Confessions of a Book Addict

Eden at the Edge of Midnight past times John Kerry My rating: 4 of five stars Disclaimer: This mass was sent to me past times the writer inwards telephone commutation for an honest review. Eden at the Edge of Midnight is an adventure storey nearly a teen daughter named Sammy who desperately wants to hold out noticed, in addition to her inadvertent foray into the erstwhile garden of Eden, right away called Perseopia. When a mysterious old adult woman asks her to fit onto a bracelet she claims is magic, Sammy thinks she's weird but doesn't believe her. At first. When Sammy is transported to Perseopia, she meets amongst danger almost at every turn. But a guide a opportunity encounter amongst a dinosaur-like beast named Louis in addition to the human being who lives inwards a household on his back, Mehrak, seems to hold out her entirely hope. Can Sammy come inwards dorsum domicile to what Mehrak keeps calling the Mother World? Or volition she hold out stuck inwards Perseo...

Reached past times Ally Condie My rating: 4 of five stars Reached is the culmination of the Matched trilogy, quite a plumbing equipment halt although non altogether satisfying. I'm giving it iv stars out of 5, exactly because it was quite the trilogy together with well-written, an enjoyable read together with something I'm glad I read fifty-fifty if I didn't genuinely appreciate the concluding book. The mass itself focuses mainly on the Rising infiltrating the Society amongst a plague that was created past times the Society inwards the starting fourth dimension place. Only, things don't become quite every bit the Rising had planned, together with things start falling apart real quickly. The pacing of the mass was awkward, every bit weeks together with months would transcend amongst solely a small-scale banking concern annotation such every bit "We had been hither for ii months" or "The yet had been nether for 3 weeks," etc. Jumping close...

This is a sequel, together with thus if you lot bring non read The Line , become read that first! Away past times Teri Hall My rating: 3 of v stars It tin last hard to review majority ii of three because there's all the same together with thus much left unsaid from majority 1. I'm nearly irritated amongst the destination of Away because it skipped together with thus much time, things happened means also quickly, the climax came inwards the in conclusion few pages (which is non the means to destination a book, fifty-fifty if it's to last continued), together with there's all the same roughly other majority to come. I mean value Teri Hall has grown into the format together with story, in that place was to a greater extent than grapheme evolution (albeit solely slightly), simply it seems in that place was less of a existent plot this fourth dimension together with to a greater extent than of people traveling to plough over something. I'm hoping the in conclusion...

Please pardon me for a moment, equally this is nowhere around professional person of me... Hero past times Alethea Kontis Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. I was together with thence excited that Enchanted was a stand-alone, together with right away it has a sequel? And a 3rd book? WTH? Not that this is bad news, inward fact I loved Enchanted together with wanted to read to a greater extent than of Kontis' work, merely I acknowledge the fact that it's buy the farm a serial is a fleck disappointing. At to the lowest degree it's the even out of around other of the sisters, together with non a continuation of the end book. ANYWAY... YAY I GET TO READ MORE KONTIS SOON! BOO IT'S NOT COMING OUT UNTIL OCTOBER! YAY I LOVE THIS COVER! View all my reviews

H5N1 few weeks agone I won a gift bill of fare to  Amazon  from  On The Edge , which I promptly spent on books!  One of the books I ordered ended upwards non beingness shipped, I approximate the somebody didn't convey it or something.  But I did larn 4 others:  The Swan Kingdom  by Zoe Marriott,  The Girl who Fell From the Sky  by Heidi W. Durrow,  The Bards of Bone Plain  by Patricia A. McKillip, and  The Girl alongside Glass Feet  by Ali Shaw.  Lots of fantasy as well as YA to larn around, at that spot :) I also got an electronic mail from  here  and here  but I didn't ain a copy.  So finally,  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children  is mine!  And inwards hardcover, no less! Lots of links, I know, simply this is a pretty big majority haul.  Very exciting!  Looks similar I convey a lot of reading to create this year.  I also picked upwards a re-create of...

The Line yesteryear Teri Hall My rating: 4 of five stars While non the best dystopian fiction around, The Line for certain had an interesting floor to offer. As other reviewers convey mentioned, it is plot-driven rather than character-driven. We are made to empathise early that Rachel is a practiced girl, her woman bring upward is e'er sad, together with her mother's employer, on whose acre they live, doesn't similar to hold upward bothered. I had genuinely no data on the hired manus who helped approximately The Property, equally they telephone squall upward it, other than that he was onetime together with looked afterward Rachel when she was young. The plot moved frontwards pretty steadily, although it took likewise long, inwards my opinion, to larn to the practiced part. I'm also left wondering what other secrets Rachel's woman bring upward could hold upward belongings back, together with why, all of a sudden, Ms. Moore became then friendly alongside the woman ...

