Ana
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Rating: 2/5 stars.
Only With You is the story of how Sophie Dalton's life changes completely after she is mistaken by a man for a hooker while being trapped in an elevator in Las Vegas. But what she didn't expect, was that she'd see the man again, and things might not go as well.
While reading this, one of the main things that kept in my mind was that I'd seen this story before. And not only before, a thousand times before.
Everything in the book felt cliche. The characters, the situations, even the main plot. And all this cliches made it predictable as hell. I wasn't really surprised at anything that happened, actually, I expected it all to happen.
And not only was it predictable and cliche. It also was unrealistic. The characters got this conversations out of nowhere and this conclusions that didn't make sense. And they'd feel things out of nowhere and than not feel them and then feel them again. At first I didn't pay attention to it but it got kind of ridiculous while I moved on.
One things I really couldn't stand about this. They way everything was keen to be sexual. And I mean like, for everything, she'd be horny and sexually frustrated. Not only her, but Gray (the MC). There were this romantic and then one of them would go and be like “SEX” or “My lady parts” or some shit like that. It bugged the shit out of me.
I didn't really like any of the characters, because I never actually understood who they were. They where always changing and do things that didn't make sense and they never acknowledge those thing and agh. It was a mess.
In conclusion, this book might be enjoyable for some people, but for me it was just too flawed and cliche for my liking. I've just heard this story way to many times.
This is why I don't read romance.
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My initial thoughts on this are that it's really cliche and it has flaws all over the plave but it's actually enjoyable so it's baaaaad but it's not good.
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.-Part of the Project Austen-.
Rating: 5/5 stars.
Sense and Sensibility is the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two sisters that find love in different ways. Marianne, eccentric and extroverted. Elinor, quiet and reserved. We see how each's personalities influences the love they expect, and how each suffer's through.
Jane Austen continues to be my favorites author. End of discussion.
This book blew me. It centered around the two north and south poles that were Marianne and Elinor and how each duels on the events that are happening. I'm a person who loves character development, and this was definitely the book for me.
We first have Elinor, whom I can relate the most to. I'm the type of person who's quiet and not keen on putting my feelings out there. I tend to think before I act a lot and tend to lean towards somebody else's happiness instead of mine. And that's exactly what Elinor is. She never did anything in the book that wasn't based on not hurting her mom and sister's feelings. Even if she was incredibly saddened or happy she wouldn't say anything about if she though it could inconvenience somebody else. And every time Marianne did the exact opposite, she would cringe and mentally criticize her. And to have someone that I can relate to so accurately was pretty amazing. There were some things she did that I don't agree with, but most of her behavior was me in a nutshell.
Then we have beautiful Marianne. She's loud and impertinent and she never keeps her thoughts to herself. If she's suffering, the rest of the world suffers with her. You see, as much as she's the complete opposite of me, I found myself agreeing with her so much. And I could relate to her as well. There were things she did that I just had to nod and smile.
Then we have the rest of the characters like their imbecile brother or her ogre of a wife. And the sweet lady who took them under her wing, or she thought she did (can't remember her name, oops). All those characters added the perfect bittersweet feelings when needed.
The overall idea of the story is pretty amazing. Of course, it being a classic and such an old one, the language was kind of difficult for me to keep up at times, specially because English is not my mother language. But once you get hook in it, you read way faster.
I do have to point that around the second part of the book (it's divided in three) it got a little tedious and I found some parts to be unnecessary. But once you get back on the third part it's amazing all over again.
Of course, super in love with Edward (not the sparkly one). Even though he can be quite the idiot for being so slow and such a gentleman, I still forgive him.
Overall, great, amazing, incredible classic by the wonderful Jane Austen who never disappoints me. I really love her stories and the way she writes. Sometimes, I think it's out of this world.
I would recommend this books as much as Pride and Prejudice. You can't just read one Jane Austen and move on. Jane Austen delivers amazingness all over the place.
I can't say that this is over Pride and Prejudice on my favorites, but it's pretty close to it. And I will reread it someday. Not right away, but in the near future.
Update 08/28/2014Rating 2.5/5 stars
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Lovesick is the third and final installment in the Ghostgirl trilogy. In it, Charlotte has finally found what seems like true love, but on the last day of her working at the station, they tell her some news that might not be so good. They have to go back.
