The Diviners by Libba Bray

Ok, so I love Libba Bray! Her books are great and her writing style is great and she really works for her books to be good. I think so far the Diviners is my favourite book. I give you...my review.

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.

NON-Spoilery part Do you see this big massive book? Well, of course you do! And I suppose you are affarid of reading it,because it's big and scary and it would take ages to read it. Will you change your mind if I hit you with it over the head? No? Then I shouldtell you this is a great book. You shouldn't be affraid of it's size. It's so great I can't even begin describing it. I love all books set in the 20's. Not that I have read so many. I pos-i-tute-ly loved the jazz and the parties and you bet...more NON-Spoilery part Do you see this big massive book? Well, of course you do! And I suppose you are affarid of reading it,because it's big and scary and it would take ages to read it. Will you change your mind if I hit you with it over the head? No? Then I should tell you this is a great book. You shouldn't be affraid of it's size. It's so great I can't even begin describing it. I love all books set in the 20's. Not that I have read so many. I pos-i-tute-ly loved the jazz and the parties and you betsky I loved the way all characters, especially Evie, talked. But I should warn you this book is all kinds of creepy too. So if you don't like creepy stuff and ghosts and murders in your books then this is not your cup of tea. SPOILERS! LOTS AND LOTS OF SPOILERS!! Ok so the first thing that comes to my mind now are the pairings. I mean, I expected Evie to fall for Memphis or for Sam, but Jericho....never!! He was the boy Mabel liked and Evie never showed particular interest in him. She was flirting with Sam all the time, but with Jericho- never. Then in the end of the book they kind of get together. And then comes Theta and Memphis. Another couple I never thought about. Really, who would have guessed! The poet Memphis and the showgirl Theta. But I must say it worked out well. A thing about this book that I loved was that the romance wasn't the main thing. There was some of it in the end, but that's all. Now going to the creepy stuff. I just got the Naughty John song stuck in my head this month and I was scaring my friends. Really! Singing this song in class is not a good idea. It was noisy so I started singing it quietly. And then the class went silent and I just continued singing! Yep, it was very a great fun for me!*sarcasm* I was creeped out of the chapters where Naughty John got those people killed. Meaning: I loved them! And they were just so awful and scary and disgusting sometimes. And I was very sorry for this widow woman. She trusted John when he was alive and he promised her she will be his queen and then he killed her as the 12th offering.(Or was it the 11th?) And I think it was kind of obvious that Evie was the Lady Sun. Who else could it be? And the coat thing? Really? She is the Lady sun because she wears a golden coat. That's what you meant by Lady Sun? Well, anyway she stopped John with her magical powers. There is much more I can say about this book, but I'll probably start repeating myself. This is a great book and everyone should totally read it. I hightly hightly recommend it! Now all I have to do is wait for the next book. See ya!

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

I love Victoria Schwab! She is one of the best authors and if anybody has notices, the first review I made on this blog was for a book by Victoria Schwab. This is her debut novel and I freaking love it.

The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.

The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.

As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.

Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget.

I must say I liked this book, Victoria Schwab's debut novel, more than The Archived. I always liked witches better than ghosts. This is the second book I finish this week. I started it in June, I think! Or was it July? Never mind! I stared it a few months ago, because I had nothing to do. Oh, now I remember! It was the day I finished Poison study! I read the first two chapters and then I had stuff to do and I forgot about it. But I opened it today and I was suprised I remembered everything I had read before. I read some negative reviews about it. Yeah, I won't lie, this book is slow in the beginning. But it gets better and better and better until the end. It has a dash of mystery and creepiness and romance, of course. That was a thing I liked. The romance wasn't one of the main things. It was there, but other things were more important than it.
Oh, by the way, have you ever heard the phrase So many books, so little time. I alway thought I had enough time to read. Well, now things changed. I started studing German and I have to say this is the second book I finish this week. Today I went to a bookstore and bought two other books and tommorow I'm purchasing Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, because it's finally translated in Bulgarian. And I still have to finish  A Dance With Dragons and I have 200 books (literary) waiting on my Kindle and a big pile of paper books next to my bed.
So, yeah! German! It will be easy, they said! You'll lear it fast, they said! And I believed them!
See ya next time!

September girls by Bennett Madison

I'm not a fan of books about mermaids. The ones I have read are EPIC FAILS! But this one....this one is actually good. Very good. As you might have guessed I read it in September. And I'm posting the review just now. This is actually the review I posted on Goodreads so don't be suprised that I talk about summer and September and finishing this book yesterday.

When Sam's dad whisks him and his brother off to a remote beach town for the summer, he's all for it-- at first. Sam soon realizes, though, that this place is anything but ordinary. Time seems to slow down around here, and everywhere he looks, there are beautiful blond girls. Girls who seem inexplicably drawn to him.

Then Sam meets DeeDee, one of the Girls, and she's different from the others. Just as he starts to fall for her, she pulls away, leaving him more confused than ever. He knows that if he's going to get her back, he'll have to uncover the secret of this beach and the girls who live here.

