Book Review: Shifters Rule by K.C. Blake

Published: October 31st, 2013
Publisher: self-published
Read from April 21st to 27th, 2013
Synopsis from Goodreads: not available

Review:

Overall I thought this was a great book.  I was expecting it to be the last book, but the ending definitely hinted that there would be another.  The biggest conflict was resolved in this book, but the ending opened up even more questions.  I really, really hope there's another one, so that we can learn how that turns out.

While I did enjoy the book, there were a few times where I was a bit confused because of the world building.  It just felt like there were gaps here and there where things weren't well explained.  I'm a bit confused about the timeline.  What time period did Lovely come to earth?  Because you can't tell at all from the story, but it definitely sounded like it couldn't be later than like middle ages.  That doesn't really make sense to me because she created the first vampire and werewolf, so I would have thought it would have been a long, long time ago in order for those legends to start.  Also, how many years was the reincarnation thing going?  Because I feel like Jersey should have figured it out sooner.  I don't know.  I just couldn't take some aspects of it seriously.

Even with the problems though, I really liked it and recommend checking the series out.  It's a fun series, and I'm really glad I read it.  There are just some parts of it that were questionable.  I think they could be explained farther though, and they would be a lot more believable.

Preparing for Finals

Today's academic honors day, which is basically when my school gives us the Friday before finals off so that we can study.  I slept in a bit, but made myself get up relatively early so that I could study.  I did a pretty good job because it's only one in the afternoon, and I already managed to get a good deal of studying done.  I'm pretty sure I've done all I'm going to do today.  I even watched an episode of Naruto.

Although I definitely plan to study, I also want to relax a lot this weekend.  My finals are only on two different days this semester, but they're jam-packed days.  (Plus, I have to move out the day after.  Usually I'd move out the day of my last final, but my last final isn't until eight at night on Tuesday so...)  I don't want to get incredibly stressed out, so hopefully I'll be well-rested for when I take my finals.

I also need to pack more, but I'm not really sure what else to do there.  I packed up all my DVDs and books that I don't plan to read or watch.  I also packed up some of my clothes.  I'm not sure what else to go ahead and pack though because either I'm going to need it or I'm not sure what to do with it.  I really hope I have enough bags to fit at least most of my stuff in.  I need to go through my papers and throw the unimportant ones away.  That's the only thing I know to do at this point.

I think I'm going to go watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother for now though.  I'll get back to packing later.

Stress, Stress, Stress

This morning is crazy and stressful, but I'm finding time to write a blog post in the middle of all of that anyway.  I had a psychology test this morning.  I ended up getting out of there earlier than I'd expected because we didn't have any extra credit afterwards like we usually do.  So, since I had extra time, I went down to get a professor evaluation form for the professor I had the first half of the semester, since she'd asked us to please get one and fill it out.  I had a bit of trouble finding the office where I was supposed to turn it in, but luckily there are lots of helpful people around here and this girl showed me where it was.

Now I'm back in my room eating a somewhat undesirable lunch.  (The dining hall was still closed since I got out early, and I was too hungry to wait.)  In about fifteen minutes I need to go meet my advisor.  Long story short, one of the classes I was scheduled for next semester got canceled, which put me below the credit hours necessary to be considered a full time student, so now I have to figure out what to do (or what classes I need to take now).  The only time my advisor could meet with me is during one of her classes while they write their final essays.  I'm a bit nervous about it because I have to go into her class.  Even though she told me to, I still feel like I'm interrupting, and their final essays are so important.  I just hope we can sort through everything quickly.

After that I don't have anything else for the day other than studying for finals, which I'm sure will be stressful but hopefully not quite so bad.  I just have to keep reminding myself that it's less than a week until summer break.

Almost Summer and Concert Excitement

Things have gotten really hectic in the past week or so.  This is the last week of classes, and then finals start Monday.  Needless to say my days have been filled with writing papers, creating a website, and studying.  There's not much time for anything else.

One extremely exciting bit of news though!  Haley, Beth, Regina, and I will be going to see Ed Sheeran, Cher Lloyd, and some other bands in July, and I'm still freaking out with excitement.  I love, love, love Ed and Cher, and it's going to be amazing!  I'm sure I'll be talking about that a lot later on.  It's only about three weeks after Haley and I see One Direction.  I don't know how I'll survive that much awesomeness.

That's really the only non-school related thing to happen to me recently.  Just one week though, and I'll be moving out of my dorm.  It's so hard to believe that I've almost completed my first year of college.  It's flown by.  I can't focus on that too much now though.  I need to get through finals first.  I have my last life science lecture in about forty minutes, and it's getting really hard to ignore my excitement for summer.

Naruto Shippuden Episodes 54-62 Review

The thing I want to talk most about in this review is Sora.  I found it interesting that another character that Naruto doesn't really get along with was introduced so quickly after Sai.  It was like Naruto and Sai finally started getting along and just a few episodes later, Sora was introduced.  I thought it was interesting how Naruto and Sai's new friendship is kind of contrasted by Sora and Naruto's constant arguing.  I've really grown to love Sai as a character, and I like seeing him get better at communicating with others.  I think seeing how Naruto's warmed up to him is great and seeing it in comparison to Naruto and Sora's relationship is great.  It was just kind of odd to have Sora thrown in when he was.

I also find Sora a really frustrating character.  He'll probably grow on me soon (just like Sai did).  I'm already liking him more than I was at the beginning.  I'm sure Naruto and Sora will figure out how much they have in common and bond over that.  Still, at the moment he's quite frustrating.  I know Naruto's not exactly the easiest person to get along with, which makes things worse, but Sora really is quite antagonizing.

As much as Sora annoys me, I'm really looking forward to learning more about his backstory in the coming episodes.

The one villain (whose name I absolutely cannot remember) who killed people by kissing them really freaked me out.  (The first thing I thought of was Holes by the way.)  Her whole demeanor and everything was just creepy, and I don't mean that in that I was scared while watching the episode.  I just didn't like her character.  She was like annoying and weird for lack of a better way to describe it.  I hope she doesn't show up again even though I really want to know what exactly that group's plan is.  It seems that they want to take over the Land of Fire, but I'm curious about whether they're at all connected with the Akatsuki or not.

I think that's all I really have to say about these episodes.  I feel as if this is the most coherent review I've ever written for Naruto considering it's usually more of a list of incoherent thoughts.