The Secrets of Blood and Bone ~ Rebecca Alexander

This is a sequel to The Secrets of Life and Death.  I said in my review of that book that I didn't know if it was one book or a series because the last one had enough closure but there was an opportunity for the story to continue.  I enjoyed this continuation.  I give it a solid four stars.  You can tell the story is more comfortable and detailed in this one.  There are more answers given but for each answer there are 10 new questions which keeps you reading, wanting to know what is happening to our favorite revenants.  Again you have to adjust between the two timelines.  We are following the present day with Jack, Sadie, Maggie & Felix along with the past but only Edward Kelley this time with some new acquaintances, Dee is mentioned but not with him. 


This starts off not long after the first one ends.  Jack is still running high on the blood Felix gave her and Sadie is still weak.  They are in a different town where Maggie's sister died under suspicious circumstances.  Jack is different but still Jack for the most part.  Things have changed quite a bit in a short period of time.  We are introduced to a new set of baddies.  Bathory is gone in the present but the Dannicks are there and they are frightening.  They are part of an ancient line of "hunters".  There is a wolf on the cover so I am not really giving anything away saying, holy moley there are Weres in this book and not the ones we think of care of movies.    These are 100% more disturbing.

I think if you enjoyed the first book, this one will be a welcomed continuation.  If you didn't read the first book, no worries, both can stand alone as they give enough backstory for you to follow.  But I think you should read the first one just so you can understand more of the internal battle Jack is having related to Felix and blood.  I would recommend it.  It is packed with supernatural happenings along with bits of historical fiction to grab your attention and keep it. 

**SPOILERS**

Something is off with Jack.  You realize this from the get go. Clearly she cares about Felix or she wouldn't have pushed him away.  She knows it is unfair for her to steal his love when she's only a borrowed timer and she doesn't want to be selfish.  She is still strong willed and efficient.  She cares deeply for Sadie and would do anything to help Maggie...including clearing out her sisters destroyed house after an untimely death.  She is conflicted.  Because of the blood she has these new sensations.  It is terrifying because we love her and she could be becoming a monster like Bathory.  She is so unstable she does stupid things like run off Felix and throw herself at one of the crazy Dannicks only to almost get raped.  She is losing a battle between who she is, who she was and who she wants to be.  It's all becoming blurred, leading up to one heck of a revelation.

Felix is ANNOYING.  He clearly cares for Jack but he still leaves her to do his "research".  This research that landed him in my hometown, NOLA.  It also led him to the bed of another woman.  I hated that.  I hated that he turned the first pretty face that literally threw herself at him.  Ugh, men!  He realizes in the end he still wants Jack no matter what but my level of frustration with him was off the charts.  Granted he does find out quite a bit of information.  Like that the stories of vampires are based on truths.  It is a type of living dead but not like the legends.  Its revenants that drink blood and "ascend" to another level.  There is hinting at demons again but nothing concrete. 

Sadie is still sick but shes a witch!  That's exciting.  She has power she just has to learn how to use it.  She is completely dependent on Jack, Maggie and Felix.  She died again but they got her back.  I hate that she is so weak because I've really grown to like her.  Her ability to protect herself from the hunt by using the forest is wonderful.  She just needs something (blood...?) so she won't be so vulnerable. 

Flashing back to Kelley.  He is in Venice, researching something for his "boss" who happens to be a Dannick.  He needs a cure for a degenerative disease that is killing his bloodline.  Kelley of course bites off more than he can chew and realizes this "cure" is actually a curse, the curse of the Were.  But they don't literally transform, they still look human but they become obsessed with "The Hunt"...with murder.  They are crazed and savage, barely human when the full moon is out but with that "curse" comes extended life, youth and good health.  He almost dies, only to be saved by Bathory who wants him to "fix" her.  He hates her, knowing she drinks blood of children to remain animated.  But she saves him so he tries to help only to find out she isn't really herself anymore.  She is mostly Saraquel, the "Angel" he spoke to in book one.  It's a frightening revelation, basically she is possessed.

