Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard

Wow another book! This book literally took me about a month to read; not because I didn't like it but because I always seemed to have something better to do such as look at the multitude of cat videos on the Internet. The whole premise of this book is pretty interesting: one day a group of four women are eating together when the topic of what a perfect man would be comes up. It starts out normal with the top things being loyalty and good looks but then turns into being about certain physical aspects of men. One of the women writes down this "List" and after that everything goes downhill for the group.

Their "List" ends up getting published and becomes a highly talked about bit for the newspaper and TV shows. It leads to a lot of men (and women) being resentful for the items on the "List", but one person takes action and murders one of the four which leads to a highly suspenseful tone for the remainder of the book.

The main reason it was such a good book is because Linda Howard was able to acheive a good balance of suspense, humor, and romance in the novel. The ending completely suprised me which I like because I hate predictable books.

I give it: 8/10

Vesper by Jeff Sampson

Whoah. A book. That's right, I now have time to read books so I'll be reviewing them too. So this one I just saw at work and thought it looked cool; that's right, I judged a book by its cover. Don't worry I did actually read it.

The story goes like this: a girl named Emily Webb is a geek. Another girl named Emily Cook gets killed and then Em Webb begins to act strange at night. She turns into someone completely different aka not a geek and goes to parties. Emily has no idea why it happens but she can't stop it. In her other personality she gets in trouble that her normal personality has to deal with. Oh and just warning you werewolves do become involved in the story at one point. Which was weird and unexpected.

It was pretty good in keeping you involved in the story and making you want to keep reading, but it wasn't one that you had to constantly be reading until you finish it. I did like that it's a different idea than typical teen books, although not completely unique. It was also nice that Buffy was referenced a few times. Plus, the entire book wasn't about romance which is definitely a nice break from normal books.

I give it: 7/10