Love Is Hell in The Mortal Instruments

Aug 31, 2009 Helena rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-fantasy, romance, faeries, future, short-stories-anthologies

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Not usually into all these anthologies but I knew some of the authors who contributed so yeah...

One of my fav stories in the book "Sleeping with the spirit" by Laurie Faria Stolarz the first story in the book is about a girl who moves into a new house and there is a ghost who is trying to get her to help him to leave the human world, or whatever it's called when ghosts remain in the world. Well she ends up helping him but also falling in love with him. In the end he leaves her to move on to the Not usually into all these anthologies but I knew some of the authors who contributed so yeah...

One of my fav stories in the book "Sleeping with the spirit" by Laurie Faria Stolarz the first story in the book is about a girl who moves into a new house and there is a ghost who is trying to get her to help him to leave the human world, or whatever it's called when ghosts remain in the world. Well she ends up helping him but also falling in love with him. In the end he leaves her to move on to the afterlife or whatever, you know what I mean.

"Stupid perfect world" by Scott Westerfeld is set in the future and in a class students have to study an olden-day thing for their Scarity class. Well I guy picks sleep (it's in the future and they don't sleep) and a girl, who has a crush on him, helps him and she studies teenage hormones. Well the guy ends up dreaming about the girl and falls in love with her.

I found the third story "Thinner than water" by Justine Larbalestier a little spooky. Well it is set in the past and they have this day called 'Lammas day' and its where a guy picks a girl to be with for a year. Well the protagonist Jeannie is picked by Robbie but her parents and the rest of the town don't like this choice because they think he's a fairy and evil. Well a day before a year, the town and Jeannie's parents kill Robbie. Jeannie is upset because she really loved him. She ends up marrying another guy. Two years later after Robbie's death he returns and Jeannie learns the truth that he is a fairy and Robbie wants Jeannie to join him but she doesn't want to and Robbie obviously lets her go because he once promised her that he wouldn't make her do what she didn't want to.

The fourth story was "Fan fictions" by Gabrielle Zevin. It's about a rejected girl who falls in love with a new guy called Aaron. But Aaron is immortal. When she tells her friends about him they don't believe that he is real because she was the only one that really saw him. Everyone then thinks she's crazy because there is an exact same boy in a book that her librarian suggested her to read who was also immortal. She ends up in the assylum and writes a letter to him with the lines that are also the same first lines in the book, "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who belive in love and those who don't I belive in love..."

The last story was "Love struck" by Melissa Marr. It was about a girl called Alana who is trapped by a selchie. She is bound to him by his coat and falls deeply in love with him and is requited. The selchie's brother tells Alana that all selchies miss the sea so she breaks the bond.

Overall the collection was good. I enjoyed it and it wasn't at all confusing. ...more

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Apr 23, 2009 Samantha rated it it was amazing

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From quirky to chilling, in this collection of short stories there's something for everyone. I really enjoyed these stories by five of todays hottest teen authors. They were well written and each one was surprisingly different. The first story, Laurie Faria Stolarz's "Sleeping with the Spirit" is the least remarkable of the five. But it's still an entertaining if predictable tale about a girl in love with a ghost. Next is "Stupid Perfect World" by Scott Westerfeld. It's set in a futuristic world ...more

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Mar 07, 2009 Katieb (MundieMoms) rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, 2009-100-book-challenge

I really like the collection of various stories from the various authors. I really liked the stories by Gabrielle Zevin and Melissa Marr. They left me wanting more.

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