How does this tie in to the present?  Well he clearly gets the "cure" back to the Dannicks as they are the Weres of the present day.    Jack knows too much but is a survivor.  Sadie almost dies AGAIN but whew she doesn't.  And they all save a young boy form becoming a monster like the rest of his crazed family.  Felix professes his feelings for Jack (yay) and Jack does the same (double yay) but she is acting more and more strange.  She seems to be blacking out.  Then she talks to one of Felix's research contacts and learns there is ALWAYS a price for immortality.  A revenant that drinks blood doesn't "ascend" they are acquired by a demon.  Jack is now Saraquel and it's awful.  Felix knows and tries to help and Jack tries to commit suicide to protect those she loves.  I freaked when it ended...she jumped off a bridge into the Thames!!! 

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books to give my honest review.

Is it just because he looks like a Magician because I didn't see anything "Magical" so to say..?

Okay that sounds like I hated it.  I didn't, I actually enjoyed it but I didn't understand the reference at first.  Well unless its based on that book then I guess I kind of get it (now that I've seen it).  He looks like a magician and he has companions and what not.  Now this is based off of high level observations.  I'll go into more thoughts in the "Spoilers" as I don't want to give too much away.  But I will say I was impressed with the Doctor, I loved Clara (again) which is happy/yay/whoohoo because as I've said before the whole last season Danny story just made me not like her and of course there is Missy who is just so much fun...crazy but fun.  All in all I enjoyed the episode.  I think it was mostly an overview of the entire season to come as a lot was introduced but not much explained.  I don't know why people are hating on Capaldi so much.  I think he's a fantastic Doctor.  Some of his personality as the Time Lord is hard to deal with after 10 & 11 BUT he has that Classic, "I am a Time Lord, I know best, stupid ape (hahahaha)", attitude which is funny, well at least to me.  They were all a bit rude and quite scary at times but he has a harder face.  Almost like a dad who lets you know with a single look to quit your $hit or else you're in BIG trouble (Go to your room - hehehe).   But he as an actor has the ability to show you that the character still cares...you can't hate him...how can you hate him?!?  See below spoilers for my favorite quotes of the night.

**SPOILERS** for The Magician's Apprentice

We open with a War.  Not the time war but something bad with humans...maybe.  A little boy, trapped, needing help when a hero appears in a Blue Box.  Then the little $hit says his name is Davros and I just about lost my mind, as did The Doctor.  So there in lies the decision, leave Davros to die, changing TIME or save him because you are in fact a "Good Man".  We don't know what happens because we are suddenly with Clara and the planes have stopped moving mid-flight.  She was classic Clara, the Clara we meet with 11.  The one who is feisty and smart and a friend to the rogue Time Lord above all else. 

I love that UNIT contacts HER because they can't find the Doctor.  That right there tells you how much they feel he values his companions, right?!?  Our clever girl figures it out.  Figures out HOW to find him.  A TEXT message comes through "singing", Hey "Missy", like from the Season Finale.  I snorted, good stuff.  We get to see Missy again and all her shenanigans.  She is still a cracked out Mary Poppins but her less crazed side is showing.  She is worried about her oldest Frenemy.  He has sent her his last will (WTF?!?!).  Not to Clara but to her. Honestly though, she has the best one liners.  Really she does.  I giggle every time she is on the screen so I hope they keep her around for a bit. 

They get to where the Doctor has been laying low and he rides in on a flipping TANK playing the Doctor Who theme on a freaking Electric Guitar.  Seriously, how can you hate him?!?  Then he spots our leading ladies and starts playing "Pretty Woman"...OMG!  The little exchange with Clara was amazing as well.  She's teasing him about being nice and she says "which one of us is dying, hahaha" and he hugs her...he doesn't do hugs anymore...ahhhhhh. 

