Origin (Lux #5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Here it comes! The review of the week! The one I promised to write like two days ago! I'm sorry it took so long it has been a crazy week at school.

Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.

After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.

All Katy can do is survive.

Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?

Together, they can face anything.

But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on?

And will they even be together.

Cover

Again, I want to protest against the cover. If I didn't know how awesome those books are and if I saw this book in the bookstore I wouldn't have looked at it twice and let's not talk about buying it. But enough on this. Let me tell you just what a fast read this was. It felt like I read it for less than an hour.

The Great Escape

Am I the only one who thinks that Kat and Daemon figured out how to get out of Area 51? I mean, they say that they stayed there 4 months, but it felt like days when you read it. I wish they had stayed there a bit longer and found out more about the Origin. But I'm still happy that they got out of there. And my favourite part...Blake is dead! YAY! I have never been so happy about a character dying. He deserved it.

Kat and Daemon

In this book we have the Kaemon feeling full on. I was just so happy about them. They had a hard time and they still had time to be in love and have sex. LOL And yeah, we are on the run, but let's get married. I'm also very happy about them geting married. I was just laughing so hard just because I was happy. And they used names from Sweet evil. I think I was going to die laughing.

Dee, Luc, Archer and other characters

I'm just glad that Dee is back to her happy, good self and Kat and her are friends again. Plus I think there might be something between her and Archer in the future. I mean, it's obvious! Speaking of Archer, I really wish to find out more about him. He is still a mystery for now. And since Blake, I can't trust anyone. I think, Luc was my favourite character. He can't be trusted and that's clear as day, but still he is hillarious at times. Like this moment in the motel when everyone is talking in the room and he enters the room and says: Hey, guys! I brought doughnuts! Again LOL!
Now Ash and Andrew are dead! Ta da! I want to thank everyone who spoiled this for me. I would have died crying if I hadn't known they would die. I just started to hate Ash and she dies. Same thing with Mattew. I just started liking him and he betrayed them.
Beth and Dawson. And Beth is pregnant! I'm so happy for them! (I think the word happy is the most used word in this review!) It's good to see Dawson doing something else than being grumpy and sad. Like smiling, for example. I read the shors prequel to the series from Dawson and Beth's POV. The DOD has changed both of them a lot.

 The ending

I'm not happy with the placae this book ended. It's not because of the cliffhanger, but becuase it's not what I expected. When I first read the synopsis I thought that Kat and Daemon will choose different sides and this wil happen in the middle of the boo. Instead I get two sentences about choosig a side on the last page and then the book ends. I think I might have some missing pages.

I guess this is it! All of it!
I'll see ya next time with another book review!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.

I don't have much to say about this book. I have seen this book on Goodreads thousands of times and I never really thought of reading it. Then last month I decided to pick it up. I started liking zombie books this year and I'm a big fan of Jane Austen so why the hell not! I can't say that the book was changed that much from the original. There werea few fights with zombies and they mentioned them, but that's all. When I looked at this cover I always expected the main characters to be zombies.

Characters

I really liked Elizabeth in this book. I dare say thet she was better than in the original. This Elizabeth was kick-ass zombie slayer.
Darcy was....well, Darcy. Extra annoying in the beginning. Zombies flood the ballroom and he just stands there and watches while Elizabeth and her sisters fight them off. It's one thing not wanting to dance, but this!
And then comes Mr Collins. The pain-in-the-ass-collins. I just hate him so much. He is the most irritating character in the whole universe. I especialy hate that moment when he proposes to Elizabeth and she refuses, but he keeps asking her, thinking she is acting hard to get. Ughhh!
Then- Lady Cathrine. She was the same, but this time she was bragging about her great skills in "the deadly arts". I think she was jealous of Elizabeth! I know it's a stupid thing to say and even to think, but that's my opininon. When Elizabeth killed three of her ninjas blindfolded, Lady Catherine just walked out of the room without saying a thing. I so wanted Elizabeth to kill Lady Cathrine at the dodjo when she visited. I really thought she will do it for a moment, but alas...no such luck.
I won't talk about the end when Darcy and Elizabeth fought together. I was great, but the author should have described it. It wouldn't have been this hard really.

I told ya! I don't have much to say. The book was good, but I still like the original better!
I'll see ya next time with another review!!

Hush Hush (Hush hush #1) by Becca Fitzpatrick

Here it comes! The book that took me two years to read is finally finished.

A SACRED OATH
A FALLEN ANGEL
A FORBIDDEN LOVE

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.
For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

Covers:

I know I have been talking a lot about book covers in my last few reviews and I might be getting a bit annoying, but still. The book covers of all the books in this series are "simply outstanding". I'm quoting a friend here! I can't believe in took me so long to get this cover. I have been just staring at it for so long and I couldn't figure out what was on it, because I was just looking at the wings and last month I just looked at it and I was like: Oh God! This is a falling angel. I'm serious! All I saw on this cover for a whole year where the wings and I didn't even now they were wings. I though they were feathers that where supposed to form something. I know, I know! I'm pretty stupid.

