Vacation! A tan is all I ever wanted XD

Lol hope that stupid song is stuck in all your heads now! :) But yes, I am going on vacation but I've got a whole big stack of books I'm taking with me so even though I may not post much I will have at least one book to tell you about. I got a few from the library. I read one already, Evermore. It was kinda like Twilight but better, but I'll tell you about that one later. The books I got for vacation are The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman, Set in Stone by Linda Newberry (this ones main character is a guy! I told you I would read one about a guy eventually! So there will be a short pause in the chain of girly books!) and I am Rembrandt's Daughter by Lynn Cullen (not a Vampire :( I was disappointed too). I have a few more that the library I hope I can get before I leave.
Oh and I must tell you all this because even though i was made the fool i must give her props for pulling this prank. My moms friend Donna (you know Donna (inside joke)) texted my mom tonight with this frantic message: "OMG The Presidents Plane just went down in the ocean and everyone is missing! Even the vice president! We are now in Red Alert!" We were all FREAKING OUT! I was trying to get the news on, my mom was texting her to find out what channel and Kierstin kept asking "What happened!" Sam was silently freaking out. And then the text came.....APRIL FOOLS! I was SO MAD! My heart was still freaking out 10 min. later when my dad came home! He just laughed at our gullibleness (is that a word?) to believe everything said on April Fools day.

Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

I don't remember exactly when I read this but I know it was recent. I just never put up a review for it. Maybe I read it right before I started this blog?Hmmmm? Well any ways, this book is called Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner and it was very captivating. I didn't think I would enjoy it and I did! It takes place in a post apocalyptic world. (hmmm, maybe I have a thing for books about the Apocalypse 'cause this is not going to be the last book I review that takes place in a post apocalyptic world. Also I feel so smart saying post apocalyptic!)

The book is about a 15 year old girl Liza (there are books on the way with male main characters I just haven't gotten around to reading them yet. I'll read them on vacation.) who is living in a world that fears the woods, the grass, the weeds, the air and even their own children because of what happened many years ago. The world we know is gone, destroyed by the faeries who came out of their realm and tried to take over ours. Both sides lost tragically and now only a few million humans remain in the world. Magic is feared above all else and it resides in almost everything. Children born with hair as silver as a faeries or show any other "faerie traits" are "given back" to the faeries meaning they are left to die. Liza's mother gives birth to a baby girl with beautiful silver hair and without a word her father takes her and leaves her on a hill to die. Liza's mother leaves in the middle of the night just a couple days later. A few weeks go by and after making a small mistake her father, who is a very abusive man beats Liza. She goes to the local healer for remedy for her pain. While she is there she sees her reflection in a mirror, she has never seen herself in a mirror before because they were all destroyed in the War. When the light catches the mirror she sees pictures of places she has never seen and realizes, she is magic. Not wanting her father to kill her she runs away.

When she finds a small town that's different from hers in the way that magic is actually encouraged and children are taught to control their magic she is confused after living in a town were magic is killed before it can kill. She finds out some things about her mother that she never knew and sets out to find her with her friend Matthew who has secrets of his own. ( I won't tell you because it would ruin the story but lets just say I has a "I did not see that coming!" moment when I found out the secret!)

This book was really really good. I was so sucked into this book. It was an amazing book to read. The characters were likable and there were a lot of "OH WoW!" moments when you find something out you wish you had seen before. :) I really suggest this book to those who like books about faeries or just books about magic. I like comparing the differences authors have in their versions of what they think faeries are. That's also why i like a million vampire books. I just love how one author makes them sparkle while another makes them pirates (there is a series called Vampirates, no joke). This was a great read. I couldn't put it down!!!!!!!!

The Morganville Vampires By Rachel Caine

I read this series a while ago and then next book is supposed to come out in September so I thought I would share with you these books. :) The Morganvile Vampire Series is about this girl named Clair Danvers. She is 16, lives in Texas and is very smart. So smart she was given early acceptance into MIT and Harvard but her parents think she is too young to be that far away from home so they sent her to a small college in Morganville. When she is there she gets on the bad side of Monica Morrel who is the mayors daughter. Monica starts to do horrible things to her and Clair decides she has got to move out of the dorms. She starts looking in the papers for a place to stay. She finds a places called the Glass House and its owned by Michel Glass, 18, and his friends Shane and Eve live there too, also 18. When she comes to see the room they decided she is too young but she is persistent until they finally give in and tell her she can stay for a while but she has to find somewhere else to stay. While she is there its not long before she finds out the dark secret none of the college students know. The town is secretly run by vampires. Vampires walk the night freely and if you aren't inside (vampires need to be invited in) you are a free snack. If you don't want to become someones midnight snack you have to pledge your loyalty to a vampire and when they want blood you have to donate to them. Also everyone else has to donate a certain number of pints a year.

