Unbelievable-- Pretty Little Liars #4 [Review]

Unbelievable by Sara Shepard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥♥

"Unbelievable" is the best way to describe this book in one word. Proper title for a proper description.

A tantalizing continuation of the story. More drama seems to unfold with each chapter with each of the girls.

The build-up to the last few chapters of this book were exhilarating. It was hard for me to put it down (Surprise, surprise.)

Precious secrets that the Rosewood Liars have struggled to keep hidden slowly start to unravel.

One promise that was cinched together at the beginning has started to come unraveled. And it wasn't A's doing. Okay, maybe A pushed one of the Liar's a bit too far. But that's what was going to happen anyway... One certain little Secret Holder is then pushed to the police and tells them all about their "personal stalker". Now one of Rosewood's finest knows what's going on... to an extent.

Hanna is still trying to regain her memory from the car accident and is having a hard time remembering who A really was. It takes some time, but eventually all the memories of everything that her memory blacked out on starts to come back.

Yes. That's right. Hanna finally remembers and you find out who A really is!

And the girls seem to figure out who really killed Ali.

...only they're pleading innocent.

Which only further pushes more questions... Maybe all of this really isn't over....



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Pretty Little Liars Book 1 [Review]

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥♥

The girls from Rosewood have an enticing secret and this book is the beginning to a series of an infectious tale.

Best friend Alison is dead... or seems to be and she's apparently got the dirt on her previous group of friends. Though.. if she's dead, how is she able to leave little personal notes in specific detail of what may have happened. Maybe Ali's not dead...?

Of course she is! They found her body buried in the backyard of her house.

And that's what keeps the mystery going.

Random bits of scandal are thrown into the mix along with secret affairs and dirty little secrets... Not to mention that "Jenna Thing" that keeps popping up and you have no idea what happened too. Though.. keep reading, I'm sure that the answer will await you on the next page.

Everyone has a secret.

Kind of makes you think twice about telling your own.

Essentially, I have to admit, I couldn't put this book down. I had a hard time even taking food breaks while reading this one. That's how much the story sucked me in. The way this book was written kept me interested with each page-turn and the words played out in my head like a movie.

The tale may center around a group of high-schoolers... but boy.. do they ever come to life in this book.

Loved it. Ate it up. ♥


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Dead Blog is Dead

Yeah this poor thing is super dead.. I so didn't mean for that to happen.. I've just been so swamped with... well. Everything. Life, work... and then everything in between.

I'll have to play catch up with everything over the next few weeks...

Umm.. Let's see.. Cliff note's version?

- Had 2 jobs since September... jobless now, almost may have work again... Woo!

- Trip to New York in May which was awesome!

- Cosplay props? Oh yes! Made/making a few of those. I'll have to get some pictures.

- Found a new awesome site! Goodreads.com! Been posting a lot of my book reviews there instead of here. Main reason why this blog went kinda dead. I'll be transferring those reviews here soon..

- Anime Expo is less than a month away! Squee!

- Been volunteering at the library too. Yeeah.

Quick and dirty version, oi? Works just fine for me! Muahahaha! Okay.. On to normalcy around here again... Slowly but surely. :P

The Unofficial End to the Toy Hunt

So the McDonalds Super Samurai toy campaign is in it's last week or so... and I have to say that I've been more successful than most in managing to be able to grab all of the toys released.

However..

I am MISSING #2!!! And considering they just released #7 and #8 I don't think I'll be able to find it in stores....

Might have to snag it off of ebay or something..

I finally was able to get the Gold Ranger! YAAAAY!!! I'm happeh! I do love me some Gold Ranger Power. ;) I was wondering when he would show up in this run. Just like the other Ranger figures, he's able to pose his arms and swing his sword when you twist is torso back. Even though The Blue Ranger is my favorite, I think this guy is my favorite figure of the bunch.

The Black Box Disc launcher is #8!

Umm... Here's a better picture.  [Cropped down from a larger image posted on the McDonald's Happy Meal Website.]

