Unteachable by Leah Raeder : A Review!

Hello!

I'm back, apologies again for no post on Friday, last week was pretty hectic add in to that my computer breaking and it doesn't making blogging very easy!
So today I bring you a book review of:

Unteachable

by 

Leah Raeder

Tagline: N/A 

As a fan of books like Slammed by Colleen Hoover and Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard, you can understand I was curious when I came across yet another teacher/ student romance book that received quite a number of positive ratings. Given I hadn't yet had a bad experience I decided to give it a shot. It was a bad decision I'll tell you that much now. 

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.  

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!

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!

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!!

Book Tag: Leave Me Alone I'm Reading!!

Hello Everybody!
I'm sorry for doing another Tag post, I'm just a little busy and up in the air at the moment but I still wanted to get a post up for you guys because I made a commitment god-damn it!

Any way this tag is obviously a book tag. It asks a bunch of questions about people you would kill off, couples/friendships you ship, which characters you would want to be for 24hrs. Well I have watched a few of these tag's on YouTube and they entertain me so I'm hoping they will entertain you to!

Recommended - My All Time Favourite Books!

Hello Everyone how are you this fine Friday?

In the month of August I haven't had a lot of time for reading so instead of doing an August favourites I thought I would share with you my top 5 all time favourite books and series!

So without getting sidetracked let's hop right in to today's post!

Books I Did Not Finish - 02/09/2013

Hello everyone,

Happy September! It's not really that happy is it because we'll be heading back to school/ college/ university soon which isn't exactly fun. Unless you enjoy school which if you do all power to you I wish I did!

Anyway it's time for another Instalment of Books I Did Not Finish!. And honestly I don't really know why I never finished this book but let's just go with it okay?!

Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)

by

Phillip Pullman

Tagline: There are worlds beyond our own - the compass will show you the way . . .

This book is an international best seller, it's also a major motion picture, so it stands to reason that since I loved fantasy books I would pick this book up and give it a go. In hindsight I shouldn't have because up until that point my experience with this type of fantasy book hadn't been all that great. So it didn't surprise me really when I put it down and never picked it up again.

Books I Did Not Finish! - 12/08/2013

Hello everyone, it's that time of week again! Welcome to another Books I Did Not Finish! The place were instead of telling you about all the books I loved I share the ones that range from disappointing me to me out right hating them!

This week the chosen book lies some where in the middle of the above statement. Why? Well this book is a sequel. A sequel to a book, I very much enjoyed, you can read the review I wrote of book one here. Sadly the sequel did not live up to my expectations and so it is with regret that I have to include it in this series.

The Elite

by

 Kiera Cass

Tagline: 35 GIRLS CAME TO THE PALACE. ONLY 6 REMAIN.

Like most people who enjoyed the first book I recognised it had it's faults, the world building wasn't great, it didn't really work as a dystopian (more on this later) and yes it was cheesy, but it was the cheesiness that made it enjoyable in it's Bachelor-esque game show plot for the Princes heart. Yet even in this the sequel The Elite some how failed.

Books I Did Not Finish! - 05/08/2013

Hello again everyone, how are you this fine Monday. I say fine it's probably raining almost everywhere if the weather reports are trust worthy.

Welcome back to another edition of books I did not finish featuring a series. And a very well known one at that, so popular it became a very successful American TV series. . . .

The Vampire Diaries

by

L. J. Smith

 

Anyone who knows me can tell you that I loved the Vampire Diaries the minute I read it. I read it after Twilight, and was one of the people putting the 'Twi-hards' who claimed it was a copy of Twilight in their place by revealing it was published more than a decade earlier than Twilight. Yes I very much enjoyed that!

The picture above is my copy of the first 2 books The Awakening and The Struggle, yes it is almost identical in cover to Twilight, but honestly the story is better and far less infuriating. 

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt!

Hello everybody!

How are we all this fine Wednesday? Me? I am tired, I've been working out a lot recently in a bid to get fit for my summer holiday which is just a month away now, and have been doing Cassey Ho's a.ka. Blogilates POP H.I.I.T (High Intensity Interval Training). Trust me they work, in both getting you fit and making your muscles ache!

Anyway on to today's post which is the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt! Please pardon my extremely full and messy bookcase, I am fully aware that I need to buy more! Let's jump right in!

My Book Case!!

Books I Did Not Finish! - 29/07/2013

Hello everyone and welcome back to Book's I Did Not Finish!

It's not exactly a happy Monday for me, rain. *sighs* is it raining where you are too? Well don't worry I'm here to cheer up with my ramblings about why I couldn't finish a book. At least I hope it will be somewhat entertaining.

This weeks instalment features another series! Let's here it for all the series out there that started off good but just got worse and worse!

Hush Hush & Crescendo

by

Becca Fitzpatrick

Tagline: A FALLEN ANGEL . . . A FORBIDDEN LOVE

It's another YA paranormal romance! Can't really be anything else can it. I've said it before I'm a sucker for a good love story and when it's a forbidden love story, even better. The difference with this book is that the paranormal side is angels. And I know that's a pretty common 'creature' to use today but when I first picked this book up I hadn't actually read a paranormal book that had angels in it. That is why I originally chose to read it.

