Thursday 21 January 2010

All I want for Christmas is a vampire by Kerrlyn Sparks chapters 7-end

Ok so I have written much about this book and i haven't been as strict as I have with past books chapter wise, but I have to say its a good thing, it still takes a lot of getting used to with the Scottish accent, because there's a mix of American English and then really strong Scottish you do wonder what planet your on when reading it, you really have to read the Scottish bit with an accent just to understand it.
The story is really good, its bad vamps meets good vamps, with a human love interest for Scot vamp Ian who has taken the stay awake drug to age him from 15 to 27. Toni is the human guard who hasw been brought in to protect the vamps during the day, part of her contract is not to fall for a vampire but she does, she falls for Ian. the pair fight there feelings for each other, until a church service where Toni gets upset, by something the vicar says, Ian goes out to see if she is ok, the pair end up kissing and get caught by Connor. Toni's job looks in the balance but Ian talks Connor out of it. Toni then talks Ian into helping her save her best friend from the mental hospital her evil uncle has put her in so that he can get his dirty hands on her trust fund. Ian does save Sabrina, and Teddy who is another inmate. It take Sabrina a while to get her round Ian being a vampire, but being attacked by one it wouldtake a little bit of getting used to to know there is a section of vampire's who are good. Not on does she have to cope with the fact that vampires exist but she also has deal with the fact that werewolfs exist as well and her other best firend Carlos is one of them. this both Sabrina and Toni find out at the vampire club when the Malcontents attack, thankfully they all escape unharmed, but Ian realises that Sabrina, Carlos and Teddy cannot rmal live and return to normal life so he takes them back to the surroundings of vampire head office. Ian knows that this is far from the last attack from the Malcontents and he has to keep Toni and her friends safe. As the story goes on, Ian goes to Sabrina's uncle's house and gets him to call off the police search for Sabrina and also gets him to hand over her money and her passport and give her the free life she deserves. Mean the Malcontents attack the day house but get nothing. The good vampires however get on with planning christmas and there party, which goes ahead with them all dressed as Santa and Toni Dressed as an elf. Ian and Toni manage to break away and get some time alone, to get closer and more sexual together, its kind of kinky but dead sweet until the Malcontents attack again and Ian has to leave Toni half way through but the bad gets get sorted out which is lucky, but it does end therer. After more failed attackes by the Malcontents, and another romantic session for Ian and toni where they have sex all day due to Ian taking the stay awake drug to do so. The Malcontents strike that night at the vamp tv studio's and threathen live on air to kill all the vamps in the studio if ian doesn't take them the drug to stay awake. Well what can Ian do he has to save the vamps. So he goes to the stduio with the good vamps and Toni, to save the day, under the watchful eye of every vamp in the world. Toni, Carlos, Howard and two vamps manage to take over the control room and change the tv to th outside broadcast where millions of vamps have appeared to save Ian from b eing hurt. but the Malcontents threaten to kill him if they do not get put back on tv, so they have to go back to the stduio where Ian passes on what is believed to be the stay awake drug, the malcontent takes it and believes thathe is unkillable. He says he is going to kill Ian now, toni cannot stand it and puts herself in the libe of danger for Ian. She over powers the malcontent trying to get into her head and kills him but the down side is he mangers to stab her. Ian takes her back to head quaters to be fixed. they manage to save her after a bad moment with Ian giving her blood tranfusion and Tino's help too. 'she makes a full recovery, as all she wants for Christmas is a vampire.

I really enjoyed through this book, it was worth the struggle through it with the accent, i would read more in the series.

