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Nov 8, 2009

TRICK-OR-TREAT!!! :-)

Happy belated  Halloween you guys!! haha
I hope that you all had fun trick-or-treating and hanging with friends and family or what not. :-D i had fun hanging with my family and family friends. I went trick - or - treating tonight but i think that I am going to hang with my friends at a party or stick around my house next year reading and giving out candy!

Speaking of reading, I am reading a book right now that my sister got.It is called My Sister The Vampire: Fangtastic by Sienna Mercer.  This is part of a series, but I couldn't find the first book so I started reading this one, the second. At first when I started to read this book, I thought it would be a cheezy little kid book, and it sort of is, but it is about two twin sisters and their friends. One sister is a vampire and the other is an average girl. I haven't yet finished it so I won't really write a review right now, but when I do finish it I will post about it. :)

Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner

Summary: 

     She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches to for more out of life. Unlike her prissy sister, Clytemnestra, she wants to takes no pleasure in weaving and embroidery. And despite what her mother says, she's not even close to being interested in getting married. Instead, she wants to do combat training with her older brothers, go on heroic adventures, and to be free to do what she wants and find out who she is. 


Not one to count on the gods - or her looks -  to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with determination and an attitude. And while it's the attitude that makes Helen a few enemies (such as the self-proclaimed "son of Poseidon" Theseus) it's what intrigues, charms, and amuses those who become her friends, from the huntress Atalanta to the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi.

My Rating for This Book:
7.8

My Reason for This Rating:
I liked this book. It was exciting but it wasn't really my favorite. I think that author did a pretty good job explaiing how a princess's life would have really been way back then. They detail was good.

Helen is a really good, strong character in this story. I think that her rebellion here is a great way of showing how girls can be independent and strong if they want to. That not all girls are prissy, stuck-up, and babies... so to speak. (I am a pretty independent, sporty girl who hates loosing to guys which is why i say this.)           :-)
I think that the other characters such as the Oracle of Delphi, the brothers, the royal warrior trainer were pretty cool too. The author wrote them so that they really helped the story along by the action of events that occured. Although I think that the twin siser of Helen was pretty snobbish, she had a little bit of a reason to be because she was never "enough" like her sister because she was never really "pretty" or "attractive" to others. So I feel bad for her. :-)

One thing that I really wished would have happened in this book was that Helen would have fallen in love with a boy when she went with her brothers on the Great Wild Boar Hun. That would have made it perfect and i would have been ereally happy with it. :) But even though the author didn't, it was still a fabulous book nonetheless.