tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42174117666978355612024-03-14T03:21:12.639+11:00 A Midnight ReaderGeorgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-60076953554531373512017-02-12T19:55:00.000+11:002017-02-12T19:55:10.931+11:00A Court of Mist and Fury - Quote Compendium<img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILBVfgpg_dZAHdsyNUiEtwrN3y3WmscxoG1CUO5OsU1cHQwSio0VVmnV8hyphenhyphenaeJAoII3naBUsA4vu5lC4dvSxq1B8r3bwqApHCAqXzdYKnZTWO187Sjw5D8o1gmTd8hM4h1F0lCVVj77s/s320/Screen+Shot+2016-12-28+at+12.45.38+PM.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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Here is a post containing all of the amazing lines from Sarah J. Maas' work of art, <i>A Court of Mist and Fury.</i> You can read my review (and you should) <a href="http://amidnightreader.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/book-review-court-of-mist-and-fury.html">here</a> and quick note: I have the Bloomsbury paperback edition which has 624 pages. And a warning, there may be spoilers!<br />
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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dead inside."<br />
- prologue, pg 1<br />
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"Was I interrupting? I thought it was over?" Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so."<br />
- Rhysand, Feyre, chapter 5, pg 44<br />
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"You're welcome, you know."<br />
"For <i>what?"</i><br />
Rhys paused less than a foot away, sliding his hands into his pockets. The night didn't seem to ripple from him here-and he appeared, despite his perfection, almost normal. "For saving you when asked."<br />
- Rhysand, Feyre, chapter 5, pg 46<br />
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"So I'm your huntress and thief?"<br />
His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, "You are my salvation, Feyre."<br />
- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 19, pg 213<br />
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"I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.<br />
I was a survivor, and I was strong.<br />
I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, <i>could not</i> be broken. Tamed."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 21, pg 226<br />
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"You," I breathed, not taking my eye from the musicians playing so skillfully that even the diners had set down their forks in the cafes nearby.<br />
"You sent that music into my cell. Why?"<br />
Rhysand's voice was hoarse. "Because you were breaking. And I couldn't find another way to save you.'<br />
- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 29, pg 289<br />
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<i>"Death on swift wings"</i><br />
- Feyre, chapter 30, pg 294<br />
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"The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 33, pg 320<br />
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"To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 34, pg 337<br />
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"And it was Elain-<i>Elain-</i>who sighed and murmured, "I hope they all burn in hell."<br />
- Elain, chapter 41, pg 389<br />
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"I am the dark lord, who stole away the bride of spring. I am a demon, and a nightmare, and I will meet a bad end. He is the golden prince-the hero who will get to keep you as his reward for not dying of stupidity and arrogance."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 43, pg 421-422<br />
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"But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."<br />
"Oh?"<br />
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out."<br />
- Feyre, Amren, chapter 43, pg 427<br />
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"And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then you lose your head." I tried not to shiver, as Cassian and Mor showed no reaction at all. "And once Feyre is done killing you," Rhys smirked, "then I'll grind your bones to dust."<br />
- Rhysand, Feyre, chapter 45, pg 444<br />
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"When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, the darkness begins to stare back."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 47, pg 461<br />
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"Then I would have torn the world apart to get you back."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 48, pg 469<br />
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"I painted the night sky," He stilled, I went on, "I painted the stars and the moon and clouds and just endless, dark sky."... "I never knew why. I rarely went outside at night-usually, I was so tired from hunting I just wanted to sleep. But I wonder... if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire-but that I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didn't bother to look, but to only fear it... Then I didn't particularly care for them, anyway. I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone. I wonder if I was looking for this place-looking for you all."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 49, pg 488<br />
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"If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 54, pg 526<br />
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"But then she snapped your neck."<br />
Tears rolled down his face.<br />
"And I felt you die," he whispered<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 54, pg 526<br />
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"And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd done for me. For what i felt for him."</div>
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"I want you to know," I whispered, "that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you. And I am honoured-<i>honoured</i> to be your mate."</div>
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- Feyre, chapter 55, pg 259</div>
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I felt Cassian's spirit beside me in that moment, and I could have sworn I heard him say, "<i>If you don't marry her your stupid prick, I will."</i></div>
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"I must have you wrapped completely around my finger."</div>
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His eyes danced with feline amusement. "Cruel, beautiful thing."</div>
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- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 55, pg 536</div>
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<i>"Life and death and rebirth</i><br />
<i>Sun and moon and dark</i><br />
<i>Rot and bloom and bones</i><br />
<i>Hello, sweet thing. Hello, lady of night, princess of decay. Hello, fanged beast and trembling fawn. Love me, touch me, sing me.</i><br />
- Book of Breathings, chapter 57, pg 554<br />
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"My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant."<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">So a while back, I read and reviewed another book by Estelle Laure called <i>This Raging Light</i> and really enjoyed it so I'm definitely looking forward to this one.</span></div>
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The following are a compilation of some of the noteworthy lines and quotes from Sarah J. Maas' novel A Court of Thorns and Roses. I loved this novel and all my thoughts can be read <a href="http://amidnightreader.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/book-review-court-of-thorns-and-roses.html">here</a>.</div>
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I have the Bloomsbury paperback edition with 416 pages. Let's go and beware of spoilers, you must read this great novel before you go on.<br />
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"The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice."<br />
- chapter 1, pg 1<br />
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"Once I'd dreamed and breathed and thought in colour and light and shape."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 1, pg 3<br />
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"The world was awash in hues of dark blue, interrupted only by shafts of buttery light escaping from the shuttered windows of our dilapidated cottage. It was like striding through a living painting - a fleeting moment of stillness, the blues swiftly shifting to solid darkness."<br />
- chapter 2, pg 9<br />
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"We need hope, or else we cannot endure."<br />
- chapter 2, pg 19<br />
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"I'd prefer not to wear that dress."<br />
"And why not?" Lucien crooned.<br />
It was Tamlin who answered for me. "Because killing us is easier in pants."<br />
- Feyre, Lucien, Tamlin, chapter 7, pg 59<br />
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Tamlin straightened a bit and said, "You look...better than before."<br />
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.<br />
"And you hair is...clean."<br />
- Tamlin, chapter 7, pg 60<br />
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"Has anyone ever taken care of you?" He asked quietly.<br />
"No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it.<br />
- Feyre, Tamlin, chapter 12, pg 110<br />
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"Why?"...<br />
"Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie."<br />
- Tamlin, Feyre, chapter 17, pg 153<br />
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"Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy."<br />
- Tamlin, chapter 19, pg 172<br />
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"Your human joy fascinates me-the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is... entrancing. I'm drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn't be, even when I try not to be."<br />
- Tamlin, chapter 19, pg 172<br />
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"Magic-<i>everything </i>was magic, and it broke my heart."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 23, pg 210<br />
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"If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?"<br />
- Tamlin, chapter 24, pg 215<br />
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"Do you lie awake at night to come up with all you witty replies for the following day?"<br />
- Feyre, chapter 25, pg 222<br />
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"I was a loosened, a top whirling around and around, and I didn't know who I danced with or what they looked like, only that I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 25, pg 226<br />
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"I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 25, pg 228<br />
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"I love you," he whispered, and kissed my brow. "Thorns and all."<br />
- Tamlin, chapter 27, pg 248<br />
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"I came to claim the one I love."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 34, pg 297<br />
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"<i>There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet, </i><br />
