From the Bookshelf #1: Insatiable

Today, I am starting a new collection of blog posts about the books that I am currently reading. I'm calling it my "From the Bookshelf" series. Sort of sounds like something Oprah would do, right? If only I were as cool as Oprah. Anyway, I will blog about current books that I am reading... even if they are stinkers.

So, my first book post is about Insatiable by Meg Cabot.


Let me just start by saying that I am obsessed with Twilight. So, somehow I am now automatically drawn to anything involving vampires. This book proves that theory once again. Yes, it is indeed about vampires.

One night, Trav and I were looking around Borders and I wandered into the fiction section, searching for a good book to download onto my Nook later that night. I came across Meg Cabot's books and saw this one. The cover caught my attention right away because the color scheme is very Twilight-esque. I first came across Meg Cabot with The Boy Next Door, which stood as my favorite book for a number of years until I read The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Anyway, I love Meg Cabot and when I saw that she had written a book about vampires, I thought "I must read this!"

Here is a quick book description blurb from the publisher Harper Collins:

Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.

Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)

But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met whom she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's future, she's never been able look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future. . . .

If she even has one.

Source: http://www.harpercollins.com

I just finished it last week and I have to say that I really enjoyed MOST of it. I love it when characters fall in love with "Mr. Perfect" only to find out that they are actually vampires! The vampires in this story were different, and probably more traditional, than my beloved Twilight vampires, which was fun to read. The main character has a very different opinion of the whole vampire, pop-culture, phenomenon, which I couldn't personally relate to but enjoyed reading about anyway.

There was definitely a section that took me days and days to read and it really wasn't a long part. It was the big "vampire war" climactic scene and for some reason I just couldn't get into it. All leading up to it and then after, I could barely put the book down, but that one part seemed to drag on for too long. There was a bit of a love triangle and who doesn't love that? Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to other vampire lovers.