Reached yesteryear Ally Condie in addition to Insurgent yesteryear Veronica Roth I love  MyPoints .  I dear it thus much because, when I salvage upward plenty points, I instruct gift cards for books.  Books that are gratis to me are wonderful books! It's amazing, then, that I received my latest MyPoints gift bill of fare inward Dec in addition to solely today cashed it in.  I approximate I was waiting for the correct sale, or the correct book, but whatsoever the reason, today I used it upward in addition to got 2 books I've been waiting for for a while.  I'm excited to start them! My married adult man Chris is a fellow member of or thus music message boards, in addition to on i of them they postal service their music purchases.  I idea that would live on a fun experiment for the blog, thus right away I acquaint you lot alongside my offset majority buy of the year. Reached is the finally majority inward the Matched trilogy yesteryear Ally Condie....

Another yr gone, some other lump of books read.  To survive quite honest, I'm non disappointed inwards myself at all for failing to laissez passer on my 75 volume goal.  In looking at my  list of books read this year , I am quite proud of the genres, lengths in addition to authors I've tackled this yr in addition to I am feeling rattling accomplished at a amount of 51 completed books for the year.  Of course, I can't count the ii unpublished manuscripts I read, nor tin I count the volume I am working on proofing (I am getting it chapter past times chapter, hence I haven't finished reading it yet equally it's non yet done).  But if y'all create count those inwards my totals I'm upward to 54, which is admirable inwards itself. Anyway, plenty patting myself on the back.  And don't heed me equally I accept a brusk stroll through some of my most memorable reads of the year. (There are captions underneath the photos - I don't know how to alter the colo...

Enchanted past times Alethea Kontis My rating: 5 of five stars I absolutely LOVED this book. Love dear love. I could seriously non pose it downwards ane time I started it. The storytelling was fab, I adored the means Kontis weaved inwards other well-known fairy tales in addition to created her ain out of them, in addition to Dominicus was in addition to thus lovable that I only wanted to mash her. Also, tin I only say, STAND-ALONE!!! It was a stand-alone! No sequel to read, no serial to complain about, it ended! Guh, dear it! Alethea Kontis needs to cash inwards one's chips on writing in addition to writing in addition to writing because I could only read this form of matter forever. I had 2 child problems amongst the majority - the timing seemed off, in addition to the characters got confusing. It felt similar the majority was taking house over several weeks, but inwards actuality, according to the days mentioned periodically, it was only close ane week. Too much was cr...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children yesteryear Ransom Riggs My rating: 5 of five stars Why did I hold off as well as thence long to read this? What an fantabulous debut novel! I genuinely enjoyed merely nearly everything nearly this majority (even as well as except the photographs). The photos were helpful as well as creepy at the same time. In the get down they really freaked me out, specially the i of the "monster" as well as the ones of the children, but every bit the majority went on they really illustrated what was happening as well as gave me an paradigm inwards my caput to focus on every bit I followed along amongst the story. The majority starts off chillingly enough. The reader apace understands that the monsters Abe (Jacob's grandfather) is talking nearly are existent - non merely Nazis but something else. I intend Jacob realizes this every bit well, subconsciously, but merely refuses to believe it. While he may long for an extraordinary lif...

The Selection past times Kiera Cass My rating: 4 of v stars ARGH ACK I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SERIES!!!!! *FLAIL*SPASM*TWITCH* ...Now that that's out of my system... Seriously, I thought this was a stand-alone until I got to the end. Grr! So tired of authors who are completely incapable of wrapping things up! ...Now that THAT'S out of my system... I actually REALLY liked this book. So much thence that I actually REALLY wanted it to halt amongst the kickoff book. I don't desire to accept to hold off until side past times side twelvemonth for majority two, because this SHOULD accept ended here. HERE. Not side past times side year. NOW. Yet again, my YA gripes accept presented themselves. 1: series. 2: I accept no thought what ANY of the characters await like. "Beautiful" does non tell us what they await like. 3: Love triangle. Both boys are sexy. Both boys similar her. Both boys are consummate opposites. This review isn't real positive, fifty-fi...

As y'all tin enjoin past times all my recent reviews, I've been deep into YA fiction the end few weeks (months?).  There's as well as then much coming out that I desire to read, it seems similar the genre has experienced an explosion as well as I don't desire to miss anything good.  However, with all the reading does come upwards about observations: 1. YA authors don't similar to depict the principal characters.  I outset noticed this with Twilight  (yes, I read majority 1).  Bella isn't actually described - nosotros don't genuinely know what she looks like.  When all the snark started, many commentators speculated it was as well as then that the reader could pose herself into Bella's grapheme as well as imagine that Edward was inwards dear with HER.  The to a greater extent than YA I read, the to a greater extent than I think that's true.  I don't guide keep a clear ikon of Cassia from Matched , or Eve from Eve  (unless y'all count her cer...

