Looking For Alaska by John Green....

My Christmas pj's!! 

So over Christmas break I have manged to finish reading Angel Fire by L.A Weatherly I think and to read Looking For Alaska. I can absolutely say that I loved this book so much and it is incredible!! The story is thrilling and so funny, the thing about John Green is that he's not afraid to say what he wants to say so there's swearing and sexual references in there but that's what makes the book in a way. The character Alaska Young is obsessed with sex and drinking and smoking that your drawn to her and wonder why. The character Miles Halter (Pudge) who the book is written in the perspective of, is endearing and he knows he doesn't have any friends and it doesn't bother him until he chases the Great Perhaps. My favorite characters from this book was Chip (the Colonel), Alaska and Tukuni who had me in fits of laughter at one point in the book. I really love this book and would recommend to people who want a good story line and all the "feels" because there are happy parts, sad parts, romantic parts everything is in this book! But yes thank you for reading and I shall see you next time with another post Goodbye x

Divergent .....

So it's finally time to review one of my favorite books I've ever read DIVERGENT! As you guys, who read my blog regularly, know that I loved this book so much and have been saying that I'm going to review and never got round to it, but now I am and I'm very happy and excited to review the book I love so much. 

So lets begin, my favorite character in the whole entire book has to be Four aka Tobias. I absolutely fell in love with him from the word go, he's just strong and he has his guard up at the start and treats Tris differently and then I began to realize that he liked her and I'm a sucker for a love story so I was thrilled that Tris and Four got together. 

I loved the world that it was set in with the five factions, Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent) my favorite faction was Dauntless. I've debated with myself whether I'd survive it because I'm quite a strong person and I can handle most things that are thrown at me but whether I could jump of a train I don't know and also we only go to really see the Abnegation and Dauntless factions so maybe if I'd gotten to experience all of them I'd decide better.

I love how both Tris and Four are Divergent (was it obvious, I think so but it's still good!) There were some shocking moments though like when Edward got stabbed in the eye, I really wasn't expecting that and it was kinda gross. Tris annoyed me a little I don't really know why but sometimes when the book is from the girls perspective I get a little annoyed because they over think everything and I'm just like "Get to the point".

But I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have now brought the second one Insurgent to read, hopefully it's as good as Divergent. If you haven't read the book before and you want to know the basic plot her it is (I just realized I hadn't said it earlier whoops) But Tris was born into the Abnegation and was brought up to be selfless always giving to other people before thinking about herself. And when they turn 16 I think it is they have to do an Aptitude test where it decides which Faction is best for you. Tris's Aptitude test was different she changed it in some way which basically meant that she was Divergent, and it's practically an Abomination to be Divergent so she has to hide it from anyone. When it comes to deciding which Faction she wants to live in she has to decide whether to stay with her parents in Abnegation or transfer to Dauntless. She ends up choosing Dauntless and has to go through the initiation process. The rest of the book is based on the initiation process of how Tris struggles to hide being Divergent and falling in love with Four, making friends, learning to fight and to finally fitting in.

I strongly recommend that you read this book if you haven't yet and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Comment what you thought of the book if you've read it I'd love to know. Thanks for reading, byee x

Book series I recommend ...

Hey there guys, so as promised I'm doing the book series I would recommend you read. Now I'm gonna put this out there so your not wondering why the Harry Potter books aren't on my list and that's because I haven't actually read them all ... in fact I've only read the first one and 3/4 of the second..... I know it's a sin but I never read as a child and my mum brought me loads of books to try to get em too but I was more interested in playing with my friends so no Harry Potter will not be on the list, but unlike me you've probably read them anyway so it's all good! If it's any use I absolutely love the films and have them all, maybe that makes up for it? No it doesn't does it nowpe... moving on ...

So the first series I would recommend is The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter, at the moment there are five books but she has just brought out the last book but I'm not sure when it's being released. But just a quick summary if you've never come across these books before, there about a spy school for young girls and Cammie the main character goes on this adventure to find out what happened to her father. I thoroughly enjoyed these books and are fun and lighthearted books if you want something quick and girly to read.

The next series I recommend to you are these, I'm not sure what the series is called but the books consist of "A Royal Match" which has the first two books "Pulling Princes" & "Stealing Princes" and the third and fourth books are "Duelling Princes" & "Dumping Princes". I absolutely loved these books are are my favorite chick flicky type of books I've ever read, there so enjoyable and lighthearted and a typical  girls life kinda books. There about an American girl who falls in love with a Prince (not so typical I know but the rest is) and she goes through school meeting other boys and mean girls and the troubles she faces. Also these books are hilarious, I laughed so much!

And of course The Hunger Games, I hope you've all read these books because they are just amazing! I was a bit disappointed in the film though as I had high expectations from reading the books. And the covers are awesome!!

And the last series I'm recommending to you are "Shiver", "Linger" & "Forever" books, when I read these books I was constantly wanting to read more and the ending was so sweet and perfect for the characters I just love these books. I've heard a few mixed reviews on them but in my opinion they are so good and the characters are great to get to know. The books are about wolves and a girl and how the wolves change into humans during the summer and how they change into there wolf selves during the winter. If you wanted to know more detail on this series I did a book review in a post a while back.