Reading this book was kind...bleh. I must admit and give credit to the author, this book was hell of a lot better than the first two. I mean, a lot of the troubles I saw didn't shine as much in this book. They were still there, but not as present as before. But in reality, it was kind of boring and plot-less. I was 100 pages in and I still didn't know what the purpose of it all was. My general thoughts were that this book wasn't really something.
Charlotte isn't as annoying as always. She does make some stupid and unnecessary decisions but I didn't really care about them. Scarlet did become more annoying in this book. She was just in crisis that didn't make sense and I really didn't feel about. And the whole Petula being changed thing was really ridiculous. It was just plain weird.
The narrator constantly telling about things that it shouldn't be saying intensifies in this book. There was a point where I broke and just didn't want to continue reading anymore. But I managed.
And that “plot twist”, like, I guessed it at the beginning of the book. It was so obvious. Really, Maddy was behind the girl this whole time. Are you serious? That was so obvious. And stupid.
There were some good moments along the book, it had it's moments, and I think this book was the best of the three. But at the same time I felt that it was so dragged on, like, enough, leave Charlotte alone.
Also, the same I-caused-so-many-troubles-and-yet-at-the-end-it-doesn't-matter ending happened and it was a really bad case of it.
I'm just glad I'm done with this series, really, I'm just over with this.
Overall, this book is a nice seat-warmer (there just for boring and no-book-left moments) and I don't think I'll ever read them again.
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I plan on marathoning this along with the other two books. Because I messed up and read the second first and after a long time I read the first and now I'm reading the third after and even longer time? I don't think so. I'm reading the three of you.
Update 01/07/2014
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Before starting I will assume that every single one of you has read the Twilight series or at least the first one, because, let's admit it, we all did. Even I had my Twilight phase. So I won't explain any important plot points in the story.
And also, I need to point out that personally I do not like Twilight or the series at all. When I was younger I used to like it but I've grown and realized that Twilight isn't any good at all. But if you by any reasons like, enjoy or love this book then I have no problem with that. But I must warn you that I'm going to be tough on this and that if I insult you or harm you in any way, I'm really sorry for it, I did not mean it.
Starting off by the fact that Oh, My, God how incredibly unrealistic and wrong Twilight actually is. This are the moments where you realize how much you've grown since Twilight and oh have I grown.
But let's not talk about Twilight because that will be a review for another day. We're here for Midnight Sun.
So, what is Midnight Sun, you may ask? Midnight Sun is the unfinished work by Stephanie Meyer, retelling Edward's and Bella's love story in Twilight, from the point of view of Edward.
When I found out that Stephanie Meyer was writing Twilight from the point of view of Edward, at first I though it was a lie. There was no way she was writing all this books again by his point of view. So I paid no mind to it. Recently, I remembered about it and though, hey, was it true after all? That's when I began to search for answer and found all this drama of her draft being published without her knowing and how she then didn't want to write it anymore and for so she was leaving the draft up in the internet and WAIT WHAT! She actually let a free draft of her book online. I'm reading it, I'm all for free.
So once again I ventured myself in the world of vampires and werewolfs that I though I had left behind in my past. My expectations where, this is going to be horrible, I'm going to waste my time and really, let's admit it, it's going to ruin the story as I know it. It's already bad and it's going to make it worse. But I read it anyway. And God, what I found.
The book starts with Edward and his family in the cafeteria scene where Edward and Bella first see each other. Everything goes exactly the way the other book did. At this point I was already dreading my decision, thinking why did I do this, again? But the bright side was that it was nice to know what Edward was really thinking. Even though we already knew this because that's the only thing Twilight does, describe everything.
As I move on, I encounter myself with some particular words and scenes that just made me cringe. Let me show you and I'll explain.
I didn't listen to whatever this made her think-I was having too much fun watching the girl check her snow chains. She actually looked in some danger of falling, the way her feet were sliding around. No one else was having trouble-had she parked in the worst of the ice?
no, that doesn't happen.
I looked to see what had his interest.
Look at all the contusions! How many times did her mother drop her? Carlisle laughed to himself at his joke.
contusions, really?
doesn't happen. At all.
I was surprised, watching her stumble through the day-tripping over cracks in the sidewalk, stray books, and, most often, her own feet-that the people I eavesdropped on though of Bella as clumsy. I considered that. It was true that she often had trouble staying upright. I remembered her stumbling into the desk that first day, sliding around on the ice before the accident, falling over the low lip of the door frame yesterday...How odd, they were right. She was clumsy.
