Booknerds are pretty too: November 2010

The Lying Game Review

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

I had a life anyone would kill for.

Then someone did.

The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.

From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.

Let the lying game begin.

I can only say so much about this book. I loved it!!, let's say it's my guilty pleasure and just focus on the last word. It really was a pleasure for me read thru this book. The story was captivating since I always appreciate a good mystery. I started this book and couldn't stop reading, actually I finished it in one afternoon.

We follow Emma a foster teen who has been struggling all of her life for a normal family and her long-lost twin sister Sutton who got everything Emma could only dream. One day Emma sees a disturbing online video and discovers some horrible secrets in her sister's life, just then, she knows it's up to her to find out who killed Sutton. I liked having Sutton as a ghostly presence narrating the story.

If you are looking for a really light mystery book, this is it. A great start for Sara Shepard new series that left me holding my breath for the next book. Overall The Lying Game has just the right amount of suspense and you won't know who to trust.

ARC provided by NetGalley

Before I Fall Review

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it’s her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she re-lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she had ever imagined.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this book out, this book got so much hype that I was scared the book didn't live up to my expectations, but I was wrong. The book is wonderfully written, beautifully crafted. I thought this book really put things into perspective and make you evaluate your life and appreciate the people around you.

Sometimes Sam irritated me and I found my self wanting to shake her to make some sense into her. The characters where lovable and real even the annoying ones made you felt for them.

I believe this book is great for teenagers, teaches great lessons and will let them thinking on their choices, hopefully something good would be learned.

There where times that I wanted to stop reading because it turned repetitive but I knew it was better to keep reading. Things got more intense from chapter to chapter. Overall a great novel.

Glimmerglass Review

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Glimmerglass (Faeriewalker Book 1) by Jenna Black

Dana Hathaway doesn’t know it yet, but she’s in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, Dana decides she’s had it with being her mother’s keeper, so she packs her bags and heads to stay with her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn’t just an ordinary teenage girl—she’s a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie.

Soon, she finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone’s trying to kill her, and everyone wants something from her, even her newfound friends and family. Suddenly, life with her alcoholic mom doesn’t sound half bad, and Dana would do anything to escape Avalon and get back home. Too bad both her friends and her enemies alike are determined not to let her go . .

I loved the world that Jenna Black created, it was a world in which humans knew about the fae world for centuries, a world of magic. It had so much potential, but I personally found the book a little predictable.

Dana the main character is dealing with an alcoholic mom, and she keeps mentioning all the responsibility she had to take care of since her mom is unable through out the book. She is totally unhappy with her current life in the human world, one day Dana decides she has had enough with her mother and starts a journey that will change her point of view.

When she arrives to Avalon, she's caught off guard, it is not the town she imagined not all is magic and happiness. Once she meets her dad a truth that will change her life is revealed, she's special there, so special that some want her dead some want to kidnap her.

Overall her reactions are easy to guess, this actually bothers me a little. I prefer not knowing what's going to be the next step in the story. Everything else in the book was really interesting and I'll be reading the next book in the series.