<i>And those who kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.</i><br />
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<i>At times I seem to favour the clever and the fair, </i><br />
<i>But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.</i><br />
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<i>By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,</i><br />
<i>But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.</i><br />
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<i>For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,</i><br />
<i>When kill I do it slow..."</i><br />
<i>- </i>Amarantha, chapter 35, pg 313<br />
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"He's playing a dangerous game, though," Lucien said, slipping out the door. "We all are."<br />
- Lucien, chapter 39, page 353<br />
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"It took me a long time to realise that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 49, pg 369<br />
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"You can leave if you're going to insult me."<br />
"But I'm so good at it."<br />
- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 42, pg 382<br />
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"When you healed my arm... You didn't have to bargain with me. You could have demanded every single week of the year." My brows knit together as he turned, already half-consumed by the dark. "Every single week, and I would have said yes." It wasn't entirely a question, but I needed an answer.<br />
A half smile appeared on his sensuous lips. "I know," he said, and vanished."<br />
- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 43, pg 385<br />
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"As i lifted the ash dagger, something inside of me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 43, pg 392<br />
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"I love you," I said, and stabbed him.<br />
- Feyre, chapter 43, pg 397<br />
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"But I gave myself again to that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."<br />
- Feyre, chapter 46, pg 312<br />
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"Why?" I asked.<br />
He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful."<br />
I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun.<br />
"Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."<br />
- Feyre, Rhysand, chapter 46, pg 413<br />
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"Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken from me."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 46, pg 414<br />
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"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all."<br />
- Rhysand, chapter 46, pg 414</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some patience would be good. Despite being filled with lost of action and plot twists, A Court of Mist and Fury was a long book and dragged in the middle as the action plot began to slow. It started to focus on the romance too much, but before this really became a problem, Maas picked up the plot again and worked her amazing-book-ending magic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Court of Mist and Fury was definitely a good book, no doubt, even better than ACOTAR in terms of characterisation and world development.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is intenser, darker and sexier than ACOTAR and Sarah enchants us with her beautiful writing yet again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Both literally and figuratively, Feyre earns her wings and by wings I mean her true character. Feyre has developed so much and has grown into a better person, her own person - she knows who she is now and what she wants and she is going to get it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At the beginning of this book Feyre is broken. <i>The first line is “Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.”</i> Under the Mountain has left her in pieces with blood soaked hands and she is definitely not okay and I really feel for her. I think ACOMAF was such a great book because the audience got see Feyre heal and change.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">She’s fiercer, stronger and she’s embraced the powers that came with becoming a Fae at the end of ACOTAR. Her suffering and trauma from her experience Under the Mountain has changed her and as a result she has shed that naive, soak-up-that-stars attitude for a harder, maturer skin. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At first I thought that Tamlin was just being painted so wrong, and despite disliking his character to begin with, I felt that Sarah was being unfair and just altering him to suit Feyre’s emotions when she decides she wants Rhysand and not Tamlin. But then I took a moment to really and sit and think about it and COMPLETELY changed my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Cornelia Funke</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reckless: The Petrified Flesh is a revised edition of the dark and magical first novel in the Mirrorworld series by Cornelia Funke. I really enjoyed Reckless but wish that I could have given it more stars. I had read the first edition years ago and was excited to read the revised edition because I remember that I loved the originality of the story and the characters. Unfortunately, the book didn’t live up to my expectations and I was too naive to really see what was going on with the book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At some points within Reckless, the writing was confusing and I didn’t know what was going on. I found out that the book had been translated from German to English so perhaps that played a role in the grammatical/punctuation errors. Another problem with Reckless was that it lacked description despite being filled with so much of it. The Mirrorworld was very detailed but Cornelia missed the mark on important aspects and pivot points of the plot. There were so many things presented to the reader but were never touched on or explained.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Court of Thorns and Roses easily made its way into my list of favourite novels and authors - it was so good, I wanted to re-read it right after I finished it. The novel is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a very loose retelling though which was good because it gave the story more originality and depth. Event the faerie element made the book Sarah’s own. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sarah J. Maas writes fantasy so well, each word is adorned with a magic and beauty and I loved how she put so many twists and turns into the novel. The writing was filled to the brim with a certain wildness and magic that makes you just want more and more. Each character was perfectly flawed and contained the perfect amount of give and take that characters need to keep you interested. Sarah even wrote the whole character dynamics well and I was especially interested in Feyre and her sisters relationship. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The plot was well though out and although it was slow paced in the beginning, it built strength as it progressed and only got better. I felt like Sarah was holding back a little bit and that the action at the end of the book could have been done earlier in the story as the book almost lost a bit of momentum during the middle and started to focus too much on romance. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something that really annoyed me was the riddle that Feyre had to solve during the trials (which is all I’m going to say about that so as not to spoil anything). I though it was silly and that Feyre was too smart to not have guessed it straight away just as easily as I’m sure everyone else did whilst they were reading it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now on the topic of romance. It just didn’t feel tangible and lacked the believability that it really needed. Perhaps that was a result of Tamlin being such a flat, lack lustre character. Unfortunately, it made Feyre’s motives at the ending (which I won’t spoil) somewhat hard to really believe or agree with. However, on the other hand, I do applaud Sarah for writing a sensual relationship between the two which developed at an understandable and realistic rate. I liked how they weren’t afraid to voice their feelings to each to other. Plus, I smell the hint of a love-triangle in the making and I don’t know how I feel about that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I didn’t like Tamlin and was extremely unimpressed with him as I mentioned before. I was extremely disapointed because I had heard so much about the great male characters that Sarah J. Mass writes. I can’t even write what I didn’t like about him because he didn’t have any facets to his personality. But, I did love his close and over protective friend Lucien. He was so snarky and cynical which was so just so charming and fun. At first I was hoping that he would be Feyre’s love interest (which I think would have been so much more interesting and entertaining to read about). His backstory was even better than Tamlin’s (did Tamlin even have one? If he did, it was so insignificant I can barely remember it. Sorry that was harsh) and I really want more of his character.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Rhysand was another story, he was selfish and darkly funny yet it was definitely only a shell so perhaps we’ll get to know more about the cause of that hard exterior in the sequel (especially now that Feyre is ‘bound’ to him). Also how about that ending on the balcony? I wonder what Rhys saw or felt. I’m definitely looking forward to the sequel, have I mentioned that yet?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Feyre, our MC, was smart, strong-willed and pragmatic, which made her such a good main character. She wasn’t a princess. She was her own person and she didn’t need Tamlin to save her and be her knight in shining armour and I loved that aspect. Feyre was the definition of bad-ass and even though she had her weaknesses, she never let them show and used them to her advantage. It was good to see such a strong female lead, as Sarah J. Maas is known for writing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Straight from the beginning, I knew A Court of Thorns and Roses was going to be a good book because of the depth of the descriptions and the imagery it created and my hypothesis proved to be right. I liked almost all characters and the good ones were developed well and easily differentiated. The plot had really great potential but personally, Sarah just missed her target on it by only a millimeter. However it's unique originality and magical element made up for it. Overall, A Court of Thorns and Roses was a dark, intense and magical novel that I recommend to lovers of fantasy, bad ass heroines and Sarah J. Maas. The romance does almost venture into the new adult genre but it would still be suitable for young adult readers. A Court of Thorns and Roses definitely deserves it’s five stars.</span></div>
