Bliss by Lauren MyracleAbout the book-It’s the summer of 1969, and Bliss has been unceremoniously dumped by her hippie parents into the custody of her grandmother. Soon Bliss finds herself adjusting to life as a freshman at a fancy Atlanta school—and it’s a lot different from life on the commune. Although she quickly finds “normal” friends, she is drawn to Sandy, a gruff and unpopular girl with a long-standing grudge against Sarah Lynn, the icy beauty of the freshman class. The push and pull of the school drama is engaging enough, but there’s another element pressurizing the situation: an unsettling voice calling to Bliss from inside one of the school buildings, a voice somehow related to strange blood rituals and a long-ago suicide.
*I had read this book like a couple of weeks ago but i never got around to blog about it. That is until now. Ok...so Bliss goes to school for the first time. She becomes friends with a not-so-popular girl who goes by the name Sandy. Sandy hates the popular girl Sarah Lynn and is always saying bad stuff about her and what not. Bliss accidentally runs into Sarah Lynn in the hall with a guy she's not supposed to be with. Bliss gets to know Sarah Lynn & becomes friends with her. She doesn't know why Sandy hates her so much. Ok so on Bliss's first day of school, she hears a voice calling her, telling her to come toward it. Later on, Bliss learns that a girl named Liliana whose thirst for power drove her to commit sucide on school grounds. And of course Bliss assumes that is the voice that is calling her to go the floor where Liliana killed herself. Now, in the book, after certain chapters, it has diary pages from the journal of S.L.L. Everytime i'd read those parts, i was totally confused and the circuits in my brain were whirling thinking Who the hell is that? It drove me crazy that i didn't know who it was because S.L.L. was trying to bring back Liliana with a sacrifice. Anyways...it turns out it's Bliss's close friend Sandy whose whole name is Sandy Lurlene Lear. Little by little you get to see that Sandy is a little cukoo and Bliss sees that too. So all through this...Bliss also learns that Sandy needs her blood for the sacrifice to work. A bunch of things happen though..at the end...Sarah Lynn dies and instead was the sacrifice. And Then Sandy becomes popular. The end. It totally left me hanging. It left me with so many questions roaming around in my mind. But this book was absolutely interesting and frightening. It was a good READ, without a doubt.
Rhymes With Witches by Lauren MyracleAbout the book-High school freshman Jane is more than plain -- she’s practically invisible. And she longs for nothing more than to join the ranks of the Bitches, the top female echelon at school. But the Bitches are selective, and only one girl from each class is chosen to rule supreme. So Jane is puzzled but ecstatic when the Bitches name her their freshman successor. Soon she is being worshipped by all kinds of beautiful people who didn’t even know her name last week. But as Jane soon realizes, it isn’t easy being a Bitch. She is informed by her new "sisters" that there are certain sacrifices to be made -- sacrifices that could wreck high school havoc and ruin lives. Is Jane willing to do anything to stay on the top of the popularity heap? Or will she risk it all to save innocent others from the clutching claws of the Bitches?
*Ok. so i read this book two days ago. It's funny because this book has been sitting on my bookshelf for the past oh...month or so. LOL...i've just been super, super lazy is all. Anyways i finally read it. It's funny too because i read Bliss first and i found it cool that it was written by the same author the wrote this one. Once i was finished with this book, i realized that this in fact goes somewhat with bliss. Yup, it has Sandy in it and goes along with what became of her. The only thing though, is it doesn't say what happend with Bliss or anyone else in the Bliss book...well except Sandy. Anyways, the story revolves around Jane and a group of popular girls called "The Bitches" and they want Jane to be their Fourth. Jane's best friend Alicia and her sister tell her about how the bitches are like witches and have some power over the whole school. Jane "thinks" it's fake. Just a story people made up. She joins the bitches but first has to steal something from anybody in school and then her initiation is complete. So she does and leaves it in Lurl the Pearl's desk which so happens to be on the floor where no one is allowed. She is totally confused about why she has to put it on Lurl's desk but she does it anyways and people automatically like her as soon as it is done. So she's happy because everyone likes her. But then she has to steal again and finds out that she has to do it every week in order for people to continue to like her. She didn't want to do it and she even tried to put a necklace that was hers on the desk but it didn't work. Then Camila, a girl who's immune somewhat to fawning over "the Bitches" gets messed around by one of "the bitches" and sucks away her popularity, however litle she has, every week by stealing something from her. After a party "the bitches" go to Camila's house, along with some other people, and try to go teach Camila a lesson. Not a good lesson. Jane gets in the middle of it and somehow gets into Camila's house and tells her what they were going to do. Then Jane spills it all to Camila. About why "the Bitches" are so popular and why she is always getting picked on and about the stealing her stuff. Jane wasn't supposed to tell anybody but she didn't care anymore. She knew "the Bitches" needed her as a fourth...or so she thought. Turns out Camila went and became the fourth taking Jane out. And little by little they were sucking away her popularity. The End. This book again...left me hanging. *sigh* But it was so good. Frightening like Bliss but so GOOD too! I just wish it wouldn't have left me hanging. Those "Bitches" needed to go D-O-W-N!! LOL...I suggest ya Read it!
-Vee
