Review: Insurgent

Title: Insurgent
Author: Veronica Roth
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Book: Bought

One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. "New York Times" bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian "Divergent" series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.

After reading the first book in the series, Divergent, and being blown off my feet, I was expecting no less from the sequel. I have one word for it…AMAZING!

 The changes that this book is filled with and all the new information that one could never get enough of is what pulled me deeper and deeper into its pages. I wanted to keep reading and had dreams of it never ending but sadly it did.

I loved seeing the characters grow so much throughout this book that I barely recognized them from before. Being put up against new trials and new enemies, these characters are really in for it. With dangers increase throughout this book and finding information is no longer a safe thing. They are put to a test, and boy do they bring it. I just couldn’t stop I needed more.

Okay for the love interest. Everything is as you would it expected it be. They are put to the test that will challenge their love for one another but overall the happy moments where one would go “awww” it still happen. 

Insurgent is an action pack novel that will leave the reader breathless. If you thought Divergent was worth reading, well put all your reading materials away, pick up this book, and be prepared for Veronica Roth to leave you only wanting more. Leaving you with a cliff hanger that will bring frustration of all levels to you, Insurgent is one that will take you on an adventure that will surely blow your mind away.

I give this book  5 souls!

Review: Don't Turn Around

Title: Don't Turn Around
Author: Michelle Gagnon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Book: Edelweiss

Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her computer-hacking skills to stay safely anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in an empty warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side. Enter Peter Gregory. A rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people with Noa’s talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation threatens his life. But what Noa and Peter don’t realize is that Noa holds the key to a terrible secret, and there are those who’d stop at nothing to silence her for good. Filled with action, suspense, and romance, this first book in a new trilogy offers readers nonstop thrills.

 

What if someone was watching your every move? What if you wake up somewhere you don’t remember being? What if you tried to make a difference, but you only got the people you loved killed? Would you be scared? If I were you, I would be…scared.

This book caught me from the synopsis. I was left standing on my toes from the first page and left in shock at the last page. Michelle Gagnon left me only wanting more.

The characters, I felt jealous of them because of their talents with the computer. I wish I could be able to do what they do but than if that means having people watch my every move…I will pass. We start to see them make a little connection that could grow further on if this book would go on to a sequel.

The storyline was quick and fast-paced with having this author only leaving me wanting more. I never once had the thought of putting the book down at all.

Filled with action, adventure, and the feeling of having someone watch your every move, Don’t Turn Around is the book that brings all thrillers to its knees. I recommend this book to all readers and wish that you would dive into its pages and Don’t Turn Around!

I give  this book 5 souls!



Review: What A Boy Wants

Title: What A Boy Wants
Author: Nyrae Dawn
Publisher: Independent
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Book: Bought

Courtesy of watching his mom’s relationships, Sebastian Hawkins knows what girls need to do to get a guy. He has what he considers a PHD in hooking up. When he needs extra cash for a car, Sebastian starts up an online venture as The Hook-up Doctor, to anonymously help girls land the guy of their dreams. Of course, his services don’t offer a happily-ever-after guarantee. He’s seen firsthand getting together never means staying together. And then he falls in love… With the last girl he would expect… Totally not in his game plan. Suddenly, Sebastian finds himself muddled in the game he’s always prided himself on. He can’t even pick up girls at parties anymore! Why would anyone want to be in love when it turns you into a stuttering, screwed-up, mess with really lame stalker tendencies? Stalking? Totally not his gig. But the Hook-up Doctor won’t let himself go down easily. He’s always known how to give a girl what she wants and now it’s time to figure out what a boy wants… and he definitely plans on getting it.

This book is the reason why I love to pick up Indie books. This book is one that should be a published book. This book is….EPIC!!!!

Okay I just fan-boy all up in that three sentence paragraph and I mean those exact words. This book was one I was recommended by one of my favorite bloggers and for some reason we both have the tendency to have a knack for the same books. So when having her yell at me to get this book, because she was only five pages into it and immediately put it down to go buy the second one. I knew that this book needed to be worked into my schedule somehow.