Romance:

Lots of people have been saying that those books are like Twilight and I have to agree with them. Nora is a better version of Bella and Patch is a hell of a better Edward. I mean, at least we know Patch isn't a 100 year old virgin. (No offence to all the Twilight fans! I like Twilight myself, but come on!) And I liked Nora and Patch's relationship. It wasn't instant love. More of a hate-turns-into-love sort of thing. And then another sort of Twilight-ish thing. He was trying to kill her, but couldn't. And of course the book ending with the kiss again Twilight-ish.

Bad guys, The ending and stuff like that:

Ok, so I really thought it was Elliot. There was something suspicious about Jules, but I though he was simply helping. And I never guessed either of them is actually a fallen angel. And then comes the ending in the school gym. There things get blurry for me. I always get confused with endings like that and have to read every page at least twice to understand what the hell just happend!

That's all I have to say for this book. I know it's not much, but I really wasn't that facinated and it wasn't awful either. I'm rating it 3.5 stars. From what I hear about the second book, Creschendo, is giving me the Beautiful darkness sort of vibe. You know what I mean. And I have a feeling Dabaria is going to return and cause some troubles.
I'll see ya next time with another review!

World After (Penryn and The End of Days #2) by Susan Ee

This is a book that came out a week ago.  If you haven't read it then what have you been doing in the last week? Go read it! NOW!

In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?

I read Angelfall in August and I liked it. I mean I liked it much, but the second book....Oh, this book I want to hug. I just love it. I find books about angels hard to write, because I haven't read a good book about angels before this trilogy. I tried reading Fallen by Lauren Kate, but it was so slow! And I'm curently reading Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and I'm not impressed!

Raffe

I really expected him to appear earlier in the book. And when I say "appear" I mean him and Penryn meeting. I loved the moment they met. How they were just staring at each other and Raffe had this expresion on his face. I was just grinning like a Cheshire cat for the rest of the book. I just love Raffe, but his name is still making me laugh. How could the author make a nickname from Rafael? And for those of you who don't know, Raffe is also the name of a Bulgarian singer. He is around twenty and he is short, a bit of fat and has brown hair. He is a good singer though. But try imagining him as book Raffe. Yeah, I know!

Paige

We had a lot of focus on Paige in this book. What happend to her and what they did to her was just awful. Having those things done to a little girl *Shiver!* And then the Stockholm syndrome! Maybe it's true that Beliel was the nicest person to Paige, I mean, as nice as he can be. Right? He understood her, but that doesn't mean Paige is a monster like he said. I was mad at Penryn at some points of the book, because she won't look Paige in the eyes. Her sister is suffering and she won't even look at her. What kind of sister are you?

Pookybear 

That's one of the best swords in the whole Universe! And the name is great. Don't you dare say it's a stupid name. Everyone is afraid of that name. Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. I loved the moment when the sword was helping Penryn to learn how to fight by creating those visions or maybe those were jsut glimses of the past.

Panryn's mother

 And Penryn's mom was as crazy as ever. In a good way. I think my favourite moment was when they said there was this woman running aroud opening the fire exits and Penryn was like: This is probably my mom! And I was very shocked when I found out she had stolen this prototype her husband was working on. He got fired for it and left them. What the hell? Who does such a thing? I guess a crazy person!

Dee/ Dum

I almost missed two of the most hillarious and great characters. I loved them and the fact that they are alway suggesting fights between girls. That always makes me laugh! Dee and Dum weren't a big deal in this book. I mean, they were. They helped Penryn, as always, but they made an apearance like twice so....

This book is just a big ball of awesomeness and kick-ass-ness and a little romance. And it's totally worthed! Go read it! And comment!
See ya next time! Probably tomorrow!

Born wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles #1) by Jessica Spotswood

This book has been on my shelf for ages and I finally read it!!

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.

Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.

If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.

Cate, Maura, Tess

The three sisters were quite different. I liked Maura the best, becaue she reads a lot and I read too. THe fact that she was a lesbian doesn't lessn my love for her. She is very impulsive and hot headed and that's like describing me. Tess was a great character too. She was the youngest so of course we won't focus on her so much, but she was so happy for most of the book. I guess, Cate is my least favourite of the three. She was over-protective. I know she wanted to protect those she loves and I would do the same, but what she did was a little bit too much. I mean, can't she be herself for one second. Just stop thinking about the others and think about herself.

The love story

We all know this was actually a love story, it doesn't matter that the book ended like that. And again there was a love triangle. My "favourite"! And, of course, she is going to choose Finn. He was clever, he read books and he was strong. What did you expect? Paul never stood a chance. He is the childhood friend that never gets to be more than a friend. Plus he was annoying.

The prophecy

As I though the prophecy was left for the next two books. We will know about it then. The author is trying to confuse the reader by giving all three sisters Mind magic, but we all know it's Cate. Right? Ok, I'm not sure. I may be Maura. And Tess seems like a choice too. God, I don't know!

