More Books!

More books! More books! 8D I have the distinct feeling this isn't something I should be excited about, that it's something that SHOULD happen at any given time; but college pretty much ruined me in that. I will never again be able to finish a book without truly appreciating it or truly hating it - appreciating for giving me something wonderful to think about, or hating for seriously wasting my time. Like that one book I got from the library a while ago. Talk about a book that would never end... =_=

Anyways. I've mostly enjoyed the books I've read on vacation so far. I'm just a little uncertain how I feel about the romance in one of them, although the romance in the last two books I've read was a bit strange.

Beauty Sleep. By Cameron Dokey. Traditional Sleeping Beauty, in some ways. Definitely changed in other ways. The curse and alteration was the same. The way they came to pass was not. And I don't want to give too much away, so I'll simply say this is the book where I'm not so sure about the romance. If it took place in today's world, I would definitely disapprove; but since it doesn't, I'm not sure. =/

Midnight Pearls. By Debbie Viguie. This story is definitely a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's story of The Little Mermaid, rather than the Disney version that I'm most familiar with. I do like the story, and I like most of the characters most of the time, although a couple times I wanted to slap one guy upside the head for being so blind. Not in the romance department, though: there was something else he failed to notice. I guess my only complaint with this story could be that it ended big. It started small (with just a fisherman and his family), but by the end there were a lot of characters who needed dealt a proper ending.

These two books, by the way, are part of a Once Upon a Time series, to which more than one author contributes to. I feel like I should just put out there that Cameron Dokey is so far my favorite author in the series, although I have yet to read any of her works outside the Once Upon a Time series. See you tomorrow! Oh, and happy New Year's Eve!