Sunday, January 31, 2016

6 Book I Want To REread In 2016

                                                     
1. Fallen by Lauren Kate (Fallen #1)


Luce is Daniel's soulmate. A real soulmate. But what if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

First, Daniel is an angel. And not just any. The fate of the world lies on his shoulders. If he chooses the dark side, evil wins. But if he chooses the side of God, good wins. But it's never as easy it looks like.

Second, everytime they kiss, Lucy dies. Until now.



2. The 100 by Kass Morgan (The 100 #1)


No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. 

After a nuclear war, people tried to live in a space. But now their oxygen supply is reduced. And one hundred juvenile deliquents are being sent down. To recolonized the home. But the longer they are home, the more they realize, that someof them, could have never leave.



3. The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (Mara Dyer #1)


Imagine how it could to be to kill people with your mind. Have you got a bad grade on your test? Just imagine the teacher being hit by a car. And the theacher would be hit by a car. 

Mary Dyer has that gift. Or a curse. She believes that after everyting that has happened to her, after being almost raped by her boyfriend and the whole building subsequently knocking down, killing her friends, she can never love again. She's wrong. 


4. Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (Halo #1)


3 angels are sent by Heaven to bring good back to a world that is falling under darkness. 

But then Bethany meets Xavier Woods, and neither one of them is able to resist the attraction between them. 

Gabriel and Ivy do everything in their power to intervene, but the bond between Xavier and Bethany seems to be strong. 

An Angel is sent to Earth on a mission. But falling in love is not part of the plan.

5. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (All Souls #1)

World of witches, daemos and vampires.

Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at heart of it. 


Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. But Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library



6. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Disaster #1)



Abby Abernathy begins to attend collafe far away from her home, to forget about the past. She runs away from her family, that due to alcohol and gambling, has made her life hell, and she tries to be exemplary student.

Travis Maddox's nickname is MadDog, and for his tuition he earns a fistfight. He has a reputation as the greatest seducer of women at university.

Travis and Abby attrackt each other, but they convince everybody, and each other, that of their friendship never made love. But then Abby looses bet and so she has to live with Travis for a month. Passion can no longer be masked by friendship

Thursday, January 21, 2016

The Avengers BOOK TAG

IRON MAN
The First Book In the Series

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Choosing the book because of the movie that just came out and (despite little issues with it) freaking adored!!

HULK
A Book That You Can't Talk About Because It Would Make You Angry. And People Wouldn't Like When You're Angry

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Probably the biggest disappointment of 2015 for me. But still looking out for the sequal :)


"Skipping Captain America because I don't read historical fiction as mush as I  wish I could"

THOR
 A Book Based On Mythology Of Any Kind

A Court Of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J Maas



BLACK WIDOW
 A side character you wish would get their own movie or book

Alex Sheathes from Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Okay he's not a "side character" but have a chance to see what happened to him during the second book? I would kill for it! Just imagine it guys.. 
HAWKEY
 A Book You Love But Everyone Else Seems To Dislike

Fallen by Lauren Kate




NICK FURY
 A Character With Ton Of Sass

Adrian Ivashkov from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead





QUICKSILVER AND SCARLET WITCH
 A Book With A Great Sibling Relationship

For this one I have to go with June and Metias from Legend by Marie Lu. Adored their relationship since book one till the end.


PHIL COULSON
 A Book You Wish Would Be Adapted For The Big (Or Small) Screen

The Selection by  Kiera Cass

I feel like the sries would make such a great TV show!! And seeing Maxon on TV? Yes please!

LOKI
 A Villain You Can't Help But Love

Darth Vader 

Sorry, can't remember any of the villain I love but Vader? He. Is. My. Soulmate. I can't even imagine that someone can hate him. He is..THE Villain. The Villain of all villains. The King of villains. 
BONUS: ANT MAN
 The Next Book On your TBR

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Monday, January 11, 2016

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

"It takes a lot of guts to do what she did. To just end it, not knowing what's next? Not knowing if there's anything next? It's easier to go on living a life without any life left in it, than it is to just say 'fuck it' and leave. She was one of the few that just said, 'fuck it'. And I'll commend her every day I'm still alive, too scared to do the same thing." -Colleen Hoover, Hopeless 


This was my first Colleen Hoover book. I know.... GASP! Hopeless was amazingly perfect. I loved it! I am sort of at a loss as to how to actually write a review for this book. First, the book is indescribable. Second, there are so many great reviews out there already. Alas, I will give it a go...... I will try to convey what a beautiful and fantastic experience it was reading such a treasure of a book. 

