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So people say WOW in different languages. Viet is WAH!! Korean is OMO!!! According to my overly dramatic dramas. I believe French is OHLALA. Not a joke. W So people say WOW in different languages. Viet is WAH!! Korean is OMO!!! According to my overly dramatic dramas. I believe French is OHLALA. Not a joke. Well. This book deserves wow in every language. This blue, gloomy, depressing, suspenseful, heart clenching book. This book would be blue if it had a hue to the images it put in my head. So my Public Speech and Argument/Debate (and also my very trusted Writer's Club Advisor of 2 years) had taught my debate class: IN YOUR RESEARCH, LOOK UP WORDS THAT RELATE TO YOUR RESOLUTION. Well in this book review, here are some related-to-this-story words: -Drugs -Mystery -Death -War -Trauma -Fairyland -Trust -Doubt -Depression -Forest -Dark -Murderer -Game If this is a book you're looking for, come on by, my lovely Donnie Darko fans. Because if you love Donnie Darko you'd love this one. AHEM, so. BEGIN THE SPOILERS PLEASE! Stop reading here if you're allergic to spoilers. Spoilers specifically related to this story, that is. DONT SAY I DIDNT SAY I DIDNT SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU or whatever the lyrics to that dreadful song are. 1. The Writing. Repetitive thoughts. This could be a good thing and a bad thing. Repetition means EMPHASIS. IMPORTANT PART OF STORY. And the repetition in the thoughts of "'Fairyland' constantly thought Ashlee." Or "'You are the daughter of a killer!' Shouted the stares that were aimed at Emily" (not actual quotes by the way), could have been emphasis on how Ashlee's fairyland would lead to her eminent DOOM, and how people who don't even know you or your family judge you just because a newspaper is broadcasting a fellow family member as a murderer. Good job, Miss Christopher. Repetition could induct the constant sighs of a reader however. I have to admit that I had gotten a little annoyed at the repetitiveness but guess what? Repetition needs to be appreciated more. (NOW REFERENCING THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA, season 2, episodes 2-9 THE ENDLESS EIGHT. Anyone an anime fan? Someone out there will get my message...) 2. Wow can this lady describe a drug trip. It is very interesting. In her very Theresa-loved book, Stolen, she describes Gemma being drugged very very well. You feel the way the mind seems to separate from the body and the nerves through Miss Christopher's writing. It's all like some kind of dream...numbing and yet full of sensation out of numbness, like your nerves are replaced with something else that helps you feel more colors than the basic red yellow blue that we constantly see mixes of every day. That is her drug trip writing. 3. Romance. Weird how Damon and Emily sort of grow a connection? Some might find that cliche, like a "JEEZ I KNEW YOU WOULD PUT THE DOUBLE POV MAIN CHARACTERS TOGETHER IN A LOVEY DOVEY WAY YOU MAINSTREAMING FLAHLAHLAH!" No. I loved it. Let's write more about Emily and Damon pleesh. This book was boomshakalakin'. I loved how the Dad had PTSD and how that was what Damon and Emily had in common: War dads. I loved Damon's tattoo, and Ashlee's delusional fairyland, her choking game and that weird fetish twist that Lucy Christopher ends her stories in like how she ended Stolen with a Stockholm Syndrome case. I love the forest, the dark woods and that Leap. What a freaking unique and original piece of art that leaves me thinking (how drugs are dangerous). OH! And 4. Yes this lady can describe a beautiful sex scene. No matter how short it was. BEAUTIFUL SEX SCENE. You all know how blushy flushy I get during sex scenes. ...more |
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RECOMMENDED TO: Fellow humans who want to read about apocolypses while patiently waiting for their own end of the world. This book . . . . . . . . . . RECOMMENDED TO: Fellow humans who want to read about apocolypses while patiently waiting for their own end of the world. This book . . . . . . . . . . . . . (*sigh) You know how in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events books where in the blurb he tries to (reverse psychologically) push us away from his books saying they're miserable, but yet we still read them. And they never end very well and they're very sad and . . . . . . and . . . . tragic? OKAY, THIS BOOK SHOULD HAVE HAD A BLURB LIKE THAT. Because this book was effing miserable. And I don't think that's a spoiler. It's an apocolyptic book, of course it's gonna be miserable. But not only was the situation miserable . . . KAELYN WAS PRETTY FREAKING MISERABLE. Like I don't recall her smiling. (view spoiler)[except for certain parts, like you know . . . when she went crazy from the disease. (hide spoiler)]And the prose . . . oh the prose . . . it was the way that a very troubled, dramatic teenage girl would write in her journal. Trust me, I never wrote in my journal like this. She has a deep soul and a character to her. She was a character