Sebastian is a guy who one would call a typical guy. He has friends that he loves to hang out with. He doesn’t keep a girlfriend for long.  However, what a lot of people don’t know is that he runs a blog under the name “Hook-Up Doctor.” Throughout the story we are able to see as each chapter passes who Sebastian wants to be and who he doesn’t. However, he soon realizes that with the choices he makes that he is becoming the person who he worked so hard not to be.

The love interest in here is interesting for me. I think for a person running the blog, Sebastian is able to see things that other people aren’t able to. However, living with what happened with his mom, he doesn’t always makes the right choices and ends up losing the people he loves. True love isn’t something that happens overnight and it’s one that is not always perfect.

What a Boy Wants is a book that brings a whole other level to indie books. Ms. Dawn creates a heart compelling novel that will leave you only wanting more. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to go buy a book of cheap price but of amazing words that will captivate you to the very end.

I give this book 5 souls!

Review: A Dog Called Homeless

Title: A Dog Called Homeless
Author: Sarah Lean
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Book: Edelweiss

"My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I haven't spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn’t always make things happen, however much you want them to." When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking – what’s the point if no one is listening? The only other living soul who sees Cally's mum is a mysterious wolfhound who always seems to be there when her mum appears. But without a voice, how will Cally convince anyone that her mum is still with them, and how will she ever persuade her Dad that the huge silver-grey dog is their last link with her? An outstandingly assured debut novel from a sparkling new talent.

For me this book was an emotional children’s book. From the very beginning to the end I almost always had a box of tissues next me, ready for whenever I needed them. I dove in and didn’t come out till the end.

Cally Fisher is living a hard life. Her mom dies. She soon loses her best friend. She stops talking for days. Now the last part might come off kind of strange but trust me, it isn’t. As she makes her way through the story, she soon befriends a dog that she decides to name Homeless. Her dad completely shuts everyone out and what he thinks is good for his family might not always be correct. I understand what it means to lose someone so close but one should never just shut out their family, because in the end they will always be there for you.

The plot line was captivating and moving and by the end a few tears were shed. Sarah Len writes a novel about how one girl challenge turns into a statement that will impact the people around her. I recommend this book to all and for everyone to take a chance and see what impact Cally could have on you.

I give this book 4 souls!

Review: Beneath the Slashings

Title: Beneath the Slashings
Author: Michelle Isenhoff
Publisher: N/A
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Book: Received from Author

After four uncertain years of war, twelve-year-old Grace Nickerson is desperate to return to a sense of normalcy. But when her father returns from the army, he sells the farm and drags the family off to a lumber camp in Michigan's northern wilderness. Grace is devastated; she's never been brave. When her tears and tantrums won't change Pa's mind, she stops speaking to him altogether. Grace spends long hours working with her brother Sam and Ivan, the surly Russian cook, but at least in the kitchen she is safe from the lumberjacks. She's seen them from the window. They're rough, unkept, and terrifying. But slowly, with Sam's help, she comes to understand they're all missing home and recovering from loss, just like she is. Her fear begins to evaporate--until she learns one of them is trying to kill Pa. Who is sabotaging the camp, and why? Will the winter in the woods bring the healing Grace needs? Or will it drive a wedge into her family?

This is the third installment in Michelle Isenhoff’s series. This series is one that reader is able to read on their own without having to read the other two books first. Each book in the series brought new characters to the plate and took on a different journey through history in each book.

With going to camp, Grace doesn’t like it and finding friends with the cook and blacksmith things don’t start off to good. Especially the relationship with her father is one that is too not going as well. This book is a story of a coming of age and Grace goes through a lot of stuff throughout this book, especially trying to figure out who is sabotaging the camp.

This book brought a whole different taste to history and brought me to love reading and learning about how life was in the past. Filled with a girl who grows through the difficulties and adventure that will leave you wanting more, I recommend this series to readers who love the feel of history.

I give this book 4 souls!

Review: Speechless

Title: Speechless
Author: Hannah Harrington
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Book: Netgalley

Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed. Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse. But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who are, shockingly, coming her way—people she never noticed before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new friends can forgive what she's done. If only she can forgive herself.