So creepy dude made of snakes (I feel like this creature may be evolving in my neighbors yard...with all the snakes, it is a possibility) takes him and his ladies prisoner much to the Doctor's dismay...he doesn't want them captured too!  I couldn't stop laughing at Missy in the holding cell.  She is so annoying to Clara but not in a mean way...its quite fun. 

I did NOT expect the planet to be invisible.  I get that we were trying to show Missy is still bat$hit crazy by opening the airlock.  I wasn't expecting them to be walking on nothing, only to find themselves walking on the surface of Skaro (what...What...WHAT?!?).  But, but Skaro was destroyed...right?!?! So the ladies are captured by Daleks, well $hit, and the T.A.R.D.I.S. is procured by the Daleks, double $hit.  And The Doctor is in a room with a dying Davros, WTF?!?  We watch in "horror" as Missy turns on Clara and is exterminated, which turns to Clara running and she is zapped as well.  Our "fearless" hero is losing it a bit as he watches two of his friends perish.  Now I don't think they are dead.  I think Missy did something with the Vortex Manipulators and they are now in the T.A.R.D.I.S.  But that is just my thoughts.  

Davros admits he has NO control over the Daleks, they do as the please.  We see flashes of a younger Doctor (Four) on Skaro trying to "fix" things.  It was from "Genesis of the Daleks" an episode, I thankfully watched not long before this one aired.  The line that gets you is this one, "Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?" Flash to this Doctor back on an earlier Skaro pointing a "gun" at the young Davros.  Roll credits.  

Well, I don't believe he will kill him.  He isn't that type even when so destroyed because he's lost everything, he wouldn't do THAT but we shall see next week.  So I am thinking this title is about Davros.  He is the apprentice.  He took "power" as shown by the Doctor and created something awful, something that he admitted he has no control over.  His dying "wish" is to see the Doctor admit that compassion is a failure, his failure.  To take the blame for his companion's deaths and go back to the beginning and finish off young Davros so that the Daleks never exist (maybe, probably not).  Except that can't happen, it would cause a major paradox.  They are too entwined in history and future history to be wiped out of it.  The universe will find a way to fix it and that could be 1000 times worse that what is supposed to happen.  So we shall wait and see who "The Witch's Familiar" is referring to.  

Favorite Quotes/Happenings:
1.  Oh, don’t be disgusting, we’re Timelords, not animals. Try, nanobrain, to rise above the reproductive frenzy of your noisy little food chain, and contemplate friendship. ~ Missy
2. Missy "tickled" a Dalek
3.  Jane Austen – amazing writer, brilliant comic observer, and strictly among ourselves, a phenomenal kisser. ~ Clara
4. (in reference to Missy) It’s the wicked stepmother! Everyone hiss! ~ The Doctor
5. Is that supposed to frighten me? Snake nest in a dress? ~The Doctor 
6.  Doctor: Davros is my arch-enemy. Why would I want to talk to him?
     Missy: No, wait, hang on a minute! DAVROS is your arch-enemy now?
     Doctor: Hush!
     Missy: I’ll scratch his eye out.
7.  Doctor: Why have I ever let you live?
     Davros: Compassion, Doctor. It has always been your greatest indulgence. Let this be my final victory. Let me hear you say it, just once. “Compassion … is … wrong.”

Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs®

I've never really thought about using leg makeup before.  I'm not old but I'm not "young" either.  In recent years I've noticed some flaws on my legs but I don't really pay attention to them.  Nothing major but very small spider veins, scars from a rough fun childhood, and minor bruises (I'm a tad clumsy). 

I hate getting my face makeup on my clothes so I was apprehensive about using leg makeup prior to getting this sample.  I received the liquid lotion, not the spray.  My first use was a pleasant surprise.  I followed the instructions and let it dry completely before dressing.  It seemed odd to be putting makeup on my legs but I just pretended it was lotion.  Who knew you could make my legs look so soft, smooth and even.  From a distance they looked quite amazing.  In pictures they looked very nice.  Up close you could still see some "flaws"  but nothing too obvious.  It went on just like any old lotion but you must pay attention or you may end up with uneven looking skin.  It dried fairly quickly and that felt a little weird.  It was like I could feel a layer of something on my legs but the sensation eventually passed.  I will say it did NOT rub off on my clothing for which I was thankful.  I was also thankful that it didn't seem to "sweat off".  I live in the south...it's hot.  Every part of your body sweats.  I wouldn't wear it running but I was impressed that my walking all over downtown didn't seem to affect it. 

