Day and June are living in the Republic which is split into districts with the poor and the rich. The whole system with the poor and rich, together with Day and June who slowly finds out the Republic’s secrets, seemed to be the perfect setup for a book but ‘Legend’ did not live up to my expatiations.
‘Let It Snow’ with the subtitle ‘Three holiday romances’ is a novel from 2008, where three separate novellas mix into each other, storywise. The two first stories were so well written, deep, unpredictable, funny and thrilling, and the last one was a lot worse that just so-so. But overall, ‘Let It Snow’ still deserves four out of five stars.
If you are looking for a fast feel-good chick-lit to read here in the holiday, then this story about love, friendship and dreams is the book for you. .
I really enjoyed reading ‘The Shock of the Fall’. I had the sense of that I became friends with Matthew while reading the book, and he taught me great things about life.
I have never read a book like ‘Panic’. The whole game was build up in a way I never have seen before. It was everything I hoped for and more since it made me feel all kind of emotions and when I first started to read this book, I would not let go of it.
Tessa is about to start college, but nothing goes as she planned. She meets Hardin and suddenly her world is turned upside-down. He makes her feel a passion she has never felt before. The book took me on an emotional roller-coaster ride. I built up a love-hate relationship to Hardin, I saw myself in Tessa and these things made me fall in love with ‘After’.
In ‘Paper Towns’ we meet Quentin, also known as Q, who was friends with Margo years ago, when they were kids. Now Q likes Margo, but Margo does not seem to notice him at all. While reading this book I never understood why Q likes Margo so much, since she has never done anything for him.
It wasn’t quite the love story which made me turn page after page in ‘Lovely, Dark and Deep’. Of course I was curious to find out whether Wren would end up finding happiness in love, but that wasn’t what made this book great. What I really wondered was, whether this unfortunate girl could find her way back to a decent life worth living — or not.
‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ is written by John Green and David Levithan. It has its own charm with some personalities I instantly fell in love with and I could nothing but smile while reading. So even though I’m not much of a contemporary reader I did enjoy reading this book.
I really enjoyed reading Hannah Jayne’s ’Truly, Madly, Deadly’. I had a hard time putting the book down, once I started reading it. I needed to know, what had really happened the night Sawyer’s boyfriend was killed. But even though it was a really great book, I still missed being dragged through the entire range of emotions.
While reading ‘The Book Thief’ I got a whole new perspective on, what it was like to live in Nazi Germany during World War II. None other than Death tells the story of Liesel Meminger, and the story was both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.
Even though the witch-and-sorcerer theme is so used in YA, Michelle Krys’ first book in the new ‘The Witch Hunter’ series, ‘Hexed’, did manage to conquer me completely. The story is wonderful unpredictable and loads of fun.
Super Quick Review: I’ve read ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ in English class. My expectations were not very high since my experiences with ‘school books’ haven’t always been that great, but anyway …
‘The Castle’ is a fun adventure story about schoolgirl Peta Jones, who makes a mission out of finding her missing army hero dad. It’s an easy read for the youngest YA readers. The plot isn’t unique, but the set-up about ‘finding dad’ works great and the pace is high and the tone is warm and wonderful.
