A light read that certainly made me smile through it and that my 12-year-old self would have loved.

The Girl Who Heard Demons - Janette Rall... I can't deny I enjoyed my time reading this, in spite of feeling it was a bit too Christian for me (mentions of God, guardian angels, partying is not good, be a goody-2-shoes is right, etc.), I liked the idea and the execution. Adelle sees and hears demons, which are basically our own demons that tempt us and impulse us to do wrong. Soon Levi, the son of the principal and one of the hot guys, and Adelle form some kind of an alliance, although he doesn't believe her in the entire book, which I hated. I mean, she gave him plenty of reasons to believe her, but no, he wouldn't. He attributed all to her common sense or whatever.

I usually enjoy reading YA from her and his POV, and I liked that this book had it. I liked Levi, in spite of being such a stubborn boy.

Now, on the MEH stuff. Let's face it, Adelle is a Mary Sue. She is the girl who is quiet in class and who doesn't want to attract attention, so she dresses plainly and she wears her hair in pony tails. Oh, and she doesn't wear make up. She is basically the unnoticed mouse. Until, voila! Nice jeans, loose hair and a bit of make up and suddenly Adelle is The Hottest Girl in School. Another fact is that she is the damsel in distress. She has two big dangerous situations, and voila! Handsome Levi to the rescue. Her parents are absent (they live, literally, in another state) with the lame excuse that Adelle needed to get away from all the bullying (due to her ability and the fact that people did not believe her and called her more or less, a follow of Satan). When she gets shot, they visit for a week or so, want to take her back but "oh look, you have nice friends and a cute boyfriend, so you can stay here." What!

The ending was super convenient. Adelle was truly a Mary Sue: almost died a couple of times, but of course she got out of it. Both times. To live a normal life as a teenager with her pretty boyfriend. Hmph.

I love JR, but this one is one of my least favorite books of her. Nice plot, but a boring female MC.

My least favorite in the series. For once, I did not care for the heroine, nor for the hero, nor for the fairy story. I miss the spark that the other two books have. I don't feel like Sadie really mature. For around 90% of the book, she was shallow, childish, not very smart. She used to have a crush on rock singer Jason, her silly wish was that she has a great voice and that Jason loved her. Once in Little Mermaid's and Twelve Dancing Princesses' stories, she realizes he has a big ego and he was not the man she thought he was, so she turns her affections to the other available hot guy, Donovan.

Donovan was just too perfect for my taste. Intelligent, strong, handsome, nice, altruistic... his only crime was that he was poor so he was used to steal in order to survive. I don't buy their insta-love... like, why would they fall for each other, taking aside their "prettiness"? She was silly and shallow, he... well, of course she would fall for him, he was too perfect.

Chrissy got on my nerves in this volume. As a fairy godmother at least. It seems she was mean and petty on purpose, and was less willing to help than in the other two books. And although I love Little Mermaid, here both stories were not much of a parody like on the previous books.

The cover, on the other side.... Gorgeous! I love it, and only because of that beautiful cover, I almost do not regret that I have purchased the paper book instead of the e-book... almost.

Unfortunately, The Slayers is one I'll easily forget in a few months time. For a book that is supposed to be about dragons it drags. The dragons are barely in it and we spend most of the book focused on Tori and her new powers as well as her going back and forth on whether or not she was going to stay at this camp and learn to fight. I wanted more action. 

 

Tori heads to summer camp. What she doesn't know is that its a camp for dragon slayers - to learn to kill and defeat the dragons. She meets the other slayers and quickly learns what special powers she has. But are they enough to stop the dragons?

 

Not exciting enough for me. Maybe the second one is better since the plot line moved by the end of the book. Tori isn't one of my favorite characters and that's usually part of the problem when books do not stick out for me. I may read the second one just to see if the dragons play more of a part. 

 

The other thing that bothered me with this book was the reasoning behind some things. Like why D.C. wouldn't go after the dragons with missiles? Yea, not totally realistic. 

 

It saddens me that I still haven't found as good of a dragon series as The Inheritance series. I'm thinking at this point I never will.