Mortal Danger (#1) by Ann Aguirre

Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

There was so much I did not like about this book. This was an audiobook I listened to narrated by Susan Hanfield. She did a good job with Edie but as the male character, Kian- his personality/voice came across as forced monotone the whole book (even when he is in love with Edie). The book is about Edie being bullied and as she readies to jump off a bridge, she makes a deal with her rescuer, Kian (but it is really a deal with the devil) and since the story line was not fluid, therefore when the supernatural aspects begin to show, it was just not believable. I did not like how Edie was supposedly so smart so they whole time she is figuring things out, it seemed forced.
Also at the end, the Author's Note was really good about bullying but I wish it had been at the beginning, it might have made a difference...but I am not sure. Not sure I will continue with this series.







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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Franciso X. Stork

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Stork's book was just as good as Marcelo In The Real Worldbut in a very different way. Stork's writing is just so engrossing! When we meet Pancho, he is bent on finding the killer of his sister (even though the police said she wasn't murdered, it was natural causes) and going to live at St. Anthony's an orphanage and plot his revenge. But it is at St. Anthony's that he meets D.Q., a kid with cancer, who comandeers Pancho as his aide because DQ has brain cancer but DQ has plans to make Pancho and DQ "death warriors" and DQ is writing the manifesto while Pancho is tracking clues to his sister's killer. And along the way, Pancho's anger with his father's accidental death, his feeling somehow responsbile for his sister's death, is used by D.Q. to change him. D.Q. is such a strong character, even though he is suffering from cancer,but he is knowledgable, kind, not given to "whining---part of the Death Warrior Manifesto" and along with his love interest, Marisol, we see Pancho begin to grow as a person once hardened into a vulnerable young man with a future that does not include prison. I urger everyone to read this book, if you liked Marcelo, YOU WILL LOVE this book! Stork is one of my new favorite writers!



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