Brooding city ~ review

Format: Ebook (.mobi) | 185 pages

Size: 3530 KB

Publication date: 01 Sep 2015

Sold by: Amazon, co.

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A homicide detective must chase down a violent drug lord whose product is leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Detective Brennan is aided by having a special power—he innately knows when someone is lying to him or telling the truth. There are others like him, though, and his dreams are haunted by deadly agents from his own shady past. Meanwhile, in the valley outside the city, a young boy comes into his own power of downloading other people’s memories on touch, and he uncovers old secrets that threaten to tear his whole family apart. His power also makes him a prime target for the aforementioned shadowy dream-stalking agents, since his brain lights up like a beacon at night with so many memories crammed inside.

★★☆☆☆
As I starter reading I had high expectations, because I am a lover of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and this clouded my judgement a bit, From the start to finish I was confused of what was happening. It was like two stories crammed together in one book, the constant jumping from one character to another was not helping at all. Yes, it is a short book, not more than 200 pages but it took me "ages" to read it till end. Also there were long sentences from start and it tired my mind. I'm not a native speaker of English, so I had to read some of them twice to grasp their meaning.
As for characters, i needed a while to get accustomed to the names. Brennan and Bishop were almost the same (both starting on B :P, my mind filling in the wrong names) and I  had trouble to actually know who is male and who female. Were I the author I would stick to the first names. I didn't quite see the character development in any of the characters, maybe only the slight difference in Jerremy actually accepting Sleepers were real.

Which brings me to another point. Who are the Sleepers? How did they come to be? What is their purpose? I lacked the background story. All you got in the book isn't enough, it leaves you guessing.

Recommendations? I don't know anyone who would want to read a detective story, but I guess ones liking other crimis would like it. The good thing at least was the fluidity and reality of the problem, the finding of the drug dealer. 

Shatter me ~ review

Format: Paperback | 338 pages

Dimensions: 134 x 202 x 26mm | 280g

Publication date: 16 Oct 2012

Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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I have a curse.I have a gift.I'm a monster. I'm more than human.My touch is lethal.My touch is power.I am their weapon.I will fight back.No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time--and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a riveting dystopian world, a thrilling superhero story, and an unforgettable heroine.

★★★★★

From start I was quite perplexed. I don't read books written in present tense, nor do I read  books written in first person point of view. Still maybe it was this that kept me reading the book till the end and hell I wasn't disappointed.
I have to mention that when I saw the book arrive and everytime I look at the cover I sing this song (WARNING: link will send you over to youtube and the song starts playing!). Also the cover is so beautiful, so in love with it.

Okay, okay..to the review. Focus. The information in the book is evenly distributed and it doesn't hit the reader in the face straight away with too much information. Book has bit depressing mood, but the way it is described, makes you get into the skin of the heroin.

Speaking of which there was a great development of the character. Thanks to the point of view, you could watch every exact thought she had and how it slowly changed from self loathing to accepting of what she is. Furthermore I love the way she is happy of the simplest things like the wind or being outside, many people lack this ability these days.

It is very similar to other dystopian books, but not in the way of the plot development. The idea behind is brand new. I had no idea what, but i had to read it without much pauses. It was impossible to put down for longer than 10 minutes.

The Book Thief ~ review

Publisher: Black Swan
Author: Markus Zusak
Format: Paperback | 560 pages
Dimensions: 128mm x 196mm x 40mm | 360g
Publication date: 1 January 2008
Publication City/Country: London
ISBN 10: 0552773891
ISBN 13: 9780552773898




PLOT

The book is about the little girl and her life during the second world war. Her name is Liesel Meminger and she is moved to her foster parents in Molching, Germany. Liesel goes through struggles of being poor, not being able to read, which is kind of an irony. But her foster father, Hans, the painter by trade, whom she is fond of teaches her how to read and write. So on she finds the joy of reading. The reading lessons start when she is waking up from nightmares at night, seeing her brother’s death all over and over. He teaches her the letters first. Later on he would read her the first stolen book out loud for her, The Gravedigger’s guide. When there were words she didn’t know, they would write them down on the wall in the basement. Soon enough the little girl has no struggle reading and her foster parents give her two books for Christmas, even though they are fighting the poverty. Her Papa exchanged them for cigarettes.

REVIEW ★★★★☆

It was divided into 11 in total, including the prologue and epilogue. It is a set of short stories included in it describing the life of the main character. What I find interesting is that the book is narrated by death. It was easy to read, thanks to the short sentences, so I had no trouble with understanding. Usually when it comes to long sentences I have to go back and re-read it to grasp the full meaning. The characters were well developed. To the very last details, including the inability to read by the main character, or the obsession with Jesse Owens by Rudy. Yet one thing stood out, which I didn’t like at all. The Death, apparently, finds joy in spoiling you the story before you even get to the mentioned part. 

I wouldn’t recommend the book for kids younger than 8 years, because of the violence that is going on in the book. Anyways it’s a book you can’t stop reading. (even though it took me some time, to be honest, because.. I had to watch Sherlock...yeah xP). 

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JULY 2015

Aaaa I can' believe it! School's over which means lots and lots of reading! And also my TBR- jar will get some cleaning and money will be wasted...as usual. But who cares!

Sadly, even though there are many releases this upcoming month none of them are coming out on my birthday. How's that even possible people?! Come oon!