Up coming book reviews

In the next week I plan to review Linger and Forever by Maggie Stiefvater and The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins I haven't blogged for ages due to exams and so forth.

And with that good reading!

Lie By Moonlight by Amanda Quick

So, I kept starting and stopping and starting and stopping and only finally finished 2 weeks ago after I decided to knuckle down and read it, it initially took me around 3-4 days to read it which is quiet slow but I had a million things going on. The book is about a teacher names Concordia Glade who teaches 4 orphaned girls all from wealthy backgrounds at an isolated school.As soon as she realises that there is something sinister going on behind the school she escapes with the girls and meet a man names Ambrose Wells a private detective who meets them in time to rescue them. Throughout the book you see a blossoming love between the two which both are entirely hesitant to admit and the unraveling of the mystery behind why the 4 girls were such a valuable asset to Larkin a mysterious criminal well known from his secretive activities.

This book at the beginning me had me very confused I didn't understand the link between the girl being murdered in the bath houses and Conconrdia and the girls but after the first 10 chapters you put the missing link aside and focus on the events that happen with the orphaned girls. The book towards the end leaves you at the end of your seat in suspense, wanting to understand how everything slots together. I would say that it won't appeal to many young people and is categorised under the adult mystery section but it appeals much to my reading  taste.

I think what appealed to me was the fact that the lead women ( Concordia) is very strong and is assertive. She doesn't just fall to Ambroses instructions and is hard to convince and talk to. Also she has a background which backs up why she is the way she is.The orphan girls annoyed me they always stuck their noses into business which did not concern them. I liked the mysteriousness of Ambrose it takes a while for things about his life to unravel. I expected it to have a lot more mystery to it so reading it did let me down a bit, but I'm not saying its bad.
This book was good but not excellent or gob smacking 6.5/10

Here is the link to were you can buy it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lie-Moonlight-Vanza-Amanda-Quick/dp/0749936312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309104710&sr=8-1

Check out Amanda Quicks website:
http://www.amandaquick.com/

The Decleration

The Declaration by Gemma Malley

The first in a trilogy of amazing books. About a world in which there has been a ground breaking cure to prevent the process of ageing called ‘longevity.’ As the world becomes more populated the only reasonable answer to prevent any further over population is to make everyone to sign a deceleration which in simple terms means they cannot have children. With a few exceptions the very rich and important are sometimes allowed to have children or that you stop taking the medication after the birth of your child. But in many cases the people who are taking the drug have been alive for decades so as soon as they stop taking the drug they age SUPER QUICKLY most people not living longer than a couple of weeks.

The few people who are found to have broken this deceleration children are then taken away to ‘surplus’ halls which they are then trained to be servants and do any jobs which are seen as a stress for society. Their esteems battered by the icy words that they are not wanted in society. Through out their lives in these institutions they are constantly made to repent the fact that they were born and that they should hate their birth parents for breaking the deceleration. The children,as they are not wanted are not allowed to take ‘longevity.

The book is centered around a girl called Anna who has lived in this institution and has been ‘successfully’ indoctrinated and hates her parents and her existence on the Earth and believes that he aim in life is to become a valuable asset, that is until a boy called Peter arrives who challenges her every thought and makes her see the world in a new-found light he brings a fresh view of the outside world as he managed to live with his parents under the national radar for many years, along with him he brings some revolutionary ideas.

At the beginning of the book I found Anna quiet an annoying character but as you get further in you start to understand why she is so stubborn and can sympathies with the fact she was raised in an institution where her life was no more important than the clothes she was wearing. I loved the fact she was realistically stubborn and believes what she was raised to and was not straight away swayed by the notion of freedom and a changing outside world. Mrs Pincent the women running the institution is a typical villain but this completely clashes with the style of the story. You gain so much respect for the fact that Anna wasn’t so naive as to just follow the new ‘hotty’ at her institution. She has a real back bone .

This book really shocked me I didn’t anticipate for it to be so goo. I found as  I read it  I got taken further and further into the book and by the end you don’t want it to end. Also the relationship between Anna and Peter is never 100% in your face, I would call it a sweet beginning. They aren’t always talking and thinking about each other which reflects the manner in which they were raised in. It is completely different to the usual style of book  I would read but I can’t really find a criticism. There are two other books in the series The Resistance and The Legacy, which  I am thoroughly looking forward to reviewing during July.

This book is shockingly good and has you hungry to know more. I would recommend it to those who want an easy read. 8/10.

