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Book: Prodigy
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Ok I'm still really into this series, Marie Lu has made a wonderful series that really keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Love Day and June together in this one although June did start to wind me up a bit with her perfect counting.
I was kept listening right to the very end, THE ENDING..............talk about emotional!
Loved it and will definitely put Champion on my TBR list.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Ok I'm still really into this series, Marie Lu has made a wonderful series that really keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Love Day and June together in this one although June did start to wind me up a bit with her perfect counting.
I was kept listening right to the very end, THE ENDING..............talk about emotional!
Loved it and will definitely put Champion on my TBR list.
Book: Code Name Verity
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Wow is a word to use for this one.
It's not my favorite book ever but it is very good and VERY clever.
People are right in saying that you can not say too much about the plot as it will spoil it for you.
Well worth the read, and the audio was fab, get your goggles on you're in for a bumpy ride !!
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Wow is a word to use for this one.
It's not my favorite book ever but it is very good and VERY clever.
People are right in saying that you can not say too much about the plot as it will spoil it for you.
Well worth the read, and the audio was fab, get your goggles on you're in for a bumpy ride !!
Book: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
Not sure what to think of this one, was ok but not amazing.
Creepy but not scary.
A very quick read/listen.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆
Review
Not sure what to think of this one, was ok but not amazing.
Creepy but not scary.
A very quick read/listen.
Book: Between Shades of Gray
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
This is a hard hitting book, told through the eyes of a 15yr old girl called Lina.
I have to say that I was not very aware of what Stalin did before reading this as in school you only really learn about Hitler and what he did.
The torture thatvthese people went through is unbelievable and the starving ......dear god the starving.
I think that as a YA book this was not as gruesome as it could have been and it has been filtered down a LOT for the market that it is intended for, however it is a lovely written book.
The characters are very strong and I was rooting for them the whole time, apart from the bald headed man.....I didn't like him at all.
The acknowledgement at the end of the audiobook is lovely and shows how dedicated the author was to research and write this.
A 5* read
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
This is a hard hitting book, told through the eyes of a 15yr old girl called Lina.
I have to say that I was not very aware of what Stalin did before reading this as in school you only really learn about Hitler and what he did.
The torture thatvthese people went through is unbelievable and the starving ......dear god the starving.
I think that as a YA book this was not as gruesome as it could have been and it has been filtered down a LOT for the market that it is intended for, however it is a lovely written book.
The characters are very strong and I was rooting for them the whole time, apart from the bald headed man.....I didn't like him at all.
The acknowledgement at the end of the audiobook is lovely and shows how dedicated the author was to research and write this.
A 5* read
Book: Cinder
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Review
I actually really enjoyed this, I sort of worked out the 'twist' about half way through so it wasn't a surprise but considering it's a retell of a children's story I was really impressed.
I will definitely check out the rest of the Lunar Chronicles to find out what happens.
Loved Cinder as she didn't take and sh#t from anyone, Iko was just so cute and Kai, well he was just swoonsome.
The queen was just a complete bitch and so was her ward Sybil.
I hope Cinder gets her prince, but we shall see.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Review
I actually really enjoyed this, I sort of worked out the 'twist' about half way through so it wasn't a surprise but considering it's a retell of a children's story I was really impressed.
I will definitely check out the rest of the Lunar Chronicles to find out what happens.
Loved Cinder as she didn't take and sh#t from anyone, Iko was just so cute and Kai, well he was just swoonsome.
The queen was just a complete bitch and so was her ward Sybil.
I hope Cinder gets her prince, but we shall see.
Book: Flat Out Love
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
Gush gush gush gush gush..........
If I didn't gush enough for you then let me break it down for you, I kinda LOVED this book.
I've read so much YA at the minute with instalove, rippling muscles and lopsided smiles ( What the hell is a lopsided smile anyway? I mean try to do one now....GO ON ... see, you look like a total freak, do it in the mirror ......do you look sexy hmm? NO you look like a serial killer! )
Anyway where was I ........ oh yeah gushing haha.
So this was not the usual YA book it was a little bit different.
Julie gets a placement for a university in Boston, gets her bags packed and off she goes, however when she gets there the apartment she has secured is not so much as secure but non existent.
Good old mum calls a friend of hers from years back who tells Julie to go and stay with them.............thats when the weirdness starts.
So Julie is collected by Matt who is a quite handsome but geeky to take her back to the house.
Later she is then joined at dinner by Erin (Mother and a bit of a snob) Roger ( A biologist who studies the excitment of shrimps!) Matt ( Geeky know it all with bad dress sense) Celeste ( Matts younger sister who talks like she is in a period drama) ........And Flat Fin (A lifesize cardboard cut out of the older brother!)
This at dinner is all perfectly normal with everyone no one even bats an eyelid at FF, and they just go about their dinner as normal.
