Tag: Young Adult Book Reviews

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all–and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew.

I had really low expectations for this book, to be fully honest I expected to not like this book but after reading it I came to love this book. 

This book is a retailing of the cinderella fairy tale which everyone gets to hear many times during childhood. This book takes the cinderella fairy tale and puts it in a very dark places but in a very enjoyable way. 

This book shows us that believing in something too much can be a bad thing and that it can makes us super blind. But also this book shows us that a hero role isn’t only for men but also for women. 

The descriptions in this book are amazing, and they put a very clear picture in your mind. 

There is corruption, money and power using which really seems like real life situation due to the politicians now on days.

The world in this book is amazing, it has the fairy tale feeling to it but at the same time it feels like it is a real life place.

The characters in this book are amazing, they feel like real human beings. Because they are super relatable, and we can relate to their feelings because we all been in situations where it seems that what we want to do is impossible. 

The characters might have some lame and cheezy moments here and there, which really made it awkward at times. 

The writing style in this book is amazing, its very easy at the same time it was like the author knew what words to use to fully crab your attention and make you read for hours.

The ending has a huge twist to it, which really wasn’t expected. Which really make this book so much better. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life—the shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she’ll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.

This book was disappointing in a way. Because there were even more drama than in the previous book and even less action.

This book was for sure interesting and the mystery was intriguing. But the ending here was too fast and too abrupt for me personally.

The first 2 / 3 of this book was about the normal life to Sookie and how pissed off she is on Bill. And the last 1 / 3 was about an vampire hotel. The action in this book didn’t take more than 5 pages all together. 

However this book doesn’t disappoint with givings us more information and details on vampires, werwolves, fairies and in general the entire world of this series. 

The characters here are becoming more and more likeable. While reading the first book in this series I didn’t like Sookie but now I just love here. It might be because I used the time to read the series I just became used to her.

Every character gets more and more development with each book which makes men love them more and more. And because of this I grow to enjoy this series more and more. 

In this book we get way too little of Eric. But am glad that we get very little of Bill because for me he is the worst asshole there could be.

However the descriptions in the last part of this book were painful but also ridiculous during some moments.

The plot here goes up in a way for me because the plot starts to of in the fire section direction of a lot of deaths and violence in a way. I like it because I prefer vampires who wants to kill you and not kiss you.

Overall this book is very enjoyable, interesting and fun to read but at the same time it is very frustrating.

If I have to choice this book wasn’t my favourite book in this series. It might be one fact the second worst in this series so far for me personally.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Since Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives, she hates to lose one – even her cousin Hadley, undead consort of the vampire Queen of Louisiana. Hadley’s left everything she has to Sookie, but claiming that inheritance has a high risk factor. Some people don’t want her looking too deeply into Hadley’s past, or Hadley’s possessions. And they’re prepared to do anything in their power to stop her. Whoever it is, they’re definitely dangerous – and Sookie’s life is definitely on the line.

The plot here was kind of disappointing in a way because it contained too much drama and family problems than anything else. But every once and awhile we got some very fun and juicy moments which I personally came to enjoy a lot.

Of course there could be more action in this book than it actually was. In my opinion it would have made this book better. However this book doesn’t disappoint with givings us more information and details on vampires, werwolves, fairies and in general the entire world of this series.

The characters here are becoming more and more likeable. While reading the first book in this series I didn’t like Sookie but now I just love here. It might be because I used the time to read the series I just became used to her.

Every character gets more and more development with each book which makes men love them more and more. And because of this I grow to enjoy this series more and more.

In this book we also get a new character named Quinn, and he is the definition of an hot shapeshifter.

In a way I wished that this book would contain more of the vampire and werwolf action rather than spending 2/3 of this book on a cousin being killed and spending the time with on moving her stuff away from the apartment.

This book is very enjoyable, interesting and fun to read but at the same time it is very frustrating.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time—a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks—unless the killer decides to find her first

To be fully honest this book might be the weakest book of the series yet. This series is nothing more than soap opera with vampires, werwolves and witches.

There was very little action in this book. The most amount we got in this book was 4-5 pages at the end. Which really isn’t enough for me if you want me to read the entire book which I did with this book.

The beginning was very, very slow and there were drama there but nothing more than that. Which really made the beginnings somehow boring to me. 

Even thou I didn’t enjoy this book as the previous books in this series, I still appreciated learning more about the world in this series and learn more about the characters in this series.

The characters here are getting better in this book, because we get to know them better with each book, and with every book there is more and more development which I love to see in books. 

The writing style here is very typical YA style and it also very simple which it makes a good mix with the easy plot.

There are some errors in this series which I’ve noticed in this book. One of these errors I’ve noticed while reading this book is that Jason’s boss is named Shirley Hennessey in Book 4, but in this book her name is Shirley Hunter. And this fact didn’t get explained at all in this book.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire, she doesn’t just drive on by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as ever. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life.

This series continues to be cringe and very YA. But this book is the best book in this series so far.

In this book we get less of Bill which I became super happy about because I am not the biggest fan of Bill. And the less time we spend with him, the happier I become.

In this book we get a lot of the amazing Eric and Sookie’s chemistry which overtime I came to like and enjoy a lot.

