Read any good books lately? Rate them here

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I'm not talking about just any book to movie adaption, I'm specifically talking about multi-book, multi-movie franchises.  The recent blockbuster franchises based on books tend toward being based on YA books:

Harry Potter
Twilight
Hunger Games
Divergent
Narnia

Others that don't seem as big but are book to movie adaptations that were probably seen as potential franchises by the studios include:

Percy Jackson
Ender's Game
The Maze Runner
Eragon

Ok, I see what you meant.

Percy Jackson actually got a second movie despite the first one sucking soooo bad and "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" is in production as we "speak" despite how bad it sucked. I'm not so sure they considered "Ender's Game" a franchise starter, unless they were going to continue with the "Shadow" books. The Ender sequels would not do well in the same target crowd as "Ender's Game." Ender went and got all grown up.

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My most recent:

Mercy has to deal with a new threat in the Tri Cities. A recently turned vampire who is also demon possessed. 7.5/10.

I'm hoping Ms. Briggs will bring better game to the following books. More of the same just ain't gonna do it.

My current read:

I got this one on the strength of her first book "The Book of Unholy Mischief" aka "The Chef's Apprentice." Big disappointment. Unholy Mischief, based in 1498 Venice was an irreverent romp through the eyes of an apprentice chef. This one, split between the 1850s and 1940s rural India, does not measure up.

1947. India is rife with violence surrounding Britain’s imminent departure. Yet Evie Mitchell is eager to start a new life there with her husband, Martin, a troubled anthropologist, and their young son. It is in their colonial bungalow, hidden behind a brick wall, that Evie makes a startling discovery. Evie finds a packet of old letters that tell a strange and compelling story of love and war involving two young Englishwomen who lived in the same house in 1857...

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I'm really hoping Ms. Newmark's next effort is better than this one. If I weren't close to finishing it already, I probably wouldn't bother. I'll give it a 5/10 since I will finish it...