REVIEW: Life and Death by Stephanie Meyer - Valeria

Rate: 2.5/5

Yeah, no. 

I was very excited for this for one reason and one reason only... I am a twilight fan. 

I really am, but this whole re-imagined thing just was NOT for me. 

Oh how I wished that she had released Midnight Sun u.u

She changed a few things around, so that was good, it wasn't an exact copy of the first one

When they first meet, things are still okay with me, a 4 could still be handed out, I wanted to continue reading it.

But as things went on.... Yeah... no.. That changed. Edward Beau just seemed really whiny to me in a way that Bella didn't

I don't know if its because Bella was strangely poetic and used all these smarts words and stuffs xD and Beau wasn't like that, he was more.... Average than she was. Or if overall the human character of this book was whiny.

All I know is that I was reading this book, wishing I could go back to the original.

MAYBE it could be that I tend to put myself as the characters and simply could not visualize having to save and follow someone and do all of the things that Edyth did. It all the depends on the type of person you are or the type of life you live I guess.

I am more of a Bella than an Edyth xD

Bellas Beau's friends got in my nerves ssssooo much ! They are pretty much bullies, before, it all just seemed like the girls were hurt about this crush that did not pay attention to them but when it turned to guys, they just seemed so possessive and not just crushing. Which I guess is the point of why Meyer switch genders, to get over that... But I couldn't. I seriously could not see them more than being possessive of the girls they liked. 

The ending... I don't want to spoil the ending because the ending IS different than the original book and it DOES openly tell you that there wont be anymore. I WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!!!

But anyways... NO 

what the actual ... was that! It was... I can't say shit without spoiling it. But I am just very pissed about it 

IT IS CRUEL! There I said it

Recommend it?

..... Stick to the original >.> So no.

REVIEW: Wink, Poppy, Midnight by April

Title: Wink Poppy Midnight

Genre: WEIRD

Author: April Genevieve Tucholke

Publisher: Dial

Publication: March 22nd 2016

Cover Rating: 5/5

Goodreads | Amazon

It took me a month to read Wink, Poppy, Midnight even though it was a VERY tiny book. I have no idea why it took me so long but after page 115 I just plowed through it. I don't know if that's because it got interesting or because I really wanted it to be over with. 

This book was one of those really weird whimsical stories that make you think of fairytales. This book was no fairytale. It was extremely eccentric and not in an entirely good way. The characters were unique, to say the least. But the story surrounding these characters wasn't very good or easy to follow. 

I really tried to love this book and the plot and the characters but, in the end, the only good thing I had to say was that the cover is pretty. 

My review for this book isn't positive but I can say that I believe readers who liked We Were Liars might find something good from Wink, Poppy, Midnight.

Overall, I gave the book 2/5 stars.

As I Read Review: And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich

11/03/2016

4:05 pm:

I am going into this book with the hopes that is is creepy as fuck. I have the UK copy as well and the title for that is The Creeper Man and the cover is creepy as hell. I will add that cover below this but I am hoping for spooky. I am tired of pussified horror books. Okay, LETS GO!

(uk cover)

9:20 pm:

What the actual fucktits am I reading? Her other book was a bit weird too but at least I could follow the plot. This book is weird as hell. 

9:52 pm:

Uhh is this book supposed to be like a story about slenderman? If not then uhhh yeah i dont know what to say. This has to be some sort of weird slenderman fanfic.

11/04/2016

12:53 pm

So, yeah. This author definitely played too much slenderman. I am actually kind of regretting picking this book up because I am worried any future books from her might not be good. The Dead House was actually interesting and good but this book is just a jumble of shit. 

4:12 pm: 

Okay, it is starting to get a tiny bit better and there are some confusing things that are becoming clearer but I am almost done the book and it took this long to make sense. How annoying.

4:29 pm:

Alice in creeper land lol. Makes me think of minecraft and alice falling down tons of holes haha

4:45 pm:

Hmm soo. you think you were 9 or 10 when you went to the museum but then you say "it looks big to a seven year old" talking about yourself. hmmm author error?

7:35 pm:

The book has taken a turn. It isn't scary but it is sad. Also, I listened to as little of the audiobook and the person who narrated it is amazing at it.

8:00pm:

Well, that was a weird ending. I kind of expected it though. I am disappointed that it took nearly the entire book before it got interesting. I liked the ending but that is not enough to bring my rating up much. 

REVIEW: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee - Valeria

Rate: 5/5

Goodreads Description:

New York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough.

Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.

A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose.

Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.

Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.

Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one?

Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.

And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.

Debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….

Lets take a moment to appreciate this absolutely gorgeous cover!

Yeah?

Moment over.

I really loved this book, particularly the end. I feel like I say this with so many books, that I loved them but that if because I tend to read books that I am excited about and know im going to love or are super hyped. Anyways, I was super excited about this because it all seemed super Gossip Girl-ish and I am a huge fan of Gossip Girl

The whole world of the tower is just super cool but scary to me, like some people dont leave the tower at all, there is absolutely everything in this tower, even fake parks and sunlight, like I cant begin to comprehend how this thing was built and how massive it would look like in real life!

Which also leads to the whole, what sort of things must happen inside of this tower.

There is drama of all sorts, stealing,cheating, drugs, alcohol, incest, and good old basic lying.

It started with the fall, goes back some time until the time of the fall and the funeral. The whole time you are reading this is makes you wonder oh my gosh, who is going to fall and you think you know or you want it to be a specific person because you hate them but in the end, you are just as surprised as the person who actually falls!

I was hooked from page 1 and by god you will be too!

Katharine McGee, you did it, you have made the book that  I will not shut up about just as I wouldnt shut up about Gossip Girl until I finished it.

