Review #4 The Fault in Our Stars

This book was so amazing that I just HAD to write a review for it.
I had seen this book around for around for awhile and I never stopped to read the description or even look at it. Not even realizing I was missing out. So a few days ago I decided to pick it up. And I am so glad that I did.
I just felt that Hazel and Augustus story was so beautiful yet so tragic. I felt so connected to them, like I was experiencing whatever they were going through. It's not very often that I feel this way about characters. I laughed with them, cried with them and so on. 
In the end, I loved The Fault in our Stars and I will definitely read it again (hopefully with less tears). :)

The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #1)

     Thanks to Net Galley, I was lucky to receive a digital copy of The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #1) by Julie Kagawa. The cover looks beautiful, along with the really cute guy. Can't wait to start reading it. Stay tuned for a review and teasers.

                                             Amber

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August Book of the Month

 

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake (August 7,2012)

It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on. 
His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live--not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.
Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.
Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.

Anna Book #2

Hardcover 336 pages

Book Review #3 The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

      Mara Dyer doesn't thing life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

        Wow! What A cliffhanger. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is definitely one of those books that will be on my mind for awhile because it was simply amazing. 

        The psychological and mysterious aspects of the book, blew me away along with the building up of the romance and a hint of the paranormal. It didn’t fail to keep me interested and wanting to know what exactly happened to Mara and hers friends and whats going to happen to Mara and Noah Now. 

          I love the fact that every prediction I made about whats going to happen was completely wrong especially in the very end. Every time I was pretty sure something was going to happen, it was like, BAM, wrong answer. 

      The characters were written nicely. Mara was okay, not too whiney, not too sane either. Noah, definitely not my in my top book boyfriends, he was a little too much of a jerk for me. But he redeems himself enough in the end to make him likeable. I also like Mara's parents and the fact that they didn't disappear at the most convenient times.   

         The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was very well written. Ms. Hodkin definitely knows how to creates suspense that keep you wanting more and more. 

        This is one of those books that will stick with you, even after you've finished. Might even make you a little paranoid around mirrors. Buy It Here
                                           

  

Hardcover, 452 pages

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 

Mara Dyer #1

The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) Release October 23,2012

Pre-Order Here

July Book of the Month

Endlessly By Kiersten White (July 24, 2012)

   Evie's paranormal past keeps coming back to haunt her. A new director at the International Paranormal Containment Agency wants to drag her back to headquarters. The Dark Faerie Queen is torturing humans in her poisonous realm. And supernatural creatures keep insisting that Evie is the only one who can save them from a mysterious, perilous fate.

The clock is ticking on the entire paranormal world. And its fate rests solely in Evie's hands.

So much for normal.

Harper Teen

Paranormalcy Book  #3 

Hardcover 385 pages

YA, paranormal romance

Pre-Order Here

Book Review #2 Shatter Me

For exactly 264 days, Juliette has been imprisoned in a small room because she touched someone and that person died.  

     Before I actually got around to reading this book, I had already heard a lot of bad reviews about it. Which is why I was hesitant to read it. But now that I've actually read it, I've realized that I really liked it. It was awesome, but it wasn't perfect, the book definitely had it's faults...

      Problem number 1 was this. The strike out thing annoyed me so much, I actually cringed every time my eyes over them. I understand that they were used to emphasize stuff or whatever but it was used to much, which made all of them quite annoying. And the occasional use of numbers (1,2,3...) instead of writing out the actual word was very annoying as well.

       Problem number two was Juliet. She was such a depressing person. And she was so... weak. I mean, she never even fought back. At least not until the end of the book. But most of the time she was letting people at her school, Warner, and her own parents walk all over her. I understand that she didn't do anything because she was "good" but I think its pretty unrealistic to let people walk over you, that much, and not say a word. 

         Problem number three was Warner. Well, Warner wasn't really one of my problems with the book. He just confused me, a little bit. Because, honestly, I don't know if he really is an evil person or if he's just really confused. And it seems to me like he could be apart of a love triangle with along with Adam and Juliette because during the entire book Juliette never exactly treated him like he was the villain. She just sorta went along with whatever he said and went on about how cute he was. A part of me feels a little sorry for him because hes so confused but another part of me did a happy dance when Juliette shot him. 

            But I absolutely, positively loved Adam. He was a pretty awesome character. Strong,hot, tall, tattooed, loyal, protective. He was just the perfect package (fans self). Adam really made the whole book worth reading. He was just awesome (did I say that already?).

           Even though, it wasn't exactly the Dystopian novel I was expecting, Shatter Me kept me interested enough to read it in all in a matter of hours and it defiantly left me wanting to know whats going to happened to these guys in the next book. Which unfortunately come out next year. Buy It Here

Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book #2) Release February 5,2013 

                                                    

          

       

Book Review #1 Anna Dressed In Blood

  

Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story... 

Warning: This book will most likely scare the crap out of you. 

              Anna Dressed in Blood isn't scary at all. If you're not afraid of ghost, evil voodoo monsters living in your basement, and occasional ghostly hitchhikers that want to kill you. But if you should so happen to be afraid of these things (Like me) then you definetly want to read this one with the lights on because it was pretty creepy.  

                I mean it was just really strange. And there were some things I didn't really understand. Like how the heck do you fall in love with a ghost that likes to disembowel people and/or children. Maybe I could understand if she was a pretty ghost, but half the time Anna was all black soul less eyes, Medusa hair, and black veins crawling all over her face. That sounds pretty unattractive to me but Cas just kept coming back for more. And the antagonist, evil dude, with the missing pieces of flesh and eyes sew shut kind of reminded me of the boogeyman on, like, ten times worse.  

              Even this book really freaked me out, it was really good. I read it all in about four hours. The characters were a bit strange but Ms. Black kept me intrested in what was going to happen to them. Anna's background story was very tragic and I felt sympathetic towards her (despite her unfavorable hobbies) and I thought Cas was a pretty good guy. The romance between Anna and Cas was nice, not overdone and not underdeveloped, but just right. 

            So, overall, I liked it and I recomend to anyone who like a scary book with descriptive blood and gore and guts and rotted flesh and...( you get the idea right?) Buy It Here

Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2) Release August 7,2012 

   

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