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A review by blooms_in_books
My Ex From Hell by Tellulah Darling
4.0
My original review for this title can be found HERE on The Book Hookup.
**NOTE:**I received an eARC of this title from the publishers via Net Galley for review purposes. However, this did not influence her opinions on this novel in any way.
Actual rating of 3.5 Stars!
The Lowdown: As far as Sophie Bloom knows, she’s your average teenager dumped at a “new age” boarding school by her adoptive socialite mother that could care less. Her biggest problem is navigating the halls without running into her greatest nemesis, Bethany, the yoga-leading zen master of the B*tch Brigade (<<“that red-haired, black-souled cow”). When we’re first introduced to Sophie, she’s plotting her revenge on the evil, teacher-manipulating witch and that retaliation comes in the form of laxative and wrecking Bethany’s chances of a midnight rendezvous with a hottie she’s had her eye on. All is going as planned until this hot guy kisses Sophie, and suddenly her brain is filled with images of Mt. Olympus, Zeus, and she learns that she is Persephone and has now landed on Hades and Zeus’s radars after having been thought dead for years.
So, after acquiring powers, Sophie has to deal with battling the evil forces sent by the dueling gods themselves, trying to figure out where her and her Prince of the Underworld boyfriend (or is he her ex?) still stand, and doing all that while still managing to fit in her school work. To make matters even worse, when students start disappearing along with every one else’s memories and Sophie finds out her friends aren’t who they’re suppose to be, she finds herself in the middle of a manhunt of epic proportions.
Verdict: After having read Tellulah Darling’s Sam Cruz’s Infallible Guide to Getting Girls (see my review: here), I immediately began to stalk her goodreads page for future works. When I saw this title and that it was a modernized mythology tale, I was all over it. (I’m a bit of a mythology nerd, always have been, so there even may have been a bit of squee’ing involved.) Just like in Sam Cruz, Ms. Darling provides an excellent cast of fun and witty characters that share amazing banter and funny dialogue. Characters will win me over every time. However, there was something in the way that a good majority of the sentences were structured that had me scratching my head and trying to follow what was actually going on. Not only that, but I expected more in the swoony/sexual tension department because Sam Cruz was chalked full of it. In this story, Kai is a bit of an asshole, and by ‘bit,’ I mean I reeeeeally wanted to kick his Prince of the (douchebag) Underworld, other-girl-ogling ass.
All that being said, it was fun and I truly did enjoy Sophie’s snark. I’ll definitely be looking into the sequel, and here’s hoping Kai isn’t so much of an asshat in it.
♥ A special thanks to Te Da Media and Net Galley for providing me an early copy of this title. Be sure to snag yours when it’s published Monday, April 1, 2013.
**NOTE:**I received an eARC of this title from the publishers via Net Galley for review purposes. However, this did not influence her opinions on this novel in any way.
Actual rating of 3.5 Stars!
The Lowdown: As far as Sophie Bloom knows, she’s your average teenager dumped at a “new age” boarding school by her adoptive socialite mother that could care less. Her biggest problem is navigating the halls without running into her greatest nemesis, Bethany, the yoga-leading zen master of the B*tch Brigade (<<
So, after acquiring powers, Sophie has to deal with battling the evil forces sent by the dueling gods themselves, trying to figure out where her and her Prince of the Underworld boyfriend (or is he her ex?) still stand, and doing all that while still managing to fit in her school work. To make matters even worse, when students start disappearing along with every one else’s memories and Sophie finds out her friends aren’t who they’re suppose to be, she finds herself in the middle of a manhunt of epic proportions.
Verdict: After having read Tellulah Darling’s Sam Cruz’s Infallible Guide to Getting Girls (see my review: here), I immediately began to stalk her goodreads page for future works. When I saw this title and that it was a modernized mythology tale, I was all over it. (I’m a bit of a mythology nerd, always have been, so there even may have been a bit of squee’ing involved.) Just like in Sam Cruz, Ms. Darling provides an excellent cast of fun and witty characters that share amazing banter and funny dialogue. Characters will win me over every time. However, there was something in the way that a good majority of the sentences were structured that had me scratching my head and trying to follow what was actually going on. Not only that, but I expected more in the swoony/sexual tension department because Sam Cruz was chalked full of it. In this story, Kai is a bit of an asshole, and by ‘bit,’ I mean I reeeeeally wanted to kick his Prince of the (douchebag) Underworld, other-girl-ogling ass.
All that being said, it was fun and I truly did enjoy Sophie’s snark. I’ll definitely be looking into the sequel, and here’s hoping Kai isn’t so much of an asshat in it.
♥ A special thanks to Te Da Media and Net Galley for providing me an early copy of this title. Be sure to snag yours when it’s published Monday, April 1, 2013.