Afterthoughts

Hopefully, this review-style book helped introduce a few more people to some iconic, well written literature. I know that my cliché roasting books are the much more popular editions of my vast writing collection, but doing this project was personally a fun journey. I enjoyed writing more constructive style reviews about twelve books I more or less liked. Despite all my efforts to find at least one story I hated, (I am looking at you Twilight), all twelve books for this collection of reviews had enough qualities to say I actually enjoyed them. These reviews may not go down as my best work, but it will go down as one of my more favorite books to write.

I promise when I make some type of a sequel to this that I will limit the amount of Stephen King entries. When writing those parts, I seriously was going through a huge Stephen King phase that more or less now is more at ease now with more intense novels like You coming into my radar. Yes, that means I have more or less become a diehard horror fan, but that is not a bad thing. I still intensely enjoy other genres in fiction, and when writing the next review-style book, I'll still be very diverse with my book choices. When it comes to horror novels, I just read them for the challenge they present me. I love a strong psychological thriller with a powerful message to present the audience.

Thank you so much to everybody who gave this book a chance and someday in the future, I'll make sure to create another one of these. They are fun to write, especially when I have a great excuse to read other books. I am a book fanatic, especially during my high school years where I would be assigned books by my teachers left and right. Usually, I would be the one to read the novel at least three times over before the final test because I couldn't resist finding out about the ending. If I were still in high school now, I would still be the same way. Reading is a huge part of my everyday lifestyle, which led me down the fun path of a writer in the first place.

As for how I rank each novel I reviewed, here is the list of worst to best novels in my opinion by default... (Again, I didn't hate a single book!)

12. Twilight by Stephanie Meyers  (I enjoyed it, but there were some huge flaws that I couldn't ignore.)

11.  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (This book is excellent, but the second half had an extreme issue of dragging on.  If it was more condensed with the pacing, I would have ranked it much higher.)

10.  The Dead Zone by Stephen King  (This book was a joy to read, but it does not have as much meat as some of the more classic Stephen King novels.)

9. Circus Du Freak by Darren Shan (It may be one of the shorter books reviewed here, but it was enjoyable all the same. The best part; this is considered a book for younger audiences yet I still enjoyed it fully as an adult.)

8.  The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne  (This book is depressing as heck, but depicts the truth about what happened to many families in Germany during World War Two.  I enjoyed reading it, but not crying my eyes out at the end.)

7.  Animal Farm by George Orwell  (This book has an underrated message about the dangers of Russian communism that I feel a lot of people tend to miss.  It combines well written animal characters with politics excellently.)

6. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (I love the romantic/gothic blend this book takes on vampire lore. It is very unique and makes for an addicting read. Also, apparently there is a whole series of books Anne Rice created out of this universe!)

5. Pet Sematary by Stephen King (I did not expect this book to rank so high. However, when looking at the book at a structural level, it just beat a couple of the better well known books.)

4. The Shining by Stephen King (This is the best Stephen King novel I have read out of the three. It is miles better than the movie and extremely tense in the last third of the novel.)

3. You by Caroline Kepnes (Okay, why aren't more people reading this book? It is a psychological thriller that matches the excellent writing style of Stephen King! Heck, Stephen King himself read it and praised the heck out of it!)

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (This remains one of my favorite books of all time. I read this book for the first time in tenth grade English and I have loved it even more over the years. The only reason it is not number one is because of the greater impact the book above it happened to have on me.)

1.  Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley  (Seriously, this is the best book I have read alongside Kite Runner and Of Mice and Men. Please check this book out if you can only choose one.)

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