Maggie is a seventeen year old girl who's had a bad year. She was smart and on track, but her mom left, her dad is depressed, she's graduating, barely, and her boyfriend of almost three years dumped her for a college football scholarship. Lately she thinks life is all about hanging on by a thread and is gripping tight with everything she has.
Then she meets Caleb.
She saves his life and instantly knows there's something about him that's intriguing, but she's supposed to be on her way to a date with his cousin. Things change when they touch, sparks ignite. Literally.
They imprint with each other and she sees their future life together flash before her eyes. She learns that not only is she his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew existed. She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike anything she's ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to survive. Now, not only has her dad come out of his depression to be a father again, and a pain as well, but Caleb's enemies know he's imprinted and are after Maggie to stop them both from gaining their abilities and take her from him.
Can Caleb save her or will they be forced to live without each other after just finding one another?
Review
So far i have read the first 3 books, I do plan on finishing the last book next week. Now these books are full of cheese lots and lots of cheese...I know what your thinking
But for some strange reason, I love these books they brought out my gooey girly side. There is a big problem Maggie's brother is called Bish (I imagine him to be so hot!) but Bish....I have no idea why this name makes me want to laugh every time I hear it but I totally do.
There are a lot of characters to get your head round and when they are in London meeting all the family's I had to stop a few time to really think who that person was or who there partner was, but overall i guess it wasn't too bad. In general I liked most of the characters, the bitchy ones acted that way and everyone seemed to stay in character.
For the most part the story flows great but a few parts dragged on (I did skim read a little here and there), and this has more drama than Eastenders on crack. A few parts of the story didn't fit too well with me and seemed to be more for convenience than anything, like what happened to her brother and dad...but saying that there may be a reason in the last book so I might change my opinion on this.
If your guilty pleasure is instant love then BOOM! this book give you a reason for this.
If you love supernatural and are looking for a better love story than twilight then BOOM!
Overall I give these 3 books 3.5/5
I'm trying to update and link all my accounts together and set up my reading challenge again..
Saeki Koushirou works as a wedding planner, but his own love life is a shambles. His background makes it difficult for him to commit himself wholeheartedly to love. The child of a divorced couple, he lives with his father. He has a mother and a sister, but he has not seen them in years. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a chance encounter with a female high school student shakes Koushirou's calm and awakens new feelings in him - but he learns that the girl is in fact his sister, who will now be staying with his father and him. Yet, the feelings in Koushirou's heart...
I didn't read the description of this anime correctly and i thought it was about a girl with the goal to become a wedding planner...it was a bit different.
This anime take a very uncomfortable subject and make it feel very real, I've come across anime that touch on the incest subject but without any feeling or shame, its just i want to have sex with you and i don't care that your my brother/sister.
This anime takes the issue very seriously and you can feel the torment of the characters, they know it isn't right and they try to deal with and move on with the feelings they feel towards each other.
Its really tragic, and i did feel sorry for the characters...the ending was OK, i wish it gave what the ultimate decision was, it did show a few options for example moving away together, but i didn't feel satisfied that it had come to a conclusion.
Besides the incest her age also made me feel very uncomfortable.
Overall i really enjoyed the anime, it came across very real and makes you think about the subject in a serious light. The other characters acted the way i felt they should and no one took the subject lightly.
The anime didn't really look that great and the music very forgettable. But for the story alone 8/10
I know I haven't posted in well ages but I'm getting back into the swing of things. Halloween is my favourite time of year so I thought I would share some of the spooky shorts I enjoy.
(1)
One day, when I was little, my sister's crying was bugging me so I killed her and threw her in a well.
The next day the body was gone.
Five years later, I got in a fight with a friend over something stupid, and I killed him too. I threw his body in the well, and the next day it was gone.
Ten years later, I accidentally got a chick pregnant when we were drunk. I killed her and threw her body in the well, and the next day it was gone.
Fifteen years later, I had this boss who was a dick. I killed him and threw him in the well. The next day, his body was gone.
Twenty years later, my mom was getting old and she needed to be put in a home. I didn't want to pay the money so I killed her and threw her body in the well.
The next day, it was still there.
