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Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 11th, 2014, 11:50 pm
by laila_6045
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

After life has been described in various ways in the world of literature. And this one place is called Elsewhere where the dead age back until the time comes that they will be ready to be reborn again back to Earth. I like the concept. But it took me until half way through the book to really like the MC here Lizzie. She died so young so her attitude about her sudden death was not exactly impressive but it was understandable. The frustrations and she got kinda depressed. Still this pleasantly surprised me with its poignant story of hope and moving on of forgiveness and second chances and even finding love in Elsewhere.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 12th, 2014, 10:09 am
by xtaline88
laila_6045 wrote:
xtaline88 wrote:I just finished this and it was amazing and a lot of fun! I love that they're the most opposite but are the greatest of friends, even though Sophie was such a brat most of the time.


ooh! i have an ebook of this...looking forward to this for my summer reading :)


book 2's coming soon so it'd be a great timing!

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 14th, 2014, 1:38 pm
by laila_6045
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
A retelling of the Beauty and the Beast, Blue Beard and a little bit of Rumpelstilskin. The heroine Nyx was trained for most of her life to destroy the Gentle Lord- the prince of demons who had put her small island under a dome for the past 900 yrs and terrorized the people with his demons. But on her 17th birthday she was to be wed to him as was the bargain made by her own father years ago before she was even born-it was the price he has to pay for granting his wish. Remember the old familiar caution? "Be careful what you wish for" coz the Lord of Bargains will exact his payment no matter what and in ways that will always be in his favor. Over all i love this, although it felt kinda rush and only because this was a stand alone novel and not a series.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 14th, 2014, 2:09 pm
by arjaye
CLOCKWORK ANGEL (Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare

after reading, i was just glad i finished it. the power that the mortal instruments had on me cannot be compared to the less interest i had with clockwork angel. so does tessa and will. i felt disconnected with this too. apart from having smiles quite a few times due to familiarity of the institute, silent brothers, clave, idris, the lightwoods, church... i cant give my full attention to each words, so i browsed, jumped, skipped over some. ill continue reading the rest because of simply wanting to know really whats the matter with all of them. seems, they have all their back stories to tell. plus, i cannot leave one book or series hanging, unfinished, for that matter.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 15th, 2014, 11:43 pm
by laila_6045
arjaye wrote:CLOCKWORK ANGEL (Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare

after reading, i was just glad i finished it. the power that the mortal instruments had on me cannot be compared to the less interest i had with clockwork angel. so does tessa and will. i felt disconnected with this too. apart from having smiles quite a few times due to familiarity of the institute, silent brothers, clave, idris, the lightwoods, church... i cant give my full attention to each words, so i browsed, jumped, skipped over some. ill continue reading the rest because of simply wanting to know really whats the matter with all of them. seems, they have all their back stories to tell. plus, i cannot leave one book or series hanging, unfinished, for that matter.


give this series a chance. i think the finale book was worth it. grabe ang feels ko finale.hehehe. at first i also struggle really liking Tessa. coz she is quite helpless for a heroine. she tries to be this strong and yet end up needed to be rescued most of the time. ugh!

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 16th, 2014, 11:09 pm
by joesel
laila_6045 wrote:Ignite Me (Shatter Me #3) by Tahereh Mafi
This is the final installment from the Shatter Me series and it is a great series ender. I wasn't so sure I would end up really loving this book because Juliette is not my fave kind of heroine but I was rooting for Warner and I miss Kenji and they are the characters that made me stick to this series. I was blown away by Warner here he is the anti hero that made my heart screaming for more! I thought he was crazy in the beginning but here he showed a side that will melt your heart.
I can't wait to meet Ms. Mafi in April i think when she comes back to my city for another book signing event. I will make sure not to miss her this time :)


a copy has finally reached my very far hometown! :)
devour this book for one day, and three days after i still can't take my mind off Warner and those sexy scenes in page 319 and onwards. lol.
I so so so love Warner, the villain at first who later became the leading man in the series.

