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I found this on LJ spotlight just now, and it reminded me that I never really reviewed Havermercy after I read it D: so here we go. I don’t have the book with me, but nevermind xD

Anyway, Havemercy is a novel written by one of the authors of Shoebox Project, Jaida Jones, along with her friend Danielle Bennett. While I definitely prefer Shoebox, and it probably would have been better if I wasn’t somehow expecting the characters to all be like the Shoebox ones xD, I still really did enjoy this book. 

Royston and Hal are adorable, full stop. I think it’s actually kind of nice that they stay kind of innocent and sweet, it’d ruin it somewhat if they went any further than they did – it was also good that it all took so long to develop, the suspense is always good, haha. I liked that Hal’s character became stronger towards the end, and I liked the friendship between him and Thom. And Royston is totally Sirius all grown up, lol.

Thom and Rook were good fun. I love Rook, haha, you just can’t beat a total asshole with blue streaks in his hair who won’t stop swearing. I especially loved Thom and Rook’s ending, it was completely unexpected (which is likely just because I’m silly and didn’t see that coming xD), and it really opens up the opportunity for fanfics or sequels about later on. The only thing that actually seemed odd them was, that I thought it was kind of obvious, from the minute Thom was thinking about the brother he didn’t remember, that it would end up being Rook. Why else put in that little detail? It probably would have been better to mention the long lost brother in the beginning, so the reader wouldn’t automatically think of Rook. Before I knew they were brothers, I thought they would actually have shipped really well – there was alot of chemistry there which is kind of odd, thinking of it now xD

I read in the LJ comm somebody saying that they wished Royston and Rook would have communicated more, because omg snarky, and I agree lol. Though I loved the bit at the very end when they do finally meet, after all of Rook’s making fun of Royston for being a cindy, and he just basically goes “yes, and?” ahaha.

All in all, awesome book. Unfortunately, I was reading it on and off over a period of a couple of very busy weeks, so that might have affected the overall picture I got – I really want to sit down and read it again, properly!

Sex. Money. Sex. Cat.

Wow, I haven’t updated this in a while. But I finally went and saw Twilight today!!

It wasn’t brilliant, but I still really liked it. I’d been told by several people that it wasn’t very good, so I guess my expectations weren’t too high, but still. My only question – why didn’t they include the whole “do I dazzle you?” thing? That was a really famous line, and it wouldn’t have taken up any time to throw it in, but they just completely skipped it o_O unless I was talking and missed it?

I’d heard that Kristen Stewart’s Bella was too emotionless, but I actually thought she did a really good job – movie!Bella was a lot more realistic and less annoying than book!Bella, in my opinion. In the book she sometimes comes across as kind of bratty, but in the movie she definitely didn’t.

And Edward was impossibly hot. There were several scenes where you just have to sit back and go “wow”. Haha. Having said that, the sparkling in the light was really dreadfully done – he looked like somebody had spritzed him with water or something – and half the time he had WAY too much makeup on, especially the lipstick. Like, the first time you saw him, when he walked into the lunch room, the first thing that stood out was his ridiculous makeup o_O and it changed from scene to scene, so sometimes he had really red lips and dark eyes, and sometimes he looked almost normal. Pick one and stick with it? Still, you know. Hot. Hot hot hot.

I also heard that the relationship between Edward and Bella was too stilted – but I don’t agree with that. It was incredibly awkward at first, to be sure, but I think that actually worked and made it more realistic. In the book they just kind of fall in love at the drop of a hat, the movie made it look like a slower process that actually matured over time. 

There were two scenes in the film I really liked – the first was the scene where Edward and Bella are walking across the school carpark, with everybody staring at them, and Edward says something like “I’m breaking all the rules now” and puts his arm around her. I don’t know why, it was just cool xD. The other good scene was the one where Edward introduces Bella to his family, and he’s hovering in the background the whole time looking really painfully embarrassed, hahaha, just because it was cute. 

Anyway, all in all I enjoyed it, a whole lot more than I thought I would, and I’d really like to see it again!

Edit: Ooh, I forgot one more thing! I thought the actual Forks school kids were pretty awesome. I’d be so happy if I moved somewhere and the people were like that :S lol. Not because they were fighting for her attention, but because they were all so silly and cute xD little things like Tyler stealing Mike’s chair out from under him or them doing their stupid dances outside while Bella was eating with her dad. Seriously, they were cool! Haha.