The Ending

I saw the ending coming and yet I had some hope that everything can end well. Cate will marry Finn and she will be near her sisters and the Sisterhood will leave them alone and then Happy End. No such luck! They just had to use her family against her and they didn't even let her say goodbye to Finn. I so hoped that she will explain everything to him, but no. She left him feeling miserable. I hope she meets him again in the second book and apologises and they get together again.

This was an enjoyable book. I won't be reading the second one any time soon though!
See ya next time!

172 hours on the moon by Johan Harstad

It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever. Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune. Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan. Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.
It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.
In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.

I listened to the audiobook and it's like the second or third audiobook I have ever listened to. I have to say that listening to it was like watching an old fashioned horror movie. All the time I was like: No, don't go there! Don't open that door. Run! For God's sake- run! This book was so creepy that I still shiver when I look at the moon.

Characters

I'm very pleased that this book is not set in the USA and that non of the characters are Americans. It's not that I don't like USA, I love it, but 80% of the YA books are set in the United states. Can you name a book, if we don't count dystopian books, that's not set in the USA.
And the fact that this book is set on the moon! The Moon.  This just screams Epic! I want to thank Ariel Bisset for talking about this book. From the three, Mia, Antoine and Midori, I think I'm like Midori. I want to go to the big city and live there, though I'm a musician like Mia. I don't have a band and I don't compose songs though.  Antoine's reason to go to the moon was... well, ridiculous! He wanted to get away from his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. You could have gone to Russia or Spain or even Canada, but the moon is a little too far.
And then comes Mr Himofarb. As I said I listened to the audiobook so I'm not sure if that's how his name is written. He tried so hard to warn them, to help them! And yet he couldn't. I just cried when he died.

The code

GEQUJ5! I think that was the code. I never understood this part. What does this code do? I understood it was a warning for them not to go to the moon, but I just couldn't get what was the point of it. If you show three teens this code, of course, they won't get it.

Mia and Antoine, Character deaths

I was very happy when Mia and Antoine started this relationship and it could have been good. They could have ended up together and they could have been happy. Too bad the author had other plans. He just wanted to crush them. To crush and kill everything good and pure and pretty! Now of all the characters who died,  the creepiest death was Stannton and Wilson's. And the moment when Stannton turns around and says: I left the hatch open!
Wilson: So what?
Stannton: It's closed now.
I was just so...so...I don't even have words to describe it. And in the end when they took their helmets off and Stannton's last memory was about his wife. It was so sad and I think I cried. I'm happy we didn't get to see Antoine's death. The doppleganger told Mia he was dead, but I'm glad it/she didn't explain. Midori's death! Again it was sad. To be killed by the urban legent you believe in.

The end

Do I need to talk about the end? I do? Ok, here it comes. I was so happy Mia managed to save herself and I though she can truly live now after she almost died. She will go home and practice with her band and be famous. And then she did this very nice thing for the homeless guy and then....then she killed him. That was just raining on my parade. I was just like: Oh my god! Oh my god! This...oh my god! And then she killed Mia's family. And there it goes. It's in Earth and  it's going to kill us all. The end!

This book is amazing and you should go read it! This is one of those book you want and you don't want a sequel to.

Ok! See ya next time people! And by next time I mean in a few minutes when I'm going to post my next review!

The Earl and The Fairy, Volume 01 by Mizue Tani and Ayuko (Ilustrator)

Are you ready for another small review? I'm going to be posting a longer one after this one, but that would be tomorrow! I promise! So I got into manga this summer and I haven't stopped reading it since then. Not that I have read that much, but what I have read I have almost always loved. This one is no exeption!

 

Lydia Carlton is a fairy doctor,one of the few people with the ability to see the magical creatures who share our world. During one of her rare trips to London to visit her father, Lydia’s quiet life is suddenly transformed when she is rescued from kidnappers by a mysterious young man! Edgar Ashenbert claims to be descended from the human ruler of the fairy kingdom, and he urgently needs Lydia’s help to find and claim his birthright, the legendary sword of the Blue Knight Earl. Things will never be the same for Lydia as she is pulled into a dangerous quest against dark forces!

 

If this manga was a YA novel I would have read it and loved it and I would have talked about it until the whole world read it, but sadly this is a manga and people in Bulgaria don't read manga.

Characters

I liked Lydia. She was a good character. She wan't whiny and helpless, but she wasn't some super strong and badass, knife-throwing girl. I'm not sure I like Edgar very much though. He is still a mystery. How much of what he told Lydia is true and what part of it was a lie? Does he like her? I mean, he obviously will, in the future! Is he really a decendant of the Blue knight? So many questions! I hpe at least some of them are answered in the next volume. Also Nico! He was a great character. I mean, he is a cat, but still. That's one cat that's probably cleverer than me!

I have a ton more questions! Why is Huskly traing to kidnap Lydia and kill Edgar? What happen in the end of this book? Are Lydia and her father going to meet?

