So I've finished Dream Kiss. It's been a while since I first started this series. I'm glad to reach the end. I'm excited to move on to some other great books I've found on Smashwords since first discovering the Sweet N' Sour Kisses series, including a mystery series by the same author. I'll be reading the first of the mystery series on a casual level. I have some other books I'm reading right now that I'm excited about finishing, so Cindy M. Hogan's Watched will be one that I pick up when I'm waiting at the dentist's office or something like that. (I don't know why people always pick the dentist's office. I know I won't be waiting there because I haven't been to one in over six years! I'm not advocating not going, I'm just saying I know I won't read this book at the dentist's office. Haha. Although I may read it at my husband's office while I'm waiting for him to get off work.)Wow! That was a long detour.
Cindy's next book, that I'll be reading casually, is the first of a trilogy called The Watched Trilogy. Main character, Christy, is about to turn sixteen, but before she has the chance, she sees the murder of a senator's aide while on a school field trip. In order to keep her safe, she is put into the witness protection program. Of course there are a couple hot guys thrown into the mix. I'm pretty sure they're her age and not creepy older FBI agents or something. Although you never know with these young teen girls. They can fall in love with a forty-year-old as easily as with a sixteen-year-old. (No, I'm not speaking of experience! What?)
I've read the first sentence of this book, and so far I'm not impressed. Now, wait, before you think I'm being waaay too harsh (which I am), let me explain. I only mean I'm judging if the writing style is one that appeals to me or not. For me, I have to love the writing as well as the plot. The plot, I must say, sounds quite intriguing. But the writing style sounds like the Sweet N' Sour Kisses series (of which I was eager to conclude, if you remember). Maybe I just don't like teenagers. I'm not sure.
Watched is written in first person from Christy's point of view, of course. The market is over-populated by books in the first person, if you ask me. I mean, how awkward would it be to write, "He looked into my gleaming blue eyes then kissed me like the truly hot catch I was"??? I don't know, maybe some people find it extremely easy to write that. Maybe they write like that in their diary...ebery dhay! Ha!
Well, I'll let you know how the book turns out, or starts to turn out. I'm not committing to finishing this one if the teenage rambling gets to me.
I got this book for free by signing up for Cindy Hogan's VIP Readers Club. You can buy it for only $.99 on Smashwords by clicking on the "buy" button below. Or buy the entire trilogy for $6.99.
Or you can sign up for Cindy's newsletter yourself and see if she'll give you the same sweet deal I got.
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Check out her website, just because it's pretty cool lookin'.
Cindy's Cool Website
I just can't help myself...I really want to like the young adult fiction and culture. It has such a cool vibe! But the actually words written in most YA books to tell the stories of these cool teens are just not my jam. (Look at me, trying to sound cool myself! Did I pull it off?)
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