with the Fairy Folk.
When their father gets sick, he has to move to a hotter place, so the girls remain alone. Things gets complicated when the older sister, Tania, falls in love with a terrible creature of the OtherWorld, and Cezar, theirs cousin, become more and more arrogant.

Very predictable (I was expecting even the "shocking" [I'm ironic] end)... Maybe, after the Sevenwaters Trilogy, I was expecting something more from Juliet Marillier.

Vote: 7

"Ingo´s a place that has many names" says Granny Crane. "You can call it Mer, Mare or Meor. And it has its own Morveren name, but we don´t say that name, not while we´ve got our feet planted on the Earth. Earth and Ingodon´t mix, even though we live side by side. Earth and Ingo aren´t always friends."

It´s a fresh, new story about mermaids and family relationships. Very cute, but for younger readers.

I wish I was away in Ingo
Far across the sea
sailing over deepest water

Vote: 7

Alice is a normal 7-and-half years old girl who has an incredible imagination.
Her dreams are extremely funny, fulls of incredibles creatures and strange characters such as the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Hatter, the March Hare, Humpty Dumpty, the Queen and the King, and my favourite, the Chesschire Cat.

I enjoyed the songs very much - they are very funny!

A book for adults and for babies: I´ll read it to my sons/daughters, one day.

Vote: 7½

What a book! It's full of fools and the characters are mad:
Tess's mother is a superficial woman; Tess is a stupid, innocent killer; Angel Clare (WTF! Is it a name? Tsk.) is a crazy psychopath; Alec D'Urbevill is a sick pervert; and so on...

Foolish - all of 'em.

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Few Sentences about Angel Clare:

"What kind of husband would ask Izz to go in Brazil with him so soon after parting from his wife?" [pg 86]

That's a good question, dear Tess.

"Who is he?" asked D'Urbeville. "Where is he? Why isn't he here to look after you? What sort of husband can he be leaving you to work like this?" [pg 91]

Ah-ha!
Alec: 1
Tess: 0

"I'm Tess's husband. I want to see her at once. You were going to write and tell me where she is. Is she well?"
"I don't know, sir, but you ought to."

XDXD Genious.

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Vote: 7+