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The 8th Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany, Jack Thorne and J.K. Rowlin

So for this review I'm testing out a new review format. I'll start with a description of the book from Goodreads then each of my paragraphs are labeled with a level of spoilers I feel that paragraph contains so feel free to stop at whatever level you are comfortable with and skip to the last paragraph for my concluding thoughts. please let me know how this is compared to my previous formats in comments!! Goodreads book description: Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowli

Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch

So I know I said I didn't have my copy to use for a review, but I FOUND MY NOTES ON IT so here it is!!!! Goodreads book synopsis: "A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and

Winter by Marissa Meyer

Sorry this review is so late, I've been meaning to review it since it was released but a friend borrowed my copy and I didn't have any notes on it!! Goodreads book overview: "Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood fr

White Hot Kiss (by Jennifer L. Armentrout) Review and excuses

So first, excuses! I promise my Winter and Sword Of Summer reviews are coming soon but I got sidetracked by school then Christmas then I couldn't write my reviews because my friends have those books and I needed to find stuff in them.. anyways like I said, excuses! anyways those reviews are soon to come!! Summary: "One kiss could be the last. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demo

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (movie review)

As a movie The Scorch Trials had some very good points, the visuals were spectacular and the actors were fantastic. However as both a movie and a Maze Runner movie I have some serious issues I would like to address! Firstly to focus on The Scorch Trials strictly from a movie perspective, I feel that the way the Flare was portrayed gives the movie far too much of a "zombie movie" feel and takes away from the more genuine Dystopian feel the series is supposed to have. The first

sisters of blood and spirit by Kady Cross

Every once in a while, when twins are born, one of them wont survive. Its sad and its crewl but sometimes it does happen! What doesnt ususally happen is the living twin being able comunicate with her dead sister. But that is exactly what happens to Wren and Lark. Lark is alive, except she's not entirly living, and there is something different about her, she can see the dead. Wren is dead except she's not entirely a ghost and there is something that seperates her from thos

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children sounds like a fairly self explanitary title, and i wouldnt want to spoil the magic of reading it by going in to too much detail about the plot. but in short it's about a boy named Jacob who goes serching for answers to the mysteries left by his grandfather, and discovers some things, including himself, are more peculiar than he originally believed. This book is engaging, suspensful, creepy, a little weird, and above all very pecu

Axtelera Ray: The Chronicles of Astrone (preview) By M. J. Gallagher and Alroy Jovi

Rise of Astrone (book 1) follows the story of a young street magician named Demi as she is thrust in to another world where mythology, and magic are blended with history and science forming what I believe has the potential to be one of the next great works in YA fiction. While reading the preview a few thing caught my attention, the first being Demi’s age, which is stated in the preview to be 12. Although I recognize that the main characters of many Children and Ya books s

Paper Towns book vs. movie

The book Paper Towns by John Green is an interesting comantary on the way we imagine people, that being said it is also a funny romantic drama that is perfect for summer reading. If you haven't read it yet you definitly should before seeing the movie! The movie did a great job adapting the main points and themes from the book, it included all the important details as well as many of the less consequential ones as well. I even feel as though they improved upon the ending by

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

At age 14 Frankie Landau-Banks is "bunny rabbit" she's invisible to everyone at her high class boarding school except her sister and fellow debate club members. Over the summer she develops stunning looks and sudenly at age 15 she is noticed by the popular senior boys at school. She quickly realizes that although they may seem to accept her she will never truly be one of them and they could just as soon forget about her, this is furthur proven when she discovers their all-

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

I feel like i can't say much about this book without giving away way too much, yet I can't say enough about how much I liked it. It's intelligent and addictive with a plot twist you'll never see coming. Cady is a menber of the beautiful Sinclair family. Everyone is perfect, or at least they all pretend to be. She spends every summer on her grandfather's private island with her 3 best friends getting in to so much trouble her family has labled them The Liars. Every summer

The Hunger Games trilogy By Suzanne Collins

By now I'm sure almost everyone has heard of The Hunger Games, the series about teenagers being forced to kill oneanother for sport, that inspired 4 movies and popularized the YA Dystopian genere everywhere, with pleanty of books being called "the next Hunger Games" and almost every strong female character being compared to Katniss. Although I do believe for the most part that they are good books which bring to light many questions about the direction of society as a whole

The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

An amazing book which fully lives up to the promise of the first, although the plot seemed to move a little slower i was still captivated by the Tearling and everyone in it. Unlike the first the Invasion of the Tearling fetured a second female lead, Lily a pre-crossing woman dealing with her own problems and facing her own fears. Her story is beautifuly blended in to Kelsea's allowing readers to feel as though they are stepping through time in to a different world as easil

Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

This book took me over a month to really focus on just because life was very busy and because i wasnt immidiatly captivated by it. The beginning was important yet still slower than i would like for a simple YA Dystopian fiction book. Because of this i wasnt expecting it to be as good as it was. One day at the beginning of summer vacation i decided to spend some time on it and ended up reading most of it in about 6 hours. Under The Never Sky shows a captivating image of the

The Queen Of The Tearling by Erika Johansen

Princess Kelsea Raleigh was raised in the forest by her foster parents in order to protect her from the danger of being the soul heir to her mother's throne, and when she comes of age she is escorted back to claim her kingdom, on her journy the meet with many dangers and when she returns home what she discovers isn't the perfectly run country she was led to believe it was, The Tearling is filled with violence and pain and the threat of war with neighbouring countries and K

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I am an 18 year old book nerd, I am in many fandoms including Doctor Who, Supernatural, Sherlock, Game of Thrones (I'm up to date in the show and have read the first 2 of the books), Harry Potter(books and movies), Percy Jackson (books not movies), Divergent, Eragon, etc. Feel free to ask me about any of my fandoms or suggest any you think I'd like!

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