November TBR

I totally failed this month to read the books I want. But school really stresses me out and I study all day and I stay up till 2am to write my homework. It's really exsausting and I don't have time for anything else. I'm studying in the weekends too and I literary don't have time to read or posting a lot. It's killing me.

1. The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) by James Dashner

It’s the end of the line.

WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.

Will anyone survive?

What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say.

The truth will be terrifying.

Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all. 

The time for lies is over.

***

I started the book few days ago and I'm still in the beginning. I'll try to read it the next few days because I really want to read The Death Cure before my dad because he is going to spoil everything to me. I am really excited to read it, even though I am not a big fan of James Dashner's writing.

1. The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.

Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

***

I liked The 5th Wave but I didn't like it at the same time. I hope this book to be better than the first one.

3. Strings by Kat Green

The rise of the Black Eagles was meteoric, from band practice in the garage to global stars almost overnight. 

And Melissa Webb, the beautiful girlfriend of the front man, appeared to have it all. 

But when Luke Black disappears without a trace and Melissa wakes up in a hospital bed after a savage attack, her perfect world is shattered and their lives are plunged into a potentially deadly crisis. 

Where is Luke, and can he be found before it is too late?

***

This book is in my TBR list from a long time and now I'll finally read it and I'm super excited!

These are the books I'll definitelly going to try to read this month. If I have more time I'm going to read the rest of the last months list.

Book Review: Die for Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum

5/5 stars

SPOILER FREE!

In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.

When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life-and memories-behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.

Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant-an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again.

What I Didn't Like:

When I first started reading the book I thought it's going to be boring and I won't like it because I didn't like the first two pages but I continued reading and after few more pages the book surprised me. I don't think there was something else I didn't like because that book was really good.

What I Liked:

I liked the story. It was so beautiful. I love the way Amy Plum writes. I can get easily into the book and enjoy it. Die for Me is really easy-read and I read it for few hours. I just flushed through the pages and lost track of time. I think it's one of the best books I've read this year.

The book takes place in Paris. When I heard that I was sure that I'll like Die for Me, because Paris is magical town and I did, but that's not the only reason! I love France! I went there this spring and I really liked it, although Paris is not my favourite city. This book has everything I like! It's fast-paced, well-written, has realistic characters, had some twists and the relationship between Kate and Vincent was really realistic.

Kate and her sister are living with their grandparents in Paris. I liked Kate from the beginning and it was really interesting to read the book from her point of view. The characters were well-built and realistic. I read the book really fast but for that few hours I was Kate and I was living in her world. 

I love so much the world Amy Plum created! I've never read something like this before. I think this book is one of my favourites. I haven't read the rest of the series yet but I am definitlley going to read it soon.

I loved Die for Me. It's amazing read and I kept turning the pages until the book was over. This book has a special place in my heart and I definitelly recommend it. 

Cover Reveal: Under My Skin by Shawntelle Madison

Under My Skin

(The Immortality Strain, #1)

By Shawntelle Madison

Release Date: 12/09/14

Book Summary:

Everyone wants to either be a member of the Guild or work for them. Little does the populace know that the Guild hides sinister secrets...

For Tate Sullivan, life in her small, coastal town is far from glamorous. The affluent lives of the Guild members and their servants isn't something she has ever wanted. But all sixteen year-olds must take a simple test, and Tate's result thrusts her into the Guild's world, one where they hide horrible plans for those they select. Tate must fight the relentless General Dagon for control of her mind, body, and soul to keep the one precious thing she has always taken for granted: herself.

Her only ally is the same handsome boy she is pitted against in General Dagon’s deadly game. Quinn desires nothing more than to end the life of General Dagon who has taken over Tate's mind. While romance blooms between Tate and Quinn, General Dagon plots to eventually take over Tate's body, and love might end before it even begins.

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About the Author

Shawntelle Madison is a web developer who loves to weave words as well as code. She’d never admit it, but if asked she’d say she covets and collects source code. After losing her first summer job detasseling corn, Shawntelle performed various jobs—from fast-food clerk to grunt programmer to university webmaster. Writing eccentric characters is her most favorite job of them all. On any particular day when she’s not surgically attached to her computer, she can be found watching cheesy horror movies or the latest action-packed anime. She lives in Missouri with her husband and children.

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Book Review: The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

3/5 stars

SPOILER FREE!

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. 

Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch. 

There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.

The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. 

Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. 

There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.

*****

What I Didn't Like:

I liked The Scorch Trials but the whole time I was feeling like something is missing and I just couldn't enjoy the book as much as I hoped to. I couldn't get into it and be part of the story. Something was keeping me away and later I realised that it was the writing.

