LGBT Challenge 2014: Boy meets boy by David Levithan

So, hey guys! What's up? I finished my first book for the LGBT Challenge. Or should I say did not finish.  Let the SPOILERY review begin!

I decided to pick up this book mainly because it was short. It's like 185 pages. I thought I could start with something short and then get to the longer books. The other reason was because I like David Levithan. I have read three or four books by him and I enjoyed some of them greatly. This one, however I did not.

The other thing is the cover which is really cute and simple and who wouldn't want to own this book just because of the cover.

I love the world David Levithan has created in this book. A town, where gays, lesbians, bi's, drag-queen/quarterback co-exist. We all know this can't/doesn't exist in real life. In real life the ones who are different are bullied. I like how the town reformed the Boy-Scouts, because they didn't accept gay guys and turned them into Joy-Scouts.

The story is told in first person from Paul's POV. Paul is a gay high school student who's dealing with all the "fun" that high school tends to bring, seeing his ex-boyfriend on a daily basis and also falling for the new boy in town. The biggest problem was that I didn't connect with Paul. He was kind of emotionless to me. Also, sometimes Paul would think things that I don't think any other 15-year old thinks:

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.

I like David Levithan, but I feel like in this book he was just trying to force his points too across. They just don't fit in the story.

A person who confused me is Infinite Darlene. Infinite Darlene is one of the school's apparently many transvestites who happens to be both the star quarterback and the homecoming queen. And, no one seems to think twice about it.  I didn't get how some of the boys had a crush on Infinite Darlene and yet they weren't gay.
I couldn't really sink in the story. There were those bits that always made me remember I'm reading a story.
Í guess that's it. I know the review is insanely short. I gave up the book at around 52% so I can't really write that much. I never DNF books. (well apparently almost never.) But then there are those that I just can't read.
That's all. I'll see ya next time.

Ignite me (Shatter me #3) by Tahereh Mafi

OMG! Guys! Guys! Guys! Guys! GUYS! This book! GUYS! That's one of the best books ever! For ever and ever and ever and ever! Stay away from this post! STAY AWAY IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS! SPOILERS!

The heart-stopping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series, which Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, called "a thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love"

Juliette now knows she may be the only one who can stop the Reestablishment. But to take them down, she'll need the help of the one person she never thought she could trust: Warner. And as they work together, Juliette will discover that everything she thought she knew-about Warner, her abilities, and even Adam-was wrong.

In Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi created a captivating and original story that combined the best of dystopian and paranormal and was praised by Publishers Weekly as "a gripping read from an author who's not afraid to take risks." The sequel, Unravel Me, blew readers away with heart-racing twists and turns, and New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia said it was "dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense." Now this final book brings the series to a shocking and climactic end.

Cover

From all the covers I think this one is my favourite. Just look at it. There's the eye and the bird in it. And waht do you think about the line: FEAR WILL LEARN TO FEAR ME! How cool does that sound? And have you noticed? No crossed lines! The line appeared at the end of chapter 16, I think!

Juliette

This book picks up I think a day or two after the end of Unravel me. And it starts good and perfect and fantastic. I really liked Juliette in this book. She was all sorts of badass and cool. No more crossed lines. She is no longer in denial, no longer doubting herself. She is strong and confident and ready to burn down the world. (not literally, of course) I liked that. She was finally ready to fight and take down the Reestablishment, kill Anderson. And in the end! Oh, in the end! I really don't have words for it. When she was on this ship. It was...it was totally awsome. And that thing with the bullets.

AARON *FREAKING* WARNER

I think I'll have a heart attack. Really! Every freaking time Warner was in this book or appeared in a scene or spoke or entered a room or breathed, I was grinning and had breathing problems. (Gergana let out a breath she didn't know she was holding!) And he was in this book a lot. All I wanted to do was go outside and shout: People, it's Warner! Warner's here! Come! Come and see! Warner's here!

 I love the beginnig of the book when Julietter tells him she is ready to fight. Because that's all he wanted. He wanted her to be strong and to reach her full potential. And then he tells her why he did all those awful things in book one and about the simulation. I'm so glad that turned out to be a simulation and he didn't really let this little boy in a room to die. I have to tell you, I didn't like Warner in the first book, but now that he explained all this stuff...I felt so relieved.