Time

Also, I love books set in the 19th century. That's why I love the Infernal Devices trilogy so much. And imagine the 19th century with fairies. Just awesome! Awesome!

 

Ok! Tomorrow I promice I'm going to post three longer reviews. Thirteen reasons why and World after are the first two books. I won't tell you the last one. Let's keep it a surprise for now! 

 

Wish by Alexandra Bullen

That's a really quick review because I don't heve much to say about the book. I'll try to be non-spoilery this time. 

If you could have anything, what would you wish for?

For broken-hearted Olivia Larsen, nothing can change the fact that her twin sister, Violet, is gone... until a mysterious, beautiful gown arrives on her doorstep. The dress doesn't just look magical; it is magical. It has the power to grant her one wish, and the only thing Olivia wants is her sister back.

With Violet again by her side, both girls get a second chance at life. And as the sisters soon discover, they have two more dresses-and two more wishes left. But magic can't solve everything, and Olivia is forced to confront her ghosts to learn how to laugh, love, and live again.

Cover

So, how many of you bought this book because of the cover. Just look at it. It's gorgeous! I want this thing on my shelf even if it's the most awful book on this planet. But I didn't buy this book, because of the cover. I bought it, because I friend asked me to read it.

Plot

This is a book about a girl who moved to a new town after her twin sister dies. She finds this shop where a girl makes dresses. Those dresses are magical. They can get you three wishes. That's it!

Romance

Now a little spoilery. I wish Olivia had choosen Miles. He was so much better than Soren! It's a cliche to fall for the most popular guy.

I told ya this will be a short review! This was a nice fluffy read. You can read it if you want. I don't recommend it or not recommend it. Read it if it sounds interesting and tell me what you think!

The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) by Richelle Mead

Hello, my dear readers! Sorry I haven't updated in ages. I know I just posted a review, but I started this review two weeks ago so it doesn't count. Here it comes! And as always: SPOILERS!

In The Indigo Spell, Sydney was torn between the Alchemist way of life and what her heart and gut were telling her to do. And in one breathtaking moment that Richelle Mead fans will never forget, she made a decision that shocked even her. . . .

But the struggle isn't over for Sydney. As she navigates the aftermath of her life-changing decision, she still finds herself pulled in too many directions at once. Her sister Zoe has arrived, and while Sydney longs to grow closer to her, there's still so much she must keep secret. Working with Marcus has changed the way she views the Alchemists, and Sydney must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to undermine the way of life she was raised to defend. Consumed by passion and vengeance, Sydney struggles to keep her secret life under wraps as the threat of exposure—and re-education—looms larger than ever.

Pulses will race throughout this thrilling fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series, where no secret is safe.

Cover

Let's start with something I (andmost of the readers) have been thinking since the cover reveal. What happend to everyone's hair? I read this thing about Sydney having "a bed hair" on the cover and that was some kind of hidden message. A message that says: Sidney and Aidrian are having sex! That's not bed hair for me. The girl on this cover is blonder than the one in the other three. Is this the same girl? And is that Adrian? That loks like Marcus. Seriously, compare this Adrian to the one from the third or the first book cover!  But let's move on to the real review now!

Sydney and Adrian

Of course, I'm starting with them. They were the centre of this book. I think there was way too much romance in this book. Like 80% of the book it was all happy in Sidrian Land. Not that I complain. I love them both, but it was just too much here. They had a few fights, but they fought and then after five minutes were okay again or something happed and they forgave each other. Also, what's with Richelle Mead and ski resorts and cabins? Her main characters always get hot and heavy in cabins or ski resorts. It's just getting old now. Once was enough. Not that I complain. Not at all. Oh, also, I just love The Love Phone or the Phone of Doom as I call it now!!

Adrian's POV

I loved Adrian's POV! It was just great to get to know him better. It's not all charm and good looks. This book was more his story than Sidney's. And I think no one ever realised how seriously Tatiana's death. And him hearing her. It was scary at times.

Zoe

Real nice family you've there, Syd! I would like to behead them all. Well, not you mother. She is quite nice. Everyone in the fandom expected Zoe to fall for Neil and to change her Alchemist ways, but no. No, no, no. I would have liked this very much, but it didn't happen. Zoe deserves to know the truth about vampires and to be free from them and from her father and Richelle Mead better makes it happen!

