findings

I finished reading two more books; the unbecoming of mara dyer by Michelle Hodkin and the name of the star by Maureen Johnson. Honestly, i did not really enjoy the unbecoming of mara dyer because the book cover is much more promising than book itself. I thought upon reaching the last few pages of the book there’s still so much more and there wasn't. 

the unbecoming of mara dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Mara dyer and her family left hometown for Miami to start anew. She was involved in a tragic accident which left her hospitalized and her friends dead, her best friend since childhood Rachel, Claire and her boyfriend jude. Her parents made her believe the old building her and her friends went for some adventure escapade collapsed thus leaving them underneath the rubble and mara, the lone survivor. Mara and her family moved to Miami. Her brother Daniel and joseph needed to adjust as well to their new school and house. Mara’s parents closely looked after mara because they’re worried she might be going through rough times. Mara’s love interest, Noah, an English good looking guy from an affluent family, also happened to be her schoolmate. The two had this eccentric connection. Mara found, noah happened to possess such power to heal and kill people/animals unconsciously. Mara failed her Spanish subject after her verbal exam and hates her Spanish teacher. Later on, her Spanish teacher died. As expected, having watched and read a lot of suspense thrillers, the villain turned out to be mara, she killed all her friends including her Spanish teacher. End. I was bored quite frankly but kudos to the book cover.

the name of the star by Maureen Johnson

Aurora or ‘dory’ went to England having hailed from New Orleans, LA to study and prepare for her future. She went to a boarding school called Wexford, made friends with her room mate Jazza and a boy named Jerome. She went to England at the height of the murders. They call the killer jack the ripper (i guess an a.k.a for serial killers in England). The killings, for some reason, weren’t caught by CCTV cameras. The book ended with Veronica, a character  who sprouts from nowhere, viewing a footage of a woman caught on CCTV with her guts out yet the footage wasn't able to capture the killer.

I’ll start with my new read called PostMortem by patricia cornwell. I hope it’s something better. I’m crossing my fingers.

if food is fuel, book is food..for the brain.

I’m pretty busy again putting more e-books to my library. Reading is so addicting i must admit that it I just finished Stephen King’s The Dead Zone book and it was tragic. I hate tragic endings but that makes suspense thrillers even more thrilling.

sometimes curbs hunger.

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

The main character, Johnny Smith met his life changing accident as a kid in an ice hockey rink. He hit his head really bad and since then he started having ‘flashes’ about the past and the future. It has turned even more powerful whenever he touches someone or touches something that belongs to someone in particular. Johnny also since the accident developed this special ‘talent’ to find lost things or people.

His love interest was Sarah. One night, during his date with Sarah, he won about $500 in this wheel of fortune thing. But, his belief that something tragic will happen once luck comes around (as taught by her mom) happened like a bad dream. That same night, Sarah’s stomach went bad so Johnny needed to accompany her home and took a cab on his way home but faced a tragic car crash which left him in a coma for more than 4 years.

His parents were both devastated and his mother’s devotion to God grew weirder. His father almost gave up on him thinking he won’t wake up again, Sarah them got married and had a child with a lawyer aspiring to be in the public office.

Johnny surprisingly got out from coma after 4 years but the ‘flashes’ grew worse than ever. His mother died and left him a message to put into good use his acquired ‘gift.’ He eventually disliked media frenzy and almost retreated with a will to forget about the whole psychic powers he acquired hadn’t a cop asked for his help to unravel who the serial killer is sneaking around their town. The murderer had killed 5 people including a child, raped then murdered. To make the long story short Johnny was able to pinpoint the killer (who happened to commit suicide knowing he will be tracked in a very short period of time having known Johnny as a psychic.) The book ended really tragic because he killed Greg Stillson, the unscrupulous politician by shooting him. Johnny had this ‘flash’ one time that during Stillson’s term the country will be raging a war with other nations, etcetera, so he killed him to prevent such catastrophe. Isn’t that odd? But, anyways, he died and the story ended with Sarah visiting his grave.

Why dead zone? Part of his right brain was damaged during the car crash which gave him difficulty retaining road names and streets. Thus, that same zone was badly hurt when he fell during his childhood. His dead zone is where all his psychic powers and weird flashes came from.

The End.

Moving on, though I miss our post paid internet service and wireless router since my sister and I left Manila, I suit myself by reconciling with my bookworm side. I miss a lot of things since we moved such as movie DVD rips care of torrent. Anyways, reading is quite similar with watching movies..the details even more intricate hehe.

I just signed up with epubbud, shribd and goodreads where I downloaded my free epub and pdf books. They’re good source for free ibooks by the way.

My new read is a NY bestseller last year by Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. Then this one from Lauren Myracle (Shine), Patricia Cornwell (Postmortem), Charlaine Harris (Death with Dark) & Maureen Johnson (The Name of the Star). I’m excited to read ‘em all. Hopefully i’ll have tons of time. Jeez. I’m so into mystery, suspense, dark and sinister novels.

I’m just not into the pink frills and violet laces. But, I like purple, it’s the gothic pink.

Looking forward to another flava of Zentea!

my reads

Stephen King rocks. It’s tough when you got tons of e-books to choose from your ipad library. So, i multi-task by skimming through john grisham’s a painted house, Paulo coelho’s witch of Portobello and reading by heart Stephen king’s the dead zone. At first i was really bored and looking to switch to another read that would excite/shudder my nerves or jar my half awake brain. Then came dead zone. whew... it’s much more interesting than stieg larsson’s. Well, that’s quite unfair to say. Let me just put it this way, they’re equally interesting but exciting in different ways. Gadh. It’s like watching a suspense thriller flick, so making my head throb.