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

Heathers

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I'd heard about this movie a lot, but only really because I know of Shannon Doherty from her role on Charmed and saw that she was in Heathers. I'm inclined to make the comparison of this movie to a way more mature version of Mean Girls mixed with Cruel Intentions, because that's the best way I think I can describe it. Basically there is a group of three popular people at high school all named Heather who use the main character, Veronica, to do their bidding. Veronica craves to be popular like they are so she pretty much just does whatever they want her to. That all changes when she meets J.D. who is the school's crazy guy. He's been kicked out of a lot of high schools, and this is just his newest temporary place.

Veronica secretly hates the Heathers so with J.D. she begins to plot their deaths. It starts out just as imagining their deaths, but ends up being much more. Part of why Heathers is so good is because it's entire concern is about society and the ways it influences teens in high school. For a movie done in 1989 it's really dark, and they had to even use an alternate ending than was originally planned because the first ending was deemed to be much too dark for a movie. Overall, I really liked the dark undertones of the movie along with the interjected humor.

I give it: 9/10

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

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I just cannot believe it's over. Harry Potter has been part of my life pretty much ever since it came out; I've seen every single movie in theaters and it's weird to think that there won't be any more new ones. The story of Harry Potter is pretty much a universal language. Everyone knows about Harry Potter whether they like it or not. The story of JK Rowling is just as amazing as the world she created. She was poor but once the story of "The Boy Who Lived" started becoming known around the world, she quickly became rich; so rich that she's rumored to have more money than the Queen of England. But anyways, Harry Potter has a huge fanbase of people of all ages and it's understandable. It has aspects of it for everyone.

I was lucky because I saw the movie on the Monday of the week it came out; 4 days before everyone else in America could see it, and I even got to see it for free. The IMAX 3D was pretty cool, but not too much of it was actually 3D looking. If you've seen the newest Pirates in 3D it was about the same as that.

Moving on, the last of the Harry Potter movies did not disappoint. Although the whole scene with Harry and Voldemort jumping off the bridge thing together was completely irrelevant and never even happened in the book, other than that it followed pretty close to the book. The only way I was disappointed was how (SPOILER ALERT) they rushed by the death scene for the major characters of Fred, Tonks, and Lupin. Those were major characters and they only really devoted one scene to them. Regardless, I still wanted to see the movie again right after it was over. Not basing the movie off of the books, it was awesome, and basing it off the books it was still well done.

I give it: 10/10