Ok. So yeah, I finished it. And I don't really have much to say. And look at that. It was the end of summer yesterday. And I started this book yesterday. Coincidence, right? Well, I must say it was a great book to end the summer with. If I think about it some more I would say it is the best book I read this summer. But I'm writing this now so I won't say such a thing.
I lost the element of suprise that they were mermaids/ sirens. I just saw this question on Goodread: What do you think about the mermaids in September girls? I really thought it was a contemporary book. I mean, look at the cover and the title. It screams contemporary to me. But after finding it was YA I read it for less then 24 hours.
I was very confused with the changing chapters, you know, Sam chapter, then Mermaid chapter. (that's what I call them!) At first I thought it was just a random September girl talking and then I thought it was DeeDee, but I never thought about it being Kristle. I was happy about her in the end. Yeah, she didn't get to brake the curse, but she didn't exactly die. I think she would be happy where she is going. She is free now and she knows who she is. She is Kristle, she is herself.
The ending was kind of open. Am I the only one in the YA fandom who likes open endings? Like I loved Requiem by Lauren Oliver. I loved the ending. It made me feel like all these things in the books happend in the past and that it happend and people today just don't know about it. ANd the open ending here was great too. We don't really know what happent to DeeDee. Did she go to Paris? Did she ever left the beach? Or maybe she stayed, replacing Kristle as everyone's older sister, caring for them? And maybe if she left she met Sam again! And they lived happily ever after? No, I don't think they will! Maybe they will meet and be diffrent people now. Like in Persuasion by Jane Austen. So, I love open endings! And I think all books have open endings of some sort. There is always a second story that can be written. Like a sequel to the first, but not a sequel at all. No, a whole new story. A whole new defferent world and life.
Well, look at that! I sound clever. I loved this book. If you don't want to read the whole review just read this one sentence!

I guess that's it. A short review for ya! Do you prefer loner rreviews? I think they are kind of boring. Well, you can tell me and I would know. But you never comment, don't you? Well, I won't stop writing just because you are unable to comment. I like my reviews and I'll simply keep posting them.

The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger

I recently made a post of the best book I read in 2013. I don't know why I didn't include this book. It's a very good book. I seriously can't think of a reason for not posting it there. I read it in the summer and I made a review on Goodreads which I'm posting here now. I'm criticizing the book a lot, but don't listen to me. You can always go and read the book and love it. Enjoy!

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face.

But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.
Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

Lets start with the question why did I pick up this book? (Better question is why did I like it, but that later.) One sunny summer day when a teenage girl alone at home had nothing to do she started looking at a list with summer books in it! She then selected the first book she saw. And this turned out to be this book. So the teenage girl began reading. And she read and read and read and read. Until the book was over.(Meanwhile she had eaten a bow full of cherries and drank a bottle full of water.)
I liked this book, because I`m a teenage girl who is becoming lightheaded during the summer. And I`m ashamed of it!!!I have to pick up a classic book now to clear the stain off my reader reputation. I have to, but I won`t! Why? Because I don`t want to.
I have to say the book has it`s flaws. Like the main heroine (here I go again), the so called DUFF! She says through the whole book that she doesn`t care what the others think. She says she doesn`t care for Wesley`s opinion. And then she is so wounded when he calls her a Duff. She even thinks about it a week, I think. And then her problems start! Her parents get divorced and her ex-boyfriend comes back in town. And she doesn`t talk to her friends and family! No! Cause that would be too simple, right? She goes to the person she hates the most, Wesley. And she doesn`t talk with him either, at least not in the beginning. No! She deals with the problems her own....ummm....teenage way.
And then Wesley`s character reminded me so much of Noah from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. And I didn`t like Noah, but at least he wasn`t rude to Mara. But as in every "love" story the boy changes in the end and he becomes Prince Charming. I don`t think I should be surprised by Wesley and Noah`s behaviour! After all that`s the future of every teenage boy everywhere.(Maybe with a few exceptions, but I haven`t met any of them yet!)
The DUFF`s friends were less irritating. I mean they cared for her and wanted to understand her. (something I was not able to do) And she just kept running away from them. From time to time I was ready to shout at her: Don`t you see what you`ve got there? You`re about to lose your two best friends and the only thing you are thinking about is Wesley and Toby and the fact that nobody likes you and how miserable you are!
And, of course, there is the label problem. The problem with teens being labelled at school. I have been called all of those labels in the book. From slut to nerd. And, yeah, I`m not okay with it, but that's school and life isn`t just rainbows and happiness and all that jazz. But I just go on and I don`t deal with it This way!
WOW! It turned out I didn't like this book this much! I should stop now, before I just delete all the nice things I said and write only the bad ones. And meanwhile give the book one star.
However! Whoever wants to read it, Go on. It`s not as bad as I described it. It`s a nice fast summer read.
Forget everything I said! I LOVE THIS BOOK!
So this is quite a pointless review. The book IS great and you should read it. I still mean the things I said in the review. But I'm just not so critical now.
Ok, I'll see ya next time. Which will probably be today. Because I'm wrting at least five more reviews.

Panic by Lauren Oliver- The NON-SPOILERY REVIEW

So this little ARC came on my Kindle yesterday. I'm pretty sure I looked like a mad woman when I got it. Of course, I sat and read it ASAP. This review will be NON-SPOILERY. I will tell you what I think about some of the characters, but I won't reveal anything major from the plot.

Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.

Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She’d never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.

Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game, he’s sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he’s not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for.

For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them—and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.

I want to tell all the Lauren Oliver fans that this book won't dissappoint you. It's perfect and beautiful. And for those who said that it will turn into a series- I can assure you it won't. I'm starting from there. The ending. It was so well wrapped up. I mean, there were no loose ends, at least not for me. The book is well paced. It doesn't drag and it doesn't make you want to skip pages. But it's not constant action. There are discriptions of people and places and things.
I have read many reviews that say that this book will be like The hunger games. I don't think it is. For one in the huner games people are selected and they have to participate. It doesn't matter that they don't want to. And in The Hunger games the biggest reward that you get is that you live.
I liked the caharacters. Heather more than Dodge. I don't know why. Probably because Heather is a girl. Don't get me wrong I like boys. I'm not a lesbian. But there was something off about Dodge.
Now there were those little romances. I really expected the two main characters to fall in love, however, that didn't happen. Bishop is a great character. I love him. He is great and sweet and I still love him. He and Heather are my new couple to ship.
Then Heather's mother. Ok, that was like...WOW. I can't even write about her. What sort of mother is she? No, I won't spoil the book for you. You have to wait and read.

