Gaming-In-Progress

At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks.
Sequel to True Believer.

The book picks up from where True Believer left off, Lexie and Jeremy are newly weds, starting a family in Bonne Creek, North Carolina.
Jeremy has left his home in NY to come settle down in Bonne Creek with Lexie, hoping to start a family now that Lexie is expecting.
Before that, they went over to NY to help Jeremy pack up as well as to visit Jeremy's family.
While in NY, Jeremy's best friend, Alvin, tries to convince Jeremy that he was rushing into the marriage. Only upon telling his best friend that Lexie is pregnant, does Alvin stop hounding his friend.
On the way to visit Jeremy's family, Lexie was eager for Jeremy's family acceptance. She is worried about their opinions about her, considering that they barely knew each other.
Jeremy also proposed to Lexie on the top of the Empire State Building.
After moving back to Bonne Creek, they got to work preparing the wedding and their new home.
During which, Jeremy suffers from a bout of writers' block. Unable to produce articles, coupled with the massive expenses that they are incurring from the new purchases, Jeremy begins to get stressed out.
On the other side, Lexie also has her fair share of problems. Mood swings and a particularly tricky situation between 2 friends does nothing to alleviate the increasing frustration between the couple.
To make matters worse, Jeremy begins receiving cryptic emails that threatens to sow discord between Jeremy and Lexie, straining their relationship further...

Ok decided not to continue to spoil the book..go read it yourself.
I finished this book in 1 day. It's a particularly short book, nonetheless I took great joy in reading this book.
This book narrates the problems newly weds face..coupled emotional fights and makeups that leads to a bittersweet ending..produces an delightfully written book.
I loved the characters..Lexie, Jeremy and Doris in particular..
I really disliked the ending though..Lexie didn't have to die =(
But I guess her death was necessary to trigger the emotions within the reader..

Very good book..

Ok..covering 2 books..
First, Kisses from Hell.
It's basically an anthropology of 5 short vampire stories.
It includes writers like P.C. Cast(HoN) and Richelle Mead(VA).
This got to be the worst book I bought ever.
Personally, I disliked this book because the stories are too short. Not much of any kind of development before the story ends.
It's practically like a narration of a script.
Saving grace for this had to be the short story by Richelle. It's a short story that covers how Lissa's parents met. At least that provided some salvation to the book..but it was still too short =((

2nd Book, HoN Fledging Handbook.
Wouldn't consider it a book..it's more of like an artbook. Featuring illustrations, and some lore to the House of Night Series..it's quite boring actually. It has stuff like rituals and their origins. Their origins is kinda like a short story of their own...however, it was too short to really make sense of stuff.
Thumbs up for how they make famous characters to be vampyres though..

3rd book of the series.
I guess it's an OK book..not fantastic, just easy reading.
Not much on action too...should probably get it to continue the series.

Gonna put the millenium series together..since they are a trilogy.

Millenium Trilogy, consisting of the girl with the dragon tattoo, the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornets' nest.
Wicked series overall.
Didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I would.
Intense and thrilling all the way till the end.

Definite must read!
I love the first book the most though..followed by hornets' nest.

Safe Haven
Spark's latest novel.
It's the usual sparks stuff..but I'm a sucker for it.
Hahaha it's quite a tame book.
It's an enjoyable book to read on a holiday.

The Choice
I kinda forgotten what's this story about.. I had to wiki it to remember the story.
Nevertheless, it's a good book.
This has an ending kinda like The Notebook.
This has a potential to be a rom com in the movies...hahah it's hilarious and sweet at the same time.

The following books are birthday presents from my colleagues.
Not really my type of books..it's all vampire related, but it's leaning more towards horror which I'm not a fan of.
Too much details on the surrounding..perhaps that's what the horror genre is about.
Deviating a little, I don't get how readers could get spooked out by a horror book.
How do they build the suspense..I'm talking about the surprise kind of suspense..not the thriller type..


The Strain + The Fall
This is part of a trilogy.
The last book is titled The Fear coming out in 2011 I think.
Anyway, this book is about a plague that destroyed the world.
Long ago, vampires had a truce with humans.
However a vampire went rogue and started to spread this vampire plague.
Turning humans into blood sucking monsters.
So yea..boring stuff..and it's damn hard to read too.
Alot of descriptive words.
I would probably get the last book just to finish the trilogy..but not recommended to buy.

The Passage
Ok this book totally BLOWS.
Basic summary, the US Army is toying with a vampire virus. But they screwed up and unleashed it upon the world, destroying our world in the process.
Then, fast forward 100 years to the new world.
If you watch rain of fire, this part is kinda like that.
Where humans built a garrison and try to survive.
But shit happens! So the people start leaving the colony and stuff..it's so boring.
I can't continue. HAHAHA.

Ok..cleared my backlog.
Boring books...

Coming up, Strange Angels: Jealousy.
Part 3 of the Strange Angels series.