“Well,” Mr. Banner said, pursing his lips. “I guess it's good you two are lab partners.” He turned and walked away mumbling, “So the other kids can get a chance to learn something for themselves,” under his breath. I doubted the girl could hear that.
This didn't fit with the scenario I'd been constructing in my head.
“Why didn't you stay with them?” I asked, my voice a little too curious. It sounded like I was being nosy.
Which I was, admittedly.
eye cringe
The little V between her eyes, a remnant of her sorrow, bothered me. I wanted to smooth it away with my fingertip.
face palm
Really? A remnant of her sorrow? Just one in her whole face? The rest was fine?
Say what?
“What holds you here, Edward? I'm failing to see...“
“I don't know if I can explain.” Even to myself, it made no sense.
He measured my expression for a long moment.
No, I do not see. But I will respect your privacy, if you prefer.
“Thank you. It's generous of you seeing as how I give privacy to no one.”
really?
Really?
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This review might contain some minor spoilers, I'll try to make it as light as possible. :D
This book. This book is what I've been looking for in a long time. It was a dystopian, but I didn't get bored, it had some romance, but it was well carried and it had well-crafted, action-packed scenes. I can't believe it took me so long to read this. What have I been doing?
Legend takes place in a dystopian America where we find “groups” that go by the Colonies, the Republic and the Patriots. Apparently, the Republic has the mayor power, then the Colonies and last the Patriots. I did not exactly understood what was happening all around this theme, which was a problem for me. One of the only flaws in this book that I expect will be solved in the second and third book.
We find ourselves in the lives of the Republicans, where they are divided in sectors, I believe. They do this test, called the Trial, where they test your physical and mental abilities, scoring from 0 being the lowest and 1500 the highest. You have to take this test at the age of ten, where depending of your results you will be placed in different levels of society. There is also a plague running around that frightens every one who can't pay for the vaccines. And, of course, those are the lowest sectors. Here, we meet Day, one of the most wanted criminals of the Republic. who's Legend runs around telling incredible tales about his adventures as a rebel. Then we find June, the only girl who got a score of 1500 on the Trial test, who then got immediately sent to college and is about to graduate at the age of 15.
With this premise I was already sparkling with excitement and with all the glowing reviews I've read I was even more excited. As I went reading, I couldn't help but picture it as a movie rolling on my mind. It was perfect. I feel really happy about that aspect.
As for the characters, June, was bad-ass. She is the most accurate definition of bad-ass that I have ever found on a book. She kicks ass. She's a prodigy. She's super smart. She knows how to defend herself pretty damn well. She's clever. And she's pretty as well. And she's fifteen. Day was so cute, as in, he's amazing. He's just as bad-ass as June (maybe a little less) and he has done this incredible things and I can't help but love him. He has this cocky personality that you can help but smile at. And as what I pictured, he's pretty handsome. The rest of the characters were very-well crafted and very believable. I even got to hate a few of them!
I think the best of this book was the action scenes. I literally felt my heart rate speeding up so fast and thumping like a hammer in my chest reading a few of the scenes. Specially the last scene (if you've read the book, you know what I'm talking about). That scene had me trembling and shaking in my seat. I read it while at school and I was throwing this little screams every now and then and people were looking at me weird. But I didn't care. The scene was so amazing.
The romance was perfect, at least for me. I'm not one of those people who like sugar-coated loves, I like though love better. And this book had romance, but it they didn't waver around each other, nor did they launch themselves to the other with instant-love. They were hesitant at first, but it wasn't as annoying as some other books I've read. It made sense. And they weren't so insecure about stupid things. It was perfect.
The only major problem I had with this book was that I pretty much guessed everything that was going to happen. It was very predictable, at least for me. I had the whole plot figured out by half the book. And I also think I have the second book's plot figured out as well, or at least and idea. And that is a big problem for me. I really don't like when that happens. That's why I'm not giving it five stars.
But in general this book was really good, and a lot of people have told me that all of the problems listed before get better in the second book, so I'm not going too hard on this book. It was very entertaining and I can't wait to read the whole trilogy.
This review contains spoilers, I don't think I could talk about it without them.
Rating: 3,5 stars.
Oh, Allegiant. Why?
I'm just going to flat out say it. Unlike most people, I didn't hate the ending. Actually, I though the ending was the best part of the whole book. It was beautiful, well made and it had the original idea of what Divergent used to be (for me, anyway).
