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This blog is to talk mostly about books we have read. There are many cases that we see a book and we want to get it but then find out that it isn't really good. Or a book that doesn't look good but is actually a very good book. Here is a place to get suggestions and talk about books.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Red Queen (Red Queen #1) - Victoria Aveyard
The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers.
To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change.
Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the centre of
those she hates the most. She quickly discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy Silver control.
But power is a dangerous game. And in this world divided by blood, who will win?
Review:
BEST BOOK EVER....For now!!
Kinda predictable... But oh so good!!
There were signs everywhere pointing to what would happen, but hoped it wouldn't happen. While reading there was always that nagging feeling things were not right but always hoped it wasn't going where you know it was going. (Did that even make sense? Lol)
When does the next book come out? Argh can't wait!!
Neverland - Shari Arnold
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Forsworn (The Oracle Series) - Emily Wibberley
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Monday, July 27, 2015
Sacrificed (The Last Oracle) - Emily Wibberley
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Divergent - Veronica Roth
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Review:
I read this book a couple of years ago and here is my review from Goodreads in 2013.
I don't know why it took me so long to pick this book up. I guess I was just tired of the same old YA formula and I thought.."oh no not another Hunger Games type book." (I loved the HG series). And it's also like Matched by Ally Condie, which no offense, but I hated. Instill haven't read the last one.
But let me say I was pleasantly surprised with Divergent! I would have finished it sooner only the kids kept on interrupting me (how dare they, don't they know that when mommy has a book in her hand that means "do not disturb"!! Haha jk).
So let me say that I absolutely "LOVE this book thank you very much!"
So I now need to get the next one.
dEaDINBURGH: Vantage (Din Eidyn Corpus #1) - Mark Wilson
Edinburgh, 1645:
The bubonic plague rages. In a desperate attempt to quarantine the infected, the city leaders seal the residents of Mary King's Close in their underground homes.
2015:
Mary King's Close is reopened, unleashing a mutated plague upon the city residents.
The UK government seals the entire city. Declaring it a dead zone they seal the survivors inside alongside the infected. dEaDINBURGH is declared a no man's land, its residents left for dead and to the dead.
2050:
Joseph MacLeod, born onto the cobbles of the Royal Mile and stolen from the clutches of the infected is determined to escape the quarantined city. Under the guidance of former marine Padre Jock, he leaves the confines of the city centre and hones his archery and free-running skills.
Alys Shephard, born into an all-women farming community believes a cure lies in the south of the quarantined zone. The finest combatant in the dead city, Alys burns with anger. The anger of an abandoned child.
Something much worse than the infected waits for them in the south, in the form of a religious cult led by a madman named Somna who collects gruesome trophies and worships the dead body of a former celebrity. Added to this the enigmatic Bracha, a supreme survivalist and sadistic former Royal with his own agenda, stalks the teenagers.
A self-contained story, dEaDINBURGH is a character-driven Young Adult/Horror/Dystopian novel exploring the human capacity for good, evil and for survival.
I'm always in the market for new books and authors and dam very happy to have found this series.
I do like the main characters and their friendship with each other. I appreciate that they are more down to earth characters that they can admit their weaknesses.
There are parts of the book where you knew what was going to happen but I was still surprised by it.
I was so very pleasantly surprised (and abhorred) with the end and how humanity is. I really did not have any expectations of what would happen so I was very surprised.
I recommend this book and I am looking forward to the next book!! Let me know when it's ready.
Great book!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
inFinity - The Chronicles of Nick
Description:
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.
But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?
Review:
This is another young adult book. But as young adult books go I think this was one of the better. The main character is a typical boy. I was getting frustrated with the other teen books and how the boy or girl would find their true love at the age of 14 and how they just can't live without them. With Nick he is the typical boy who likes girls in general and is sometimes to shy to talk to them. I liked the fact that there was more to the book than romance. The story was more about Nick and the struggles that a teenage boy and his mother go through. I do recommend this book because it is a quick fun read. Nick's sarcasm is a nice refreshing attitude to all the bad things that are going on in his life.