My first book of the year was a "non-scheduled" book, basically because I began it before I decided to do all the mini challenges this year. It was a Blue Bloods novel, book #4, The Van Alen Legacy. This book was difficult to follow because it was so long ago since I read the first three books in the series that I forgot most of what happened. I kept having to look up the details online when I would get confused. Once I caught myself up on all the previous plots, I was able to keep up pretty well with the storyline. But every so often things became so detailed and extensive that it was confusing. I felt like the author was pushing too hard to make it interesting. I was enjoying it more during the simpler explanations. Another thing I noticed was many influences from other novels... and at times the "influences" were exact ideas that I had read in other books. It seemed like she was trying to piece together other popular YA Sci-fi books in order to make her book like-able. The funny thing was that she had some pretty original ideas in the beginning of the series and was actually creating a pretty interesting world. I will continue with the series at some point because I am interested in seeing what happens to everyone but I am going to read a couple of my scheduled books before I read any more unscheduled ones.
One thing I will say is that this book in the series finally made me like Mimi. She became more real and less of a bitch. The author really allowed the reader to get to know Mimi on deeper level in this book. We go to see a softer side of her and in the end you really do feel bad for the way things ended for her.
In 31 minutes it will be my birthday so i should probably go get some beauty rest and hope that it helps to keep me from looking as old as I feel.
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