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Tuesday 29 July 2014

My A-Z Book Tag/Challenge

I know this tag/challenge is really old now but I wanted to do it because it looks really fun, and if you think I should read any of these books if I haven't already then comment below and I will read and review it :)
For the letter A I chose: Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake
For the letter B I have chosen: Beautiful Creatures by kami Garcia and Margaret stohl
For the Letter C I have chosen: Cinder by Marissa Myer
For the letter D I have chosen: Divergent
For the letter E I have chosen: Emerald Star by Jacqueline Wilson
For the letter F I have chosen: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
For the letter G I have Chosen: Glass houses by Rachel Cain
For the letter H I have chosen: The Harry Potter Books by J.K Rowling
For the letter I, I have chosen: Incarnate
For the letter J I have chosen: candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson, I don't have any books that begin with the letter J so I used the authors name. 
For the letter K I have chosen: the way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, I don't have any books beginning with the letter K so I used the last bit of the title.
For the letter L I have chosen: Lies by Michael Grant
For the letter M I have chosen: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
For the letter N I have chosen: the Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
For the letter O I have Chosen: Origin by Jessica khoury
For the letter P I have chosen: Percy Jackson and the lightning thief by rick riordan
For the letter Q I have chosen: the Roald Dahl Quiz Book
for the letter R I have chosen: Reboot by Amy tintera
For the letter S I have chosen: Shatter me by tahereh mafi
For the letter T I have chosen: The maze runner by James Dashner
For the letter U I have chosen: Unwind by Neil Shusterman
 
For the letter V I have chosen: Vicious by V.E Schwab
For the letter W I have chosen: We were liars by E. Lockhart
For the letter X I have chosen: Asylum by Madeline Roux
For the letter Y I have chosen: the 5th wave by Rick Yancey
Lastly For the letter Z I have chosen: the book thief by Marcus Zusack
And those are all the books that I have chosen to go with each letter of the alphabet  :)




Friday 25 July 2014

We Were Liars Book Review

After reading this book, I could easily say that this is my favourite book so far. If you don't already know this book is basically about the Sinclair family, who are beautiful and rich and get whatever they want, also the people called Gat, Mirren, Johnny and Cadence are in there own group called the liars and they spend every summer together but on summer fifteen something happens to split the liars up, and that's all I can say without spoiling anything

This book was really surprising because I wasn't actually expecting to like it as much as I did, I went into this book knowing absolutely nothing at all because the synopsis is so vague, all it says is, We are liars, we are beautiful and privileged, we are cracked and broken, a tale of love and romance, a tale of tragedy, which are lies? which is truth? you decide. The characters in this book are fun and enjoyable to read about, first there's Gat who's just really sweet and has a "sort of" relationship with Cadence. Then there's Mirren who pretty much lies about her whole life because she goes on to everybody saying that she has a boyfriend and she goes to his house all the time and has "Sexual Intercourse" constantly but none of that actually ever really happens. Lastly there's Johnny and I don't really have a full opinion about Johnny because he is not really mentioned that much in the book to know that much about him.

I love the layout for this book as well because this book is set out in five different parts, Part 1: Welcome, Part 2: Vermont, Part 3: Summer Seventeen, Part 4: Look, a fire and lastly Part 5: Truth. Also this book has short chapters which I really like when reading a book because it makes me read faster for some reason. Also when its time for a new chapter instead of starting a new page, if there's room on that same page then they will put the chapter on that page.  Not many books do but this book has a family tree in it and it also has a map of beechwood island in Massachusetts This book is only 225 pages, so it won't take you long to get through, so if you want to pick up and read a book that will give you all of the feels and an unexpected twist at the end then I recommend you read "We were liars".

Monday 21 July 2014

Thirteen Reasons Why Book Review

This book may be quite old now but it is still amazing, most of you might have already read this book but if you haven't already, The plot for this story is about a young girl called Hannah baker and she committed suicide but before she died she recorded her voice on 13 cassette tapes and posted them to 13 people and the 13 people are the people that pushed her over the edge for her to commit suicide. The main character in this book (clay Jensen) is one of the 13 people and he basically listens too all the tapes until he finds out the reason why he is one of the people that made her kill herself.

Considering the plot sounds like its going to be really dark, depressing and morbid, it actually has quite a lot of funny moments where I was just laughing for ages. This book is quite unique, with the way they layout the writing and the chapters which I liked, the chapters are set out with all of the cassette tapes such as: chapter one is called cassette tape 1. The writing of the book is in a way kind of like duel protagonists because when the main character (clay) is talking it is written in normal font, but when he is listening to the cassette tapes when Hannah is speaking the font is in italics so you know when a different person is talking. The characters in this book are quite fun, clay is just a normal boring character and Hannah is really funny and witty and because she is dead she can say whatever she wants about whoever she wants because they cant say anything to her.

It did take me quite a while to read this book even though it is only 282 pages because this book can be pretty slow but it does eventually get funnier again, so it just took me a while to get through this book. If you have any comments/questions about this book or book review you can leave them in the comments and I will reply as soon as I can.