The Guardian

I Just finished reading The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks. If I could describe this novel in one word, I would say Creepy.  This novel was very suspenseful and gave me goosebumps because although it is fictional, the events could definitely happen in real life.  It is based on a woman, Julie, in her twenties whose husband dies.  After a few years of grieving she decides to begin dating again.  One of the men that she dates, Richard, turns out to be a stalker and becomes obsessed with her.  After she breaks up with him you learn more about his past and the awful things he has done.

Julie instead falls in love with a close friend, Mike, who tries to protect Julie from Richard throughout the novel.  Mike and Julie have to put up with a whole bunch of crap from Richard.  He basically makes them scared to death to leave the house or be alone. 

I liked the book, but can honestly say that it was just not my thing.  After reading it every night I would be scared that someone is stalking me and going to break in!  I am definitely more into the romance novels.  But if you like thrillers, I recommend you read this book!

Oh, and if you are a dog lover, it will make you cry!  That's all I am going to say about that.  You have to read it to find out what I am talking about!  Hope you like it! 

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The Host

The Host by Stephenie Meyer is a book that I read about 2 months ago but I just had to write about it because it is one of my all time favorite books! 

I actually started reading it because it was written by Stephenie Meyer.  She is same person who wrote the Twilight Saga and I figured that anything else she has written must be worth reading.  I was right.  I have to admit that at first I was not liking the book at all!  I kept reading hoping that it would get better and I kept reading at it didn't get better.  After about 200 pages, it finally got better.  Much better!

I couldn't put the book down, I was addicted!  This book is a science fiction thriller.  It is about the future.  In the future all humans start getting out of control; stealing, murdering, cheating, etc.  In order to fix this problem, they begin inserting a microchip into humans.  This way they use the human body but their mind is controlled by someone else. 

In the main character's case (Melanie's), she is caught and a microchip is placed in her brain but it doesn't end up completely controlling her.  She is still able to talk to the "host"  and convinces her to go and find her family.  The story then begins to follow Melanie's pursuit to find her family and the conflict between herself and her own host. 

I really really enjoyed this book.  I never thought I was one to like science fiction but this book is so good.  If you can just hang in there through the first few chapters you will be very happy.  It has a little bit of romance in it and a very happy ending!  It is confusing, but it gets better, I promise!  So go read it!  And if you have read this one, let me know what you thought about it in the upper right hand corner!

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Movie Review

Marshall took me to see the movie Dear John last night.  After reading the book, I really wanted to see the movie so we asked my mom to babysit and went and saw it.  I really liked the movie and although I cried the entire time, I turned out happier than the book was!  Weird, huh? 

I think that they did a really good job with the movie.  There were a lot of differences in the movie from the book though so it was a little confusing for me who was comparing the whole thing to the book.  I can say that I liked the ending in the movie better than the book's ending. 

Everyone should go see it so that they continue making movie's based on Nicholas Spark's novels.  It is so much fun to read a book and then go see the movie! 

If you go to my older post, you can read about my Dear John book review!