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very good but not as good as the first, still waiting for the big explanation.
Book: The Fifth Wave
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
I actually really enjoyed this book I thought that the characters were really well written and the narration was really good.
I was actually reading a matter of days at the same time so kept getting the two confused as they are very similar.
Loved the twist I didn't see that coming!
Definitely leaves the book open for a second one.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
I actually really enjoyed this book I thought that the characters were really well written and the narration was really good.
I was actually reading a matter of days at the same time so kept getting the two confused as they are very similar.
Loved the twist I didn't see that coming!
Definitely leaves the book open for a second one.
Book: Divergent
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
hmm I'm not sure in this one.
I liked it..... but I didn't ...
It's kinda like hunger games....... but it isn't.
Beatrice is a bit of a bore if I'm honest, she chooses the groovy and interesting side in her initiation and all of a sudden becomes kick ass within 2 chapters.
She makes enemies as she is the newby and the trainer of the team takes an instant interest in her... . . and then it turns into a normal YA book.
I will probably read the rest in the series but it's not my favourite ever.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
hmm I'm not sure in this one.
I liked it..... but I didn't ...
It's kinda like hunger games....... but it isn't.
Beatrice is a bit of a bore if I'm honest, she chooses the groovy and interesting side in her initiation and all of a sudden becomes kick ass within 2 chapters.
She makes enemies as she is the newby and the trainer of the team takes an instant interest in her... . . and then it turns into a normal YA book.
I will probably read the rest in the series but it's not my favourite ever.
Book: This Lullaby
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
This is a very sickly sweet story – it is literally boy bumps into girl – stalks her in a sweet kind of way , they get together ,……and then don’t…… and then do.
It was an ok story and quite an easy listen, I would think that my mum would love it as it is quite Mills and Boony (is that a word?)
It is my first Dessen book and reading the other reviews one of the better ones ……….. I will reserve my judgement and try another one to give her the benefit of the doubt, but it was a little bit too sweet for my liking.
Perhaps there will be a serial killer or something in some of the other ones which will peak my interest !!
I quite liked the characters, Remy is not the normal sweet no sex before marriage kind of girl, she has smoked and shock horror had more than 1 conquest!!
Dexter is cool, he is clumsy and doesn't beat around the bush.
A couple of the other characters are cool too, little john was sweet and his crush on his boss was cute.
Ted was just grumpy throughout the whole book haha.
Hate Spinnerbait !
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
This is a very sickly sweet story – it is literally boy bumps into girl – stalks her in a sweet kind of way , they get together ,……and then don’t…… and then do.
It was an ok story and quite an easy listen, I would think that my mum would love it as it is quite Mills and Boony (is that a word?)
It is my first Dessen book and reading the other reviews one of the better ones ……….. I will reserve my judgement and try another one to give her the benefit of the doubt, but it was a little bit too sweet for my liking.
Perhaps there will be a serial killer or something in some of the other ones which will peak my interest !!
I quite liked the characters, Remy is not the normal sweet no sex before marriage kind of girl, she has smoked and shock horror had more than 1 conquest!!
Dexter is cool, he is clumsy and doesn't beat around the bush.
A couple of the other characters are cool too, little john was sweet and his crush on his boss was cute.
Ted was just grumpy throughout the whole book haha.
Hate Spinnerbait !
was quite good. more aimed at a young reader, I will read the others though to see what happens with Mary and the Magill
Book: Insurgent
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
Ok, picture the scene..........
You decide to treat yourself and order yourself a lovely takeaway, your absolute favorite, mine would be Chinese.........yummmmm
BUT you sit there for over an hour , waiting for the bloody thing to arrive, and then when it does you realize that you have gone past the hunger and you just sort of pick at it? I mean you enjoy it, but it's not the same as shoving it down your throat and saying mmmmm mmmm between every bite.
And then to top it all off the bloody idiots have forgotten the chips !!!!
Well that's how i felt about this book, to be honest i wasn't that fussed on the first one really, i was really looking forward to it and it had sat on my TBR pile for ages, (I have to admit i am a bit of an average star rating junkie, more that a 4 i'm in!)
Sooooo, the book sort of starts up just after the other one had finished, but again it really doesn't explain the whole faction thing, i mean why can't you be truthful, kind, clever and wreckless at the same time? why does this make you a bad person, why is there a need to wipe out these people, and what the hell does Divergent mean anyway???
The romance didn't outweigh the book too much as it does in other books, but i wish that Triss would make her mind up about whether his name is Four or Tobias, i mean just choose one for goodness sake.
