Kategori: HOT
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‘Never Fade’ (The Darkest Minds #2) by Alexandra Bracken
An extremely action packed story about Ruby and the battles she has to fight. Both against the thing, she is beginning to become as a consequence of her actions, and all the other dangers lurking around every corner, while trying to protect everything she holds dear.
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Vox pop: What is your reading story?
Tris: “At one point in life our look on books changed. Suddenly a random bunch of paper turned into a portal to a whole new world where everything was possible. When did you experience this change? What is your story?” (Photo: ‘Girl reading’, Flickr: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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‘Private’ (Private #1) by Kate Brian
15 year old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to her dream school. When she starts at school she quickly realizes, that not everything is easy. But the she meets the perfect Billings Girls who can make anything easy, as long as you do as they say. While reading ‘Private’ I found myself unable to stop…
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‘No and Me’ by Delphine de Vigan
An incredibly poignant and beautiful story about two lonely girls mutual friendship. Not since ‘Zoo Station, The Story of Christiane F.’ have I been so emotionally involved, and even though the story is incredible sad, it wasn’t devastating, but actually life-affirming in a very beautiful way.
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‘The Luxe’ (Luxe #1) by Anna Godbersen
If you like all the glitz and the glam, New York, the 19th century, the scandals, the charming irresistible boys and the manipulative and glamorous girls, then this is the book for you. It takes you into the world of all that, and you want to scream, cry and hug the characters all at once.
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‘The Perfectionists’ (The Perfectionists #1) by Sara Shepard
Five girls, one murder and a whole lot of mystery. The story about Ava, Caitlin, Julie, Mackenzie and Parker who all hate the same guy. Together they come up with the perfect plan to kill him, but when he shows up dead the exact same way they planned it they have to work together to…
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‘The Darkest Minds’ (The Darkest Minds #1) by Alexandra Bracken
A deadly virus kills most of the American children. Those who survive suddenly develops dangerous, supernatural abilities. Ruby is one of them. She manages to escape from the brutal government-run “rehabilitation” camps. Together with a few others she struggle to survive in a world, where everyone has their own agenda and will stop at nothing…
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‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ by Stephen Chbosky
‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ is the story about the sensitive 15-year-old boy, Charlie, who starts in High School. As a reader I felt like I had a bigger role in this book because of the personal writing style and that is something I have never experienced before. But at the same time I…
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‘Alice in Zombieland’ (White Rabbit Chronicles #1) by Gena Showalter
I cannot stress enough that ‘Alice in Zombieland’ is not a retelling of ‘Alice in Wonderland’! But nonetheless, I loved how the zombies were this kind of spirits, which you had to fight in spirit form, because it’s something I’ve never seen before and it worked great. In addition all the persons in this book…
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‘Twenty Boy Summer’ by Sarah Ockler
In ‘Twenty Boy Summer’ Sarah Ockler creates magic through her beautiful writing. While reading, I became Anna and that really made me enjoy this book. Besides that, then this wasn’t just another predictable love story. I liked how I had no clue about what direction the story was going to take, and that made me…
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‘Watchers’ by Dean Koontz
‘Watchers’ was my first favorite novel ever. I read it when I was 15 and thought it was absolutely lovely and horrifying and the same time. Now I felt it was time for a reread, because ‘Watchers’ isn’t just any mystery/horror/thriller-novel. It’s actually characterized as Dean Koontz best novel, by readers all over the world.
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‘Wintergirls’ by Laurie Halse Anderson
‘Wintergirls’ is not just a really good and realistic novel about a young girls complicated relationship to her parents and vice versa. It’s also a kind of a crime/mystery, because Lia in the secret wants to find out how Cassie died. This combination made it both a pageturner and unforgettable.
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‘The Shining’ by Stephen King
‘The Shining’ isn’t scaring in the blood spattering way, it’s scary because you have this strong urge to dissociate from Jacks darkest and most insane feelings and thoughts, but King makes you realise, that you have them in you, yourself. WE ALL HAVE!
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Vox Pop: Who’s in charge when you’re reading with your cat?
Angel takes charge at Rebecca’s in England. Who’s in charge when you’re reading with your cat? (Photo: Rebecca from @beccareadsbooks at Instagram.)
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Vox Pop: Your best YA bargain – ever
“What’s your best YA bargain – ever? And what’s your worst?” (Photo: Penn State, Flickr, Creative Commons license)