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Claudius Bock claudiusbo0f35 — The tale of the nuclear family, in all its idiosyncracies. The precociousness of the children is what I found particularly striking in this book. It's weird, and I loved it.

Joel Rocco joelrocco — Hmmm... Honestly I'm not to sure what I should say. Overall this book was pretty good. Just not what I was expecting. This book was advertised as a "paranormal romance", but besides the fact that they were both born on Leap day, and by the end of the book had figured out how to read each others emotions, or some other jazz like that, it wasn't. It really read more like a Young Adult romance ( which, by the way, I have never read before. So I guess I could say that reading this was completely new to me). But if those where the only problems, then it probably would have gotten a higher rating. No, none of those were not the main problem. The main problem was the fact this book had a happy ending. Yes, you heard me correctly. I just critized a book for having a good ending. ME, who if confronted with a bad ending, will brood on the coach, curled up in the fetal posision, for days on end. Now, please do not think I have lost my mind; for you see I have a reason. What is that reason you ask? I read this book for one reason, and one reason only. This book was said to be tragic. I mean, come on, at the begining of the book it had a note from the author saying (something to this effect) What if I told you I know of a very sad story? Would you stick around to hear it told? And if you knew this narrative was the saddest one you would ever hear?.... Ect, ect. So I read this and I thought "Cool. A REALLY sad book; I am bored so maybe I'll will read it." And after much deliberating ( which was somewhat like this "Shall I read it?" "No, I shall NOT" "But I REALLY want to!" "Well you want to do ALOT of crazy things, but you don't do them (most) of the time!" "To bad I'm reading it. So please shut your speaking hole and brace yourself for sadness.") And after convincing my mom to endulge my reading addiction habit, I bought the book and gleefully anticipated heartbreak. The book started all right. I mean, besides the whole "I just saw you, but I love you" stuff, (view spoiler) but that aside, they were sort of... cute. I mean, a wee bit sappy, but, then again, everything is sappy to me. They were interesting, too. The main girl, whats-her-face... Oh great, now I have to go look it up... Jules! That's her name! So anyway, Jules was cool. She was funky, and freespirited. You know, like me. The book was told primarily by Elliot ( I now have the book open, which I probably should have done in the first place) which I can only be happy about. I mean, he was nowhere as cool as Jules, but he had good lines and was rather goofy. And, since it was seen from Elliot's eyes, I didn't have to hear how awesome and charming he was. (I must admit I prefer dark and brooding dudes, to good ole' Southern boys Strike that. I prefer the dark and brooding to all types.) So, the begining was good. But, once they became a couple... Well, it got really... really... Slow. And I suddenly found my self buried in romantic mush. Sigh. And the further I got the more romantic it got. It was like watching one of my mother's romantic comedies. It just wasn't for me. But I trudged along, thinking "Don't worry your pretty, lil' head off, it has to get depressing soon, it HAS to!" So I keep reading. After all, something has to happen. Something creepy, sad, and paranormal! "Hey, maybe she'll be kiddnapped by crazy, dark Elves!" But, alas, there was no Elves. So I keep reading, until somewhere at the end ( which, generally, is when climaxes happen) when BOOM! Something happened! Yes! Something that had the potional to be heartwrenching! But... Nope, nothing. They were fine! The book ended with them all fine! And HAPPY! WHAT THE HECK, MAN! Where was the tragic ending I was hoping for?! I didn't read this book to be happy! If I wanted to be happy and all fuzzy on the inside I would read Jane Eyre! I read this with the express purpose of ruining my mood! I wanted to be sad! I wanted to curl up on my bed, listening to Slow Life by Grizzly Bear! I wanted to be sobbing into my Ben and Jerry's ice cream! I want to rant to my poor, long suffering mother about how life is unfair! But I didn't get the chance! Because this was a HAPPY book! DARN YOU, FISHER AMELIA! WHY!? So, besides the fact the the summery was full of crap, it was good. Fisher Amelia was a good writer. She wrote funny banter, and the characters were quick witted and quirky. If you're in the mood for fluffy, non paranormal, Ya paranormal romance, then I suggest, yes, good ahead. Now if you can excuse me, I must go read something heartbreaking. (Or maybe not)

Una Mok unamok — I thought this book was a very classic romance novel. Almost like Romeo and Juliet just more modern. A boy and a girl meet, fall in love and her parents take her away from him...classic, right? Yes. Great book for teens and up.