Showing posts with label mortal instruments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortal instruments. Show all posts

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








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.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Most Anticipated Books of 2016

Hurry Up and Release It! YA 'Can't Wait' Novels of 2016. The books We All Are Dying to Read!




Number 1. 


The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) by Maggie Stiefvater

Expected Publication: April 26th 2016

Goodreads: The Raven King

Number 2.

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) by Sarah J Maas

Expected Publication: May 3rd 2016

Goodreads: A Court of Mist and Fury




Number 3.

Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) by Victoria Aveyard

Expected Publication: February 9th 2016

Goodreads: Glass Sword

Read my non spoiler review on the first book Red Queen here: Red Queen

Number 4.

Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

Expected Publication: January 5th 2016

Goodreads: Passenger





Number 5.

The Crown (The Selection #5) by Kiera Cass

Expected Publication: May 3rd 2016

Goodreads: The Crown

Can We All Appreciate the Cover for a Moment?



Number 6.

The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) by Rick Yancey

Expected Publication: May 24th 2016

Goodreads: The Last Star





Number 7.

Empire Of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) by Sarah J Maas

Expected Publication: September 6th 2016

Goodreads: Throne Of Glass 5
Number 8. 

The Midnight Star (The Young Elites #3) by Marie Lu

Expected Publication: 2016

Goodreads: The Young Elites 3


      



Number 9.

Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire #6) by George R. R. Martin

(Not very sure about this one)
Expected Publication: 2016 (?)

Goodreads: The Winds of Winter


Number 10.

Lady Midnight (The Dark Artificesity #1) by Cassandra Clare

Expected Publication: March 8th 2016

Goodreads: Lady Midnight





Number 11.

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Expected Publication: November 8th 2016

Goodreads: Heartless





Number 12.

The Winner's Kiss (TheWinner's Trilogy #3) by Marie Rutkoski

Expected Publication: March 29th 2016

Goodreads: The Winner's Kiss





Number 13. 

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) by Sabaa Tahir

Expected Publication: August 30th 2016

Goodreads: A Torch Against The Night





Number 14.

Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy #3) by Pierce Brown

Expected Publication: February 9th 2016

Goodreads: Morning Star





Number 15. 

The Rose and the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn #2) by Renee Ahdieh

Expected Publication: May 3rd 2016

Goodreads: The Rose and the Dagger





Number 16.

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) by Leigh Bardugo

Expected Publication: September 22nd 2016

Goodreads: Crooked Kingdoms



Number 17.

Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy #3) by Sally Green

Expected Publication: March 29th 2016

Goodreads: Half Lost





Number 18.

The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire #1) by C. J. Redwine

Expected Publication: February 16th 2016

Goodreads: The Shadow Queen





Number 19.

Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1) by Susan Dennard

Expected Publication: January 5th 2016

Goodreads: Truthwitch





Number 20.

Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman

Expected Publication: February 9th 2016

Goodreads: Blackhearts

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

“The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.” - Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen


17-year-old Mare is waiting for the day when she is conscripted into the army the same way her older brothers were before her. She knows that her conscription is inevitable, even while she doesn’t want to fight a war for the Silver-bloods.
When her best friend loses his job and is also headed for the army, she knows that she has to do something to save the both of them.
Can Mare really save herself from conscription? Or are there worse fates in store for her?

This was an okay story, but I lost interest.

This one took some time for me to really get into and enjoy. I think there was a lot of build up from friends who OMG LOVED IT. My expectations were really high and the story lacked a spark that I was looking for. 

I have so many mixed feelings about this book. This story has been so over-hyped lately so I was expecting this book to easily become one of my new favorites and it was just okay. This book was really difficult for me to get into, it was very slow in the beginning and for the first 100 pages I wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to get into it. 

I  love a great romance as much as the next girl (in fact romances are my favorite!) but I guess I just don't like them as much in this type of novel. Maybe it's because the romance aspect feels teeny boppy and immature since the protagonist changes her mind so often about who she may or may not love? It boggles my mind how easily they fall in and out of love. I just don't get it. 

The ending to this was again, predictable, and slow. I was glad about certain aspects, but I still had trouble staying focused. I’m not sure if I want to read the next book in the series. But there was also some great storytelling to keep me interested in a second book. I don't really know.
 I can understand why people love it and I get the appeal, but it was a miss for me.