sâmbătă, 18 iulie 2015

Halfway to the grave by Jeaniene Frost

    Buffy the vampire slayer all the way! This book is about a girl half human-half vampire, Cat, who slays vampires in order to revenge her mother who was raped by a vampire. Unlike Buffy, she searches them in nightclubs, seduces them and when they leave they get a stake.
    All this until one day she meets Bones. The one who tricks her, ties her up and tortures her on order to get information about her boss (which she doesn't have). To escape this situation she proposes a bet: a fight, if she wins she kills Bones, if she loses, she will work for him (good thing that he also kills vampires, but he is a payed assassin). She loses for the first time, so practice, practice, practice!
    He puts her to run miles, fight her until she drops dead. He buys her sexy clothes to lure in the vampires. And so they are off to kill a wanted vampire.
    But romance is not missing from this book: they will fall in love. But how will it work out? Cat's family hates these creatures of the night.
    A really pleasant reading with everything you need from a book: action, romance and comedy! I recommend it all the way!

Go Ask Alice by Annonymus

    First of all, I don't care if it's real or not. This thing doesn't matter at all, what matters is that this journal book teaches us a very important lesson.
    This book is about a girl, we don't get to teally know her name, but let's just call her Alice. She was a typical teenager girl, whom got problems at school and her mother was annoying her. But it wasn't that bad. All teenagers think that the whole world is aganist them, but they grow-up and realise that sometimes you need to shape in a way to fit in (NOT CHANGE!).
    She moved away from her birth place and she felt a little homesick, but it was okay. She made a new friend (bff) and she was having fun. At summer she went visiting her grandparents in her natal town.
    While she was out, an old school friend (kind of friend) invited her to a party at her house. They served cans of coke and... surprise! A few of them had lsd in them, and Alice was "lucky" because she picked one of that. At first she didn't realise what was happening, but she liked the way she was feeling. All that colors, shapes, sounds... She was one with all of them.
    The next day she decides to try weed, so she asks last night's babysitter (when someone consumes lsd they need someone sober to watch over them because it's really dangerous to be alone). He gave her speed (cocaine and weed) and she loved it. Then she starts taking acid and has her first intercourse with this guy while on drugs.
    When she gets home she promises she wouldn't do drugs ever again, but once you start walking this patch, there is no going back. This applies to Alice too. She gets deeper in deeper in this world. She runs away from home, she forgets who she is, gets blackouts for months, she even gets raped.
    If you are thinking about starting doing drugs, at leasgbyou should read this book. Drug are really bad, they actually kill your brain cells, kills your immunity, you can't have kids from them. Shortly, they ruin your life.
    Again, if you want to try some kind of drug, just go through this quick reading, then ask yourself "is really worth it for a few hours of trips?"

vineri, 1 mai 2015

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick


   "Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.
   Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.

   If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts."

    Even through the first book wasn’t that great, the second it’s more entertaining, especially the last 20 pages.
   So, Nora fights with Patch and he runs to Nora’s arch enemy: Marcie Millar. She and Vee try to figure out what is between them, while Vee gets together with Rixon and Nora with Scott, an old friend from her childhood. But things aren’t so pink between them, especially because he might have something to do with his father death and he’s involved in the angel-nephilim world.
   Mixed with thrill, mystery, horror, drama and comedy, this book gets to you and it makes you want to finish it immediatly.


                                                         “You're a psychopath."
                                        "I prefer creative.” 

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick


    "Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.
   But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.
    For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.”

     It’s a strange book. I wouldn’t recommend it if you are not in the mood for reading, because it found it... weird. But somehow is a nice lecture.
   First, Nora is an average girl and Patch is a fallen angel. And the love story it’s too rushed. But otherwise, it’s a good book, it has a little action there and there. But it kinda reminded me a bit of Twilight because Patch it’s a cold person and he follows (stalks) Nora.


    Anyway, it’s a good lecture for your free time and if you don’t have anything else to read. And I find Nora’s relationship with Vee very cute :D


                                            “Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.” 

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.
 „

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.