This is one COOL toy. It pretty much resembles the new Samurai morpher.. but on a wee bit smaller scale. It comes with a set of 3 discs when you can stuff into the south end of the morpher.  And then to launch the little things, you press down on the gold symbol and PRESTO!

Pretty slick, I must say.

I'm going to have to make another trip to McDonalds before the campaign ends.. I need a second morpher thingy so I can play with it.

Go go Samurai!

Power Ranger Toy Hunt Chronicles

So yesterday I managed to obtain  #5 and #6 of the Power Rangers Samurai toys from McDonalds... Though, I'm half starting to freak out because I'm missing #2.... So it appears I'm going to have to do some hunting in order to get it. So... only three more toys and I'll have the entire set.

Gettin' closer at least!!

Blue Ranger is lucky number 5 in the set. He pretty much does the same thing as the Red, Gree, and Gold Rangers.  If you push back his torso and position his arms, his sword snaps forward.

I have to admit, I was suuuper happy when the guy working at the McDonalds handed it to me. Probably a little too excited to receive one of these little guys. I kinda smiled sheepishly and told him I was a collector and a fan (obviously). He just kinda grinned and rang me up. I think i'll go back up there and get another Blue Ranger... just because he's my favorite ranger from Samurai and I want him to sit on my desk. (heehee.)

#6 in the series is the notorious Shark Blaster!

Here's a better image. [Cropped down from a larger image posted on the McDonald's Happy Meal Website.]
 

 I have to admit..  THIS one is really awesome. There's three little discs in the side compartment. And once you load it up into the front end of the blaster you can pull back the small trigger on the opposite side of the disc container and fire!! I love the fact that it's got a little keychain thingy on the end of it as well. Which means this can easily clip on a backpack zipper or a belt loop or... your purse! ;) Maybe you can use it to fire at someone annoying in the grocery store line.

[Um.. Not that I'm recommending for you to seriously fire this at random people in line-- but it would be kinda hilarious! Just be prepared to get smacked or something. Hah!]

Wooo! Ranger Toys. Time for an episode of Super Samurai now, I think. ;)

Take a Right at Rainbow to BOOM TIME

Gem and Gemma of Power Rangers RPM.

Because it's TIME.

Time to make things go--

KA-BOOM!!!!!!!

Super Samurai Toy Hunt Continues

I managed to go to a few different McDonalds locations last night around the counties where I live looking for anymore of the Power Ranger Super Samurai toys. Apparently I'm finding the same stuff that's out.

Either this time they had nothing but Red Rangers or nothing but Green Rangers. I got lucky with a place a few counties over, and I got this bad boy.

#4 of the set. No #3 anywhere, of course... This is one of the four little toys I was perosnally excited about. (The other two being the weapons and whatnot, of course) But getting this and tryin' to peer into the bag to figure it out and see the construction, I'm kinda in that "Ooooh.... neat...!! This is awesome!" kinda moods.

Here's a clearer version of what it looks like without the plastic around it. 

[Cropped down from a larger image posted on the McDonald's Happy Meal Website.]


This toy comes in three parts.

 1. The belt buckle base.
 2. A light blue disc.
 3. A darker black-ish disc.

 All of which seems to be well constructed. There's an area on back where a darker disc is held in place. The front area has room to hold the other as well, however when the black hinges are pressed, it sends one of the discs launching. In turn, the blackened disc on the back, can be popped out and placed in the hinged area and displayed, or launched as well.

The discs are INSANELY awesome. I really love the light blue one. Just because the details around the edge of the disc are just all the more awesome.

ALL around the discs, each of the Samurai symbols adorn the edges. [Super Samurai Power!!] Which is a brilliant touch, in my opinion.

And the coolest thing? There's a clip so you can clip the belt buckle onto your pants (or shorts, or skirt, or belt!!)

I love it!

Writing this up has seriously made me start wondering if I should open this one to play with it. o.o

I'm sucha big kid...

Heehee.