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Monday, October 10, 2011

Across the Universe by. Beth Revis




Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed.
Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant teenage heir.
Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. ~ Summary from bn.com

I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

This is in fact probably the only Semi Sci-fi book I will ever read, despite the fact I absolutely LOVED it.
It got pretty angsty and dramatic at some points, really depressing at others. There were so many emotions flying around in a world where there aren't supposed to be any.  It was awesome.


Wanna know what I found ironic though, Amy was nonessential cargo on the ship. But yet, she's pretty much the most essential person on the Godspeed besides Elder. Irony, gotta love it. And how the people in the mental patient ward were the only sane ones?

But what I didn't get was why Amy NEVER told Elder about what Luthe tried to do to her... I get that Amy was really upset about that, I mean she had EVERY right to be, but why didn't Elder push the envelope on that?... Yeah, you won't get that lil' drabble until you READ THE BOOK! Which all of you should of course. :)

Playlist:
Across the universe - The Beatles (Though I truly, truly prefer the Jim Sturgess version)
Last of the American girls - Green day
Break - Three days grace
I Miss you - Blink-182
Unknown Soldier - Breaking Benjamin
Robot boy - Linkin Park
Jars - Chevelle
Fix you - Coldplay
Bring me to life - Evanescence
The Catalyst - Linkin Park
Fake it - Seether
The Green  Gentlemen - Panic at the disco
Save yourself, I'll hold them back - My Chemical Romance
Roses - Seether


Next up: Carrier of the Mark- Leigh Fallon

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Cloaked by. Alex Flinn

I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all.
It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission.
There wasn't a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened to me is unlike any fairy tale I've ever heard. Before I knew it, I was spying with a flock of enchanted swans, talking (yes, talking!) to a fox named Todd, and nearly trampled by giants in the Everglades.
Don't believe me? I didn't believe it either. But you'll see. Because I knew it all was true, the second I got cloaked. ~ Summary from bn.com

I give this book 2 out of 5 stars...

I'm going to go ahead and say that this book seriously disappointed me. I loved Alex Flinn's earlier books like A Kiss in Time and Beastly, they were original and awesome and I adored them. This one, I don't really even know why I bothered to finish it. I had a clear dislike for it... All the character's were stupid and really under-developed and the plotline was okay, just not interesting or motivating enough to make you want to finish. All the characters were so clueless... It was just like UGHHHHHHH really why didn't you stupid people figure that out like 5 chapters ago!!!!!!

Don't get me wrong this is not the WORST book I've ever read, that would be the House on Mango street - Sandra Ciseneros- aka the school required reading book with no plot and has the main character get raped by a clown- but it truly is not the best either...

No playlist for this one guys... Sorry.

Silence by. Becca Fitzpatrick

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They’ve overcome the secrets riddled in Patch’s dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty, and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in each other, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they’ve worked for—and their love—forever. - Summary from Amazon.com 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars, because it truly, truly has earned it!

Silence is the third book in the ever so amazing Hush, Hush Saga and it rocked my Christmas penguin socks off!
Okay since I happen to be a super nerd (Da na na na na), I must explain all of the titles meanings in regards to plotline.

Hush, Hush - It's like they're trying to keep a bunch of secrets quiet, ya know? Like shut up or I'll use you as a human sacrifice! (Despite the fact that, that truly was not the reasoning behind that little piece of plotage). Everyone has something that they're hiding from somebody else.

Crescendo- A steady increase in force or intensity. In Musical terms, your sound starts out pretty softly then gradually grows louder and louder throughout the Crescendo. At the end of the Crescendo the sound is so amazingly loud that you can hardly believe it was soft to begin with. It's a great foreshadow for this story. It begins very, very peacefully, Patch and Nora are very happy together, then stuff gets shook up a bit, tensions rise. Old wounds resurface along with old lies and old enemies. And all of this stuff builds up this giant huge sound that has gotta give somebody a migraine... But at least like always Patch and Nora are together, for then...