Books On My TBR List!

Hello everyone!

Happy Friday! So today I thought I would share some of the books that are currently on my tbr (to be read) list. Who knows maybe some of these will show up again in a books I did not finish or a monthly favourites. Let's dive right in shall we.

Trailer Talk! - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!

Hello everyone happy Wednesday the week is almost over!

Today I present a trailer analysis. I haven't done one of these for a while so I thought it was a reasonable time to do another. The trailer I will be looking at today is.... (well you can already see in the title can't you!)

The Hunger Games : Catching Fire!

In my last trailer talk post it was more of an initial reaction versus how I felt shortly after watching the trailer. Now I saw this trailer on I think it was Saturday, and if any of you follow me on Twitter then you know how excited I got over it so needless to say it has taken a few days for me to calm down and actually analyse the trailer properly.

Now have you watched the trailer? If not go watch it now before continuing on below!

Books I Did Not Finish! - 22/07/2013

Hello everyone I can't exactly say happy Monday can I? Mondays are rarely something to be happy about. How was your weekend?

Welcome back to another edition of Books I Did Not Finish. Today's instalment features a series.

Starcrossed 

by 

Josephine Angelini

Tagline: Destiny Brought Them Together The Gods Will Keep Them Apart

I'm not sure if I ever told you that I hate History. Yes I can't stand it, it bores me to tears, all except for two Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. When those topics were discussed in history class you can bet your bottom dollar I was paying attention when normally I would be trying to not fall asleep. So this is a retelling/ re-imagining of the Iliad, it's an angst ridden forbidden romance with and Ancient Greek twist, I wanted to read it the first moment I saw it. 

This or That Tag!

Hello Everyone Happy Friday!

So where I live the weather is forecast to be pretty nice tomorrow so I am heading to the beach and will be taking Game of Thrones with me.
Any way enough with the rambling, today I present to you the This or That Tag combining, beauty, books and Random! Enjoy!


Makeup:

1. Blusher or Bronzer?
I have naturally rosy cheeks so it would have to bronzer for contouring.

2. Lip gloss or Lipstick?
Always Lipstick I can't stand lip gloss especially when it's windy and your hair sticks to it, it's not very pleasant!

3. Eye-liner or Mascara?
I have really blonde eyelashes so always mascara.

4. Foundation or Concealer?
Concealer! Foundation never covers enough!

5. Neutral or colour eye-shadow?
definitely neutral, I rarely wear colourful I shadow.

Books I Did Not Finish! - 15/07/2013

Hello everyone and welcome back to Books I did not finish! This is my 3rd post on this topic and today we are going to look at.

The Hollow
by
Jessica Verday

Tagline: A love like no other . . . 

I'm a sucker for a good romance novel, at the time this book was released I was also a sucker for a good paranormal romance novel (curse you Twilight!) I have long since grown out of this stage and I don't think I've read a paranormal romance for over a year so with that in mind it has been a while since I last picked up this book.

Coming Soon! The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones!

Hello!

Welcome to the Wednesday post. This week with just over a month to go I shall be compiling the trailers, and plot to deliver to you a preview of the upcoming film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the best selling novels by Cassandra Clare of the same name.

You may remember that in November last year I did a trailer comparison of two films one of which was this film. For a little back ground knowledge on how I feel about this film already you can read that post by clicking here.

Read More After The Jump!

Books I Did Not Finish - 08/07/2013

Hello!

Here is the second instalment of books I did not finish. Unlike my first instalment (which was a series) today's is just one book (though it is part of a series, I think it counts because I couldn't even finish the first book). You've heard me mention it before I have never tried to hide the fact I didn't like it.

It's about witches.
A sixteen year old girl.
Recently made into a film.

Can you guess what it is?

Say hello to the best-seller by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.......

Read More After The Jump!

Tag! My Top 2 Books From 6 Genres!

Hello everyone,
as promised it is Wednesday and here I am with another post for you all. Today's post is as the title says, my top two books from six genres tag. This is a tag that was started by Benjaminoftomes (click the link to see his video) in the YouTube book community. So let's dive right in!

Category Number 1: DISTOPIAN!

DIVERGENT by VERONICA ROTH

Look guys, I don't know how many times I've said this now, it's one of my favourite books, I couldn't not include it! So Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago where society has split into 5 factions which are, Abnegation, Candor, Amity, Erudite, and Dauntless. At the age of sixteen each citizen will choose whether to stay in the faction they were born in or to move to a new faction and never see their friends or family again.

BLOOD RED ROAD by MOIRA YOUNG

I freaking LOVED this book. It was just plain awesome for once, the girls soul focus and attention wasn't on falling for a guy, it was all about saving her little brother. She didn't want to get involved with the guy because she didn't want the distraction but you know every young adult book has some form of romance so she obviously gave in eventually. I am yet to read the sequel normally I would reserve judgement but I can tell you now I'm not going to like it. Why? LOVE TRIANGLE! That's why, for the love of god, why ruin the potential of the first book by using such a generic and tired old plot device.