Ok, I guess this is my NON-SPOILERY review for today. I hope you like it and I hope you like the book too, once it comes out.
See ya!

Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer

So Cress is coming soon and I'm very very exited. I decided to re-read the first book.

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

This was a good read. I'm not disappointed that I bought it, but I wasn't thrilled either. It's a retelling of Cinderella, where the main heroine, Cinder, is a cyborg.
I liked that the stepmother wasn't just that evil figure in the whole story. Yeah, she was still pretty mean to Cinder, but she looked more human. she had lost a husband she had loved (I presume!) and she is still grieving him. And like many people do,she is blaming the newest thing in the house-Cinder. She was doing anything she had to survive. Even if it meant selling Cinder for money or making her daughter marry young.
The prince was...well, he was the prince. Nothing special, nothing extraordinary. He was charming and handsome, but he lacked a brain. I mean, he was going to marry Levana. Are you dumb? Seriously! Are you? She is the queen of evil. The ambassador of Evilland. The empress of Evilness. And you know it. And you still are willing to marry her. And don't tell me it's for the good of the country cause I bet at least half of it is because you think she is beautiful and the other half is simply because you're dumb idiot.
And then here comes the part when at the ball we find out Cinder is one of those people from the moon. And her charm falls. And the prince is like: You lied to me. You never loved me. It was all a lie. Levana take her as your prisoner.You may kill her if you want. (he didn't say that, but he knows that Levana will do it) I don't get it. Do you loved her for her beauty or for her personality. She was clever and funny and she supported you and encouraged you. Yeah, she didn't tell you she was a cyborg, because she didn't want you to run away screaming. Because she may have loved you. But you are too stupid to understand love, aren't you, Charming?
A thing I liked was that not both sisters were mean to Cinder. Of course, the bigger one would be mean, but she was under her mother's influence much more. Peoni I loved. She was so sweet. With her obsession with the prince and everything. I was kind of sad when she got ill. But things at the end of the book got so complicated that I couldn't understand if she died or not.
A thing I couldn't really understand was how androids looked. I got that they are short and I found out about all the things they could do, but I couldn't imagine Iko or Nancy at all. I imagined Nancy mostly like a robotic dog and Iko like some kind of very short robot that moved around on wheels.
so yeah! If I think harder I would be able to write much more. But I'm lazy and I have to finish another book.

Strands of bronze and glod by Jane Nickerson

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas with your families and your friends and I hope you read as much as I did. I re-read this book recently! It's a great re-telling. Oh, and I'm changing my reviews. I'm not gonna separate them into topics. It's gonna be just a long boring text nobody will read.

The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . .

When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi.

Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it’s as if, thread by thread, a silken net is tightening around her. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives—all with hair as red as her own—in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world.

Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut—a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.

I just loved this book. There are so few retellings of the Bluebeard tale and this is the first one I read. I love fairy tale retellings. Not those modern ones like a Modern Cinderella or something like that. I love those who turn a short fairy tale into a 200-page novel.
But lets focus on this book. Firstly I love the cover. It`s one of the things that made me pick it up today. I`m kind of happy that there isn`t anything blue on it. I don`t know why. Maybe the same reason I bought a copy of The Portrait of Dorian Grey with Oscar Wilde on the cover. I told my mom then: I don`t want the cover to remind me of what`s inside the book!...Strange, huh!
Moving on. The story is set in 1855 in America, I think. I thought at first it was a modern day fairy tale, but then the heroine mentioned a bonnet and a carriage and I dismissed that though. The interesting thing about fairy tale retellings is that you know the main story and that makes you more interested in the writing style and the details than in the plot.
I always have high expectations for the heroes in a novel. The main heroine, Sophia, was not one of the best characters. I liked her curiosity though it got her into trouble. Other good trait of hers is how she is ready to help her family in any way even if it means marrying for such a monster as de Cressac and I think that's what I like the most in her. I am very fond of clever and bright heroines. Sophia was not the brightest girl I have ever read about. I always see signs in books and can sometimes predict how a book is going to end. And I`m quite irritated when the main hero or heroine can`t see those signs. I mean if Sophia was that curious and eager to find out what really happened to the other wives she would have used the keys the first time de Cressac left her alone and gave her the keys. And she saw what beast "her husband" can be at the very beginning when he found out about those love letters she had received long time ago. And he was keeping her isolated, he even hid the letters her family sent her.
As for de Cressac`s character I can`t say much. I think it was well build. Only sometimes it looked like he had schizophrenia. One minute he was good and caring and the next he was mad and full of rage. Maybe that was what the author wanted to imply.

However the book was very good and I recommend it! I hope yu read it and like it. The second re-telling by Jane Nickerson comes out 2014 and I'm hopingto get an ARC.
See ya next time with another post!

Every day by David Levithan

My first book by David Levithan. I read it a month ago, but I didn't have time to review it. So now when I have time I give you my again very short review.


Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

Plot

Romance aside, this story is about people .. All kinds of people in all kinds of scenarios, with different lives and in different environments. It's the most wonderful book about what it means to be human. It takes you on a journey around the world not physically but emotionally, it travels through space and bodies and it talks about so many taboo subjects that you can't even imagine.. This, my dears, it's a real piece of art!

“I wake up thinking of yesterday.
The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

You can learn a lesson from almost every chapter, you can be in the body of all kinds of people, struggling with their problems, creating others, trying to fix the unfixable or to keep untouched the precious moments in their lives.

You learn that actions have always consequences, that when you change things you have to assume the responsibility for doing so; you get glimpses into the head of so many types of people and at the end of the day not only you can learn a thing or two from it, but you can really become a better person.

