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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his sixteenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch—or else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust—not even family, not even the girl he loves?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">I first heard of this novel through watching a fellow book-tuber's video. As soon as I seen the cover and heard the plot I knew I had to get my hands on it so I managed to hunt down an email for a publicist at Penguin and she said she'd send me a review copy - to say I squealed is an understatement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Nathan was an incredible character. He was impressive and inspiring in the sense that know matter how tough life got, he knew he had to push through and rise above all of the hatred and insecurity people felt towards him. Whether this was the author's intention or not I definitely felt like this was great symbolism for bullying, it shows that no matter how people treat you, if you're brave and push through, you'll come out the much better person for it - this is a message that needs to be heard a lot more often and this book and Nathan's character do a great job of sharing this experience with the reader. One of my favorite aspects of this book was that we got to witness Nathan growing from a child to a young adult, it really allowed me as a reader to connect with his character and really understand why he had the opinions he had and how he dealt with the constant negativity the world seemed to force upon him. When the world threw its worst and most devastating cards on the table, Nathan knew exactly how to pick himself up and move on with life and his journey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Randomly throughout this book - as a part of the story - Nathan and his family receives "Notifications" (pretty much the equivalent to a law) from the Council (pretty much the equivalent to a government). Each Notification is a statement advising the population of new rules/laws that are being released and each one we read during the course of this novel is targeted directly at the only Black&White Witch in existence - Nathan. They are typically announcing how people must treat Nathan and how people should avoid him and make as little interaction with him as possible etc. I definitely feel like this played a colossal part in the book, with each Notification that was released it really felt like the world was closing in and becoming smaller and smaller on Nathan and he had less and less freedom as time went on. However, along with that I also felt like each Notification almost signified the Council's fear of Nathan and how they were afraid of how little they knew about what he may or may not be able to do when/if he becomes a full Witch. This was another aspect of the novel that really shone and stood out for me and I found myself looking forward to discovering what Notifications they were going to release against Nathan next.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Sally Green is an outstanding author. Half Bad is her debut novel and it's not enough to say that I adored her writing and I know that even when this trilogy ends I will be eagerly anticipating Sally's new ventures and works. Something about Sally's writing just had me consistently intrigued and excited and I never knew where she was going to go with the story, she kept everything so well hidden and yet she managed to reveal just enough to make you want to continue and enjoy the novel. A couple of times in the book Sally even writes in 2nd person, which really blew me away. She only done this for a few pages at a time but it was really fascinating and definitely a new experience for me - one that proved to be extremely entertaining, it really made me feel like I was involved in the story, like I was there, right where a character in the book should be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">I'd absolutely love to talk all day about this book but I'm worried that if I were to continue I may end up spoiling something. In my opinion, a large part of this novel is reading it and discovering everything for the first time as you read it and realising just how difficult it is for Nathan to do something as simple as existing and leading a life. If I were to spoil that experience for a single person, I would regret this review immensely.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Overall, it's not enough to say that I adored Half Bad. As one of my most anticipated reads of the year it has not let itself down in the slightest. I'm looking forward to continuing this trilogy in the future and can't wait to uncover more of what Nathan's future holds. A fantastic novel set in a world much like our own that explores varying topics and creates a character and story that we want to hold close to our hearts long after we turn the final page.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's start off with the fact that this book is the sequel to one of my favourite books of 2012 - Alice in Zombieland. I absolutely <b>loved </b>Alice in Zombieland and so I naturally was very anxiously awaiting the opportunity to read its sequel Through the Zombie Glass and this book was more than worth it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This series follows Alice Bell, who's in her late teens and has a somewhat strong connection to zombies. Since this is the sequel and I don't want to give away too much, that's all I'm going to say about the series as a whole so far. Now back to Through the Zombie Glass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The plot of this book is one of the most clever and thought out plots that I've ever read. This book is one of those sequels that you expect to be good but not as good as the first