And then we have this moment when he visits his mom. That was so sad. I think I cried a bit. At first I thought she had ran away, but then it hit me. She is dead. Poor Warner! And he was just sitting there and crying. SADNESS OVERLOAD!

I loved how Warner decided he wanted to spend some more time with James and Adam, because they were his brothers. I like that Adam and Warner didn't want to kill each other by the end of the book. I can see them having some brother bounding. And I loved this relationship forming between James and Warner.

Adam

Damn you, Adam! I can't believe I was team Adam in Shatter me! How could I? He was the king of assholes in this book. The emperor of Doucheland. The mayor of Assville. Ok, I get it, he is upset. That show can go on for 10 chapters maximum, but not the whole freaking book. Two fights are completely enough, Adam. Ok, you go crazy and say that Warner can't return to your house. Thar's fine. You don't want that evil villian in your house. But then you go off the boat and kick Juliette out! What the hell, Kent? You say you love her and yet you treat her like that. Do you call that true love? Thank God Warner came!

Then Adam get's even more crazy. And decides he can torture Kenji using Juliette's powers. Did you even think what will happen to Kenji? He could have died! He could have FREAKING DIED. And if you couldn't think about Kenji, what about Juliette? Don't you think she will feel guilty for doing this to Kenji? Didn't you think she'll blame herself? Cause, of course she would blame herself! Thank God Juliette chose the perfect moment to start being badass.

At some point of the book I just wanted Adam to die. A very painful, long, suffering death. Or I wish he gets some kind of decease like Warner's mother so every move causes him crazy pain, but he'll have no painkillers and drugs and he will want to die, but he won't be able to. Ok, I'm sorry! It was nothing personal all you Adam fangirls! I'm sorry!

Chapter 55

Ok! I already talked about Warner, but how can I miss chapter 55. This was my favourite chapter in the whole book.  All Warner parts in this book were the best, which basically means the whole book. Tahereh Mafi doesn't write many love scenes, but when she does, she writes them hot and steamy and perfect! Look at chapter 62 from Unravel me and 55 from Ignite me. I don't count the shower scene from Shatter me, because that was Adam.

Kenji

How can you not love Kenji? Kenji is the single most funny character ever. He needs his own book. Tahereh Mafi should write a spinn-off series just for him. (And the spinn-off series needs to have Juliette amd Warner in it.) He needs a girlfriend. I loved his jokes and how he became Juliette's best friend. He was the first to support or the very least understand the relationship between Warner and Juliette while Adam was too busy being a bitch. And I loved this moment when Juliette realised she could control her powers and she rant to Kenji and hugged him and said: Never let go of me! or something like that.

The ending

I want to get back to the part where Juliette was totally badass. I think one of my favourite scenes was the one where they convince the soldiers to fight for them. That was a hell of the show, but it was only the tip of the badass iceberg. Then we have the ship scene. Anderson's soldiers are shooting Juliette with loads of bullets and she is just fine and then this part where she spits out this bullet and thinks: A clever little bullet. And the scene where she shootsAndreson. I feel that Warner should have done that. Or at least he should have been there. She was all like: This is for Adam and this is for Aaron. And then we get to the real ending. That scene where she is searching for Warner and can't se him and then there he is and she trows herself in his arms. And this last conversation: You know the whole world will be coming for us now, right? -I want to see them try. That's how you write an open ending. Perfect and simple. Unlike Requiem's ending which was kind of annoying for me.

That was my gigantic, fangirly review on Ignite me, one of the best books ever! I'll see ya next time!

LGBT Challenge 2014: Sign Up

Hey, guys! So I decided to participate in the LGBT Challenge 2014! It's hosted by Fighting Dreamer and sign ups are open untill November!!

The challenge is to read and review three or more LGBT books from January 1, 2014  December 31, 2014.

Now you must be wondering what LGBT books means. Well, it stands for L(esbian) G(ay) B(isexual) T(ransexual) T(ransgender) Q(ueer) Q(uestioning) I(ntersex) . I decided to participate, because I haven't read that many LGBT books. I think I have read two. One this year and one in 2013.

What do you think? How many books should I read? I think 12! One for each month of the year. And since I missed January (Shame on me!) I'm going to read two books this month. But isn't 12 too much? NAH! I'll try.

