A Colloquy on Books

Disclaimer:    This review is about the fourth book in the Selection.  This review contains spoilers to The One  by: Kiera Cass, you have been warned, proceed with caution. Princess Eadlyn Schreave has grown up on stories of how her mother, America Schreave, and her father, Maxon Schreave met. They are a fairytale, twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection of Prince Maxon, and won his heart, never to look back. Eadlyn has always found the story romantic but she wants to put off marriage as long as possible. But her life isn't always her own as she's a princess, and no matter how hard Eadlyn tries, she cannot escape her own Selection. Eadlyn doesn't expect her story to end in romance but as the Selected arrive, some entries may start capturing her heart. Finding her own happily after might not be as hard as Eadlyn once thought. Let me start by saying, I was really looking forward to reading The Heir , for two reasons. The first being I would fina...

Melody is different from most people. She can't walk, nor can she talk, but she has a photographic memory and can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. Melody has also been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but she is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her. She is smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the same classmates who put her off as mentally disabled. Melody is not ready to let that stop her, and she's going to find a way to tell everyone that Melody is not cerebral palsy, she is a person. There were two main reasons to me liking Out of My Mind . The first being Melody herself. I really liked the way Sharon M. Draper has created her main character. Melody expresses herself like a child while also expressing herself like an old soul. I found it very interesting and it made me love her so much more because of it. I feel like this combination of very clear of opposites coming out of the character made her feel...

I haven't posted anything for the last month because I was taking a much needed break and focusing on my education. For those of you who missed me, I've missed writing about the books I read, and I'm ready to come back! My next review will be posted on August 20th, 2015. I look forward to restarting my blog and I hope you enjoy!

Beka Cooper is not a Puppy anymore, she's a Dog. But things aren't going well, there's counterfeits out in the markets, merchants are raising their prices, and that's not good with the coming winter. Beka and her mentor Goodwin have to undercover but is Beka up to the job? 3 stars. Nimira is a music hall performer who is forced to perform in front of a bunch of leering drunks. Hollin Parry hires her to accompany a piano playing automaton. There's secrets in the air, a mad woman roams Parry's house and a fairy might be trapped in the automaton. 2 stars. Two sisters who will do anything in order to protect each other. Annie can't see the present but she can see the future. Fia can never do the wrong thing, her instincts are perfect. When the sisters are offered a place at an elite boarding school, they agree. This is no ordinary school as Fia realizes, this school does everything from choose stocks to plant bombs. They stole her past. They control...

Darcy has put her whole life on hold to go to New York to publish her teen novel. Lizze accidentally slips into the "Afterworld" in order to survive a terrorist attack. Darcy has a lot to learn about the writing world. Lizzie discovers that there are many stories that need solving in the "Afterworld," the world between life and death. She constantly wonders if she's made the right decision until she falls into a crowd of seasoned and fledgling writers. All of sudden Lizzie is faced with new threats she might not be able to overcome. One writes the words, the other lives them. I enjoyed reading Afterworlds  for two main reasons. One, I liked the fact that it took me into the publishing world through the perspective of a writer. I learned a lot about how books get published and also got "to see" how hard authors have to work before their book actually goes into print. The second reason I enjoyed reading Afterworlds . Before we to my reason, you ne...

Saba has always followed in her twin brother Lugh's footsteps, so when four cloaked men kidnap Lugh, she follows trying to save him. Soon she is forced to team up with Jack and the Free Hawks a group of revolutionaries. As she does she realizes she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. 4 stars. When Brontë starts dating Bruiser, her twin Tennyson isn't surprised but unnatural thing start happening, bruises disappear, scrapes heal too fast, and it seems like their good fortune but it may be more than they bargained for. 4 stars.  Princess Sylvi is bound to her pegasus Ebon on her twelfth birthday, for a thousand years before them the pegasi and humans have lived safely because of their inability to communicate without the help of magicians and shamans. Ebon and Sylvi can  talk. Will their friendship destroy the peace between the nations? 2 stars. Grace moves and starts seeing monsters and a girl who looks exactly like her...

Mirabelle's past is unknown, her parents are dead, and her guardians have forbidden her to return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to find some answers Mira runs away to Beau Rivage. Nothing is as it seems in Beau Rivage, a pale girl has a morbid interest in apples, an obnoxious playboy is a beast to everyone he meets and yet another guy has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life and are played out, again and agian. But fairy tales aren't always pretty and don't always end happily ever after. Mira has a role play, a destiny to embrace or fight.  Everything about Kill Me Softly  drew me in, starting from the title to the cover to the first chapter itself, (says a lot about my tastes doesn't it?). I really liked the way the story started without any wandering. What I mean is that Sarah Cross got right into her story without wasting time, she started with a purpose and delivered on the purpose. Another thing that I enjoyed was th...