Book Review: The Forgotten Locket

The Forgotten Locket by Lisa Mangum

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Got this early release and met Lisa Mangum today. It was really neat.

As for the book. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. good, clean, ending. Not toooooo convenient, but perfectly wrapped up and a scene earlier in the book made it clear what was to come a ways in the future so when it ended you knew everything was as it should have been.

Dante. Great male lead character... Not creepy or possessive, but still as 'into' her as we girls like to believe is possible from men...

Lots of lovey dovey whatnots, but definitely not gag-worthy. The kinda stuff that makes you smile and makes you wanna give your man a kiss for good measure.

The series is vair, vair good (Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging has changed my vocabulary forever) and worth the time it takes to read. All three of my books are now signed by the author and I plan to hold onto them forever and reread them frequently.

Better written, cleaner, and more satisfying to read (no crazy convenient endings that wrap everything up but leave a sour taste of disappointment in your mouth) like Twilight... And Dante is NOT a stalker.

Tch. This was just such a good series. A good mix of romance and intrigue, conflict and resolution... things (like I said) were wrapped up nicely, but believably.



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Book Review: final installment in the Princess Diaries series

Forever Princess by Meg Cabot

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


So. I love Mg Cabot, I do. But. This is the first series of hers where I am disappointed. I get that teenagers deal with whether or not to have sex, but I also strongly believe it is wrong to encourage them to have sex and to make it seem perfectly okay. So there was that element that I didn't like to all of these books, especially this one.This one in particular frustrated me because little girls read these books, especially after they came out with the movies and she had blurbs from a romance novel Mia 'wrote' that had a lot of detail from what I could tell in skimming them. The one good thing was: she had the sections italicized and on their own so you knew which parts not to read if you don't want to read that sort of thing.Other than that, and/or in spite of that I really did enjoy this book. It was fun and it was wrapped up very nicely and not too conveniently. Mia is whiny but comes into her own and starts dealing with her own problems which is a nice way to end.All in all: disappointed in some of the content but most of that was easy to avoid and it was a fun book. I wouldn't read the series again and I wouldn't let my young girls read it either, but I don't feel like I totally wasted my time.

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Rowan Hood book/ series review

Silver star.

Last night I finished the final book in the Rowan Hood series. It's a series of books about Robin Hood's daughter who forms her own band of outlaws but also spends time with Robin Hood and his men. It 's a series about a young girl trying to find her place in a man's world and the friends she meets along the way as well as about their adventures. The first and the last book are all about Rowan but the middle books are about her friends in her band.
I am just posting my review of the final book because even though the stories are different, the books are very similar and I enjoyed them all about the same.

Well. This was the final book in the Rowan Hood series and to be honest... I am not sure I liked how it ended. As most people do, I think the end is the most important thing. A book can be well written and end poorly and you are left feeling usatisfied no matter how much you liked the book while you read it.


I play a musical instrument and let me tell you... if the beginning ofyour performance rocks and then end does too, you can get away with a few mistakes in the middle. Maybe I am alone in this (and don't get me wrong, I want a book to have a great middle) but I feel the same way with books. The middle can have a few plot holes, it can be just okay, it can just move a story along, but if the beginning draws me in and if the end leaves me content, I will, generally speaking, love the book.

So. This book wascute, as were the others. Still don't enjoy this series as much as the Enola Holmes series.

I thought there definitely could have been more character development and that even though this book focused on Rowan in particular it would have been nice to feel the other characters' stories wrap up as well.

Also, call me a hopeless romantic, but I wish there had been a love story. I know Nancy Springer seems to be all about women's empowerment, but I think a really strong woman still deserves love AND that if you are really a strong woman you can still be that WHILE being in love. So. a little disappointed there.



This series is cute and fun and worth the time it takes to read it.