I'll see ya next time!

Croak (Croak #1) by Gina Damico

Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape.

But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business.

She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. But Lex can't stop her desire for justice - or is it vengeance? - whenever she encounters a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again.

Will she ditch Croak and go rogue with her reaper skills?

This is the first audiobook I listened to this year. It wasn't very long. 8 hours or something like that. I turned out to be part of a trilogy. But let's start with the book!

 WOW! The book was just.....WOW! I never expected it to be so good. SPOILERS! LOT'S OF THEM!

So, Lex. I want to note that I have never been a problem teen. I never stole anything or bullied anyone. And yet I can understand her. She is doing something bad and she doesn't know why. She knows she is a better person than that. And I know that feeling.

Ok, the plot and the writing style were great. The author has created this whole new world within the normal world. A town full of grim reapers. How cool is that?! I like that she mentions the aether, because I'm very interested in it. It's mentioned in many dystopian and stempunk books. The wrting style....it was good, but there is always this one sentence ''She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding." It was mentioned only once, but it was enought for me. Is it some kind of joke? This is the fifth or the sixth book time I see this sentence or some of it's veriations. Is it because today's generation has major breathing problems.

Driggs! DRIGGS! So he isn't the best male character. But I liked him. He wasn't the typical swoon-worthy guy. And his and Lex's first meeting. WOW! That was so funny. I loved his obsession with spiders. Well, not exactly an obsession, but how many guys do you know who are not afraid, but eager to enter a room full of spiders. And Titanic. He likes Titanic. I laughed so hard at that. I think Lex was going to have a heart attack when she entered that pink room with a giant Titanic poster. I would!

Zara! I never really liked her. Well, exept when I first saw her. Then she saw that Lex was freaking badass and started behaving like a bitch.  And OMG the ending. She was awful. I know she had an abusive father and all, but still....killing peole is just plain cruel and evil. I'm the daughter of a lawyer and a judge and I take murder pretty seriously. Criminals should be left to law and court to deal with. You can't just go around killing people. Well, you can, but it's wrong! Very very wrong. If everyone start murdering whoever they want and go Mara-Dyer style, what will happen? Chaos! CHAOS!

Sorry about that! I told you I take murder seriously. Moving on to Mort. He was probably my favourite character. I would die to have an uncle like him (Or, in my case, any uncle.) He has all those crazy inventions and his house.  I hope he doesn't die later on in the series.

There were other secondary characters and they were quite enjoyable, but I don't really remember their names.

I'll see ya next time with another book review!

Rebel Belle by Rache Hawkins (Realease date: April 8th 2014)

Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts.

Just when life can't get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she's charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper's least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him--and discovers that David's own fate could very well be to destroy Earth.

With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y'all beg for more.

Another Bout-of-books read-a-thon read which I'm reviewing just now. Let's begin!
The cover. Don't you just love this cover? It's so simple and yet so cool. I want this on my shelf and not only on my Kindle. Most of you will probably think: Gah! That's pink. But I like it.
I like how Hakins takes a stereotype and turns it into something great and funny. She makes the characters seem much more real.
I liked Harper. I can't say she is the best character, but she is quite enjoyable. Things got really cool once she got the Paladin powers.  SPOILER: She punched her boyfriend when he was about to hit David! And I laughed so hard the whole cafe heard me!! SPOILER END!
I love David. He is one of the sweetest guys in the Book universe. Of course, in the beginning he was a total asshole, but (as always) you get to like him very very much soon. SPOILER: I love this moment when they are in his room and Harper sees a map and asks: Where is that? And he blushes and is like: The Middle Earth! And also: that kiss! That was so cute. Hence the part where they were about to die! But still! And let's think about all the times they almost kissed. The one that frustrated me was in front of that restaurant. They are just about to kiss and then....A freaking car with a country song blasting from it's speakers passes by. Way to ruin the moment! SPOILER END
The ending was so great. I'm disappointed this book isn't a stand-alone though. There are those loose threads. SPOILER: Like that vision David had where he says Harper killed him. SPOILER END
Of course, in the whole book there is this fight Good VS Evil. SPOILER: So the evil guys succeed in turning David into this all mighty prophet, but I think this is going to be problem in the next books.. Something will go wrong. SPOILER END
I guess that's all I can say for this book! Sorry for all the spoiler sighns. I just wanted this review to be spoilery. I don't know why!