It's not that the concept is entirely original (I remember seeing when I was young a movie series quite similar to this) but the amount of research needed for this story and the perfection with which it has been implemented turns this book into a real gem. It's fresh, it's well written, it is addictive and so full of precious content.

There are few books that have left an imprint on my life; this is definitely one of those.

A and Rhiannon

So as the book  descripton says, A doesn't have a body. He has moved from body to body since he was born. A is a name, by the way. We think of him as a boy but in fact he has no gender, and each day he can be a boy or a girl, having no control over where his soul might wake up in the next morning. He doesn't know why it happens, so don't try to find out because this is not what this story is about. Every day he wakes up and tries to find out as much about the person's life, so he doesn't mess things up for him/her.
Now his and Rhiannon's love was kind of love at first sight in my oppinion. I mean, A loved her instatly and she just thought that was her boyfriend Justin. But still... I guess I can understand why A loved her so fast. To him she is the symbol of the life he will never have. And so he gains more information about her every day and tries to meet her. And then he tells her the truth.

People A impersonated:

There are so many people we learn about when A takes their bodies for a day. Drug addict, fat person, geek, gay, transgender, homeschooled, mean girl, rock boy, suicidal girl and so many others.there was a selected group of people that can/will leave an impact on you. You might not relate to any of them, but you can understand them all. They all speak through A.'s voice and you might ask yourself if this is the author telling you life-changing stories, or the characters are really alive talking to you - they are so realistically portrayed. On each day, either the body was weighting on A, or the feelings were be pressing on him. He could feel the sorrow, the despair, the addiction but also the happiness, the calm, the hope and the love... It was such a beautiful orchestra of emotions playing in front of you - one that you can focus on each individual instrument and their beautiful, heartwarming music.

The ending:

So I must say I loved the ending. I have heard so many people saying they hated it and thay A shouldn't have left Rhiannon, but I think it was the right thing to do. They couldn't just go on like that. A different body every day. Not being able to live together and Rhiannon not being able to see how A really looks like. So he left her and I like to think that maybe she had a happy life with this boy that A impersonated in the last chapter. Cause that's what A wants. Right? He want sher to be happy.

This book was beautiful and all should read it. Comment and tell me what you think. I'll see ya next time with another book review in an hour.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and Daid Levithan

That's just a quick review. Really short, no more than my general oppinion. I'm not going to discuss it in details.

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story that will have readers perusing bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.

This was a great Christmas-y read. It's basicly a love story. The main character, Dash, finds a red notebook in a bookstore. There are clues there left by a girl called Lily. They start comunicating through the red notebook and they fall in love and try hard to find each other. As I said, a love story, but there were those moments, those very deep philosophical moments in the book where it didn't seeme entirely like a romance. However I loved it. I liked Lily more than Dash. Maybe because I'm a girl (Well, duh!) but it's probably because Lily is a "wierd girl" as she herself said. And aren't all fangirl book lover girls wierd in some way.
I liked that there are two authors of this book. On the one hand we have Rachel Cohn:

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know? I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.”

And on the other- David Levithan:

 "Aesthetic and utilitarian considerations aside," I said, "Those mittens don't particularly make sense. Why would you want to hitchhike to the North Pole? Isn't the whole gimmick of Christmas that there's home delivery? You get up there, all you're going to find is a bunch of exhausted, grumpy elves. Assuming, of course, that you accept the mythical presence of a workshop up there, when we all know there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, and if global warming continues, there won't be any ice, either."
This book is just full of great quotes like those two. I love it and I bet you will love it too. Once you read it. Now go read it. 

Best books of 2013

I had a hard time choosing the best book of 2013, but I finally chose 10 of the best! They are not in any order. I just made a list. The first isn't the best or the worst or something.

1. The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman

This book is absolutely awsome and epic and beautiful and creepy and you should read it! It's number one! It rocks! It rules! It's perfect! Go read it now! NOW!

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.

2. World after by Susan Ee

So this book is not number two, but I was too lazy to put the book in order so thats what you get! Check my full review on this one here.

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?

3. 172 hours on the moon by Johan Harstad

One of the scariest books I read this year. And I didn't read it. I listened to the audiobook! Which made it even more creepy! Imagine walking the dark streets of your town on a night with full moon and clear sky and listening this thing about teens on the moon. People dying! My review is here!!

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.

4.Vicious by V.E. Schwab

I actually wrote a review on this book. It was the book that made me start this blog. I just thought: This book is great and fantastic and I want to write a long review. Why not start a blog? I don't know if anyone has noticed the review at all. I'm linking it here!!  By the way have yoy heard there might be a movie based on the book! WOW! I'm freaking out!

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.

Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?

5.The Diviners by Libba Bray

A novel set in the 20'? Give it here! I love the twenties in USA! And this book was so awsome and creepy and great. If you like ghosts and witchy stuff and you are also of fan of the twenties then this is your book. And even if you are not a fan of any of those things you should read it. Because, who knows, you might like it! It's worth the 500 pages.

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of

New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.

6. Across a star swept-sea by Diana Petefreun

I have read almost every book by Diana Peterfreun and I love her. I love her writing, I love her characters, I love the stories. Her retelling are so detailed. I can re-read then 20 times and I won't be able to find all the details that she has put. A small thing from the original book, almost unnotisable in the retelling. Brilliant!! This book is a retteling of The Scarlet Pimpernel. I haven't read the Scarlet Pimpernel, but I will after I read Across the star-swep sea!

Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars—is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. The revolutionaries’ weapon is a drug that damages their enemies’ brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy.

On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo… is her most dangerous mission ever.

Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can’t risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he’s hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country’s revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he’s pretending to love. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she’s not only risking her heart, she’s risking the world she’s sworn to protect.