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-78832786225065087632016-11-26T22:26:00.000+11:002016-11-27T22:33:06.117+11:00A Rant - Lady Midnight, Where Have You Been?<img height="200" src="https://www.thefandom.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FacebookCover2.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s start with the fact that I didn’t realise how much I missed my Shadowhunters<span style="text-align: center;"> until I read this. I bought the book in New York and it’s a signed copy (so I was absolutely over the moon about that) and then I started reading and all the memories and feels from </span>TID<span style="text-align: center;"> and </span>TMI<span style="text-align: center;"> started flooding back and CC why are you just so amazing at making me feel all this things and make me talk in sentences that are much too long and have a bad grammar with a lot of caps and exclamation marks. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can’t believe how funny the book was. Honestly, I must have laughed every chapter. Cassandra just writes humour with such ease and I love how the dialogue is so witty. Even Mark, who had lost his grip on ‘humanity’ or ‘shadowhunter ettiquette’ if you will and just made small comments that I found so funny. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“We're late," she said, "The show is supposed to start in ten minutes. If some people hadn't decided that 'semiformal' meant 'seminaked'-" "Why are you calling me 'some people'?" Mark inquired. "I am only one person.”</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> Mark you are just so precious.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moving on, my biggest pet peeve was the communication between characters. WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TALK TO EACH OTHER? EVER!!! Everything just kept going wrong and it was so annoying because it could have been prevented if Julian and Emma just took a moment to talk, or they thought maybe it would be a good idea to just voice their thoughts. It was just so frustrating.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christina Rosales. What a queen. She was just such a likeable character and I felt such sympathy for her. <i>"But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart." </i>What a jem (at first I unintentionally spelt it with the j and then only realised after i proof read it but oh well, it fits) She is probably my favourite female character alongside Tessa and I’ve only read one book about her. I wanna know more about her and Perfect Diego. Personally, I feel like there is something off about him but maybe he is just as perfect as everyone kept saying so who knows.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also, Christina and Mark!! Mark and Kieran!! i can’t decide who i want to be together more but I ship both. I really want to know more about Kieran too, like who is h3, why, what, where and how. I want more of him and Mark’s time together and what they did and just everything. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I guess I just really want to know more about the Faerie, particularly the Wild Hunt.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the scene where Christina cut Mark's hair! I just love Cassandra Clare.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Julian Julian Julian. I'm so in love. The way he cared for his siblings and just worried about them so much was so SWOON. I just wanted to hug him better because he didn't think he was doing enough when he did more than enough. I totally love CC for making his character. He just has such a beautiful heart and I'm just so confused how can think all these feelings for fictional characters. The YA world will never know. I feel like Lady Midnight definitely has the best characters so far. All of them I just love. <i>“I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”</i> - Couldn't have said it better myself.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also what the hell is that birth control rune? I felt like Clary could have created something a lot better than I rune that prevents pregnancy. Something badass at least, rather than just convenient. I was cringing.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OMG AND KIT IS A FREAKING HERONDALE- my heart still whimpers at the sound of the name. I’m so excited. Beyond excited actually. Ecstatic. Over the moon. Elated. I was like no no no no no yes yes yes yes yes why are my emotions conflicting all the time yes yes yes. And then when Tessa and Jem arrived, my heart may have leaped from my chest and I needed to take a two minute break to recuperate and spam my friend about my emotions. I still haven’t received from that epilogue. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the subject of Malcolm, there was never really a hint of this dark, determined side that made him so destructive for love in any of the other shadow hunter books and I felt like it wasn’t explored enough in the book too. There was something empty about it too, even the death of Emma’s parents. It felt careless. I hated that, I felt like Cassandra perhaps focused a little too much on everything and lost focus during the play. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely want to read about all the steamy and angsty romance but the whole purpose and drive for the plot was just ‘bleh’.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE ENDING - by far my favourite moment when Mark and Emma decide to do the unthinkable, but I see how it can potentially ruin the story line as it will harm so many relationships and possibly bring the novel into a bigger cliche. Everyone is so annoyed by it, am I the only one who is actually excited!! Like, right after I read it I just couldn’t stop beaming and thinking how good Lord of Shadows was gonna be.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He held out a hand to her, half-beckoning, half-offering. "Why lie?" he said.”</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> I am just so excited, May, could you possibly come any quicker?</span></span></span></li>
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-46957356031437198232016-11-25T20:04:00.000+11:002016-11-25T20:13:32.126+11:00Harry Potter Spells Tag!<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I owned this book and I used to read it religiously. Angela Anaconda always made me laugh. It was a TV show too and I remember sitting down in front of the TV every other day, eager to watch Angela's next adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I first started reading I had NO idea that it was going to be so good. I had heard good reviews but didn't realise that it was going to be the strange, mysterious and beautiful book that it is.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ever since she was young, Blue Sargent has known that she will kill her true love with a kiss. St. Mark's Eve is when the soon-to-be-dead walk past and Blue is never able to see them until this year. She sees a boy, a Raven boy, named Gansey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She befriends Gansey and his best friends Adam, Noah and Ronan under unlikely circumstances and together they search for the Sleeping Kings. A legend Gansey wholeheartedly believes is true. During the search, Blue will finally understand the danger of her fate and discover new truths about the world are both strange and sinister. Now she must guard her heart more strongly than before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book is in the form of a play, so it's quite different but still managed to be as enjoyable as the other novels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Katniss Everdeen's sister is chosen this year and she immediately volunteers in her place. Katniss must learn to survive now and go against people who have trained for this moment their whole lives. Will she outlive her death sentence?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lady Midnight is about Emma Carstairs and her investigation of her parents strange death. Along with Her Parabatai - best friend, partner in battle - Julian Blackthorn, she unravels a secret that reveals a world of death and dark magic. Emma also unravels some new secrets. What has Julian been hiding from her? Why are Parabatai forbidden to fall in love? Is she ready to find out who killed her parents? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wasn't sure how to interpret 'a book that could kill' but I decided to go this way, with Clockwork Princess. Anyone who has read this will immediately know what I mean when I say it could kill you. I still haven't gotten over the epilogue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've gotten these quotes from my personal copy that is part of the US book set edition. The book has 309 pages and keep in mind that this edition of the novel has replaced<i> Philosopher's</i> with <i>Sorcerer's</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Prof. Albus Dumbledore, Chapter 1, pg. 15 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather--just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother--why, its brother gave you that scar...Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember..."</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Mr. Ollivander, Chapter 5, pg. 85</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">“’Fred, you next,’ the plump woman said. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">‘I’m not Fred, I’m George,’ said the boy. ‘Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can’t you tell I’m George?’ </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">‘Sorry, George, dear.’ </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">‘Only joking, I am Fred,'" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">- The Weasley's, Chapter 6, pg. 92 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "The narrow path had opened suddenly on to the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets towers." </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses…I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death – if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Snape, Chapter 8, pg. 137 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Hermione, Chapter 9, pg. 162</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“Strange how nearsighted being invisible can make you.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 12, pg. 213 </span><br /><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. You, who have never known your family, see them standing around you. Ronald Weasley, who has always been overshadowed by his brothers, sees himself standing alone, the best of all of them. However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 12, pg. 213 </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 12, pg. 214 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“’Harry – you’re a great wizard, you know.’ </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">‘I’m not as good as you,’ said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">‘Me!’ said Hermione. ‘Books! And cleverness! There are more important things – friendship and bravery and – oh Harry – be </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-center;">careful</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">!’” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Hermione and Harry, Chapter 16, pg. 287 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it...</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Professor Quirrell, Chapter 17, pg. 291</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">“After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 17, pg. 297 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 17, pg. 298 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign…to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.” </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 17, pg. 299</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">“There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award ten points to Mr. Neville Longbottom.” </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">- Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 17, pg. 306</span></span></span></div>
Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-47363679800372158112016-11-15T19:48:00.002+11:002016-11-15T20:04:32.104+11:00Book Review: Romeo and Juliet<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> William Shakespeare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> Fiction, Romance, Drama, Play</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> 1595</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Format: </b>Paperback, 282 pages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source: </b>Borrowed from a library</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A particular stand out character amongst the many unique ones in the play was Juliet. Her independent, genuine and intelligent character makes Romeo and Juliet even more intricate and entertaining.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the beginning, she is portrayed as an innocent, young, edge-of-thirteen innocent girl and by the end of the play she has progressed from adolescence to maturity. Hence why Romeo and Juliet is extremely appealing to younger audiences. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Eliza Nolan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> YA, Fantasy, Paranormal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> Oct 12, 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Format: </b>Arc E-galley, 187 pages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source: </b>I received this book through Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julia has been having crazy dreams about </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">weird cults, violent rituals and the charming new boy, Graham. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julia seems to think that these dreams are trying to tell her something and that somehow, she and Graham are connected. So when Graham admits that he's a Phoenix - a member of a secret society - and that he fled his old home to get away from them, they decide to try and find the truth behind the strange dreams and why Julia has begin to develop strange abilities. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the Phoenix Society want him back and they'll will do anything to get him. Now it's up to Julia to stop them and save Graham.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To what lengths will she go?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There must have been something about Phoenix Awakens that interested me - the secret societies or the fantasy/magic or the weird dreams - I don't know, but it was a decent book and I didn't completely hate it. After all, I did finish it. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Due to my incapability to put my thoughts in proper sentences and construct an acceptable review for Phoenix Awakens, I'm just going to write a list of what I liked and disliked and let my opinions stem from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The second half of the plot was very well paced and there was a perfect amount of action for the story to progress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The mysterious and intriguing first page</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Mythology and secret societies (I just wish there was more of it)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Violent and 'bloody' dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Julia's determination to save Graham and help her friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The fact that she couldn't control her powers and didn't know when they would work or not</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The connections created between Julia's dreams, why her mother left when she was younger, her newfound abilities, the necklace her mother left for her, Julia's dad over-protectiveness, etc., etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The cliffhanger at the very end. I can definitely see Phoenix Awakens as part of a trilogy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DISLIKE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Cliche, cliche, cliche. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The whole 'new hot guy + angsty teen girl = life is forever changed/romance' plot line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- I didn't really get any of the whole secret society concept and was kind of confused about it's origin and role in the story. Only a basic outline was given and if it was explained more, Phoenix Awakens would definitely have been a lot better</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- NOTHNG WAS EXPLAINED. Everything just needed more development. Everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The predictable plot; which is becoming more and more of a commonplace in YA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The dragging first half that just took too long to get to the whole point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Flat and plot driven characters. Graham was just the love interest and another member of the Phoenix Society. Why was he a member? What is his favourite food? Why does he even like Julia? Samantha was nothing but a passenger in the Plot Bus. She was there for a few chapters in the beginning and end but didn't really do much for the story. The second characters were okay and nothing exciting. Julia was pretty decent and likeable but 'immature' and didn't sound like a seventeen year old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Aydan. She was the 'guide' in Julia's dream. All I have is who, what, when, where, how and why. I need more explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overall, Phoenix Awakens was okay but there could have been a lot more plot and character development that would have made it a much better novel. Eliza Nolan had a likeable writing style and good premise and depending on your interest in paranormal fantasy, you may like this a whole lot better than me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a complete list of my favourite quotes that I found whilst reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower with page numbers and the diary entries they're found in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, I have the Pocket Books paperback edition with 232 pages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lets go.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could. I need to know that these people exist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Aug 23, 1991, P3</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Aug 23, 1991, P3</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sep 26, 1991, P18</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's just that sometimes people use thought not to participate in life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Oct 13, 1991, P26</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We accept the love we think we deserve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Oct 13, 1991, P27</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel infinite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Oct 28, 1991, P36</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's a wallflower.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">---</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Oct 28, 1991, P40-41</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And in that moment I swear we were infinite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Oct 28, 1991, P42</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Nov 23, 1991, P60</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Dec 7, 1991, P66-67</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">he wrote a poem</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he called it "Chops"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because that was the name of his dog</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And that's what it was all about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his teacher gave him an A</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and a gold star</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his mother hung it on the kitchen door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and read it to his aunts</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">That was the year Father Tracy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">took all the kids to the zoo</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he let them sing on the bus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his little sister was born</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">with tiny toenails and no hair</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his mother and father kissed a lot</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And the girl around the corner sent him a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Valentine signed with a row of X's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and he had to ask his father what the X's meant</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his father always tucked him in bed at night</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And was always there to do it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">he wrote a poem</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he called it "Autumn"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because that was the name of the season</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And that's what it was all about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his teacher gave him an A</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and asked him to write more clearly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because of its new paint</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And the kids told him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">that Father Tracy smoked cigars</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And left butts on the pews</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And sometimes they would burn holes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">That was the year his sister got glasses</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">with thick lenses and black frames</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And the girl around the corner laughed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">when he asked her to go see Santa Claus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And the kids told him why</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">his mother and father kissed a lot</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his father never tucked him in bed at night</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his father got mad</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">when he cried for him to do it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Once on a paper torn from his