that was very frustrated with herself. And she loved her family. And you could tell this was an apocolyptic book because of the way she wrote. "*date* "Oh Larry," I'm pretending I know a guy named Larry who is just like Leo. "I'm wondering what you're doing right now, wherever you are . . . our land is now being terrorized. The students of our high school are now rioting because of this horrible virus the teachers are spreading out throughout all of not only weekends now, but winter breaks. This horrible homework . . . it's effecting us all." Instead of being the Theresa journal writer and saying-- "LARRY GET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE I HATE HOMEWORK I HATE SCHOOL HOW COULD THEY GIVE US HOMEWORK OVER WINTER BREAK WHERE IS THEIR MORALITY, WHERE IS THEIR HUMANITY, WHERE IS THEIR COMPASSION, WHERE?! THEY HAVE WINTER BREAKS TOO! GET ME OUT OF THIS HORRIBLE DIMENSION WHERE I'M A SUFFERING HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR NOT YET DONE WITH THE TERRORS OF HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Seriously. Get me out. Anyway, because Kaelyn's (or should I say Crewe's) prose was like this, I did find myself blanking out and just reading through the words. Not that I prefer all capped, run on sentences resulting from rage and torment. I shouldn't be so picky. But this book let me stop reading, and then start again, and then stop, and then start instead of making my nose stick onto the pages like a magnet. To be honest, the climax, I felt, was in the middle of the book, and then the rest of the book was a looooong, steeeeeep falling action. This didn't exactly teach me any lesson other than the fact that when the one's we love die, we feel it in our gut and don't forget writing about it, and it changes our writing forever, if we were to write all the time. (Which is actually a pretty important lesson.) And the fact that I'm not the only one who could possibly feel hopeless, thinking things like, "I'm lucky to still be alive, but WHY ME?! WHHHHHHYYYY MEEEEEE?!" And the fact that an apocolyptic pestilence is only the most miserable thing in the universe that gradually decreases, steals our loved ones away, and never ever gets better until it's too late. Love can still blossom when things are rough. Maybe our apocolyptic pestilence right now is our AMOUNTS OF HOMEWORK. It never ever gets better until it's too late. Oh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . how miserable. My advice here? TO THE READERS: If you want to read this book, please be immune to all sadness this might cause you. (I think that means it touched our hearts just a little. With depressing moments.) TO THE AUTHOR: You know the reality of the end of the world. You know what it's like. You've imagined it. You know how scary an illness can be when something like that changes someone you love into someone who is completely different. You weaved a story out of what you knew, and it was great because it made me nearly tear up. ...more |
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(Insert a gif. MAKE SURE YOU INSERT A GIF.) *AHEM!* before I start this review, I would just like to brag about how I have been lucky enough to meet De (Insert a gif. MAKE SURE YOU INSERT A GIF.) *AHEM!* before I start this review, I would just like to brag about how I have been lucky enough to meet Demitria Lunetta. NO, these 5 stars are not biased to me meeting her. SHE CLEARLY DESERVES THE 5 STARS. (*Insert picture here.) So. As I always say in 5-star reviews: OH. MY. GOD. This book was like a mountain--a climb to the High Hrothgar! And when I say mountain, I mean it was seriously like a mountain--starting out very plain and subtle at first, and then growing and growing and GROWING AND GROWING until it's the very very peak of the throat of the world. Either it's a mountain or it's an ocean: a very very plain shore at first, but then as you go deeper and deeper into the ocean, things get stranger and more complex and diverse and amazing, and it also gets darker and darker and more mysterious--AND THAT'S HOW THE BOOK ENDS: mysteriously. Those of you--if you start the book and find it strangely cliche and melodramatic at first, PLEASE JUST HUSH AND KEEP READING. It's one of those beverages (beers or wines--I cannot exactly relate because I have never drank beer or wine) where it tastes average--and not delectable at first--but then as you drink more and more of it, it starts to taste like way way way better until you're addicted and hooked and CAN'T STOP READING. Like right now I'm writing this in California, 300 miles from home, with no sequel or other book to read in my hands right now. It tortures me how much I seriously need to read the sequel. I'm freaking HOOKED. HOOKED. Hooked like an unfortunate fish on the end of a fishing line. So at first, it was very very very melodramatic. It used the capitalized words "Before" and "After". It repeated many phrases, many words. And the idea of a girl making up her own complete sign language was out of my mind. The melodramaticness was not so bad, but those of you who regularly read my reviews remember my review on Shatter Me, and how melodramaticness--too much of it--makes me not take the character seriously. Of course, this book was an adventure. They constantly moved around, met new people, and Amy's pursuing of her main goals: To protect Baby and to be strong for her--and NOT GETTING DISTRACTED BY LOVE INTERESTS (*ahem Juliette of Shatter Me) shows a great role model for the estimated 95% majority of teenage girls reading this book. So. Why is this something so interesting that it stands out in your local library/bookstore? 