Shatter Me-Tarereh Mafi

Date Released:November 15th, 2011
Publisher:Harper/HarperCollins

Pages: 388 pages
Date Read: November 22, 2011
Format: Hardcover Source: Bought from Barnes and Noble

Goodreads Sypnosis: 

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.



My Review:

Shatter Me was a additive, stunning, sexy, dysoptian debut that will leave you breathless after page one! It was riveting, gripping, and absolutely mesmerising! Tahereh Mafi weaves a book so good, you want to savor every sentence, word and page one hooked me!

Did you see that cover??? So flipping amazing! And the trailer????!!! Once I saw it I immediately bought it the day it came and I normally don't do that but this book...I NEEEDED IT!!!

The writing? Do I need to say anything? Its AMAZING. It flows so well and I experience a whole new sensation reading this book! It was flawless and beautifully written, Tahereh Mafi is only 23. Unbelievable right??? Everything pieces in and its hard to believe its her debut novel!. Seriously go out and buy this book. Right now.

Juliette hasn't touch another human being in exactly 264 days. She's looked up in an asylum where the Reestablishment treats her like a monster, with a curse, and they tell her locking her up was the best thing. Juliette is a strong, tough, I-have-plans-of-my-on type of heroine. She plans to escape and flee to a world she wouldn't have for once be judged.

She's counting the days, hours, second in small notebook hidden in a crevice of her cell.

    Then the unexpected happens. [Yep the romance.] Adam Kent. ADAM. ADAM. He was the perfect guy for Juliette. I can't remember the times I was reading this and swooning over the scorching romance scenes. It was beautiful. It was like cookies and milk when you eat them it melts with perfection, that's how the romance is. I can't believe how easily I loved Adam and Juliette....PERFECT!!!!!!!!! :D Adam was a tought, swoony, heart-pounding guy. There was something about him that maded all YA romance novel guy not the same at all.

Warner. Warner was convincing and intrigiung each time he spoke and him personally. He can really twist your mind and make you think of yourself as a lethal weapon, like he did for Juliette. I actually liked him. Odd right? Well, he really jumped between the lines of a romantic, supper evil villan.

 Juliette stood up to him. She was a total bad ass, with the power to take down people with a slight touch of her hands. Don't tell me that's not total kick-ass power! Think of her clawing through four walls of concrete and glass. Imaginative! Best Dysoptian ever. Period.

I can't stop thinking or shwoing off this book! It was PERFECTION. Perfect. Perfect. I can't stop saying how awesome this book is! I'm actually reading it for the second time beacuse I can't get enough of it and me praising alll about it! This book was delicious throiughtout, crispy in the edges, and a slice of stunning perfection! I cannott stop looking at that cover!

Here's the must-see trailler:



I'm dying of excitement!



Wither-Lauren DeStefano

 “Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Date Released:September 27th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 

Pages: 358 pages

Date Read: October18th 2011
Format: Hardcover Source: Bought from Amazon Goodreads Sypnosis:

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a
lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?
Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom

My Review:

Wither was a heart-pounding, amazing dysoptian debut! It's probably one of my favorite dysoptain novels of 2011 since every second of this book made my world! Look at that cover *points at cover* beautiful! One of the most beautifully crafted covers I saw and I can't stop looking at it. This book has everything for a perfect dysoptian: creepy elegance, gripping characters that you never want to leave, edgy with a real,unique voice.

Wither starts immediately. Right from page one you already know you will love everything about it. 16-year old Rhine Eldery is taken by the Gatherers, to be forced into marriages with a husband having two to how many wives they could afford? Kinda creepy...just saying^^ In her society, a deadly virus caused all people to live a certain age. For men its 25, and for women it's 20. Forced marriages are a must, so that the population doesn't die out.

Rhine is taken to a endless, trapped house were her husband Linden cares for his wives, but all Rhine wants is to go home, keeping her motivated to run away, even with a attractive servant boy, Gabriel. During her whole time trapped, she discovers Linden's father close to finding a cure for the virus, but that means experimenting on Linden's dead wives to get his hands on a cure. For Rhine freedom seems to far away...

Really try Wither! Even with dysoptian, post-apocalyptic coming in the YA genre, Wither is a must-read. I mean read it! Just read it!! :D



Did you watch the book trailer for it? Well if you haven't here it is:

“You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.”