- Not sure of the original author
(2) The Message
Don’t dismiss this outright as the work of some raving lunatic. There’s some sense to this story, if you’ll just hear me out…
Look, we all wonder if time travel is possible, right? Well let me tell you something… it is. I’m from the future, actually. I know you probably don’t believe that, but seriously, I’m from the future. It’s a really great thing; getting to see the past, watching events unfold.. stuff like that. We know more now than we ever would.
Behind all the fun, though, there is a more serious aspect. We aren’t supposed to go into our own lifetime, and we are NEVER allowed to contact our past selves. Let me tell you, I’m breaking that rule right now. Yes, kid, you’re talking to yourself. Your future self. I’m going to be executed for this, but you know what? I accept that. I’m preventing something by talking to you that is WORSE than death. I can’t tell you outright what to do, because the filters would catch it. This is the closest I can get, trust me. I can, however, send a little message.
You should probably read the first word of every paragraph, now.
- Author You
(3) The Tape
During the summer of 1983, in a quiet town near Minneapolis, Minnesota, the charred body of a woman was found inside the kitchen stove of a small farmhouse. A video camera was also found in the kitchen, standing on a tripod and pointing at the oven. No tape was found inside the camera at the time.
Although the scene was originally labeled as a homicide by police, an unmarked VHS tape was later discovered at the bottom of the farm’s well (which had apparently dried up earlier that year).
Despite its worn condition, and the fact that it contained no audio, police were still able to view the contents of the tape. It depicted a woman recording herself in front of a video camera (seemingly using the same camera the police found in the kitchen). After positioning the camera to include both her and her kitchen stove in the image, the tape then showed her turning on the oven, opening the door, crawling inside, and then closing the door behind her. Eight minutes into the video, the oven could be seen shaking violently, after which point thick black smoke could be seen emanating from it. For the remaining 45 minutes of video, until the batteries in the camera died, it remained in its stationary position.
To avoid disturbing the local community, police never released any information about the tape, or even the fact that it was found. Police were also not able to determine who put the tape in the well, or why the height and stature of the woman in the video didn’t come close to matching the body they’d found in the oven.
- Author Unkown
(4) White With Red
A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. She explained that it was a storeroom, and that it was out of bounds. She reminded him of this several times before allowing him upstairs. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed. However the insistence of the woman had piqued his curiosity, so the next night he walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye.
What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was incredibly pale. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while, was this a celebrity? The owners daughter? He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to. As he was still looking, the woman turned sharply and he jumped back from the door, hoping she would not suspect he had been spying on her. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn’t make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red. He felt embarrassed that he had made the woman so uncomfortable, and hoped she had not made a complaint with the woman on the front desk.
At this point he decided to consult her for more information. After some gentle quizzing and the promise that the explanation would go no further than him she finally said “Well, I might as well tell you the story of what happened in that room. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in there, we find that even now, people get uncomfortable staying there. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red.”
- Author Unkown
I will also share the narrators I watch on youtube, I can say 100% no scary images will pop up (its horrible when this happens and really annoying) there may be bangs or creepy song playing in the backgrounds though.
I also made some white chocolate, jelly filled eyeballs this year. Fairly easy to do just takes a long time to complete.
I stole this idea from this video
Just realised I forgot the pupil :( still tasted fab though)
Anyway that's me done for now, will get a least on book in before the month is over...so will have a mooch on amazon to see if I can find a free horror.
The story revolves around a young girl named Kyouko who went with her childhood friend, Shou, to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming an idol. Despite her supporting him, she overhears him dismissing her as a boring wallflower. Furious, Kyouko vows to get her revenge by defeating him in the entertainment world. Read more at myanimelist.net
My Thoughts
I wasn't too sure what to think when I came across this anime, just didn't seem that interesting. The reviews I have seen online though said how good this anime was so that why I decided to give it a go. To start with I wasn't really feeling, it not sure if it was the style of the anime but I stuck with it. I'm glad I did.
Kyouko is such a funny character I really loved her she is a really strong person. I loved the drive behind all the characters and all of there flaws. The characters really make this anime you find out their stories, and they aren't mean or nice just because they are, there are reasons behind everything that is done or how people act.
The comedy is great and it also has a serious side, you get to find out what goes on behind the glamor. The character development is great, and they all have depth to them. I wish there was a second series.
It just has such a great mix of everything and its done really well. There is some romance but it doesn't dominate the show. Its really fun and I enjoyed it a lot which is great especially when you don't expect it.
Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him.
Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, sporting events - anything. To do this, she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money.
Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position. While Hikari considers Kei to be a rival and important friend, she is completely unaware that Kei loves her. The story primarily focuses on Hikari and her constant attempts to defeat her one and only rival, Kei, and how she finds love in their rivalry.
This one was sweet and has the naivety you come to expect from these types of anime, normally this gets annoying but i did really enjoy this one.I think this is due to the comedy, I love romance with comedy as the stories can become the same and a bit stale, but the comedy really breaks this up.
Most episodes are ones you have seen before and are very generic. I mostly enjoyed the comedy but I did like the main couple and how they compete with each other. She just takes forever to find her feelings which i found mostly annoying. I did start to get bored towards the end.
Everyone has super long limbs ;p (random point I wanted to make)
Kaichō wa Maid-sama! pulled it off better in my opinion. So this would be your next stop if you liked Special A or Lovely complex which is also a fantastic romance/comedy.
3/5
Lovely★Complex
Synopsis
Risa and Otani are always being laughed at as the comedy duo. Risa, a girl, is taller than the average girl, and Otani, a boy, is shorter than the average boy. The two are always bickering and even their teacher sees them as a comedy act. But as their friendship develops, so do Risa's feelings toward Otani.
My Thoughts I liked because the characters weren't just falling for each other just because they are different, but they had loads of common interest. I do however think he thinks about his feelings just a bit too long and it dragged on, but the way the characters feeling grow and how unsure they are is done very well so I can't complain too much.
Again this one has comedy in there which for me makes up for a lot of things. I love the female in this she's not super cute sweet naive little girl, she is very funny makes mistakes but is also strong willed.
The story behind the episodes don't stand out too me, but the characters do and I think they really make this anime work.
3.5/5
Kimi ni Todoke
Synopsis Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her resemblance to the ghost girl from "The Ring", which has led her peers to give her the nickname Sadako. Longing to make friends and live a normal life, she is naturally drawn to Kazehaya Shouta, the most popular guy in class, whose "100% refreshing" personality earns him great admiration from Sawako. So when Kazehaya starts talking to her, maybe there is hope for the friendships Sawako has always longed for. Maybe...there is even a little hope for some romance in her future.
My Thoughts Now this one i know lot of people love and I do like it a lot..... but its just too sweet. Both of the main characters are too naïve and sweet to the point of annoyance. The supporting cast I liked a lot more.
It did have some real problems (like bullying) which I liked but on the flip side I felt these problems where just dragged on a hell of a lot, some could of been sorted in 1-1.5 episodes but just went on for 3-4.
I did enjoy this anime but i doubt i will watch the second series due to the fact it dragged on (maybe I'm just too impatient for a conclusion) but I did consider checking it out as I did enjoy the comedy in this, but its not as memorable as some of the other animes I have watched.
If you like super sweet main characters who would be kind to anyone no matter how mean the other person was, or who seem to be smart in general but when it about interacting with other people should walk around with a huge ? over there heads.
In fact I think the beginning of this started off really strong then I found the more it went on the more I didn't like it.
Anyway it is worth your time but if your not into it by the first 5 or so episodes it doesn't get any better in my opinion.
2.5/5
Sukitte Ii na yo
Synopsis Mei Tachibana has spent her 16 years without a boyfriend or friends. One day, she injures the most popular boy in school, Yamato Kurosawa, due to a misunderstanding. For some reason though, it seems that he takes a liking to her and one-sidedly claims that they're friends. Furthermore, he not only protects Mei from a stalker, but does so with a kiss…?!!
To be honest most of these I watched a while ago so they might not be so fresh in my mind but it seems this one made the least impression on me.
The guy is the typical super popular all the girls love him and will do almost anything to be with him. The girl well shes just flat, I guess she didn't have much personality and goes with the flow of things...I didn't think there was anything special about her at all.
This anime does go into some serious issues people deal with in real life, but mostly to do with how people looks so extreme diets and what it takes to be pretty.
I loved the artwork in this one but nothing really stands out for me. It is worth a watch but I don't think it will be one your going to remember. It is a good romance but just don't expect too much or anything to stand out.
I think it could of been so much more it just misses the mark somehow.
