I'm in discord with my mother. That pretty much sums up my day. Other than that, I spent my day working and reading.
Afore talking about the new book I'm reading, there's something I found exceedingly irritating in Significance that I have to splurt it out. Otherwise, it will choke me to death. Maggie in Significance was a very insensitive, inconsiderate and selfish girl. People and Caleb kept swooning how amazing, sweet and adorable she was but I didn't see any of such traces in her. There were two other guys who also happened to be madly in love with her (jeez, the girl doesn't deserve all the attention), and she snapped at them and humiliated them everytime she spoke to them. Shelly Crane probably attempted to build an image of a strong girl who can fend for herself against guys. But...hey, they were sweet, kind-hearted, harmless guys who may have made some silly mistakes in the past. Perhaps Chad, one of the guys, bad-timingly broke up with her right when she needed him most. However, the guy had more reasons to do that and he didn't know what happened to Maggie, and she didn't bother to listen to his explanation only until the very last moment when she invaded his privacy without his awareness and permission by the mean of reading his mind. Poor Chad, really. That proves how grugding Maggie was. As to Kyle, his only mistake was to harbour some secret love for Maggie for two years. Guess what Maggie's reaction was when she found out Kyle's feeling... She wanted to HURL. Man, the girl was and is still a major annoyance. She will live forever in my memory as someone I want to slap senseless.
Well, I guess that's quite enough. I can breath somewhat easier.
Touch of Frost is more entertaining than I expected. The heroine is one of those self-acclaimed detectives who cannot restrain her own curiosity and loves to dig out others' secret. Thus she snoops about places she shouldn't be. And the consequence is that she was dragged into some paranormal mystery and almost got herself killed if not for the Spartan hero who had followed her into the dark for what intention God ONLY knows. So far so good. But one of the things that irked me was that the author made repititive writing for quite a few times. I'm sure I have good enough memory to remember what just happened in, say, the last three pages. She even reminded us about the heroine's rare ability for what must be three or four times during the first 10% of the book. Gosh, it was annoying.
I cannot yet form an image of the hero. He made very spare appearance in this book and for only about a few lines to a few pages at most. I figure Jennifer Estep wanted to focus the story around the heroine first and didn't want to make the romance into something like Insta-love. This I approve. Besides, I'm quite hooked into the mystery to care much for the romace. Though it does add some spices to the story.
Now I'm starting to have much more expectation than I previously had. I hope Jennifer isn't going to fail me. I saw lots of low rating for all the books in this series. Let us pray.
Oh, right, I just received an email from Oxford College informing me that I do not need an IELTS certificare to enrol. I think I don't even need to send them any documents of my prior education, either. All that's left to solve is the MONEY. My parents piss me off. Yeah, I know how wrong and bad that sounds. But they keep asking me to WAIT, WAIT, WAIT...and then WAIT some more. Ok. So I'll wait until the day I die. If only I have my own budget. It sucks depending on people for your future. Especially when the people we're talking about are your own parents.
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