I would not choose to wear this daily but I don't wear face makeup daily.  I would use it for special occasions or professional meetings where my potentially banged up legs may be on display.  

Just remember to wash your hands immediately after applying...I don't know if it would "color"  them but I wouldn't take the chance. 

I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

I give it a solid four stars.  Where to begin.  This is a very different kind of story.  It is influenced by old Scottish myths and fairy tales.  Since I don't know these fables, I was a little lost at first but it isn't hard really to catch on.  Truthfully it was much more interesting than I thought it was going to be.  The opening chapters really threw me.  We start off with a young Callanish obsessing over gloves and slippers, going to the circus and being fascinated (then terrified) by the bear act. Then we jump to North pregnant and with the circus (I'm not spoiling anything here). Then to Callanish grown & a Gracekeeper.  But after the slightly confusing start it really was an interesting, albeit frustrating, story.  It is a tale of two women trying to be themselves in a world that wants to tell them to be anything BUT themselves.  Yes there are quite a few other points of view told throughout the story but all relate back to those two main characters.  Two women, both outcasts for different reasons who want nothing more than to just live how they want. It is a story about being comfortable with yourself no matter what others tell you.  It is also about a bond between two people.  An unexplainable attraction to one another and unconditional acceptance of each other. 

It was really was a wonderful story.  It takes place in a future where the world is no longer how we know it.  Land is scarce and people have been broken into two factions.  People of the land and people of the sea.  They basically hate each other for various reasons...mainly based on stereotypes that aren't true.  I guess even in a decimated future prejudices still exist.  Somehow a girl of the land forms an unexpected bond with a girl of the sea and it is rather beautiful.  So many things happen and so many people they trust try to hurt both of them before they can truly be reunited.  Their fates had always been intertwined.  Since the day Callanish saw North and her parents as a child to the day North shows up as an adult and then beyond.  They were always meant to find one another and be the each others family.  Lesson learned...all you really need is a hand to hold, even if that hand belongs to a friend and is webbed.   

SPOILERS

The hardships that both girls had to overcome was heartbreaking.  Callanish is different.  She is practically part fish (one of those myths) and has to hide her true self lest she be murdered by her friends and family.  Her mother resents her for a few reasons and she runs away.  She becomes a Gracekeeper that holds water funerals for people of the sea.  She is pretty but shy...she keeps to herself, she doesn't trust her secret with anyone.  Her adventure takes her away from the Gracekeep.  She realizes after meeting the circus folk that she needs to make amends with her mother.  I think it is because of the connection she felt with North.  She hated North because she was pregnant and Callanish wanted no pregnant women near her because of the death of her sibling that she blames herself for.  North tells her an unbelievable tale about the conception of her unborn child and Callanish realizes for the first time in her life she might not be alone.  She ends up trusting this bear girl with her secret and instead of shying away North accepts her. 

North is between a rock and a hard place.  She is the bear girl.  She performs in a floating circus with a bear.  She loves her bear more than anything.  Her boss and pseudo-father expects her to marry her childhood bff, his son.  He is so blinded by is want that he doesn't realize North and Ainsel don't actually love one another.  North wants to make the man who raised her happy but she doesn't want to marry this man or live on land as he wishes.  Also, she is pregnant with a baby she is 99.9% certain belongs to a merman.  She remembers the night like a dream, scales and sleeping on the beach but the baby is proof the encounter happened.  She never tells anyone of the baby, except Callanish and is shocked when Callanish believes her without question. 