Once I finished reading this, I was quite sad about that ending. I felt hollow inside, because, goddammit, it's horrible. Once I reread it, I was able to look at it from another angle, and realize that I loved that ending.
And also, most importantly, most of the problems I had with this book, were because of Insurgent. As in, all the things that were happening, had a reason, and that reason happened in Insurgent. And I hate Insurgent. But the book itself had problems all the same.
The whole book was pretty boring since the beginning. And when things did actually happen, in which one would think it'd be huge and complicated...it lasted for about 3 chapters, or less.
The whole theme about how this was all just an experiment that the government decided to do, to see if it worked, you know, just playing around, and then it didn't work, things that happen all the time, so they just tried to fix it by more experiment, and just controlling everybody like a puppetNO. NO, NO, NO AND NO.
Ok, so, I can understand a government who manipulates people as they please, but they always do it secretly and with some sort of decency. They just don't flat out go and do it. They always have some cover or something, and they never go as far as that. So, no, it's not logical, not even close, ok? I hate this concept. It's not complete. It's not done well, it's like she just wrote it out just to get rid of that part and move on. Well, guess what? NO.
Another thing that annoyed me was how stupid were Tobias and Tris' fights. Like, come on. Tobias going to Nita so blindly just because she's “like him” with all the damaged genes stuff. And then Tris trying to convince Tobias that Nita wasn't good because she was jealous of her and she though it was wrong. Like, bitch, I wouldn't trust you either if you just told “Don't”. Ugh!And something that got me completely screaming with frustration was just how much I hated Tobais in Allegiant. When things where happening and he just froze like “What do I do, do I go or not? Is it right or wrong?” BITCH, YOU'RE DAUNTLESS. AND NOT JUST ANY DAUNTLESS. YOU'RE FOUR. And for what I've learned in this whole series is that Tobias doesn't freeze for stupid things. And that's exactly what he did here.When Nina's attack plan is on track, I swear it only last about two chapters. Like, no, it was supposed to last at least seven and be epic, not such a failure. Agh, i can't deal.Then we have Tris. Since the moment Tobias told Tris letting a person die for you because he loves you it's a true act of selflessness, I knew. Immediately. She was going to sacrifice herself for Caleb. Fuck. Me.Here is when Insurgent enters. Caleb is an idiot, and I've hated him through all the books. In Insurgent, I wanted him death. But he didn't die. And then he expects to be forgiven, with such stupid reasons. I literally can not deal with him. And then Tris decided to die for him.Ok, it actually made sense. And it's a really good idea. And I love the whole thing. I really do. What bothers me is the reason. Caleb wasn't worth it. If maybe Caleb hadn't done such stupid things back in Insurgent, I would have accepted this. Or maybe even if he had shown some kind of real remorse for what he did, I would have forgiven him. It was that easy. But he just has so little character development, that he didn't. And that's what pisses me off about the ending. Not the fact that she died, but the fact that it was for Caleb.sigh. Moving on.I though the ending after Tris dies was really stupid. Not Tobias parts, but the background. It was just so simple how things turned out. So stupidly simple. I can't deal. Like, the government completely ignored them and moved on. And they got their “happy ending”. And I was like, that's it, really, that's all you had to do. I could have done that in my sleep. (ok, no, but you know what I mean).I found completely unnecessary Uriah's death. It had no reason to be. And specially in such a horrible way. It's ridiculous.I did like those few last chapters, they were perfect for the ending. It was pretty sad, did not cry, as always, but it did left a hollow feeling in my chest. For a while.Another thing I didn't like was the whole Tobias/Evelyn relationship. I mean, the author never got to something complete. She never let us know what that whole thing was about. There were this mixed signals that never got to anything. I'm just so annoyed by it. And at the end, she's good, but not as good. waaa...The book was really boring. Just a big pile of nothing and unfinished business. It was pretty much plot less. I don't even know what happened in between.I could go on and on, but I'm just getting tired of this, I think I've proved my point.In general, I have it at 3,5 out of five because I'm just that generous, and because of that ending. That's it.If you did enjoy it, please let me know what did you saw in it that made it good to you, because I'm clueless. If you want to read my review of DivergentIf you want to read my review of InsurgentIf you want to read my review of Free FourIf you want to read my review of The Transfer
This was really good. It gave us an insight in Four's life with things that I needed to know and things that I didn't even knew I needed to know. It explains with real scenarios how the Marcus/Tobias relationship really works and I think I finally start to think better of it. It gave me back that feeling of not wanting to put it down that I had with Divergent, and I was tented to give a 5 star if it wasn't for a little small problem I had with it. But the rest was amazing. I can't wait to see what other little stories the author has for us that will make me fall for this story like Divergent did. And it made me like Tobias a little bit more. And hate Marcus a whole lot more.