in the series, but then it turns out to be 10 times better. The start of the book is basically continuing from Alice in Zombieland and we continue following Alice around in her weird daily life. But then the main plot hits and I seriously never thought that this would have been something that would happen to Alice. Obviously as this is the sequel and I don't want to reveal anything major I won't say what the actual main plot is but trust me when I say it's amazing. It's creepy, it's weird and it's just all round phenomenal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gena Showalter is an amazing author. Her writing is so easy to read and everything she writes is detailed in a very simplistic but entirely understandable way that makes for easy reading. Gena also manages to create some very creepy scenes in this series, especially in Through the Zombie Glass. Although Gena is amazing at writing creepy and dark scenes, her humor shines through so perfectly in her books - Kat (mentioned below) is one of those few characters that I can read and almost all of her scenes make me laugh out loud, and for that, I am entirely grateful. Any time an author makes me laugh out loud, that's how I know they're a good author. Gena is not good, she's mind-blowingly phenomenal. If you haven't read any of Gena's work, you're missing out on so much and when you read her work, you'll be so angry that you were previously so oblivious to her writing. Trust me, read some Gena Showalter, you will not regret it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alice Bell is one of my favourite main characters, I just love her personality and how she can be so protective of her friends and family and when she's at her weakest she'll be the strongest she can be to protect the people she cares about. That's the kind of character that I love. I feel like even though Alice has been through some of the most horrific things that could happen to someone so young she manages to stay strong and even though everything keeps hitting her like a bullet through the chest she manages to take it all in her stride and find a way to remedy absolutely anything that comes her way from her friends' broken relationships to zombie-infested buildings. Alice is amazing, Alice is badass, Alice is just wow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only other character that I feel really stands out enough for me to mention in this review is Katherine "Kat" Parker - Alice's best friend. I can't describe with words how much I love Kat as a character. If someone offered me the opportunity to put all things I love in a person and mould them together to create a friend for myself, Kat would probably be the outcome. Kat is loveable, she's kinda weird and best of all she's hilarious. She just doesn't seem to care about much in life and she takes each day as it comes and she doesn't worry or stress about the implications of her actions or what the future will bring - she lives in the here and now and I love her for everything she is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I could talk about this book for hours on end without running out of things to talk about, I can't continue this review without spoilers so I'll have to stop here. I just love this book so much, I love this series so much, these characters and the weird world they live in, it's all amazing. One more thing I would like to mention before I end this review is to those people who haven't yet read Alice in Zombieland - please don't go into this book expecting it to be an exact zombie-infested retelling of Alice in Wonderland because that's not what this series is. This series wouldn't be as incredible as it is if it was just an exact replica of Alice in Wonderland with a few zombies here and there, it's much, much better than that and deserves a whole lot more praise than it's already getting. So please, if you haven't yet read Alice in Zombieland and plan to, go into the book with a fresh mind, don't expect Alice to fall down a hole, don't expect a weird tea party or a mad Queen. Expect an Alice you've never known, a badass Alice that slays zombies on an almost-daily basis. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This series has been fantastic so far, Gena's mind-blowing writing, the fantastic characters and incredible plots all make for a mind-blowing series about the Alice you thought you knew and one you'll never forget.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">DON'T BE FOOLED by his friendly smile, his perfect manners, or his shiny red apple. Student council president Howard Mergler is actually a sinister bug-monster in disguise—and he's summoning swarms of roaches, wasps, fleas, and head lice into the corridors of Lovecraft Middle School! Twelve-year-old Robert Arthur is the only student who can stop him--but he'll need help from his best friends: the school bully, the school ghost, and an extremely courageous two-headed rat.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">This third novel in the Lovecraft Middle School series begins right where </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Professor Gargoyle</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">The Slither Sisters</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> ended—with more action, more adventure, and more outrageous monsters!</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Who’s Your Birthday Character?</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Disneystrology</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> combines astrology, numerology, and the magic of movies to help readers understand their own personalities. Within this beautifully illustrated volume, astrologer Lisa Finander has identified 366 unique Disney character types—everyone from Snow White to WALL•E—and paired these characters to corresponding birth dates.