I really liked the books. So far there are 5 books. There are 2 more scheduled to be released soon. :) They are pretty short so if you get one out you might want to get out the next one cause while I was reading them I would finish one and bug my mom to take me to the book store to get the others. :)

First one is called Glass Houses (i thought it was called the glass house but apparently its not.) then there is The Dead Girls Dance, Midnight Alley, Feast of Fools and Lord of Misrule (look that up on wikipedia and you get a neat little history lesson about the actual Feast of Fools). Carpe Courpus and Fade Out are the next two to come and after that there are 2 more so its going to be a very long series. :)
Its really weird how I found out about these books. Samantha actually won it at the Breaking Dawn release party at the Borders in the mall. Hahaha She didn't even want to be there! :) Any ways, I thought the series was really good. I loved it and I hope you do too!

I'm STUCK!

Oh no! I'm stuck! I have no new books to read! So this is where I ask you for books! I need books! I'm about to go on vacation and I need something to read! :) So please! HELP ME! :) Below in the comment section give me some books! You don't even need to tell me about it! :) Hopefully I get some great books!

Email list!

Last night while playing around with my blog I found out that I can have an email list. If you are on the list you will get emails whenever I put up a new post. I thought that was really fun so if you want to be put on the email list just put your email in the comment box. :D

The Hunger Games

I realized while looking at my blog tonight that I had some semi-girlie books up and because I have some guys checking out this blog and you can actually get a bad head ache from reading too many girlie books I decided to put up a review of a book I read a while ago that I loved and its not girly! XD Its pretty action packed. I couldn't put it down. I read the whole thing in one night and its thick!

Any who, the book is called The Hunger Games by Suzzanne Collins and it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The land once known as the United States of America is now called Panem and is ruled by the Capitol. There are only 12 places you can lives called the Districts. There used to be 13 but District #13 decided they weren't happy about the way the Capitol ruled them (you wouldn't be either, everyone lives in poverty and depending on what resource is in your area that's the kind of job you do for the rest for your life) and before they could even start a revolution the Capitol wiped them out. Everyone. Just to show how powerful they were. Every year since then all 12 colonies are forced to participate in a televised event called The Hunger Games. Its like a game show but instead of a simple question and answer game kids ages 11-18 ( i think, i cant remember exactly but i think that's right) are forced to fight to the death till one is left and that kid will win wealth and protection and their family will live in comfort for the rest of there lives. Only 2 from each district are chosen, one boy, one girl and they have to kill each other and everyone else to win.

The main character is 16 year old Katniss and her 11 year old sister is the unfortunate girl randomly selected from their district to participate in The Hunger Games. Katniss doesn't give it a second thought when she goes in her sisters place. The entire rest of the book is the games. It was an amazing book. The way the writer wrote the book makes you feel every emotion. You start to get into the games yourself. Choosing your favorites to win. I couldn't put it down. I had to know if she won or not and unlike most books where you assume the main character will live till the end, in this book your not always sure. It was such a great book. You have to read it. Its now one of my favorite books.

God Bless! <3>

An XD moment

So if you look at the post below this one you will see a review for The Ultimate Teen Book Guild. Well if you look at the comment under it you will see that one of the guys who worked on that book commented! I gotta tell you, it was an XD moment. To have an author of one of the books reviewed here on a blog i started little over 2 weeks ago come on my blog and comment on a reveiw we did on his book makes me so excited! XD And I'm also excited that I now have 8 followers! Oh that makes me sound like the leader of a strange cult. e.e Creepy :)

The Ultimate Teen Book Guide

Alright people! This review is the first guest star review and the first guest star is Samantha Wallace! (My sister for all you weirdos). And I don't wanna hear "Oh, she's you're sister! No wonder you picked her first." Noooo, I picked her because she's my sister. So HA! So, here she is!

This book is awesome! I randomly saw it sitting on the shelf at the library and walked right by. Then I stopped. Walked backwards to it. Saw the cover and grabbed it! And believe me, it was the smartest thing I'd ever done! It is what the name of it is. It is the ULTIMATE Teen Book Guide. It has reviews of books by authors AND teens. It rates the books +12, +14 and +16 so you won't have to worry about a "Gasp! That wasn't in the review!" moment.

Also, it has a little "Next" box after each review so if you liked the book they reviewed and are interested in other books like it, they give you other book suggestions. So, even though there are only like 200 reviews, it has over 700 books listed in it!

It also has polls from teens like "Books You've Read Over and Over", "Books You'd Like Made Into A Film", or "Best Books About Other Worlds". Stuff like that.

So, here's what I suggest. GO! to your library or bookstore and either "rent" or buy this book. Believe me, you'll be happy you did. After you finish one book, you'll go back to this book for another like it. And if you liked that book, you'll go back for another. And another. And another. And another. The cycle never ends!

