Saturday Soundtrack!

Here's an uh-mazing song to get you through your day :]

Library Haul 1/30 :]

I may have went a bit overboard with the books today :]

Plus 1 more book, but i can't reveal that yet ;)

Did i pick up anything you consider great??

Feature & Follow (3)

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read.

This week's question:

Hard print (real thing) or Kindle/Nook, which is your favorite?

My Answer:

This is a tough one! I recently received a tablet as Christmas presents and i have my kindle app on there now! But since i never buy books, i'll have to go with Hard Print :]

The few books i have "bought" on my Kindle, i never get around to reading them, or i forget about them when i am reading them.

Hard Print is where it's at :]

What about you guys??

Thursday Throw Down! (2)

Welcome to Thursday Throw Down :]

Last week's winner: Team Alex!

Thanks to the one vote i got!

This week we have Cover vs. Cover!!

Cover #1:

VS.

Cover #2:

Which do you like better??

Cover #1 or Cover #2??

What Up Wednesday :]

Happy Hump Day :]

What I'm Reading:

  

Cruel Beauty - Fairy Tell retelling :] i'm about a third into it and it's alright so far.

Grave Mercy - Reading this on my kindle so it's taking a bit, but it's good so far :]

What I'm watching:

 

 Weeds!

I just finished this series on Netflix, and i legit cried on during the last episode.

What I'm Listening to:

 

Bad Blood by Taylor Swift!

How can you not love every Taylor Swift song, i know i do :]

How is your week going?

Waiting on Wednesday (2)



Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine

W.o.W is where you share a book that you are barely hanging on to your marbles patiently waiting on to be published :]

Until The Beginning (After the End #2) by Amy Plum

Publication Date: May 5th 2015 by HarperTeen
Goodreads

BOOK 1

Bio: 

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.
At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.
When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.
Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.

I loved book 1!!! It was so good. I need book 2 right away please!! :]

Have you read After the End yet???

Out Today: Jan. 27th.

     

     

Loads of good books out today :]

Zombified (Zombie Apocalypse #2) by Adam Gallardo

Goodreads

Bio: When Courtney learns that the Army has begun reclaiming New York for the human race, she’s ready to leave Salem, Oregon behind. But first she’ll have to take care of a few details – and kill a few zombies…

Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross

Goodreads

Bio: Faced with a possible loophole to her "Snow White" curse, Viv goes underground, literally, to find the prince who's fated to rescue her. But is life safe in the Underworld worth the price of sacrficing the love that might kill her?

Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles .1) by Marissa Meyer

Goodreads

Bio: Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now.

The Mime Order (The Bone Season #2) by Samantha Shannon

Goodreads

Bio: As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows.

A Cold Legacy (The Madman's Daughter #3) by Megan Shepard

Goodreads

Bio: Juliet uncovers the truth about the manor’s long history of scientific experimentation—and her own intended role in it—forcing her to determine where the line falls between right and wrong, life and death, magic and science, and promises and secrets. And she must decide if she’ll follow her father’s dark footsteps or her mother’s tragic ones, or whether she’ll make her own.

Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff

Goodreads

Bio: Here's what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you'll understand.

Beautiful Redemption (The Maddox Brother #2) by Jamie McGuire

Goodreads

Bio: Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.
Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony.

Top 10 Tuesday (2)

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely ladies at The Broke and the Bookish!

This week's topic: Ten Books I'd Love to Read With My Book Club/If I Had A Book Club

I'm not in a book club. I am in like 80 groups on Goodreads :] but i almost never read what they're reading at the same time.

So if i had a book club i would have us read:

(In no order)

     

1. The Gone Series - Goodreads

2. The Enemy Series - Goodreads

3. The Unraveling Series -  Goodreads

     

4. The Last Survivors Series - Goodreads

5. The Castor Chronicles - Goodreads

6. The Ravenants Series - Goodreads

     

7. The S.Y.L.O Chronicles - Goodreads

8. The Ashfall Series - Goodreads

9. The Rebel Belle Series - Goodreads

10. The Harry Potter Series - Goodreads

I went with a theme :]

Anyone care to guess the theme behind my choices??

Weekend Wrap Up & Weekday TBR :]

'ello everyone :]

Hope your weekend was good!

This weekend i got a lot of reading done!

        

I recommend all but 1 of these!

Can you guess which one i hated?! :]

I'm pretty much over my sickness, i still have a cough but it's getting more productive.

I'm hoping to get 3 more books done by the end of this month!

     

Red Rising

Title: Red Rising
Series: Red Rising Trilogy #1
Author: Pierce Brown
Rating: 3 Stars.