In this thrilling adventure inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel, Diana Peterfreund creates an exquisitely rendered world where nothing is as it seems and two teens with very different pasts fight for a future only they dare to imagine.

7. Something strange and deadly by Susan Dennard

In the beginning of the year I hated zombies and all kinds of zombie-related books. That's the book that made me start liking zombies. By now I have read plenty of zombie books and I have a bunch more on my to-read list. That's why this book is here.

The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia…

Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she’s just read in the newspaper—

The Dead are rising in Philadelphia.

And then, in a frightening attack, a zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor…from her brother.

Whoever is controlling the Dead army has taken her brother as well. If Eleanor is going to find him, she’ll have to venture into the lab of the notorious Spirit-Hunters, who protect the city from supernatural forces. But as Eleanor spends more time with the Spirit-Hunters, including their maddeningly stubborn yet handsome inventor, Daniel, the situation becomes dire. And now, not only is her reputation on the line, but her very life may hang in the balance.

8. Poison study by Maria V. Snyder

This book series is so so so good! I loved it. I don't have anything more to say. It's just magical and exciting and...and....oh, go read it for yourself.

 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...

9. Daughter of smoke and bone by Laini Taylor

That's the first book I read in 2013. That's why it will always be special for me. I love the story, the writing style and the characters. I recently bought it for a friend for Christmas and I'm going to give it to her tomorrow.

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

10. Perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Now, what's a good year whitout some good romance. I liked Perfect chemistry, but it wasn't the best romance I read. However, I'm leaving it here.

W
hen 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.

Bonuses: (because ten is not even remotely enough!)

11. Magic strikes by Ilona Andrews

You know how everyone have been saying that this series gets good at book three. Well, it's true. I like Magic Bites, I love Magic Burns, but I adore Magic Strickes. That's one of the most badass awesome urban fantasy series I have read. And I want to thank Natalia from Goodreads for recommending this series to me. I'll be forever grateful.

When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it’s a job for Kate Daniels…
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot.

But when Kate's werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games—an invitation only, no holds barred, ultimate preternatural fighting tournament—she and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, uncover a dark plot that may forever alter the face of Atlanta's shapeshifting community…

12. Every day by David Levithan

I read this book on impulse. Started it in class and I just couldn't stop untill I finished it. I never wrote areview, because it was just too good book and I was speechless. Just don't expect me to write a review.

Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

13. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

This is a great great story every fangirl should read. I know every fangirl will love it. Cause we are fangirls. FANGIRLS! I think I over-used the word "fangirl". FANGIRL!

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?

That's it! A long post for you. What are your favourite books you read this year? Comment and I'll see ya!
Bye!

Book haul part one- A bunch of ARCs!

Yes, you read it right! I got myself some ARCs. Or in other words Advanced Reader's Copies. That's the first part of one big December/ Christmas haul I'm posting. Probably in 3 parts! Let's begin!

 

Sea of shadows by Kelley Armstrong (comes out April 8th 2014)

Number one. By Kelley Armstrong! I haven't read anything by her, but I have heard great things about her books and I have some on my Kindle and I'm going to read them someday. I don't know much about this book either. I heard that there was Chinese mythology involved. Interesting! See for yourself.

In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned.
Only this year, the souls will not be quieted.

Ambushed and separated by an ancient evil, the sisters’ journey to find each other sends them far from the only home they’ve ever known. Accompanied by a stubborn imperial guard and a dashing condemned thief, the girls cross a once-empty wasteland, now filled with reawakened monsters of legend, as they travel to warn the emperor. But a terrible secret awaits them at court—one that will alter the balance of their world forever.

 

Death Sworn by Leah Cypess (comes out March 4th 2014?

Again I haven't read anything by this author. I had a hard time finding Mistwood and when I finally found it, I bought it. And I still haven't read it. Shame on me. But, on the other hand, look at all the lovely books I have read. OK! Here it is.

When Ileni lost her magic, she lost everything: her place in society, her purpose in life, and the man she had expected to spend her life with. So when the Elders sent her to be magic tutor to a secret sect of assassins, she went willingly, even though the last two tutors had died under mysterious circumstances.

But beneath the assassins’ caves, Ileni will discover a new place and a new purpose… and a new and dangerous love. She will struggle to keep her lost magic a secret while teaching it to her deadly students, and to find out what happened to the two tutors who preceded her. But what she discovers will change not only her future, but the future of her people, the assassins… and possibly the entire world.

 

Into the still blue by Veronica Rossi (comes out January 28th 2014)

A book I'm super exited about! Super, super excited about. Ilove Veronica Rossi's Under the never sky series. The first book was very good, the second I didn't fully understand, but I liked and now I have the third! And I'm kind of freaking out.

Their love and their leadership have been tested. Now it's time for Perry and Aria to unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders in one last desperate attempt to bring balance to their world.

The race to the Still Blue has reached a stalemate. Aria and Perry are determined to find this last safe-haven from the Aether storms before Sable and Hess do-and they are just as determined to stay together.

Meanwhile, time is running out to rescue Cinder, who was abducted by Hess and Sable for his unique abilities. And when Roar returns to camp, he is so furious with Perry that he won't even look at him, and Perry begins to feel like they have already lost.

Out of options, Perry and Aria assemble a team to mount an impossible rescue mission-because Cinder isn't just the key to unlocking the Still Blue and their only hope for survival, he's also their friend. And in a dying world, the bonds between people are what matter most.

In this final book in her stunning Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi raises the stakes to their absolute limit and brings her epic love story to an unforgettable close.

 

The Taking by Kimberly Derting (comes out April 29th 2014)

Ok this books just sounds awsome. Awsomely awsome!

A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day.

Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.

Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

 

After the End by Amy Plum (comes out May 6th 2014)

Amy Plum! I have been trying to read her trilogy and I just can't. I don't have time and the patience. There are better books to read. BUt for this one I'm very excited. Damn I'm excited about all this books. I hope I win some of the others I have apllied for. But back to this book.

She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.

At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.

When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.

Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.

 

Prisoner of night and fog by Anne Blankman (comes out April 22th 2014)

So this book is about a girl called Gretchen Müller who is Hitler's niece. I mean, how awsome is this? I haven't read any books about the World War II, if you don't count The Book thief and some history books, of course. So I'm going to read this one soon.

In 1930s Munich, danger lurks behind dark corners, and secrets are buried deep within the city. But Gretchen Müller, who grew up in the National Socialist Party under the wing of her "uncle" Dolf, has been shielded from that side of society ever since her father traded his life for Dolf's, and Gretchen is his favorite, his pet.

Uncle Dolf is none other than Adolf Hitler.

And Gretchen follows his every command.

Until she meets a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter named Daniel Cohen. Gretchen should despise Daniel, yet she can't stop herself from listening to his story: that her father, the adored Nazi martyr, was actually murdered by an unknown comrade. She also can't help the fierce attraction brewing between them, despite everything she's been taught to believe about Jews.

As Gretchen investigates the very people she's always considered friends, she must decide where her loyalties lie. Will she choose the safety of her former life as a Nazi darling, or will she dare to dig up the truth—even if it could get her and Daniel killed?

From debut author Anne Blankman comes this harrowing and evocative story about an ordinary girl faced with the extraordinary decision to give up everything she's ever believed . . . and to trust her own heart instead.

 

(Don't You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn (comes out June 10th 2014)

Another author I haven't read anything by. But this book seems interesting ,so why the hell not? I've been trying to read Another little piece and I hope I will someday.

Welcome to Gardnerville.
A place where no one gets sick. And no one ever dies.

Except...
There’s a price to pay for paradise. Every fourth year, the strange power that fuels the town exacts its payment by infecting teens with deadly urges. In a normal year in Gardnerville, teens might stop talking to their best friends. In a fourth year, they’d kill them.

Four years ago, Skylar’s sister, Piper, was locked away after leading sixteen of her classmates to a watery grave. Since then, Skylar has lived in a numb haze, struggling to forget her past and dull the pain of losing her sister. But the secrets and memories Piper left behind keep taunting Skylar—whispering that the only way to get her sister back is to stop Gardnerville’s murderous cycle once and for all.

 

Perfect lies by Kiersten White (comes out February 18th 2014)

Book two from the Mind games series/trilogy. Probably my favourite book by Kiersten White. Awsomeness! Enough said!

Annie and Fia are ready to fight back.

The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the inside.

But Annie's visions of the future can't show her who to trust in the present. And though James is Fia's first love, Fia knows he's hiding something. The sisters can rely only on each other - but that may not be enough to save them. 

 

Enders by Lissa Price (comes out January 7th 2014)

Are you ready to be shocked? Ok, I haven't read the first book. I have it, but I haven't read it. But I still decided to get the second. When I see an ARC I get it.

With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save Callie's life - but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena's memories, too ...and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body? This is the thrilling sequel to "Starters".

Talker 25 by Joshua McCune (comes out April 22th 2014)

No, I don't know anything about this book. It's a debut novel so I dont'know the author either. I have heard so many people talk about it and saying that they want it and that it's awesome. And here I am having no idea. DRAGONS!

Debut author Joshua McCune's gritty and heart-pounding novel is a masterful reimagining of popular dragon fantasy lore, set in a militant future reminiscent of Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker and Ann Aguirre's Outpost.

It's a high school prank gone horribly wrong-sneaking onto the rez to pose next to a sleeping dragon-and now senior Melissa Callahan has become an unsuspecting pawn in a war between Man and Monster, between family and friends and the dragons she has despised her whole life. Chilling, epic, and wholly original, this debut novel imagines a North America where dragons are kept on reservations, where strict blackout rules are obeyed no matter the cost, where the highly weaponized military operates in chilling secret, and where a gruesome television show called Kissing Dragons unites the population. Joshua McCune's debut novel offers action, adventure, fantasy, and a reimagining of popular dragon lore.

Her dark curiosity by Megan Shepard (comes out January 28th 2014)

I saved the best for the last. Ok, so technically I got this book in September and it's not new. I'm curently reading the first one, but I didn't have this blog back then so I'm posting this now.

To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it.

Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's island—and the secrets she left behind. Now, back in London once more, she is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau’s horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn’t forgotten her.

As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes, Juliet fears one of her father’s creations may have also escaped the island. She is determined to find the killer before Scotland Yard does, though it means awakening sides of herself she had thought long banished, and facing loves from her past she never expected to see again.

As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in the midst of a world of scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an obsessive killer—Juliet will be lucky to escape alive.

With inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is a tantalizing mystery about the hidden natures of those we love and how far we’ll go to save them from themselves.

I think that's it for the first part of my book haul. I'm going to post the next part tomorrow. And the third one after Christmas. Those are my ARCs! Watch them and weep! Oh, that was mean. Sorry! Nah, I'm not sorry!
I'll see ya next time! Bye!

Bout of Books 9.0

Hello! Hello! Hello! Sorry, not a book review. Just a quick post here!
It's time for *Drums, please* THE BOUT OF BOOKS READ-A-THON! WOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOO! OK! Who is excited? I am! I'm super exited. I love the Bout of books read-a-thon. I read 13 books for the last one. What do you mean you don's know what this is? Well, let me give you some info!

