Ana

Update: 08/04/2015

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Rating: 5/5 stars.

A Game of Thrones is the acclaimed novel of George R.R. Martin, focusing on the land of Ice and Fire, and the interesting characters found in it. Power, love, gold and family will move this characters to do everything they can, and this games of thrones are only beginning.

What else could be said about such a book that hasn't been said before?

I really loved this book. It was such a great realistic piece of fantasy. And not one to put pretty things around and sugar coat life. This is the stuff I like. This is what I love to read.

The book is very well written, and you can tell from the beginning that everything is set up perfectly and that it all adds up for a better and bigger thing, and that this first book was just the introduction to it all. I'm really excited to go on with this series and follow along the game of thrones.

What I specially like about this book is that all of the characters (at least the ones that do matter) are presented in a way that you get to know them, even thought it's not immediately. Like, I know eventually I'll know everything about them. Right now I can tell you so many things about them just guessing around, because I feel like I've known them forever. This means really good character development.

At first I kind of panicked for all the characters that I sometimes forgot who they were and who's side they were on, but later I learned that really, that's kind of the idea. Don't try to learn them all, they probably won't last anyway.

Even now I already have defined which characters I like and which not. Like, I have such deep emotions for some of them that wow, I might kill someone out of frustration.

Anyway, it does strike hard in the heart this book, sometimes it hurts to see what a mess everything is and how much changes have been made to it all. It's hard, I won't lie.

And there's so much things I can quote out of this book, and sometimes they're such beautiful passages. Let me show you. (Tyrion is one quotable motherfucker)

“My mind is my own weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
Tyrion Lannister

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends”, Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”
Ser Jorah Mormont

“Oh, but it was, my lord,” Cersei insisted. “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
Cersei Lannister

Like, there was only 100 pages or so left, and then Ned got killed and I just stood there like, no way, this is fake. And literally for those 100 pages I stood believing that he was still slive, even thought all of the family new, and they were all mourning. And then the book was over and that's when I finally understood that he really was dead, and it hurt.

I have to admit, this book was better than the other. All the things that happen here. Let's start by Jane of Arc. OMG! When I saw she was alive...I died. I'm also sick of Josh and his stubbornness. It's just so annoying! And Maquiavelo. Oh, God. I saw it and I couldn't believe it. Then Perenelle, my beautiful Perenelle. She's almost free and she met this spider who's name is too weird to write here. I love Perenelle. And Morrigan is going to be locked! And last but not least, I still live Scatty and I must confess that I never felt sad when Dagon took her, I know she's alive. I can feel it. In my bones. This book was really good, definitely. I loved it. I highly recommend this.

This book. I don't even now where to start.
Lets start by this. If you see the progress I've made through all the series, you'll se that I have been constantly annoyed by the presence of Josh. I could find moment where I could stand him, but most times I just wanted to slap him in the face. That said, I didn't even felt a ghost of those feelings through the whole book. My image of him gave such a 180° turn. And that ending was killer. I have to admit, it did surprise me. Even though I had this idea that the death was going to be like part of the twins' family, I really didn't expect him to be Josh.
Also, all this people who died...wow, it was hard, and how all the things resolved after all that mess.
And Isis and Osiris. What the Hell!? That was really not what I expected.
Also, I'm kind of intrigued if the Flamels' lived to see another day, I mean, that's what I got.
I really loved how this whole series turned out to be. Not in a million years was I expecting to read all this, I just wasn't expecting it. I finally feel happy about everything in the story. Because every time I finished one of this books I was always so conflicted about something really important. I do have some thoughts about this book, like for example, of Sophie was something important and what character in history will she be. And then what happened to Virginia and the others. But I'm ok, I think I'll live without knowing.
I recommend this books to everyone. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Rating: 1.5/5

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Ghostgirl is the story about Charlotte, a seventeen year old girl who's been invisible for her whole life. The summer before her last school year she decides to change things, and comes back with the new resolution of becoming popular. But everything changes when on the first day, she dies.

I read this book when I was 10 years old or so. I tough they were really good. They brought this new idea of how was life after death, specially life after dead for teenagers. And I'm not going to lie, I fell for it. The whole idea was very attractive to me, the characters where awesome, they listened to good music, the book itself was very beautiful, amazing art job. And I must confess, I did something that it's kind of a sin, but back them I didn't know. I read the second book first. You see, my dad gave me this book as a gift, because I asked, but he didn't know anything about it and back then I didn't know about Goodreads or Booktube or anything like that, so I read the book and only after I finished it did I realized that it was the second book. A year later, I read this book.

The overall idea of this book is really nice, very interesting and kind of unique. It's about Charlotte and her life after dead, and how she has to deal with unfinished business and growing up and letting go. It really is a very good plot. And I would have loved it, if it wasn't for the execution. Wow, really, was I blind back when I started reading.

This book has one of the most annoying, not believable, very frustrating characters I've ever read. They're so immature it's ridiculous, they do this things that don't have a reason to be and think stuff so ludicrous and ridiculous. And Charlotte is just plain annoying. She just makes decisions without thinking about anyone else and then says “Oh, poor me, I'm so lonely, nobody likes me, it's all my fault” and then does it again. And then we have Scarlet. She is actually one of the best characters, i believe. I think she's ok, I don't have much to say about her. The only thing I do hate about them is that they claim so fiercely that they are best friends and that they are forever when I doubt they ever talked for more than 10 minutes about themselves and they have literally nothing in common. Then we have the others like Petula and her friends. Oh, for God's sake WTF. Really. That it just plain ridiculous and stupid. And lastly, Damen (typical high school hottie name), if he's so nice, why is he with Petula? Just going to live it there.

Then we have the plot. Like I said, the idea is interesting, but the execution? The plot is based in one stupid decision behind another and all turns around the high school prom. Apparently, that's the only thing that matters. And the whole book increasingly fills with problems and more problems, and when the end comes, it all just ties together like if nothing ever happened. It all worked out just perfect, even though she kind of screwed a lot of people lives and pissed almost all of them. We all love each other at the end. Yeah, right -.-‘'‘

One thing that really annoyed me is how the narrator tells you everything. Like “She was a quiet girl, the kind that does this and that and she probably didn't know about this, but she likes her anyway, etc” and I'm just sitting there like “NO!”, you're supposed to tell me about all of this through character development, which it has none by the way. And it continues to do this trough out all the book. It's like having a constant interruption for things that are unnecessary, have nothing to do with plot or I already knew. Or all of them.

I like a few things, like the concept of teenagers having to pass a class before going to heaven because of the unfinished business. That's really original. I liked it. Also, all those quotes at the beginning of every chapter. Those were really cool. And also the physical decoration of the book is beautiful. It really is.

At the end, a book that was unique and fun to read when I was younger, is now a very badly written book with annoying characters and unrealistic moments. The most I can recommend is for you to read this when you're younger, not after.

If you'd like to see my review of Homecoming.

If you'd like to see my review of Lovesick.

For some reason, I haven't read this and only when Inferno came out was that I even found out that that was the fourth book and this is the third. Like seriously, is there a pact where everybody agreed to never talk about it again?