Gave it a 4.25 ish. Excellent novella.
If you want to read my review of Divergent
If you want to read my review of Insurgent
If you want to read my review of Allegiant
If you want to read my review of Free Four
I did it! I was so tired yesterday after finishing reading this that I just went straight to sleep. I didn't even mark it as finished or something. Just threw it and turned the lights off. But enough about me, let's go with the book.
At first, when I first started reading this book, I was really excited about what I had learnt so far. This 15 year old boy named John Wayne Cleaver, who lived in one of those towns lost by God, had all the characteristic of a serial killer, such as showing no empathy for animals, or peeing at night, with the small exception that he did not want to be a serial killer. He had though about, but knew it was wrong. He felt as if there was a monster inside of him, that he had to control.In order to accomplish this task he established a series of very strict rules to avoid having macabre and grim thoughts about what he could do if he let the monster free. He also read about other serial killers (all of them, most likely) to learn about them and their patterns and avoid becoming like them. His family was composed of his mother and his aunt and later on the story, his sister, Lauren (not a spoiler, I promise). His father had long been gone and only received a card and a gift from him on Christmas and occasionally on his birthday. And his family worked in the morgue. Meaning, him, his mother and his aunt received all the corpses of the small town and prepared them to the funeral. Stuff like that.
Up until this point, everything seemed great. The story was really intriguing and I was loving and couldn't stop reading.
Then one day, in the small little town that nothing ever happened in, there was a murder. And a grotesque one. John, finding about it, got really excited, of course, because this was the first time he was so close to murdering. As in, what the monster wanted to do.
I already loved the book by this far. It was amazing. More murders kept happening and they were all so intriguing and strange and there was the small taint of mysterious in it. Until in a small little page, BAAM! The story took a turn I was completely unprepared for and definitely ruined the impression I had about it. It was all so good and perfect and then that small little fact changed everything. What happened was that the killer is a demon. As in a supernatural, clawed and evil demon. I was expecting a real serial killer, not a supernatural one. I had a whole theory about it, and finding out that it was a demon and not real, REAL thing just really overthrew me.
What was my reaction? I stopped reading. Yep. Stopped.
I had already read there was this point where it could define whether you love it or hate it. But I was EXCITED about it, was looking forward to it. Once I read the small thing, my interest for this book dropped and I just couldn't go on.
Days passed and I just left it there, until (yesterday) I made myself finish it. I tried to concentrate on the excitement I had before the small thing, and it kind of worked. I did finish it.
It is actually a really good book. I contains some phrases and metaphors that I just couldn't help but love. I felt like my emotions where described by what he was saying. He nailed it (not that I have murderous thoughts, but if you look at it in another way, it's amazing).
At the end, the book was really good, but the disappointment I felt once I read the small thing was so big that I can't help but give this book a 3.25 rating. But I think once you get over the initial shock, the book is ok.
The character development was incredible, couldn´t have asked for more. The setting was ok, and the sub plot was really deep and amazing. The main plot is the thing that didn't do it for me.
I'm not sure if I can recommend it to somebody, but if you're the type of people who can get over small facts like that one, then...go ahead, read it!
Edit. 04/27/2014
I had such high hopes for this book. In Divergent, she gave us this cliffhanger about what's going to happen in Tris' worlds. And I had so much questions about it. And all I was expecting was to get some of those answers and some more action packed scenes and so much more than Divergent! Divergent gave so much potential to Insurgent. I seriously thought Insurgent was going to blew my mind more than Divergent did. But it didn't. It did the complete opposite.
I'm going to try not to spoil anybody, but give some light examples to explain why I thought Insurgent was terrible.