notebook</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">he wrote a poem</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he called it "Innocence: A Question"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because that was the question about his girl</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And that's what it was all about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his professor gave him an A</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and a strange steady look</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because he never showed her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">That was the year that Father Tracy died</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he forgot how the end</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">of the Apostle's Creed went</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he caught his sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">making out on the back porch</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And his mother and father never kissed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">or even talked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And the girl around the corner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">wore too much makeup</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">That made him cough when he kissed her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">but he kissed her anyway</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because that was the thing to do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">his father snoring soundly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">That's why on the back of a brown paper bag</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">he tried another poem</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Because that's what it was really all about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he gave himself an A</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">and a slash on each damned wrist</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">And he hung it on the bathroom door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">because this time he didn't think</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">he could reach the kitchen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">- Dec 21, 1991, P75-77</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">- Dec 30, 1991, P100</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.<br />
- Apr 26, 1992, P149</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heartbreaking. And wondering why.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Apr 29, 1992, P153</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It's much easier not to know things sometimes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Apr 29, 1992, P155</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- May 17, 1992, P173</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Try to be a filter, not a sponge.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- May 21, 1992, P177</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I would die for you. But I won't live for you.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 2, 1992, P182</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate".</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 2, 1992, P182</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">And I guess I realised at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 13, 1992, P193</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I just want you to now that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 13, 1992, P195</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 22, 1992, P213</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Jun 22, 1992, P216</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Aug 2, 1992, P228</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I think that if I ever have kids and they're upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Aug 2, 1992, P228-229</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">- Aug 2, 1992, P229</span></span></div>
Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-15710490235220325132015-12-07T20:18:00.000+11:002015-12-07T20:24:59.552+11:00Book Review: Dead Ringer<img src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1441217297l/26213915.jpg" height="200" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Jessie Rosen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> YA, Mystery, Romance, Thriller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> November, 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Format:</b> Arc E-Galley, 302 pages</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> Thanks to Full Fathom Five Digital for sending me a copy of this book.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>She looks just like her. Uncanny. </i>The hallways are filled with whispers that Laura Rivers, the new girl at Englewood High, looks just like a girl that used to go there - the girl who committed suicide two years ago. Sarah Castro-Tanner. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laura doesn't want this new label as she starts a new high school and is determined to begin a new, fresh life where she can be herself. Fortunately, that plan goes to work and sparks fly between her and Charlie, the it-boy of Englewood High. But as Charlie and his close friends, Amanda, Kit and Miller, begin to receive creepy messages, Laura begins to notice their constant paranoia and dishonesty and she can't help but think that maybe Sarah Castro-Tanner has something to do with it. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dead Ringer was such an impressive take on the classic dead-girl-haunting plot. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I read the first chapter I thought I wasn't going to like it but I was dead wrong. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jessie Rosen's execution of this novel and the suspense was so unerring I didn't suspect half of the plot twists that were thrown at me. It is written in third person through the eyes of the three main characters, Laura, Charlie and Sasha. I loved how the different POVs layered different mysteries and stories on top of each other and I got to see the perspectives of the characters and understand their feelings and roles a lot better. Writing related, there was too much mystery. Literally everything was a mystery and I think that if they were just knowledge to the reader than everything would have played out the same way.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dead Ringer has a very detailed and tenuous plot that needed a lot of thinking in order to get it right and Jessie Rosen rendered me speechless. The tension and suspense remained throughout the whole novel and I just wanted to keep reading to unravel the mystery. I loved how there were so many surprises that threw my theories and the characters courses off balance. It was fun to be constantly guessing and asking questions. The plot also flowed very smoothly and developed quite well - plot holes were nonexistent. The one problem I found plot-wise was the pacing. It took too long, approximately 300 pages, to explain everything and get to the point. But if you enjoy suspenseful novels, then you might even end up eating this up in one sitting. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dead Ringer is a great suspenseful novel to keep you on your toes and I definitely recommend this one because it hits thriller right in the centre. It will leave you bewildered and mind blown and will prevent you from sleeping when you start reading it. Also, keep in mind that this book will most likely have a sequel as it ends in a serious cliff hanger. I can't wait to read the next instalment.</span><br />
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-34347846669174773652015-12-04T20:56:00.000+11:002015-12-04T21:02:12.425+11:00Most Anticipated // December 2015 - Book Briefing<img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJbk9BQdeiW4TFNMDn5nOtPU-SeS6o3bZjywtYbp5HIW9VVYPiA7wRX2E39FrcOM-3fjIbBujy-GLZxq4vS9H_POK_lwJcPLmVHZ8NEXAmmrh8Q47dbnRTmtCLskXYm6G9WMISaXZmik/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-12-04+at+8.59.41+pm.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
<h2><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">My Most Anticipated for December 2015</span></h2><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUhImXM9uZj6dzrt7o-ulgICFrVgFgqNpTi2qHTUvWKsFuXQAADjucl_hyphenhyphenKXf_EGZI_2M_lgaT2sCGjAW-p4AIajyN1yxw2k2ZTzGgfaXWAkf2ftQF3gtMX1GSmTw-Lds89eQ_n5HIhM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-13+at+4.22.36+pm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUhImXM9uZj6dzrt7o-ulgICFrVgFgqNpTi2qHTUvWKsFuXQAADjucl_hyphenhyphenKXf_EGZI_2M_lgaT2sCGjAW-p4AIajyN1yxw2k2ZTzGgfaXWAkf2ftQF3gtMX1GSmTw-Lds89eQ_n5HIhM/s200/Screen+Shot+2015-11-13+at+4.22.36+pm.png" width="134" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>This Raging Light</i></b> by Estelle Laure</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I recently reviewed this, which you can find <a href="http://amidnightreader.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/book-review-this-raging-light.html">here</a>, but I am looking forward for it to come out so every one else can read it too. I really enjoyed this book and I plan to buy the published copy for myself when it is released this month.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">Can the best thing happen at the worst time?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills to pay and a little sister to look after. Now is not the time for level-headed seventeen-year-old Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she's about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best friend's brother. With blazing longing that builds to a fever pitch, Estelle Laure's soulful debut will keep readers hooked and hoping until the very last page.</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Hellraisers</i></b> by Alexander Gordon Smith</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Horror. Fantasy. Thriller. YES. I am looking forward to this new series called The Devil's Engine - and the first book is coming back this month.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1420944803l/23310749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1420944803l/23310749.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a machine from the darkest parts of history, concealed in an impossible location, that can make any wish come true, and the only price you have to pay is your soul. Known as the Devil’s Engine, this device powers a brutal war between good and evil that will decide the fate of every living thing on Earth. When a 16-year-old asthmatic kid named Marlow Green unwittingly rescues an ass-kicking secret soldier from a demonic attack in the middle of his Staten Island neighborhood, he finds himself following her into a centuries-old conflict between a group of mysterious protectors and the legions of the Devil himself. Faced with superpowers, monsters, machine guns, and a lot worse, Marlow knows it's going to be a breathless ride—and not just because he’s lost his inhaler along the way.</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Thicker Than Water </i></b>by Brigid Kemmerer</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A book about kids figuring murder mysteries with a twist of romance. *Clapping excitedly*</span><br />
