REVIEW: Interview With the Vampire

Title: Interview With the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Finished: December 31, 2011
Pages: 342
Published: 1976
Format: paperback

I started this one as audiobook and then finished the second half with the actual book.

If anyone has seen the movie, the book is pretty comparable, but I had a hard time enjoying the book as much as the movie. The back and forth between the story and the interview made it hard to decipher outside of the audiobook.

The overall plot is a reporter is invited to interview a vampire and hear his sordid story of being turned, finding love, feeling betrayed, and searching for a new life where he would be happier.

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REVIEW: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Title: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Author: Stieg Larsson
Finished: December 29, 2011
Pages: 724
Published: 2006
Format: paperback

This one took a lot longer than the first book and until the last 100 pages, I had a hard time getting into it as much as the first as well. The book seemed so different from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and you can almost read them as separate books versus a trilogy.

In the second book, taking place months after the first book ended, a series of murders link Lisbeth and Mikael together again and under the worst circumstances. Lisbeth becomes a target, a murder suspect, and all the while searching for a truth from her past that no one has been able to uncover until now.

It was definitely worth it once I got to the end and was left hanging wondering what will happen in the final book of the series.

*challenges: 11 in 11 reading challenge, 100+ reading challenge, countdown challenge

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REVIEW: Loyalty in Death

Title: Loyalty in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Finished: December 20, 2011
Pages: 358
Published: 1999
Format: paperback

In the latest Eve Dallas story in my progression, Eve is faced with possibly the worst terrorist group so far and with every passing minute her team and her husband come closer to death.

I found this book to be better than last, I don’t know how each one can continue to be better than the others, but I found myself on the edge of my seat the whole time waiting to find out what happens next.

I feel like this book is leading up to a key point in Eve and Roarke’s life and I can’t wait to pick up the next book.

*challenges: fall into reading, 11 in 11 reading challenge, 100+ reading challenge, off the shelf, in death reading challenge

REVIEW: Life of Pi

Title: Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Finished: December 6, 2011
Pages: 326
Published: 2001
Format: paperback & audiobook

I started this one off on audiobook then when I got closer to the end I picked up my own paperback and finished it off a lot faster.

When a young boy raised working at a family zoo and his family are offered the opportunity of a lifetime traveling across the ocean with some rare animals to join another zoo, the temptation is hard to resist.

But once on the journey Pi, the young boy, finds himself the lone survivor of a sinking ship. The story of Pi and his journey is one that is hard to believe and even at the end one questions which is reality and which is fiction.

A great story! Can’t wait to see how it transforms on film.

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REVIEW: Conspiracy in Death

Title: Conspiracy in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Finished: December 5, 2011
Pages: 386
Published: 1999
Format: paperback

This was an especially good book as it showed a side of Eve we have never really seen before – completely helpless.

When Eve and Peabody are called to a scene where a homeless man had his heart removed, they didn’t expect to find Eve becoming the target of harassment and accusations from a fellow cop.

It doesn’t take long for this to lead to a conspiracy against Eve and Roarke like they’ve never seen before.

The books just keep getting better and better.

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