1. THERE ARE DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. It's kind of like in Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, where there was a Now--present tense POV, and a Then--past tense POV from several months before. They link together and form chains that slowly latch as the reader reads on. It's interesting and original and fun to read. It reveals mystery--What happens in the past that makes this present POV what it is? IT'S FREAKING TRAVELING THROUGH TIME IN A BOOK. Yes. Literature can do that. 2. There are so many different phases. This is an ADVENTURE--not just characters in one setting dealing with all their problems. But it goes step by step, as a drama does. Think of the Walking Dead. Wilderness. Hershel's Farm. Prison...there's different sections and different areas where the characters do their business. And it's believable in this apocalyptic novel. 3. There are SEVERAL of elements in this story. It's not just an apocalyptic novel. It's not just a romance novel. It's apocalyptic, adventure, sci-fi, mystery, romance, AND thriller--ALL IN ONE SET OF 455 PAGES. And that's lovely...BECAUSE PEOPLE OF MANY TASTES CAN FIND THIS BOOK INTERESTING. When I met this lady that day before Writer's Club, I seriously did not see that she was a brilliant writer and story weaver. (*Sigh.)--That was a daydreamy sigh because this book was so wonderful. It was also a sad sigh because I don't have the sequel. You know. Because I'm 300 miles away from my local library. ...more |
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1. Do you like rich guys? 2. Do you like girls who are forced to marry the rich guy kind of stories? 3. Do you like romances that start out with the two 1. Do you like rich guys? 2. Do you like girls who are forced to marry the rich guy kind of stories? 3. Do you like romances that start out with the two hating each other but then they slowly begin to like each other? 4. Do you not care that there are tons of stories like this out there? IF YOU SAY YES TO ANY OF THESE THINGS, THIS STORY IS MOST DEFINITELY FOR YOU! (*wears cheery, gigantic smile) ...more |
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UPDATE: I have now finally, after 9 months, reached my journey from page 1 to page 513. (Well. 513 of my copy is the last page, but on here, this last
UPDATE: I have now finally, after 9 months, reached my journey from page 1 to page 513. (Well. 513 of my copy is the last page, but on here, this last copy's page is 517...NO MATTER! I reached the end!) Here is kind of how I'm tempted to make this review go: Step One: I will review the book with my literary opinion and wisdom. Reveal to the people why I had rated this book 5 stars. Step Two-Twenty: I WILL THEN CRY, RANT, SCREAM, CHEER, AND QUESTION THE EVENTS OF THE BOOK THEMSELVES. Yet, if this is the way I will review the book, then it will not be a review. It will just mostly be me fangirling and ranting and just showing you my emotions AND PEOPLE BUYING BOOKS DON'T WANT MY REACTION! Reaction equals spoilers! Spoilers equals anger! Anger equals violence! Violence equals the world becoming a more terrible place! No no, I want my readers to PURCHASE THIS BOOK (well, after they read the first one, that is) AND THEN READ IT FOR THEMSELVES. So I will try to hold off my heart's emotions with the plot of this story off until the end. Hidden underneath a spoiler warning. Before that time comes, however, I will spend my time trying to convince my fellow review writers and readers to read this freaking book. First of all, this book took me a long, long, long time to read. Well, I did have to start over several of times because when you take a break from a book and you spend a long time away from it, and then you just hurry back to it, you tend to forget where you were in the book's world and you have to just redownload the synopsis back into your mind for refreshing...ONLY TO DO IT AGAIN. I believe I did this to Days of Blood and Starlight 3 times. I had to start over not only because dreadful attention-seeking schoolwork kept interrupting me, but also because it is not wise to skim. And by skim, I'm not saying that I tried to rush through the book, because I didn't! By skim, I mean when you read a book and you don't touch every single word. And yes, my mind definitely touched every single word, but it's easy to get distracted along the way sometimes. For example, if I was in school and I was reading a