Words are most always strong, when verbally attacking someone. Whether it is with insults or even revealing secrets. However, everyone knows that actions speak louder than words. Ms. Harrington's novel is one fill with strong feelings that will capture any readers soul and take them on an adventure with a girl who took a vow of silence.

This story was so compelling it was hard for me to put down. Chapter after chapter I only wanted one thing and that was to find out what was going to happen next. The words ensnared me that the only option of being let go was to read the book. 

With the characters, the reader is shown the what true friends are and how popularity can only go so far. I was surprised, shocked, mad, tearful, happy, ect. I realized what words could do to a person and how actions can bring out the best in some. I loved the characters...most not all.

I loved the work of Ms. Harrington and I am fully interested to see what she comes up with next. I recommend this book to all people of any age and see what Speechless can bring to you.

I give this book 5 souls!

Review: Confessions of An Angry Girl

Title: Confessions of Angry Girl
Author: Louise Rozett
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Book: Netgalley

Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some confessions to make…1. I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you? 2. I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who might be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine. 3. High school might as well be Mars. My best friend has been replaced by an alien, and I see red all the time. (Mars is red and "seeing red" means being angry—get it?) Here are some other vocab words that describe my life: Inadequate. Insufferable. Intolerable. (Don't know what they mean? Look them up yourself.) (Sorry. That was rude.)

This girl just had so much hate inside of her that I was just waiting for to burst. People need to let hate out every now and than or they will do what this girl did. 

I loved this book. But I also hated it. There was nothing bad but there was so much hate in this book. It made me hate stuff as well, I even yelled at my parents one time when reading this book...not a smart thing to do. However, the reason why I loved this book was that I felt like I could connect with the main character more than once. 

There was so much drama going on with boyfriends, the pressure of having sex, or the differences between best friends. I don't usually don't like drama but I wanted to know what would happen next whenever something bad happened...I know so bad of me.

The romance in this novel I thought was strange and of course there was a love triangle. I was rooting for one person but I something inside of me kept regretting it and than  surprises happened and I knew who I wanted to see and hopefully my wish will come true. 

This book is one that will take you back to the days of high school and the drama that occurs everyday. I recommend this book to readers and ask that you give this book a chance and maybe you can learns The Confessions of An Angry Girl.

I give this book 4 souls!

Review: Broken Ladders

Title: Broken Ladders
Author: Michelle Isenhoff
Publisher: Candle Star Press
Release Date: May 2011
Book: Received from Author

Hannah Wallace would like nothing better than to escape the tedium and never-ending work of the family farm. She feels lost among so many siblings and haunted by the memory of a brother that Pa wanted more than he wanted her. She needs a chance to set herself apart, but nothing exciting ever happens in Wayland. When war breaks out between the states, her father and brother leave to fight, but the army isn’t open to twelve-year-old girls. All the local dangers dried up years ago – soon after her parents unloaded their wagon on Michigan’s fast-filling frontier – leaving Hannah with nothing but pretend adventures. Before long, the pressures of running an unmanned farm wring even her imagination dry. Then the farm is threatened. Hannah vows to save it to finally prove herself to Pa. Her determination catches her up in the adventure she’s always longed for and leads to some discoveries about herself that she never expected.

With leaving interested in the first book, I immediately dove into this book and see where history would take me this time.

We are brought into the time of The Civil War where trouble is coming upon the Wallace family, their farm and their town. With Hannah sadden when her father and brother go off to fight in the war. And having a loan on their hand isn’t going to good for them.   The farm is now in the hands of her, her two brothers and her mom.

Like the first book, Hannah is a character that one is to fond of at the beginning but as the story moves forward, she becomes more mature and is one character the reader can look too. With her mom falling sick, she needs to put all to side her childish ways and start acting like a young women.

Filled with history of the past and words that show you the life of this family, Michelle Isenhoff brings out a story that will touch your heart and leave you wanting more.

I give this book 3 souls!

