I don't remember the author of the book but I remember a couple plot details. The beginning was telling how twin sisters went horseback riding, one fell off without wearing a helmet and developed permanent brain damage. After that, it skips to a few years later and takes on the twins' little sister's pov. The other twin, not the handicapped twin, was found dead at valentines day. After that, the younger sister starts getting weird messages and death threats so she's trying to figure out who it is. It turns out that it was the twin with the brain damage the whole time, at the end she tried to kill her younger sister. They were on a frozen lake and the twin fell through the ice but wouldn't let her sister help her out of the water. I distinctly remember toward the end when she fell through the ice, she floated to a different patch of ice and her sister could see her through the ice but couldn't help her.
For a long time, the only bands I listened to were Three Days Grace, Skillet, Shinedown, Avenged Sevenfold, and Five Finger Death Punch. It was these 5 bands for at least a year or two, and the first band that I branched out into was Bullet For My Valentine. And let me tell you, that was a great decision. I love Bullet, almost every single one of their songs are really good, there are maybe like 3 songs in their entire discography that I don't love.
My album ranking for Bullet For My Valentine:
- Fever
- Scream Aim Fire
- The Poison
- Gravity
- Hand of Blood
- Venom
- Temper Temper
Fever in my opinion is by far their best album. I love all of their work but Fever is just on another level. SAF, TP, Gravity and HoB are all so good they are virtually tied in 2nd place. Venom is then a little lower, and Temper Temper is easily my least favorite. I actually used to like Venom a lot more, but the second half of the album hasn't aged super well for me. It's actually the opposite of The Poison, those songs grew on me compared to the others.
I do also include most of their work as Jeff Killed John, nothing too special there but some of the tracks are actually pretty good, I like Misery in particular. I also noticed that they reused 'Better Off Alone' (from their first EP) a lot as Jeff Killed John. I don't remember any of the songs off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's in at least 3 or 4 of their songs. I also noticed in Letting You Go they also used the line Better Off Alone. I don't know if it's a nod to their early work or they just liked how it fit but it's interesting nonetheless.
My final list for Bullet For My Valentine can be found here
Feel free to share your own thoughts/opinions and your own song and album rankings below.
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