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 6th and runs through Sunday, January 12th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 9.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

 So the picture was supposed to be a button, but I'm not good with plasing buttons so this image will have to do. I'm sorry! (Shame on me! Not being able to post a stupid button!) Instead I'm going to post a link with the sighn up post! I hope you participate! LINK HERE! JUST CLICK ON IT! CLICK!

Bye! See ya next time! I'll make another post where I shall place my goals!

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

First of all, I'm so so sorry for not posting anything for a week. I've been so busy with school and reading that I actually had no time for reviewing. And the week is not over yet. But let me start with the review.

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair. . . .

Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell.

Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything—her family, her future—to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter.

With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Peaches comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn't grow up.

Tiger Lily

I always loved Peter Pan. The book, I mean, but I never really had a favourite character. Now I know that Tiget Lily is my favourite. Some of you might say: What about Wendy? Nah! Wendy was always the damsel that needed saving. Tiger Lily on the other hand is her exact oposite. She is brave and badass and all kinds of cool. I loved her story. How Tick-tock found her under a flower and brought her to the village. And that thing with the crow feathers in her hair. So good. I hated how they made her marry this awful guy. I don't even remember his name. But his mother was way worse than him. If she didn't like Tiger Lily whu did she insist on her son marrying her? I'm happy she died.

Tik-tok, Philip and some other stuff

I hated how Philip just went to the village and started talking about God and thing like that. Typical English. Trying to make the tribe Christian. He just goes there and...and...I'm just so mad at him! Not that he was  saying anything wrong, but he was behaving like some kind of God or at least that's how I see it. Tik-tok was a unique character. The way he wore dresses and he wasn't afraid that anyone would judge him. He was a great father to Tiger Lily. And then we go back to Philip. UGH! How could he make Tick-tok cut his hair and start wearing pants. That's discrimination! I was so sad when Tik-tok died. I wish Philip had died instead. I think he got what he deserved. I was so happy when this thing with the crows happend. You know when there were crows everywhere and the tribe though it was the gods. Another interesting detail was that the story about the crocodile was explained.

Hook, Smee, Peter Pan

We don't get a lot of Hook in this book, but there were a few things added to his story. There was a reason why he wanted to kill Peter. A strange reason, but still it wasn't just because Peter was there. Smee was maybe one of my most un-favourite character. He liked to kill people. Or he like to mourn the people he killed. At least that's what I got. And Smee was stalking Tiger Lily. Creepy! So, moving on! I know Peter is a main character, but I still left him for the end. He wasn't very different from his original version. Wild and fun and someone you can easyly fall in love with. I mean, who wouldn't. I can totally understand Wendy and Tinker bell and Tiger Lily and all the mermaids. And there was this little change from the original book. You know, the tribes and the lost boys were friend in the original story, but here the tribes thought Peter is some kind of monster which was a great twist to the story.

The Ending

I read a lot of review before I started the book, so I knew the ending would be sad. It wasn't that sad for me. I didn't cry or something. Sad books are a good read now and then. Of course, Peter couldn't stay in Neverland, because that would mean being with Tiger lily and we all now that just couldn't happen. So he went to London and married Wendy. And the lost boys stood up at their wedding. I can imagine Peter walking the streets of London already grown up and thinking about the past. About the pirates and the meramids and Tiger lily and the horses. If I was a painter I could have drawn it, but I'm not a good artist so I can't, but I know they will invent a mind reading machine some day and I'll be able to see it. OK I'm kidding! Back to the book. The letter was just too sad. And I was on the verge of crying. Now about Tiger lily's end. I loved it. It was happy. Well, almost happy. She got to marry and had children and I guess she was happy. She didn't love  Pine Sap the same way she loved Peter, but as Peter said himself: There are diffrent kinds of love. And she stayed fifteen forever. I don't know if that's a burden. Probably! Staying fifteen while your daughter and your husband grow old.

Tinker Bell

I saved Tink for the last. I never expected the story to be from her point of view, but it was very interesting this way. That way I saw more of te story not only Tiger Lily and her adventures. Also that way we don't get to know what the characters think and feel and that makes it even more cool and mysterious. I liked that we get to learn about fairies too.

I guess that's it! Ths book was so magical and beautiful and sad. I want to go to Neverland and hunt and run and just be free and a child again. Well, I'm not a grown up yet, but I'm not a child either.
I'll see ya next time!

Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews

I want to thank my Goodreads friend, Natalia, for recommending this book to me. I just loved it. It's surely one of the best books I have read this year. Oh and one more thing! SPOILERS!

New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the “intriguing world” (Locus) of Kate Daniels with this special edition of Magic Bites...

Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t want it any other way…

Kate Daniels

Kate was a great characters. She is everything you can expect from an urban fantasy heroine. She is strong, kick-ass and witty. And when I say witty I mean sarcastic, occasionally rude and always hilarious. I mean, she greeted the Beast Lord with "Here, kitty, kitty...". A thing I love about Kate is that she admits when she makes mistakes. I have met tons of heroes and heroines who just blame someone else for their problems, but not Kate. That's one of the reasons she usually works alone. She knows she will make mistakes and she doesn't want other people involved. Next comes her sword "Slayer"! I would love to have a sword like that. I mean, I would look totally badass. And I'll probably gonna end up chopping my own head off plus a few fingers. And last Kate wasn't self-obsessed and selfish. She didn't consider herself beautiful, but she admitted she was stunning. Then there are those hillarious moments when she smiles and that guy just looks at her and she is thinking: "Ok, he didn't kiss my shoes and promise me the world. I'm getting rusty." I fell off the chair laughing, because I can totally imagine this guy falling on his knees and kissing her shoes.

