BOOK REVIEW: Fallen by Lauren Kate

       SYNOPSIS: What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart.

       REVIEW: I've read  this book 5 years ago. I received a paperback copy of this during Christmas eve, it was given by my classmate as a gift.

       Miss Lauren Kate delivered us another book to compete at the mainstream appeal of genres for Young Adult that time. If I can still remember, correct me if I am wrong, the time this book was released, Twilight is dominating. So I guess, miss Kate wants to make a bold move and yeah instead of vampires she delivered fallen angels.

BOOK REVIEW: Prodigy by Marie Lu

Rating Standards for Book Reviews

             In case you are wondering how I rate the book reviews posted in this blog, here is where I base my unbiased yet sometimes subjective judgement. Take note that number one serve as the lowest rating while ten is the highest. 

BOOK REVIEW: So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

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BOOK REVIEW: GONE by MICHAEL GRANT

   

SYNOPSIS: In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as sud
denly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.

Short Story: Back of Dirt

BOOK REVIEW: PARTIALS by DAN WELLS

“I am stronger than my trials.”

OVERALL RATING: 9 /10

            STORY: 8/10

            CHARACTERS: 7/10

            THE FEELS: 8/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 8/ 10
PLOT: 8/ 10

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization,  Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike—and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.

BOOK REVIEW: THE DARKEST MINDS by ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

ALEX AWARDS 2014 WINNERS

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BOOK REVIEW: EVERY DAY by DAVID LEVITHAN

BOOK REVIEW: CITY OF THIEVES by DAVID BENIOF

OVERALL RATING: 10 /10

            STORY: 9/10

BOOK REVIEW: DELIRIUM by LAUREN OLIVER

OVERALL RATING: 5 /10

            STORY: 6/10

            CHARACTERS: 4/10

            THE FEELS: 5/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 8/ 10

 

PLOT: 7/ 10

SYNOPSIS: Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

If there is one word for me to describe this book and that would be lame. Even a lot of people like this book but, no, not me. First, I hate this book because it has a lame plot. Like ye, its obvious that there would be someone out there, hello, THE WORLD IS BIG! Second, the idea of making

BOOK REVIEW: BLACK OUT by DAN WELLS

OVERALL RATING: 7 /10

            STORY: 7/10

            CHARACTERS: 8/10

            THE FEELS: 7/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 6 / 10

 

PLOT: 6/ 10

SYNOPSIS:   Laura and Alec are trained terrorists.  Jack and Aubrey are high school students.

There was no reason for them to ever meet. But now, a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible powers. And these four are about to find their lives intertwined in a complex web of deception, loyalty, and catastrophic danger—where one wrong choice could trigger an explosion that ends it all.

 This novel is like Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds. Kid's with superpowers and weird stuffs. The plot is so mainstream but still interesting given that I am really immature. I used to dream of having super powers, I mean all of us maybe did that. I read this book because I read Mr. Wells Variant novel which blew my mind so I decided maybe this one will do what exactly what Variant did.