For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The
opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in
a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and
compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her
back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home
to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace
that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the
plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of
may not compare to a future she never imagined. - Amazon.com
Oh boy, where do I begin? I literally devoured this book in a day, it was that good. I had been wanting to read it for a very long time because I met the author in Chicago at a book convention and she cracked me up! I read 'The Chemical Garden' series and loved the concept of them so this was obviously a must read for me. And it was AMAZING! I think the only thing I didn't like was how fast the Maxon and America's relationship happened, but I liked how they interacted with each other. This book had me laughing an don the edge of my seat the whole time. It did remind me a little of 'The Hunger Games' but people are getting annoyed with it being compared to that so maybe I shouldn't say that. I found the characters likeable, especially the different girls who were selected and their different personalities and how they treated America. As for the romance, whenever America and Maxon were together I
rooted for them completely, I like them together because they have the same personality and I personally don't like Aspen much. I liked that it kept me on my toes and it was a
love triangle that did not annoy me. I can't wait to find out what the rebels have in store for Illea and what they
are really looking for. I also can't wait to see who America chooses, of course and I'd like to hear more from and about May Singer, she was ADORABLE.
All in all, I loved this book and can't wait for paperback because I NEED to finish it!
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly
plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch,
waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen
with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her
stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome
Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic
struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty
and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her
world’s future. - Amazon.com
I have wanted to buy this book for a very long time and now that I finally have it, I can honestly say that I LOVE this book and everything about it. I love the whole concept of it all and the characters and the descriptions she gives. I loved all of the characters, especially Iko, and it was nice to have one of the stepsisters on the nice side and it was nice to have them with life in them. I'm excited to see how their relationship with Cinder continues through out the books. I also loved Price Kai and how he took time to come and see her and not get all caught up in the royalty and himself.
This book was sort of predictable for me, I saw it all coming which kind of sucked but that's alright I still loved this book! Throughout the book, I couldn't enough of Cinder's world. I wanted to know why
everything was the way it was as well as more about the mysterious and deadly
Lunar and their society. While everything wasn't reveled in Cinder, Marissa
Meyer did a fabulous job of slowly doling out the necessary tidbits, ones that
always came at the most perfect of times and always left me craving for more,
more, and more! I also enjoyed that this book contained a slow burning romance
instead of insta-love, because not only did it create for a more believable
relationship, but it also allowed for other important plot parts to take center
stage. I absolutely loved this debut and cannot wait to read the rest of this series. I
flew through this book and had such trouble putting it down; I was actually
really surprised at how quickly I got through this novel because this font is on
the small side and it is 400 pages long. But Meyer's prose flowed so well and
her characters were really interesting.
I most definitely recommend it!
Meet Raine Renning, your average teenager and her Twin
brother, Thomas. Their lives are pretty normal - if you count moving from house
to house, and town to town normal. Since the death of their father
Leland, their mother Tori has shown her true colors. On their 18th
birthday Tom decides to have his ex-girlfriend, and best friend, Christie come
over for a small party and give Raine her gift - the one that will change all of
their lives forever. A book - While reading it and joking around they're
mysteriously pulled within it's cursed, bound pages and told of the prophecy
they are to fulfill. Vampyre's. Faerie's. Lycan's. Creature's they
thought were only stories take their places as the Renning's Guardians, from
Region to Region they learn more and more about it. Dragon's. Human's.
Nephilim. Now, if only they can figure out how to take down four god's in
the middle of this entire mess, and still save their world from destruction -
Oh, and don't forget choosing what immortal creature to become... - Amazon.
My Review I really liked this author. Leah is really nice and really sweet and funny too. I'm happy she had me read this book and review it for her because it really really is an amazing book. Reading it, I can completely agree with others, that I definately was taken to another world. Lots of characters and I loved them all - especially Lupus. He made me giggle. I loved this book, it had funny moments and serious moments and a great story line. I can't wait for it to continue. There was always something happening so I wasn't ever bored with it, and it wasn't really a 'love story' like most books these days, kinda short but still great. I'd love to read more of her books, her writing is amazing. :)
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. A botched effort
to create a perfect race has left all males born with a lifespan of 25 years,
and females a lifespan of 20 years--leaving the world in a state of panic.
Geneticists seek a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans
crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are
being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. When Rhine is sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Yet her
husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself
to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth
and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to
ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not
everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her
father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding
corpses in the basement; her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and
feared the next; and Rhine has no way to communicate to her twin brother that
she is safe and alive.
Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape
just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral
into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom? - Amazon
My Review I started this book earlier in the year and stopped because someone else had wanted to read before they moved. It was hard to give it up but in the end I gave in. I am just now done with it and I can't even explain how much I loved it. The first paragraph is chilling and the author certainly has a way with words
("They keep us in the dark for so long that we lose sense of our eyelids"). I liked how the characters and situations in this story were not simply good or
bad but various shades of grey. Housemaster Vaughn is a villain but the purpose
behind his horrific acts is to find a cure, an ends justifies the means kind of
guy. Even though Rhine was forced to become part of a polygamous lifestyle, she
uses Linden to make her own life more comfortable. It was interesting to see how
inner morals either bend or break when survival is at stake. There isn't
much of a love triangle between Rhine, Linden and Gabriel in the usual sense but
that's a good thing. I did wish that Rhine would have stayed. I didn't really like Gabriel. Linden was so innocent, couldn't she see that? It really wasn't that bad, to me and Linden's father was weird... he left me quite curious and wanting to know what he meant. Linden had really started to love her and care. Rhine should have told him what happened to the other girls who didn't make it. What happened to Rose after she died. Maybe she does in the sequel, I don't know but I'm veeeeerrrrrryyy curious to know what happens! I saw that most people didn't like it - but I, myself loved it.