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">If you were born on November 9, for example, you’re likely to be exuberant, friendly, and youthful—traits best exemplified by Pinocchio. Readers born on February 22 are often powerful, principled, and determined—the perfect words to describe King Mufasa of The Lion King. Open these pages to reveal your birthday character!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">You’ll also discover character profiles, keys to personal success, and much, much more. Illustrated with hundreds of stills from more than 90 years of classic animation, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Disneystrology</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> is an entertaining tribute to the most delightful characters in movie history.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">The Only Joke Book You’ll Ever Need</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Featuring:</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • Nine Jokes about Heaven and Hell</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • Eight Jokes Just for Kids</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • Nineteen Jokes Definitely Not for Kids</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • Six Jokes about Lightbulbs</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • Seven Jokes about Bars</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> • The World’s Only Funny Knock-Knock Joke</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Plus alternate versions, roasts and toasts, historical footnotes, tips on telling jokes, and much, much more.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like I said above this is probably going to come in most useful for those of us that have an embarrassingly huge to-be-read pile among our collection of books. So, the point of a book jar: when you inevitably get to a point of reading where you are unsure which book you would like to read next, you can just open your book jar, pull out a book and you read the book you picked from the jar!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To make a Book Jar, the only things you need is an empty jar, lots of paper (more paper for the more books you need to write down), either a pen or a printer to write or print the book titles onto the paper and some scissors. That's all you need to make your Book Jar!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided to type up and print out the book titles as opposed to writing them because I genuinely don't think my hand could have coped with writing them all down!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Professor Gargoyle - September 25th 2012</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Let's start this review on a positive note - I <b>loved </b>these books. Both of these books were fun, exciting, unique, action packed and even funny here and there. The writing in these books is simplistic as the series is aimed predominantly towards younger readers, however it is not so simplistic that it becomes frustrating to read after a while. The writing is descriptive and runs smoothly throughout the entirety of the books. When necessary, the writing becomes fast paced and managed to create a vivid image of characters and creatures in my head which allowed me to enjoy these books so much more. Overall, the writing is extremely suitable for younger readers but also allows for an exciting and fun time for readers of all ages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The main character in these books is a little boy named Robert Arthur. Robert is starting at a new school - Lovecraft Middle school - and so he has no friends, doesn't know his way around the school and is confused and lost about what he should be doing and how he should be acting in his first year at middle school. I highly enjoyed reading about Robert, I thought he was a relatable character for most younger people that will be reading these books as he defines, in a way, the typical young boy that is worried about starting a new school, making new friends and the like. Robert was a strong, brave, caring and protective character that never failed to stand up for his friends in times of need, and I feel like this could be inspirational to younger readers. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02098384171173469786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942375169099294291.post-1520352309823609432013-03-28T12:44:00.000-07:002013-03-28T16:22:18.394-07:00(Guest post by Jill Hathaway! IMPOSTOR Blog Tour!) Mini Contest: What's Your Favorite 90s Jam?<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Get ready for another contest!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Dancing with someone is an act of trust. Elegant and intimate; you're close enough to kiss, close enough to feel your partner's heartbeat. But for Vanessa, dance is deadly – and she must be very careful who she trusts . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Vanessa Adler attends an elite ballet school – the same one her older sister, Margaret, attended before she disappeared. Vanessa feels she can never live up to her sister's shining reputation. But Vanessa, with her glorious red hair and fair skin, has a kind of power when she dances – she loses herself in the music, breathes different air, and the world around her turns to flames . . . </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Soon she attracts the attention of three men: gorgeous Zep, mysterious Justin, and the great, enigmatic choreographer Josef Zhalkovsky. When Josef asks Vanessa to dance the lead in the Firebird, she has little idea of the danger that lies ahead – and the burning forces about to be unleashed.