Avalon (basically the evil step mother, even though she isn't North's step mother) is an awful character.  She is selfish.  She will do anything to get what she wants.  She says she loves Red Gold (North's pseudo-father and boss) but she still sleeps with her STEP SON to get pregnant and then does everything in her power to destroy North so that she will get the house on land.  She even goes to far as to fake a bear attack and burn down the circus to get what she wants.  She is terrible. 

The rest of the characters give depth to the story but these three women are really what it is about.  Avalon's selfishness get her the house she wants but also a home full of the circus folk she hates.  Sucks for her but she made that bed and will have to lie in it.  North loses her bear but gains the main ship in the circus, the Excalibur, as a gift from Red Gold for everything he's put her through.  She also gains a soulmate, Callanish.  In her travels to make amends with her mother Callanish comes across the circus again and helps North.  They sail off into the sunset together.  Callanish delivers North's baby girl, in a way making up for not being there for her mom and baby sister.  They live together at the Gracekeep, raising baby Ursa who is like Callanish, part fish-part human.  They have a home at the keep but they also have the gift from Red Gold.  They can travel the world if they want. 

It was a beautiful ending.  A refreshing ending.  It wasn't a story about romantic love.  Its more like a sisterly love but maybe more.  We don't get into it and that is perfectly fine. 

My thoughts towards the end.

08/13	page 284		88.0%	"There aren't many pages left but still a lot to answer. . . ."
08/13	page 294		91.0%	"If the bear dies, I'm throwing the book across the room...if Avalon lives I'm lighting it on fire."
08/13	page 315		98.0%	"Okay fine, I won't light in on fire only because Avalon is gonna hate that life, muahahaha"

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books to give my honest review.

Saint Odd by Dean Koontz

I actually finished this book over a week ago and forgot to review it (oops).  I've been busy.  With that said, I have mixed feelings.  I love it because its Odd.  He is still in my top 10 favorite fictional characters.  But there almost isn't enough of his internal banter that made me love him so much.  Don't get me wrong, it is there but its just background noise.  His internal banter is by far my favorite part of his personality.  He is smart and witty and just plain funny. 

It is still a great book with a few flaws but its worth reading.  Come on people its the LAST Odd book. You have to read how it all ends.  And let me tell you its a doozy. Do I recommend it, yes.  Will I say its the best, eh...no I can't but that could also be because I hate endings even though we all know they have to happen eventually.  And because it is the last of the series we have a parade of old and new characters coming back.  It is nice but it really hits home that this is really it. I won't spoil the ending here (well I will, in the SPOILER) but I will say I read the last 50 pages on a plane and I was that person...you know the one who is pretending not to cry and sniffling because damn you Mr Koontz.  So read it, for the love of Odd (ha) finish what you started.



SPOILERS

 








As stated before it was lacking some of the things that drew me to love Odd in the first place.  There was a bit of repetition but I think it was mainly for those who may not have read the whole series.  Annamaria is still an enigma.  Who is she???  Honestly I still don't know for sure but based on the ending, I think she is some sort of Goddess on Earth...a mother figure that took to protecting Odd.  I wish Edie would have been more prevalent, I loved her wit in the last book.  But we got a dose of her which was nice. Revisiting Ozzie felt right, along with adding in Chief Porter. They meant so much to Odd, it's nice that they were more a part of the final book.  Do I still miss Stormy?  Just as much as Oddie does.  I can't believe she was only part of one book...ONE.  But reading all of Odd's feelings about her over the series, I feel like she has been a constant, albeit background, character. 

What I missed...we don't see dead people!  I mean we do but not nearly like we should seeing as the entire effing series is about a young man who quite literally sees dead people!  Where were they?!!??!  Part of the allure of Odd is his descriptions of the dead and their antics trying to get him to understand.  It was lacking in this one.  Like I said, we got a few, but not nearly enough.  We had more of his psychic magnetism, which is fine but just not the same.  Also, where the heck were the bodachs?  They were such a massive part of the series and we don't see any.  That just doesn't seem right with it being the final novel and all.  At least have them mislead us.  Like suddenly bodachs are surrounding the damn because of the C-4 keeping everyone from focusing on the carnival where the actual threat is, something. 

