Vampires Rule by K.C. Blake

ASIN: B004YZB8XU
Published: April 14th, 2011
Publisher: self-published
Read from March 29th to April 4th, 2013
Synopsis from Goodreads:

They don't call him Jackpot for nothing.
Jack has always beat the odds... at least until now. When he was attacked by a werewolf, vampires saved him. When he got tired of living the vampire life, another werewolf attack freed him, making him human again. Now Jack just wants to live a normal life, but what's normal about a hunter girlfriend, a brother who wants to stake him to be on the safe side, and a head werewolf building an army to rule the world?

Review:

I've read K.C. Blake's Witch-Game series, and I really loved those books.  That's why I decided to read this series, even though I wasn't sure how I would feel about it.  I'm kind of burned out on vampire books, and I haven't even read that many.  I don't even really understand myself because I'm not a big fan of vampires, but I still feel like I end up reading a decent amount of them just because of how many there are.  I'm getting more and more tired of them though.

That being said, I did enjoy this book.  The vampires are more-or-less stereotypical vampires as far as I can tell from the first book, but I was really interested in how werewolves are portrayed (and I'm a bigger fan of werewolves anyway).  It's also interesting how the author mentions fairies, since I haven't read many books that mention them at all.  I'm actually in the middle of the second book right now, and the mythology of the series is getting even more interesting.  I don't want to write any spoilers though.

Overall I did enjoy this book, although I did have a few small problems with it.  I'm not a huge fan of the romance aspect of the book.  I don't know why exactly.  It just doesn't really draw me in.  I find Jack's relationship with his brother Billy really interesting though.  And the mythology and history of the series is really intriguing to me.

I Love Spring Weather

The weather has been beyond amazing lately, and I love it.  Being able to walk across campus and not be freezing is wonderful.  I hope it stays like this because if it gets cold again I'm going to be really disappointed.

Things have been really calm lately considering how things were before Easter.  I don't know if I mentioned this here on the blog, but I had a bit of a breakdown right before Easter.  I kind of used Tumblr (and to a lesser extent Twitter) to vent when it happened, so if you follow me there, you saw.  Thankfully that's all over, and now things are just calm and going really well.  I'm extremely thankful.  Since I'm also finally over being sick, I'm just in an all around good mood.  I finally feel great and there's great weather.  It's just wonderful.

And there's less than a month of my freshmen year left!  Time has gone by so quickly.  I can't believe I'm almost done with my first year of college.  It's crazy!

Middle School Sucks

Does anyone actually look back fondly on middle school?  I mean, I have a few good memories of that time.  It wasn't all bad.  Overwhelmingly though, my middle school years sucked.  I didn't really realize that until I peer tutored over at the public middle school during my senior year of high school.  (I'd attended a Catholic school until high school, so it wasn't the middle school I had attended.)  I watched everything the kids were getting up to, and I realized just how horrible some of the stuff that happened during my middle school years was.

One of my biggest memories from when I was peer tutoring involved this girl having a crush on a boy in the class.  I peer tutored special needs kids, and it was a small class of roughly five students.  That meant word got around quickly.  Every kid in there knew that she liked this boy in the class, and I watched them, including the boy in question, openly make fun of her for it.  That was basically the biggest moment where I sat there and was like, "Did this really happen when I was in middle school?"  And I realized that, yes, it did.

As I said before, my middle school years weren't entirely horrible, but I realized that kids are extremely cruel at that age.  I can think of so much drama amongst my class during those three years.  It's when people started dating, and let me tell you, in a small class of less than twenty students, when two kids in the class were dating it was kind of a big deal.  There was a ton of drama amongst friend groups.  The most awesome thing?  My friends and I formed a huge about of that friend drama.  In fact, for the last semester of eighth grade, we were horrible to each other, and I'm pretty sure the entire class knew everything that was going on.

In the past I would blame everything on the other girls, but I've moved past it enough now to realize there were quite a few things I should have handled differently at the time.  The problem is middle schoolers are extremely immature and have no clue how to handle that stuff.  It's why middle school sucks so much.  You're throwing a group of kids together who are going through puberty, are probably really confused, and have no idea how to process or handle their emotions.  Of course they're going to be horrible to each other, and of course it's going to be a miserable few years for almost all (if not just all) of them.

If there was one period of time that I absolutely never want to relieve, that's it.  Those years were horrible.  Now, it's not as if I went off to high school and things got magically better.  Freshmen year really isn't all that different from middle school in a lot of ways.  Still, once you can look back on it, you realize that you actually matured quite a lot after middle school.  And thank God for that because no one wants to be who they were in middle school.

Naruto Shippuden Episodes 43-53 Review

I absolutely loved these episodes.  I really hated Sai at first, but during these episodes I really started to like him.  Now I find myself liking him more and more every single episode.  I think he may actually turn out to be one of my favorite characters.

These episodes were all pretty great.  They left me feeling extremely emotional.  Pretty much anything with Sasuke makes me emotional though.  I'm looking through my notes to figure out what to write in this, but honestly, my notes are pretty unintelligible because I was freaking out so much.  It shows how much I liked the episodes, but they're not very helpful for this review.

I really don't know what else to say other than that I loved these episodes.  In addition to not having good notes, I've been sick lately, and my brain is not really cooperating.  (I wanted to put off writing this, but I've been doing that for the entire I week I've been sick so...)

Oh, and I have to briefly mention my hatred for Orichimaru.  That just needed to be in here somewhere.

Sick for the Millionth Time

I've spent the past four days sick for what must be the fifth time this year.  I've been absolutely miserable.  There's literally nothing else I can say about this week.  That's all I can think about.  It really sucks because I sat down to write this post hoping I could write more than that, but I really can't.

Luckily I've felt better today, but I still have a long way to go before I feel completely better.  I've been making myself go to classes because I've had tests, even though it probably hasn't helped.  Let's just hope I feel even better tomorrow.  Now, I'm going to end this before I rant on about my misery even more.