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Blood Wounds By: Susan Beth Pfeffer


03 Nov

Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer is the second book of the Blogger Book Club, Teen Lit Rocks. The main character is Willa, whom is a normal girl with a semi-normal family. I will admit I did not like this book as much as last month’s pick. It seemed like the big wow factor of the book happened in the first couple of chapters and then the story went kind of slow.  Once I focused and continued reading I did enjoy the book. It was very intense and sad.

It was a normal day when Willa gets home from school and finds that the answering machine for her home phone has three voice mails for her mom from her mother’s best friend, which seem strange with the sound of her friend’s voice panicky.  This is when Willa finds out that her real father which her mother left when she was little remarried and had three kids.  The worst part was that her father had murdered his wife and two of his daughters, and was on his way to find Willa with his other little one. Therefore Willa and her mother have to go into hiding until her father is found.

Willa and her mother stay at a hotel until her father shows up at their house and a cop is forced to shoot him. Willa’s father ends up dying and the police find Willa’s little sister murdered in his car.

Willa feels bad that she never knew her sisters and convinces her mother to let her go stay with her mother’s friend so she can go to the three little girls’ funeral. This is where the story really takes off. You are going to have to read the book to find out what all happens…

For the letter grade I give it a C+

Full Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book for review purposes.

What’s on your reading list right now?

Under the Mesquite By: Guadalupe Garcia McCall


07 Oct

I recently joined a blogger book club called Teen Lit Rocks. The book club is just starting out so Under the Mesquite was our first book.  The book was amazing.  I loved it so much. The main character is Lupita, she is the oldest of eight children in a Mexican/American family. She is in high school and is taking on a path of acting. She will soon find out that when nothing is going right you can get lost in acting or writing.

When Lupita’s Mami (Mother) is diagnosed with cancer her whole world is changed. She must take charge of the family while her mother gets better. After Mami has an operation to remove the cancer she must under go chemo.

Even though she seems to be getting better after a year of chemo the cancer came back, but this time it is even worse. Papi decides that Mami must go to a special clinic in Galveston to get treatment which means that Lupita will be running the house all by herself. Even though it is hard running the household and seven kids, Lupita manages for the three months Mami is away.

I don’t want to give the ending away so you are going to have to read the book to find out what happens.

This book is not a fairytale as you can see but it really touched my heart, I even cried in some parts of it. Under the Mesquite has definitely made it to my top 5 favorite books.

For the letter grade, I grade the book a B+.

Full Disclosure: Thank you to Lee & Low Books for providing me with the early copy of this book to conduct my review.

Forever By: Maggie Stiefvater


11 Aug


Forever By: Maggie Stiefvater is the last book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. I was sad when I started reading the book because I didn’t want it to end. Maggie did a great job completing the trilogy by bringing the whole story together.

I will admit that I did cry in some parts of the book. (Yes I’m a sap when it comes to sad parts in books and movies.) The beginning was emotional to read because Grace kept forming back to human for only minutes and it was never long enough for Sam to see her.

At one point Grace was in wolf form and she got trapped in the lake. Sam was in the woods at the time with Cole when he heard a wolf howling and whining in pain so he went to save it, finding out that the wolf was Grace. When he got her out he took her back to his house and locked her in his bathroom until she turned back to human form.

I like the character Cole because he figured out how to make a wolf turn back human even in the winter. My favorite part in the book is when Cole turned Beck, Sam’s step father, back to human form since he was also a wolf like Grace in order to get answers. It was really sad because Beck could only turn human once and it only lasted a few minutes.

One character that I don’t like is Tom Culpeper. Tom shot Sam in the first book and tries to have all the wolves killed in this one.

Will Grace stay a wolf? Will Sam stay a human? Will they save the wolves from the town? Find out what happens in Forever.

Full disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of Forever to review. All opinions are 100% mine.

Forgotten By: Cat Patrick


25 Jul

Forgotten is a new book that I just finished reading. This is a great book in my opinion. The main character is London Lane, a 16 years old girl and she is special. Every night when she goes to bed she forgets the day before .  Each night before she goes to bed she writes herself a note about what happened that day that she needs to remember. Not only can London not remember her past but she also sees her future in her dreams.  If all that is not hard enough to deal with now she has to deal with a boyfriend that she can’t remember.

Her boyfriend Luke is the best… super cute and sweet but he has a secret. He knows that London forgets the past and doesn’t admit it to her until London leaves all her notes out and he finds them. It turns out that London told Luke about her secret at a YMCA summer day camp when she was younger and they first met. Because of her lack of knowledge of the past London could not recall the event. With Luke knowing her secret London starts having disturbing visions she can’t make sense of, and that is when she decides that it is time to find out more about her past.

Check out Forgotten and read what happens with London! :)


Harry Potter and The Order of Umbridge Parody by The Hillywood Show!


17 Jul

Friday I posted a parody of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows by The Hillywood Show. Well if you liked that one then you are going to love this video. In this video Harry and Ron are making fun of Umbridge. It is just hilarious some of the stuff that they create. I hope that you like this video just as much as I do.


Harry Potter Friday Parody by The Hillywood Show!


15 Jul

The Hillywood Show has done it again and now it is with Harry Potter! In the video it is making fun of the song “Friday” By: Rebeca Black. It is recreating part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while also talking about getting ready to go see part two. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows: Part Two came out at theaters at midnight of last night.

The parody is really funny I hope you enjoy it just as much as my mom and I did.