Moving on...while I fully expected death in this book.  I sincerely HOPED it wouldn't be Odd.  I wanted him to live.  I know I know he gets his happy ending which is great.  Hi Stomy, missed ya honey.  But his death hurt.  He died a hero which was so fitting.  He saved everyone, such an Odd thing.  And truthfully, I was fine (even through the weird description of the next life).  I was fine until we hear from Ozzie.  Ozzie's final chapter freaking BROKE me.  I cried a little, come on...its like saying bye to a best friend here.  The part about his Urn and her Urn next to each other, really..I'm fine...*sigh*.  I laughed that of all the ghosts out there somehow Odd found a way to communicate with the living and give Ozzie his final memoir. So if we think of this as a true story (I'm not crazy I know its fiction) than Odd died in 2003 because the memoirs weren't to be published until after his death.  Hmmm what happened in 2003 that Odd could have saved us from.  Think on that. 

I'm going to miss this series but I do feel like we got the ending Odd deserved.  Not that he deserved death but his happiness with the people he has lost...They are destined to be together forever.

The Fold by Peter Clines

This book was fantastic! It it a gripping story that captures your imagination and doesn't let it go. As with any author I've not heard of I am leery but Peter Clines wrote a wonderful story.  And it isn't just Science Fiction craziness.  It is an in depth story. You learn about all the characters.  You get their back story and why they are the way they are.  There is humor. Seriously, the main character Mike is hilarious.  He is insanely intelligent.  He has an eidetic memory (remembers EVERY detail of his life exactly...it never fades) so he can be annoying but in an adorably awkward way.  He is like Sherlock mashed with the Doctor and a splash of Sheldon Cooper BUT he tries to act like a normal guy. 

The basic story is there is a secret government experiment going on to help with travel and things are "Funny".  This secret-ish government agency hires an old friend as a new set of eyes to see what's up.  He is a no one...a high school teacher but his memory is an asset the government needs.  Of course things go ten kinds of sideways and all hell breaks loose, quite literally.  And the best part is...it is NOT what you expect.  The author leads you down a path that makes sense and then slaps you in the face with a twist you won't see coming.  I highly recommend it, any fan of Mystery-Suspense who doesn't mind a touch of science fiction would love it.  At least that is what I think.  Additional thoughts in the spoiler.

SPOILER

I love Mike.  He is an annoying know it all but I think I would truly enjoy his company.  He tries so incredibly hard to be normal, it almost breaks your heart.  I love the way he describes his memory as ants.  They swarm with info because he remembers it all so he's clearly had to learn how to control them over the years so as not to go insane.  How he files things away and then retrieves them.  It is fascinating.

I knew something was up with the build team as soon as Mike got there but I had NO CLUE what was coming.  I really thought there was some sort of radiation thing going on affecting their memory and personalities.  I mean all they were doing was passing from one portal to the next, traversing hundreds of feet in seconds.  But when Olaf freaked out about the office and the pranks...I just knew it was going to be bad. 

Even when Bob came through a mangled mess I had no idea the twist about to slap me.  I thought maybe time travel or something.  After Mike and Jamie's bonding over drinks, I had hope for their relationship to blossom but it was clear Jamie was damaged so I wasn't expecting much. Then when she volunteered to retest after Bob, I died a little because I wanted her and Mike to be something, even if it was just friends.  But it was okay, she wasn't harmed and honestly she was so much nicer.  That should have been my clue! Then her and Mike hooked up and it was adorkable until he noticed her back sans scars and I didn't even get it then!

When Mike reveals that is isn't just a portal in their dimension, that it is opening doors in parallel worlds I actually squeaked.  I love stories with parallel worlds, said no Doctor Who fan...EVER!  So it is basically a dimension cannon but they can't control which dimension it opens...great!

