Review: Across the Universe!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Science Fiction
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Insta love.
Cliff Hanger: Slight.
Rating: 3 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 6
World Building: 4
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: The male MC's driving nature.
Worst Part: The male MC was written like he was 12.
Overall Feels Felt: Oh snap; YOU LIAR!!!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes
Misc.: Written in 2 POVs; 1 female and 1 male.

Short Review: I loved the dual POVs, i always do and probably always will! The male MC was written like he was 12 instead of the 17 ish yr old he was supposed to be. He whined a lot. I loved the female MC, she didn't take anyone's shit, and at one point hit one of the older characters! I did figure out the "twist" pretty fast which is one of the reason i lowed the rating, it dragged badly in some parts.

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Just to ease everyone's mind :D

As you guys know, i'm in Baltimore right now and Baltimore is having some issues to put it lightly.

The hotel i'm staying in is about 25mins away from the more troubled area, and the building i'm working at is about 15mins away.

The curfew is during the hours i have to be at work, and the company i work for is being insanely awesome about the issue. They have been letting people stay home instead of coming in, and not taking any time from them. They have the papers for us if we need to leave early so we don't get arrested. They got taxis for those who take the bus but felt too scared to wait at the stop.

So as of now, i'm safe and sound :D

Review: Red Queen!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Slight love triangle.
Cliff Hanger: yepp
Rating: 3 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 5
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 7
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: The action scenes were well detailed.
Worst Part: Some parts were too rushed for my liking.
Overall Feels Felt: Meh.; Hmmm...; Oh that wasn't good.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yah
Misc.: There are some gore scenes.

Short Review: Okay, i went into the this book with highhhhhhhhhh hopes, which weren't meet. First this will contain spoilers, i need to make a point and spoilers are needed.

This book could be called "Hunger Games: Royalty Edition"

I didn't realize this until about 70% in. But then the more i thought about it the more i felt it was true.

Example A: Girl of low "blood" is thrown into the spotlight and has to do what the "leader" tells her or she will die, or her love ones will die.

Example B: Where the nation thought was useless lands, the rebellion is using as a base camp.

Example C: Girl is saved from an arena.

Example D: Girl is torn between two boys that are from the same area, and social status. She is forced onto one, but has feelings for the other.

It just gave off a very Hunger Games vibe but with a King instead of a President. Maybe it was just me thou.

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Review: Half Wild!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Witches
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangle.
Cliff Hanger: yes.
Rating: 2.5 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 5
Characters: 5
World Building: 7
Flow: 2
Series Congruity: 6
Writing:4

Total: 5

In Depth

Best Part: um.... well...
Worst Part: Nothing happened!!!!
Overall Feels Felt: Bored.; Something happen; Oh something is gonna happen!!!; jk.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: maybe.
Recommending: er.
Misc.: The MC is portrayed as bisexual! :D

Short Review: Well... This book was boring. I struggled to get into it. I struggled to finish it. There was a few actions scenes. I get the sense that the author likes high pages number instead of a good story. So much useless scenes and things. The whole book is supposed to be leading up to the Alliance taking back shit, but nothing happens.

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Review: My Heart and Other Black Holes!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 4.5 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 8

Total: 8.5

In Depth

Best Part: The slow burn :D
Worst Part: The black slug!
Overall Feels Felt: Girl i feel ya!; Please god no!!!; *sigh*

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: YES!
Misc.: Trigger; Suicide.

Short Review: So after kicking my front teeth out with Ugly Love, i decided to finish the job with this book! Holy crap the feels!!! I love the slow burn "romance"! I felt for the MC greatly, i understand the black slug problem greatly. I just wish they have a happy ending together!

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Review: After Daybreak!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Vampires
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Nope.
Cliff Hanger: Nope.
Rating: 3.5 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 7
Writing: 7

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: Lots of action!
Worst Part: Lack of action in final scene.
Overall Feels Felt: Oh you gonna get it; Seriously!; ugh.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: yes!
Misc.:

Short Review: This was a very good ending to a good vampire series. Thou i kinda hated the ending. We are all freaking out about Sin's army only to find out that he killed them all!! WTF, and to top that, Sin barely puts up a fight in the end! Very anti-climatic!!!  I enjoyed the series and recommend it to those looking for good vampire series!

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Baltimore :D

I made it to Baltimore last night :)

I settled into my hotel, which is wayyyy nice!

I got some groceries for the week and watched some tv!

I'll be here for 3 weeks! I'll be catching up on my ARCs (which aren't really ARCs anymore....)

If any of you know of something i should do on my days off around the city or somewhere within driving distance, let me know :D

Review: A Blood-kissed Sky!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Vampire
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: YESSSS
Rating: 4 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 8
Writing: 8

Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: The plot twist!!!
Worst Part: A little too much centered on MC and love interest.
Overall Feels Felt: Dragging a bit.; Oh snappppp!!!; Kinda saw that coming!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes!
Recommending: yes!
Misc.:

Short Review: This series is so good. Thou this one was a little too focused on the love interest, i could do without that. Sin is still going bat shit crazy, and i love it!!! I can't wait to see what happens next!!!

