8/24/2015

My TBR shelf #2

"A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it... or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever. (source: goodreads)


I'm actually going to start this book today and I'm so excited for it!

I bought it yesterday when I was in Amsterdam with my family and I was so sad after leaving Waterstones with just two books. They always have ALL the books I want, but I don't have that much money. What a depressing story, isn't it?
Still, I'm happy about this book and "Never Fade" (Darkest Minds series #2) by Alexandra Bracken (Wohoo!). I heard that "A Court of Thorns and Roses" is something like "Beauty and the Beast" and Sarah J. Maas is also the author of the "Throne of Glass" series I want so badly. They have to be amazing, just like I hope this book will be!

Love,

8/20/2015

"Across the Universe" by Beth Revis

“Dreams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.” 

I finally finished this book after a month. Yay!
I read it on a four hour drive home and I couldn't stop reading, so I guess I'm out of my reading slump too!
I even started a new book already, it's called "Mystic City".
You can check it out here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13411245-mystic-city?ac=1


A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. 



Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming. 
(source: goodreads)


The beginning of this book was very confusing and the action slept until the end. Still I love the chemistry between Amy and Elder, even though Amy still loves Jason, but he sounds like a complete Jerk and he's dead anyway so go Emy (or is it Alder? Idk.) Oh, and we can't forget about that he told Amy the truth and that's just my fav part. Like, no one ever tells the hard truth right away, bc the other person could be hurt or hate them, but Elder still tells her and Amy forgives him, because of that. I think if he hadn't told her, she would have hated him.
The end was the best, when most of the secrets are told, the bad guy's away and Emy/Alder can be happy together. But, poor Harley...At least he was in the stars, near Kayleigh...

So, it's a good read, just not an easy one, because your mind is constantly working on lifting the secrets on Godspeed.


Love,


8/17/2015

My TBR shelf #1

I'm starting a new thing: I'll present a new book I still have to read, that's on my TBR (to be read) pile, every Monday. 
So, today's the first book!

"Mystic City (Mystic City #1)" by Theo Lawrence


Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud - and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged upper reaches of the city, against the banished mystics who dwell below in the Depths.

But Aria doesn't remember falling in love with Thomas; in fact, she wakes one day with huge gaps in her memory. And she can't conceive why her parents would have agreed to unite with the Fosters in the first place.

Only when Aria meets Hunter, a gorgeous rebel mystic from the Depths, does she start to have glimmers of recollection - and to understand that he holds the key to unlocking her past. The choices she makes can save or doom the city - including herself.
(source: goodreads)


Fun fact: I tried to read the second book first and didn't succeed, bc I got about nothing. Still, the snippet I did get was cruel, bloody and awesome. 

Okay, That sounds bad, but it really started in a war...
The second book already looks great, so gotta be excited for the first one too, right?
Oh,and btw I love the cover!

Love,





8/15/2015

Need a little sparkle in your life? Here are my top 10 YA romance novels!

Warning: I'm only showing the summary of the fist book of a series, bc I don't want to spoil anything!



#10  The "Legend" trilogy by Marie Lu

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbours. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.


From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
  

Don't get me wrong, this is one of my fav series and Day and June are perf otp, there are just better romance novels. 


#9 "The Infernal Devices" trilogy by Cassandra Clare


The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them... 


Again loving the books, loving Wessa and really great love story, it just can be better. 

(freaking love triangle...jessa...grrr)

#8 "The Spectacular Now" by Tim Tharp


Sutter Keely. He’s the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabulous, actually.

Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee’s not like other girls, and before long he’s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else’s life—or ruin it forever.  

This book is also a movie, starring Shailene Woodley as Aimee and Miles Teller as Sutter! But as almost always the book was better than the movie. The movie was still good tho.

#7 "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell


Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.

Eleanor
... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
 

I cried so much at the last pages. The love of these two is so innocent and soft and beautiful you just wish for a fairytale ending. Rainbow Rowell (great name btw) wrote so wonderful and honest you just have to love Eleanor and Park together, and this love is something every teenage girl, maybe even boy, dreams of in their sleep. Also I love the fact that Eleanor isn't the usual tomboy, skinny, beautiful on first sight kind of girl. She's true to herself. And she's a bit on the wider side (she's not fat, tho!) , like me, and still found her prince, so there's still hope for me!

#6 "The Fault in our Stars", "Looking for Alaska" and 
"An Abundance of Katherines" all by John Green

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.


Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.


Katherine V thought boys were gross
Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart 
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. 

I know BASIC, but it's just the way it is. John wrote awesome books and the movies are awesome too and he's just awesome and Nerdfighters are awesome and DFTBA!
But for real, these books are heart catching, heart swelling and then heart ripping. Into. Tiny. Little. Pieces. That. Are. Never. Finding. Back. Together. EVER.

#5 "Starcrossed" trilogy by Josephine Angelini

How do you defy destiny?

Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.

As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.

This was my fav book series before I read the LUX series. First of all it's about greek mythologie, second Lucas's hot and third the tension is gripping and omg the moment Lucas catched Helen in the first book. So cute!

#4 "The Precious Stone Trilogy" by Kerstin Gier

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust.
This trilogy I read so many times (thanks to my sister), because it's the series that made me a fangirl/ booknerd (*applause*).  Gideon was also my first fictional crush and I tended to dress up like Gwendolyn. There are also two movies already and the third is (hopefully) in the making rn. I have to admit that the movies weren't that good, they were a bit off  the storyline, but I still enjoyed watching them.
#3 "The Mortal Instruments" series by Cassandra Clare
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know... 
An all-time-favourite. If you haven't read this series yet, go read it. If you haven't even heard of this series, go look it up, then read it. That's all I have to say about these books. My babes.
#2 "The Selection" series by Kiera Cass
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.
This is my go-to series to read after a Reading Slump. I read the whole series in like three days and the latest one "The Heir" in one, two days max. It's an easy and enjoyable read, when you need a feel good book.
#10 The "LUX" series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Who guessed it? If you want to know what this book is about just click on my Review of this book!
(all summaries by goodreads)

Love,

8/13/2015

How to get over a Reading Slump

A Reading Slump is a period of time, where you aren't enjoying reading or just don't want to read anything. You want to watch movies or series, lie in bed and eat cookies.
This can happen, bc of a boring book (*cough* Endgame *cough*) or you read too much too fast or you just don't feel like it and it's totally okay if you do so. It's normal. Everyone has it, even the big booknerds.
I'm in one too and I just don't feel like it, but I still love books!
So here are some tips how to get rid of it.
1) Don't try to hard to read again.
Take your time following these tips, otherwise you won't enjoy reading a really good book and it will just last longer.
2) Watch every movie and series you feel like watching. Sit in bed and eat a cookie.  
Just do what your brain wants to do. It won't help doing something you don't want to do and I mean, why don't enjoy your time on this planet  doing things you want to do that very moment?
I for example started a new series, it's called " The Carrie Diaries" and I just feel comfortable and cosy and good doing a marathon in the evening. (And btw the guy in there is really hot so... check it out!)
Or good movies are "Geek Charming", "Vampire Academy", "Dirty Dancing" and "Once Upon a Song". I can watch them a hundred times and not get bored!
3) Start reading again.
If you feel like reading again, start with something easy to read or a book you waited on reading for too long or even re-read your favourite book. Treat yourself for feeling like reading again!
4) After that you should be able to read normally again! (*applause*)

This are my four go-to tips for overcoming a Reading Slump. I'm going to continue enjoying season one of "The Carrie Diaries" and eat some cookies now. Bye!

Love,