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Thomas Bellweather hasn’t been in town long. Just long enough for his newlywed mother to be murdered, and for his new stepdad’s cop colleagues to decide Thomas is the primary suspect.<br />
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Not that there’s any evidence. But before Thomas got to Garretts Mill there had just been one other murder in twenty years.<br />
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The only person who believes him is Charlotte Rooker, little sister to three cops and, with her soft hands and sweet curves, straight-up dangerous to Thomas. Her best friend was the other murder vic. And she’d like a couple answers.<br />
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Answers that could get them both killed, and reveal a truth Thomas would die to keep hidden…</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"> </span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Their Fractured Light</b></i> by Amie Kaufman</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't read the first two books in this series but I'm interested in them and I am considering reading this series (and look at how gorgeous the cover is). We'll have to see, but here is the synopsis.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1448547061l/13138736.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1448547061l/13138736.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck—now, they live a public life in front of the cameras, and a secret life away from the world’s gaze.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">Now, in the center of the universe on the planet of Corinth, all four are about to collide with two new players, who will bring the fight against LaRoux Industries to a head. Gideon Marchant is an eighteen-year-old computer hacker—a whiz kid and an urban warrior. He’ll climb, abseil and worm his way past the best security measures to pull off onsite hacks that others don’t dare touch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">Sofia Quinn has a killer smile, and by the time you’re done noticing it, she’s got you offering up your wallet, your car, and anything else she desires. She holds LaRoux Industries responsible for the mysterious death of her father and is out for revenge at any cost.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">When a LaRoux Industries security breach interrupts Gideon and Sofia’s separate attempts to infiltrate their headquarters, they’re forced to work together to escape. Each of them has their own reason for wanting to take down LaRoux Industries, and neither trusts the other. But working together might be the best chance they have to expose the secrets LRI is so desperate to hide.</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>What's Broken Between Us</i></b> by Alexis Bass</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="freeText11401208039636918538" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">A year and a half ago, Amanda Tart's brother got behind the wheel drunk and killed his best friend. Today, he's coming home from prison.<br />
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Amanda's been the one living with the fallout, made worse by her brother's recent unapologetic TV interview. People think he's a monster. Still, she loves him. It's her dark secret, until she starts getting close to Henry again--whose sister is paralyzed from the accident.<br />
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A year and a half ago, her brother destroyed his life. Now Amanda has to decide if she'll let his choice destroy hers.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"> </span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Instructions For The End of the World</i></b> by Jamie Kain</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1422266178l/23848031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1422266178l/23848031.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been getting into family-oriented/self discovery books lately and this seems like another that I would be interested to read. It also has a 'survival' kind of vibe to it that I really enjoy reading about in books.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">He prepared their family for every natural disaster known to man—except for the one that struck. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;">When Nicole Reed’s father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern conveniences, it's too much too handle for her mother, who abandons them in the middle of the night. Heading out to track her down, Nicole’s father leaves her in charge of taking care of the house and her younger sister, Izzy. For a while, Nicole is doing just fine running things on her own. But then the food begins to run out, the pipes crack, and forest fires start slowly inching their way closer every day. Wolf, a handsome boy from the neighboring community, offers to help her when she needs it most, but when she starts to develop feelings for him, feelings she knows she will never be allowed to act on once her father returns, she must make a decision. With her family falling apart, will she choose to continue preparing for tomorrow’s disasters, or will she take a chance and really start living for today?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>A Thousand Splendid Suns </i></b>by Khaled Hosseini</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;">Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;">This book was incredibly emotional and beautiful. I completely understand why this is praised by everyone. Khaled's writing style. The characters. The emotions. The stories. AMAZING. Laila and Mariam were strong and wonderful characters that go through such hard and terrible circumstances, but keep going despite everything that has happened to them. I just didn't want to put it down.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;">A Thousand Splendid Suns is just a vividly real and breathtaking novel that really made me think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Sharon M. J</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ohnston</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> Nov 4, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> Thankyou to City Owl Press for sending me a copy of Divded through Netgalley.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Divided is the first novel in the Open Heart fantasy/sci-fi series by Sharon M. Johnston and is set in Australia (which is exciting because I live in Australia too). I gave this book three and a half stars because despite enjoying it, I found a couple of faults and areas that I personally disliked. The general writing style was in first person and it was very easy to follow, although it kind of felt rushed to me. I hated Mishca's constant inner monologue too because it just seemed to be after every few sentences and was very annoying. They didn't really match her bad-ass personality. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You're instantly thrown into action when you begin the novel as Mishca receives her heart transplant and this drew me in immediately. Divided has the perfect amount of plot twists that kept me engaged and hooked whilst reading. At one point, I finished the chapter and intended to put the book down for the night, but a cliffhanger sucked me in and I ended up reading for another hour. The romance was almost, almost, perfect. Mishca and Ryder's relationship was not insta-love at all and developed at a very realistic pace. I loved all their little moments. But then the whole 'forbidden love' and 'love triangle' element was thrown in and I felt like throwing the book</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at my wall. Introducing Colin as another love interest was just unnecessary.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm still trying to decide if I liked Mishca as a main character or not. At first, I found her whiny and inconsistent as her personality and moods changed from sweet to kicking-in-a-wall mad. Then I realised that she was realistically portrayed considering she's adopted, doesn't have many close friends and is experiencing unworldly things. I liked most of the characters and their roles in the novel really worked and I didn't really expect a thing - I won't say much more in fear I'll give away any spoilers though.</span><br />
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-34796466466665311712015-11-27T10:24:00.001+11:002015-11-27T10:24:36.666+11:00For You Friday #9<h2>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636px;">"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day...or wondering who did the heart breaking and wondering why."</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636px;" /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636px;">Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636px;">I absolutely love this book; it's such a raw and emotional book that is explored through the letters/journal entries of the awkward and loveable MC Charlie. This book really touches me and hits me right in the heart. There are so many messages and hardships explored throughout that reveal the reality of this book and the life of a teen who struggles to fit in at school and understand the way things work. I also think that Perks allows people to discover mental illness (PTSD, Anxiety) through the character who is struggling with it's eyes and the effect it has on their lives. I definitely recommend this.</span></span>Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-2003695309765642262015-11-25T20:28:00.000+11:002015-12-03T20:45:37.675+11:00Book Review: If You're Lucky<h2><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">If You're Lucky Review</span></h2><h3><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iS02raXnzMm7cv12S20Sg2kb-V1spgKbyQdZgXfCxf64O_cQgdUMcNA-4B0Xbc12A5eLF-Pj9mFT02mjfPGbvbBOR91TxC9Pk5shiDrSR6xVvi_WNY7sin4M8yJxJikCdXYBvA0kZIY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+7.10.19+pm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iS02raXnzMm7cv12S20Sg2kb-V1spgKbyQdZgXfCxf64O_cQgdUMcNA-4B0Xbc12A5eLF-Pj9mFT02mjfPGbvbBOR91TxC9Pk5shiDrSR6xVvi_WNY7sin4M8yJxJikCdXYBvA0kZIY/s400/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+7.10.19+pm.png" width="265" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Rating: ✭✭✭</i></span></h3><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Yvonne Prinz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> YA, Mystery, Contemporary, Mental Illness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> October 25, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> Thanks to Algonquin Books for sending me a copy of If You're Lucky by Yvonne Prinz</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Georgia's brother Lucky drowns while surfing in Australia, but Georgia knows her brother. She knows that he couldn't have drowned. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When all his friends come down to False Bay and host a memorial, Georgia meets Fin. A charismatic and charming boy claiming to be Lucky's best friend. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The voice in her head begin to tell her that she can't trust Fin, that he killed Lucky. In an attempt to make these voices clearer, Georgia stops taking her medication and sacrifices her sanity.