Book Review: I've Got Your Number

After the last few books I read I was really excited to get back to some easy chick lit awesomeness. And in my opinion, no one does chick lit awesomeness better than Sophie Kinsella. Her latest book I've Got Your Number doesn't disappoint.

Our story begins with Poppy, well it's all about Poppy really, and she loses her engagement ring, and then almost immediately her phone is stolen.  But as luck would have it she soon finds a phone that has been abandoned, left in the trash in perfectly working condition.  Poppy only needs it until she finds her engagement ring since she has now given everyone the number to the phone.  But the phone belongs to Sam, and he has agreed to let Poppy use the phone as long as she forwards every text and email that comes to him on the phone.  But before forwarding everything Poppy has began reading all his messages that were coming in and she decided to help in along the way by answering a few on his behalf.

The book is funny.  And it sucks you in completely.  I read it in less than a day.  Not surprising for me usually, but I was thinking that because of the last series that I had read that I wasn't enjoying reading as much as I used to.  I was wrong.  I love to read.  I love to get sucked into a story that makes me laugh, lets me figure things out and keeps me completely entertained.  Sophie Kinsella delivers all these things and more.  I can't wait to read more of her books as she releases them.  She is truly talented at telling a put together entertaining hilarious story.  I recommend to anyone who enjoys laughing.

Book Review: White

White by Ted Dekker is the final book in the Circle trilogy.  I reviewed the previous two books.  You can read my review of Red by clicking here and my review of Black by clicking here.

So, what can I say?  I pretty much had to force myself to finish this book.  It got long winded and I really started losing interest from the word "go."  I really had high hopes for this book because I enjoyed the first two.  I just think that with every step and choice that was made by Thomas Hunter that the story stopped making sense.  The premise of the books was very interesting, but I really feel that the story was really lost in the last book.  I understand the Christian undertones and that much of the story was about Christ's love for us.  I get it, I really do, but I think in the effort that Dekker made to get this point he lost the passion of his main character.  I felt that the decisions that were made were not true to the man that he had developed throughout the first two books.

Here's the biggest problem I have right now.  As I was looking up info about this trilogy I have discovered that there are two separate series of books that go along with this story and a supposed to add to it and make it all understandable and then as well as a final book written years after this trilogy was completed, Green.  Between the the others series and this final book (that's not a conclusion, but just an extra to the series now) it would be another eight books to read.  I just don't think that I have it in me to push myself through eight more after having to force myself to get through this one.  Maybe I'll come back to it in a couple of years, but my interest is gone.  Even if they were extraordinary books I don't think I would like them because I am burnt out.  I guess we'll just have to see.

Book Review: Red

This morning I finished reading Red by Ted Dekker.  This is the second installment of The Circle Series.  I reviewed the first book Black about a month ago and you can read that here. 

 

Red starts us of again following the life of Thomas Hunter, only now in his alternate reality 15 years have passed, though not even a full night has passed in his current reality.  The colored forest is gone and he and his people are now secluded in the forests where if they do not bathe daily in the lake their bodies and minds will be taken over by a disease.  They are at war with the Horde of the desert.  The Horde are those who have let the disease in and have turned away from the forest people and instead dwell in the heat of the desert.

In the other reality the virus is still threatening to kill off the entire population of the earth.  They are searching for an antivirus and time is beginning to run out.  There are less than three weeks before the virus takes full effect, and now the world is depending on Thomas.

It did take me a couple of weeks to get through this book.  It was mainly because of my own personal busyness and not because the book was uninteresting.  A whole new set of characters are emerging and complicating things.  The realities are more connected than anyone had realized before.  The pages kept turning and I devoured the story.  As it progresses I am getting more excited to see what the next installment has in store.  I am heading to the library today to pick it up!  Hooray!