This is also a tiny bit wierd for Julies liking, but then finds out that Fin is travelling around the world and Celeste uses the flat version to compensate for the fact her brother is not there.
Julie settles in nicely and gets close to all of the family especially Matt and Celeste, but most of all Fin.
Ahhhh Finn .....swoon.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone you have never met?
After friending him on facebook and chatting regularly Julie realises that they are falling for each other.
NOW dear readers after reading that little bombshell you would in fact be doing the whole erghhh...... come on Vicci you told us it wasn't an instalove book.
But this book is different....... it's like a jigsaw, you know when you start doing it you find the nice straight edges, fit them together and then the fun begins, and there is always that last piece, that you can not find, and it's always there but it's hiding behind the others. ...THAT IS THIS BOOK.
I laughed out loud
I nearly cried
I shouted OMG at the top of my voice.
What can I say............but gush!
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
Gush gush gush gush gush..........
If I didn't gush enough for you then let me break it down for you, I kinda LOVED this book.
I've read so much YA at the minute with instalove, rippling muscles and lopsided smiles ( What the hell is a lopsided smile anyway? I mean try to do one now....GO ON ... see, you look like a total freak, do it in the mirror ......do you look sexy hmm? NO you look like a serial killer! )
Anyway where was I ........ oh yeah gushing haha.
So this was not the usual YA book it was a little bit different.
Julie gets a placement for a university in Boston, gets her bags packed and off she goes, however when she gets there the apartment she has secured is not so much as secure but non existent.
Good old mum calls a friend of hers from years back who tells Julie to go and stay with them.............thats when the weirdness starts.
So Julie is collected by Matt who is a quite handsome but geeky to take her back to the house.
Later she is then joined at dinner by Erin (Mother and a bit of a snob) Roger ( A biologist who studies the excitment of shrimps!) Matt ( Geeky know it all with bad dress sense) Celeste ( Matts younger sister who talks like she is in a period drama) ........And Flat Fin (A lifesize cardboard cut out of the older brother!)
This at dinner is all perfectly normal with everyone no one even bats an eyelid at FF, and they just go about their dinner as normal.
This is also a tiny bit wierd for Julies liking, but then finds out that Fin is travelling around the world and Celeste uses the flat version to compensate for the fact her brother is not there.
Julie settles in nicely and gets close to all of the family especially Matt and Celeste, but most of all Fin.
Ahhhh Finn .....swoon.
Have you ever fallen in love with someone you have never met?
After friending him on facebook and chatting regularly Julie realises that they are falling for each other.
NOW dear readers after reading that little bombshell you would in fact be doing the whole erghhh...... come on Vicci you told us it wasn't an instalove book.
But this book is different....... it's like a jigsaw, you know when you start doing it you find the nice straight edges, fit them together and then the fun begins, and there is always that last piece, that you can not find, and it's always there but it's hiding behind the others. ...THAT IS THIS BOOK.
I laughed out loud
I nearly cried
I shouted OMG at the top of my voice.
What can I say............but gush!
Book: Inside Out
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆
Review
Mehhh is the only thing I can really say about it, I mean it was ok .... but it really didn't get going.
Even when Cole had been locked up and Broken man was on 'the run' it didn't work for me.
The exciting bits weren't that exciting and even gateway was a non excitement.
Ok for some but not for me I'm afraid.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆
Review
Mehhh is the only thing I can really say about it, I mean it was ok .... but it really didn't get going.
Even when Cole had been locked up and Broken man was on 'the run' it didn't work for me.
The exciting bits weren't that exciting and even gateway was a non excitement.
Ok for some but not for me I'm afraid.
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Book: Under the Never Sky
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Narration rating: ☆☆☆1/2
I liked this book, it was well written mostly and I enjoyed the story.
Aria lives in a pod as well as thousands of others, they have to do this as after the Aether storms the planet was ravished, outside is now called The Death Shop.
Instead of going outside in real life they do it virtually with a smart eye attached to ......yep you guessed it their eye.
This takes them into different realms so they can experience different things and call it "Better than Real"
However there are people that live on the outside called Savages dum dum duuuummmm!
**Can you see where this is going yet?**
The Savages live in tribes run by The Blood Lord and they seem to have special abilities like extra sensory hearing and smelling.
Now when I heard the words Aether and Blood Lord together I nearly turned the book off as I had an awful feeling it was going to be another long boring book that didn't make any sense **cough cough [book:The Bone Season]** however is isn't so you can relax.
After being exciled from the pod after being set up Aria (Who sings , shock horror) wanders around nonchalantly trying to find somewhere to go, she is however nearly killed and is rescued by a Savage called Perry.
Perry is looking for his nephew who has been taken by one of the Pod people, (Moles to you and me) and Aria is looking for her mother who works at BLISS (another pod far away i think) So they link arms and skip off together to find them and to take Aria back home, although they don't link arms they hate each other.