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If You're Lucky was a good book and had many elements that I liked enough to give 3 stars but I just thought it was lacking build up and energy. Being in a genre of mystery, I would expect a lot of tension and the feeling of <i>needing</i> to continue reading, but there was none of that. It had the perfect amount of twists and turns to keep me engaged but I never really felt like I was fully enjoying the book or really invested in what was happening. Even at the end, everything kind of just happened and I was confused because it wasn't very clear. Despite this, I believe that it's a difficult feat to tackle a mental disorder like schizophrenia head on but If You're Lucky has portrayed this perfectly and realistically.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Georgia investigates Fin as she begins to notice strange behaviour, but as her actions and moods become completely unstable, it becomes a challenge for the reader to determine reality from fabrication. </span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing this through Georgia, the MC with the mental disorder, was a really amazing aspect of the novel because it kept me guessing throughout. I found myself more invested in what Georgia was going to do and how she would react rather than caring about what Fin would do next or how the story was progressing. Sadly, the plot was</span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> quite predictable for me, even from just reading the synopsis, but I could tell that Yvonne Prinz worked hard to articulate and develop a well thought out plot because it really showed. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Each character was a hit for me and I liked all of them because they all had a personality. Fin was probably the best character in the book because he was so charming and really fit into the role of an identity thief stealing his dead best friend's life. I didn't find it difficult reading through Georgia's perspective either and quite enjoyed her unreliability - it was fun and intriguing to be confused about whether something was happening or not in the book. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, If You're Lucky was a great read, and a unique one, as it is written through the perspective of Georgia, a sufferer of Schizophrenia and I would recommend it for anyone searching for a refreshing, mysterious and riveting read.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAhD98WIVBXliCNDDLp9JpZ2nkVf0VihhoqZ6fBYuN_rGDjivOhZ7Mzn8v5VsoVUZy7g1ENQXaSQA1EhwTcU1-m_JB_-ISnP87JRszfhCS77rsEjhg3fkPSwndVrOKD_GjPoaugqiGvec/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+5.58.02+pm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAhD98WIVBXliCNDDLp9JpZ2nkVf0VihhoqZ6fBYuN_rGDjivOhZ7Mzn8v5VsoVUZy7g1ENQXaSQA1EhwTcU1-m_JB_-ISnP87JRszfhCS77rsEjhg3fkPSwndVrOKD_GjPoaugqiGvec/s320/Screen+Shot+2015-11-24+at+5.58.02+pm.png" width="224" /></span></a><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;" /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;">But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family, money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;" /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;">For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.</span><br />
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</span>Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-54763021113504497592015-11-22T16:29:00.000+11:002015-12-08T20:26:42.166+11:00We Were Liars - Quote Compendium<img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRo6NY_K4qanvfs75fPLN6PDTmPNH0zHMo_oGaaIlTn9TrUb2u6osYtcGElflJHrW8CVaH6rCTljDLe5vmYRrL4Clds3GKBW4blyOUirWoUNe5CDrawH024m7fHbmXZU4ySxYX4kWYoI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-19+at+8.01.50+pm.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Suffer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C2, P4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">then from my eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my ears, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my mouth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C2, P5</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicent party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C8, P21</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Can I hold your hand?" he asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put mine in his.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I'm here."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C8, P21</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were warm and shivering,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and young and ancient,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silence is a protective coating over pain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C11, P29</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C11, P30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll be fine, they tell me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I won't die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It'll just hurt a lot/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C13, P34</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is hard for her to tell the difference.</span><br />
<a href="http://45.media.tumblr.com/ba7d60d755f72f995d620b6c10ad9333/tumblr_n5hblps7Fi1sm095go1_500.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://45.media.tumblr.com/ba7d60d755f72f995d620b6c10ad9333/tumblr_n5hblps7Fi1sm095go1_500.gif" height="320" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C16, P45</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She is sugar. She is curiosity and rain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C23, P64</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be a little kinder than you have to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C38, P101</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Do not accept an evil you can change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C38, P101</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alway do what you're afraid to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C38, P102</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C40, P105</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C40, P106</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life feels beautiful that day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The four of us Liars, we have always been.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We always will be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C45, P122</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C45, P122</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That first day you came back I noticed Gat. He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C50, P132</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And maybe, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just maybe,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he'd come back one day, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and burn that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fucking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">palace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the ground.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C57, P148</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grow up Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C67, P173</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What if we could stop being</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">different colours, different backgrounds, and just be in love?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What if we could force everyone to change?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C71, P180</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C71, P180</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gat and I talked to Mirren and Johnny.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Convinced them to take action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We told each other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">over and over: do what you are afraid to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We told each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over and over, we said it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We told each other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we were right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C71, P181</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A self-punishment. He built himself a home that isn't a home. It's deliberately uncomfortable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C71, P183</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C74, P189</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C79, P197</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C82, P209</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C84, P216</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My full name is Cadence Sinclaie Eastman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like a twist of meaning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I endure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- C87, P225</span><br />
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-15897574845851866742015-11-21T11:19:00.001+11:002015-12-03T20:44:27.860+11:00Book Review: Your Voice Is All I Hear<img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrP_Stz5Ki5nSTYwby91D6Tnlhx0tzWTUBzpdjq46_6sj-ntE1DcclUjTOqBF3EAd_9AN9-yP4vB7uYIu_gBj_cjs6jEsQDXN_91CGbU59MHbNnKaZ0_ICJsWPM2rlCmf_bGfvpLhQ7A/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-13+at+4.56.38+pm.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
