Ann Brashares: The second summer of the sisterhood

 

Like the title already tells us, this is a sequel of the book "Sisterhood of the traveling pants". I haven't read the first book, but i've seen the movie where Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Blake Lively starred in. Eventhough already in 2005 i wasn't probably the main audience agewise, i really liked the movie and when "the opporturnity came" to read this book, i took it.

So basically to describe what this book is about, you should know about the first one. Obviously this continues with the four girls lives where the last book/movie left off. But to not to give anything away the main idea is, that these four girls who have been friends since their childhood find a pair of pants that fits all of them even when they are sizewise different. In the first book they decide that they'll share the pants and each can have them for a spesific time until they have to ship them for the next person and include a letter that tells what happened while they were wearing the pants. 

And stuff do happen while they have the pants. Even events that changes their lives. This second book continues with the path that was shown in the first book. It was a good read, the story was consistent and it was easy to read. I really enjoyed it and can recommend it to anyone who like these kind of somewhat light books.

Denise Mina: Garnethill

 

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One of the persons who suggested me to read Ian Rankin, suggested also this book. After having these disastorous moments with Ian, i did have some trouble to really grab this one. But i'm glad i did.

Story of the book is about Maureen who gets involved in a murder after she wakes up in her aparment and finds her boyfriend dead. The night before she was so drunk that she can't really remember what happened. The thing she remembers is that she didn't kill him but of course the police suspects her. 

As the story goes, you'll learn a lot more about Maureen, her family and their past. At some points it was kind of hard to follow all the different characters but in the end you kind of learned to know the important characters a lot better that way. 

This was the first crimenovel in a long time where i didn't guess the murderer right away, so a huge plus for that.

Juhani Mykkänen: Matkaoppaat

The book is based on a hit realityshow of mainly Finnish travelguides working in Alanya, Turkey. The book interviews the guides and gives behind the scenes look to the show. A fine book, but nothing really that special as books about tv-shows never really are.

Michael White: Equinox

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The story travels in nowadays Oxford, England as well as in the late 1600s. The historic part tells you the story of Isaac Newton who tries to achieve the alchemistpowers that a secret society holds. The story in nowadays is of course related.

A crime scene photographer Philip Bainbridge, his ex-wife Laura and their daughter Jo starts to investigate some ritualistic murders that has shaken the town. Somehow they found themselves chasing the same secret society Newton wanted to be a part of.

It is easy to follow the story but maybe the easyness doesn't really give any surprises in the end. You can (or at least i could) guess the main evil character pretty soon and the ending isn't really surprising either. A good one, but not great.

Frances Mayes: Under the Tuscan sun

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I'm really enthusiastic about storylines similar to this book. The describing of the Italian surroundings are beautiful and if i'd like cooking i would definitely try out the recipes. The reason i'm only giving 3 stars is the disapointment i had reading this - i had seen the movie first and the movie had the best storyline. It was heartwarming and happy and you really got to know other people as well than just Francis.. The book is nothing like it and i know it's not the books fault because it was written first.. But.. if the book would have the same story as the movie, i'd give it 5 stars.

Patricia Cornwell: Postmortem

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This is the first book of the series of Kay Scarpetta, but this was the last book of hers that i've read. Therefore i may not be totally fair for this book because all the other books kind of determine the destiny of this one. If i could think this was first of the books, i would be very pleased. The storyline is whole and she writes well. It was also nice to see Lucy as a ten year old genius than the plus 20 year old genius.

But because this was the last book i read, i found the story bit same as all the other ones. I know it's not fair to judge it because of it, but it's kind of annoying how almost all the books in the series are about someone betraying Kay at her office and some serial killer breaking into her house. I've actually never realised this before.. but maybe i did realise this now when i got the bigger picture of what this series is about, right from the beginning... Eventhough this kind of repeats the same story over and over again, i plan to read all of the books, in order, again..

Mari Kujanpää: Minä ja Muro

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A cute story of a little girl who hasn't really got any friends other than her bear Muro. Her life is quite miserable because her parents ignore her a lot too.. but after a teenage-girl comes to the school to help out the kids the main character Lauhas life starts to change...