The description of the bug people will give me nightmares for days.  Not because I don't like horror but because they were such good descriptions of such frightening things.  I hate roaches so all the comparisons to roaches and of course the actual plethora of green roaches creeped me out. 

The way it ended, I am kind of hoping for a sequel.  I would love to see more of what Mike and Jamie can get up to investigating other crazy phenomenons like this one.  It's like the X-Files meets Stargate! Excuse me while I geek out.

END SPOILER

It was such an adventure. I couldn't put it down! It was relatable.  Yes, its all sci-ency but there are other things we can all relate to... like even in fiction government is still really stupid (hey, it could kill us all...but can we make more).  Humans fail but we have the desire to survive.  We are selfish.  Knowing we don't know how something works won't stop us from messing with it.   We are curious by nature to a fault.  We strive to learn everything we can even if it might mean our extinction.








Thoughts while reading:

07/06	page 38		9.0%	"Me: Sooooo it's like a stargate...? *read a little further* "Don't say that in front of the scientists...they hate that comparison." Me: Soooo it's like a stargate, right...?"
07/06	page 94		24.0%	"I feel like all the mentions of "we aren't hiding anything" and "it's going to change everything" being said by different characters are important somehow"
07/07	page 132		34.0%	"I might coulda done without that vivid description but holy cow! Poor Bob...."
07/07	page 133		34.0%	""they don't seem to understand that his condition was new. They think he always looked like this." WTF!?!?!"
07/07	page 183		47.0%	""Did you all make a deal with the devil, and it runs on the blood of orphans or something like that?" Good one Mike..."
07/07	page 196		51.0%	"Wow that was one of the most adorable "dammit I actually like you" exchanges I've read in a while."
07/07	page 200		52.0%	"*spoiler* This is insanity!!!!! It's like timelines keep changing...wtf is happening?!?!? Where are the scars?!?!?!?"
07/07	page 205		53.0%	"OMG! Maybe they can find Pete's world....bring back rose and tentoo "
07/07	page 215		55.0%	"Even in books the best stories start off with "we got drunk""
07/08	page 253		65.0%	"Roaches covering the floor...that's a big ol' nope from me. Y'all are on your own!"
07/08	page 262		68.0%	"I'm going to have nightmares for a month...thanks."
07/08	page 273		71.0%	"I kinda want to be friends with Mike"
07/09	page 294		76.0%	"The gov't is just is dumb in fiction...Really smart person: "it will cause the end of the world!!!" Them:"But can we rebuild it?""
07/13	page 330		85.0%	"Um Jamie have you lost your mind..."
07/13	page 358		93.0%	"Are you f**king kidding me?!!?! Talk about indestructible!"

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books to review and give my honest opinion.

I don't know what that was but it WASN'T berry

I got these free to try from Smiley 360 for my honest review.  They get 2 stars because they are gummy and are easy to take that is where the kind of positive rating ends.  The rest of the aspects are 1 star.  I've taken many different gummy vitamins and while some tasted better than others, I've never wanted to spit them out.  These have a very distinct vitamin flavor.  You know what I am talking about, that smell when you open say a bottle of Vitamin B capsules, that is the flavor these leave you with.  The initial taste is a berry flavor that I can only describe as fermented.  So you start chewing and you feel like you are chowing down on solidified wine you left uncorked for a week.  Then once you swallow your palate is coated in the most unfavorable remnants of vitamin flavor.  I almost felt the need to scrape my tongue after each dose.  I've never taken a chewable pill and felt the need to chase it with something, preferably not water because I needed a new taste to replace this one.  It's not pleasant, at least not for me. 

I can't tell you if they worked as stated because I really couldn't stomach them.  I tried, I really did but the taste got to me.  Vitamins can be a chore, if you make it even more unpleasant by giving them a questionable flavor, I am not going to remember to take them...or force myself to swallow it.  I've seen many reviews saying how great they taste and good on them. I am glad they didn't have the same experience I did.  But I am telling you they tasted funky to me.

Try them at your own "risk"