Brianna P
It was really hard to get into the play. I think it was because of the narrators in the version of the audiobook that I was listening to. I may have to actually read this play to be able to adequately review it.
I almost gave up on this series after the previous two books, but I'm glad I didn't. I really enjoyed this one and it seemed a little bit better paced than the others and I was really interested in learning more about the silo.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I liked Perry more than I did Aria. She was very annoying to me until the part where they reach Marron's. I was feeling like the book should have been more focused on Perry instead of Aria. The book was pretty average until about the last 80 pages. That's really when the book picked up for me and I ended up finishing it in like an hour. One thing I didn't like about this book was the lack of explanation for things I felt like where important. For example, The Aether and The Unity. I would really like to know exactly what the Aether is and where it comes from. I would also like to know what the Unity actually was. I am determined to read the second book in the series though because of the ending of this one.
Loved it! It definitely was not what I was expecting. I don't know how I would feel if The Selection was a real thing in America. I think I would participate for the fun of it and to get away from home, but like America I don't think I would actually win. I like how America and Maxon's relationship started. Even though she wants to be with Aspen so bad, I think her and Maxon would be perfect for each other. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Blackwell follows two men, Jacob O'Connor and Magnus Blackwell, who meet on their very first day of architecture school at Harvard. Jacob is an orphan who is attending Harvard through a scholarship, while Magnus is from one of the wealthiest families. No one expected the friendship between the two and some believed that Magnus befriended Jacob out of pity. It seems as if their friendship would last forever, but then Frances comes along. Both of them are attracted to her and eventually begin to catch feelings for her. The story truly begins when Frances calls off the wedding with Magnus, and not too long later marries his best friend Jacob.
I loved this book. It was interesting how much magic and voodoo were mentioned, but magic didn't too much seem to play a part of the story. While the magic did seem very much real, I felt like it was more jealousy, rage and karma that played a part in the actions of Magnus and Jacob. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good lover scorned story or even someone who enjoys a story revolving around revenge.
Such a lovely story following a human named Alice and an android named IAN-445. It was nice to see them fall in love ignoring the fact they are different.
Let's just say, I expected more. Majority of the book covered media speculation and quarells between media outlets than it did the details of the case. I would have liked to hear less about the awful things people said about Barbie Latza Nadeau, and more about Amanda Knox. It's just that for a book with the subtitle “The Real Story,” it seemed like it would've been more about the person you are writing about than how people viewed you while covering the trial. Quite frankly, I don't care that people called you “a failed travel writer.” I want to know about Amanda Knox and her trial and even a little about her so called accomplices' history. Maybe even a little about her childhood and her life before coming to Perugia.
I just went in expecting so much more when it in the foreword it said, “...she attended almost every session of Knox's murder trial, read the entire ten-thousand-page legal dossier in Italian...” I was just like oh fuck yeah she has to know a whole lot and such be able to get through some of the language barrier. Like hell. Whatever was in the ten-thousand-page legal dossier must of left her mind after a few chapters. And speaking of chapters, the chapter titles were just plain distasteful.
I gave the book 2 stars because it seems very promising until we get to part where Amanda and Raffaele were arrested. After that I felt like I could have just read Nadeau's coverage articles and got about the same amount of information.
“When the officer approached the window, he said ‘Papers' and before he could finish, I shouted, ‘Scissors! I win,' and drove off.”
That line was hilarious. I could never imagine saying anything like that to a police officer. The book was somewhat interesting. I didn't really like the ending though. I guess I expected just a little more.
The art in this is beautiful and I feel like it made my emotions much more heavy than when I read the novel by Lois Lowry. Out of all this, I've just glad that this story still grips me.
DNF a little close to being halfway through it. I was just confused on why he was in detention and what that had to with what was going on at home. I guess I just couldn't relate to Roger and just couldn't figure out what was really the deal with him. Don't even get me started on this so called “detention” area.
This is definitely along the lines of a guilty pleasure for me. I've never read a story where both the husband and wife hire the same person to kill the other one. Then the wife turns around starts sleeping around with him. There was a lot going on and I enjoyed every bit of it.
This book was so good. It's been so long since I've sat down and read a book over 300 pgs in one day.
