Review: The Fall

My Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

     I was extremely excited to read The Fall, especially because lately I kept seeing and reading about it everywhere. The synopsis seemed interesting, the cover is nice and it is labeled a horror book. I don't usually read horror books but I absolutely love horror movies, therefore I was excited to read such a book.

     However, my enthusiasm was cut short. This book was awful. I didn't like it one bit. I think that it was the worst book that I have ever read. It was way too long and much too boring. To make myself absolutely clear, nothing happens in this book. Absolutely nothing.

      Meet Madeline Usher, who lives in a haunted house. A house that lives under a curse which practically forces her to live there, without ever being able to leave. And that's about it with this book. Basically, everything that happens in it is Madeline saying "this house is haunted", "this house is cursed", "I cannot leave this house", "I should not upset the house."

     I can't even begin to say how frustrating it is. I don't even know why I read it all. I guess that I kept expecting and hoping that something would actually happen, but nothing did. Madeline also has a brother, Roderick. They are twins, but he doesn't seem to believe or be affected by the house too much. Can you believe that the most interesting thing about this book is that there's an almost incest idea in it?

      I am extremely disappointed. I must say that when I started reading it, I was pretty pumped up, thinking that this book will be awesome and that it will make the hairs on my arms rise. It did not. I don't even know why this book is categorized as horror, because I think that even the story about the big bad wolf that stalks a little girl is scarier than this.

     I am stunned that I actually managed to finish reading it. I really regret wasting my time on it, but I guess not all the books that you read are good. I honestly don't recommend reading this book to anyone. I think it's best that you stay away from it. It's, unfortunately, a waste of time.

January Books

Here are the books that I have read this month:

• Vain by Amelie Fisher; my rating: ★★★★★

• Ruin by Rachel van Dyken; my rating: ★★★★★

A New Year

     Hello, everyone! I know that it's been almost a month since I've last posted anything on my blog but the holidays were a time for being with friends & family, less for blogging. Now, you might say that the holidays are long gone - and right you are! But I think that I speak for everyone when I say that after the most magical time of the year, which is the holidays, comes the most tragic time of the year, which is...finals. So I only now have a little bit of free time and I decided to write here to let you, my readers, know that I have been absent from my blog because I'm extremely busy with finals.

     I know that I've said that I have many plans for the blog in my last post, and those plans are not forgotten. In fact, I think they grow a little bit bigger and crazier everyday, but unfortunately I just didn't have time to think any of them through. I still don't and won't - for about two more weeks. But I promise that, when I finally finish all my finals and have some time for myself, that I will get right back to the blog because there's so much to do!

     I barely even had time to read at all this month. I started reading Matched at the beginning of January and I think I literally didn't make it past page 60, which is extremely annoying and sad because I usually read 3-4 books per month. But with January almost gone, I'm looking forward to February, which I hope will be a much better month. I am also "reading" another book, which is Vain, although I doubt that I will finish any of these in January. I believe I also have some books that I have yet to review, but I promise it will all come as soon as I have the time.

     Until then, thank you for being with me in the past year and I really hope that you'll stay with me for another year, because I have great ideas for the blog, which is all very exciting! I'll see you as soon as possible and for those of you who are confronted by the same situation as mine, good luck in your finals and may the odds be ever in your favor!