Wilde Thoughts

  I don’t think I expected to the book to take the turn it did. HA. Who am I kidding, I never could ever have predicted the way this book shaped up to be? Also, what genre would I classify this book as. Romance? eh……. Thriller? But…. Is 'weird' a classification? This book review is on Roses are Blood Red by Novoneel Chakraborty. I was recently given this book as a gift by a friend. After I read a couple of chapters I asked her what the fruck did she give me to read, and that was my mood for the rest of the book. When I first read the book, I found the male protagonist tacky with his cheesy and often overbearing lines about true love. Then he punched the girl. Then he ‘cheated’ !? on her. Then he said that he loved only her and that she was the reason for his existence. It was very confusing. As the story proceeded, the 1 st part of the book left us with more questions than answers. I thought that maybe when his past is revealed I might see him in a favorable light. But...

  Once upon a time (4 months ago) I was a jaded girl, I believed neither in magic nor the beauty of the world. For you see when I was a wee little girl of 13, I started reading books and by the time I reached 19 I had already exhausted the young adult fantasy genre. Every book I read after that felt like a parody of the series that I had loved like Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Mercy Thompson, Percy Jackson and many more. I started feeling empty. I looked at romance for a while, but quickly realized that romances have the same stories told differently. I liked the genre, but I was someone who had once explored deepest creeks and the tallest mountains, survived Tartarus and held power in my hands, oh! such power; so, even though I liked romance I missed all the crazies. I rediscovered the fantasy genre when I finnally read the Hobbit. And so, I think I have started to find my way into fantasy again. This review is about the second book in the journey of myths and magic that I am slo...