Bộ Sách: Soul Screamers (Nữ Thần Báo Tử) - Tập 2 & Tập 3 tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Dorothy Ling starfishli2835 — I wanted to like this book so much! I find Ms. Walker's writing delightfully amusing and I appreciate her careful turn of phrase despite the lighter genre of chick lit, so ever since I read and loved her wonderful Snap Happy, I've been trying to find another book of hers I could appreciate that much. Unfortunately, though, despite high hopes, I found I simply didn't care about any of these characters at all. I found them all superficial and catty and kind of horrible; concerned with nothing but their looks and other people's looks. It got somewhat better in the second half, but only somewhat, and given that this is an 800+ page book, "the second half" is an awfully long wait. Plus, while the writing is still excellent at the level of phrasing, the plot is sprawly and unwieldy and there are countless secondary characters who aren't at all necessary to telling the story. This is the fourth Fiona Walker book that I've read and the third one that's let me down, so I think I'm done with her. I'll keep rereading Snap Happy when I want a fix of funny, sweet chick-lit with sex scenes that manage to be both sexy and funny at the same time.

Filipe Duarte filipeduartepina — We've read a couple of books in the Help! I'm Trapped series and so far we like them. They are a bit more complex and longer than some of the other chapter books we've read recently and the drama is entertaining. Of course this book is a knock-off of the movie "Groundhog Day", starring Bill Murray. That's one of my favorites and so I loved the concept here. It was an engaging story and as long as it was, we had plenty of time to read since a thunderstorm knocked out our power and we had little else to do. Overall, it was a very interesting and engaging story and we will certainly look for more of the books in this series at our local library.

Hunter Pauker hunterpauker — I loved the movie “Chocolat,” based on a book by Joanne Harris. So when I found a deal on “Holy Fools” I jumped at the chance to get to know her work. I’d have to say, this book was an excellent place for me to start. After all, it is set in a convent, and I did grow up Catholic. Of course, this is no modern convent with girls’ high school attached, but rather a beautifully isolated place in seventeenth century France. The fact that I’ve taken vacations in the area only added to the attraction, and Harris’s descriptions, combined with the old forms of names of towns, brought to life many memories and dreams. The characters here are no modern nuns either, but a delightful community of misfits seeking solace in a simple life set apart from the world. But their ordered existence is threatened by a figure from Juliette’s past, and Juliette herself cannot expose the deceit without risking losing all she loves. The weather, the sea, statues and beliefs, rules and cruelties all combine to make this a fascinating tale. The worlds of Juliette’s past and present, of court and coast, complexity and simplicity, even of faith and science, all come to glorious life. Loyalties are tested and stretched to the limit. Forgiveness and fondness fight for dominance. And the dangers faced by an all too human angel have the heart pounding as you read. I enjoyed the way the author lets us into her characters’ heads, using first-person viewpoints of two very different protagonists, without confusion and without any lessening of the tension created by their secrets. A truly masterful tale; I really loved it.

Javiera Sepúlveda javiasepuldc87 — I was really excited to read about the transition from being raised as a girl to living as a boy, but I thought that the majority of the book discussed the girl's life before the transition. Once Cal became a guy, the book was mostly over and there wasn't as much discussion as I would have liked about how difficult that must have been.