Here is a link to were you can buy it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Declaration-Gemma-Malley/dp/0747587752/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1309052894&sr=8-2

Check out Gemma Malleys website:

http://www.gemmamalley.com/

Linger By Maggie Sitefvater

As I expected this book would leave me near hanging off the edge of my seat. I finished it in about a day and a half. I am crazy for Maggie her writing style is insanely addictive and her vocabulary is of the scale fantastic.

In this book we are introduced to two new prospectives Isabel (sister of Jack) and Cole a past rocker and lead singer from Narkotika  and a new edition to a pack and as you could say a present from Beck. Grace and Sam are finally together and the thought of Sam only being able to watch from the boundary forest is long gone and they can spend the harrowing winters of Mercy Falls together, or at least we think.

Isabel battles against her feelings for Cole and her grievance for losing her brother to a 'selective' cure and Grace battles the reemergence of a daunting illness. As her health declines her parents and doctors are left lost and confused but only Sam knows what her fate is death or becoming a wolf. Aside the obstacles of Graces parents near hatred towards Sam and disapproval of her love for him all elements are bound together with thrilling fast paced action (not guns blazing and peoples legs being blown off) leading to the conclusion that to save Grace she must become a wolf.

This book left me dreading their fate and none the less predicting the events of her upcoming book Forever. The addition of Cole is quiet interesting as instead of us seeing quiet a loved up edition of the way things pan out we have Coles dark, sarcastic and at some points comical take on things. I have read this book a few times and it does not seem to run out of excitement. There is no way that The Twilight Saga can be put face to face with this as although they both contain wolves and romance there dimensions are at polar opposites.

This books is outrageously clever and magnetic and a book I wont EVER grow tired of. 10/10

The link to Maggie Stiefvaters website:
http://maggiestiefvater.com/
and the link were to buy her book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linger-Maggie-Stiefvater/dp/1407121081/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316376736&sr=8-1

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver By Maggie Stiefvater

When I first picked it up I had just finished the Twilight Saga, so I went into it thinking this is going to be a crap version of it. Some romance, some mythical creatures, someone dying,someone girl frolicking around saying how much she loves a guy she just met.  But I was pleasantly surprised

I have read this book a million times ( actually only 6) and yet still I cannot get tired of it. I almost know it word for word and If somebody asked me on the spot a mini synopsis of each and every chapter I’m pretty sure I could pull it off. Her unique and colorful style of writing blew me away and dragged me into the book word by word, to the point were I spent a whole evening reading it and didn’t even realise the time! It is absolutely a fantastical and YES  I just said fantastical book.

So in the book we are first introduced to Grace as a little girl she has been dragged of her swings and being attacked, in the book it seems like it’s in slow motion but is saved by a wolf  ’her wolf’ as she identifies with him as.  10 years after the incident a guy called Jack at her school a rich, up himself world-renowned jerk goes out into the woods to I suppose to taunt the wolves and ends up being attacked and ‘killed’ his body later disappears from the morgue and this causes uproar in Mercy Falls. So as expected the men go out and hunt some wolves when Grace returns home after school after a desperate attempt to save her wolf  from being shot she sees a naked guy on her back porch with a striking resemblance to the wolf that saved her (his amazing yellow eyes!)

The story is about their blossoming young love and the fight against Sam turning into a wolf for the final time.Which is SO romantic and all . What I love about this book is the fact that each chapter is written in an alternation of perspectives either that of  Sams or Graces which allows you to see how each is feeling. I think it makes you notice the character  behaviorism’s  and true self more than in a book written from a narrators point of view. The characters are all really strong characters they all have importance. It doesn’t have a ton of people who come and go they are generally all there for a substantial amount of time, although you don’t get to meet Ulrik and Paul. All of the characters are needed if you removed one from the plot it would crumble.

I know that this book will always be put face to face with Twilight , unlike Twilight there is a whole really thought out science behind why after you have been bitten by a wolf you shift and how you shift from human to wolf (by temperature). Unlike Twilight’s sappy excuse of ‘oh the blood suckers are here and now it means when we get angry we turn into wolves’ also in Shiver they are wolves: normal sized animal hunting wolves. Grace is a strong and well established character with a serious back bone and SO brave because even thought she knows how things will end she sticks to it

This book is amazing and I will read over and over again. I think it is impossible to over read it. It is a book I would recommend to anyone.  10/1o

Here is a link to were you can buy it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shiver-Maggie-Stiefvater/dp/1407115006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309047702&sr=8-1

Also Maggie Stiefvaters website:

http://www.maggiestiefvater.com/