Review: Wake by: Lisa McMann

Hardcover, 210 pages
Published: March 4th 2008 by Simon Pulse
Source: Bought





For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can't tell anybody about what she does they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can’t control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant

     OK so going into this book I had absolutely no expectations because I heard a lot of bad reviews on this book (and also the whole trilogy). So that being said I did not like this book. I felt lke the writing was off, plot was insane, and the characters felt one dimensional. While reading this book I felt bored and I didn't care what happend next . Which is the exact opposite to how I felt about her other book Cryer' Cross. There is honeslt nothing else I could say about this book. Other than I did not like it.

Bookworm Santa Reveal

Hi this year I participated in a Secret Santa exchange called a Bookworm Santa hosted by Michelle at Book Briefs and Bree at The Magic Attic.

From my Secret Santa I received: Ashes by: Ilsa J. Bick
                                                      Wayward Son by: Tom Pollock
And a $10 Amazon Gift Card.

Thank You So Much

And I sent to Jessica at The Evangeline Lily

Game of Thrones by: George R.R. Martin

This was a really cool event and will definitley be doing it again next year.

Review: Looking for Alaska by: John Green

Published: March 3rd 2005 by Puffin

Pages: Paperback, 221 pages

Source: Bought

 

                         

 

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Oh my goodness!!!!! What else can I say about this book other than that absolutley nothing. I had really high expectations about this book and all those expectations were met. Looking for Alaska has changed the way a lot of people think of other people. It did the same for me. It is set up into two parts the Before and the After.

The writing was beautiful and the way it was only marked by days instead of chapters really added to the story. Getting more and mroe into the story you see more and more of the characters growing. Especially as Pudge and Alaska grow closer and closer as friends and possible after. The way John Green wrote the book when the After happend you start really think of the way you percieve people yourself. And the way it ended with no real wrap up to what happen in between the Before and the After your left to wonder what really happend.

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by: Laini Taylor

Around the world, black hand prints 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 otherworldly 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 one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored 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?


I really wanted to like this book did but it didn't just do anything for me. And I can't quit put my finger on why not none of the characters were bothering me. I think the main problem i was just confused about everything. I found myself wondering all the time what the hell is going on. I think the main reason why is because i feel, and maybe this is just my imagination, that this book is very detailed oriented. I feel as though if you miss one detail you get lost very easily. But maybe its just me I don't know.

The character like I said I really enjoyed. Even all of the non-main characters I enjoyed. Except Razgut he was just plain weird and creepy. Karou and Akiva were amazing together and even apart they are fantastic. I loved Zuzanna she was one of the few good best friends in YA.

The setting both in the normal world and the other world was awesome. Unlike anything I had ever before. And another thing that bothered me was the pacing but that was probably just another detail thing.

Review: Book of Shadows by: Cate Tiernan

• Book of Shadows by: Cate Tiernan (Sweep #1)
• Pub. Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
• Format: Paperback ,192pp

Morgan and her best friend, Bree, are introduced to

Wicca when a gorgeous senior named Cal invites them to join his new coven. Morgan falls for Cal immediately— and discovers that she has strong,inexplicable powers. 

     Book of Shadows is the only witch novel  I have read involving Wicca, and it was very interesting to read about. This book is mainly an introduction novel but the information told in this book is vital for the rest of the series. Even though this book is full of information it captures your interest. Seeing Morgan and Cal's realationship grow and Morgan and Bree's strain you fall more in love with the characters and care more and more for them.

    This ,as I said before, is a great first book in a series and leaves a lot of room for the series to grow.(Along with Morgan's powers.)