boring, boring passage on, lets say . . . a stats problem. So and so wanted to know how many apples she needed to experiment on in order to see whether or not so and so found mold in every single apple from a particular store, so she needed to find the right sample size number in order for her experiment of randomly selected apples to be valid--SEE STATS IS BORING, maybe as you read that you sort of got lost in your mind and started thinking of eating apples or throwing apples at the teacher instead of doing a stats problem. And this is how my course in stats carried along last year: I had to keep rereading and rereading. But it's not that Laini Taylor's most beautiful masterpiece of writing was boring enough to make me distracted, no, I MYSELF GET DISTRACTED FROM ANYTHING. Like Game of Thrones. I think that show is so interesting and it's hard to lose focus on all the excitement that is going on, yet I found myself getting distracted and then if someone were to quiz me on what had happened in the last 5 minutes before they started to quiz me they would see that I would not be able to tell them exactly what happened--AND THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE. I wanted to suck in every single detail. And so I had to start over. Darn my terrible ability to get distracted--ooh shiny. So. Finished with Daughter of Smoke and Bone and want to see if the next installment is worth it? KNOW THAT FOR THIS BOOK, YOU SHOULDN'T SKIM THROUGH IT EITHER. This means patience. This is not the book-I-vow-to-read-in-one-day book. Unless your back doesn't give way when you sit in one place for too long trying to focus on all the ideas this lady has in her brilliant land of creativeness that I so enviously wish I had in my own mind. Second. THE WRITING IS STILL JUST AS FANTASTIC. Third. Voicing my opinion, I will say that I loved this book, Days of Blood and Starlight. Yet I will admit that I liked Daughter of Smoke and Bone more, and that I would reread Daughter of Smoke and Bone RIGHT NOW, if I had to. Fourth......... THIS LADY IS A WRITING INSPIRATION. If you're looking for a writing role model, please look into her books and her beautiful ideas. And fifth . . . the scariest thing about Laini Taylor . . . is that I don't remember quotes from her. I don't remember exactly what she says when she describes something. I ONLY REMEMBER THE VIVID IMAGE IN MY HEAD. That is all I remember. I don't remember how she describes Madrigal flying to Akiva and embracing him and kissing him before her feet touch the ground, I only remember imagining how slowly she just eased into his arms and how her wings would wrap around him too and tickle him and they would laugh and smile and hold each other tightly--I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THAT! I only remember what it looked like in my head. It's like her writing is so divine it itself cannot be interpreted, but the images she made are so well thought out and written that they themselves become memories in someone's mind, as if she had made a movie for us to watch . . . So when I remember events in Daughter of Smoke and Bone or Days of Blood and Starlight, I only remember the events of so and so acting in my mind physically instead of the actual words used to describe it. SHE MOLDS YOUR IMAGINATION AND YOUR MIND LIKE CLAY AND THAT IS HOW THE MEMORY OF HER BOOK STAYS IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS. And that ability is SCARY. It's like she has the power to make someone remember something and think that it was actual real, but it wasn't it was just something read in a book . . . A BOOK, NOT A MOVIE OR A REAL EVENT. So yeah. Laini Taylor. NOW. CAN I PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE . . . start my ranting on the plot. (view spoiler)[ And so, my festival of spoilers begins. OH MY GOD IN THE LAST FEW HUNDRED PAGES I WAS SO RELIEVED WHEN KAROU KILLED THIAGO, AND THEN IN THE NEXT CHAPTER OR TWO LATER HE JUST COMES BACK TO LIFE OUT OF NOWHERE AND MY HEART WAS JUST SCREAMING, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Oh my god, I love Ziri and Karou please touch him MORE. Akiva did unforgivable fo-shizzle, and I do still adore Akiva but ZIRI. ZIIIIIRIIIIIII ZIRI ZIRI ZIRI ZIRI. Oh my god I LOVED ZUZANA IN THIS BOOK SHE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BEINGS. Oh my god--wow I just realized I started every little point with oh my god, well oh my god this book was just so good but I'm so frustrated at the same time because AKIVA WHY DID YOU MAKE SUCH A HORRIBLE MISTAKE THAT KAROU HATES YOU NOW, why? It pains me to read about his aching to be with her and her aching to be with him, but he just can't do it because . . . because of stupid--ARGH!!! (*pauses for breath) (hide spoiler)] I NEED THE THIRD BOOK. As of September 14, 2014 I NEED THIS BOOK. I NEED THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW, or I won't be able to function properly for like the next few days. ...more |