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">For being such a small book, we meet a significant number of different characters from start to finish, varying from the main character's friends, family, enemies, local residents and more. Due to the high number of characters introduced throughout the entirety of the novel, I am going to focus on the main character - Harri Opoku.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Harri Opoku is our eleven year old narrator. Harri moved to Britain from Ghana with his 'Mamma' and sister - Lydia - in what we can only assume is the search of a new and better life. I didn't love Harri as a character, but I didn't hate him either, he kind of irritated me a <i>tiny </i>bit in some parts of the book, but not enough to make me dislike him, but he also never really did anything that made me absolutely love him either. Harri seems to be entirely oblivious to just how big and dangerous the world really is - he doesn't realise that he's surrounded by violence and hatred. He also doesn't understand how the world works - he tends to assume that whatever he thinks is the correct answer to everything and anything. So overall, I thought Harri was a pretty O.K. character, I didn't love or hate him, even though the fact that he could be <i>extremely </i>gullible really aggravated me sometimes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">As for Stephen's writing style, I kind of had a love/hate relationship with it to be honest. One of my biggest 'pet peeves' when it comes to writing is when the author repeats words over and over and over.. and over. And this book did that with a few words. I can understand why this happened - the book is narrated by an eleven year old boy, so it can be expected that his vocabulary isn't going to be that wide and so he would be likely to repeat words, <i>but </i>when I read at least one of the four or so words on almost every page, it can get extremely irritating and I almost put the book down and stopped reading it because of this at one point. And the worst part is that two of these words were 'slang' words so I wasn't even sure if I was pronouncing them right, so almost every other page I found myself struggling to pronounce these simple words. The four words I found to be repeated a lot are; hutious, brutal, asweh, and bo-styles. That's the only real issue I had with the writing. As for the positive side; I really liked that Stephen's writing in this was really simple and basic, it really helped me get into the mindset of Harri and allowed me to feel more empathetic towards him, like I was really in his shoes and almost as if I were participating in his every day activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">1. Plot: I was <i>extremely </i>let down by the plot. In the synopsis, we are told that Harri sets out to discover who murdered his 'friend' and the synopsis makes this sound like a pretty critical and dominant part of the book - it isn't. I would guess that this actually makes up about 25-30% of the entire book, it's only mentioned every 20 pages or so, and when it is mentioned, it only lasts for a few pages, maybe a chapter at most, and this really disappointed me. I was setting up for this story of a young boy setting out to find his friends killer and all that good stuff, but it's barely discussed and on top of that, as far as I'm concerned, we never even find out the dead boy's name! For the entirety of the book, he is literally referred to as 'the dead boy'. I guess it just stresses me out when the synopsis of a book is totally misleading.</span></span></div>
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and Ruby. Although there ages are never
specified in the novel, we can assume that Lauren and Jack are around the 12-15
age range, while Ruby is presumably within the 6-8 age range. We also have
Billy – the baby of the family, but he’s not mentioned much. Jack, Lauren and
Ruby are siblings that are currently suffering through their parents arguing
and yelling and fighting constantly, over and over. Pretty early on in the book, the children
discover that the number one way to get two people to fall in love is a romantic
dinner for two by the one and only Eiffel Tower. Once the children discovered
this information, they become instantly set upon raising money and paying to
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I enjoyed all of these characters, especially Ruby. I
enjoyed the enthusiasm and dedication they had throughout the entirety of the
book. These children are so determined to help their parents stop fighting and
once and for all, get them to love each other again, and I really loved that
determination, it made me enjoy the book a lot more and hope that the children
would get what they wanted in the end. I loved Ruby’s character especially
because she was like a constant light in a dark room – being so young made her
kind of oblivious to everything going on and the consequences of what could
happen and I found I liked her character the most because of this, she is the
perfect character to have around in a situation as dire as the children’s, she
never fails to melt your heart with adorability and make you giggle with her
obliviousness to what was truly surrounding her and the situation she was in
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and I usually read Young Adult novels. Although I enjoyed Elen’s writing style,
I did have issues with it. I found that there wasn’t enough description –
especially when it came to the characters. I feel like a huge part of reading a
book is being able to visualise and place yourself in the setting with the
characters, watch their movements, hear their words and in order to create an
image of the characters we need descriptions of what they look like, what age
they are, how tall they are – and that is exactly what this book lacked. When characters
were introduced we were told their name and we’d move on without a description.