The plot is very engaging and interesting but at the same time very simple. The plot doesn’t need any brain power to have fun with this book. 

The writing style here is very typical YA. But it makes an amazing mix with the plot because they both are very simple.

The characters in this book and in this series as a whole tend to be on the annoying side when you first get into it. But after reading this book I came to like Sookie (the main character) and some of the side characters like Eric, Jason and Sam. But the majority of the characters I don’t care what happens to them.

The action in this book was the best so far in this series. There is so much happening at the end which complete made me love this book. 

The beginning was on the slow side which really made me wish that it contained more action or something to make it more interesting rather than something to fill the pages with.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill’s sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own

The book series gets better and better with each book so far. Im still not the biggest fan of this series but I find it enjoyable.

The plot here is good but it had the potential to be even better if some of the events would be better written and described. 

The writing style here is okay. To be fully honest the written style in this book and in this whole series so far is very typical YA style. But it is a good mix with the easy plot. 

The characters here are meh. The only character which I really like in this book and in this whole series so far is Eric and the rest of the characters in this book are okay. But they could have been better.

All of the characters tend to be more on the annoying side than on the likeable side but I still had my fun with them. 

This book and this whole series is a very good pick when you want to escape the reality but you don’t want to use brainpower. 

This book was a very slow especially in the beginning. Which really made me want for it to be faster and more action than what it really was.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end. You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. 

Here we are, at the moment which I’ve dreaded which of course is the last book in the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series.

I need to say that this book have disappointed me a lot because the ending we got for the entire series wasn’t good enough. After reading 13 books in 2 weeks I was expecting something more than what we actually got.

However this book have illumined some aspects which we were waiting to get since the beginning. Which in a way made me love this book a lot. 

The action in this book takes place on an island in the middle of nowhere. Which was a place which was very good for the ending of this fantastic series.

The fate which Count Olaf got, really disappointed me because I was expecting something worse happen to him. But still it was good enough of a fate I suppose.

The characters here, you can truly see how much Violet, Klaus and Sunny have changed since book one in this series.

The character development in this book was huge, and it might be the reason why I loved this book so much.

To be fully honest here this book is strange, because it was good but at the same time it felt like there was something missing in it.

But also not knowing what happens to Violet, Klaus and Sunny after this book, really kills me in a way.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins. The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges – and soon Sookie’s in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that’s easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.

This book is the second book in the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse series.

I wasn’t a fan of the first book but this book got better than the first and I liked it much more. 

There is a lot of action in this book and a lot of happening which makes you engaged in the book. And the action is interesting which makes it harder to pull yourself away from the book. 

The ending was super messy and it was super hard to keep track of at least for me personally. However the beginning and the middle of this book was super fun and I had good time there.

The characters here are begin to become better and less annoying for me personally. And I really came to some what like them in this book which I gave this book some extra points for that.

In this book we get more backstory for Bill, and Eric here becomes more likeable than in the first book which I came to enjoy. 

The writing style in this book was simple and easy which really suited the plot and the rest of this book.

Overall this book is very good read when you just want to turn of your brain for a bit and have cozy time with something. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.

This book is the 12th book in the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series. Which really makes me sad because it means that there is only one book left in this series. 

The action in this book is very very very high. There is a lot of happening. Because all the bad people Violet, Klaus and Sunny met since book one makes an return in this book. And oh boy, this book does really hit another level of sadness. 

Violet, Klaus and Sunny has to join forces with Count Olaf to escape the hotel which this book takes place. Because there is an angry mob after Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olaf. 

Count Olaf in this book break up with Esmé Squalor and he leaves behind her and that little brat Carmelita Spats. Let’s hope that we won’t see these two insufferable characters in the last book in this amazing series. 

In this book the plot is very thick and heavy. Because finally in this book Violet, Klaus and Sunny mets someone from the VFD and they are even put to do a special mission for them to take down Count Olaf. But of course as you might expect the mission doesn’t go along the plan. 

Violet, Klas and Sunny feels like an adult even thou 2 of them are teens and Sunny is a baby. That’s just shows the character development and all the things they have been through since the first book. 

To be fully honest here, this book is the most complex book in this series so far. And I need to say that this book might be my favourite book in this series but we still have one book to go in this series so a lot of things might change in that time.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Dear Reader,  Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater. 

This book is the 11th book in the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series. And I really hate the fact that I only have 2 books left until I finish this series. I don’t want this to happen because I love this series so much.

To be fully honest, the action in this book is very high. And I loved it. The action in this book takes place under the water. 

And this book almost destroyed my life, when sunny was infected by a fast working virus. I wouldn’t have cried for years if Sunny have died. And that shows how much I love Violet, Klaus and Sunny.

This book has a huge life lesson in it, and this life lesson is that “People aren’t either wicked or noble”. And we learn this lesson from no other than the hook-handed man from Count Olaf’s trop. I didn’t expect it to come from him.

In this book we truly learn of truly insufferable Carmelita Spats is. Really can’t understand how Count Olaf stand her. If I was him I would have throw her off the submarine within minutes.

To be fully honest I didn’t love this book as the rest of the book in the series. But still this book is amazing in my opinion of course.  Which is really sad for me to say, because now thus book is the 3rd books which really disappointed in a way in this series.

I Give This Book 5 / 5