The Everafter by Amy Huntley

I was searching "Best Young Adult books to read"  on google and found a list of about fifty books. This was one of them. It looked interesting enough so I put it on hold at the library and I got it yesterday. I started reading at around 1pm today because I had to read Incarceron first( a review will be up tomorow) and I finished this  book in one sitting. This book is about a girl named Maddy Stanton who finds herself in a vast, dark place and she can't remember anything about her life AT ALL. The only thing she knows for sure is that she is dead. The only other things in this area she's in are objects that she lost at some point in her life. She learns that she can reexperience and change parts of her life connected to those objects. She relives the day her biggest crush asked her out, her sister's wedding, the breaking of a friendship, and, her death.  Maddy slowly learns how she died at the age of seventeen and with who. This book portrays that true love really does live forever- even after death. 


~Rmaah 

Incarceron :)

I am almost done with Incarceron by Catherine Fisher and I'll post a review up shortly( maybe 2 days?). Meanwhile, you should read some of the other books that I've already reviewed :)




~Rmaah

Finally! Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins :)

I finally got the Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, the day it came out when I woke up. I started reading at night and stayed up until six a.m. reading it when I finally finished! This book was practically genius- it was everything I expected but yet, nothing I expected. So many twists and turns, so many tears of sadness and joy, and so many parts that just touched your heart. I waited, along with a few friends who are avid readers, for approximately a year for this book. It was soo worth it! This book ends with a bittersweet ending, making you think "Wow, this book was worth reading." It makes you think at the end and separate lies from the truth. The tale that had me gripping my chair from the Hunger Games, continued in Catching Fire, and ended in Mockingjay, left me breathless. So many unexpected twists, so many sudden deaths that I was so shocked I actually gasped a couple of times. This is one of the few books that actually made me cry. The ending is the most genius way to end it, and the author is certainly talented. She ties in strands left in from the previous books and uses small conversations from the previous and adds to them to make you touch your heart and start to cry. This book was by far, the best book I have EVER read in my life. I keep going back to the book now, reading the last couple of chapters to relive the feeling of adrenaline that coursed through MY own veins, knowing that the end was coming soon. Wow. This book is just Wow. If I had had to wait another year for this book, I think it would still be worth it when I finally got to read it. This book will keep you up late at night, and you won't be able to sleep after you finish, thinking about how much happened and how much has changed since the first book. It leaves you with a lot of questions and the ending isn't perfect- but the main point of the series wasn't  so that you could be happy at the end. It was so that you could see what happened after a war. This book made me think so much after I finished. I just couldn't figure out if the end was happy or sad. In a way, it was bittersweet. But now that I think about it, it was more depressing than it seems at first. It's not all that happy the second time you read the epilogue and realize what exactly is being said  and thought. Without giving any spoilers, this book is simply amazing.  If you haven't started reading this series, go on and pick it up! Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor. 


EDIT: Now that it's officially been a day since I finished, I'm beginning to realize that I was wrong about the book. After the craze for the book died down, I began to go back for the whys? formed and other conclusions. I realize now that I hated this book. And because I hated this book- I loved it. I know that's contradicting, but listen.  It's like getting stabbed in the chest with a fork, sorta. It hurts so badly, but it's a hurt you've never felt before. It's new. It hurt me so much that I loved it.  The epilogue was not as fulfilling as I thought it was at first, because now I see a very depressing note in it. I'm not saying what because I don't want to give away spoilers, but I caught in the third time i read the short one page epilogue. This books is so dark and depressing, that I loved it with all my heart.  It left me with a hollow feeling, as if somehow that wasn't how it was supposed to end. This book was simply amazing, yet one of the worst books I have ever read due to the depressing atmosphere of the whole book. It was so different than the first two in the series. I think Suzanne Collins kind of used one of Gale's( from the hunger games) animal catching traps here. She lured us in with the Hunger Games, We followed in Catching Fire, and then she snapped the trap shut, killing us, in Mockingjay. I have too many mixed opinions about this book after pondering about it for a while. It's not all that happy when you think about what actually happened, but it was worth the wait. Suzanne Collins, you have given me what I was waiting for.

~Rmaah :)

Today is the dayy!

Today, August 24th, Mockingjay hits the shelves. For some lucky people, they got their hands on a copy at midnight. Unfortunately there were no midnight parties in my area so I'm going to have to wait until 8am to get it! Well, if you have the book and you're reading this, what are you doing? Get to it and start reading Mockingjay!!!

Blue Bloods By Melissa De La Cruz

Okay, truthfully speaking, this isn't the best book I've read in my life. If I had to rate it, I would give it around a 3 out of 5 stars. The plot was interesting enough, but the way with which the author wrote was not appealing to me AT ALL. This story is about vampires, which in this series are called Blue Bloods. They make up the elite class of New York. Yep, that's right, they are EVERYWHERE. Designers, business owners, some of them even have governmental jobs. We follow a girl named Schuyler who attends a private school in New York. She suddenly gets accepted into the "in" crowd after a the most sudden death of one of their classmates. Slowly she realizes that the her new friends are not what she thought they were- and she slowly realizes that she is not what she thought she was. Schuyler unfolds the mysteries of her mother- who has been in a coma since Schuyler was born and her past life. The Blue Bloods was worth reading, but not a favorite of mine.

This isn't a book ( I KNOW) but I happened to stumble upon it and thought I should share :) The Jersey Shore as Kids

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Do you want to know what really drew me into buying this book? The dress on the cover- it's absolutely gorgeous! Aside from the elegantly gorgeous ball gowns described in The Luxe, The Luxe is mainly about scandalous secrets, bitter friends, and shocking relationships. Set in Manhattan, 1899, The Luxe isn't all about the frilly dresses that Elizabeth and Diana Holland wear to the formal parties they go to almost everyday. They have the best social statuses in the city and are the most talked about girls. But one secret will make all that go away. Will they- can they- save their social status by sacrificing what they love? The Luxe is a simple must-read.