Posts by: Lucia

THE AWAKENING: Revisiting Edna Pontellier

By On February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This post contains major plot spoilers for Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

 

Some books are full of memories. For example, I can’t think of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe without remembering the little reading cubbyhole that I made in my mom’s closet, when I was around 8 years old. I vividly recall [...]

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VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Where’s my dhampir revolution?

By On May 27, 2011 · 4 Comments

Read on for some of my thoughts on the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead, particularly book six, Last Sacrifice.  This post is spoilery, if you haven’t finished the series.

 

I read the first five books of the Vampire Academy series last summer.  Well, I basically inhaled them.  They are [...]

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SWEET VALLEY CONFIDENTIAL: “Would she ever truly be free of Sweet Valley?”

By On May 5, 2011 · 11 Comments

First, let’s get the nostalgia out of the way …

 

When I learned that Francine Pascal would be writing a follow up book to her Sweet Valley High series, one that would tell the story of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield 10 years later, grown-up and living separate lives, I knew that [...]

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