Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Blue Moon Review

Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2)

Description from goodreads:

Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way. But just as her powers are increasing, Damen’s are waning.  In an attempt to save him, Ever travels to the magical dimension of Summerland, where she learns the secrets of Damen’s tortured past; a past which he has always kept hidden from her. But in her quest to cure Damen, Ever discovers an ancient text that details the workings of time. Now Ever must chose between turning back the past and saving her family from the accident that claimed their lives—or staying in the present and saving Damen, who grows sicker every day...

REVIEW:
Well I wasn't exactly a fan of the first one, but I bought this one so I thought I better read it. It starts pretty much where it left off, Ever and Damon. Damon is teaching her all the cool tricks to being an immortal, and they are falling deeper in love.

When Damon becomes ill, Ever does just about everything to get the boy she fell in love with back. She explores Summerland and finds out about Damon's past.

This book was quite boring to me the Damon diappears for almost the whole book, then comes back and all is good, sounds familiar to me (New Moon). This book was not terrible, but I will not be continuing on with the series, 2/5

Evermore Review

Evermore (The Immortals, #1)

Description From goodreads:

Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch.   Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste…
Ever sees Damen and feels an instant recognition.  He is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy, and he holds many secrets.  Damen is able to make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she’s thinking—and he’s the only one who can silence the noise and the random energy in her head.  She doesn’t know who he really is—or what he is.  Damen equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies.

Review:

The only thing that interested me at first about this book was her sister. It made me think about losing my sister and that was heart wrenching, I adore my sister. The cliche outcast meets hot new guy is getting old, but I was interested because of her sister. I also found it cool that she could see peoples auras.

Damon is the hot new guy, who of course goes and sits with the outcasts and thinks Ever is immediately attractive even though he doesn't know her, but he does. This book was nothing different, though because of the sister and the aura thing, so 3/5

Fallen Review

Fallen (Fallen, #1)
Description from goodreads:

There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.


REVIEW:

Fallen started with Luce, about to go to a new school, a boarding school (my favorite), she is leaving behind her troubled past and entering a new one.

I immediately was drawn to this book for the gorgeous cover, the story was interesting as well. Things happened that I didn't expect to, like I did not know that Daniel was an angel or that darkness followed Lucy. I wouldn't of ended it the way she did, but I guess it left me wanting more, the key to selling books. 4/5

Hush Hush Review

Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)

For Description from goodreads:

For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her...until Patch comes along.
With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment, but after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is far more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.
For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.


Review:

I like that I never knew what was going to happen with the characters. I didn't know who to trust almost the whole time. This was my first Fallen Angel book, I have read this twice now.

I was expecting the same thing to happen that does in all other books like this (the girl, who is an outcast, ends up with a hot  stranger, they meet in biology class). Well this was a twist, it was like a mystery, things would happen, then ten seconds later there was no way to explain them, no damages done, only the ones she saw, or thought she did. This book, kept me guessing until the final scene. 4/5.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Across The Universe Review

Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
Description from goodreads
 A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
 REVIEW:
This book was amazing!!! I have never read anything like this before!!!

At first I thought I would stay away from this book, from the Title I thought it was based off the movie, but I quickly learned when I picked this up for a book club on here, it was very much unlike the movie.

I was hooked from page one, for one thing, what was happening seemed so impossible and life on GodSpeed was so different than it is here on Earth. There was no diversity (which I would hate), Everybody acted like a zombie, they had no personality, they did what they were told, there wasn't conflict between the people. It was very different.

When Amy awakens from being frozen, she is so much different than everybody. Her skin, her hair, her eyes, all so differnt than what the people are used to on GodSpeed. It causes a problem.

I really liked this book, it was amazing, and different, I cannot wait for the next one(I think theres one). 5/5

Friday, February 4, 2011

Nice Contest

Go to this blog, I Eat Words, its amazing, go there right now and Enter to win Nicholas Spaks' The Notebook, YAAAAY!
heres the link:
http://www.ieatwords.net/2011/02/book-to-movie-giveaway.html