March readings- we'll just pretend the month was a week long.....

I am humiliated by my complete and utter lack of reading this month. Last time, I blamed Buffy. This time, I blame House of Cards. But really, I only have myself to blame. Fortunately, it's starting to warm up. So poolside reading can begin again!

Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (451 pages). The last in the Beautiful Creatures series. I really liked the first book. Hated the next two. But finally found myself enjoying this last one. In the third book, Ethan sacrificed himself to restore the Order to the world. In this book, he battles through the Otherworld when he learns that his page in the Castor Chronicles had been rewritten and he wasn't supposed to die then. Sacrifices had to be made and struggles had to be overcome. But eventually Ethan makes his way home to Lena and his life in Gatlin.

Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli (320 pages). This was my book club book (book club that I couldn't attend because it was the parental's anniversary). I didn't like the book at all. It's several generations of stories, all rolled into one. Riddle and Emmaline Young are orphaned at 18 and 6 years of age. They are part Indian. They meet the Bounds, a white family who's patriarch is a preacher. Riddle has a child with the Bounds' black cook, Lossie. The boy is named Alger. Emmaline marries the Bounds' son, Samuel. Fast forward to their plantation, where young Willie Mae Cotton has just been purchased and brought to live. Her former owners were Samuel Bounds' sister and brother-in-law, the Darlings. She had lived there with her mother and another slave, Enoch, who taught her to read and who happened to be Lossie's father. Willie Mae keeps her head covered at all times because, for some reason, her head glows. Huh?! Willie Mae marries Alger, even though she loves her best friend Mary-Mary. Willie Mae and Alger have a daughter, Lovelady Belle. Then Riddle buys his family's freedom. Then the Civil War happens. Fast forward again- Willie Mae and Mary-Mary find a young girl, Ella, beaten up on the side of the road. Her mother Mia (who she actually thinks is her sister) has sent her home while she is in DC, fighting for civil rights. The Darlings' son married an Indian woman. Their eventual descendant? Mia. Rev Bounds had some children with one of his slaves. Their eventual descendant? Obidiah Bounds. Obidiah and Mia were Ella's parents. Confusing enough for you? Mia had some strange adventures of her own. Her best friend growing up was Lovelady Belle, a ghost. Yep, that Lovelady. I"m still not sure I figured out how she died. There were some men and masks and screaming and a creek. Seriously, not one clue as to what was really happening in the book. It jumped around way too much. I didn't like it at all. Not one little bit.

So there you go. 2 books. 771 pages. Embarrassing, NotSoPlainJane. We need to step it up.