Saturday 16 January 2010

Alll I want for Christmas is a vampire by Kerrelyn Spark chapters 1-5

It took me ages to get into this book, possibly because I had to read it in a Scottish accent to understand a word of it or the fact I loved the last book I read so much. But I did get into by about chapter 3, when you get to know vampire Ian and his despration to fall in love with someone honest, intelligent and pretty but also has to vampire so he can be honest. When he meets Toni the new day guard, who is tough and can quite literally kick ass big time, he falls for her but the down side is she human.
Toni falls for Ian too but he's a vampire and after a vampire attack brought her here, to gaurd the good vamps who saved her from the evil malcontents, but she also has other ideas as well she needs proof that vampires exist, to save her room mate Sabrina from the nut case ward, she was also attacked my malcontent vampire's thing is though she told the hospital that who in turn now think she is crazy.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Hush, Hush By Becca Fitzpatrick chapters28 - the end

Just when you think Patch has sorted the scary stuff, with getting Debria's wings removed, it gets worse. Nora gets a phone call from Elliot, saying she has to come to the school as he is there with Jules and Vee and if she doesn't come there is a tree waiting for Vee. Nora tells Patch all about it and he drives her school, he tells her to sit in the car and wait for him to check it out. But has he goes she gets a call from Elliot who says he can see her sitting in the car, she gets out and goes into the school, which is in darkness she wonders through the school and trips over Jules, who appears to be dead. Unnerved she makes her way to the library where she find Elliot dying, as she turns to leave Jules is stood there alive and well, he takes her to biology room and tells her that he is actually Chauncey the Nialphiam that fallen angels take the body of for a week, he can't kill Patch but he can kill her to get at Patch. Jules tells Nora all about her weakness and how easy it was to get into her head, she finds a scalple on the floor and sucessfully gets it and stabs Jules in leg and escapes she finds Vee and releases her, they try to escape but Jules finds them, Nora tells Vee to run and get the police, as she goes to the gym to try and hide in the gym lockers, but Jules is playing mind games making Nora believe the doors are locked. In the gym Jules tries again to kill Nora but luckily Patch is there, he jumps into Nora's body to give her the strength to fight Jules, but it can't last and Patch is thrown from her body too soon and is left with Jules, who has a gun. Nora climbs the bars to the air vent but half way up Jules messes with her head making her think the steps are pulling away from the way,
patch speaks to Nora and tells her its Jules and that its not real, she climbs up on to the rafters, the only problem is that Jules is behind her, He says he is going to kill her and that is when, she faces him with the fact they are both from the same blood, Jules is distracted enoough, that it gives Nora the chance to jump, she thinks she has died and is disorientated as she comes round in her room sore and stiff from the jump. Patch is sat across from Nora, He explains thats when Nora jumps Jules died also, she managed to stay alive becuase Patch wouldn't accept her sacrfice, which basically all means that Patch is a gardien angel now and he's the gardien angel of Nora, so that he can get close to her, he is rather suggestive towards Nora and the two become a proper couple. I loved this book, its an amazing read and a brilliant first time book from Becca, the end was a bit of a let down but it spoke to me that there could be book number 2 in the collection.

Monday 4 January 2010

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Chapters 21-27

Nora is now a lot less well off than she was before after getting information from the waitress in Blind Joe's, Nora has a feeling that once again someone is watching her, nervous she rushes to the bus stop, once on the bus she gets a phone call from Vee, who says she is in Portland with Elliot and jules at a party, Nora gets off the bus in an attempt to get to Vee she asks the driver for directions, and then she bumps into an old lady who says she will give her information and direcortions to were she needs to be, but only if Nora gives the old lady her coat and her hat. She does this and then takes the directions the old gave her, just through the alleyway and black car pulls up and shots are fired, Nora looks around the corner, to see the old lady laid out on the floor a pool of red leaking through Nora's coat, she rummages through the pockets to find her phone, but it isn't there, she goes to the pay phone to dail for the police, she looks around and the old lady has vanished, shaken she calls Patch for help. He's soon with her and drives her back, but the car breaks down in the middle of the storm and they have to go to a motel. Once inside it appears the phone lines are down and they have no electricty either. They both shower to warm up and in a crazy moment Nora touches Patch's scares which reveals his secrets, she finds out that Patch is the one who wants her dead and that Miss Greene isn't actaully the new school therapist but an angel who is in love with Patch. She's freaked out and scared but Patch manages to talk her down, he lets her touch his scars again, this time she learns that he actually wantsto become humapan and how he has to do it. They talk about miss Greene or Debria as she is known,Patch realises the person trying to hurt Nora is Debria. Patch takes Nora home and tells her to lock herself inside when he has checked no one is there. She goes inside feeling nervous and scared, she goes to get something to eat then turns to see Debria standing behind her, Debria tells her that becuase Patch has fallen in love with Nora and that makes him want to stay on earth where he shouldn't be, Debria wants him back and she will kill Nora to get Patch back. She tries to stab Nora but luckily she escapes Debria but she had nowhere to run, she goes unpstairs and hides in the chimney, Debria starts a fire in thr room and Nora escapes to hide in her closet, Patch comes back to save her, she tell him that Debria was in the house and that she started the fire, Patch tells her to go to Delphic, she says she will but she doesn't she rings Vee's mum who says she has gone to the cinema with Jules, so Nora goes to the cinema to try and find Vee, she searches through one screen but can't find Vee, so she goes to look in the next again she can't find her, but settles down to watch the film, Patch suddenly appears and to get her to leave, after making some noise the people sat beside her complain, but Patch is playing with there minds so they can't see him, she has no option but to go with him, he takes her into the ladies and they discuss that he reported Debria to the arch angels and that now she has lost her wings as well, but her threat isn't out of the way, she's just not as dangerous as before.