But yeah I know there are so many more series that are awesome, and at the moment I'm reading the fallen series, which is what I mentioned previously, but I'm not entirely excited about it if I'm being honest. And it's taking me a while to finish the series because there's lots of detail and things going on that it's just a bit boring in the end. But I want to finish the series so I'm gonna try to do that and I might do a review on it depending on how I feel.

But anyway, thanks for reading guys, I'd love to know your favorite book series or if you've read any of the ones I've mentioned, I'm always looking for books to read. I'll see you next time, byee :) x

Books I really need to read!! ...

Hey there guys, so today I thought I'd tell you guys the books I've been dying to read but just haven't got round to doing. One because I'm a slow reader and it just takes me so long to read a book and because I've borrowed the Fallen series by Lauren Kate from my friend and I've had them for over a year and I thought I'd better read those. So my reading list has been put on hold for quite a while which is really sad and annoying because I love books and I want to buy more but i can't until I read the ones I have *Sigh*. But anyway getting onto the books...

 So these are on the very top of my list, they are Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, The knife of never letting go by Patrick Ness and Divergent by Veronica Roth. Don't judge me for not reading them yet, I brought them a while ago and just haven't had the time to sit down and read them and I'm desperate too!! I haven't watched the film of Beautiful Creatures yet becasue I wanted to read the book first and I know everyone has read Divergent but I kid you not I'd had on my shelf since the beginning of the year!! So sad... but anyway I'm really excited to finally get to read them and I shall start them within the next few weeks because I'm still finishing the Fallen series off (Like I said REALLY slow reader over here) but these are the ones I'm most looking forward to read. The books in the pictures are the ones that I own but I'm going to mention The Fault in our stars By John Green and Me and Earl and they Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews I don't own these but I'm desperate! Like dying on the floor from wanting these, of course everyone has read The fault in our stars and I haven't so it's very sad and depressing but it's on my list to buy and I haven't heard too much about Me and Earl and the Dying Girl but it sounds so incredible I just have to have it!

 Next on my list are these three, Rapture by Lauren Kate which is the last book in the Fallen series so I'll be reading this one first just so I finish the series and can give them back to my friend, Withering Tights by Louise Rennison and Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly. I've read the first Angel book and it was good but it took me a while to get into but I'm going to give the second one a shot just to see if it's any better than the first one. I'm not sure about the Withering Tights one because I haven't read any of Louise Rennison's books because I was never into reading when I was younger so I just didn't read them and now I'm older I want to read other books but I might just read it to see if I like it or not but I don't know if it follows on from another book I'm not sure.

 

The last book I own that is on my "to be read" list is the second book in the Wolf Springs Chronicles By Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie which is called Hot blooded, the first book is called Unleashed and I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading this one and the covers are so pretty! It's usually the covers which make me pick up a book to read, if the cover isn't the best it puts me off which is why I love a good book cover haha. 

But yeah that's about it I mean I have a list of 22 books that I need to buy but I don't own them so I can't read them yet, and so that is my to read list for the rest of this year. I hope you enjoyed this post and me sharing a few books that I'm going to read, I think I'll post a "Series I've read" post because although I'm a slow reader I've gotten through a few books over the past few years :) But anyway thanks for reading guys I'll speak to you next time byeee xx

Favorite childhood books ...

Hey there guys, so recently my brother has signed up for this reading competition with our local library and I've been helping him make a start on his reading. It got me thinking of the childhood books I loved when I was around 7 till now. My brother has started to read Roald Dahl - James and the giant peach, and I remember starting this book but I never actually finished it so it's quite good for me to share this experience with my brother as we will both find out how it ends together. Roald Dahl was a big influence on my childhood and I was mesmerized by his writing and ways to describe the image and characters in his head, my favorites were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is still one of my all time favorite books and films, and George's Marvellous Medicine. 

Another Author who influenced my childhood and the books I read today is Jacqueline Wilson. My favorite books of hers are The bed and breakfast star which was the very first book i read from front to back on my own and took me around a year, I remember this because I was in year 4 (grade if your in America) and there was always this competition of how many pages you could read and you would get prizes for each stage and there were always to bookworms who won every stage and I wanted to give it a try, so I made the first step of reading The bed and breakfast star which changed the way I perceived books in a completely different way. The characters and story-line just intrigued me to where I wanted to read more and more and I eventually finished it, sadly I was and still am a very slow reader which means it takes me a long time to finish a book, I'm working on that. Another favorite book of mine by Jacqueline Wilson is The Diamond Girls. I had started reading it a long time ago and then had either a) got bored or b) forgot about it, and so I picked it up again when I sorted out my books and completely fell in love with it, if I remember correctly I may have shed a tear or two but I can't be certain. It was a long time ago.

Sadly though I could never get into reading the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, and have only read the first one and 3/4 of the second one. It's a working progress, but I absolutely adore and I mean ADORE the films, as I am obsessed with film and the way films are created and brought to life.

I'm going to go now because I'm sure your sick of me rambling on about books so thanks for reading byyeeeee x