Feature and Follow Firday #6

Feature and Follow Friday #6

 

 

Welcome everyone to another amazing Feature and Follow Firday hosted by the two amaing bloggers Alison Can Read and Parajunkee.

 

 

I hope everyone had an amazing week of books and so here is this weeks question!

 

Q: Worst cover? What is the worst cover of a book that you've read and loved?.

 

 

 

This was such a hard question to answer but I have to sadly choose this book. I loved the book but if I have to think about it for me the cover really didn't portray what the book could possibly be about.

 

I hate questions like this because I don't like putting a book down but in the end this book was not the worst cover but it is the one book I have read that didn't have me make a connection with the book.

 

I sorry =(

 

P.S. I still loved the book!

 

 

 

 

So I hope that everyone has an amazing Feature and Follow Friday and as always...

 

 

 

Happy Reading!

 

 

 



Review: Pushing the Limits

Title: Pushing the Limits
Author: Katie McGarry
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Book: Netgalley

No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal.But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible. Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.

I have heard nothing but good things about this book and when I finally got the chance to read it, I was hooked from the first page and lets just say I disappered from the world for a couple hours. My soul was captured and I went on an advewnture that could only leave me wanting more.  

The plot in the story was amazing and I said this with other books and I am going to say this with this book...I loved the dual perspectives of the characters. I loved how we were able to hear, feel, and understand what the chacters were going through with every new chapter. This thought out idea made the chapters more intense as the book progressed.

I loved the characters. The reader is able to see how messed up each characters life is and being able to see what goes on in their head just makes me want to show compassion for these characters. I think what I loved most about them was even though they had crappy lives, they were doing good in school. I love reading how people who have amazing lives have lower grades than the kids with problems.

The romance in this book was "HOT." Like seriously, everytime they kissed, the main characters, everything going around them froze and the author put her heart and soul into describing the kiss and every movement. Brilliant!

Katie McGarry creates a novel that compells the reader and traps their soul leaving them to read the book as their only option. If you have not had the chance to pick up this book, I highly recommend this book to all readers. Intense is the word I would choose to describe the book when I read it.

I give this book 5 souls!

Review: What I Didn't Say

Title: What I Didn't Say
Author: Keary Taylor
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Book: Netgalley

Getting drunk homecoming night your senior year is never a good idea, but Jake Hayes never expected it all to end with a car crash and a t-post embedded in his throat. His biggest regret about it all? What he never said to Samantha Shay. He's been in love with her for years and never had the guts to tell her. Now it's too late. Because after that night, Jake will never be able to talk again. When Jake returns to his small island home, population 5,000, he'll have to learn how to deal with being mute. He also finds that his family isn't limited to his six brothers and sisters, that sometimes an entire island is watching out for you. And when he gets the chance to spend more time with Samantha, she'll help him learn that not being able to talk isn’t the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Maybe, if she'll let him, Jake will finally tell her what he didn't say before, even if he can't actually say it.

This book for me was a book I was excited to read and I thought above all that it was a cute love story that I came to love so much. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't talk...because I am a talker. I wonder what it would be like to never be able to say those three words to a person I cared about. 

I loved the characters throughout the entire book. These characters go through so much that even a few tears were shed because of what they were going through. What I loved most was the support and love that the main characters family had for every one. Even if you were not part of the family. Just being able to read that made me feel all warm and cozy inside. 

The story kept me captivated and I was dragged alongside these two characters as they fought through tough times and see what hard work can do in the end. Ms. Taylor words were ones of struggle that family's face but there were words that brought the strength to never give up. 

I loved this book up to the end and wish there was more. I recommend this book to readers looking for a story of two lovers, who struggle but in the end have a Happily Ever After!

I give this book 5 souls! 

Review: The Forsaken

Title: The Forsaken
Author: Lisa M. Stasse
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Book: Received from Publisher

As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up. The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.
 

 

What if there was a way to be tested to see if you would grow and become a person of danger? What if you got sent to an island because you were tested and thought to be dangerous? What if all of it was a lie? Are you The Forsaken….who knows?

