Book Review: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So this book...it's actually pretty darn good. Even though people enjoyed the movie better than the book, but I must respectfully disagree with them-I think the book expands on the movie. Because there were things that I didn't even know that happened in the movie differ in the book. For example, I found out that Louis had a brother that went mad and died, and also Louis loved a girl named Babette, but when Louis burned the house down, he actually met up with her and couldn't even kill her, but tell her to be a homeowner to her home?

Did you know that when Louis, Claudia and Madeleine were dragged down by the Theaters des Vampires, that Lestat was actually there, wanting to talk to Louis? It shocked me when I read that because I thought Lestat died, but it turned out that something else happened to him to the point that he appeared and tried to tell them before the both of them [Claudia and Madeleine]died.

And another thing I didn't know-Louis and Armand actually traveled together. That part shocked me...and yes, I shipped them. I shipped them and in my head I said, 'OH THEY FAUWKIIINNNN' in my head (because in my head, they are, dammit) and I hope they're together in other books. If not I'll be so mad I swear ta gawd.....but all in all I loved the book and I would definally recommend it.

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Book Review: While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What do you get when an author put a fake historic apartment complex in Midtown Atlanta (my hometown!), put my favorite show in the title, and also make it very interesting, AND have a British Concierge that reminds me so much of Carson? Then you have While We Were Watching Downton Abbey, a book I never thought I'd actually like-I was expected to hate it, but instead I loved it. Every last bit of it.

So I guess I'll split this up between the three characters in the book:

Samantha Davis: Samantha Davis married young to her husband Jonathan Davis because of money troubles after what her father did to the firm. She can't cook, her mother in law hates her, and her siblings are a mess. Her sister Meredith was in New York visiting a friend and her brother Jackson was into a business that failed-in fact, he's been doing it so many times that Jonathan had to bail him out. But Samantha finally put her foot down, thanks to her mother in law, and threatened to cut the both of them off if Meredith didn't take the job at the Atlanta Preservaton Board and if Jackson didn't get a job and make money his own. Well Meredith got the job at the Atlanta Preservation Board, and Jackson....Jackson worked for Edward Parker on Private Butler. Samantha thought it was working just fine, until Jack pulled a stunt so bad that she thought that her friends and Edward didn't want to talk to her after what he did. But it turned out they cared for her, knowing that it wasn't her fault, and also that 'didn't talk till Thanksgiving and before Christmas' thing she went through with Jonathan and that brought them back together.

Claire Walker: So here's Claire Walker, your typical writer who's trying to come up with her next book while writing in her journal, talking to her daughter who's away in college, and making two best friends at the same time. She didn't write not one word till the last episode of season two of Downton Abbey-Claire tried to sleep, but the idea came full force, beating out the Highlanders and men in kilts, as she dreams about her friends and the concierge. And now she's writing the contemporary novel and also she sat in for a author that wasn't feeling well.

Brooke Mackenzie: Brooke Mackenzie is a single mom to her daughters Natalie and Ava, and on top of that her ex-husband, whom she put through college and to make it big in Boston, had cheated and divorced her for a skinnier woman he was sleepin' with, and tried EVERYTHING to get away from him. Then Edward Parker asked her to do a single father's party for his own daughter and everything was right in the world...until one of her daughters let out that the Barbie was pregnant with her ex-husband's child. There was a one time that she had to let Samantha watch over her girls because Zachary wasn't there one the day she needed him to watch the girls. And it was the most beautiful scene ever of Jonathan reading Stellaluna a couple times before the girls went to sleep.

All in all, I truly enjoyed this book-better than I thought. I couldn't stop reading it and it made me wish I was actually living in the Alexander in Midtown (if it was real...and I'd had a job and all that....)

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Book Review: Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger

Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The second book of Revenge Wears Prada...I thought I wouldn't like it as I thought, but the more I read it, the more I actually loved it.

It had been years since Andy and Emily had worked as Miranda Priestly's assistants at Runway, and the two girls who used to be enemies are now best friends and married-Emily to Miles and Andy to (well, about to) get married to the love of her life. Max Harrison. From wedding preperations to finding a letter her mother-in-law wrote to him about his bachlor trip and meeting his ex girlfriend, to a week later when Andy finds out she's pregnant with her first child, it's almost all too much...

Until the deal of the lifetime with Elias-Clarke comes on their laps that Andy and Emily both face the Devil herself again, Miranda Priestly. Andy downright refuses to sign the deal, knowing good and time well that they'll work under Miranda again and go through what they went through when they were working at Runway, Emily basically turned around and started kissing Miranda's ass again, even at the dinner.

It was like Andy was the smart one throughout the whole entire thing, even when she had Clementine and met back up with Max again through her mommy and me class (I didn't know they even EXISTED in New York) and then the moment of truth came when Andy got to Emily's house and found out that both Max and Emily signed the deal, and automatically, and this is the part I truely hate but understand, Andy washed her hands with them (both Emily and Max), took Clementine and went home, feeling betrayed. A year later her and Max seperated, Andy found a job with the Writer's Space, dated a couple times with a man named Nick, also her Grams died a year before the ending.

But I honestly hated the ending-to me, I think Andy should've stayed with Max after the "betrayal" and yeah she could've worked at the Writer's Space because divorcing him after what he did was stupid as hell on Andy's part. Yeah they have child visitations and keeping the kid on certain days and whatnot, but divorcing him? ANDY WHY.

Secondly, I thought The Plunge was doing much better where they were instead of with Elias-Clarke and under Miranda Priestly. THEY DIDN'T REALLY NEED HER SO ANDY WAS RIGHT AND EMILY WAS WRONG. Dead wrong.

Also, just FYI, I loved Miranda's apartment. Just saying. I would totally live there.

So inconclusion, Andy was right at the end and Emily was wrong. Miranda's still the Devil Wearing Prada, and this book was really good.

That's all. *Miranda Priestly voice*

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Book Review: Party Weekend (Sweet Valley High #143) by Francine Pascal

Party Weekend by Francine Pascal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So since this is the only Sweet Valley High book I actually own (which sucks, by the way) so yeah I do need to read all of the books, but this book right here was actually pretty good. First time I thought I would hate it and would DNF it. But then I gave this book a chance and I loved it.

It takes place after Jessica and Elizabeth's junior prom, and the junior class of SVH are entering a talent contest at the countywide battle of the junior classes, and of course, El Carro High starts some drama by taking over their practice spot, ruining their set and planned on pushing Jessica off the thing when she wanted to do the Peter Pan fly thing in the SVH, but thank god Ken stopped it before something truely happened to her.

Also Jessica has been seeing the ghost of her dead boyfriend Christian, who came to her and told her that what she was planning to do was going to be a chain reaction to what happened to him before he died. When Erica pull the stunt and the fight was going to happen, Jessica stood there in fear and thought that she was going to relieve it again, but then had an idea to let Palisades High play their presentation, but played Christian's part and everyone stopped.

I thought for a second that Olivia and Ken broke up over the Erica thing (which to me is really stupid) but I'm glad they didn't after he saved her life. I enjoyed this book and I'm going to hunt down all of them so I can read them all, including senior year.

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