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Review: Every Day!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary; Fantasy
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Insta love, but it's cute!
Cliff Hanger: Slight.
Rating: 4.5 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 9
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 8

Total: 8.5

In Depth

Best Part: The love A has for Rhiannon!!
Worst Part: the sheer fact that they can't be together!!!
Overall Feels Felt: Oh snap; I'm 60% sure i read this awhile ago; Just be together already please!!!!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes!!!!
Recommending: yes!!!!
Misc.:

Short Review: I loved this book! By far one of my favs of 2015!! Though i'm pretty sure i read it around the time it was first published, but idc, it's so good!! i so badly just want everyone to be happy and i will not wait nicely for book 2!!!

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but they want to kiss, but they wont!!!!

Review: Ugly Love!

At A Glance

Genre: New Adult; Romance
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Insta Love!
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 4.5 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 7
World Building: 6
Flow: 7
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7

Total: 7.5

In Depth

Best Part: The past and present POVs.
Worst Part: The ugly tears this caused me!
Overall Feels Felt: Must not cry!; Why?!; Ugh, accept it!!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: yes, unless you cry easily!
Misc.:

Short Review: Okay so after seeing Hoover everywhere and listening to you all praising her :D i finally took the plunge and read a book by her! I picked Ugly Love because it was a stand alone, and the one i usually hear most about. Well thanks everyone for making me ugly cry!!! This book killed me like hard!!! The only think i disliked was how all the married men were flirting with the MC and she was like "I'm all hot and above others, and this happens all the time and now i must reject yet another married man." Gag. Don't act like that, seriously.

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the ugliest crier of them all!

Review: We All Looked Up!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangle.
Cliff Hanger: HELL YES!!!!
Rating: 4 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 6
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: The variety of characters in this book!
Worst Part: THE FREAKING ENDING!!!
Overall Feels Felt: Well shit!; Girls take things wrong!; WTF!!!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: yes
Misc.: There's a transgender kid in this book and that makes me happy!

Short Review: i want to throw this book against every wall in my house. Are you kidding with that ending!?!?! OMGGGGGGGGG!! I can't not know how it ends!!!! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.  I was very into this book, it had my attention the whole time. I loved the multiple POVs. Overall a great book!

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Review: Falling Into Place!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 4.5 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing:8

Total: 8.5

In Depth

Best Part: The ending! Yay :D
Worst Part: This book further makes me wish to be a boy.
Overall Feels Felt: Who the heck is telling the story?!; Aw, OTP for sure!; Soul crushing is happening!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: YEP!
Misc.: Triggers; Suicide.

Short Review: OMG! The feels i felt reading this was crazy high! I read this in one sitting and was almost crying by the end! And the ending! Love it!!!

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Nobody's Goddess
The Never Veil #1
Amy McNulty
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In a village of masked men, magic compels each man to love only one woman and to follow the commands of his “goddess” without question. A woman may reject the only man who will love her if she pleases, but she will be alone forever. And a man must stay masked until his goddess returns his love—and if she can’t or won’t, he remains masked forever.

 Finding Paris
Joy Preble
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Sisters Leo and Paris Hollings have only ever had each other to rely on. They can't trust their mother, who hops from city to city and from guy to guy, or their gambler stepfather, who's moved them all to Las Vegas. It's just the two of them: Paris, who's always been the dreamer, and Leo, who has a real future in mind--going to Stanford, becoming a doctor, falling in love. But Leo isn't going anywhere right now, except driving around Vegas all night with her sister.

Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke
Prisoner of Night and Fog #2
Anne Blankman 
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MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!

The girl known as Gretchen Whitestone has a secret: She used to be part of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. More than a year after she made an enemy of her old family friend and fled Munich, she lives with a kindly English family, posing as an ordinary German immigrant, and is preparing to graduate from high school. Her love, Daniel Cohen, is a reporter in town. For the first time in her life, Gretchen is content.

 The Silver Witch
Paula Brackston
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A year after her husband’s sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat’s death. Instead, the lake in the valley below her cottage seems to spark something dormant in her – a sensitivity, and a power of some sort. Animals are drawn to her, electricity shorts out when she’s near, and strangest of all, she sees a new vision; a boatful of ancient people approaching her across the water.

99 Days
Katie Cotugno
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Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything—how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. How I wrecked their whole family. Now I’m serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college, and be done. 

 Things We Know By Heart
Jessi Kirby
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After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all.
 

Review: The Wrong Side of Right!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Little bit of insta love.
Cliff Hanger: Nope.
Rating: 4 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of 10

Cover: 9
Plot: 10
Characters: 8
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 8

Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: The ending was very well written and it made my day!
Worst Part: Boys are dumb, nuff said.
Overall Feels Felt: Aw; Dumb boys!; Super Cute!!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: YES!
Misc.:

Short Review: I picked this one up solely based on the pretty cover :) The plot was a nice breathe of fresh air from all the other books i've been reading recently. The story flowed really well. I enjoyed the character developments. I wish the boy in this story wasn't a douche but you know, boys. The ending was so cute and i loved it. Overall, a great book :)

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It's Monday! (Week 17)

Another week down in the books :D

I hope everyone's weekend went well!