Basically, we’d be expected to create the characters in our heads, based off
nothing, which for me made it much harder to visualise and therefore enjoy the
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some points I still managed to thoroughly enjoy the book and the characters
within. Considering the book is only 200 pages long, Caldecott manages to
squeeze in a decent amount of stuff whilst keeping the pacing of the novel
fluent and consistent, there were never moments with too much going on or
moments when I was bored – and that’s one thing I always look for in a book, if
it bores me for a significant period of time, I’m likely to lose interest and
put the book down. This book succeeded exceptionally in this area and kept me
engaged and interested from beginning to end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Okay, so I have a little back story to this one. I'm pretty sure we all know what Black Friday is. We here in the UK don't have Black Friday unfortunately, however, Amazon does do a week of Black Friday deals and I thought I'd check back every now and then and I finally came across this box set about 2 hours before it went on sale! So I decided to wait for the sale to start so I could check the discounted price out just out of curiosity, turns out the box set was reduced from £49.99 to £18.99! <b>DEAL! </b>So yes, basically, as soon as I seen that, this set went straight into my basket! I haven't started this series as of yet but I really want to, if you've read the series let me know if you enjoyed it! :D</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Woohoo! I'm <b>so </b>excited to finally have this. I have been waiting months to get my hands on one of these and it was worth the wait! I should be filming and uploading a review for this Kindle Paperwhite on my YouTube channel sometime this week so keep an eye out for that if you're interested!</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02098384171173469786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942375169099294291.post-69183473364167668782012-12-07T13:58:00.001-08:002012-12-10T06:33:47.419-08:00The Diviners - Libba Bray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Let's start with the writing style. Libba Bray's writing style is amazingly addictive! From the very first page I knew I was going to love this story and the way that it's written. Bray writes so fluently and majestically that you get so sucked into the story and become consumed in a way that enhances the experience and makes you want to keep reading and reading. I definitely felt like Bray's writing style is at a level that is both detailed and intricate yet simplistic and understandable so that you can easily paint a picture in your mind of the 1920's New York City that this book takes place in. Also, Libba's description of characters are extremely well done, I felt like I could easily picture each and every one of them in my mind whenever that appeared in the book, which is a definite bonus for me. Sometimes when a secondary character is introduced in a book near the beginning and they only appear here and there, I'll find myself going back and re-reading the description in order to re-create the image of that character that I had in my mind, whereas with The Diviners, I didn't need to do that because Libba's writing style and descriptions are so memorable that it's almost impossible to forget the minor details.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Now onto Evie O'Niell. I feel like this character is so relatable in some ways that it's kind of strange to read about a character that you can relate to <i>so </i>well, especially in comparison to past characters that you've read. Evie is such a 'normal' person in a lot of ways and that is the reason that I loved her as much as I did, it made her exciting to read about and interesting - you never really knew what decisions she would make, or what she would do next, she was unpredictable. She was also quite a funny character, there were several instances where I was laughing and giggling to myself at the things she would say - which definitely enhanced my love for her. Another unique factor to Evie's character was the fact that she had the ability to read people's deepest, darkest secrets just by holding an object that they own. This whole topic then goes on to be better developed as the book progresses.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">So I want to talk about more characters, but I feel like I can only really discuss Evie in a way that will do the character some sort of justice. So I'm just going to say this about the rest of the characters: I loved them all, there are even characters in this book that I love to hate, which is always a <i>huge </i>bonus for me personally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">So one last thing I want to discuss before I wrap this up is that I did have one slight (<i style="font-weight: bold;">very slight</i>) issue with the plot of this book. Basically, the whole "Diviners" concept wasn't mentioned as much as I expected. Keeping in mind that I use the term 'issue' here extremely loosely. A huge part of this book is filled with mystery, which a lot of people might not suspect. I'm a huge lover of mystery so this if anything helped my experience with this book, however, it did take away a little from the "Diviners" concept - which you'll have to read to learn about yourself. Anyway, I feel like Libba Bray managed to balance these two concepts together extremely well in a way that kept the book enjoyable and exciting.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02098384171173469786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942375169099294291.post-13196481271618503422012-11-26T13:00:00.001-08:002012-11-26T13:00:15.222-08:00LIGHT<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok, so this isn't a review or a haul or anything but I absolutely HAD to share this with you guys! If you didn't already know, I'm a HUGE HUGE fan of the GONE series by Michael Grant, I mean, I love this series astronomically! And if you are a fan of this series also, you probably already know that the final book in the series LIGHT is coming out in April 2013 and if you aren't already a fan of this series well then... the final book in the series LIGHT is coming out in April 2013 AND ALL US FANS ARE SO EXCITED! After years of reading and loving this series and connecting with characters and losing them, the end is finally right around the corner. </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, not only the content of this series is <i style="font-weight: bold;">epic</i> but also, the UK covers (no no, not the US covers with the people on them, I personally think they suck) are completely AMAZING! They're plain, simple but so interesting and breathtaking that you just want to pick the series right up! ANYWAY, on top of the UK covers being amazing, the edges of the pages (yes I can rhyme) match the neon colour that surrounds the book title on the front of the cover, so each book has both a coloured title, and pages to