Silence- Unlike the others, does not start out happily. Nora's memory has been wiped by Hank Miller, Patch is no where to be found for awhile there, meaning at first there's no danger (Patch is still protecting her!!! :] ). But back to the memory wiping, Hank Miller (Pretty much the worst Dad I've ever heard of) erased every single memory Nora possessed of Patch and kidnapped her for 3 months... Rixon as we all know is very much dead. And Patch/Jev is very much disliked by heaven's angels once more solely because if you remember correctly, he went rogue at the end of Crescendo... 

Dorky name explanation: It's silence because all secrets and all deceptions come clean in this book. And along with all that obviously Nora's mind obviously is pretty silent in regards to her life since the beginning of Hush, Hush... 



Read this book, and the rest of this simply AMAZING series cause, it truly is a book worth reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Playlist- 
Holy image of lies - Sum 41
When they come for me - Linkin Park
Something - Escape the fate 
The only hope for me is you - My Chemical Romance
You make me smile - Blue october
Breath - Breaking Benjamin
Vindicated - Dashboard confessional
Valentine's day - Linkin Park
I will possess your heart - Death cab for cutie
You're Crashing, but You're no wave - Fall out boy
Pictures of you - The last goodnight
Forgotten - Linkin Park
The Silence - Mayday Parade
Ghost of you - My Chemical Romance

Fateful by. Claudia Gray



It's about a servant girl named Tess in 1912, who wants to escape from the house where she works, and most particularly the lecherous young lord of the manor. But that's not her biggest problem. While on a voyage to America, where she plans to escape and start a new life, she meets Alec, who's ruggedly handsome, fabulously wealthy, intelligent and yet so clearly troubled that she'd rather not fall for him, but she does. That also is not her biggest problem. Alec, it turns out, is a werewolf ... one cursed to change every night, unless and until he surrenders his independence and joins the Brotherhood, a pack of violently misogynistic werewolves who have been tracking him for months. You'd think that would be their biggest problem, wouldn't you?

But no. Their biggest problem -- though they don't know it yet -- is that they're aboard the RMS Titanic.  ~ Summary from Goodreads.com


I give this book 4 out of 5 stars!

Holy llamas this book is AMAZING!!!!!!!! You all need to read it like now... Or else! 
This was one of those books that the day it came out I had to buy it and read it THAT DAY. Seriously the second I heard about the book I instantly freaked out, it's werewolves on the Titanic, what isn't there to freak out about?!

The only thing about it that I didn't really like was the fact that the author kept throwing all these exciting little scenes at you to the point of which you were just like WHICH OF YOU IS THE FREAKING CLIMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But that's essentially it, I adored the rest of it. :)


What I really liked about this book was, there was no love triangle, at all. It was kind of an all or nothing in romance Tess and Alec or nothing. It's not like the author threw in some random back up character to be the second choice if Alec or Tess got killed off. No, it's like if Alec or Tess die, that's it no backups to turn to. They're eachothers one shot at love. Forever.

Playlist -   
MY HEART WILL GO ON(タイタニック) by ニコチン
The messenger - Linkin Park
Reverse the Curse - Escape the fate
Disenchanted - My Chemical Romance 
Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
The flood - Escape the fate
You already know what you are - A Day to Remember
I'll follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie
Robot boy - Linkin Park
Broken - Seether
World - Sick Puppies
The little things give you away - Linkin Park 
                       




I really would love to elaborate but... I believe that is in fact the books job. ;)
~Em

Saturday, September 24, 2011

All you desire (The eternal ones #2) ~ Kristen Miller

Haven Moore and Iain Morrow have been living a blissful life in Rome, an ocean way from the Ouroboros Society and its diabolical leader. But paradise is not to last. The mysterious disappearance of Haven's best friend, Beau, sends the pair running back to New York, where they encounter the Horae, an underground group of women who have spent centuries scheming to destroy Adam Rosier. Only they can help Haven uncover the secret to Beau's whereabouts in one of her past lives. But their help comes at a price: Haven must infiltrate the Ouroboros Society, charm Adam Rosier, and lure him into a trap. It's a plan the Horae believe will save the world-but Haven and Iain fear that it may destroy the happiness they've been chasing for two thousand years. ~ Summary from Goodreads.com