This book caught my attention. I absolutely love dystopian novels and I couldn’t wait to see where this book would take and what dangers hid within the words of its pages.

The main character is at first, surprised, that she has become one of the forsaken. Inexperienced with survival, her first couple of days are hard for her when entering the island and becoming part of the blue sector village. However, as the book continues on, we are able to see the character change and learn to survive.

 

The romance in this novel was one that kind of me hope that it could happen but things just kept getting in the way. However, whoever said that true love was easy. Things just kept getting bad and bad and the idea of falling in love was starting to vanish. By the end of the novel, I didn’t know what to expect. I kept hoping that things would work out and my wish came true.

 

Lisa M. Stasse creates a world and setting of government control that challenges the Hunger Games. Filled with action, adventure, and surprises that left me in shock. The Forsaken is a novel of extreme satisfaction and I recommend this book to all readers.

 

I give this book 4 souls!

 

 

 

 

Review: The Candle Star

Title: The Candle Star
Author: Michelle Isenhoff
Publisher: Candle Star Press
Release Date: April 2011
Book: Received from Author

When Emily was a little girl, her father had taken her outside in each season and pointed out the pictures in the stars, explaining the ancient lore behind them. She wondered if he was looking up at the same stars right now. "They're beautiful, aren't they?" Emily started. She hadn't heard Malachi approach. "Looks like you can just reach up and pluck one down, maybe set it in a ring," he said. "It'd be the most beautiful piece of jewelry you ever laid eyes on." He pointed to the Big Dipper. "See the last two stars in the bowl of the spoon? They line up just right and point the way to the North Star." Emily had learned that when she was six. "When I was little, I remember Mama setting a candle in the window on the nights Daddy would get in late. I slept sound on those nights, confident that beacon was guiding my daddy home." He paused as he contemplated the night sky. "The North Star is kind of like a candle God hung up special to guide His lost children home. Lot of black folks looking up at it right now, directing themselves home to freedom."

I haven’t read this type of historical fiction before so when I started this, I became engrossed in this book till the very end.

At first I hated Emily was a stuck up girl that needed to be slapped. She was a girl that thought she was all that and a bag of chips. However, like her Uncle pointed out, she was just a girl with a name. Throughout the story she wined, argued, and made people get tired of her. However, when being put up to reality she became a girl that showed respect to slaves and the people around her.

The story line kept me interested to see where this girl would go and how she would get there. It also realized the way slaves lived in the past. I only wanted to keep reading more.

Filled with words that bring a truth that shows how life was back in the past. With adventure, and a main character that grows throughout the pages, The Candle Star is a book of history that one should read.

I give this book 4 souls!

Review: Bewitching

Title: Bewitching
Author: Alex Flinn
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Book: Borrowed

Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t. I go to a new school now—one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age. You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years—except for when to take my powers and butt out. I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don’t even want to think about it. Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl—and it isn’t an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching.

Kendra caught my heart in the first book, Beastly, with her magical powers that may seem evil at first but always seem good in the end. I was excited when I finally got the chance to read this book. I was dying to read what adventures awaited this witch!

I loved how we, as the reader, were able to find out how Kendra became who she was and where she started off from. Her past was filled with death and despair. However, through all that sadness, she became who she is today. Another thing that peaked my interest were all the little side storys of her magical adventures that she took part in throughout time.

Now going to the main story, I thougt the poor sister was going to be all nice and sweet, but than all of a sudden she turns into a stuck up girl who thinks everything revolves around her. She was a girl that needed to be smacked. Just saying! Well anyway, I was glad that the one sister attempted to become friends with her but sad that everything she did backfired on her. In the end she lost a connection with her father that she will never again be able to heal.

The ending was one I wasn't expecting but I am glad it ended that way. The one sister got her revenge in an accidental sort of way. Kendra's magic works again but doesn't seem to be needed at all times.

Ms. Flinn recreates the story we all grew up loving, Cinderella, and transformed into a modern day we can all come to enjoy as well. Filled with adventure, romance, sadness and everything that makes a fairy-tale what it is. I recommend this compelling and magical novel to all readers who love a twist on a fairy-tale we all knew so well.