The Ending

Everyone talks about the ending now! Or at least they are going to whenthey read the book. I said earlier that Zoe should have fallen for Neil, but you know, Sidney had to go to re-education somehow. Right? Most people always say how angry they are about the ending and the cliffhanger in books. But think about it. If the author hadn't written it this way, would you have liked it as much as you do? Ok, that wasn't the right retorical question. Would you have felt the same way about the book you do now? Would you be as exited for the next book as you are now? I know, the ending is not the most important book, but it's quite important.
So going back to this book. I really, think Sidney's the one to blame. She should have called Adrian on her real phone. Just a five second call. Something in the lines of:
Sidney:"Hey, you got the Love phone!"
Adrian: "No, I did not!"
Sidney: "Then who is texting me on it."
Adrian: "I have no idea. Just don't answer to any of the texts. I'm coming in five minutes and we will figure this out!"
Then-Presto!- no re-education for you, Sage! For such a smart girl that was a very stupid thing to do. Moving on! I loved this moment when Adrian found out what Sidney had said to Eddie before she went with her father. The Center will hold! It was just great. I was walking around my room when I read it and I just fell on my bed and started laughing. Not because it was funny, but because ít was either that or crying!
I think the last chapter- Chapter 24- was unnecessary. It was just Sidney being brave. We already know she is super brave and she loves Adrian. I guess it was to make the cliffhanger full.

Eddie, Jill, Angeline, Neil, Trey

And last, but least. Let's talk about the gang. The Eddie-Jill situation and the Jill-Angeline-Neil situation. Poor Neil! I really felt sorry for him at some point in the book. He was being used by both Angeline and Jill and he didn't even notice. He fell for this girl Olive and that was it. And then comes the times he was extra annoying. "I'm much more experienced than Eddie. SO I should guard the princess!" I swear that if I was there I would have beated the hell out of him. Well, maybe not alone. I would have asked Rose for help and maybe Dimitri. And then Lissa and Adrian can compel him to see something awful.
Now I'm super happy about Jill and Eddie. I want to thanl Adrian for keeping Jill away from Neil and being witty and sarcastic. I have been waiting for them, Jill and Eddie, I mean, to get together since forever.
And Angeline and Trey. Well, nothing much there. I mean, they have to get together in the next book. Right?

So that's my review. I will be waiting for the next book, but not as excitedly as I want to. I won't die until it comes out. What do you think? What do you like and what do you hate about this book? Please, please, please, please comment! Pretty please! I know I might sound annoying, but still. I'm not going to stop posting reviews just because there aren't any people commenting! And one more thing. You can recommend this site to friends, you know?
I'll se ya next time! Bye!

NaNoWriMo 2013-5 days untill the end

Hey, writers! How's the novel going?
Mine is not good. It's bad. Very very bad! I'm like 20 000 words behind. Please, don't look at me like that! I know, I know! That's awfully much, but I have a good reason.
The first two weeks of November were fine and then came the storm. My teacher gave the following speech:
"Ok, students! I gave you a break these two weeks, but for the month I'm going to give you quizes, tests and trivias every day. [insert witch laughter]"
So that's my reason. And I'm not kidding about the witch laugh. My teacher does the best witch laugh ever and she is a great teacher too.
The fact that I'm behind doesn't mean that I'm giving up ny novel. I'm going to make a my own NaNoWriMo in December. The only participant is going to be me.
I'll write a novel. Even if it takes a year or two! I'm going to finish this one and write another one. That's what I promise myself!

Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

No one is like Daemon Black.

When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on.

But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.
After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.

Together we’re stronger... and they know it.

Ok! So I just finished this book today and I must say this one is my favourite so far. This series just keeps getting better.

The Covers

This is not exactly connected to this book, but to all the books in the series. What's with those covers? Why do they have to be all Kat and Daemon? Can they just make some covers with an opal necklase or an obsidian blade or onyx or something? Have you seen the cover of the next book? Don't get me wrong! I love Daemon, but this is a bot to much. I'm not a fan of covers with half naked guys.

The Ending (Spoilers!)

Really? Everyone has been raving about the ending of this book and what an epic cliffhanger it is. Well, I figured it out before that and really it's not suprising at all. I won't be suprised by the next book either. Someone already spoiled it for me! Thank you very much my dear friends on Goodreads! I have the fourth book already so it's not such a big problem!

Romance

Of course, we get a lot of Katy and Daemon in this book! They had a love/hate realationship in the first book. Then they proved their love in the second one and now it's time to be happy in the third book. Well, as happy as they can be with the DOD and Will. I loved their romance and that it wasn't very cheesy or something. They got really romantic in this book. I almost expected Kat to end up pregnant.

Dee

I really wanted to slap Dee at times in this book. Yeah, she is having a hard time with Adam's death, but isn't she being a bit dramatic over it. She never really showed that much affection towards Adam. They went on dates and they had sex. That's all! And what has Kat done? Did she kill Adam? NO! It was Blake. So stop being a bitch, woman!

Blake and Love triangles

Ok! I think we all know Blake loves Katy. But Katy and Blake....not happening. So technically there is no love triangle. I don't know why authors these days love writing love triangles. Maybe because people won't read their book without a love triangle. That's just some authors. Love triangles are very hard to write. Most of the time they annoy the hell out of me. Like the one in Twilight! God I hate this one!
But lest go back to Blake. I did the awful mistake of trusting him. Again. And he betrayed my trust. Again! Really can't this guy choose if he wants to be good or bad.

