Weekend Reads

My first free in weekend in a while. This weekend I plan to work on my TBR pile. The book I am going to attempt to read the weekend is The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey.

I am a little concerned that I might not get through this book because it has been in my ibooks for a while and I just haven't hd a chance to get into it.
I think that I am also going through a reading slump which is probably a result of the schedule that I have been keeping over the last couple of weeks.

So what are you guys reading this weekend?

End of Graduation Season

Today marks the end of my graduation season travels. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Im going to try and get back to posting three times a week. You guys try to hold my to it.

Weekend Reads

One graduation down, one more to go. This weekend reading will be light. Im going to try to read one book to be reviewed next week. So look out for that book review on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend, Congrats to all the Graduates, and Happy Reading!

Book Review: Color Blind

Color Blind by Michelle Lindo-Rice is the first contemporary Christian novel that I have read. Loosely based on the story of Saul and the Prophet Ananias. The Story follows Saul Sweeterman, owner of a chain of auto dealerships. Sauls' daughter leaves home to marry an African-American man and Saul disowns her. A few years go by and Saul sees his daughter and her family on the street. In minutes a large truck is about to slam into them killing them all. Saul makes the decision to steer his vehicle into the path of the truck and save their family. Unfortunately not everyone was saved. His daughters husband was killed and Saul lost his vision. 

During his recuperation Saul is introduced to Annie, An African-American Physcial therapist, who doesn't allow him to sink into depression and works at bringing him to Christ. 

Overall this was a very good read. I was not aware that this was a Christian novel because it was not marketed as such, more as a romance. There were definitely strong romantic elements that are able to shine through because of the lack of sexual scenes. I throughly enjoyed this book.

I would rate this book 4/5 stars.

Weekend Reads

It is officially the start of Graduation Season. I have two cousins graduating from high school and I also have one graduating from College.... Awesome right!
Along with the family I have two friends that are graduating college as well, one with her Masters degree and the other with her second Bachelors degree. I think I can officially say that my friends are better than yours ( or maybe not).

So that being said I won't be doing a weekend reads this weekend because I will be driving all over the place to attend the first round of graduations.

Do you guys have anyone graduating and since I can't read this weekend what are you guys reading?

Book review: Dead Heat

Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs is the newest installment in the Alpha and Omega series. I love Patricia Briggs and by far my favorite series is the Mercy Thompson series that is also in this universe with Mercy being the foster child of Charles' father Bran.

I like the concept of the Spin off from Mercy but I am beginning to believe that Ms. Briggs is just not as in love with this storyline and evidenced by the writing.

Dead Heat opens with Charles and Anna having a conversation about the possibility of having a baby and other options for them to conceive like surrogacy. We then take a wild ride where Charles goes to visit and old friend and buy Anna a horse for her birthday. A fae targets the family of Charles' friend and he and Anna must find and stop the fae before it kidnaps the children.

Now here comes the Spoiler!!!!!!!!!

At no point during the course of the book do they talk about having kids again, although Anna does think about it when she catches glimpses of Charles interacting with the children. Then at the end of the book Charles tells her he would be ok with Adoption!!!!
Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against adoption and even thought it might be an option at the beginning of the book though they didn't discuss it. Then I thought they might run into an orphan were-child and adoption would come up then. But to bring adoption up at the end of the book with no supporting writing anywhere in the book just felt like Charles was copping out and left me with very mixed feelings.
All of the Alpha and Omega books feel rushed to me, you have all this intricate descriptions of horses and the stables and the landscape, but only spare about 2 paragraphs to tie up loose ends at the end of the book, instead of fleshing them out correctly.

Overall I gave this book 3/5, and that is only because the main storyline was concluded and left room for building of the series without leaving the reader wanting from this book. I will say it could have been better and I hope she doesn't let this carry over into the Mercy Thompson novels.

Goodreads Book Goals

So I started out 2015 with a goal of 50 books to read for the year. I choose this goal for myself because while I read extremely fast I also get burnt out easily and will go weeks without picking up a book to read.
Unfortunately this is what happened after I was laid up with the flu, but I'm back reading and writing about what I have read.

Not everything that I read gets a review so surprisingly I am over halfway through with my Goodreads goal for the year and I think I need to revisit the number.

What do you guys think I need to change my goal to? 100? 150? 200...books?


Let me know what your books goals are for the year and how close are you to completing them before the first half of the year is almost done?