match. So, when it was announced that the colour used for LIGHT is <i>white </i>my initial reaction was: wait, does that mean that the pages are going to be just plain white? And I believed this right up until today! Waterstones, which, if you're American and don't already know, is a bookstore chain here in the UK that can usually be pretty pricey but they have come in <i>extremely </i>successful in what has been announced that is being sold <i style="font-weight: bold;">exclusively </i>at Waterstones and it is this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yup, that my friends, is a first look at the edition of LIGHT that Waterstones is exclusively selling online and in stores. As you can see, they have the <i>black </i>edges around the sides of the pages, but wait, what's that down the side? You bet it is! It's a white lightning strike/crack that is printed on the sides of the pages! WHAT?! I personally have never seen a book with a page edge design as incredibly beautiful as this one! If you're in the UK, you can pre-order this exclusive copy of LIGHT from Waterstones <i style="font-weight: bold;">TODAY </i>FOR ONLY £10.39! I'll leave a link below so you can check it out if you wish! </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So yeah, sorry to anyone who has absolutely no interest in either the GONE series or this post whatsoever, but I just had to let out my excitement for this somewhere and you just happened to be the unfortunate victim of my excitement overload! :D</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">[In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents--unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers--that grow stronger by the day.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...]</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>**Note - because this is a <b>series </b>review, I highly doubt that this is going to be a long and detailed review so I can't really go into much detail because I'm talking about three books at once here people, what more can I do for you guys?!** :)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it’s not a fiery inferno, it’s certainly no heaven. It’s gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more by the day, and everyone has a job to do. Which doesn’t leave Velveteen much time to do anything about what’s really on her mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Bonesaw.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Velveteen aches to deliver the bloody punishment her killer deserves. And she’s figured out just how to do it. She’ll haunt him for the rest of his days. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">It’ll be brutal... and awesome.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">But crossing the divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences. Velveteen’s obsessive haunting cracks the foundations of purgatory and jeopardizes her very soul. A risk she’s willing to take—except fate has just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and completely off-limits coworker.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Velveteen can’t help herself when it comes to breaking rules... or getting revenge. And she just might be angry enough to take everyone down with her.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just wanted to send a HUGE thanks out to Emma! Originally she was only supposed to be sending me the A Clockwork Orange book but she also sent me the Harry Potter book (which I will be sending her a book for in return) and, being the amazingly kind person that she is, she threw in a copy of the A Clockwork Orange DVD! So nice of her! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been wanting to get started on The Inhertiance Cycle by Christopher Paolini for a long time. I've already got Eragon on my shelf and now I have Inheritance, so all I need is Eldest and Brisingr, but I really want to read Eragon and get into the series. If you've read this series I'd really love it if you could tell me what it's like and even try to convince me to start the series! Thanks :D</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02098384171173469786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942375169099294291.post-69816955952953535752012-10-24T15:10:00.000-07:002012-11-28T09:32:58.729-08:00The Woman in Black - Susan Hill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sounds awesome and scary, right?! Unfortunately, that is not the case. First off, Susan's writing style; I hate to say I wasn't a fan of it. A huge bookish pet peeve of mine is when the author writes really long, unnecessary paragraphs. I can stand these types of paragraphs if they show up occasionally and are about 3/4's of a page-a page at a stretch. However, with this book, these long paragraphs popped up extremely often and were usually about a full page-a page and a half in length. The reason I hate this - especially in a horror/thriller/creepy novel - is because it slows the pace of the book away down and completely weakens the thrill that this novel is supposed to provide to the reader. I feel like I would have enjoyed this book a bit more if there were a lot less of these unnecessarily long paragraphs as it would have sped the book up a lot more and kept me in suspense. This alone took a star immediately off my final rating.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Michael McIntyre is a British comedian that I love watching on TV and he has been actively performing stand-up since approximately 2006. This is his story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the first AudioBook that I have ever fully listened to and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The book is read by Michael himself and I'm glad he did it, it helped me understand the story better and definitely enhance the experience for me. "Life and Laughing" is Michael's autobiography and it tells his life story from the first experience of life that he remembers to the very point to which he decided to write this book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Listening to Michael tell his story made me both laugh out loud and feel extremely sorrowful for some things he had to go through growing up. There were definitely moments that I rewinded and listened to over and over again because I found them that funny, I just had to control my laughter - I was listening to this in school, imagine how crazy I looked! Michael tells of his relationships with various family members, how he coped with his parents' divorce and the loss of particular family members.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There isn't much else I can say about this book, if you're aware of who Michael is and you enjoy his comedy, I highly recommend you pick up this book and give it a go. Although, I feel like I wouldn't have enjoyed the book as much had I read a physical copy in comparison to the AudioBook, the way Michael reads his story is fantastic and really does enhance the story a huge amount.</span></div>
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