Scorched

Title: Scorched

Author: Mari Mancusi [Website][Facebook][Twitter] aka Marianne Mancusi

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Series: Scorched, Bk 1

ISBN: 9781402284588

Length: 340 pages

Obtained: Library copy

Why this book?:

Dragons are awesome.  I've read Boys That Bite by her years ago and found it enjoyable, though I didn't continue with the series.  Oh, and the book was way overdue and couldn't be renewed anymore - I needed to hurry and read it.

Comments:

I put a hold on this when I saw it on Wowbrary, but I didn't remember what the blurb said and I didn't want to read the dust jacket description... which meant the book was a mystery to me (other than the obvious it had something to do with dragons).

There's time travel (from the future to present day), dragons, special powers, a museum, danger, good vs. evil, choice, friends, enemies, and the unknown.

I was kinda hoping for a stand alone.  You know the type with lots of questions left to your own imagination and speculation.  But I can also see this as a series.  And in that case this is most definitely only the beginning.  So much is left to be seen and answered.

I enjoyed the book and look forward to reading book 2, Shattered (due out September 2014).

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boys that bite

Title: boys that bite

Author: Mari (Marianne) Mancusi

Publisher: Berkley JAM Books

Copyright Date: 2006

Print Date: April 2006

ISBN: 0425209423

Pages: 262

Series: 1st in the Blood Coven Vampire series

Book Description (from back cover):

My mom is so going to kill me if she finds out I'm turning into a vampire.

Okay, so technically she can't because I'm immortal. Well, not yet. See, due to the worst case of mistaken identity with my dark-side-loving twin sister at a Goth hangout called Club Fang, Magnus, a vampire hottie, went for my innocent neck instead of hers. Now, if I don't reverse it in time, Magnus will be my blood mate forever and I'm doomed to be a blood-gulping, pasty, daylight-hating vampire. Believe me, it seriously bites!

After the unfortunate slaying of the vampire leader, it's up to me, my sister, and Magnus to find the one thing that can solve my problem — the Holy Grail. No joke. I seriously hope I can get out of this on time because, somehow, I scored the hottest prom date in my school, the mouth-watering Jake Wilder. And I do not want to be a vampire for the prom — let alone the rest of eternity.

Comments:

This was a quick read — once I actually started it.

The first time I picked this up to read, I just wasn't in the mood for it. I waited as long as my library would allow (and then some — 3 renewals and it's still overdue) before picking it up. But this time I stuck. I was 100+ pages in before I knew it. I set it down to go to bed, but when I picked it up the next day to finish it I lost track of time (I finished, looked at the clock, and "Agh! I'm supposed to be at class! At this is the class that the instructor actually called me responsible? How responsible is she going to think I am now?")

I guess the shorter version is, this is the kind of book you have to be in the right mood for, but once you are it grabs you (at least, that's how it was for me). I don't mean I fell in love with it; I didn't. Both Sunny and her twin Rayne irritated me at points. But it did make me want to know, "What next?"