Friday Hopping

 It's that time of the week again, have you hopped today?

When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

I normally wait until I've finished reading the book, although I might on occasion mention a book I've started and how I'm feeling about it.  I find with most books you know right away if it's going to be good.  Sometimes a book surprises me, in either a good way or a bad way, and will start strong and lose my interest (Da Vinci code, this means you) or start kind of bleh and end up captivating me.  

Sometimes I want so much to love a book, either because the premise is so good, or the cover so pretty, or the title so intriguing, but let me down.  A Great and Terrible Beauty was one of those books for me.  I wanted to love it, and its sequels, but in the end I was like Randy Jackson, it was just alright for me.  It's amazing how some books you know you're going to love from the very first sentence- and those book never let you down because it's like the author wrote the book with you in mind as the sole reader.

  I personally prefer to read reviews based on the blogger's whole experience of a book- the story is a journey and I want to know if it's worth walking out the door or if I should just stay home and re-read Odd Thomas for the millionth time.