Dawson

With Dawson back I was afraid there will be some accident when Kat doesn't set apart Daemon and Dawson and something like that. And then Kat and Daemon will fight about it and break up. Thankfully that didn't happen. Dawson was all sad and depressed about Beth. I loved that moment when he and Daemon and Kat were watching zombie movies. It was hillarious. Aliens watching movies about zombies! I have more to say about Dawson, but I just can't remember right now!

That's everything, I guess! Have a good week and I'll post more later!

Finished series

I decided to make a list of all the book series I have ever finished. (Well, that's a lame sentence!)

1. The Ruby Red trilogy

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust.

I enjoyed the first two books very much and the third one came out this year and I was so so disappointed. But don't listen to me! Go and read this trilogy and tell me what you think. I'm ever considering reading the first book in German!

2. The Vampire Academy series

I know, I know! The title. But this was my second YA read and I still love it very very much!

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger...
Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

3.Study series

This is a trilogy that I began and finished this year. I liked it very much. Who am I kidding? It was one of the best series ever! I hope Maria V. Snyder writes a sequel or a spinn off series!!

Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison...

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.

And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.

As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...

4. Heist society trilogy

Another trilogy I read this year. It's very funny and it's sort of like Ocean's Eleven movie, but better! I picked it up in London. (God! It sounds so good! I picked it up in London. I'm so happy I went to London and got this book.)

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.

Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.

For Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.

5. Twilight series

Ok! Stop looking at me this way! Everyone started somewhere. Don't tell me you haven't read this book. Yeah, sadly, this was the book that got me into YA. I liked the series for like 3 months and then I stopped liking. I don't hate it. It's just not one of the best. It's not even in my top 20!

 Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

6. Perfect chemistry

I was very uncertain when I started the first book, because of the covers. Just looka t it. It looks like some cheesy romance novel. Well, let me tell you that it's so good. All the books. They aren't connected, but I recommend starting from the first book, which is my favourite.

When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect.

Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.

In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.

7.Across the universe

This was the first audiobook I ever listened too and I liked it. The idea is great and the writing is too. And the covers are just so so pretty.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

8.Anna dressed in blood

I know! The title again. Who would like to read something with such title? Well, me! It's a duology and it's great.


Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's athame knife, kills ghosts. In Thunder Bay, Anna, forever 16, drips blood on her white dress from throat slit in 1958, and rips apart anyone who enters her house - except Cas. He makes new friends - high school queen Carmel, jock Will, admiring nerd Thomas and Tom's voodoo grandpa Morfran - to fight this demon.

9.The Adoration of Jenna Fox

The first book was a bit creepy and I liked that. The second and the third are not about Jenna. They are just sort of sequels.


Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication.

10. Dream catcher trilogy

This trilogy was recommended to me by a friend so I jump on to reading it. I liked the first book, but from there it just went down for me!

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can't tell anybody about what she does they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can’t control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant.

11.The chemical garden trilogy

This is maybe one of the best trilogies I have ever read. All three bokks were amaizing and don't let me start on the writing style and the characters.

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.

When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom.

12.Incarceron

I wanted to read this book so I decided: I'll buy it for my friend, but before I give it to her, I'll read it. So that's what I did! I bought the book and started reading it, but I got so bored. I never finished it. However, my friend finished it and asked me to read it again. So I did. And I absolutely loved it. It was one of the best steampunk books ever. So this year I bought the sequel and read it. I wish there is a third book, but it's not going to happen!

Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...

13.A series of unfortunate events

It's a middle grade series. So what? That doesn't make less lovable. And let me tell you, I read it last year and loved it. I have alway loved the movie, but then I found out there are books and read the first two for less than 12 hours! Lemony Snicket is a great author and I'll never stop reading his books.

Dear Reader,

I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket

14.The spiderwick chronicles

Again a middle grade series. I read it, because I rememebered a friend telling me how scary it was when he read it. (That friend has turned into a complete jerk since then!) So I picked it up. Yeah, it's creepy if you are 10 years old.

When the three Grace children -- Mallory, Jared, and Simon -- and their mom move into Aunt Lucinda's old house, readers know there's magic afoot. The kids uncover a nest of assembled junk, and on a visit to the secret library via the dumbwaiter, Jared finds a note describing "my secret to all mankind." After a few mysterious pranks that get blamed on Jared, the boy finally digs up the real prize: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. Fortunately enough, the kids meet one of the critters listed in the guide -- a brownie named Thimbletack -- who makes it all "real" and helps provide the book's suspenseful conclusion: "'Throw the book away, toss it in a fire. If you do not heed, you will draw their ire.'"

 

15.Matched trilogy

Everyone couldn't stop telling me how good this series was so I picked it up. The first bok was OK. The other two less so. It wasn't bad, but I can't say I loved it!

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

 16. Harry Potter

How can you be a reader without reading the Harry Potter books? As every person on Earth I loved them and I'm sure everyone have read them so I won't put any descriotion here.