Cinder yesteryear Marissa Meyer My rating: 5 of v stars This was a bully showtime to what looks similar an exciting trilogy. If you've read The Snow Queen as well as The Summer Queen , you lot volition recognize a bully elbow grease at world-building as well as technology. You volition also expose a similarity inward the principal grapheme to refuse as well as hence bring her "fate," or rather what path her life is going to follow. ***THERE ARE H5N1 FEW SPOILERS BELOW*** I truly enjoyed reading a third-person YA novel for once. I am getting a petty sick of reading from the POV of a 16- or 18-year-old who is totally inward honey amongst a guy as well as all of her struggles at beingness parted from him. In this book, I could larn multiple characters' stories instead of non knowing what was going on inward other parts of the stories until the narrator meets upwards amongst them again. I could reckon the struggles Kai was dealing with, equally good equall...

Eve past times Anna Carey My rating: 3 of five stars Eve was good, non great, but expert plenty to continue me reading through the whole thing. The fact that schoolhouse becomes a unsafe house for Eve inwards the starting fourth dimension sets upwards a really interesting premise - women used equally breeding provender to repopulate the earth. Only it's non a natural breeding - they are implanted amongst embryos in addition to thus forced to pass the residue of their lives strapped to gurneys, giving nativity every nine months to God knows how many children. I want at that spot had been a fleck to a greater extent than data most that, such equally how many children they gave nativity to at a time. There was cite of a "litter" in addition to their stomachs beingness unnaturally bloated amongst children, but were at that spot multiples inwards there? How many? Will nosotros honor out inwards the mo installment of the series? OK, here's my gripe: Why is it ...

Matched past times Ally Condie My rating: 4 of five stars There are no existent spoilers inward this post, fearfulness not! I wouldn't telephone vociferation upward this neat fiction, nor fifty-fifty neat YA fiction, but it was definitely something I actually enjoyed reading. It started off a footling slow. I nevertheless don't know what whatsoever of the characters *look* like. I'm left amongst blank faces inward my mind, which tin teach irritating. But I'm finding this is to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than mutual amid YA writers - don't depict the characters, permit the readers run into who they desire to see. Is this beneficial? I'm non sure yet. What I am sure of is that this mass actually sucked me in. I started too finished it inward 2 days (one hateful solar daytime I was super ill too the minute hateful solar daytime I stayed upward until afterward 11pm to finish, too I'm unremarkably inward bed past times 10 because of ...

Shatter Me yesteryear Tahereh Mafi My rating: 1 of five stars I receive got wanted to read this for months. MONTHS. I placed a concur on it at the library lastly when I wasn't having whatsoever luck getting it through BooksFreeSwap. It sounded SO GOOD. Sure the concept was familiar (Rogue from X-Men, duh), but it sounded similar it had been done completely differently. Well, my eagerness as well as excitement was disappointed. The strikethroughs throughout the entire mass seat me correct off. The stream-of-consciousness means writing was done real poorly. And inward the end, everything happens simply a niggling besides easily, as well as remains unexplained inward every means at the determination of the book. **SPOILERS BELOW** Obviously it is ready for a sequel. Juliette becomes the "Rogue" grapheme consummate amongst particular bodysuit as well as gloves as well as thus she won't wound anyone. Hell, Adam fifty-fifty says she looks similar a super...

Sorry for all the reviews lately, but I similar to part :) Here's some other mass I would recommend! Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble yesteryear D. Robert Pease My rating: 4 of v stars ***There are spoilers inward this post*** Noah Zarc is a 12-year-old time-traveling airplane pilot who helps collect 2 of each species of fauna for the hereafter earth, along amongst his family. The championship in addition to grapheme yell are non inward the to the lowest degree a subtle tribute to the Noah's Ark story, which is essentially what this storey is loosely founded on. While I appreciate the pun, I produce want it had been to a greater extent than subtle alone because the mass was rife amongst other references to the Biblical story. Considering I'm a adult woman inward my belatedly 20's, I really enjoyed this book, which was evidently aimed at younger boys around Noah's age. And that's fine - because fifty-fifty if it is a YA SF written for teen boys, I all t...

Glimmerglass yesteryear Jenna Black My rating: 2 of five stars Disclaimer: I won this majority inwards the Goodreads giveaway. Glimmerglass is a new most Dana, a 16-year-old daughter who runs away from her alcoholic woman raise to Avalon, where Faerie too human worlds meet, to alive amongst her Fae father. What she doesn't realize when she makes this determination is that she volition live pulled inwards all sorts of directions, too her life position inwards danger several times, simply yesteryear alerting her manlike someone raise to her existence. This is definitely a new for immature adults. The linguistic communication too situations are geared toward teens. In that respect, it was an effective book. My work is that it is too made for teens. I honey YA literature, especially YA fantasy, because a lot of it is able to cross borders into adult enjoyment. Diana Wynne Jones is a primary of this, every bit good every bit Tamora Pierce. Jenna Black simply doesn't quit...