This book was quite confusing as a lot of the words used were just left to your imagination and not described, I mean what the hell is the Aether?
Anyway as all YA books go, after a lot of anger and smoldering looks they fall for each other but not before they are nearly killed by cannibals and eaten by wolves.
I did enjoy the book and will read the others but hope that there is a bit more explanation in the next ones.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Narration rating: ☆☆☆1/2
I liked this book, it was well written mostly and I enjoyed the story.
Aria lives in a pod as well as thousands of others, they have to do this as after the Aether storms the planet was ravished, outside is now called The Death Shop.
Instead of going outside in real life they do it virtually with a smart eye attached to ......yep you guessed it their eye.
This takes them into different realms so they can experience different things and call it "Better than Real"
However there are people that live on the outside called Savages dum dum duuuummmm!
**Can you see where this is going yet?**
The Savages live in tribes run by The Blood Lord and they seem to have special abilities like extra sensory hearing and smelling.
Now when I heard the words Aether and Blood Lord together I nearly turned the book off as I had an awful feeling it was going to be another long boring book that didn't make any sense **cough cough [book:The Bone Season]** however is isn't so you can relax.
After being exciled from the pod after being set up Aria (Who sings , shock horror) wanders around nonchalantly trying to find somewhere to go, she is however nearly killed and is rescued by a Savage called Perry.
Perry is looking for his nephew who has been taken by one of the Pod people, (Moles to you and me) and Aria is looking for her mother who works at BLISS (another pod far away i think) So they link arms and skip off together to find them and to take Aria back home, although they don't link arms they hate each other.
This book was quite confusing as a lot of the words used were just left to your imagination and not described, I mean what the hell is the Aether?
Anyway as all YA books go, after a lot of anger and smoldering looks they fall for each other but not before they are nearly killed by cannibals and eaten by wolves.
I did enjoy the book and will read the others but hope that there is a bit more explanation in the next ones.
Book: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
So I really enjoyed this book, it is one that you can not say a lot about as it will spoil it for you, but while reading it I worked out the twist quite quickly.
Jenna has been in a coma for over a year after a very bad accident, and wakes up to find herself in a new home.
She has lost all of her memory and is basically starting from scratch again, and is using old videos of herself to do this.
Her parents are very protective of her and she is not allowed to do almost anything without having a lecture from them.
She is stuck in the house for weeks at a time without speaking to anyone apart from her parent and her nana who she thinks hates her.
This is one of those books that make you think "What would I do in that situation" would I do the same?
This is a book about how far a parent will go for someone that they love.
I don't have the answer to that question !!!!!!
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆1/2
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
So I really enjoyed this book, it is one that you can not say a lot about as it will spoil it for you, but while reading it I worked out the twist quite quickly.
Jenna has been in a coma for over a year after a very bad accident, and wakes up to find herself in a new home.
She has lost all of her memory and is basically starting from scratch again, and is using old videos of herself to do this.
Her parents are very protective of her and she is not allowed to do almost anything without having a lecture from them.
She is stuck in the house for weeks at a time without speaking to anyone apart from her parent and her nana who she thinks hates her.
This is one of those books that make you think "What would I do in that situation" would I do the same?
This is a book about how far a parent will go for someone that they love.
I don't have the answer to that question !!!!!!
Book: Human .4
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Remember that annoying friend that you used to have when you were younger that thought he could do everything magic, hypnotism etc. (But really he was just crap at it ?)
Remember that time he told you that he hypnotised his sister? Bwahaha what a knobhead!!!
Remember that time that he decided to do his hypnotism act at the local village talent contest, and you sat there cringing because you knew what it felt like on that stage to have people laugh at you? Awkward!!!
Remember when you put your hand up when he asked for 4 volunteers because you felt sorry for him? (What a looser!!!)
Remember when you woke up and …………………………???
If I say any more it will spoil it for people, please read this little quick book, it is a fab read.
If you get the chance listen to the audio because of the tapes (Ohh spoilerish)
I will be waiting with baited breath for the next instalment of this quirky little book.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆
Review
Remember that annoying friend that you used to have when you were younger that thought he could do everything magic, hypnotism etc. (But really he was just crap at it ?)
Remember that time he told you that he hypnotised his sister? Bwahaha what a knobhead!!!
Remember that time that he decided to do his hypnotism act at the local village talent contest, and you sat there cringing because you knew what it felt like on that stage to have people laugh at you? Awkward!!!
Remember when you put your hand up when he asked for 4 volunteers because you felt sorry for him? (What a looser!!!)
Remember when you woke up and …………………………???
If I say any more it will spoil it for people, please read this little quick book, it is a fab read.
If you get the chance listen to the audio because of the tapes (Ohh spoilerish)
I will be waiting with baited breath for the next instalment of this quirky little book.