The world of Kate Daniels

The world this seres is set in is quite special too! It's like the normal world, but there is magic. Real dangerous kick-ass magic. And once or twice a day there is this magic wave when all technology just stops working and people have to use horses to move around, for example. But on the other hand after the magic wave, people can't use any magic no matter how much talent they have. And then there are shape-shifters, upirs, vampires and zombies, I believe. Shape-shifters are sort of like werewolfs, but much coller. They don't morf only into wolfs. Each of them can turn into a different animal. Like Curran can turn into a lion. Vampires are a complete mystery to me in this book. I got it that people use then as transport and that each vampie has a psychik link with his rider or something like that. And I know even less about zombies. I'm not sure they even exist in Kate's world. I just remember someone mentioning them. Maybe it was just a joke.

Love interests

Before you try to run away looking at this sub-heading, listen to me. There isn't a lot of romance in this book. We are talking about two kisses. That's all. So there is Crest at first. I never really liked him. As Derek said he is too soft for Kate. I know Kate is strong and can protect herself, but that doesn't mean that she has to go out with guys that can't even throw a punch. I though he was the bad guy in this book and when Kate thought he was I was like: "I knew it! I knew it! HA!" But as it turned out Crest is not even interesting in a bad way. He isn't cool enough to be the villian. THat's all for plain old boring Dr. Crest.
Now lets go to the good stuff. I mean the hot and dangerous Curran. You can't not love him. He isn't the best character in the beginning, but believe me he is a hell of a great one by the middle of the book. I really don't have that much to say about Curran. He is...well, yeah....he is...Curran. That's all. I love him! Do you know where I can buy one? Curran, I mean!
Oh and that moment when he kissed Kate. I will sound like a total fangirl, but it was sooooooo HAWT! Even Kate thought so. I think I was just going to laugh like a psycho when I read it. I was in public so I tried to contain myself. And let's not forget the moment when they wre fighting those vampires and Curran walked through fire TWICE to save her.

The Big Bad Wolf (or Upir! Whatever you like to call it!!)

So this book was all about the murder of Kate's guardian. It's the spark that started it all. And we all want to know who killed him. This book got me foolled. I never guessed that Bono was Roland or however you like to call him. I just though it was Crest. Because, as I said earlier, he is so boring. So when it turned out it's not Crest I was just thinking it's some minor character we have already met, because no author introduces a character in the end of a book. Well, it does happen, but that's called a cliffhanger. Whatever! Back on Bono. So the first time I found out he was the upir I just...I think I screamed a little bit. And what was with him going to Kate half naked. Did he expect to "breed" with her then and there? Probably! Can I be the first one to say: "Ewww!" Yeah, I'm happy he died!

Derek, other characters and The Ending

So, Derek! I liked him as a character. The first time Kate meets him I just wanted her to cut his head off. He behaved like such a teenager. I'm happy he changed and protected her later. I know it was mostly because of the blood oath, but he wanted t help even after Curran released him from it. So I thinkof him as a good guy. Now this Nick guy. I really don't know what to think of him. He wasn't a main character at all and he wasn't that important, but I'll say he is in the miidle. Like 5/10 on the coolness scale.  Now moving on to the end. I loved the end of this book. Curran and Derek were fixing her roof! Come on! That scene just deserves a big grin! And the last words Kate says. This guy on the phone is like: When can you start working? She: Tomorrow! She almost died but she want to go back to business as soon as possible!

I loved this book! I just don't know what to say about it. I know I missed some thing I wanted to talk about in this review, but I'm leaving it like that for now! Go read this book and even if yu don't like it as much as I did, go read the next one and the next one. Because I bet this series gets even better!

Crewel(Crewel world #1) by Gennifer Albin

Incapable. Awkward. Artless.
That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: She wants to fail.
Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen to work the looms is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality. But if controlling what people eat, where they live, and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested.
Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and used her hidden talent for a moment. Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her dad’s jokes. One hour to pretend everything’s okay. And one hour to escape.

Because tonight, they’ll come for her.

Cover:

This cover is so much better than the Bulgarian one. In this one you can see the threads and Adelis's face. The Bulgarian cover is just black with photo a of a red-haired girl that looks like photoshopped!

The plot:

The idea of the book is very interesting and original. I like the main character Adelice. She wasn't annoying or stupid, but the first 75% of the book were slow for me. I'm saying it like there are another 75%! :) But the last part of the book was very very good. And the end was just great. That's how most dystopian books should end. I'm not planning on reading the second book soon, because I have other plans before the year is over.

Jost and Erik:

OK! The one most annoying thing in the book was the potential love triangle. I'm not of big fan of love triangles anyway.
SPOILER!!!
 I'm so happy that Adelice chose Jost. I liked him better the whole time. At least I hope she chose Jost! She did, right? I figured out the two of them were brothers pretty fast. Which made me even more annoyed. A love triangle with two brothers and a girl? So Vampire Diaries style! But I'm happy with the way things closed.
SPOILER STOP!!!
 And my only concern is that Adelice will switch the brothers in the second book. Or worse, that I'll switch teams! I mean, it has happend a lot before.

Emily and Adelice's mother: SPOILERS!!

I have thi little theory that Jost's daughter and Emily are actually the same person. I just have this feeling. I'm probably wrong, but still...Maybe they just remaped Adelice's and her parents' brains to make them thing she is their daughter when actually she is not. That would be cool and strange. And where do you think Adelice's mother is? She is alive for sure, but where can she be hiding.

Hourglass:

Now this mark Adelice's father left on her hand. And hourglass. What do you think it means? I think it's like the symbol of revolution agains Aras. And her father was secretly involved in the planning of the revolution. On the other hand it may mean the Adelice has to save Aras. Sort of, like her time is running out. That's why an hourglass.

 I guess that's all. The book is not bad and in the end it's simply amazing. What do you think? Comment, please!
I'll see ya next time!!