Finishing Hunted

I love this series! However, it's still not as good as the Twilight Saga. :) I've just devoured all the books so far--I've basically just done final book entries on them. Being part of the House of Night series, this book has some similar messages to the other books in the series. However, a different one really stands out to me: in life there will be temptation, and trying to resist that temptation because of the effect it would have on ones you love is sometimes the hardest challenge of all. Through Hunted, Zoey is constantly confronted with this predicament. The temptation she experiences affects her much more deeply than she thought it would or wants it to, and yet she can't help feeling tempted by it. Giving into this temptation would involve greatly people she cares about--physically, mentally, emotionally.... I'm not going to say anymore because I don't want to do anything that may spoil this amazing book. One of the reasons I think I enjoy this book is because of all the genres compiled into it. There's romance, fantasy, adventure all weaved together into a twisted, intricate plot that I'm hoping to on cover more of in the next book, Tempted. (The fact that the message that I came up with deals with temptation and the next book is called Tempted is a sheer coincidence.)

Final Blog of Quarter

Sitting here and looking back over my blog entries, I've noticed that a lot of my thoughts in blogs have regarded characters' nature and express sympathy or empathy for them. This ranges from the complex friendship between Zoey and Aphrodite in the House of Night series to the extreme compassion I felt towards the people who lived--and many who ultimately died--during the Holocaust. In addition, since many of my entries are final blog entries, many deal with my reflection on the book I read and what I believe the message of a book is. Overall, I've enjoyed blogging because it has stimulated me to think and analyze books even more. Furthermore, it's given me a chance to organize and express my thoughts.

My goal for blogging during the second quarter is to have a larger diversity of ideas that I write about. For example, instead of focusing a lot of characters' nature, I may try to incorporate more a specific, crucial moment in the book into my blog or relate the book to an external source (a global event, a local occurrence, something in another book...). As I blog I would like to continue to reach a deeper insight into the book I am reading; putting thoughts into words and something concrete really helps to make things crystal clear. I think that my blogs are as detailed as they can be without giving the book away. I truly disdain when anyone tells me anything about a book I am or might be reading, so I try not to be hypocritical and give away the smallest amount of information about the book as I can while still fulfilling the blog requirements. Lastly, I am interested in what I have to say; if I wasn't, my blogs would likely sound as if a robot wrote them. However, I think I would get even further involved and excited if I was able to do more to personalize the appearance of my blog.