My Review: THIS WILL BE A RANT AND WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!

My Thoughts in 1 GIF:


Okay, i seem to be the only one who didn't love this book.

Main reason i didn't like this, there wasn't anything really going on at all for 75% of the book!!

The first 25%, Darrow was all into taking down the Golds and doing whatever it took. There was plans made. Lots of talking happened. They showed Darrow things to make him angry, and he became angry. So therefore i was expecting some serious shit to do down. I was hyped up for it! So when i get to the 50% mark and nothing has happened, i struggle on, then 75%, still waiting, at this point i start skimming like crazy because NOTHING IS HAPPENING!!!

I didn't quite understand how this whole "School" thing worked. It was the Hunger Games meets Survivor and it was just bad. Brown didn't even explain who the school thing worked, they just ended up there. (Unless i missed something, i don't remember him explaining anything)

I pictured this the whole time they were at "school"


They were split into teams, which i still don't see how they figured out the teams. did they just wake up around the same area in the "arena" and that was the team?!

Then there was some kind of probe thingy that made them into slaves or some shit. Again, it wasn't really explained, i have no idea what the darn thing looks like, but it appeared very randomly and people buried it and i don't know.

I thought the whole point to Darrow being there was to make friends, but as far as i could tell, he spent more time running after some girl on the other team then he did making friends. Then he started to turn into a crazy power driven person and was gonna kill someone, then didn't, which makes zero sense since on like the first day of "School" he killed some random kid and was alright with it then!

The only thing that even went with the story line, happened in the last like 75 pages. But that was rushed and not very climatic.

Seriously, i saw nothing wrong with living inside Mars versus whatever the hell was on the surface of Mars. If i was Darrow, i would've just stayed down there.

Overall, this book wasn't at all what i expected and i was bored during most of the book. To me, almost nothing was explained to Darrow or the reader. Darrow just went with it and I just skimmed through a lot. I was expecting so much more and so much different than what this became. Not impressed.



I have an ARC of Golden Son, i was going to read it as soon as i was done with Red Rising, but now, i don't even know if it'll get to it.

Feature & Follow Friday (2)

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read.

This week's question:

Do you post your reviews anywhere besides your blog? Where else do you post reviews?

My Answer: 

Well, last year, i mainly only posted on Goodread's, Blogger, and Booklikes :]

This year i will be adding Tumblr, and Amazon to the mix :]

I do have a process to reviews thou, i always post them on Goodreads first, mainly because i just use HTML and when i copy over to Booklikes, it copies too :]

This year thou i am trying to include more things in my reviews, like GIFs :] 

My Goodreads is the most updated of everything thou. I always scan a book into the goodreads app before i start it. I update a lot on there and i share my while reading thoughts, which i'm trying to do more often now.

 

 

Library Haul! 1/23

It's too dark to take a picture but i wanted to share what i got :]

I'm pretty excited to get to these!! Plus, the library had Vampire Academy on DVD :] so i grabbed that to see, maybe it'll tempt me more to try that series again!

I'm feeling about 75% better than i was at the beginning of this week, all that's left is a runny nose. Trying to take it really easy this weekend.

In other news, i'm hoping you guys can send me some good vibes my way. I'm stressing out over a work thing. I rather not go into detail. But good vibes are needed :]

Have you read any of the books i grabbed today??

Less than 12hrs till the voting for round 2 is over!!!

go vote people!!

Or there is a poll on Goodreads.

Also you should go vote on my Thursday Throw Down.

I kinda want to make that my thing.

we can do teams, covers, MCs, ships, etc.

it'll be fun, but only if you comment :]

http://booklife4life.blogspot.com/2015/01/thursday-throw-down.html

Thursday Throw Down!

Welcome to another round of Thursday Throw Down!

This week's team's hail from the Delirium series!

 

 Goodreads

Bio: Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

Team #1:

Alex Sheathes 

Security guard making sure no one runs into the wilds.

Passes himself off as "cured".

Falls in love with MC Lena.

Tries to help her escape.

Team #2:

Julian Fineman

Son of the leader of the movement to cure everyone of Deliria.

Is supposed to undergo his "cure" before the recommended birthday.

Gets kidnapped with MC Lena, who aids in their escape.

Falls in love with MC Lena.

Which team should be the winner??

Snow Like Ashes

DNF at 25%.

I badly wanted to love this book. Everyone else seem to love it.

i struggled through the 100 pages i did read.

It was hard to follow what was going on. There was too many names of people, places, and things to follow.

I'm pretty sure i already know the big plot twist anyhow.

I was gonna give it another 50 pages, but once i put it down, i just had zero desire to pick it back up.