This is such a heartbreaking story. Yet, it does contain some beautiful moments of joy, swoony love and real honesty. That’s what I preferred the most actually; how honest the main character was with us. She isn't that kind of NA main character that lies to herself all the time and makes us roll our eyes because we obviously know that she loves the guy and, even though she says she doesn’t want him, everyone else knows she does as well. 
To be honest, I found the romance a bit too overwhelming by moments, especially right before Sky and Holder became officially a couple and mainly because the secondary characters started to ‘disappear.’ It’s like the author did want to only focus on Sky and Holder’s relationship but it started to, sometimes, feel cheesy and cheesy romance is not of my favorite sorts. 

Linden Sky's life lacks color. Together with her friend, Six, she lives her life. She was branded school slut because she makes out with different boys, but the only reason she's doing that is because she doesn't feel anything with those guys. Just numbness... And she likes not feeling anything at all. Up until she met Holder... 

Dean Holder
He's got a reputation. Not a good one. Sky knows he is nothing but trouble, but her body doesn't give a shit at all. She's so damn intrigued about him. And, as she gets to know him, she realized that not all rumors about him are true. He's got a hot and cold attitude going on. He's passionate, yet intense. But there's something different about him...and soon, Sky feels...and falls...

And so, their story continues...

This book touched in me so many ways! I bawled my eyes out! 
I spent so much time highlighting this book that I realized it was turning into one big highlight. 
Amazon (FREE): Hopeless FREE

Saturday, January 9, 2016

My favourite: Quotes

Please enjoy and make sure you write Your favourite books down bellow :)

"A Fact about world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one know anything about being dead."
- Brooke Davis, Lost & Found

"I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe."
- Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

"-It's over. Go home.
-You're my home."
- Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

"In the fairytales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again."
- Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen


"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
- Lauren Oliver, Delirium

"It takes a lot of guts to do what she did. To just end it, not knowing what's next? Not knowing if there's anything next? It's easier to go on living a life without any life left in it, than it is to just say 'fuck it' and leave. She was one of the few that just said, 'fuck it'. And I'll commend her every day I'm still alive, too scared to do the same thing."
- Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."
- Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours anyway."
- Kiera Cass, The One




"And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing you could be the author instead."
- Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Death

"Imagine the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
- John Green, Looking for Alaska

"-Did you really want to die?
- No one commits suicide because they want to die."
-Then why do they do it?
-Because they want to stop the pain."
- Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star



"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

"The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky... "everything else is a choice."
- Karen Thomas Walker, The Age of Miracles

"You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."
- E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

"Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for."
- Alexandra Adornetto, Halo


"The rest of the world quieted into nothing. In that moment, after ten long years, Celaena looked at Chaol and realised she was home."
- Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

"Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Some thing you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you."
- Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave








Thursday, January 7, 2016

A Court Of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J Maas

"I love you," I said, and stabbed him. 

I'm not going to explain the plot since I'm late to the party anyway, but I will say this: Beauty and the Beast? Check. Badass, funky and incredibly courageous heroine? Check. Lush settings and well-developed world-building? Cheeeeck. Swoon worthy love interest? Double check. Toe-curling, sigh-inducing and heart-breaking romance? Oh, check. Fae, nightmarish creatures and magic? Check check check. I'm telling you, it had everything a good novel should have and then some! It's SJM after all. 

THIS BOOK. Omg, Sarah, what have you done to me? I'm a puddle on the floor. Hands down, one of my favourite books. I adored every last sentence.

Wow. So I expected to at least LIKE this book because it was written by one of my favorite authors... But I never expected to love it. I mean obviously I was hoping it would be awesome, but Sarah J. Maas has already created an incredible series that I'm so in love with, and I can't expect that she would have it in her to create TWO insanely, amazing series. I'm so impressed with her right now... Seriously... Soooo amazing. It's one of those books where now that I've finished it, I just want to go back and start rereading it because I want to stay in this world a little longer I highly, highly recommend this book if you love fantasy.


