The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey

Title: The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey

Summary (by me!)

Elena Klovis is not living the life she thought she would. Her father remarried a shrew of a woman after her mothers death and Elena found herself sattled with a new Stepmother and two step sisters. After her fathers death Elena is forced to serve her step-family as a lower servent in the house. Her stepmothers caviliar spending habits soon land them in a world of debt. The mistress announces one day that her and her daughtors (excluding Elena) are leaving. They pack up their belongings and head for greener, and richer lands.
Elena waits as the creditors decend upon the skeleton of the family home. She makes a plan to go to the' mop fair' to find work. No one will hire her for fear of what her Stepmother will do once she returns. About to give up entirely Elena is suprised when a colorful woman offers her a position. She accepts and soon learns that she has accepted the position as an apprentice to the kingdoms Fairy Godmother. The story follows Elena through her teachings as well as her first large task as the acting Godmother.

My Take
This book was LONG but so worth the time it took to finish. The story ran along the lines of cinderella with a twist. It was very good. I would highly reccomend it. The charactors were well established and the story was entirly origional. It was a nice little escape into fantasy land

Reading Time :: Almost a week PAGES : 417
Rating: 4.5/5

Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Title- Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Wikipedia Summary::
A shadowy, murderous figure from Sgt. Doakes' past arrives in Miami, and begins preying on his treacherous old army colleagues from the Salvadorian Civil War. He possesses a unique method of torture that has earned him the nickname 'Dr. Danco'; he kidnaps each victim, pumps them full of sedatives and, over a period of several days, steadily removes their limbs, genitalia and facial features, before leaving them to contemplate their hideous mutilation in front of a carefully placed mirror.

Meanwhile, Dexter, having been forced to suppress his own murderous urges by the machinations of an increasingly suspicious Doakes, welcomes the distraction and begins to focus on hunting down a possible child killer. However, he finds himself drawn into the case of the mysterious Dr. Danco when his sister Deborah's new boyfriend, Washington detective Kyle Chutsky, turns out to be on the torturer’s hit list...

My Thoughts

I really liked this Dexter book. None of them are that complicated. Sadly real life got in the way of my reading and this book took me quite a while to finish. Either way it was nicely paced and had a good plot. I enjoyed that it veered away from the plot the show decided to trudge down.

READING TIME: Bleh I don't want to talk about it

RATING- 4/5