Please Don't Throw Rotten Fruit At Me!

Urgh, super sorry for the fact that this blog hasn't been updated in ages! I've had other stuff going on, and I didn't really have time, and when I did have time, I had nothing to talk about. And there's also a huge possibility that you won't hear from me on here for the whole of November.

From that last sentence, I think it's pretty obvious that I'm taking part in NaNoWriMo this year, along with the BEDFAY girls. It's not the fact that to keep on track I'll have to write roughly 1667 words a day that means I'll be missing, it'll be the fact that if I have a rush of inspiration, I won't stop writing until I'm drained of every noun, verb and adjective that I currently hold, and if I don't have inspiration, I'll freak out about not making it to 50,000 words by November 30th. I like my story idea, but I don't love it. I guess I'll just write and see where I end up.

Jeesh, I feel like I have to make the lack of posts up to you guys with this really amazing post, and since I just blogged on BEDFAY yesterday, I have nothing to say. I don't even have anything to say about today because I didn't do anything today.

I did read the first three books in the House of Night series though. I started a couple of nights ago, and finished the third one this morning. Y'see, at the end of school last year, my school gave me a £10 gift voucher (and I seriously think it was just for being awesome. They gave out £5 vouchers to a few kids in each class, and £10 vouchers to the two bestest kids!). Due to my lack of money, I decided to use the aforementioned voucher to buy 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson. Thing was, 13LBE only cost something like £5. My dad told me that, since I wouldn't be getting any money back from the voucher, I might as well buy another book (did I already tell you lot this story? Oh, well, you're reading it again). My mother picked up a book, read the blurb, said it sounded like something my sister would buy, and since I only went to buy 13LBE, I was like, "Sure, okay, let's go pay". I'm often like that when I pick out a book because then I read it in the car (or in McDonalds as I did when I bought Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman the other week). My dad then pointed out that the books where Buy One Get One Free, so my mum picked up the next one (which luckily turned out to be the one that followed the one she'd just given me), and we hurried down the shop to pay for them. I wasn't really too interested in the other books, but I'm always happy to get a book.

Anyway, I get home and when I finish 13LBE, I pick up the next book. Sadly, it was the fourth book in the series, and although, like most books in series do, it recaps the other books at the beginning, I wasn't comfortable reading it smack bang in the middle. I decided that I'd buy the first three another time. I was actually going to buy them when I bought Noughts and Crosses, but I didn't real feel like it (I was drawn to N&C). So, in chemistry, my friend Julia and I were discussing books. I love talking to Julia, because she's a fellow reader, and we have a lot in common with books. She mentioned that she'd read the first three books in a series, and somebody said they were going to lend her the last two but they never did. I figured I'd give these books a look at, so I asked her what the series was. "House of Night," she said. I squealed and half-shouted, "I HAVE THE LAST TWO BOOKS BUT NOT THE FIRST THREE!". After some laughing and talking, we agreed that we'd swap; she'd lend me the first three, and I'd lend her the last two, and so we did.

I decided to finish the N&C series before I read them, so they were sitting on my bedside table for a few days. When I picked up the first one, Marked, the other night, I didn't think I'd like it. It sounded kind of cheesy, but I'm not one to judge a book by it's cover, so I read it. I ended up getting really into it, and the only time I put it down was when I went to bed (and that was after reading at least seven chapters whilst lying in bed, giving me a nasty case of pins and needles). I finished it the next day, and literally immediately picked up Betrayed. I didn't put that down unless I was eating or drinking, and read that in bed too (I'm getting pretty good at ignoring pins and needles, in case you're wondering!). As you might have guessed, when I'd finished that, it was instantly swapped for Chosen. Now, I finished Chosen this morning, and here's where the problem came about. I definitely do not want to start another series (I like to read a series in one go, because then my mind isn't tainted with other books blending in with what I've read, and everything is still fresh in my mind). I kind of walked about the house aimlessly, unsure of what to do next. I'm not going to rush Julia if she hasn't read them yet, because she read the series first and she deserves to enjoy them! But I'm at a loss of what to do.

It's not a series I'd recommend to everybody. It's modern, but it's different. It's about vampyres (and yes, it's supposed to be spelled with a 'y'), but they're not typical vampires. No way are they like Twilight vampires (thank goodness! Er, no offense, Twilight fans), but they're not exactly Joss Whedon either. Actually, some of them are Joss Whedon, but they're different. We first meet this kind in book one, but we don't know that. We meet them again in book two, and this time, they're what the main story is about, but it's in the third book that we figure out they're completely stereotypical vampires; can't come in unless they're invited, burst into flames in sunlight, no soul, etc., etc.

I think it's worth giving the series a try, but I wouldn't say buy all of the books at once, because it seems like a kind of 50/50 book. Buy the first one, and if you like it, get the second one. If you don't, at least you tried it!

Huh, this turned out to be an alright blog, dontcha think? I do, but I suppose I'm biased.

I heart you all<3

-Caitlin