Just one day by Gayle Forman

So to apologise for my long updateless past, I'm posting some reviews today. Maybe I'll even write reviews on Cress and Ignite me, but we'll see about that. Firstly, I want to write reviews on the books I read during the Bout of books read-a-thon, which was a month ago. I know, I know! Sorry again.

Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.

A book about love, heartbreak, travel, identity, and the accidents” of fate, "Just One Day" shows us how sometimes in order to get found, you first have to get lost. . . and how often the people we are seeking are much closer than we know.

This book! OMG! One of the best books ever! Go read it and then come back. I don't advise you to read this if you haven't read the book, because it's SPOILERY!
I love the whole idea of this boook. One decision that changes your wold. One day that transforms you into a new person. For one day you can be whoever you want to be.
Allyson was a lot like me. I know I say that for a lot, but I see myself or people I know in so many characters. I like my things to be in order. I can't go to school without making a minute-by-minute plan. I almost never make impulsive decisions. (Except for books. I'm impulsively buying books all the time. It's turning into a problem already...) And then Alysson just decides to Paris with this guy she doesn't know. I so want to see Paris and London (for the second time) and New York and LA and Moscow and Athens (Bulgaria is so close to Greece and yet I have never been there.) And a thousand other places. But back to the book. So Willem shows Allyson Paris, but not the Eiffel tower or the Louvre.  No, he shows her those secret places the tourist rarely visit. And for me that's a dream come true.
Willem. Willem.Willem.Willem. Don't even make me start. I want this guy's life. He just travels and joins actor troupes. I would totally do that! If I had the guts for it. Or the acting talent.
And then there is this part of the book. The year after that day. Again I have to say I'm a lot like Allyson. I'm the only child (not that my parents ever wanted or tried to have a second one) and all my parents' hopes lay on my back. I have to be a straight "A"  student, I have to play the guitar, I have to learn German and I'll soon have to learn Russian. All kinds of "abnormal" behaviour is forbidden for me. Going to parties, staying out late, getting a dress or a T-shirt that doesn't for in my parents' style.....I can do all those things, but to them it will be strange.
I liked how Allyson had the courange to do what she wanted. She wants to study French and she does. She want to go to Paris and she does. And I loved the ending.
So you get it why I want to do crazy stuff and why I probably never will. And after this (probably very annoying) speech/rant I'm going to stop writing.
I'm sorry. That was stupid. I shouldn't have ranted about my perosnal life like that.
I guess I'll see ya next time.

The murder complex by Lindsay Cummings (release date: June 10th 2014)

Hey, guys! I'm sorry I haven't updated in ages. So I'm wrting this short review now and I hope someone reads it. I just finished reading "Struck by Lightning" by Chris Colfer and I'm not in the best of moods. Books have the power to depress me sometimes. I'll write a short review on it and some other books.
So, the Murder complex! This book is not out yet, so the review is NON-SPOILERY! That's just my oppinion on the characters and the plot and so on. Enjoy!

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.

The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is—although he doesn’t know it—one of the MC’s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?

I read this book on impulse. Mainly because I dreamed about it.I know, I know. Wierd me! But I'm serious. I dreamed the cover of this book. But enough about my wierdness.

The plot is interesting. I can't categorise the book exactly. It's dystopia, but not really. It's set in the future and everything and everyone is controlled. People even have those "bar codes" on their forheads. So you can say the book is a thriller.

The main heroine, Meadows Woodson, was very brutal. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. She was just over-protective. I would be too if I lived in a world like hers. She was ready to do everything for her family and most of all for her little sister. She wasn't bad otherwise.

Moving on to the main male character, Zephyr James. Ok, his name is kind of funny, but it sounds good, at least. I really don't have an oppininon about him. He was, as the premise says, one of the MC’s programmed assassins. He was cute and stuff, but we really don't get to know that much about him. This is more Meadows's story and I hope in the second book, there is more about him.

I'm sorry for the brief review. The book was great and action-packed and I wish I could write more.

I'll see ya next time with another book review!

Bye!