Resident Evil: Retribution Review

The story picks up right where it left off in the last film Resident Evil: Afterlife. Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the few survivors were on a ship thinking they had survived and won the war. All of a sudden they see the helicopters coming, shooting and one of them crashes on the boat making Alice jump off of the boat falling unconscious in the water. As always expected Alice wakes up but wait..... not in another umbrella facility. This time she wakes up in a nice cozy bed with a different hair look her husband getting ready for work. Everything seems normal she's in the kitchen with her daughter and husband then suddenly they get attacked by zombies. Alice runs with her daughter while my poor Carlitos is getting infectected by those ugly zombies. Alice and her daughter manage to escape. Then Alice wakes up again and this time she's in an umbrella facility on the floor.

One of the few things I love the most is watching movies. I love all kinds of movies though not so much funny movies but there are a few I do enjoyed watching and would watch again. Resident Evil: Retribution is one of those movies I had been waiting for so long to watch and it was worth the wait. Yes there were a few things that left me wondering what had just happened. There was also a few things that really didn't make sense to me but even with those tiny little problems I still enjoyed and loved Resident Evil: Retribution. 

I had been waiting for Resident Evil: Retribution for quite a long time now mostly because of Carlos (Oded Fehr) and Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) they are two of my favorite characters. What can I say I am fair lol. I like to have a balance between good and evil so I like one of the good guys and one of the bad guys. But I had not expected the good guy to be totally bad and really didn't like that Wesker had only a few scenes. I was pretty happy too to see Luther(Boris Kodjoe) he was one of my few favorites in Resident Evil Afterlife. Though I wasn't happy at all with what had happened to him either. Seriously what was the director thinking when killing or turning some of my favorite characters bad. I do got to say it was nice seeing them again. 

I had gone to watch a couple of movies in 3D but I really didn't think they were worth my money. One of those movies was Ghost Rider although it wasn't a bad movie I didn't feel there was enough 3D experience to get from it. But in Resident Evil: Retribution there was a lot of flying objects and three dimensional fire besides a few gigantic axes, knifes and even empty bullet cartridges popping out of the screen. One of the most fascinating things to see again was the ugly big creatures that always manage to scare the hell out of me. I had never liked playing the Resident Evil games. My brother has a few of them but the few times I tried playing I would get so scared I would just go ahead and run. So I don't know many of the characters in the video games. I only know Chris Redfield (which does not exist in the movies), Sheva Alomar (which does not exist in the movie) and Jill Valentine. There were a few new characters I didn't know but heard about them before watching the movie. Leon (Johann Urb) and Ada Wong (Bingbing Li) were part of the rescue team send by Wesker to get Alice out of the Umbrella facility. Although I did like the movie I thought the plot wasn't convincing. There were a lot of loopholes that left me thinking. Specially Wesker's reason to be on Alice's side does not make sense at all to me. At first he wanted to turn all humans into ugly creatures and flesh eating zombies and now he is all wanting to stop the evil red queen from doing pretty much the same thing. It all sounded fishy to me but no one will know what the real deal with that is until the next movie comes out. Overall I still enjoyed all the action. Alice kicking ass breaking zombie's necks, bullets being shot everywhere and amazingly the good guys surviving that, while the undead and bad guys are dropping to the floor dead. To me all of that made it worth watching. Now to see what the next resident evil will bring. 

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter #1) By Jeff Lindsay

 

 

I had been watching the show before reading this book. I haven't yet finished watching season 3. I love the show so far.

What I thought was kind of terrible was how Dexter hesitated way too much when his brother asked him to kill Deborah. He hesitated more than in the show to say no and was a little less careless about Deborah's life. Well that's how I felt it. Of course that's how Dexter is supposed to be but for a moment I thought he might actually kill her.

If you haven't read the book or watched the show you might not want to continue reading..................

A few different things from the book and the show are that LaGuerta dies in the book. In the show she is still alive and doubt she'll ever be killed. She also suspected that Dex was hiding something when in the show she doesn't see anything wrong with Dex. Amazingly Doakes is still breathing in the book. Deborah wasn't in a relationship with the ice truck killer either. Even with those changes I extremely enjoyed reading the book and love the show too. It still kept me reading to see what happened in the end even though the basic things were pretty much the same

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter By Seth Grahame-Smith

 

After Abraham Lincoln's father told him the truth about his mother's death Abraham sought to kill every vampire in the world, starting with the one who killed his mother. He was trained by Henry Sturges (a vampire) who saved him from dying in the hands of an old vampire women. Henry made a deal with Abraham that he would help him find vampires who deserve to be killed.
 
I totally fell in love with Henry he was so awesome I just completely loved his character. He was so mysterious and was a loyal friend to Abraham. The way of how Henry became a vampire was really interesting and helped me understand why he was helping Abe.
Also Abe's friends Lamon, Jack and Speed were my favorite human characters. What I hated is all the terrible times Abe lost a family member or a loved one. It was so sad I wouldn't had been strong enough to still be standing after losing so many loved ones.