Book Review:Hex Hall by Rachael Hawkins

Hex Hall by Rachael Hawkins

Hardcover, 323 pages                                        

Published March 2nd 2010 by Hyperion Book CH

Copy Recieved from:Library

Goodreads Blurb:Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father--an elusive European warlock--only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her

 My Review:

Hex Hall was a stunning,amazing, fast-paced debut that I know forsure Miss Hawkins's cast a spell over her words! So freaking good! Finished it in 3 hours!!! The story was the perfect book with everything crafted out so well it literally feels like you are swept up in this story! And there is romance with the sexy, and famous Archer Cross!

One of my favorite character's had to be Jenna! She was like Sophie's side-kick with all the help she gave her on the first day and she was witty and very fun to read! The way the killer killed the student's at Hex Hall was kinda creepy.... *worried,scared look*. There was lot's of funny,sarcastic dialogue with some kick-butt scenes with Sophie, ....Hex Hall was just so so good! And I love the cover! :D Yes,cover Love!!!!!


This book has everything a YA reader would love and more with it's laugh-out-loud scenes, with a little predictable plot, perfect heroine(Sophie is relatable and witty), and was so addicting with the writing and how everything pieced together from the begining!*Smart look at Rachael Hawkins* I will definetly re-read Hex Hall and look forward to Demonglass!

                                                                                 5 stars!!

                                                     

                                                  

Book Review: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Hardcover, 421 pages

Published August 23rd 2011 by Razorbill

Goodreads Blurb:   The first book in Richelle Mead's brand-new teen fiction series - set in the same world as Vampire Academy.

When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.

Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood.

 

 

My Review:

So good! So so good!!! :)*smiles and smiles more* 

Reading Bloodlines by Richelle Mead was stunning,fast-pacing, Sydney was a perfect heroine, action was leaving me gasping for air and gripping on the book beacause it was ssoooo good!(and yes,I can't exaggerate it much more!)

 

Sydney was such a goody-goody and just wanted to do her Alchemist duty, and maybe that is something I liked and was relatable. We also see Adrian Ivashkov and Rose Hathaway and other from Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy,and I liked it alot. There was something about this book,the character,the setting that maded me devoure it in a day,since it was awesomesauce!!! 

 

I so look forward to The Golden Lily! The ending was crazy! **Spolier** With Lee being obsessed with turning into a Strigoi, and that scene with Adrian,Jill,Syndey,sooo good and excited and the ending with Dimitri man I need the sequel!!!!!!!!!! And a copy of this book!!! :D

 

So much twists  and turns with lots of mysteries and thoughs that will leave you desperate for the sequel!  The story starts out will Sydney being torn away from her bed at night for a Alchemist mission (and only gets better from there!). She is told that she will have to take her sister,Zoe Sage, place since of her lower training in defending herself against the ruthless,Strigoi. Now,Syndey and Moroi and sister of Lissa Dragomir, Jill Dragomir are posing as students and sibling in the human boarding school of Amberwood Prep. There Syndey and her Alchemist adventure just begin with hidden secrets and humans provide an illusion of safety.

 

So good! So good and I can't stop saying how so good it is! So it recieves 5 STARS!!!

 

 

        So Freakin Awesome!! Loved every thing about it. Will Re-read forever!!

    

 

 

 

 

Book Review: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Hardcover, 472 pages                                          

Published October 12th 2010 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Goodreads Blurb:BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.

PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light, artfully weaves two girls’ stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart.

  My Review:

WOW.....Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly was such an engrossing and heart-felt book.

 Reading the sypnosis you have an idea of how powerful and capturing this book will cause you to cry and after finishing it you realize how hard life is.(Which happened to me!^^) Andi was so relatable and you can feel her intense pain because of her brother's death. She just wanted to play music and stay inside her painful and sad world.

Sometimes she was annoying with all her talk, but it eventually eased out.  I felt both Andi and Alexandria's emotions, which is hard for books to get me inside and connect with them was if your them. :) I like how Miss Donnelly did a great job with Alexandria's journal, making it feel like a 200 year old diary!!!

The story starts out with Andi Aplers, a girl who's on edge. Everything in her life is ruined~her father left, the death of her brother,Truman; and angry,rageful at her mom for not understanding and coping. Music is only her rescue an comfort.  Her life drastcially changes when her father askes Andi to accompany her for winter at Paris,Andi agrees even through her raging and spiritful reaction.

After being accustommed to Paris, we are introduced to Alexandira, the street actor who's lives was overshadowed by the prince of France. These 2 different girl's world collide together, as Andi feels the comfort and obsession in Alex's diary. During a night in the Paris Catacombs, both of the world of the past translate to the present.

A absolutelty stunning historical fiction debut from author, Jennifer Donnelly!!!

         

So Freakin Awesome!! Loved every thing about it. Will Re-read forever!!