Recommend it?

Yes, for all and all Gossip Girl fans

As I Read Review: Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland - EXPLICIT!!!

When I read a book I always have this like running narrative in the back of my mind yelling at the book or swooning over it. I thought, why not put those thoughts to good use? So here I am. I will follow the progress of a few of the books I read each month and do one of these for it. I will also write a more professional review and post that separately. But since these are going to be my raw thoughts there will be chaos and a lot of cussing. Did I mention cussing? Yeah... Lots of that. So the first victim is... Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland. 

9:10 am:

So I got to my sisters house and after getting 40 pages into the book I put it down and start cussing and writing some of my bookish friends bitching about how everyone is trying to be the next John Green. Just fucking stop it. 

11:42 am:

WHAT THE FUCK!!! This manic pixie dream girl shit is really getting old. Like being different than other girls is this super amazing thing and you get this title along with it. It's like telling someone you don't like rap music or popular tv shows. OMG really?! You are so different from any girl I've ever met. Well, honestly, if girls like that, sadly I am in this category and it took until today to realize that, are so rare... Why are there so many books, movies, shows, etc with a MPDG as the female lead? 

ALSO why the hell are all the books told from the guys perspective? I'll tell you why. Because guys want these girls. At least in books. This is now how the real world normally is. the weird girl normally gets ignored or bullied. Stop romanticizing this. Being different is great but being coveted in books because you are that different girl is seriously getting old. 

1:48 pm:

"I wanted to know what kind of drunk she was." Uhh... This coming from a guy not even remotely close to the legal drinking age is creepy. 

Aside from the creepy things Henry says, I really like his parents. Makes me think of my parents when I was in high school. 

I am not starting to like this book but... I really like how the teenagers are portrayed. They say fuck and anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron.

1:57 pm:

"She was made of stardust and chaos..." -_-

2:07 pm: 
And that was only the 20th Harry Potter reference.

Ehh... Points for the Dodgeball movie reference.

4:14 am:
I honestly don't know what to think about this book. It's sad but pathetic. It's poetic yet stupidly unbelievable. For every positive thing about this book there are two negative. I just feel like I'm reading Looking for Alaska again. I'm expecting Grace to kill herself. Yes, her name is fucking Grace. Ugh.

5:55 pm:
I finished it. And I hated it but I also saw some good qualities about it too. Everyone grieves in their own way but the situation Grace was in held her back from dealing with loss. It's funny, Henry was the narrator but by the end of the book his character felt sort of unneeded. 

Release Day Review: Unnatural Deeds by Cyn Balog

Title: Unnatural Deeds

Genre: YA Psychological Thriller

Author: Cyn Balog

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Publication: Novemmber 1st 2016

Cover Rating: 5/5

Goodreads | Amazon

Unnatural Deeds has a magnificent cover that will pull you in but it's the story that will make you stay. The author has a way with Young Adult Thrillers. She can turn even the simplest of things into an epic mystery and I couldn't predict what was going to happen. The ending was definitely not what I was guessing it would be.

Victoria has crippling anxiety. Because of this anxiety her parents decided to put her into a private religious school. They thought it would help her. I don't think her parents counted on the fact that Victoria wouldn't make any friends and would eventually be called snotty due to her not talking to anyone. I wonder how her classmates would have reacted had they known her backstory from the day she started at the school

Andrew is Victoria's neighbor and boyfriend. He doesn't like to leave his house. In fact, the only times he DOES leave the house are for Victoria and when his stepfather makes him go hunting with him. Andrew is brilliant. He plays the piano and has the voice of an angel. He would be perfect... If only he could leave his house.

Enter Z. He takes Victoria's "new student" title and sweeps through the school like a tornado. I didn't really like Z at first. He was that cocky, over-confident know-it-all that just really grates on your nerves. But towards the end I start to realize I didn't really dislike him. I disliked the person the narrator was describing. Apparently, he was entirely different.

This book is full of character stories. Z's family story. Victoria's anxiety story. Then we have Andrew's crappy life story. It is also full of extremely fleshed-out characters. Even insignificant side characters seemed important.

The plot revolved pretty much around school, a play and Victoria's inner demons. Oh, and a murder investigation. Each chapter begins with a police interview or an article based around the characters and the plot. But besides those things, it was a very normal plot with love, hate, bullying, rich bitches and pretty much all other high school cliches.

I am just extremely glad that Cyn Balog's books are normally stand-a-lones because of how this ended. If I had to wait to find out what happened, I would go crazy. I do have some questions, like what happened to Victoria after the story ended. Was Andrews mother still with that asshole, even after what happened? UGH! I would also love to know if Victoria was ever diagnosed with any mental illness. She definitely got VERY obsessive and that was on top of her anxiety , which she was medicated for.

Overall, I gave the book 4.5/5 stars.

REVIEW: Armada by Ernest Cline - Valeria

Rate: 2/5

Goodreads Description:

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.

But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.

And then he sees the flying saucer.

Even stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.

No, Zack hasn’t lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. And his skills—as well as those of millions of gamers across the world—are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it.

It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can’t help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little…familiar?

At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read before—one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon

As always, thank you to BloggingForBooks for this review copy.

I simply couldnt find my love for this book and it is a huge shame because I hear nothing but wonders about it and people loving it left and right.

One thing I did really like though is the cover, like holy crap that is a gorgeous cover.

The characters where a bit boring for me, I just couldnt get pulled in by them like I do for most characters, a certain love that grows on you for them, I never got that.

There was something about the editing of the book that also just irked me, I cant pinpoint it maybe I just automatically didnt like the editing because I didnt like the characters? I dont know but I dont have much else to say about it to be honest

Recommend it?

ehh... No