Sadly I had a like and dislike relationship with this book. If I say love and hate it would make me feel more terrible than I already feel. Truth is I feel a little disappointed in myself. I had been waiting to read the book for so long and I have to give my not too good review.

Though I enjoy reading about Abraham Lincoln. For as long as I remember I was more interested in his history and enjoyed learning about him in my history classes. But I had a little of a hard time with this book. Seth Grahame-Smith did a great job with this book, it was written really well, the plot was great too. But sometimes I just had a difficult time getting into the story. I felt like in a lot of the parts it was a little slow. Sometimes when I would read it I was feeling like it was taking forever. Then I would get to a really good part and I'd be anticipating to read more and see what would happen next. I loved it when there was action. I really enjoyed the end it was very exciting and at the same time sad because of Abe's demise but what happened after that made it a great ending.

My rating is just about what I thought and felt about the book. Only my opinion. You might love this book or not like it. We all have different opinions. I was in between.

Claus Legend of The Fat Man By Tony Bertauski

 

400,00 years ago the elven colony lived in peace in a huge palace made of ice But it all changed when Jack decided to take over. When Jack was born he was different from his brother Claus. For a while he tried to be just like his brother to fit in but he was still not normal. He would often seclude himself from all the other children and liked the darkest places. He liked to be in the cold and soon he would change into "the cold one." his plan once he took over was to end the humans. To kill all the humans(warmbloods) in the world. His plan only needed one thing to take fly. He needed to capture a warmblood. 150 years after the colony ran away from their homes the Santa family decided to have an adventure. They decided to go where no other human would ever go, the north pole. Their adventure soon turns in to the most dangerous one they ever had. When they feared of dying frozen or of starvation was nothing compared to the danger they would be in.

This was a very unique, compelling, original story that I enjoyed reading till the end. Who would've imagined that we didn't discover some of the technology we have, right? As I was reading the book I had to stop and say where did the author get this???? Seriously, there were a lot of things that I had not heard at all, ANYWHERE. I haven't even seen it in movies and believe me I have seen a mega load of Christmas movies. When the Christmas movie season comes, my sisters detest me because I am stuck to the hallmark channel, the lifetime channel and abc family. Just about any channel that has any christmas related shows and I have not seen a movie that has the things that Tony Bertauski put in this book. I Freaking loved....... Everything.  

Cane was my favorite elven. He was just so sweet I just wanted to hug him. I was waiting for this part after the terrible tragedy and I was so happy Tony Bertauski did write this moment in detail  on page 532. It was beautiful and made me cry all the way to page 536. I love it when an author includes the seeing each other again, a momment of expectation and excitement in detail. 

I liked Rudy's story and how different he was from the rest of the reindeer. He was stronger, faster and braver. The way Tinsil said that Rudy was loyal to Claus and how sad he was because Claus wasn't with them was enough to let you know how  important he would be later in the story. But of course Rudy is always important. He is my favorite in every movie. 

Also how frosty and the other abominables were created. What they were needed for was awesome and sounded very logical to me. 

I will be re-reading this book during the Chrsitmas season. I'll probably have sort of like a day for everyone to sit around and listen to the story. Or maybe so no one will kill me. I'll read it to my girls before bedtime around December. You don't have to be a Christmas crazy like me to love this book. Anyone will love this book even if they/she/ he don't like Christmas, I can assure you that.

What Kills Me by Wynne Channing

 


Thank you Wynne Channing for giving me the chance to read and review this ebook and thank goodness there were still some left for review.I loved the cover too.

Zee?”
“Yes,” I said, breathlessly.
“Now that I have you here all alone, what do you think I’m going to do to you?”
His voice was low, his breath cool.
I swallowed. “What?”
“I’m going to kill you.”

Axelia(Zee) a seventeen year old girl who is staying in Italy with a host family for two months to study Italian meets a boy named Paolo while trying to find her way to her host family's house. Paolo helps her find the house and they agree on seeing each other again at a pizzeria but she cant make it. So he goes to see her and convinces her to sneak out of the house. It was a great mistake and soon she will realize that Paolo wants to kill her. She tries to run away from him and falls into a well filled with vampire blood. Soon she has to face an army of vampire soldiers who were sent to take her to the empress because they believe she is an abomination. Zee now has to find a way to escape from the place they locked her in to meet her death. Zee is forced to live a life of hiding. Soon Lucas joins her and together they try to find a safe place. Thank goodness they soon will discover something that will be the end of their running but not before having to witness the deaths of some loved ones.

Why?????
Paolo was the perfect guy I was really loving him. He was a total vampire prince charming. Everything was destroyed so soon. He didn't even get a second chance. : ( ooh well I'll survive and ill have to get on with life. I've got to admit I really didn't see it coming. Everything was totally different from what I had imagined.

