Wednesday 30 October 2013

Allegiant by Veronica Roth : A Review! **WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD**

This is the review I have been dreading writing. It's the book that I spent over a year longing and waiting for. It's also the book that once the ending was spoiled it took me a week after the release date to work up the courage to read it. Now having slept on it, I feel I'm in the right frame of mind to write an honest review.

Allegiant
by
Veronica Roth


Tagline: She Must Make Her Final Choice...

For those of you who don't already know (and honestly if you don't know have you been living under a rock?) Allegiant is the third and final book in the New York Times Number 1 Best Selling Divergent Series by Veronica Roth.

DO NOT READ AFTER THE JUMP IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE BOOK TO BE SPOILED, THIS ENTIRE REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

Monday 28 October 2013

The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer : A Review!

So it's happened again. I have now actually started and finished the two books I mentioned in my Series I want to start / finish post. Wow usually it would take me quite some time to accomplish that! (I'm a procrastinator or okay, so sure me!)

By that (and the title) you will of course figured at that today's post is a review of,

The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer
by
Michelle Hodkin


Tagline: Who is Mara Dyer?

So you may remember I wasn't sure how I would feel about this book after someone compared it to Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. A series I have no problem admitting I absolutely did not like. It was also one of the books that lead to my abandonment to the Paranormal YA genre. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, I'm pretty sure is the first book I have read from the paranormal genre in a long time, I have routinely avoided them like the plague until now.  

Friday 25 October 2013

Wild Cards by Simone Elkeles : A Review!

Happy Friday,
it's the end of the week!

So today's post is a book review of....

Wild Cards 
by
Simone Elkeles


Tagline: N/A

I know what you are thinking. Boy that was fast. Honestly as soon as I finished writing Wednesday's post about the books I wanted to start reading I immediately started reading this book. Well, just a snippet of what's to come... 

This book was not what I expected it to be. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I guess you'll have to wait and see!

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Series I Want To Start/ Finish!

Hello everyone for today's blog I thought I would take it back to books again and have a quick look at the series I want to start and the series I want to finish.



I was thinking of looking at may be two or three for each category, so let's just hop right in!


Monday 21 October 2013

50 Questions I've Never Been Asked!

Hello everyone,

these might bore you, I'm not sure but we're doing another get to know me style post I feel like if you can relate to me a bit more you'll be more inclined to read my blog if you catch my drift!


Friday 18 October 2013

Preparing for Allegiant by Veronica Roth!

Hello everybody!

Do you know what today is? (Yes I know it's Friday but that isn't the answer I am looking for!) Today marks just 3 days until the much anticipated release of Allegiant! The final book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth!

US Cover
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I think it is safe to say that I have never been this excited for a conclusion  to a series, however maybe that's a bad thing because my expectations are set really high. I will be devastated if Allegiant isn't amazing given how awesome both Divergent and Insurgent are.

So today in celebration of the impending release date I thought I would do a quick overview post on things to know about the series that may be important to remember before we read the last book, if Insurgent is anything to go by Veronica Roth isn't a fan of looking back at events from the previous book like some authors, she seems to prefer to drive straight in to the story. (So bare in mind it may be worth re-reading Insurgent too!)


Wednesday 16 October 2013

Wreck-It Ralph : A Review!

I promise this will be the last Disney related post. (For like a week, maybe. We'll see, don't quote me on this).
Okay so on Sunday night I decided to watch Wreck-It Ralph for the first time, again I'm not the best Disney addict in the world am I! Since in a similar way to Monsters University this film has been out for quite some time now.

So as you will have guessed/ deciphered from the title today's post is a review of Wreck-It Ralph. A very late one but a review all the same!


Monday 14 October 2013

Mickey and Minnie Mouse Inspired Nail Art!

Are you sick of me and Disney yet?

I'm sorry.
You see my friends and family are getting sick of this new wave of Disney obsession I've been having recently so unfortunately for you all, it's seems the task has fallen to you to put up with me, besides I'm hoping a few of you out there share the same obsession as me, I know I can't be alone!

Anyway today's blog post is  Mickey and Minnie Mouse (mainly) inspired Nail Art Guide, with Cinderella's castle thrown in there for good measure, since it's also a classic and well recognised symbol of the Walt Disney Company.


So If you're a Disney fan like me and want to learn my tips and guide to recreating this Disney inspired Nail Art then just carry on reading!

Friday 11 October 2013

My Top 10 Favourite Disney Films!

Hello everyone!

Okay I've been going a little but Disney crazy lately, so I thought why not let that pass over into a blog post. You all know (if you're a regular reader) that my favourite film, not just Disney but of all time is Beauty and The Beast so I thought why not share with you my top 10 list of Disney films.


Honestly, all the films on this list are going to be animated films, oh and before we get started yes Pixar films do count, since Disney owns Pixar.

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Monsters University : A Review!

I know, I know.

I'm so late with this it's not even funny! And to think I consider myself to be a pretty big Disney fan, slacking on the job over here. But that doesn't matter, because I have finally watched it and that's all that counts right!
Today's post if you couldn't all ready guess by the title is a review of . . . .

Monsters University!


Tagline: School Never Looked This Scary!

Okay, disclaimer if you're reading this review because you're looking for something impartial and informative leave. I'm not being mean it's just I am a Disney freak and there is no way for me to be impartial about anything related to Disney I will however try and keep the fan girling to a minimum, deal? 

If you're looking for a fun, reminiscent Disney-fied review then welcome, you're in the right place!

Let's get started!

Monday 7 October 2013

Top 5 Books To Movies Tag!

Hello everyone,

I am forever banging on about my all time favourites books, and my all time least favourite books. But I've never talked about this topic. Which books do I want to see become a film. Honestly I don't know why I haven't done this tag before.


Maybe it's because sometimes I worry that doing Tag posts are a little unimaginative and a bit lazy, but we're here we're doing this, I mean why wouldn't you want to know which books I would love to see on the big screen! 

I can can guarantee you that not all of my top five favourite books will be on this list because some of them just wouldn't translate well on to the big screen or so I feel. 
Speaking of things translating well on to the big screen, can we just talk for a second about how insanely excited I am to hear that there is a film version of Wicked! in the works, now that is something I would definitely line up to see!!

Friday 4 October 2013

Simple Braided Fall Nail Art!

Hi guys, Happy Friday!!

It's time for another Fall/ Autumn Nail Art Tutorial, it looks a little complicated but trust me it isn't! 
Obviously the main thing that makes this nail art autumnal is the colours but that does mean you have to use the same colours I did! Change it up and have fun with it!


Carry on reading to find out how to make this cute design!

Wednesday 2 October 2013

My Basic Writing Tips!

Hi guys, 

So as many of you probably already know (and if you don't you will now) I'm an aspiring author and have been for a very long time. If you follow me on Twitter you will see me constantly writing tweets about how my efforts at writing a novel is going so much so that I got a #followfriday mention a couple of weeks ago with the description "she writes a lot" so yeah. 

So I was thinking what post could I do today, and since I have just started the second draft of my 'novel' I thought I would share some of my basic tips.




Please be aware that I by no means consider myself to be a professional so take these tips with a pinch of salt, this is what has worked for me in the past, but it may not work for you all you can do is try! I wanted to write this because I'm forever getting questions of how I stay focused long enough to actually finish a full length manuscript well now I'm going to tell you what I do!