FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB Kate Jacobs

This was an interesting book to read, a strange combination of friends and you follow some of the events in their life.  There was an unexpected death of one of the main characters, now reading the follow up KNIT TWO.  Watch \this space for more....

THE LAST STORY Christopher Pike

Nothing could surprise me after the second book.   Shari (the girl who came back from teh dead) met someone and thought she might be interested in him but it got wierd and she realised that the new guy was also someone brought back from the dead but he was "black" and not a good person.

Glad I read the story but really wouldn't bother to read it again.

THE RETURN Christopher Pike

I was a bit confused at the beginning of the book but it started to make sense.  It was strange as she came back as another person so I guess the other girl died.  The end of the book was strange again as she was almost killed by her boyfriend who was her boyfriend who came back in the body of the living boyfriend but he decided not to kill her when he realised it wasn't the original girl but his girlfriend who came back from the dead.

REMEMBER ME Christopher Pike

The story sounded interesting... A ghost wants to be remembered and this is her story.

I had read Until the End and was expecting this to be similar, only find out the murderer at the end of the third book but to my surprise the murderer was exposed at the end of the first book.  I did enjoy the  book.

MIDNIGHT Josephine Cox

I really liked the story, I felt sorry for Jack and was hoping that the nightmares would be explained, some of it was easy to guess near the end of the story but some of it was a total shock.

I'm glad that Molly died as she was an unfeeling and shelfish person.

VAGABONDS Josephine Cox

I loved this story, loved the ending and that Emma did get her happy ever after.  I couldn't stop reading as I wanted to see if Emma realised that Molly was her daughter and if they were able to get past the past and be happy as a family.  I'm glad that the uncle finally committed suicide as he was a rotten person in all three books.

THE GRADUATION Christopher Pike

It was a good read, I never expected the ending.  I had some theories about who had killed Alice but not why and I was totally wrong about it all.

I'm enjoying this style of writing and find the stories really good.

THE DANCE Christopher Pike

I enjoyed this book, it answered some questions but made me ask even more about the "suicide".  I'm hoping that the last book does answer who the murderer is and why they did it.  Some friendships were lost and new friendships made. I read the book in one afternoon to late night.

UNTIL THE END Christopher Pike

This is a book that is three in one each following the other so I'm writing after each book.

THE PARTY
THE DANCE
THE GRADUATION

THE PARTY is the first book.  I kept getting confused as who is friends and who is family and how they all know each other but I still couldn't put the book down (even took it to read in the White Cross waiting room).  I'm about to start the Dance and hope that some of the questions will be answered.

ALLEY URCHIN Josephine Cox

This is the follow on to Castoff and some of the questions were answered, some of my suspicions were confirmed but there is still unanswered questions but I know there is one more book to the series.  I did enjoy reading this book and look forward to the last book and hope to get my questions answered.

THE MENAGERIE Catherine Cookson

I found the story a bit hard to read sometimes as it was written as the British speak so some of the words were spelt funny.  I did enjoy the story and almost cried when the mine exploded.  Glad the story was short and not too long.

TAN LINES Katherine Applegate

This story just annoyed me, I wanted to slap Summer for most of the book.  The first book was kind of predictable, she found her long lost brother but things don't go according to plan and the parents split up which she blames on her brother.  She can't make a decision to save herself, she keeps trying to please the boys in her life and then wonders why it keeps going so wrong.

I did a google search for Katherine Applegate and it looks like there are more Summer books so I might read and see if she ever grows up or if her life is destined to always be a "high school drama".

BEACH BLONDES Katherine Applegate

This was a good book, easy to read and some was predictable.  I'm reading the next book so I can see how it all turns out.

Reading wish list

I recently read a book by Josephine Cox and was thinking it is part of a series or something.  Well it is so now I would like to find the other 2 books in the series and see how things go and if my endless questions are answered.

Outcast - already read and disappointed in the ending
Alley Urchin
Vagabonds

I'm going to browse the Auckland libraries site and see if I can find these books and book them if I do as I would love to know how it ends for Emma.

LIVING A LIE Josephine Cox

This was a good book, interesting story with a few twists and turns.

An easy to read

GETTING RID OF MATTHEW                                                      Jane Fallon

This book sounded like it would be funny, I read it in one night.  Some was obvious and some was just funny.  The end was a bit unexpected.

Disappointment

OUTCAST                                           Josephine Cox

This started like it could be a good story, the middle was interesting but the end left heaps of questions unanswered.  It was a really short story, managed to read in one day but there was so many ways the story could have gone

Did Emma ever see Marlow again?
Did Sal realise that the newborn girl she found was in fact her niece?
What happened when Emma got to Australia?
Did she finish her sentence?
Did she ever get back to England?
What happened to her uncle and aunt?
Did she ever find out how her mother died?
Did she ever find out that her uncle had something to do with her father's death?

I get the feeling it was part of a series but not sure if I would bother , I have a theory about part of the unanswered questions about her mother's death.  I suspect that her mother was having an affair with Marlow's father and that the uncle killed them both but that Marlow's mother got the blame.

I have never had so many questions after reading a book, I have been shocked at how they have ended or pleased if things went well in the end but never finished a book and thought well what happens next?

Worth the read

LONESOME DOVE                                      Larry McMurty

I enjoyed the book, it was a long book but not too boring.  I kept reading to see who would survive the long journey and how those who never were killed.  Some of it was expected and some was a total shock.  The book was well written and at times it felt like I was on the cattle drive with them, I even laughed at some of the events that were told about.

Love reading

THE DOMINIE'S LASSIE                                   Eileen Ramsay

I enjoyed the book, some of the story was rather obvious but some of it was totally unexpected.  The story was told in a way that made you want to turn the page and see what happened next and never dragged along like some stories do.  I found some of the story a bit hard to follow because the story was set in Scotland so the author used spelling and grammer that would have been used in Scotland in the early 1900 but overall a good read.

Love my reading

LOVE ME TENDER                                Sandra Hill

It was a typical man meets girl and is attracted to her etc kind of book.  It was kind of easy to read but not that good a story.  Cinderella with a twist.