So the Dauntless are once again the badass of the book and then it all goes political about the different factions and also introduces more factionless characters.
Anyway, it was an ok read, but it would have been better with chips !
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
Ok, picture the scene..........
You decide to treat yourself and order yourself a lovely takeaway, your absolute favorite, mine would be Chinese.........yummmmm
BUT you sit there for over an hour , waiting for the bloody thing to arrive, and then when it does you realize that you have gone past the hunger and you just sort of pick at it? I mean you enjoy it, but it's not the same as shoving it down your throat and saying mmmmm mmmm between every bite.
And then to top it all off the bloody idiots have forgotten the chips !!!!
Well that's how i felt about this book, to be honest i wasn't that fussed on the first one really, i was really looking forward to it and it had sat on my TBR pile for ages, (I have to admit i am a bit of an average star rating junkie, more that a 4 i'm in!)
Sooooo, the book sort of starts up just after the other one had finished, but again it really doesn't explain the whole faction thing, i mean why can't you be truthful, kind, clever and wreckless at the same time? why does this make you a bad person, why is there a need to wipe out these people, and what the hell does Divergent mean anyway???
The romance didn't outweigh the book too much as it does in other books, but i wish that Triss would make her mind up about whether his name is Four or Tobias, i mean just choose one for goodness sake.
So the Dauntless are once again the badass of the book and then it all goes political about the different factions and also introduces more factionless characters.
Anyway, it was an ok read, but it would have been better with chips !
Book: The Raven Boys
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
So, there is a house in which there live psychics, not the 'did you ever have a friend who's name began with M ' type, but the ones that will tell you that when you kiss your first love he will die!
So poor old Blue ( love the name BTW ) has grown up knowing this all of her life and has never found the urge to kiss anyone especially not a Raven boy.
Until she meets Gansey.
Other things included in the book.
Clairvoyants
Helicopters
Hocus pocus
A very dodgy english accent ( Think Mary Poppins! )
All in all though I really liked it and will definitely read the rest in the series.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
So, there is a house in which there live psychics, not the 'did you ever have a friend who's name began with M ' type, but the ones that will tell you that when you kiss your first love he will die!
So poor old Blue ( love the name BTW ) has grown up knowing this all of her life and has never found the urge to kiss anyone especially not a Raven boy.
Until she meets Gansey.
Other things included in the book.
Clairvoyants
Helicopters
Hocus pocus
A very dodgy english accent ( Think Mary Poppins! )
All in all though I really liked it and will definitely read the rest in the series.
Book: Legend
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Move over Tris and Tobias (Four) and make way for June and Daniel (Day).
This was SOOOOO much better than divergent in all sorts of ways, better characters, better story ………
This is a ‘who done it?’ kind of book, although it was quite easy to wok out who did it.
June is young bright (brighter than most) upper class girl who is used to hunt for the killer of her brother who she believes is a rebel called Day (Daniel).
Day, is a young lower class boy who is basically on the run but is wanted by the authorities for crimes against the government.
The book flips between Day and Junes POV which I really likes and the narration was really good with the male / female voices.
Will be reading this series with interest and can’t believe that it was in the DNF pile for TCF Monopoly.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Move over Tris and Tobias (Four) and make way for June and Daniel (Day).
This was SOOOOO much better than divergent in all sorts of ways, better characters, better story ………
This is a ‘who done it?’ kind of book, although it was quite easy to wok out who did it.
June is young bright (brighter than most) upper class girl who is used to hunt for the killer of her brother who she believes is a rebel called Day (Daniel).
Day, is a young lower class boy who is basically on the run but is wanted by the authorities for crimes against the government.
The book flips between Day and Junes POV which I really likes and the narration was really good with the male / female voices.
Will be reading this series with interest and can’t believe that it was in the DNF pile for TCF Monopoly.
Book: Blindsighted
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
I enjoyed this and have the others in the series to listen to, I did work it out about half way in though, although I wasn't 100%.
Not as gruesome as I thought it was going to be, I was warned to have a strong stomach (perhaps years of Stephen King have steadied me lol) But enjoyable just the same, and my 1st finished book of 2014!
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
I enjoyed this and have the others in the series to listen to, I did work it out about half way in though, although I wasn't 100%.
Not as gruesome as I thought it was going to be, I was warned to have a strong stomach (perhaps years of Stephen King have steadied me lol) But enjoyable just the same, and my 1st finished book of 2014!