marți, 28 aprilie 2015

Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

   „Starting over sucks.
  When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

  And then he opened his mouth.
  Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something... unexpected happens. 
  The hot alien living next door marks me.
  You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades. 
  If I don't kill him first, that is.

  You devour it and it devours you. Obsidian is that type of book that you can’t close until you finish it.
Why? Two reasons: Katy is one of us, a bookworm; and Daemon is a hot alien.
Katy moves to West Virginia for a fresh start after her father’s death. A small town full of two kinds of aliens: Arums and Luxens. Her neighbors, Daemon and Dee are brothers luxens that came to Earth. Katy wants to be Dee’s friend, but Daemon doesn’t alllow it and he’s really rude to Katy. Dee forces her brother to behave with Katy and puts him to hang out with her. By this forced meetings with him, she starts to consider him sexy.
  That’s not all, when luxens uses their super powers around humans they leave a mark on them. And Katy shines like a Christmas Tree. Arums feel this mark and they use marked humans to lead them to luxens to devoir their essence and light. Katy has to get rid of the mark before the Black family dissapears, but how?


                   “Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was                               the holy trinity of hot boys.” 

If I Stay by Gayle Forman



 Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.
   I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.
  Stay, he says.

   Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
   Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.
  If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.
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On her death bed Mia has to make her hardest decision of her life, and it might be her last one. After a car crash her parents and brother dies, but she enters in coma. As a spirit, she is able to walk around the hospital. Her grandmother tells her that is her decision to stay or to go on the other side. But who would want to stay? Her family is dead and her body is very damaged. On the other hand, she lives for the music. Cello is her first passion, her way to express. And now the second, Adam (her boyfriend), Kat (her best friend) and the rest of the family. How can she be so cruel to leave them behind? This is the hardest decision anyone can face. What will she do?


                                          “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”

Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lighting Thief by Rick Riordan

   
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends -- one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

   One of the greatest book for all ages. Master of myth Rick Riordan combines ancient greek legends with our modern times. I would recommend it to anyone, all ages and taste. It has accesible language, even for people whom aren’t very experimented in english (if you want to read it in its original language, which I recommend)
   Percy is a half god and half human, son of Poseidon and a female human, but all hero. After he finds out who he really is, his mother is kidnapped when he arrives in Camp Half-Blood. He goes in quest with Grover (a satyr) and Annabeth (daughter of Athena) to find Zeus’ stolen lighting bold, but Poseidon is the main suspect of stealing it.
   Along the trip, they meet with lots of mythical creatures, such as Medusa and the Chimera. But will all of them survive? Will they find the lighting bold and its real thief? Most of all, will Percy save his mother? While reading you will have alot of question mark about how they will make it through the jorney, and I wish you want to find out by reading this fantastic masterpiece!


     „If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's fiction, great. 
         Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever                                                                happened.