Starting with the fact that the first two thirds of the book were horrible. I literally had a hard time reading this, and instead of reading it in one sitting like I did with Divergent, it took me a while to get trough this. Every time I tried reading something would happen in the story that would literally persuade me to put it down. It was just so boring and horrible. And I didn't get my answers like I wanted, nor did I get my action packed scenes until the last third of the book. But I was already so annoyed with the plot that the action packed scenes made me roll my eyes. I was sitting there like “If you hadn't done this, you wouldn't have to be running for your life again”.
I also felt like somehow Veronica Roth's style decreased in quality. As in, I felt like the book was written by somebody else, completely different from what my perception of Veronica's style was.
Then there's the characters. Oh. My. God. What the literal fuck. I completely hate Tris in this book. She passed to be this awesome character to this stupid bitch that I completely dislike. She was so useless and did this things that I didn't understand why. I mean, I can understand a character that does something, even thought I don't like that decision, but the reason makes sense. As in the context of who the character is, it makes sense. With Tris I didn't feel that. It was completely unnecessary.
The rest of the characters where ok, I loved Uriah and Lynn, they were good characters. With Christina I still don't like her and she also made some things that didn't make sense as well.
Then we have the plot, which felt kind of surrealistic to me. It didn't make sense to me at times. Why would this thing happen? And how did this happen? It made no sense!
I must admit that that last third of the book was pretty good, even though I was completely annoyed with the reasons of why this things where happening. I did got some of the answers I was expecting, like how does Amity, Candor or Erudite work. But it wasn't enough. I still got so much questions.
In the end, I tried to read this book again, and as you can see it took me forever. I did it with the purpose of liking the book a little bit more by catching some details I may have lost in the blindness of my anger against this book. But it only made me get angrier. And I got so mad for something that happened at the end, not going to tell you, but it just made me loose it. I can understand why she did it, though. This one did make sense in some aspects, but the selfish me really didn't want it to happen.
As it is, after I read Divergent I was expecting more from this book, but Veronica Roth was not able to give it to me. I read this the first time way before Allegiant came out, so I had to just sit there with my anger and dissapointment for this book until Allegiant came out.
If you're the kind of person who can pass trough a book without noticing the small little things that made me angry, then, go ahead and read it. It's pretty entertaining once you pass the first two thirds.
This book was definitely not for me.
If you want to read my review of Divergent
If you want to read my review of Allegiant
If you want to read my review of The Transfer
If you want to read my review of Free Four
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That's right bitches! I finished Insurgent! I will be reviewing this once I finish Allegiant (I'm starting now) and then I'll give you the reviews of all three books.
I read this when I was really little (more like I tried to read while my mother said the words to me).
Recently (for the moment), with the Frozen movie coming up, I was intrigued when I read it was mildly based in this book. So I said, well, I don't remember anything about it, so, why not? Besides, I read it Spanish when I was little, so it was even better to read it in English.
The story was fun, cute, kind of dark, typical childish ridiculousness that you can find in kids books, but with a major message behind it all, as always.
I've always though that good kids' books have this really big, dark, profound theme masked with cute things and not-so offensive villains. This story was no exception.
I did have a small disagreement with the my mother about the queen. I didn't actually though she was bad. I mean, she didn't exactly show any signs of it, she looked natural to me.
It was a really fun read, a little longer than what I expected, and easy to read. You should all read it at some point.
This was actually pretty cool. You don't know how much I was dying when I read this scene in Divergent, because when I read this scene I thought Tobias was kind of mean, and I was there like “Bitch! Why you do that? Reading this is so much better, it's like, mental peace. Fun story to read.
If you want to read my review of Divergent
If you want to read my review of Insurgent
If you want to read my review of Allegiant
If you want to read my review of The Transfer
THIS BOOK!
Update.
So, I have gathered my thoughts about this book and I think I'm ready to write the review.
Starting by the fact that I did love the book. I though it was really catching (I read it in a day) and, of course, really sad and tough. Something that I think will surprise you (I wasn't) was that I didn't cry, not even a tear. Don't take this personal, it's just that I have discovered through time that I'm a really “dry” person respecting crying about sad stuff. Very little things make me cry. But it did make me feel sad and kept me up for a while (I finished the book at 1:00am). Actually, one of the reasons I was excited about reading this book is because I though I would finally cry big fat tears of sadness (really not a subject to be excited about but that's just me). That's the only thing that disappointed me, but I'll move on. sniffironically
I love that the plot was just about a love story, no great quest in the world or things to achieve in life before dying (even though that's one of the things Augustus loves talking about). What I mean about this is that John was just telling us a story about how this kids fall in love and it still dragged me in this strongly. In other books I would have found that extremely annoying and I probably would have given it a three stars out of pity. But with this novel it didn't happen because in the inside the novel is so much more than, so much complicated and more beautiful than that.