17.Beautiful creatures

I enjoyed this series. As many others it went down after the first book. I still wanted to watch the movie. I liked the movie although there were some things that annoyed the hell out of me.
 
 There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

18. Clockwork angel trilogy

I just loved this series. It wasn't the writing. It was the characters and the 19th century and even the love triangle. I like it more than the Mortal instruments for sure.

In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them....

19.The Iron Fey series

This is the only series about fairies I like. Julie Kagawa is a great writer and I have yet to read her other books. Also there is a spin off series. Wait I just now realised the spin off is about Meghan's brother. Oh My God! Why didn't I notice that before??? Now I'm dying to read it!

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

20.The Wolves of Mercy Falls

Welcome to Annoying characters 101! The two main characters were just so dull.

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.

Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

 

 

 

 

21.Graceling realm

Again one of my favourite series. The books in it are a sequel and prequel, but I think there should have been at least one more book about Katsa.

In the Seven Kingdoms, people born with an extreme skill, "Grace", are feared and exploited. Katsa herself despises hers, killing. Her uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, commands her to punish and torture his enemies. Prince Po, with combat skills, becomes her friend, and she learns terrible truths about her Grace and a secret hidden far away that could destroy the realm.

 

 

 

 22.Legend trilogy

Ok, so technically I haven't finished this series, but I'm currenly reading the third book so....



What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.

23.Leviathan trilogy

Those were the first steampunk books I read and I loved them! I love love love loved them! The illustrations were beautiful and the story was just great!

Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.

With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.

 24.Percy Jackson and The Olympians series

What? You haven't read this series? You don't even know who Percy is? Go away! I don't want you here! Go and read those books for they are awsome! I myself wasn't very interested a few years ago. The first time I heard of them it was this girl in class talking about them. I wasn't even listening. She was like: Blahblahblah tells him it's a lie and them he goes blah blah blah. The "Blah Blah" are the names I don't remember her saying. But now I'm happy I read those books and you will be happy if you read them too.

 Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus' master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus' stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

25.The Kane chronicles

I got the first book for my birthday last year and then devoured the other two over the summer.

Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.

One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.

Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them —Set— has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe - a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

26.Divergent trilogy

You all know I have already read this series and that I love it to death!

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, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

27. The 39 clues series

Again a middle grade series which I love.

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue.
Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.
The 39 Clues is Scholastic's groundbreaking new series, spanning 10 adrenaline-charged books, 350 trading cards, and an online game where readers play a part in the story and compete for over $100,000 in prizes.

28.Hex Hall

This is another series whose first book I got for my bithday. I didn't read it until three months later, because the Bulgarian cover is just awful. It's three girls dressed like prostitutes. One has wings, the other is holding a spider and the third just has this sparkle around her. Bu the series is not bad.

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes.

Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father--an elusive European warlock--only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.
By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.
As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

29.Eve trilogy

A mildly good utopian trilogy. I picked it up, because I have a friend called Eve.

The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her.

Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.

30.Uglies

Again one of my friend recommended it. I read it and loved it and then I asked her what she though about it. Her answer was: I never finished the first book.

Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license - for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all.

The choice Tally makes changes her world forever...

31.The knife of never letting go

And last but not least this utopian series which I got for my birthday this year!

Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

 Those were my finished serie. If I add the ones I haven't finished yet the post will become just too long!

Bye! See ya next time!

Divergent trailer 1

So, the Divergent movie trailer just came out a few days ago and I'm super exited. I watched it live two days ago. It's a funny story really.
It's the end of school day and I see that the trailer will be released in five minutes just when classes end. So I get my phone, go to the toilets and start watching the trailer. But then the bell rings and I have to go to collect my things from the room. I walk through the corridors, eyes on the screen and I might have bumped into five or six people, but I didn't notice at that time. I get to the classroom and most of my classmates have already gone home, only my friends are there waiting for me. I don't say anything. I just sit on one of the desks and keep watching. They start talking and I just keep teeling them to shut up. In the end I'm the only person left in the classroom.
So, time to discuss!
Why are we shown the field first, It's not even The Field, it's just some field!
Then there is Tris's haircut scene and we see her mother. I though she would be younger and blond. Really, they could have picked someone younger!
Then there is this shot of the whole city. We can see the ferris wheel Tris and Four climbed and those buildings that look kind of ruined and old. And in the middle of the field there is this ship. Rusty, old, big ship. There was probably water there once upon a time. We can see two more boats nearby.
Then we see Janine. She looks prettier and less evil than I imagined her and behind her are the bowls. I imagined them looking more...dramatic. Like one will be black with fire in it and the other will be full of water and so on. And those are just some little white bowls and if you look carefully you can see the Faction symbols on them.
The we see the Factions. They could have done much better work with some of the costumes. The Amity look orange. A brighter red would have been good. Also I always though the Eridite wore blue and yellow or blue and black. And then there is this Dauthless girl wearing red...
We see Tris looking at the Daughtless with that look on her face that says: "I want to be like them. I want to be free."
"The future belongs to those who know where they belong." That's so Janine's style. If I translate it will sound something like that: "Divergents ruin the system. Die! You don't deserve to have a future!"
And then it's the water tank scene. It shouldn't have been in the trailer. It's a great moment and very intense, but it gives too much away.
Then some more Tori and some slow-motion walking. And we get to the scene where Tris jumps off the building. We can see Peter in the background in that moment she leans in. And then she jumps. She seems kind of in panic and I don't like that.
And here comes Four, right after she jumped. Then we see Four and then Four and some more Four talking then the knife throwing. Then we see a group of Dauthless walking in the fields for the Capture the Flag game. And then we see Four's tatoos.
Then there are several shots of Dauthless walking around. Probably under the efect of the simulation serum. Climbing the Ferris Wheel and then Four punching Marcus.
Marcus is different too. He looks fatter and his hair is not as white as I expected. I always imagined him as this evil old man.
Kissing on top of a building. I don't remember that from the book. Zip lining scene! YAY!
And that's the end of the trailer.
I think I like it and the movie's gonna be good, but they shouldn't have put all this stuff in the trailere. We almost didn't see Christina or All or Will or Uraih or anyone else exept Four, Tris, Janine, Tori and a shot of Marcus.
That's all I have to discuss. See ya tomorrow!