2/5
Bokura ga Ita
Synopsis Nanami Takahashi welcomes the start of her high school life with great expectations of making as many friends as possible. There is much talk among the girls about a popular boy, Motoharu Yano, who has 2/3 of the girls in his middle school liking him. When Nanami asks Yuri Yamamoto, the girl sitting next to her, about Yano, the latter curtly replies that she dislikes him. Nanami is clueless of who Yano is until the day of the class nomination when she made a fool of herself by calling the name of her new friend wrongly. It turns out that she has actually met Yano along the corridors (unaware of his true identity) and he tricked her by providing a random name, resulting in the embarrassing incident in class. Nanami was initially mad at Yano but after a few encounters with him, she begins to find herself liking him. Read more at myanimelist.net
My Thoughts
This one I found by chance, and I loved it.
This one had real problems and I don't mean the kind of jealousy, or backstabbing I mean real raw emotions.
This one was very serious and sweet and sad. And they both weren't naive (woop woop) In fact he is rather messed up and she is the sweetest thing ever.
It all just felt really honest and things weren't forced it just flowed great.
I think there are a few episodes in there that aren't needed but overall I loved the main story. I even liked the fact he wanted to have sex with her, most of these anime just have them holding hands or a huge build up to the kiss. The fact he wants more than this made it feel more like a real relationship.
The oddest thing is people are missing eyes a lot of the time I found this weird as I don't think I've seen it before. one point he gets out of a taxi out of breath (like he had been running) which made me giggle.
This one made me cry and I will be recommending to everyone.
Cimmeria has been more than a school for
Allie, it's been a safe haven. But no longer.
A nefarious group - one
that is tied up with Allie's family in ways she could barely imagine - is trying
to destroy everything Cimmeria stands for.
Even worse, it's clear that
somebody they eat with, sleep with, train with is betraying them. There's a spy
in Night School. As the paranoia grows and the fights begin, it's not an attack
from outside they need to worry about . . .
My Thoughts
Anyone who has read my other reviews on this series knows I love them, and I couldn't wait for this book to come out.
The characters are still fantastic and I find them all very interesting, I am interested in the story but I do have problems with this book.
This book just seemed the same as the last...I know we do find out more about the school, Allies past and the character development is still great. Allie did grow and change during this book.
But... a lot of the book was finding out information, then the end fight. To me its like an adventure game you go around finding these clues to come to the end boss... which is fine but the last book was the same. As I said in my last book review I was hoping this one would be faster paced with more action.
I don't know how long the series will be and I've never read a long series before so maybe this is the norm? this isn't to say this is a bad book. I still got through it really quickly and I will buy the next.
I enjoyed the first two books more and if another comes out I don't want the same thing again.
I still enjoyed the book and would recommend if you liked the first two
Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class. On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes rotate in the evenings. As the night class is full of utterly gorgeous elites, this can sometimes prove to be a bit difficult. It is completely necessary, however, as those "elites" are actually vampires. Yuuki and Zero act as guardians, protecting the secrets of the Night Class and the safety of the ignorant day class.
As the adopted daughter of the academy's chairman, Yuuki takes her job with a serious and energetic attitude. It also allows her to interact with her secret crush and savior, the night class' dorm president, Kaname Kuran. Zero, on the other hand, has a deep-rooted hatred against vampires, and at times, does not hesitate to kill.
Can vampires and humans co-exist, even in the strict setup of the Cross Academy? Only time will tell.
I really liked this anime, the artwork was very dark and really made the atmosphere, and the vampires are beautiful but scary. The music was also great I loved the opening and ending songs again really suited the anime.
The overall story was great but it wasn't that good till the ends of Vampire Knight Guilty, when it all came together it seems so much better. But I have to say in the Vampire Knight the story did seem to be dragged out with not much of the plot moving forward and I got kind of bored with some episodes.
I really preferred the sub, I am normally lazy and watch the dubbed if there is one available. But Yuuki's voice did not suit the anime and took me out of the zone all together, why is her voice so sweet and cute? makes no sense at all, and with her being the main character you have to hear it constantly, the sound of the Japanese voices seemed to go perfectly.
It was all very dramatic and you could really feel the emotion in the characters, the fight scenes were fantastic, and while very dragged out the love triangle I thought was awesome.
Yuuki annoyed me she was always crying and I guess whiny, at first I was all for her....she seemed a strong female lead but over time she just got annoying.
I would give this Anime a 3/5 and would say give it a try. This is my first Vampire Anime so I don't have much to compare it to.
