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What are you reading now? November 2011
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Heather Rose
1 year ago
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started another librarything giveaway ebook entitled Lucifer’s Odyssey
(The Primal Patterns Series: Book 1) by Rex Jameson. From Amazon.com, Snyopsis:
Lucifer languishes in an earthly prison, awaiting the apocalypse that will finally free him after 200,000 years. Before breaking loose, he discovers that the armageddon he set in motion will destroy the capital of Chaos, his home universe. He travels back to Chaos and stumbles upon a bloody civil war devastating his homeland. The realm's magic wielders are firmly under the control of a rival clan, and without their protection, Lucifer' s family is in mortal peril. As old demon clan rivalries blossom and a new hostile universe expands across the known multiverse, Lucifer is faced with not only protecting Chaos from annihilation but also saving his rightful place on the throne.
It sounds interesting enough... envisioning Lucifer as the hero for once... but so far, not much has happened that's all that interesting... The language is foul at best, (four letter words, sexual comments, you name it, I've probably already read it in the first 20 pages) but come on, it's a book about Lucifer. I didn't expect daisies and bunnies when I chose to read it. I'll give it a chance like every book I read and see how it fairs at the end.
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Finished up my at home book and have started  Cassandra Clare : City of Ashes. Still trudging my way through Lucifer's Odyssey at work. I keep telling myself just to give it a chance. I’ve said that a few times now, lol.
Synopsis of City of Ashes from Amazon.com:
From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up—In this sequel to City of Bones (S & S, 2007), the nonstop action continues. The Shadowhunters are battling a world of demons that few people can see. Guided by the laws of the Clave, these hunters balance fighting with the other more mundane aspects of life—love, betrayal, and confusion. Jace, the fiercest teenage Shadowhunter, seems determined to make everyone around him angry, and is looked upon with suspicion because his father, Valentine, is out to rule the world. Meanwhile, love triangles abound, vampires are reborn, and general teenage angst blossoms among a group of friends and siblings. Set in an alternative present-day Manhattan, the story comes complete with Britney Spears references and even, ironically, refers to the scientific CSI.
Well written in both style and language, it compares favorably to others in this genre. The human characters are well developed and quite believable. The whole book is like watching a particularly good vampire/werewolf movie, and it leaves readers waiting for the next in the series. Watch this one fly off the shelves.—Jennifer-Lynn Draper, Children's Literature Consultant, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Yesterday I started "THE POSTCARD KILLERS" by James Patterson. I'm almost 100 pages into it. It's good. About a man & woman who kill
other couples. Will probably add it to my Inventory when I'm done. Before that I read "H IS FOR HOMICIDE" by Sue Grafton.
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Finished a Librarything ebook advanced reader's copy of Lucifer's Odyssey by Rex Jameson on Friday (at work) and will start another advanced reader's ebook called Fire (Elements of The Undead) (Volume 1) by William Esmont today.
Amazon.com Synopis of Fire:
Book Description
It begins with the end...
When prostitute Megan Pritchard clocks in for her shift, she has no way of knowing it will be her last. Struck down by what she believes is a fast-moving stomach virus, she has her first encounter with the new zombie plague. It won't be her last.
Thirty-five thousand feet above central Kansas, airline pilot Mike Pringle has his own problems. When the zombie infection spreads through the cabin of his Boeing 757 and air traffic control stops responding, he is forced to confront the unthinkable - an airplane full of cannibalistic monsters and nowhere to land.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, submarine captain Betty Hollister receives an Emergency Action Message (EAM) unlike any other. With orders to fire upon the very country she has sworn to defend, she alone is the last line of defense against the zombie uprising.
In the twilight of a shattered civilization, the fate of humankind rests upon the actions of a handful of war-weary survivors. Driven to a scorched and decimated corner of the former United States, they alone hold the key to a global reawakening.
Or the final epitaph for a dead planet...
Sounds pretty interesting... At least to me... Of course, that's what I thought when requesting Lucifer's Odyssey. Let's hope I learned from that mistake and have really picked a winner this time!
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JK- Will you let me know how it was when you're finished? I've seen both film versions and really want to read the book now!!
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After hearing two of my fellow male co-workers tell me I've got to read it, I've chosen to read Jim Butcher : Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1). Both have pretty good tastes in movie/tv/books they've seen/read so far compared to mine so I'm hoping their good reviews will be shared by me at the end of this novel.
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Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes. 2nd Murakami book next to Blind Willow Sleeping Woman. =) Sooo love it. =)
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started an ebook copy of Xenofreak Nation by Melissa Conway from Librarything yesterday.
Amazon.com synopsis:
Editorial Reviews
Twenty years in the future, bioengineered animals provide organs for human transplantation. Grafts of animal skin have replaced tattoos in popularity, which gives rise to a unique new demographic: xenofreaks. Bryn Vega’s father is head of the Pure Human Society and when she’s kidnapped by the Bestia Butcher, the most notorious of the criminal xenosurgeons, she assumes it's payback for her father’s anti-xeno activities. Scott Harding is her taciturn jailer-called Cougar because of the claws replacing his fingers-but Scott is not who he seems. Deep under cover for the Xenofreak Intelligence Agency, he’s been given unprecedented immunity to find the Bestia Butcher’s lair and do whatever it takes to bring him to justice. When Bryn is forced to undergo a radical xenoalteration, she discovers a terrible secret: her father is using The Pure Human Society as a front for his own purposes. His willingness to sacrifice his daughter to accomplish them sends her running to Scott for protection, and into the hard-core underground subculture of the very xenofreak society she once despised.
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