Saturday 2 January 2010

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Chapters 14-20

The story continues as you would expect, Nora is still unsure about Patch and Elliot> Nora has an argument with Macier in the library, nothing serious just bitchy comments the security guard chucks out Marcier and Nora leaves by the back enterence into the car park where she comes face to face with Patch, she tells him what has upset her and he offers her a lift home. Once back home Patch gets Nora to agree to go on a date with him, she can't refuse and so she does. As she's getting ready to go out with Patch she gets a visit, she rushes down the stairs is and answers it to see the two police men stood there, they ask her questions about her arguement with Marcier, who as it happens has been attacked, they seem to think she's done it. Nora says the only person she told was Patch and the police aSK IF he could have done this she lies and says and says no. Patch arrives shortly after the police leave and he takes Nora to the pool hall, where after a little tution from Patch, Nora bets with Patch that he won't pot a certain ball, he says if he does she has to take off her jacket, he of course pots the ball and she has to take off her jacket. Not learning from her mistake she rebets Patch but no bet is laid though Patch still pots the impossible ball, he says he will claim his bet when he feels there is a time. We then meet a friend of Patch's called Rixon, the two boys have a bit of a scrap which ends in Patch loosing his shirt, where Nora sees a V shaped scar on patch's back. Rixon says that Patch got his name when he was a bar knuckle fighter, he got Patch from the amount of times they patched him up. Patch and Nora soon leave and go to get some food. Nora is left in the car and while Patch is away she roots through his car to find something out about him, in the glove box she finds a touch it doesn't work but she feels something on it that feels like dried on blood, she panics did Patch attack Marcier? When Patch comes back she questions him she questions him, he is slightly angry that she has been routing through his things but he explains he went paint balling and the touch was a marker for the shots. Patch takes Nora back home and comes face to face with meeting her mum, which doesn't go all that smoothly. Once in her room Nora remembers the scares on Patch's back, she also remembers the pictures on the arch angel ride at the fair, she googles v shaped scares on a persons back and finds out that Patch is a fallen angel. For better or for worse, he cannot be trusted. The following day Elliot wakes Nora and physically attacks her her as she says that she won't go camping with him, Jules and Vee. Vee calls moments after Elliot has left, she meantions the camping trip but Nora says there is no chance after he attacked her Vee makes more excuses for his poor manners. Nora asks if she can borrow the Neon to go Portland so her mum won't see
milliage clock up, when Vee realises she wants to go to blind joe's to spy on Elliot, Vee isn't impressed, so Nora gets on the bus instead and finds Blind Joe's where the murdered girl Kjirsten worked, she ges a few answers to her questions for a high price from a waitress who doesn't seem to mind talking for an extra 25%, but what Nora finds out is pretty disturbing is Elliot really a murder?