Don't Look Back is my first Jennifer L. Armentrout book and I plan to read more books from her. I loved how easily she could pull me into this story. There were so many twists and turns as we try to figure out what happened to Samantha and Cassie. I was intrigued from the moment the mysterious girl is walking down the road and a police officer sees her. It's like who is this person and why is she all messed up walking down a road alone. And then even after we learn who she is, I am still intrigued because she was missing along with her best friend Cassie. So now I am wondering, well where the heck is Cassie?
Samantha basically can't remember anything and we follow her as she tries to remember who she was and what her life was like piece by piece. So many questions arise. At various points in the story, you can just about see everyone as a person of interest in Cassie and Samantha's disappearance except the person that actually had something to do with it. I just don't know how I missed it to be honest. I just didn't think that person would be so cruel. But overall, I loved this story and recommend it to anyone who loves young adult and a good mystery novel.
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I liked this book, however I didn't appreciate some of the ways that Willow's cutting was dealt with. I did understand how Willow could blame herself for her parents' death because she was the one driving the car, but with the fact that her parents had been drinking it's kind of like would it had still happened. I just couldn't get around the fact that two parents would allow their child drive in a terrible storm knowing that she doesn't have a driver's license (only a learner's permit). It didn't seem like her parents were being too responsible.
I didn't think that Guy was a good person for Willow, he just didn't deal with things in the most healthy way for Willow. Overall, I thought the book was really good. I'm not really familiar with people self-harming. Like I know there are people who cut themselves and people who starve themselves, but I never understood it. I'm not saying that this book is the perfect representation of the topic, but it did give me a little insight into the topic.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. The way Greek Mythology was mixed into the story was really interesting and I loved every bit of it.
This was okay. It was interesting to see Ender's father's origin and to see what happened with Ender after the Bugger War.
Review originally featured on Quiet or Loud? The Mind of a Young Lady: https://bookreadersthoughts.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-summer-i-died-by-ryan-c-thomas/
The 2 principal characters in this book are Roger Huntington and Mervyn a.k.a Tooth. The story is told from Roger's perspective. Roger is a nerdy, comic book lover who has just come home from college still a virgin. He is anxious to spend time with his best friend Tooth, since it seems like their lives have drifted apart since Roger started college. Roger and Tooth are an odd pair because Tooth doesn't seem smart, but throughout the book we learn that Tooth is actually very smart. The summer that Roger and Tooth expected to have is far from the summer that they will actually experience. It all starts when they are shooting beer cans with Tooth's gun and as they are about to leave they hear a woman screaming. Should they help her or should they go home?
The Summer I Died is one of the first books I have ever read by Ryan C. Thomas. I had gotten the e-book for free while browsing around on Amazon for free Kindle e-books. The cover of the book caught my attention; a man standing with an ax in his hand while the sun is setting over some mountains seemed just like something I would find interesting to read. However, this book was not what I expected. This book exceeded my expectations with the way that Thomas was able to explain the events taking place with such vivid details. I loved how Thomas was able to squeeze the humorous analogies into the characters dialogues and thoughts even when the characters were in such horrible situations. Since he was able to that it made the book seem more horrifying than saddening about what was happening.
The vivid description of details and events made me feel like I was right there with the characters, and I must say that it has been quite a long time since a book has made me feel this way. Certain parts where so vivid that I could not take what was happening to the characters and had to take a break from reading to get the images out of my head. Between the title of the book and the cover I was convinced that I knew exactly who was going to die and how they were going to die, but boy oh boy was I wrong. This book has so many surprises, twists, and moments where you just can't believe it did not go how you thought. This book was written so well that it completely leaves you guessing because every event could have went so many different ways and for some reason it seems like I could never guess the way it ended up going.
One thing I liked about this book is how the characters' values and personalities played a part in how the story climaxed. Roger is so nerdy and an extremely cautious crybaby, while Tooth is courageous and doesn't take anybody's bullcrap. All throughout the book it seems like their personalities clashed too much causing them to be in situations that they should have been out of or never gotten into in the first place. I like how religion had its part in the story as well being that Roger did not really believe in God, but believed there was a higher power over everyone. I liked how his thoughts about God kept changing as the story progressed. The importance of family also played a huge part in this book as a driving and motivating force.
I would definitely recommend this book to all of you, unless you have a very weak stomach. With that being said, WEAK STOMACHS PLEASE BE VERY AWARE AND TOUGHEN UP BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO READ THIS STORY!