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five
factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the
honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful),
and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all
sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of
their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and
being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that
surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames
herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice
they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance
and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As
initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really
are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes
exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret,
one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death.
And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her
seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save
those she loves . . . or it might destroy her. - Amazon
My Review If you read my other reviews, you know I LOVE dystopian genre. This book seriously kept me up all night. I couldn't stop reading it. And when I actually had to stop - it was all I could think about. Tris (Beatrice) drew me into her world quickly and I enjoied every minute of it. I loved the Dauntless and I especially loved Four. I loved how daring Tris was and how she was willing to do anything. She was so brave! I actually met Veronica at an RT booklovers convention in Chicago and she was really nice, I only wish I had known and read her book before I went so I could tell her how much I love her book! I finished it a few nights ago and I'm in NEED of the next one! I'm so curious and excited to see where everything goes. The entire book is action-packed with a satisfying but not overwhelming romance,
funny, and has snide remarks. It's a great book for those who love the Hunger
Games. There
are plenty of twists that keep you guessing and new obstacles to overcome
throughout the entire book. I had read some of the Uglies series a while ago and I connected it to that with the daring people and jumping off of trains.Unique book and had my absolutely hooked from the start, and sometimes you may find Tris unlikable for walking away at times when she
could've reached out, but I find it realistic that she sometimes chooses to
harden herself for emotional protection. She had me all, "WHAT!? WHY!?" But it made sense. Great book, can't wait 'till I can try and get the next one!
For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she
wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath,
she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she
thought. Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the
roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous
and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking revelation: Someone she loves
will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara
knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning. - Amazon
My Review
Of course - I adored the second book to the 'Unearthly' series!! This book tells and reveals SO much more and I love it. It made me cry though. It was weird, while reading this book I felt as though whoever died in the book died in my life and I balled when I finished the book. Which is so strange, I was THAT attached. Clara never got a break it was problem after problem and I felt bad for her. Unearthly focused on her purpose and in Hallowed it focuses more on family and I liked that. I can't get over this book, I'm already reading another book and I still feel upset over it. Cynthia- you are an amazing writer. Seriously. I cannot WAIT for 2013. The ending was - AH! So much information and I have to wait that long?! Haha, amazing book and I'm excited for number 3!
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle
Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her.
The Vampire Diaries: The Fury and Dark Reunion
Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired. Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all—whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realize that his brother is not his only enemy. Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one final battle?
The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall
To save the two vampire brothers who love her, Elena Gilbert sacrificed her life. Now that a supernatural force has brought Elena back from the dead, all handsome, brooding Stefan wants is to keep her safe. But when he is lured away from Fell's Church, sleek, powerful Damon seizes his chance to win Elena over, unaware of the danger they're both in. A malevolent being has infiltrated the town and is growing stronger. Able to possess Damon at will, the creature is also drawn to Elena and the new power she has acquired. But it's after more than Elena's power: It thirsts for her death
The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls
On the run... Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and
imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell's Church. In order
to find him, Elena entrusts her life to Stefan's brother: Damon, the handsome
but deadly vampire who wants Elena, body and soul. Elena will stop at nothing to free Stefan. Yet with each passing day the
tension between Elena and Damon grows, and she is faced with a terrible
decision: Which brother does she really want?
Back in Fell's Church, Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has taken
over the town. Their research leads to some dire discoveries, and soon they are
caught up in Elena's most dangerous adventure yet!
With the help of charming and devious Damon, Elena rescued her vampire love,
Stefan, from the depths of the Dark Dimension. But neither brother returned
unscathed. Stefan is weak from his long imprisonment and needs more blood than
Elena alone can give him, while a strange magic has turned Damon into a human.
Savage and desperate, Damon will do anything to become a vampire again—even
travel back to hell. But what will happen when he accidentally takes Bonnie with
him?
Stefan and Elena hurry to rescue their innocent friend from the Dark
Dimension, leaving Matt and Meredith to save their hometown from the dangerous
spirits that have taken hold of Fell's Church. One by one, children are
succumbing to demonic designs. But Matt and Meredith soon discover that the
source of the evil is darker—and closer—than they ever could have imagined...
The past is never far...
Elena Gilbert and her friends saved Fell’s Church from evil spirits bent on
destroying it, but the town’s freedom came at a price: Damon Salvatore’s life.
Damon’s death changes everything. He and his vampire brother, Stefan, had
been locked in a vicious battle for Elena’s heart. Now that he’s gone, Elena and
Stefan can finally be together. So why can’t Elena stop dreaming of Damon? As
Elena’s feelings for Damon grow, a new darkness is brewing in Fell’s Church.
Elena has been to hell and back, but this demon is like nothing she’s ever seen.
Its only goal is to kill Elena and everyone she loves.
I absolutely adore these books, all of them. I figured this would be easier than making multiple blog posts. I love the story line, the love trianlge, the characters, the suspense. Katherine will always be a favourite of mine and I will always love Damon - though it's hard to choose. The books are FAR better than the show. Although it's fun to see your books come to life and see how they interact, they never stay true to the books which I suppose is understandable. In the show- I hate Stefan. Hate him so much. He's SO mean, while in the books he's sweet and loving and caring. This is a great series and I'm so glad that it's continuing and I encourage anyone and everyone to read the books. They're really great.
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