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I was tagged by Birds that ❤ words and Susannevalenti for this challenge. The rules are simple:
This is my quote for day 1. It’s actually a song lyric from Marina And The Diamond’s Fear And Loathing, and its one that I can always relate to.
I now nominate the following people (you don’t have to do it if you have done it already):
Ratings: ★★★★☆
This book started off terribly but got progressively better in the middle, and then went spiraling downhill again in the end. In fact, up until reading the very last chapters, I was ready to give this book four stars–it was even better than The Elite–and I hadn’t been expecting that–but then Kiera Cass had to ruin it with a loosely tied plot.
The Writing: The writing was just as good as the other two books, except that in The One, it was a lot less predictable and a lot more entertaining than in The Elite and in The Selection. Once again, Kiera Cass had me Continue reading “Review: The One (The Selection#3) by Kiera Cass”
Ratings: ★★★☆☆
I have to thank shinichimegumi123 from When Curiosity Killed The Cat for encouraging me to continue with this series, because it did get better, just like she promised it would. Many of the problems I had with the first book The Selection were fixed here, and while this is still not the best book I have ever read, I definitely enjoyed reading The Elite much more than I enjoyed reading The Selection.
Continue reading “Review: The Elite (The Selection#2) By Kiera Cass”
Ratings: ★★☆☆☆
Oookay…where do I start?
I have a love/hate relationship with this book and at the moment I’m leaning towards hate, because even though this book was very well written and works great as a romance novel, in the beginning it promises to be something more than a mere love story, despite what the blurb and the trailer (check it out here) says. And yet, by the time I was done, I realized it had failed to deliver.
Continue reading “Review: The Selection (The Selection#1) by Kiera Cass”
Ratings: 5/5 stars ★★★★★
Parallel universes? That is so Fringe.
I am a huge fan of science fiction–fringe science–in particular, which covers everything from teleportation to reanimation to mind reading to…yep, you guessed it…parallel universes. It’s a concept I am very familiar with, and I also know the main theory behind it so of course, when I heard of Anna Jarzab’s Tandem, I instantly wanted to read it.
Continue reading “Review: Tandem (Many-Worlds Trilogy#1) By Anna Jarzab”
This is certainly not an original idea, but I have been wanting to do this because well–let’s admit it, we all judge a book by its cover–even if it’s just a little bit. Because there are so many gorgeous book covers out there, this is a topic I might be posting every now and then, or at least once a month.
If you see a cover you like just click on the name to visit the book’s Goodreads page.
This week’s top 10 book covers are (in no particular order)–
1) The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkins
Since I am reading this series, I figured I might as well share this video.
Yep. That vid pretty much sums it up. See my review here!
Ratings: 3/5 stars ★★★☆☆
Diana Peterfreund presents you Jane Austen’s Persuasion…with a twist!!
That was my initial reaction, but as it turns out, this book is not as terrible as I thought it would be.
Before I get into this review, let me make it clear that I am a huge Jane Austen fan. That being said, Persuasion is the only book by Jane Austen Continue reading “Review: For Darkness Shows The Stars by Diana Peterfreund”
5 out of 5 stars: ★★★★★
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Without a doubt, the most haunting story I have ever read.
((You can click on the name of the book to visit its Goodreads page, and on the author’s name for more information about the author.))
This book is more than a story about the Second World War. Following the stories of a sixteen-year-old blind Parisian named Marie-Laure LeBlanc and an eighteen-year-old incredibly talented German named Werner Pfennigg, All The Light We Cannot See drives home the senselessness of wars and the loss of innocence and great minds for something as trifle as want of power.