Personal rating of 2 out of 5 stars
2 stars This is the first book I have read in this series. The antics of Junie B. Jones are reminiscent of Ramona Quimby, but the first person narrator really got on my nerves. Having Junie narrate the story with all of her age-appropriate grammatical errors was very irritating to me. It really took away…
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2 stars Found a copy of this book in the Lending Library and decided to check it out for an easy read. The story is simple, the writing is okay, but I really did not like the narration. Junie’s narration really bugged me with her misprounciations and incorrect use of past tense verbs. I understand…
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2 stars I’m kind of conflicted about this book. There were parts I liked and parts I didn’t like. So please excuse the ramble that is about to follow. I really liked the concept of the book. It took an old concept (ghostly unfinished business) and put a cool new spin on it. There were…
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2 stars I won this book in a giveaway. Overall, not really my kind of book. I really enjoy wine and have liked other vineyard-based novels, but this one was not my glass of wine, so to speak. I was really intrigued by the opening quote, “You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to…
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2 stars I received an ARC of this book through The Reading Room/Bookstr. Definitely a disturbing and macabre collection of stories, but that wasn’t what I disliked about it. What I really didn’t like was that most of the stories didn’t really have a plot or resolution. They were more just a collection of creepy…
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2 stars A cute book, but not much for plot. I liked the illustrations and the characters, but this book read like the introduction to a series, not a book in and of itself. Nothing really happened outside of Benji meeting the new toys.A nice picture book, but not much of a story.
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2-stars This book took me much longer to read than I expected. The premise of the book intrigued me, but reading through it, I was very bored. The writing isn’t bad, but it is written in such a rambling way that it is easy to zone out. Overall, the book was okay. It was written…
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