Ignite Me was a very fine final installment to the series! although my first impression was the story was so X-men-ish, but what hooked me were the very LOVABLE characters, i just so love Warner and Kenji. Can they also come up with a movie of this ? hehe

I just wish there's another Ignite Me but from Warner's POV, i want to know what he was doing while Juliette was putting two bullets in the Supreme's head. :)

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 17th, 2014, 12:44 am
by laila_6045
Incarnation by Emma Cornwall

This is steampunk paranormal fantasy whose heroine is based on the popular human victim of Dracula who was seduced and turned into the creature of the night...Lucy Weston. This is more like a retelling of her story set in the 1890's. I was actually looking forward to be swept away by this coz i like steampunk and the book cover looks badass with Lucy in it. However, i was not swept away but it was not a disappointing read either. There was enough intrigue in it and the mystery about Lucy's Incarnation. I wanted action but there was only a few scenes that actual confrontation took place. The rest are more like being alluded to happening in the background. Lucy is a halfling and it seems she is more powerful and no ordinary vampire. The ending tells me that there is a sequel and I am glad because I do not want things to end just like that between Lucy and Marco! And there are many questions still left unanswered about Lucy's other abilities. She only managed to make use of her vampiric ability in combat at the first half of the book the rest of the story was spent of her looking for her master and trying to make sense of her new undead life. Obviously she has not yet managed to display her fullest potential as vampire in this one. I like her attitude though. She was no simpering maiden. And I will always love a Victorian era setting :)

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 17th, 2014, 7:55 pm
by mstessagray
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

The Distance Between Us is about an average teenage girl named Caymen and her love for Xander Spence, a rich guy with all the money in the world to buy everything he wants. At first, Caymen's so sure of her distaste for the rich that she'll never let herself get close to them personally much less fall in love with one. But when Xander comes along to pick up a doll for his grandmother and meets Caymen and her sarcastic personality, everything begins to change; even her ingrained-since-childhood belief that the rich are shallow and materialistic.

The Distance Between us is a very light book. Maybe a little too light for my taste. The past few book I've read are more in the fantasy and dystopian genres which are quite heavy compared to this book. It took a good start off and kept me interested enough to read it through but by the time i came to the middle, i felt that the story was too slow-paced and a little dragging. The middle part of the story is about how Caymen and Xander love for each other slowly grow and the good moments in their relationship. It's basically there to tell the readers that despite Caymen's efforts to make him stay away from her or maybe for her to stay away from him, she falls in love with Xander's charm and the little things he does to get her attention. But more than that, Caymen realizes that Xander isn't the typical rich sterotype she thought he was and that he's one of the few people that can understand her saracasm. By the time i got to the latter part, things were picking up again and the story was getting better. Caymen finds out that the grandparents she never knew were super rich entrepreneurs and this helps solve their financial problems. The girl has a fight with the boy and during the girl's most distressing times, the guy suddenly appears again to be with her damsel in distress, give her comfort and show her that he still loves her till the end. The story ended in a fairytale kind of way like "how could that have happened? either it's a very impossible miracle or those things just happen in fairytales" way. Over all, it was a nice book. It's the kind of book that you'd enjoy reading to pass the time or maybe to take a short easy break from reading heavier texts.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 18th, 2014, 5:46 am
by arjaye
CLOCKWORK PRINCE by Cassandra Clare

im glad, i continued. Indeed, clockwork angel was not love at first sight for me. Tessa was still not as effective as a heroine was supposed to be since the first book, always the damsel in distress, always trying to be courageous but ending up to be rescued in the end. But that was okay. That hole was filled by the character of Will Herondale here. Truly, i didn't pay any notice to him but the revelations made me understand him. It made me ache for him, made me favor him over Jem, whose calmness was just as boring to me. You could tell that i totally disagree with how decisions were made at the end when it comes to the love triangle. But that was exactly the situation calls for. A boy treated like a glass, they were scared to break him by the truth, and a boy who now finds the light but was diffused fast, and then a girl who was totally confused, cannot distinguish really what love is for her.
A lot of truths coming out in this series, some deaths, some crossing the border, some disappointment, some love.
im glad i continued, did i already say that? :)

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: March 18th, 2014, 10:26 am
by eira
Have you ever heard of Lidice? I haven't, until I read this book. The book is about how Hitler ordered the killing of all men and boys of this small town of former Czechoslovakia. How Milada was separated from her family because she fits the Aryan standard. How she was trained to become the perfect German girl. How she struggled to remember her own identity.How she was reunited with her mother. How she hoped to someday find her little sister.
This book was one of my latest finds from Booksale. And I'm glad I picked it. Really, really glad :) :D