Here is how I imagined the story going. Axelia was half human half vampire. Paolo knew that the moment he saw her. Obviously she didn't know. He would get close to her try to end her life or take her to the queen and the queen would try to kill her but he would fall in love with her and safe her. Or just how it happened till somewhere on page 83 but she would help him escape and they would fight the empress's army. But Wynne Channing's story is much better. : )

Ok so it didn't work with the first vampire lets go to the next. I guess Axelia was not a very like able person Paolo thought she was annoying because she talked too much. Lucas thought the same thing. I really liked her character she wasn't annoying at all in my opinion. I liked how strong and brave she was. I have read so many books and usually it takes a lot longer for the heroine to get some courage, some don't ever have it. Axelia's character really exceeded my expectations. This book had a lot of funny moments as well as sad and moments when I was in great panick that I was almost biting my nails. It was freaking great!

Wynne Channing wrote a well put together story. The plot was fantastic it had a little bit of everything, romance, adventure, deceptions, betrayals, including a little bit of jealousy and lots of suspense. It was also a very different book from all i've read. For example the history of the vampires, how they became to be, their gods, being able to be in a church (which it's pretty weird because supposedly they are all scared of churches from what we know), the story of what Axelia meant for their existence and the well of vampire blood.

Although I did not like some character deaths. I'm sure the author did not like it either. Im sure it was hard for her to make the decision of who to kill off, but hard decisions have to be made. I'll be reading the next book if there is one. I hope so though because I felt there would be more.

Blood Debt by Nancy Straight

 

22 year old Camille has a normal simple life in California, she goes to school, works as a cashier and has a best friend named Daniel. She lived a happy peaceful life but was always missing something. She had always wanted to know who her father was. Before her mother's death she told Camille her father's name. After a few days she decided to contact him. She would have never guessed that the moment she got on the plane that would take her to meet her father would be the day her whole life would change. She will soon discover why her mother Angela never wanted to tell her who her father was and why Angela would always say her father was "magical" Camille will discover a whole new world. She would discover that some things she was taught in school were real and the dangers that her mother was trying to keep away from her. She did not know that she would be forced to pay her mother's blood dept until it was too late to escape.

I was soooo excited to read this book I usually read it around 12 a.m to like 3 a.m. It was painful to put it down because i was just soo engrossed with the story and did not want to stop reading. I've got to admit that "Blood Debt" was one of the few books that have made me cry. I was about to die while reading some parts. I was basically freaking out when I read page 365. The plot was amazing, centaurs are one of my favorite mystical creatures. It made me wish I was a centaur lol I would be able to say "let's see I want that handsome, strong guy, with those pretty big green blue eyes." ☺ but I wouldn't like to be in Camille's place. Her grandmother is a witch, what a horrible vile women she is. It was hard to imagine her being a loving sweet women to anyone. But she did act like she loved her son, probably because they were both monsters.

The story of Camille's family was wonderful. They were too good to be true. Beu, Brent, Daniel and Drake are definitely my favorite male characters. Bianca (she made me laugh so so much) and Camille were my favorite female characters. I just loved how fun they were specially Camille's brothers they never got tired, they had so much energy, were sweet and perfect gentlemen.

 I was sad the book ended because I really wanted to know what Angela meant with what she said to Camille on page 412 about Drake. I hope it isn't something bad. I hope I get to read  soon because I was left a little empty inside and full of questions. I can't wait for the next book. Fantastic work with this amazing story Nancy Straight. Oh and I bet there will be more from Daniel unless I'm wrong with who I am speculating he is. This is a book you've got to read it'll make you laugh, cry (if you are like me) you will definitely enjoy it.

The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3) by Carrie Ryan

 
 

First of all I wasn't very happy with the change of the main character. I liked Gabry and not knowing what she was thinking and reading the story through her eyes really made me sad. Yes, Annah was much braver and much stronger then Gabry(Abigail) . I did like her but I didn't like her relationship with Catcher. I was kind of jealous but I got over it soon enough.

Carrie Ryan didn't waste time at all, she came out with another well written book following Gabry's tween sister Annah and Catcher. They are in the tunnels of The Dark City (which is supposedly what was left of New York City) trying to find a way through the tunnel to go rescue Gabry(abigail) from the Recruiters who took her to the sanctuary.

Catcher tells Annah that a horde of unconsecrated( zombies) was coming to The Dark City. After getting out of the tunnels they find Elias, everything happens pretty quick and they have no other choice but to turn themselves in to the recruiters and get taken to the sanctuary where they will be safe away from The Dark City that was now full of unconsecrated. But will they be safe there? Was the recruiter's sanctuary really the right place to go? Since the protectorate was no longer around the recruiters turned vicious and cruel over using their power. What is the difference between being out in the City fighting the unconsecrated always in danger and being with the recruiters, who are like monsters? Here goes my question again. Where is Jed? I really don't want to believe that he died. Even though  I don't believe there will be another book I do wish Carrie Ryan has plans to write a 4th book because there was in my point of view a cliffhanger. What happens next?????? Are there more survivors? Will humans survive? Or with so many zombies there's no future? My biggest question is why didn't catcher just go and behead every single unconsecrated in the world so it could be safe again for people?