Goodreads choice awards 2013- Semifinal round

There are two favourite times of the year for me! Can you guess? No, it's not Christmass and my birthday. It's the time I set my Goodreads challenge and The Goodreads choice awards. I read lots of new book this year and yet I have so may more to read. I wasn't able to vote in all the categories, but I voted for most.

 Mystery and Thriller:

I voted for Speaking from Among the Bones(Flavia de Luce #5) by Alan Bradley. I haven't read this ne yet, but I read three books by Alan Bradley this year and I loved them so I decide to vote for this one anyway!

 Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

Historical Fiction:

Now I was planning to read a lot more historica fiction this year, but I didn't have the time and patience. There was a new Philipa Gregory book, however, I didn't vote for it. I voted for Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. It's really more of a fantasy novel than historical fiction and I liked it very much. It got me  out of a reading slump in August during the Bout of Books Read-a-thon.

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Clearly history (and Kate Atkinson) have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the fate of civilization.

Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best, playing with time and history, telling a story that is breathtaking for both its audacity and its endless satisfactions.

Fantasy:

I was suprised to see that I have to choose between two of my favourite books for this category. Vicious by V.E. Schwab and The ocean at the end lane by Neil Gaiman. So I voted for Vicious on the first round and for The Ocean at the end of the lane in the semifinal round.

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

Paranormal Fantasy:

I voted for The Bone season by Samantha Shannon. I'm curently reading it and it's great so I decided to vote for it.

It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.

But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army.

Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.

The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine—a young woman learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been taken from her. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.

Humor:

Skipping forward to humor. I voted for William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher. What? You didn't expect the author to be William Shakespeare, did you? It's a great book espesialy for fans of Star Wars.

Inspired by one of the greatest creative minds in the English language-and William Shakespeare-here is an officially licensed retelling of George Lucas's epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.

Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Graphic Novels & Comics:

I started reading manga this summer so I haven't  read much of what came this year. I was busy reading things that came out 10 years ago! I still voted for Clockwork prince The Manga.

Debut authors:

Here I voted for The Madman's dughter by Megan Shepherd. 

In the darkest places, even love is deadly.

Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.

Accompanied by her father's handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward—both of whom she is deeply drawn to—Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father's madness: He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. And worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island's inhabitants. Torn between horror and scientific curiosity, Juliet knows she must end her father's dangerous experiments and escape her jungle prison before it's too late. Yet as the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father's genius—and madness—in her own blood.

Inspired by H. G. Wells's classic The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Madman's Daughter is a dark and breathless Gothic thriller about the secrets we'll do anything to know and the truths we'll go to any lengths to protect.

Young adult fiction:

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Enough said!!

A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love. Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . .

But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction:

This was the hardest category, because that's the genre I read the most. Unsuprisingly I have read every book in this category. OK, not all the books. More like 17/20 books. n the first round I voted for Allegiant and on the second for the Dream Thives. I wanted to vote for Requiem or The Elite or Scarlet or Prodigy or unravel me or Opal or Clockwork princess or The indigo spell or Siege and Storm, but I couln't!!

Middle Grade & Children's:

Why are the Heroes of Olympus series books in middle grade cathegory? I never considered them that way. However Ididn't vote for The House of Hades. All fans are gobba vote for it. I decided to give a chance to the other great books. On the first round I voted for The Doll bones by Holly round and on the semifinal I voted for The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. Both are great book and both deserve to win!!

The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.

This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.

But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are…?

The School for Good & Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.

I just love th cover of this one and the book trailer is just so creepy and great!!!

  So those were my votes. Comment and tell me what categories and books did you vote for. See you next time!