Showing posts with label YA fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA fiction. Show all posts
Series Review: Grisha Verse
Come and sit down and talk to me about The Grishaverse. I read the entire trilogy in January and I kind of want to flail around in my own feelings a little bit.
Review: A Thousand Perfect Notes
Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music - because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence.
When Beck meets August, a girl full of life, energy and laughter, love begins to awaken within him and he glimpses a way to escape his painful existence. But dare he reach for it?
Well then.
Here’s the thing and I’m going to be honest about it: I mainly
wanted to read this book because I follow C.G Drews on Instagram and her page
is the prettiest and that led me to her blog which is one of my faves, actually
and that is that - I wanted to read her
book because I enjoy her online presence. That said, I was pretty sure she
would be able to write – you can tell from her blog that she can write, I just didn’t quite
expect…this.
Wow. This is not eloquent. This is why I have not written a book.
Review: I Was Born For This
This book fascinated me.
Like actually. I was so invested and so interested, perhaps because parts of it
felt really relatable and perhaps because it felt really relevant and was a
really interesting take on a really interesting story. To be honest, anything
to do with fandom always peaks my interest because it’s something that, to a
degree, I am familiar with.
Book Haul: March 2018
Oooh, I haven’t done a book haul for AGES. But I also
haven’t done much reading so instead of talking about what I have read I figured I may as well talk
about all the books I’ve bought to add to the piles of books I haven’t read. Ha. Also I like a list.
Quickfire Reviews
Quickfire Reviews is a thing I do very sporadically when
there are books to talk about that I should have reviewed but haven’t.
Sometimes I didn’t like these books enough to want to review them; sometimes I loved them but time got away from me;
and sometimes, less is just more. Also it’s something a bit different which is
what I am all about this year – being more than just review after review.
So here we have it, grab a KitKat and settle down.
Review: I Am Thunder
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| I am Thunder |
Keep an eye out for this one guys, because I think it maybe possibly might just go places.
Review: The Exact Opposite of Okay
Ok let’s talk about this book I read.
Hahaha. That’s hilarious. This is a book blog; how often is it that I talk
about anything else?
Anyhow. The Exact Opposite of Okay is Laura
Steven’s debut and it’s been getting a lot of attention, for more reasons I
suspect than it’s incredibly lush cover. I mean sure, that’s what caught my eye
but not everybody is as much of a book magpie as I am, I know this. The point
is, this book has been generating a lot of buzz since last year and its not
even published until March and hello this is me we’re talking about here:
obviously I wanted to get right on that bandwagon.
I’m super glad that
I did. For sure.
Book Review: Genuine Fraud
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Genuine Fraud - E Lockhart |
YES THIS BOOK.
I am, as it happens, a massive fan
of Lockhart’s We Were Liars; I think it’s an excellent book and so
obviously I was super excited to get my hands on a copy of her new book, Genuine
Fraud and let me tell you a thing: it didn’t disappoint.
Autumn Wrap Up
But how is it November already. That means it’s almost
Christmas, right? Not that I am going to get excited just yet. I mean, I love
Christmas, I absolutely totally do, but I love it in the way that means I want
to concentrate that love into a small time frame so that I can love it really
intensely whilst it lasts and then tuck it away for another year knowing I’ll
love it just as hard when it comes around again which means I don’t ‘do’
Christmas until December 1st. I won’t even eat a mince pie, which is
pretty hard going actually because holy moly I love mince pies. The only
exception I make to this rule I think is the festive coffees. Give me all the gingerbread lattes please. Today
I had a spiced cookie latte from McDonalds (Maccies is the only coffee place
open before I go to work and actually it’s not that bad), the cup had little
foxes on it and I was beyond delighted.
Quick August Wrap-Up
September already though.
Holy and also Moly, goodness and also gracious. LET’S DO A
WRAP UP. Let’s do a wrap up, mostly because August was a fun fun month and I had
a nice nice time and I want to get that written down for posterity so that in
one hundred years where some future person from the future stumbles across this
blog they can say ‘wow she had a really nice time in August 2017.’
That and the fact that when I have lots of talking to do it
makes sense to put it all in one post. Lazy blogging is lazy but whatever.
So, what did I read?
A Darker Shade of
Magic by VE Shwab which I loved.
It’s the first in a series and it’s fits right in with the kind of books I seem
to be loving right now. It’s about this guy called Kell (who I might be in love
with a little bit) who is one of the last magicians alive with the ability to
move from London to London to London because there isn’t just 1 London. There’s
4. (I know, right) – he’s like an Ambassador between Red, White and Grey London
(black London isn’t around anymore) so he’s pretty important but he's also a
smuggler. Which is frowned upon, obvs. & there are shenanigans so he ends up on
the run and he meets this girl called Delilah – a cross dressing thief who I
also love - and there is lots of magic and a whole host of excellent characters
and so much angst and perfect perfect
worldbuilding which is always such a thing
for me in these kinds of books and basically I just liked it a whole lot and I cannot wait to read book two – which is
a little bit of a lie actually because I have
book two so technically I could have read it already except that I have a
bad case of book procrastination and a massive to do pile.
Review: One of Us is Lying
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One of Us is Lying |
This is the kind of book you’d binge
watch. I mean seriously, it’s like everything you spend your hangover watching
on a Sunday. If its not adapted then I’ll be the most surprised ever and I
never say this because THE BOOK IS BETTER but this is crying out to be
dramatized and that, it’s a compliment, it really is. I’ve seen it likened to The Breakfast Club and Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale and YES. Also Gossip Girl and maybe a little bit Nancy Drew and Poirot – that’s just me though. Also, considering the The Breakfast Club is well, The Breakfast Club and PLL and Riverdale are both Netflix shows that I binge watched like a pro,
it was probably a given that this book was going to tick all the boxes for me.
It did.
