Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

book: Deadly Little Lies
written by: Laurie Faria Stolarz
series: Touch #2
genres: young adult, romance
pages: 288
own / library / borrowed
publication date: November 6th, 2009
publisher: Hyperion books CA


first thoughts:
I have already read and reviewed Deadly Little Lies (Touch #1). *find it HERE* I recieved that book from Netgalley. I liked that book, altough I did not entirely fall in love with it. Still, I was very intersted in reading the sequel. So that's what I did :)

the book: 
Since Ben abruptly left town, Camelia has been studying everything she can about psychometry, and wonders if Ben's abilities have somehow rubbed off on her.

my review:

This book was not what I expected it to be... Again, the twilight-effect. More about that later ;)

The characters did develop a little, but not as much as characters usually develop between the first book and the sequel. There was an amazing character added to the series, which I can't really talk about without spoiling the book, so I won't...

There were some great plot twists, that kept the book a little interesting, but most of the book was just about the same topic repeated time after time, which is one of the things that bothered me about the first part in the series, too.

Now I will talk about the twilight-effect. In book 1 I said: "They become Chem (biology ) lab partners. The girl falls in love with the boy, even tough he is totally out of her league AND does only show how much he hates her. Then she figures out that there's somthing wrong with the boy but she just does not care and then she finds out that he kind-of-killed his ex and she still loves him" and now, in this book, the twilight-effect continued. This was just like New Moon. Ben *Edward* runs away from Camelia *Bella 2.0* and a new boy *Jacob* enters her life. The two boys don't like each other and stuff. Not that the girl attemps suicide in this book ;) Just that I keep on seeing the similarities, and how they keep on irritating me.

The writing style of the author and the pace of this book both were above average, and it was very easy to read this book. A quick and enjoyable read! It might not have worked out completely for me, but I'm sure that lots of other people will love this book. when I browsed through my friends who rated this book on goodreads, I saw mostly 4- and 5-star reviews :)

So yes, I get that others liked this book, but the twilight-effect kept on showing up and kept on annoying me throughout the book. Apart of that, the story wasn't even that bad c:

rating: 

2.5 stars

xo Mar

Deadly little secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Yoo awesome people who are reading my blog c:


book: Deadly little secret
written by: Laurie Faria Stolarz
genres: romance, paranormalcy, young adult
pages: 252
own / library / netgalley
release date: december 16th, 2008
series?: yes, Touch #1
publisher: Disney Hiperion books


note: Thanks to NetGalley and Disney Hiperion books for letting me read and review this book c:


the book: Camelia is just a normal teen, on high school. She almost gets killed in a car accident, but a mysterious guy saves her. She does not know who saved her, nobody saw him and nobody knows him. But then he goes to the same school as she does. Everybody thinks he is the scary dude, that killed his ex-girlfriend, but Camelia is sure that he's the one who's saved her. Then she starts recieving photo's of herself, and scary messages and presents. She is stalked. But who is it, and is he as dangerous as it seems...?

my review:
So, I liked and hated this book
-Why like?
Because of the ending, because you keep on guessing who's the stalker, and when you find out you are surprised (at least I was...) That made the book good. You could also read some diary-like things of the Stalker, and first it was obvious to me who was the stalker, but then you start thinking about it and you see that your brain is messing with you, and the stalker is not who you think it is...
-Why hate?
This book was so much like Twilight. They become Chem (biology ) lab partners. The girl falls in love with the boy, even tough he is totally out of her league AND does only show how much he hates her. Then she is stalked and everybody says it's him but she does not care that he might be dangerous. Then she figures out that there's somthing big wrong with the boy but she does just not care (like in twilight, he's a vampire and can kill her any time but she does not care at all) and then she finds out that he kind-of-killed his ex and she still loves him O.o and it gets worse, but I cannot tell you because there will be too much spoilers.
I do so hate Twilight, but authors keep on showing the Twilight-effect :$


Still, I liked the story c: Just hated the twilight-like thingies. 


Again, thank you NetGalley
and I will read part 2 in the series, and Give it another chance!


total:
2.8 stars / 5 


xo Mar


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