I've been reading so much that I haven't been able to keep up with reviewing! I'll begin with:

Size 12 is not fat by Meg Cabot- I loved the Princess Diaries movie, and was wanted to see how Meg Cabot  wrote for adults. I found this at the library book sale for fifty cents, and couldn't pass it up.

I enjoyed this book more then I should have because the main character Heather Wells, who is a former teen pop star down on her luck takes a job at a residence hall @ New York College. I had a good friend who worked in Residence Hall life, and the stories that the college students did reminded me of stories she would tell me.

There was a line that kept being repeated "it's not a dorm, it's a residence hall." that annoyed some reviewers, but I laughed all the time because my friend would say that line all the time.

Back to the story.  Heather Wells is 28, and is flat broke because her mom and manager took off together with all of her money. She gets dropped by her record label and catches her finance, Jordan-a boy band star, in bed with the current top 40 princess.

She dumps Jordan and moves out of the apartment she shared with him and moves in with his brother Cooper, the black sheep of the family because the rents free and it would annoy her ex finance. She takes a job as Assistant Director of a dorm at New York College because of the free tuition. Once fall semester starts, students start dying-by falling to their death in the elevator shaft.

Was it really elevator surfing gone by as the police said or was it the College President's mysterious, slightly wayward son killing off virgins? With the help of Cooper, Heather sets off to solve the mystery. 

What I enjoyed about this book was even though there were a lot of characters, I liked them all, and you can tell that the author really worked at a dorm. She captures university life perfectly. This is a fast, quick, if not predictable read.
 

 

  

Let me begin by saying that I loved both of these books! 

The Constant Princess tells the Story of Katherine Of Aragon. It tells the story in complete first person, and starts out when she was the Infanta of Spain. What I enjoyed most about this book is that it gave details about her life before coming to England, and what it was like to be the daughter of the King and Queen of Spain. I just wish this book had been longer. It was concentrated a lot on her early life with her parents, Aurther and Henry when he was younger. I wish it had gone into details about her life in exile from the court.

The Boleyn Inheritance is the story of Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn. I wasn't sure if I would like this book, because in the Other Boleyn Girl, I hated Jane Boleyn, and thought why should she get her own story? After reading how her life was intertwined with so many Queens of England, I can see why her story was told. This book was probably my favorite book in the entire series. It was once again written in first person, and the problem I have with telling the story of three different characters is that most of the time I only like one. The stories blend togehter really well, and I found myself wanting more of each one. 

Ms. Gregory said she wanted to tell the story of Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard because out of all of Henry the VIIIs wives, these were the two that were written the least about, but the public feels like they knows a lot about them. I had no idea how young Katherine was when she came to the throne~I couldn't imagine being 15 and married to some who was 46 and such a tyrant. 

I highly recommend all the books in this series! However, I don't recommend reading them before bed. All the beheading gives way to really weird dreams!