Abandon


14 Jun

The latest book I just finished reading was, Abandon By Meg Cabot. I’m in love with it! What really hooked me in this book is that it is a modern story of the myth about Persephone and I love Greek myths. I had just finished reading the story of Persephone in class. I finished the book in less than two days, it was one of the best books I have ever read. 

Pierce is one the main characters in the book. Two years ago she died by hitting her head after a fall causing her to slip into her pool and drown. However, she came back to life. What did she see when she was dead? A light.

She went to the place that you visit before your final destination. There she runs into a guy that she met when she was a kid at her grandfather’s funeral. She soon finds out that his name is John and he is in charge of the ‘between’. John took Pierce to the place he lives and told her that she would be stuck there forever, but she escaped. John continues to show up when she least expects it.

After Pierce moves the worst starts happening… She finds out that John is in love with her and that she is falling in love with him just as much. But does that come with a price? Find out by reading Abandon!

 

New Moon


03 Mar
Cover of "New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Bo...

Cover of New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

I told you all about Twilight and now its time for New Moon. Honestly the book made me want to cry in some parts because my favorite character and vampire, Edward Cullen, leaves Bella because he thinks it’s for her own safety. Leaving was the worst thing he could ever do. When Edward leaves, Bella goes into this sort of depressed state and she is in it for months. When she snaps out of it she finds out that she can hear Edward’s voice if she does stupid and reckless stuff.

Bella goes to her old friend, Jacob Black, who happens to be good at working on motorcycles. She takes him two motorcycles to fix up so they can ride together. This is one of her reckless acts to see Edward. But even though Edward is gone he is not the only person with a dark secret. Bella soon finds out that Jacob is a werewolf. The reason the werewolves have been changing again is because vampires are their enemies. Soon Bella finds that out.

When Bella decides that riding motorcycles is not enough to see Edward she goes cliff diving. Edwards vampire sister, Alice, can see visions of the future and she sees Bella jump off the cliff but believes that Bella is trying to kill herself. Alice tells Rosalie about what she saw in her vision and Rosalie tells Edward that Bella is dead. Edward decides that if Bella is dead then he wants to be as well, so he goes to the Volturi and asks them to kill him.

When Alice sees that the Volturi won’t voluntarily kill Edward and that he plans to make them mad enough so that they will, she goes back to Forks, Washington to tell Bella to stop him. When Bella finds out what is going on she goes to help which makes Jacob mad since he is in love with her and she is choosing Edward, his enemy. Bella arrives in Italy just in time to stop Edward right before he shows himself in the sun to humans.

The Cullens and Bella are made to meet with the Volturi who want to kill Bella because she knows too much about vampires. Alice promises them that Bella will be changed into a vampire very soon. Of course after they get back home Edward says that he will not let Bella be turned so she calls it to a vote with the whole Cullen family and of course they choose to turn her in order to save Edward.

Now the only problem is the treaty with the werewolves. If the Cullens turn Bella they break the treaty to not bite a human and that means war. Jacob tells Bella that he will not let her be changed into a vampire. If she does he will be forced to kill her. At the very end Edward asks Bella TO MARRY HIM!!! Will she say yes or will she say no???

 

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Twilight Book Review


07 Feb
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I have written a lot about the Twilight Saga but I haven’t actually written about the book Twilight.  I LOVED the book. The action and romance all in one was great!  When I read this book I automatically became Team Edward. Stephenie Meyer is my favorite author, her books are the reason I got hooked on reading so much.  The book has both action and romance which I love, but even better it has VAMPIRES!  In the book, Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her dad.  That is when she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Cullen who has a scary secret.  To Edward, Bella’s blood is more alluring than any human he has ever smelled before.

When I started reading Twilight I could not put it down, actually I fell asleep with it on top of my face one night and my mom had to come in my room to close the book and turn off my light.  It took me a total of one and a half days to finish it. When I told my mom I had finished the book she didn’t believe me at first.  She even got a Q&A and tested me to make sure that I really read it that fast… guess what, I got a 100%.  :)

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Iron Queen Book Review


30 Jan

Iron Queen is the 3rd book in the Iron Fey series and another great book of Julie Kagawa’s. When we left her, Meghan Chase – the main character, and the Ice Prince, Ash, had been banished from the Nevernever forever. But will that forever actually last forever?? Now Meghan has a choice to stay in the real world with Ash or save Nevernever by defeating the False King…  Meghan Chase turns 17 years old during Iron Queen although when she is in the Nevernever she is suspended in time and don’t truly age.

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The Iron Fey series are mythological novels geared towards teens.  I started the first book in the series last year and was very excited to read the third book that was just released.  I would personally recommend this book to any of my friends and if you love stories about fictional worlds then you would truly enjoy this series.

In the first two books I felt like the story was going in one direction but in Iron Queen it took a whole new route. I have mixed emotions with the ending of the book mainly because I don’t know whats going to happen next. By the title of the book I thought that the False King was going to have a wife, the Iron Queen, that Meghan would have to face but instead the story took a whole different path. The twists and turns has me filled with suspense and surprise. The ending is definitely keeping me on my toes for the forth in the series to come out.  The next book coming soon is called the Iron Knight, Ash’s story.

Have you read any of the Iron Fey series? What are your thoughts? I love to hear what other people are reading and I am always open for book suggestions. I love to read!

Full Disclosure: I received a copy of Iron Queen to review, all opinions are 100% mine.