Also, you go can to their website. http://www.ultimatebookguide.com/ for more! :)

Lucky number 7!

Yes! Thank you Ben! I now have my 7th follower! WOOOHOOOOO! :D I'm very happy! More books to come! And i don't know if i formally asked but i want some reviews from you guys. So if you have any books you want to review you can email me your review. :) Make sure you remember a title for the blog, the book title (if you forget that then i doubt your read the book Lol), the author (lets give credit where credit is due) and details of the book. How did you like it? How did you hear about it? Tell me! :D I'm looking forward to reading the reviews! :D

OK so

OH MU GOSH! i just noticed that i start almost ever blog with "OK so" or "OK" or "so". OH MY GOSH! Do i not know any other words!?!?!?! Lol

So if i do that again feel free to stop me. hahaha God Bless and good night!

North of Beautiful

OK so I just finished another book called North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley. Its very good and i enjoyed it allot. Its about a girl named Terra Cooper who was born with a port-wine birthmark on her cheek. Her whole life people have told her one day she would be beautiful but never that she herself was beautiful. Her mother is always taking her to get laser treatments to try to lighten her birthmark. Her verbally abusive father is no help at all. He knows just what to say to make you feel small and insignificant and has made it his life's pursuit to make her feel like her face is her fault. She's an artist who lives in a shell because until one day she gets into a car accident and almost hits this Goth boy in a Starbucks parking lot. She and him start a friendship that is strange because they are so different. He's an adopted Chinese boy who once had a cleft lip so they both have something people stare at, her because of her birthmark and him because he's a Chinese boy with a Blonde white mother (remember the Chinese give up girls, not boys).

I loved this book. It was so good! I couldn't even include everything i wanted to because its got so much in it. You will love it. Just read it. Please read it! It was great :D God Bless!

Generation Dead

OK so while struggling through The Graveyard book i picked up another book. Its called Generation Dead. Its about a goth girl named Phoebe and it takes place in a world like ours except with a little difference, some teens that die come back. They are zombies but advocates for their rights call them "living impaired". Only the teens are coming back and some people think its the start of the Apocalypse. Others just think its wrong and then there are some, like Phoebe who feels like an outcast for being goth sympathises with them. The books starts getting interesting when Phoebe falls for an undead named Tommy Williams. He's a little different from the other "living impaired". He does what no undead has ever done, he goes out for the football team. Not everyone is happy about this and a tough kid on the team Pete Martinburg decides its up to him to rid the school of the zombies and their breathing friends.

I thought the book was just OK. It was mostly dialog or the characters thoughts so coming up with images in your minds a little hard. Also in the middle of chapters the characters switch. There are a ton of time skips making it frustrating. There were characters who seemed important at the beginning an then disappeared as the book went on. The author builds up events that end up being a few bits of dialog. All in all the book was just OK. There was some mild language and just a little bit of suggestive humor amongst the football players but its just apart of the characters. I'm going to make up my own rating so I'm giving this book a cupcake and a half. :) God Bless!

The Graveyard Book cont.

OK so I'm having a little trouble really getting into the Graveyard Book. I guess cause it is a children's book but when you first take a look at the size of this book you don't think it is. I didn't know it was till i got it. But I will finish it for you all. :) In the mean time enjoy the book reviews of books i have recently read. :) They are to come within the next few...hours....or days.......or weeks. Hahaha God Bless!

Creepy and somewhat interesting

So last night before bed I quickly checked the news. This is a very fascinating article I found. Now it kinda doesn't have much to do with books but I thought it was interesting. :) Once you read it I'm sure you will think I'm weird but this subject really interests me. :B Enjoy!
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20090312/SCIENCE-US-ITALY-VAMPIRE/

The Graveyard Book

OK so this is what I'm reading right now. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. For something labeled "Children's Book" this is really thick. Now I'm only on the first chapter and I'm not sure how good at this point but I'm guessing its going to be really good because it won the Newberry Award and that's a pretty prestigious award so kudos to the author. All i can tell you about it so far is that its got really amazing illustrations. The flow into the page and really makes it look interesting. I'll let you all know how it is when I'm done but if have read it let me know what you thought of it. I would love to get some input. God Bless!

I want you!

That's right! I want you to give me your book reviews. I'm in the middle of a book right now so I don't have anything to suggest right now but that doesn't mean you cant suggest anything! So in the comments sections post your books suggestions! Tell us about the book! Whats it about? Who wrote it? Whats the theme? What type of people would like this book? Ramble on if you want to! Just let the word out about your book! :)

My New Blog!

Books! This blog is about books! I love to suggest books to people and I thought having a blog all about it would be great! Also, I'm kind of tired of going online and getting book reviews and suggestions and reading the book's and discovering its got allot of really bad parts in it that i don't want to read. So here is a place where you and I can review books and let people know if they are appropriate or not! And heck! Its fun! :) So enjoy!