Another thing I love (It's a long list, believe me) it's that he takes this liberty to just “play” with cancer and it's “perks”. And how he shows us that even with a sad subject, you can still be happy. And that sickness is not your end if you decide it isn't. And that there's different ways to see things, not just what you think is right or even what you know it's right.
Probably one of the biggest things I liked was the concern that Hazel had about her parents, which, apparently, most YA writers forget to include in the correct way. Meaning, as teenagers we are in an stage of rebellion, we want freedom and independence, and we usually forget about the rest of the world and that there's still people around us who gets affected by our decisions. But it's not total obliviousness. We still have some sense of concern. So we just don't do crazy stuff out of the blue, we DO crazy stuff out of the blue and then we REALIZE the mistake and WORRY about the people who got affected. That's real life. It hurts. So Hazel had this constant unacknowledged fear about what would be of her parents once she was gone for good earlier of what it should. And so strong was this fear that she transported her fear into her favorite book and created her biggest questioning in life: what happened to Anna's mother? Once she finally got her answer she would have had the response she needed for stop worrying about her mom. And that right there, killed me.
Anyway, I made this too long and I probably didn't make any sense and I know I was just saying the obvious thing in a book that everyone knows it's obvious but it doesn't get mentioned in the book. But whatever, I had to express it.
The book was really gook. Augustus with his sarcasm and Hazel with her honesty, Isaac with his loud and colorful way of loving and the parents for being awesome.
I still have like a hundred things to talk about but I already made this way too long and I don't want to bore you and make you skip my review(You probably just scrolled down until the bottom halfway there just to see my conclusion). Read this, if you haven't (if you have, read it again). You will love the book and if you're at least 10% softer than me you'll cry like a bitch (if you're 90% softer than me, please make sure to invite me to your funeral so I can give my condolences)
This book was magnificent. I read it in the spam of two days and it let me thinking about it forever!Starting with the plot, I though it was very interesting. Even though it was yet another dystopia, it had a very distinctive feel. I was thrilled with the idea of getting divided by your behavior and your likes and your way of thinking. And how depending on the faction, you had strict rules that conditioned you to be and think the way your faction wants. And how you can choose about what faction you feel like you belong the best (even though there's kind of a tabu about that). Also, all the theme about the serum that shows you your greatest and worst first that you probably didn't even knew you had. And the technology in general was very interesting.Then there's the character. At this point, I though Tris was a great MC. I mean, she was the typical skinny, small, no-big-deal, not-so-pretty girl, but she actually got stronger. And she trained for it. She had this determination that was incredible. She actually got up and said “I'm not going to be one of those MC, I'll actually do things for myself”. She kicks ass. And I though that was awesome. And Tobias, well, do I even need to say something? I'm in love this Tobias. He's strong, handsome, sweet and kind of funny. And how he behaves with Tris is just lovely. I never really liked much Christina, but she was a pretty awesome character as well. The “bad ones” were very well done, because I actually did hate them and when that happens it means the author did a good job.About the world building, I don't think at times it actually made sense, and I sometimes had to reread some describing about it because I didn't exactly finished to understand, but I think I did a pretty good job in imagining it, because she lives a lot to your imagination.The only bad thing, is that I pretty much guessed what the major plot and twist was going to be. It was way to obvious to me, but it still surprised me how it was carried. It was very original.I got an obsession with this book since the moment I laid eyes on the first page. I couldn't put it down and much less stop reading, and there was never a time where I got bored.The writing was good, nothing too special. But there were times where she said this really cool things in such a beautiful way. But it was just some specific moments, the rest was normal.I was very excited to read this book, reason why I got very impatient and read the second one right away. And then, after finishing the series, I read the books all over again to see if I could catch any other thing I might have missed. And I must say, from all the books, this is y favorite.Divergent is a fast paced book that will trap you from the beginning, and you won't put it down, neither would you want to. With great characters and action packed scenes, [a:Veronica Roth 4039811 Veronica Roth https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1363910238p2/4039811.jpg] did a great job writing Divergent.If you want to read my review of Insurgent If you want to read my review of AllegiantIf you want to read my review of The TransferIf you want to read my review of Free Four