I give this book 4 souls!

Review: The Raven Boys

Title: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholatic
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Book: Netgalley

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little. For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

 

I was told a while back that a raven was a deadly creature. When on the hunt, it studies its prey watching and memorizing its every move. What does it look for but a pattern? This book, when first looking at it, freaked me out because I thought back to the time, I had that haunting conversation with my friend. I could imagine this book being wicked and spooky as the pages turned….and trust me it was.

The idea behind this book, I felt was one I have not stumbled on for who knows how long. I was thoroughly excited to jump into this book and see what wickedness this book possessed. The plot line kept me hooked on till the very end.

The characters are what pulled me more into this book. Finding out that you were going to be the reason a boy dies and all because of a kiss. Spooky! I loved the physic women in here and how they were able go into the mind of someone and uncover their deepest secrets. There are many twists and turns that happen in this book and some left me gasping when learning something, I was least expecting.

Ms. (Author) creates a spell binding novel that will surely wish you read during the day. With action, adventure, and wickedness occurring beyond all sorts. Raven Boys is a novel one should pick up.

I give this book 4 souls!



Review: The Crown of Embers

Title: The Crown of Embers
Author: Rae Carson
Publisher: Greenwillow
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Book: Borrowed

Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply retreated, choosing stealth over battle. And no one within her court trusts her-except Hector, the commander of the royal guard, and her companions. As the country begins to crumble beneath her and her enemies emerge from the shadows, Elisa will take another journey. With a one-eyed warrior, a loyal friend, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love with, Elisa crosses the ocean in search of the perilous, uncharted, and mythical source of the Godstone's power. That is not all she finds. A breathtaking, romantic, and dangerous second volume in the Fire and Thorns trilogy.

I am speechless after reading this book. This book was everything i hoped it could be and by saying it was awesome would do it no justice. This book for me was something beyond anything and I was so happy to read it.

The characters growth is so surprsing in this book. From where they were in the first book to where they are now, it's like they are buch of different characters. The dangers continue to get tougher with some being life threathing but the characters just go on with the best of their ability.

The love in here is what got me all worked up. It feels so forbidden but you as teh reader just want to tell them to forget everyone else but it is not an option. The love for one another is so amazing but will it leave them to make a decision that could prove dangerous.

The story line kept going forward never wanting me to stop reading. I was left in shock when the last page came up and than there were no more. I am so looking forward to reading the next book in this amazing trilogy and see where Rae Carson will take us.

I give this book 5 souls!

Collision Movie Campaign/Giveaway

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Review: Temptation

Title: Temptation
Author: Karen Ann Hopkins
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Book: Netgalley

Your heart misleads you. That's what my friends and family say. But I love Noah. And he loves me. We met and fell in love in the sleepy farming community of Meadowview, while we rode our horses together through the grassy fields and in those moments in each other's arms. It should be ROSE & NOAH forever, easy. But it won't be. Because he's Amish. And I'm not.

I can honestly say that I am glad that I am not Amish. I think I would die with all the rules they had to follow. Sometimes I find it interesting to see how the people are so devoted  to who they are and the rules they follow that I want to know more but other times I am telling them in my head...Crazy!!!

I loved the idea of forbidden love in this story. From the  first couple of chapters the reader is able to immediately point out that this romance is going to be hard and to get the chance to be with them is going to be even harder. I have to be truthful and say overall it was okay. It wasn't something I was jumping up and down for or biting my nails but it was good. 

Another thing that I liked  was how we were able to read the book from a dual characters perspective. We are able to see, feel, and understand what each character is going through and we are able to understand them more. So I really enjoyed it. hearing from both their POV's

I understand that you can't help how you grow up and what culture you believe in but I also believe that you can choose whoever you want to be in life and that is the main reason why I lost some connection with the characters. Noah was an amazing guy that was sweet, kind but he sometimes got on my nerve. And like I said, you can't help how you were raised. 

The book overall was good, if your into the forbidden love and diving deep into learning about another culture that is way different from yours, come check out this book. 

I give this book 3 souls!