Insatiable by Meg Cabot
This is definitely a book from my teen years that somehow made it onto my shelves. I don’t think I would have chosen to bring this one with me so I assume it’s one my mom brought when she visited me. I don’t remember buying this and honestly, I’m not really a fan of Meg Cabot’s books. I’ve only read a few of her books but they’re definitely more for a teen audience. I don’t think adult me would enjoy the ‘Airhead’ series. I read The Princess Diaries for the first time last year and I was surprised by how problematic it was.
Synopsis: Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.
But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them.
Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die. (Not that you’re going to believe her; no one ever does.)
But not even Meena’s precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It’s a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.
The problem is, Lucien’s already dead. Maybe that’s why he’s the first guy Meena’s ever met that she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena’s always been able to see everyone else’s future, she’s never been able look into her own.
And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.
Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . .
If she even has one.
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
There’s a bit of a story for why I have this book. It’s not particularly funny or interesting but it does explain why I owned a book with such a weird title. I can’t remember when this was published but it was one of those books they have on the counter at Waterstones that they try to pressure you into buying. Well guess what? It worked. However, I can’t be fully blamed for such a weird sounding book, my mom is the one that bought it. I’m pretty sure I was barely a teenager so a book about a time travelling hamster was obviously hilarious to me so I wanted it.
Cut to at least 10 years later and I never once thought about reading this book. I didn’t even realise I’d bought this book with me when I first moved away from home. You think you’d remember bringing a book 4 hours away from where you grew up, but apparently not. It was a very easy decision to remove this book from my shelves and it’s not one I’d consider buying on Kindle.
Synopsis: “My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.”
On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it Al receives a travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life.
Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, setting his school on fire and ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer…
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