<h2><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Your Voice Is All I Hear Review</span></h2><h3><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Rating: ✭✭✭✭</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Leah Scheier</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">YA, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Romance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">September 1, 2015</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Format:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Arc E-galley, 336 pages</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks to SOURCEBOOKS Fire for sending me a copy of this novel.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"It's not like other illnesses. A person who is sick with cancer has the support of the community. Everyone bands together and tries to help. Friends organise runs for a cure and put together and put together bake sales and blood drives. Next door neighbours bring tuna casseroles to the patient's family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are no casseroles for schizophrenia," I said.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">- April, page 306</span></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 17.5636px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After meeting Jonah, the new boy at school, April immediately feels a connection and soon begin a relationship - and a good one. Then Jonah begins to slip into darkness and begins to lose a grip on reality that endangers himself and April, but April won't leave him. She decides to whatever she can to help him and protect him, even though everyone is telling her to let him go. April learns about sacrifice and loyalty, and how her love for one boy can make her change the way she sees and hears life.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your Voice Is All I Hear was definitely not what I was expecting and a complete winner; it tackles the mental illness of Schizophrenia in very engaging way. I loved the whole idea of the story, which I will explain later, because it was very well written and thought of. I thought that Leah Scheier had a very realistic portrayal of Schizophrenia. I have read other books that feature Schizophrenia but never realised how intense it really was because I found it quite a new and shocking experience to read. Leah also did this thing where the narrator and main character April changed tenses and then she began to speak about Jonah in a different tone which completely sucked me in and from there I just had to keep on reading.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your Voice Is All I Hear had an amazing plot line. I was really fooled by the sappy and romantic beginning which then transitioned into an amazing last half. It was extremely well paced and kept me, as a reader, engaged throughout. This also added a mystery element to it which I really loved. Others may dislike the romantic beginning, but I think that it really made this book. It 'complemented' the illness aspect of the book as it helped the readers distinguish the mannerisms and behaviours of schizophrenic individuals to others who are witnessing it. It made the expression of April and Jonah's emotions easier.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 17.5636px;">Ava was a very flat and lacking character, I couldn't get any emotion or depth out of her. That may have been because I found her naivety very annoying when it came to Jonah and his illness. I also found that a lot of the characters were stereotypical too (of course April would have an extremely attractive best friend with legs-for-days and perfect hair). On the more positive side, I think that the characters reactions towards Jonah's illness was portrayed quite well and plausible.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your Voice Is All I Hear is a raw and fascinating novel that doesn't romanticise mental illness and portrays it in a different and realistic light. I would really recommend this.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636px;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see my review that I already posted to know about my thoughts and recommendations in more depth. Cassandra's style of writing is amazing and the characters she has created are obsession-worthy. I love the historical fiction element, which is one of my favourite genres as well the fantasy world. The shadowhunter world created in Clockwork Angel is surely a winner for all fantasy lovers as it is complete with angels, werewolves, demons, warlocks and so many more.</span></span><br />
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-37765055027397196932015-11-19T17:15:00.002+11:002015-11-19T17:19:42.095+11:00The Bane of My Existence<img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfEaviWsCPgbq3cAyzxgcRBaMIZPsjF-l942_cO_1r4BbiQHCyx5AMs4R1ejhRQR3XjvC7AfALxfFL7hK2H_-fu11x_bYPtd09FLIsbceX8XCRsMNevkdpH02_SM6sFBcrtOaSaSm3mY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-07+at+3.15.12+pm.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I would share a few (considering how many of them there are) of my bookish pet peeves that extremely annoy me for a bit of entertainment. I was thinking, imagine if publishers actually saw some these 'Bookish Pet Peeves'. Us book lovers would have a ball! Anyways, let's get to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. Apples, Oranges, Garden Tools</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay, okay, so apples and oranges are fruits right, but what has garden tools have to do with fruit? That's right, nothing. Absolutely nothing. My point is, and I cannot stress this enough, is that nothing annoys me more than mismatching book covers. I cannot stand having different book covers for a series. The best example of mismatching book covers would have to be the <span style="color: #f4cccc;">Across the Universe</span> series (which I have not read).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Definition: </i>A readers worst nightmare. Not being able to read a book because you just CAN'T. And to top it off you don't even exactly know why.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Causes:</i> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading too much, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NO TIME, t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oo many tv shows, n</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o interesting books, b</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ook hangover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Symptoms:</i> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reading the first page then putting the book down, s</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taring longingly at your bookshelf, y</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">elling 'WHY?!', getting e</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">asily distracted, t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aking months to get through just one book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3. Spines and Ears</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a massive fanatic about having my books in pristine condition and when I open a book in the middle a little to forcefully, and the spine cracks, everything inside of me feels like it's about burn up and explode. Not only broken spines, but dog ears too. One of the main reasons I don't let others borrow my books is dog ears and just creased pages in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another pet peeve of mine is heroes that are just not heroic; when the character does something so incredibly stupid that clearly does not help anyone. Also, how and why are they just automatically the 'chosen one', what did they do to earn this hero title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>5. Instalove</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nothing annoys me more that things that just don't make sense, especially instalove. How? Why? You only just met them? It really annoys me when characters supposedly fall in love the first moment they see each other or because 'his eyes were the most the beautiful shade of blue' or because the story simply needs somewhere to start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>6. I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one line that does it every time. I don't know if it's just me but every time I read this in a novel I scoff, roll my eyes and sigh. I just don't get it how could you possible not know you were holding a breath? Not only that, it is becoming an overly used cliche in YA novels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>7. Tacking</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would explain tacking as when authors just add in something for the sake of the novel. It just ruins the whole book which could have been doing so well until <i>'it was all just a lie, Susan, you're father is actually in America. He isn't dead.'</i> What was the purpose for it, I don't know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>8. TOO SAPPY</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong, I love romance, but I find it really irritating when the romance is too gooey and 'melted marshmallows topped with chocolate topped with sprinkles'. When the romance is too corny and unrealistic I just find myself dreading reading it. Unneeded love triangles also. The concept is over used and more than often, just a way to get the plot moving.</span><br />
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Georgia Agiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10639984438910237279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217411766697835561.post-11244491436921898892015-11-18T19:37:00.001+11:002015-11-18T20:54:15.383+11:00Book Review: Kissing In America <img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4a_b4M0XVBQCMhWBbJ4eGKQnXS-Nf6RklRlmTE00Ory0bIkucpbjBG0HADNpHM1OZ-_I6GnUTrhz8GNc5-G8Z5oAR2ujj46XEK2FCg7NEOTxcpfX-sr2sj_C_4Dk2ZD2v7aMNY6SMT-0/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-11-13+at+4.32.57+pm.png" style="display: none;" width="100" /><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413576304l/18478083.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413576304l/18478083.jpg" width="265" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> Kissing in America</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Margo Rabb</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Genre:</b> YA, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publication:</b> May 26, 2015</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Format:</b> Arc E-galley, 397 pages</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> Thanks to Penguin Teen Australia for sending me a copy of this book</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I guess this essay is supposed to be about what's influenced me the most, but I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than noise.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>- Will, page 20</i></span></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To cope with the amount of grief and loss Eva felt, and still feels, from her father's death she reads romance novels. A lot of romance novels. Then, Eva meets Will, the only person who seems to share a understanding of her grief with her and all the fantasies she's read in her novels begin to come true. But then Will moves to California and Eva can't bear to feel the weight of another loss so she plans a road trip across America with her best friend Annie where they learn that love isn't everything and the real importance of family and friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite being completely fooled by this title, thinking there was going to be a tonne of romance, I really enjoyed this book. I loved Margo Rabb's style of writing, she did such an excellent job portraying each characters emotion's and thoughts clearly. I also thought that incorporating an underlying focus on friendship and family was a good addition</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The road trip aspect of Kissing In America was engaging, but I felt that Eva's obsession and love for pushed it to the side and her 'love' for him became a little overbearing to read.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margo Rabb had an extremely clever plot line to convey the main idea of the story - the mixture of the road trip along with it's stops and the competition that the MC and her friend were apart of were a fun read. Eva's plan to go all over the world just to see Will after she first met him felt a bit naive and obsessive at first, but as the novel went on, it made a lot more sense and was another part of Eva discovering relationships and herself. The ending of this book was very satisfying and finally, I've found another book where the romance doesn't end picture perfect and I'm glad that our MC was able to figure out that she doesn't need a boy (or girl in other cases) to feel loved.</span><br />
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