Love Is Hell Scott Westerfeld Melissa Marr Justine Larbalestier 9780061443046 Books
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LOVE IS HELL is a collection of short stories from various popular YA authors and as so I thought it only fair to rate each story independently. But first I'd like to state that I'm not usually a fan of compilations books and was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one as a whole. So here we go...Laurie Faria Stolarz's SLEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT is a well told and very sweet, touching ghost story; setting great pace and a promising start for this style of book... think The Ghost Whisperer. 4 stars
Scott Westerfeld's is a favorite author of mine and one of the reason's I decided to give this book a read. STUPID PERFECT WORD is unique, a funny futuristic sci-fi with an interesting concept for sure, truly an enjoyable short from start to finish. 5 stars
Justine Larbalestier's THINNER THAN WATER is a disturbingly luring and heartbreakingly tragic love story of the fay nature. 4 stars
Gabrielle Zevin's FAN FICTONS is twisted little vampire-esk paranormal tale that although, lacks depth, still makes for a quick fun read, closing with a great little notion at the end. 3 stars
Melissa Marr's gift for writing lore shines yet again with LOVE STRUCK, a new kind of Fairy Tale, one with sea-fay seals who shed their skins on land to take human form, fay called Selchies. This is a completely unique legend to me, and there for, the story held a freshness and wonder that tends to be rare for fans of the Faerie genre. Kudos to Marr for creating a story that is strong, well paced and entertaining through to the end. 4 stars
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Love Is Hell Scott Westerfeld Melissa Marr Justine Larbalestier 9780061443046 Books Reviews
I'll tell you one thing, if you're looking for a happy love story this is not it! But you'll love it anyways! Love gone wrong and passion running wild is the perfect combination. I absolutely adored it!
Good quality
To be honest I only bought this book for one story, Love Struck by Melissa Marr because she is a favourite author of mine. That is usually how it is with anthologies and me 1 story but I do try to read the rest of the stories in hopes of finding something else interesting.
In order of how much I liked them
1. Love Struck
2.Stupid Perfect World
8. Sleeping with the Spirit
30. Thinner than Water
[-_-]. Fan Fictions
Love Struck
An amazing story that I did not want to see end and that has made it obvious that Ms. Marr needs to write a full length selchie novel.
Murrin is ultimately sweet and adorable and I can see why it was so hard for Alana to resist him and Vic is just so dangerous and tempting threatening any moment to pull you in, its best to keep an eye on him.
I love Alana's character, she's strong, independent and definitely knows what she wants and isn't afraid to make her own choices.
The descriptions were wonderful and I love the selchie folklore and have seen it in other stories of it always being the humans trapping the selchie/mermaid/siren/celestial maiden and I liked seeing put this way as both parties being trapped in it together.
Stupid Perfect World
Loved this story from beginning to end. It was hilarious, all of the students freaking out about transportation and sleep had me cracking up not to mention Maria going all hormonal on Keiran . The characters I love (especially the teachers and Kieran's dad) and the descriptions were good most of the time but I have to say I got a little confused with all the futuristic references and couldn't really picture a few (e.g head space) but I figured out what it was even if I couldn't see it. Like the internet in your head perhaps? Other than that the story was really enjoyable and I will most definitely be checking out more of Scott Westerfeld's books.
Sleeping with the Spirit
The story was OK not really bad but not gripping either or very interesting. And I knew the moment that she found the necklace what was going to happen from there. Predictable and a little dull with characters that didn't peak any interest. In fact the only people I liked were her two friends and that's because they were funny at times.
Thinner than Water
The story was pretty good in the beginning if not a little confusing with the setting. I could not relate at all to Jeannie and found her situation completely surreal and it wasn't because it was fantasy.
Fan Fictions
Do not like. At all. Did not like the style, did not like Paige or the plot and what was with the ending?
All and all as the title says 2 out of 5 isn't so bad, especially with short stories.
Two of these stories I don't feel belong at all Westerfeld's and Stolarz's additions. In Westerfeld's, I just don't see where love comes in at all! Even calling it a crush seems like pushing it. The only real hint of romance between the two is them being called "lovebirds" by their teacher and them holding hands. Stolarz's has some romance, I suppose, but it is very fleeting and does not seem to be the main focus of the story. That's not to say that both of the aforementioned authors did not have good stories, but I just didn't understand why they were in this anthology. Otherwise though, this is a fair collection of stories; some were far better than others (Marr's for example), but for being short stories the rest weren't terrible. I don't think this book was for me though and probably will not continue with the "____ is Hell" collections. I had high expectations for this book, having read most of the authors' other works, and I was disappointed.
LOVE IS HELL is a collection of short stories from various popular YA authors and as so I thought it only fair to rate each story independently. But first I'd like to state that I'm not usually a fan of compilations books and was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one as a whole. So here we go...
Laurie Faria Stolarz's SLEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT is a well told and very sweet, touching ghost story; setting great pace and a promising start for this style of book... think The Ghost Whisperer. 4 stars
Scott Westerfeld's is a favorite author of mine and one of the reason's I decided to give this book a read. STUPID PERFECT WORD is unique, a funny futuristic sci-fi with an interesting concept for sure, truly an enjoyable short from start to finish. 5 stars
Justine Larbalestier's THINNER THAN WATER is a disturbingly luring and heartbreakingly tragic love story of the fay nature. 4 stars
Gabrielle Zevin's FAN FICTONS is twisted little vampire-esk paranormal tale that although, lacks depth, still makes for a quick fun read, closing with a great little notion at the end. 3 stars
Melissa Marr's gift for writing lore shines yet again with LOVE STRUCK, a new kind of Fairy Tale, one with sea-fay seals who shed their skins on land to take human form, fay called Selchies. This is a completely unique legend to me, and there for, the story held a freshness and wonder that tends to be rare for fans of the Faerie genre. Kudos to Marr for creating a story that is strong, well paced and entertaining through to the end. 4 stars
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