I really liked The Maze Runner and I wanted to like this book even more but my expectations were destroyed from the first few pages. I was bored from the beginning and after few chapters I wanted the book to end because I wanted everything to be over.

The pacing was slow for me. Few times I felt like nothing interesting was happening and the only thing that was going on was Thomas passing out and it was so annoying. I wanted to put the book back on the shelf, leave it there and never look at it again.

Thomas was one of the most annoying characters in The Scorch Trials. In The Maze Runner he was really smart and I liked him but now I wanted to scream at him for being so annoying.

I was feeling like there is lack of descriptions. I don't even know or remember how half of the characters look like.

There are some new characters I don't like. I won't tell you the reasons because I'll spoil something and I hate doing that. I just don't like some of them with no particular reason.

Before I started the book, a friend told me that it's one of the best books she has ever read and that really made me to want more from this book and I was trying really hard to like The Scorch Trials and the book started to be interesting to me the last few chapters and I was still bored from time to time. She also told me that she was really shocked from this book but I wasn't. I was kind of confused only one time in the book. Maybe I was too bored to pay attention to the "shocking" thing or I just didn't care. I really don't know. 

I was getting distracted really easy from everything around me. I have the bad habit to listen to rock or metal music while I'm reading. If I don't listen to music, I can't concentrate. I usually don't get distracted by music. It's just there but while I was reading this book I learned the lyrics of a lot of songs. At one moment I'm reading and in the other I'm singing a song I didn't think I know the lyrics to and I don't even know when I've stopped reading. 

What I Liked:

The plot. I really liked the plot. Maybe it was the only thing that I really liked. Most of the characters are great and there are some lines I laugh at. I liked that The Scorch Trials started from the place where The Maze Runner ended. There is no gap between the books. The book started to be interesting after 260 pages (or even more) boredom but that last pages tried really hard to keep me under pressure and they almost succeeded. I was still getting distractet easy but at least I read the end of the book faster. I don't know what else I liked. The nice plot is the only reason I gave this book 3 stars.

Don't get me wrong. I liked the book but it's definitely not from my favourite books. I didn't care much about the main character and there was parts from the book where I wanted him to die already. I don't recommend this book. Maybe if you really, really, really liked The Maze Runner, you'll like this one. I'm going to read The Death Cure later this month, so I can tell that I've read the whole series and I am kind of curious what's going to happen but for now I'm taking a break from James Dashner's novels because I'm not I'll be able to survive the next book so soon. I'm hoping to be better than this one and I don't want to be disappointed again.

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October TBR

I decided to start a new section where I'l write about the books I am looking forward to read through the month. In my country October is full of surprises! There are some amazing books coming out soon here.

1. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.

Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.

There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.

The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.

There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.

***

I really liked The Maze Runner and I really want to read the rest of the series. It came out last month in my country and I got it last week. I already read the half of the book and I am hoping to finish it today.

2. The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) by James Dashner

It’s the end of the line.

WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.

Will anyone survive?

What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say.

The truth will be terrifying.

Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.

The time for lies is over.

***

The Death Cure is coming out today here. I'll probably get it by the end of the week and read it later this month.

3. Across the Universe by Beth Revis

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.

***

This book is in my TBR list from really long time and yesterday I saw that it's translated into my language and I ordered it online the minute I found it in the publisher's site. I can't wait to start reading it!

4. Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton

Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told us someday they would come back, and when they did, a game would be played. A game that would determine our future.

This is Endgame.

For ten thousand years the lines have existed in secret. The 12 original lines of humanity. Each had to have a Player prepared at all times. They have trained generation after generation after generation. In weapons, languages, history, tactics, disguise assassination. Together the players are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak. They are good and evil. Like you. Like all.

This is Endgame.

When the game starts, the players will have to find three keys. The keys are somewhere on earth. The only rule of their Endgame is that there are no rules. Whoever finds the keys first wins the game. Endgame: The Calling is about the hunt for the first key. And just as it tells the story of the hunt for a hidden key, written into the book is a puzzle. It invites readers to play their own Endgame and to try to solve the puzzle. Whoever does will open a case filled with gold. Alongside the puzzle will be a revolutionary mobile game built by Google’s Niantic Labs that will allow you to play a real-world version of Endgame where you can join one of the lines and do battle with people around you.
Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.

Play.
Survive.
Solve.
People of Earth.
Endgame has begun.

***

This book is coming out tomorrow and I can't wait to read it! I have the feeling that it is going to be awesome!

5. The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.

Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

***

I liked The 5th Wave but I didn't like it at the same time. I hope this book to be better than the first one.