I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 


Yes, I was serious about the whole, I shall read the sequel part, (despite Haven's happy ending I just had to see if it was possible have an even happier one).
This book DID NOT dissapoint, the only reason for the four stars is because it tends to stick to the normal plotline for a sequel ya know? Distrust, loss of faith in someone, etc. Which is all cleared up before the end. Don't get me wrong I ADORED this book.
In this amazing sequel you find out more about Haven and Iain's countless past lives, Beau's role in them, and a lot more about the character of Adam Rosier. Adam Rosier, is in fact a very, very confusing character. He kinda plays the role of, I hate to say this but, the temptress. He offers up anything anyone could ever want to someone solely to either destroy or end up using someone. But yet in this book, he seems to change, to be a better man. (But remember he's still the temptress!)


The Horae also are a pretty confusing set of characters they're a set of 12 "sisters" who have been reincarnated countless times in order to help the world stay at a balance. According the sisters, in their first lives they were all actually sisters who all lived together peacfully, until Adam Rosier came into the picture ofcourse, he wronged them to the point of which all 12 of them were thrown out onto the streets and stoned to death. Their sole mission in their lives is to lock away Adam Rosier so that the world can be at peace. Adam Rosier is chaos and the Horae is light, but you know what they say. In darkness there is light and in light there is darkness.



Playlist~

Holy image of lies - Sum 41
Calling you - Blue October
Never give in - Black veil brides
Anthem of angels - Breaking Benjamin
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Oh Well, Oh Well - Mayday Parade
Everything you want - Vertical horizon
Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World
Mastermind - Mindless Self Indulgence
Valentine's day - Linkin Park
Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
Iridescent - Linkin Park
Sleep - My Chemical Romance






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Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Eternal ones by. Kristen Miller



Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother's house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again.
~Summary from Goodreads.com

I personally give this book five out of five stars.


I cannot even begin to describe how much I adored this book! It has so many twists and turns in it that it just keeps you on your toes the whole time. It definitely was not one of those books where you had the ending figured out halfway through. It kept you guessing and screaming at the book I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HAPPY ENDING I WILL... Probably read the sequel? Yeah it's a pretty fantastic I spent all of yesterday reading it and all of today reading it's superb sequel All you desire.
I don't want to spoil any part of this fantastic book for anyone so I shall not go into detail about said AMAZING book (Because if I mention details I will most likely ruin an amazing book for all of you).

Actually... I will attempt to vaguely describe the book.

Haven Moore grew up in Snope city, Tennessee which wasn't known for anything. Ever. It's inhabitants know way to much about one anothers personal lives and judge all them hypocritically. To be different is to be condemned. So when Haven begins to have flashbacks of another life in New York city back in the 1920's can you guess what happens? They all make her life a living hell and claim that she has been possessed by Satan. But at least she has one ally in Snope City,  her best friend Beau Decker who she became friends with shortly after becoming a social reject. I don't know why but the way they meet is cute I personally think.

Beau shows up to school with a barbie lunchbox (very shiny, very new, very picked out on his own) and gets into a fight with another boy because he got called a derogatory word for gay. And in the midst of the fight Beau's lunchbox gets beat up and covered in crappy cafeteria food so once Beau and the boy get hauled to the principal's office Haven takes it upon herself to go to the bathroom rinse off his lunchbox and try to fix the dents the best she can. And then she goes and brings it to Beau to cheer him up while he waits outside the office for his Dad. They had been best friends ever since.

I'm not even going to begin discussing Iain Morrow (insert swoon here) because then I shall most assuredly ruin the book for everyone in existence. But I would like to go ahead and say that he is the one of most amazing, awesome, and swoon-worthy characters I have ever read about. 

I cannot emphasize this enough. READ.THIS.BOOK.

Songs to listen to while reading this book:
Everything is alright - Motion city soundtrack
Robot boy - Linkin Park
I'll follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie
Always running out of time - Motion city soundtrack
Northern Downpour - Panic at the disco
Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
Save you - Simple plan
Broken - Seether
The messenger - Linkin Park

I now would like to take the time to inform all of you that your comments = more book reviews/ suggestions :)