Mười Năm Và Bảy Ngày tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Joseph Austin austinphoto — Re-read April 2016 Originally read Aug 2011 (no review) Updated review and star rating 22/04/2016 Urgh, I'm sorry, having slept on it I can't keep this at 5 stars! I've changed my mind...it was still pretty good - I enjoyed it and am moving straight onto Book #2, but some bits annoyed me and I kept thinking about them overnight, so I've settled on 4 stars - reasoning further down my review from yesterday. ------ Review added 21/04/2016 Well I was in a complete book slump and nothing was appealing to me, so I started thinking about what I could re-read. But most of my faves didn't do anything for me either and I was worried that some of the ones I read years ago would never live up to my original impressions of them. I fondly remembered the books I read in the Mercy Thompson series, as I really enjoyed the few I read first time around, so I took a chance and gave this a go... And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised! I couldn't really remember a huge amount about the plot as its been 5 years since my last read, so I was able to discover everything as I did the first time around. I liked Mercy's 'voice' as the MC and we discover that she's pretty badass but also suitably normal enough not to be irritating - she isn't as strong as the other paranormal but she's quick and clever. I did get a slight vibe that all the men loved her...but it wasn't too awkward, so I'll let that slide for now - hopefully that won't become a "thing" later on. I forgot there was a love triangle (or maybe even a love square, lol - what's it called when there's three potential love interests) - and I kind of hate these set ups usually - but you can understand the situation and apart from some male posturing going on at the moment, I think that once a few things have been resolved, it seems to me it should be pretty obvious who is right for Mercy...so I'm hoping this part of the plot will not get stupid. I did think at points early on that the book was a little slow to get going and I was impatient for us to get on with it, but I wonder if that's just from doing a re-read that I knew some bits and wanted to get further on to the action? The plot itself was actually pretty good with some interesting twists and turns, some things I didn't see coming - and you can tell there are some other aspects being set up for the series. Some of the secondary characters are pretty interesting - I want to know more about Ben and I liked Warren, so hopefully we see more of them later. I was glad to see that whilst there is definitely a romantic element, this is pretty solid urban fantasy, so the romance isn't the only point to the series and is more a subplot. This is necessary to keep me interested in a series that's about the same MC throughout, as its boring if everything all works out in the first book. As such, there isn't a huge amount of romance in this really (there's little glimpses throughout, enough to hint at possibilities and something a little more at the end) as it's early yet - instead it's kind of the world-building, setting the scene and laying out the players. Although see bottom of my review for my niggle around this aspect... The culture of the shifters and various paranormal races/species?? was interesting from what we learnt and I definitely want to know more - there are a number of different things being set up here I imagine. I guess it's pretty typical with fae, vampires, shifters and humans so far, but it's still interesting...and I definitely want to find out more about Mercy. Oh and I like Zee and his dagger of awesomeness (that's my name for it!), so def want to find out more about him. Ok so the things that knocked down my star rating: I guess I should add, this definitely isn't perfect. There were some points that I found very slow, especially early on where there's lots of description of what Mercy is doing (including even the mundane day-to-day stuff). This did pick up later on - I guess some of this is also just because of the world-building and set up needed in the first book of a series. I found the kind of mystery part of the plot was a bit confusing towards the end - it started well and the ideas behind the motivations for what was happening worked. But then when we find out what's going on, it seemed a bit of a stretch and didn't make much sense to me, so it lost a few points there. I also found the "romance" part of the plot to be a bit lacking. Not in that there wasn't much, as this wasn't a problem in itself (see my thoughts above), but I was enjoying the idea that this was almost pre-romance with the set up. During the story we saw inklings and I thought we were going to have developing relationships but that we wouldn't really see anything more until later books - but then the events at the end left me feeling like I'd missed a stage. We got a kiss, but I felt like we were missing any tension or build-up that would have led up to it. I felt a bit cheated I suppose. Overall, fun read, I can see why I liked it so much the first time around. I gave it 5 stars on the first read and I'm a much harsher rater these days. I was going to leave the rating at 5 stars, because it's rare for me to even want to do a re-read of a book, let alone enjoy it when I do. But after sleeping on it, the niggles were too annoying - and at this point I don't know if they get better or worse as the series goes along! In the scheme of things, the niggles didn't distract too much from my enjoyment of the story. I'm hoping they will get better with the series. On to Book #2 now Blood Bound, let's see what I think of this one!

Dat Dinh jundat — The Odyssey simplified and told with stick drawings. Read if you like Mythology

Ngoc Vuong annylil18733b4 — Again, another Jodi Picoult book that I can't seem to hate! She is a fabulous writer as she takes this strange topic and truly makes a remarkable story. You really feel like you are a part of this book, on the protagonist's side, trying to figure out the truth! Definitely recommend this!