a rainbow of expletives, masterfully handled. and sometimes, you can tell that some teen fiction is just dropping its f-bombs to shock or titillate its audience, all commiserating 'oooh - don't tell the grownups!!' this was a book in full control of its potty mouth. i am no lady, i am pretty comfortable with a wide range of salty talk. definitely a well-executed book, and there are more to come? sign me up right now.Ī note on cursing. and there were so many genuinely funny moments (i do love this kid), and one terrible thing nooo, not tybalt!! why?. and of first love and first friendship and faith. i read it as a ghost who had a shitty life, and couldn't even get any peace after she was dead, and a boy who was missing out on his childhood because of an overdeveloped sense of justice and revenge. really, karen? even with all the ripped-up corpses and blood everywhere? yup! i really did. I thought this was more beautiful than scary.

but overall, i found her voice so refreshing and her characters so likable, that none of it matters. did it have flaws? sure! were there things in the book that occurred that made me pause? naturally. I don't even care that this book wasn't scary - it was so fun, and that is usually all i need to be riveted. and it is fine that i wasn't and that i didn't - apparently i have no discernible human emotional response except an ability to become enthusiastic over well-written prose. the way i was hoping to cry reading a monster calls. I was so hoping to be scared by this book. Sha la la la.Ī million stars for anna dressed in awesome.

We can also talk about all the sitcom theme songs in this bio. I mean, whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Used to be everywhere you look, there's a heart, a hand to hold on to.Īnyway, I love to hear from readers so drop me a line here or at my website and we'll talk about friends to know, and ways to grow, and how if you threw a party you would see that the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend. My likes include animals, food, and nostalgia. There's more coming soon like ALL THESE BODIES and a new fantasy series, so don't waste another minute on your cryin. There's more to life that what you're living, so take a chance and face the wind. Fiction, philosophy, good books, bad books, because you take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have a stack of books and stuff. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. The Anna Dressed in Blood duo is horror, The Goddess War trilogy is mythology, and Three Dark Crowns is fantasy, because the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.

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