The Compound

OK so I must be a genius! I am here to present you with another book! Yes! That's right! And this one only took me a day to read but it was really good. Its called The Compound by S.A. Boden. Its about this boy Eli who's family is living in a bunker. The bunker is called The Compound and it was built by Eli's billionaire father to escape nuclear attacks. It has every luxury possible and its stocked to last them for a long time. When Eli was 9 there was an attack and his whole family made it in except the most important people in his life, his twin brother Eddie and his grandmother. Its been 6 years and Eli's family thinks everyone on the outside is dead. There is a time lock on the compound set to open 15 years from now when its safe to return to the surface but when supplies start running low they realize maybe this wasn't as well planned out as they were told it was.

Soon Eli's father starts doing really strange things like trying to clone humans for food( i assumed that's what they wanted them for) and lieing about things. Like Eli just for the heck of it tries to log onto Internet and gets connected right outside his father office. His father said that there was no Internet, no contact, nothing. When Elis father starts asking them to participate in crazy experiments Eli knows they have to get out. Problem is, their father wont let them.

I really liked this book. It was really short and I wish it had been longer but it was still really good. The characters were really good and i loved his little sister Teresa. She was only 6 when they went in the compound and every day since she has watched Mary Poppins and has picked up an English accent. Any who I liked this one and i hope you do to and its not girly at all so yay! I picked a not romantic, not girly, not butterfly's and lollipops kind of book!

Frozen Fire!

I finished another book! Don't i seem so smart? 3 books in 1 week. Any who this book is called Frozen Fire by Tim Bowler and this was a really good book. Its a Physiological Thriller and that's why it took me so long to read. I couldn't read it at night. It wasn't scary really it was just so thrilling it kept me awake and i tossed and turned thinking about the strange boy.

The book is about this girl Dusty who is home alone on New Years Eve when she gets this disturbing phone call. Its a boy and he says he is dieing. When she asks him if he wants her to get help he says no and that he wants to die. She asks why he called her and he says he wanted to talk to someone as he died. He had taken an over dose of pills and as he talked to her he took more. She asked him how he got her number and he didn't know and when she asks where he is he won't say. So there is a strange boy on the other line, he is dieing, wont tell her where he is or what his name is and to make thing even weirder he mentions her brother, Josh.
Dusty's brother ran away 3 years ago and no one has seen him since. They don't know where he is or anything. He just left. Dusty's life has been a mess since he left. Her mother went crazy and left her and her father. Dusty gets into fights at school with random people without good reason. Her life's hasn't been the same so when the boy mentions Josh she know he must know something so she commits to finding this boy before he dies.

I wont tell you what happens after that cause it gets really interesting. The author is a genius. I was so into this book but it was slightly confusing for me but i won't tell you why. Lets just say someone isn't what they are suspected of being and no one can figure out what that someone or something is and whether that something is an important something or someone.

OK i think that was the most confusing reviews i have ever given but it was a confusing book. It took me a while to realize this book was written by an Englishmen and that it took place in England. Some of their words were confusing for me and when i got it i felt completely foolish for not getting it sooner. :)

Need

I completely forgot I read this book. Its Need by Carrie Jones. I laughed really hard while reading this and you may find that strange if you read the first few chapters. They are tense and spooky but once you get into the story you will realize like I did that the book is almost exactly like Twilight!

The story is about Zara who has just moved from her home in Georgia (warm and sunny) to a little town in Maine (small, remote and cloudy) after her father dies. According to her mother she has been a shell and she is scared that Zara might be depressed so she sends her to live with her grandmother. When she gets off the plane she sees this strange man and then she sees him again on the drive home, and again, and a again. Just watching her. She is extremely freaked out. (sounds like someones got an Edward stalker right?)

The guy turns out to be a Pixie and he keeps calling for her. (Not on the phone.) He calls to her in this tempting luring voice but she somehow is able to resist the pull of his magic. Soon it becomes clear that not everyone in this town is entirely human. Including her. (bum bum BUM!)

Now that's all I can really tell you without spoiling the entire thing for you. I thought it was really good and despite the fact its allot like Twilight I thought it was actually better. Now this is standing on the fact that I really did like Twilight (stop hissing at me!) so the fact that I liked it a little bit more means it was really good. But yeah if you have read Twilight your gonna laugh when you read things that are similar.

p.s. Zara knows the name of almost every fear and each chapter is the name and definition of a different fear. I thought it was interesting. :)

Oopsie!

Oopsie! So its been at least a week since I have been home and I haven't talked at all about any of the books I read on vacation. Well guess what! I didnt get a chance to read much! I know! I'm a fraud as a lover of books! You should all just behead me! Hahaha But if you spare me I can tell you all about the one book I was able to read on vacation. Its called Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Eternal is very interesting because its about a girl and her guardian angel. Now I don't really believe in guardian angels and I don't think that allot of the stuff in the book is biblicaly correct but remember its just fiction. Anyway the girls name in Miranda and Zachery is her Guardian angel. Miranda is just a normal girl trying to have a normal life but that's hard for her when her parents are divorced and she is too scared to even talk when she auditions for her school play. She thinks no one sees her and the one person who does can't be seen by her. Zachery fell in love with Miranda and knows her better then anyone else ( i thought that was kinda stalkerish) but he can never tell Miranda this because the rules of guardian angels is that only in an emergency can you show yourself but only to help. Also the rules say that if the person your guarding has reached the point when they must die you can not intervene.

Unfortunately when Miranda's card is up in a grave yard filled with blood thirsty vampires (a strange twist in the plot I thought but it actually fits) Zachery does the unthinkable, he gets in the way of death. His punishment it pretty harsh. Zachery has "fallen from grace" (seriously, that's what it said) and has been demoted to being almost human. He feels everything we do except he can't die. For a year he walks the earth and falls victim to the world. He fills his new human emptiness with alcohol and eventually he is given a chance to redeem himself. He has to save Miranda.

Now Miranda isn't home all warm in her bed. Miranda is now miles away living in Chicago and is now the Dracula's adopted daughter (Not the actual Count Dracula, the name is like a title) . The Dracula is the king of vampires and is in charge of them. Miranda is now a Vampire Princess, one of the undead and Zachery's task is to save her. Now here is an interesting twist, how can you save a minion of the Devil? Hmmmmmm?

I actually really liked this book and if the author had this could have been a really good story to promote the gospel. Alas it didn't but it does have the moral that no one is too far gone to be saved. Hope that this review made sense because believe me it was really hard to explain it. The way the book was written was confusing for me because the chapters filliped back and forth from Miranda to Zachery so even though the chapter is clearly labeled as either Zachery or Miranda you can sometimes become confused. But I think this book was really good. I'm not sure if there is going to be a sequel or not. Ever read a book where you wish there was a sequel but you know it would just ruin the series if it continued? Well thats how I felt at the end. But you may not feel that way so read it!

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!