I was so worried that this book would have a plot too close to
 Throne of Glass and that the characters would also bare that same fate... But thank the literary gods above that didn't happen. Yes, Maas still gives us swoon worthy gents and a strong leading fem, but they are not at all like the cast of ToG. Our leading lass is Feyre, and man oh man did I love her. I loved that though she is strong she isn't doing it for herself or because that's who she is, she's doing to because it's what needs to be done. This is what made her character for me. She does everything for everyone and expects nothing in return. Her character starts as a strong huntress and turns into something more. She has the head strong will of a warrior and the heart of an artist. I loved that Maas gave her so much depth and let us get so deep into her brain that her feelings become your feelings. As for Feyre's love interested she gives us the heart twist-swoon worthy-deep-thoughtful-man candy that is Tamlin. Oh Tamlin will have you weak in the knees and have your loins aflame (seriously blushed so much during this book). He literately has so much weight on his shoulders and still stands tall. He is willing to give up everything to make sure shes okay

A Court of Thorns and Roses exceeded all of my expectations, which is saying a lot considering how ridiculously high they were to begin with. I was actually so happy when I finished this book that I actually hugged it

This could have easily stood it's own as a standalone novel. But I'm excited that it's not because I want more! 

Monday, January 4, 2016

Love Letters to the Death by Ava Dellaira


“May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.” -Ava Dellaira, Love letter to the death

WARNING: This book may cause you to spend a whole day feeling down. 

This is honestly a very hard book to review. It brought out a lot of mixed feelings in me. Reminiscent of Perk Of Being A Wallflower, Love Letters to the Death is too beautiful, too meaningfu, and too heartbreaking to describe with words.  

I fell in love with the idea behind this book before I'd even read it. It is written in the format of letters to dead celebrities, in which the protagonist expresses her thoughts and feelings. It all starts with an assignment for an English class, where Laurel has to write a letter to a dead person. Though she doesn't give them to her teacher, she has a notebook full of letters to dead celebrities about her family, friends and experiences at her new school, as well as her sister May who died young

This is a difficult book to read. And not for any reasons except it was dark and it was sad and some of it felt very lonely. I pictured Laurel sitting in her room or at school writing the letters to famous people who have passed, as she is to scared to share her feelings with the living. It carries such a deep message about family and grief and how it affects you on a whole, and how one eventually overcomes that whilst going through a rough journey. Just beautiful.

Having said that, this book really was touching. I don’t know what it’s like to lose someone but the grief in this book is so profound that I know that I don’t want to know. This book really is powerful.

I would highly recommend Love Letters to the Dead to readers who enjoy Young Adult contemporary/realistic fiction, particularly the more serious kind, and coming of age novels.


By the time I post this review, I will have rewritten it a million times and I still won't be able to convey what I really think about it. Take that to mean what you will. 

Saturday, January 2, 2016

I Was Here by Gayle Forman

"You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them." -Gayle Forman, I Was Here

Well I wasn't expecting to finish this book in one day but HERE WE ARE.
I love Gayle Forman's writing. Her stories are so powerful and interesting to read about. 

Cody is astonished when she discovers her friend Meg has committed suicide. Meg’s parents ask Cody to go to Meg’s school and pack up her thing, which is where Cody discovers Meg held a very different life than the one she told Cody. Due to a weird phrasing in Meg’s suicide note, Cody investigates the circumstances of Meg’s death and discovers she was involved in a chat room where the participants support other users in taking their own lives. Cody becomes obsessed with one user in particular, and thinks they may hold the answers to her friend’s death

 Suicide is a very popular topic in the young adult genre, and normally a topic I stay away from. But when I saw this book with the pretty cover I couldn’t resist.

The plot was very different and unique and it was really interesting, I had to know the ending. The more I read and discovered, the more I wanted to know. It was fast-paced but had so many intense moments. Most of the characters were realistic and I did like Cody. I wasn't too attached to any of the characters. Ben was one of the characters that I felt wasn't realistic at all. All of Cody's other friends were so real and awesome! But at times, I had to stop reading and take a break from the intense situations. 


I had mixed feelings about this book but I learned so much. It was really different and now I know a little bit about those who deal with depression.  This book was really dark and it's not one of those cute contemporary books. 

Basically, I really connected with this book and loved it. I realize this book might not be for everyone, but as I always say about books, you never know until you try.

Some people who reach out for help sometimes reach to the wrong person or place, and it’s important to remember that suicide is not the answer. It gets better, it did for me, it will for you. No matter how you feel, there are people who care about you, whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not.