Charlotte's Library

This morning, Maureen Johnson led a fascinating Twitter discussion on bad (negative and poor quality) reviews--the downfalls and merits of them. Fascinating read--you can follow along by checking out her tweets and the hashtag #badreview .

Kiss Me, Kill Me written by Lauren Henderson While I am not a fan of the marketing angle taken from this book (Really? A book called " Kiss Me, Kill Me" with a trashy romance novel cover?), I will concede that it wasn't the story I expected. I thought it would be mindless trashy romance, and for that reason, it took me a while to get into the story. I was thankfully proven wrong. Kiss Me, Kill Me is much more an action/mystery novel than a romance novel, sort of Ally Carter with a regrettable little bit of Gossip Girl mixed in. Some of the storytelling was a little bit shaky, not too compelling, focusing a little more on the life of a rich socialite than anything else, but overall, I was pleasantly surprised. I was, yet again, disappointed to see that the story was stretched out to fit a series, but like Ally Carter said at LitDay, if a series is going to be stretched out, romance cannot be the driving force, and I'm glad Lauren Henderson took that route in h...