6. I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter by Brian K. Henry

Moody sixteen-year-old barista Devin Mulwray is doing his best to ignore bizarre manifestations at his job in the chilly Northern California town of Arcata. Already teased about his recurrent ‘phase-outs’, the last thing he needs is to get pegged as a guy who sees ghosts. It doesn’t help his state of mind that his boss is a sarcastic slacker, his single dad is always on the road with clients and local occult fan girl Nayra is spreading ‘ghost boy’ rumors about him online.

But when violent paranormal activity badly spooks teens at an abandoned estate, Devin’s pushed into investigating by his eccentric friends Clive, a budding composer, and Rex, a tech head excited by ghost hunting gadgetry. At first reluctant to get involved, Devin’s encouraged when Emily, one of the more empathetic girls at Grey Bluff High, is impressed with his daring.

Together the friends explore the creepy Rousten manor. But as the only person able to perceive the manifestations, Devin soon finds himself going one-on-one against a powerful spirit who attacks the locals and infiltrates Devin’s own dreams.

Devin must face his fear of confronting the spirit world and get to the bottom of the hauntings before the specter unleashes more havoc on him and his friends.

***

This book seems really fun and I want to read it so bad. 

*****

These are the books I'm definitely going to read this month. I really want to read more but I don't think I'll have enough time. I'm studying hard and I watch a lot of TV series and I'm trying to spend more time with my friends and family and I have time to read only in the weekends.

Book Review: Remembrance by Michelle Madow

5/5 stars

SPOILER FREE!

Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from 1815, England ... but she doesn't realize it until she meets her soul mate from the past and he triggers her memories to gradually return.

When Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school, she feels a connection to him, like she knows him. But he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching Drew is more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind?

Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, but fighting fate isn’t easy, and she’s determined to unravel the mysteries of the past.

******

When I first heard about the book I didn't expect to like it so much. Remembrance was amazing! The cover is beautiful! I love the way Michelle Madow writes. The characters in the book were so well-built and there was no way not to fall in love with them. I was feeling like I was not only in Lizzie's head but I was Lizzie. Like I could feel everything that she felt and that is one of the things I love in this book. I really liked the plot and I was in love with the main characters. Remembrance is one of the best books I've read so far this year and I think it's one of my favourite ones ever. I really enjoyed that book!

In the beggining of the book Lizzie is just a normal teenager with a nice boyfriend and really cool best friend. She's not from the popular girls or the one everyone makes fun of, Lizzie is just a typical student. I really liked her. She's one of these characters I just love with no particular reason. Lizzie is just cool and maybe I love her so much because I kind of see myself in her sometimes. I actually pictured Lizzie like Michelle Madow. I don't know why, I just did. I was picturing her really clear in my head and then I found out that Michelle pictured her as Taylor Swift and I was like "What?" but Lizzie will always look like Michelle to me.

Drew is deffinitely one of the hottest book boys I've read about. In the beggining I was little confused why he was acting like that and he was a mystery to me but later, everything comes to place and it all actually makes sence. I wasn't sure what to think about him most of the time. 

Remembrance changed the way I look at YA books. I don't know how exacly it's just that feeling after I finished the book. It somehow made me think more of the things I'm doing and how easy you can hurt anyone without wanting it. I started to think more of the things I'm doing. I just have to mention that in the book French language looks easier than it actually is. My French is worse than Lizzie's in the beggining.

I was reading Remembrance till three in the morning because it was just amazing and I couldn't put it down until I finished it. I read it in less than 24 hours and the books I read that fast are not a lot. The book has to be more than just good to keep me interested in reading it all day and do nothing else and Remembrance was deffinitely more than just good. I can't express with words how much I love this book.

I'm not actually sure how I found Michelle's site and I don't really care as long as she writes amazing books. I am really looking forward to read the rest of the series and Michelle's other series The Secret Diamond Sisters, which actually looks great too.

Remembrance is book with great characters and plot and I recommend it to everyone who like YA novels. Pick it up and read it! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did because that book is amazing!

 About Michelle Madow

Michelle Madow was inspired to write The Secret Diamond Sisters series while walking through her favorite hotel in Las Vegas. The next book in the series, Diamonds in the Rough, launches in October. Prior to The Secret Diamond Sisters, she successfully self-published The Transcend Time Saga. A tireless promoter of her work, Michelle is active on social media networks and has toured across America to promote her books and encourage high school students to embrace reading and writing. A graduate of Rollins College, Michelle lives in Florida ... but she loves going to Vegas.

Visit her online at www.michellemadow.com, and follow her on Facebook (/MichelleMadow) and Twitter (@MichelleMadow).

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