Teen’s Top Ten of 2012! In bold are the ones I’ve read: 1. Divergent by Veronica Roth 2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 3. Legend by Marie Lu 4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 5. What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen 6. Across the Universe by Beth Revis (my review) 7. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (my review) 8. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (my review) 9. Where She Went by Gayle […]
This is my replacement for IMM. I only got one book this week. BUT it was a super duper AWESOME book: Days of Blood and Starlight! Woop!! HUGE thanks to Little, Brown for sending me a copy! I almost had a heart attack when I read that email…Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of my top 5 favorite reads since I’ve been blogging (it will be in one of my blogiversary posts this week)! I’ve got […]
Shoujo manga Published by Del Rey (10.12.2004) Source: I own it (won) Add to Goodreads HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES… Yaya’s high school friends haven’t been very nice. They call her “Yaya the cry-ya! Yaya the misfi-ya!” But no matter how badly they act, Yaya is just too naïve and trusting to believe the worst of her friends. Hard-rocking, butt-kicking Nana is just the girl to grab hold of Yaya’s timid demeanor and turn it upside down. Nana exposes Yaya’s […]
While the first book was good, I believe I enjoyed this one much more! It didn’t have a real lot of depth, but it was a cute and fun read. The fact that there are THREE changing points of view in this one really makes me appreciate Tera’s writing style. A few times I forgot momentarily who I was reading, but for the most part it was very well done. The voices were quite similar, but each of the girls […]
I started this feature here at ASR in order to know your fellow bloggers a little better! If you are interested in being featured please fill out the form. Meet Jordon! Hey there! My name’s Jordon, I call myself Miss J on my blog, Miss Book Reviews. I’m 22 years old, I live in New Zealand and my main passion in life is acting. I love it; I love being up on stage, I love acting in […]
Hmm. I had a lot of mixed feelings about this one, so let me start with the bad (as per usual for me). The beginning dragged. A lot. There was waaaay too much teen angst and relationship drama for my tastes (I KNOW, it’s young adult. I know. But this was juvenile even for YA), which brought the story down quite a bit – for me, at least. It read too much like a typical and cliche horror movie: A […]