Review: Mercy

Title Mercy
By Rebecca Lim
For Fun
Source I own it

First sentence There's something very wrong with me.

Synopsis
Mercy doesn't know much about her true self, all she has is a sense of her true appearance and her dreams of a lost love. She jumps from body to body, not knowing how or why. All she can do is try to make the life of the body she inhabits better. But this time, in the body of Carmen, a young choir singer, something's different.

General thoughts
 Where do I start? I had absolutely no real opinion of this one nearly the whole way through it. I'm not sure if it's because I couldn't connect with any of the characters, or if it was the authors intention that I feel distanced but either way it made it hard for me to really form an opinion. The writing was absolutely delightful! I don't usually share but I wanted to share a few paragraphs so you can see what I'm talking about.

I look back at Richard Coates, wandering his motorbike graveyard like a restless spirit, until he is lost to sight.


His voice is like a muted roar, like waves breaking across all the world's oceans in tandem, a thunderclap to split the skies.


Isn't that beautiful? I loved the writing! It made the  a book that might have been a little lackluster quite good. I think my biggest problem was there was a small mystery to figure out but it felt like the whole book was a set up for the rest of the series. The cliffhanger ending had me furious! Not just because it left you wanting more but because just as the story got going it ended! So annoying.

Characters
Mercy/Carmen was an interesting conundrum. Who she was or what happened in her past that left her jumping from body to body never really became clear to me. Either it was totally obvious and I just completely missed it, or it really was confusing. All in all, I liked Mercy she had integrity and was brave and kinda scary when she wanted to be. Ryan and his parents were slightly unbelievable. I had a hard time believing they would really still be acting the way they did, but I liked Ryan well enough and felt for him at the end during the big cliffhanger.

Would I recommend it?
This is the first fallen angel book I've read so I can't compare it to any others but I would recommend it for the beautiful writing alone.

The Sunday Salon

And now a bunch of useless information you never wanted to know about me. ;-)

Outside my window: Oh the heat! It's getting pretty bad.

I am listening to: Nothing this week. Well, nothing new.

I am watching: A list of shows I'm watching this summer: Teen Wolf...don't mock!
The Nine Lives of Chloe King...I don't now how much longer I can take it, though.
Covert Affairs....I love Oggie! Sigh!
Burn Notice...such a great show!

Falling Skies...really freaking awesome!!!!

I am thinking: Why are the things we HAVE to do so hard?!

I am grateful for: The Fourth of July, our american holiday and the giant pool party we have every year.

I am reading: Still, working on Middlemarch and am almost finished with Mercy by Rebecca Lim...I don't know what I think yet.

I am photographing: Nothing, I had hoped to have some fun stuff but that didn't turn out. Next week, though, next week.

I am listing: Nothing

I am creating: Ideas for how to organize my shelves. Come on, people, ideas?

Around the house: Argh! The ants are back in full force!I swear I've tried everything. Anyone have any suggestions?

From the kitchen: Remember the cookies I wanted to make? Well I made them twice. The first time the whole wheat flour I used had gone a little rancid so that was a bust. I made them again and I think they're quite good.  If you're interested here's the recipe. (note) If you're used to refined flour, sugar, etc. I'm not sure you'll like these. They're definitely "whole wheat".

One of my favorite things: Holidays, when I take a break from my diet. ;)

The children this week: No kids, just my cat Buns and she's not sure what to think of all the loud fireworks going on in the neighborhood all the time. 

Plans for the week: I don't even want to talk about it. You know when you have to do things you don't want to?...Yeah. 

Thanks to Ibeeeg of Polishing Mud Balls for the inspiration for this post's layout.

Shelving Saturday

Shelving Saturday is a fun new meme hosted by Eastern Sunset Reads that deals with, you guessed it, our shelving dilemmas.  It's a fun way to see and hear about other bloggers book shelves that I personally love! This weeks dilemma:

So this last week we started re-organizing our shelves. Did you all figure out how you are going to organize them? Lets see your progress.

:( I haven't made any progress this week besides deciding (I think) how to organize my shelves. I thinking either: genre and then author, or just strictly by author. What do you guys think? Or is there some other cool way I haven't thought of that could be fun? I just want to keep my series together. My sister suggested I organize them alphabetically by title but I don't know....So, speak up people, I know you don't really care but I need some input to motivate me. 

Random Acts Of Kindness

RULES RE-CAP:

• Sign up each month that you'd like to participate.

• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button :)

• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.

• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger for their address.

• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K!  Make a post saying 'Thank You' to whoever granted one of your wishes and share it with us :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE!

Let's keep our International bloggers in mind and in our hearts.

Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

Hey, I decided to participate this month! Who doesn't want to give and get books?!  I'm excited to see how it all turns out. You can check out my list HERE just to see what I'm wishing for. And if you want to sign up too head on over to Book Soulmates. 

June Wrapup

Ah, June, the month of my birth! Anywho, here's what I read this month. Now I'm sure you don't remember but I had a summer reading list and besides two books that unexpectedly came up,  I've stuck to the list and only have 17 books left on my summer reading list. I can do it!

Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Filled with cliches and dripping with angst this one still was pretty good.

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Now, the aforementioned angst in this one drove me nuts! Good for some, not for me.

Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon
Retelling of The Little Mermaid that just didn't do it for me. But it had a lovely cover.

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacy Kade
A fun light romp with more depth than I expected.

Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
Deeply imagined gem with a wonderful moral.

The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
Mediocre writing but fun story with a great heroine.


The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Weird, weird and confusing but beautifully written and thought provoking.

The Boyfriend List by E Lockhart
A fast read with character growth worth enjoying.

Middlemarch by George Elitot.
Still plugging through this one, I shouldn't have watched the movie first. Now I know I don't really care for the storyline and it's making it hard to get into.

My least favorite of the month was Mermaid; it was just to weird and took liberties at the end. My favorites of the month were: The Boyfriend List, The Ghost and the Goth, and Bruiser. All great reads.

Don't forget to enter my first giveaway if you haven't yet! Thanks. Happy Reading!