I got a few books done this weekend...

      

I gave 5 stars to two, and 2.5 stars to the other! :/

This is my last full week before i leave for Baltimore :D

I need to get three more books done this week so i can take them back before i leave...

     

:D

I will be catching up on reviews this week, and will be getting to the instagram tags when i get back in May.

What did you read this weekend???

My Sunday Night!

Since this was the last full weekend before my work "vacation", i spent Friday and Saturday with my son doing fun stuff :D

Tonight I'll be busy reading!

  

Think i'll tackle a movie tonight as well!

Either Guardians or Hungry Games...

Haven't decided yet!

Thursday Throw Down! (4)

Thursday Throw Down is an original feature created here at booklife4life. I created this feature because it seems with everything book related, there's always two ways to see it :)

Each week I will provide two "contenders" and you will decide the winner :) Write a post supporting your choice and link it back to here and add yourself to the Link-In so everyone can see! If you don't have time to create a post, just place your vote in the comment section! :)

I will "tally" up the votes and announce the winner along with a randomly selected blog post supporting that winner on the following TTD. 

In Corner #1 We Have...

Team Will!

In Corner #2 We Have...

Team Jem!

 

Who would you rather see Tessa with??

You can either leave your pick in the comments, or create a post on your blog and link it back!  

 

Trish from Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! had this to say...

I am a little torn on this. I love the idea of all the comforts and modern amenities of the Capital. But I don't think I could stand living with the people who live in the Capital. They are all so vain and self-centered. I don't even dry my hair in the morning and I wear very little makeup. I am most comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt (if sweatpants aren't an option anyway). While I appreciate the glamour of the Capital, I just don't think I would fit in.
District 12 appeals to me on the level of comfy clothes, a close knit community and better values. Then again, the people in District 12 are so poor and have NO amenities. Except for the houses in the Victor's Village.
So, I think I will go with District 12, as long as I have one of those very comfortable houses in the Victor's Village (along with the comforts they provide). And, as long as we weren't starving. ;)


Thank you for your reply :D
I agree, the capital has it's advantages but i'm more of an outdoors, smell the fresh air kind of gal, and i would love to just take walks in the forest every day. Plus i owe zero things of makeup and rock a pony tail most day :) 


   

Review: Unbelievable! (Pretty Little Liars #4)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangle, but it's more revenge than love!
Cliff Hanger: Slight.
Rating: 4 Stars.

Score Sheet

Cover: 8/10
Plot: 8/10
Characters: 8/10
World Building: 5/10
Flow: 9/10
Series Congruity: 10/10
Total: 8/10

In Depth

Best Part: A is getting even more involved and shit is hitting the fan big time!
Worst Part: SPOILER! Mona's death scene, i wish it was long and more detailed, it was maybe 2 paragraphs, not enough!
Overall Feels Felt: oh snap!; i knew it!!; you all gonna get it now!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes!
Recommending: yes!
Misc.: Triggers; eating disorders.

Short Review: This book seamlessly starts from where the last book left off. Hanna is in the hospital after her crash. A is revealed! I knew it was the certain person already from foreshadowing but it was nice how it played out. I find myself getting caught up in this story, and reading them in a matter of hours. i love it!

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Review: A Darkness Strange and Lovely! (Something Strange and Deadly #2)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Zombies
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: A little.
Cliff Hanger: not really.
Rating: 3 Stars

Score Sheet

Cover: 8/10
Plot: 7/10
Characters: 5/10
World Building: 8/10
Flow: 3/10
Series Congruity: 8/10
Total: 5/10

In Depth

Best Part: They're in Paris.
Worst Part: NOTHING HAPPENS!!!
Overall Feels Felt: Stop eating!; That dumb hoe is messing with you!; Do something!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: Maybe, i haven't decided yet.
Recommending: er.
Misc.:

Short Review: UGH! This book was 90% the MC eating, and fretting over boys, and maybe 10% action. The MC is very dense as well, she kept drinking with this one girl, and can't remember shit and she just goes with it! WTF!? Nothing major happens til maybe the last 30 pages. I was bored, and was glad i made it til the end.

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Review: Jackaby!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery; Paranormal
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: (again, i need to be quicker on reviews, i don't remember)
Rating: 3.5 Stars

Score Sheet

Cover: 10/10
Plot: 8/10
Characters: 7/10
World Building: 8/10
Flow: 6/10
Series Congruity: n/a
Total: 7/10

In Depth

Best Part: Reminds me of Sherlock!
Worst Part: Reminds me of Sherlock!
Overall Feels Felt: Someone copied Sherlock; Seriously?!; Dragging.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: Yes!
Recommending: Yes!
Misc.:

Short Review: This book greatly reminds me of Sherlock, which i love, but again, get your own idea. I was greatly angry with the whole everyone's gonna die, or wait, just kidding. ugh! There was some dragging in the middle, but it quickly speed up. I would like to know more about the ghost and duck :) Nothing major to point out.

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