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It's short. You could finish it in an hour, But this still trapped my aching breaking cookie baking heart. The best part of Oliver is her writing. Her p It's short. You could finish it in an hour, But this still trapped my aching breaking cookie baking heart. The best part of Oliver is her writing. Her prose, her comas, carefully selected words and cliffhanger endings to her chapters. Her writing is an addiction. AN ADDICTION. Something where you wanna hunt down the author and any other books she's written and read them all because her writing touched your heart so deeply like a needle the nurses use to give you shots--quick, sharp, leaves behind a little ache. ...more |
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Okay, the first thing I should mention in this review is THIS IS A DARK READ. This was dark. I'm gonna admit that. Not like SUPER DARK VAMPIRE ROMANCE, "I'm Okay, the first thing I should mention in this review is THIS IS A DARK READ. This was dark. I'm gonna admit that. Not like SUPER DARK VAMPIRE ROMANCE, "I'm a vampire, stay away from me...BLOOD SUCKING MONSTER--" No. I mean dark like 1. Gory Not like action movies where people rip up each other's insides, I mean the descriptions. The bodily descriptions, the feeling she gets as an anorexic eating food, the feeling she gets when she wants to cut herself up to let all the space she's taking up disappear... The descriptions--rebelling against the first girl's review of this book, isn't ugly. But it is gory. 2. Triggering YES. This book, I would say, is triggering. Because a. She cuts herself, explaining why, explaining how it relieves her pain and---and other stuff. It is such a good description! Her writing is so deep and . . . and you can feel the tone she's expressing, but HUGE HUGE HUGE WARNING, OKAY?! This book is indeed triggering. b. I know because I felt like it almost triggered me in a way. I mean not to cut--but it wasn't you know, DISCOURAGING it . . . It also made me think about my weight. I'm about 103 pounds, more or less every day. Some days its 105, some days its 108, some days its 100...but I am a little afraid of gaining too much weight. I always look at the little bulge in my tummy. And you know . . . this story made it more noticeable. (Of course, when it comes down to it, looks don't matter, okay?! They don't, seriously. A body is a body--and you know every body is pretty much flawless because if our cells weren't perfect, we'd all look like mutants...) c. Cassie is displayed as some sort of negative guide for Lia--or that voice people like Lia--conscious about her looks and beauty and stuff--have that tell them, "You're ugly, you're a , you're awful, you're fat, you're (insert cold, cruel insult here)" . . . girls have this. I have them, too! I'm a teenage girl! This book is just . . . it's triggering! It is! So before you pick up this book, wait a moment okay? Writing and words are powerful stuff. 3. NOT A HAPPY BOOK. This book takes place in the eyes of an anorexic. A person who is constantly trying to correct herself. Who most likely doesn't like herself. I mean Emma was the most adorable little kid, who seemed like a cheery little soul. If this story was about Emma and not about Lia, the tone would be way different. But you have to remember: THE NARRATOR IS DESCRIBING THE STORY THROUGH HER EYES. Feeling depressed or sad or dark when you read this book? It's probably because Lia is feeling depressed and sad and dark too. (JEEZ . . . I love books.) Anyway, just a warning, to those of you who wanted a super happy book. This isn't a happy book. In fact, since I'm usually a cheery cheery girl, I nearly almost put down this book before I was done! Because It Was Triggering. PLEASE BE CAREFUL REVIEW READERS, PLEASE. And now onto the rest of the review. I'm a new fan of Laurie Halse Anderson after reading her newest piece of diamond, The Impossible Knife of Memory (SEE MY REVIEW HERE WITH THE CLICK OF A MOUSE/TOUCH OF A TOUCH SCREEN),I just want to find all of her pieces and see her writing... And this was also a gem! Not a diamond but probably a . . . a lump of marble. Because marble looks cold and white. My dad is replacing the floor downstairs with marble tiles and he's going to start working on it soon. And jeez, that marble feels so cold! Anyway . . . I will say THE WRITING . . . I did not mind the calorie counting and the strikethroughs. To me, I think that's pretty original, and it gives the reader more sense of uh . . . . . . . you know, what anorexia is. Feeling conscious of what you're taking in. I don't have anorexia, and I don't know any anorexics personally! But I think that because they are so conscious about their weight, they'd pay attention to calories like that! REMEMBER FELLOW REVIEW READERS: THESE ARE LIA'S EYES. I thought it was a pretty original idea. Besides, it affects the mood. Like if she was taking lets say, a piece of super healthy fruit. She'd be like "I'm taking a fruit (1) and another fruit (1), and gulping them down--" Okay, I know fruits aren't only 1 calorie okay? But I don't know the exact number and I'm trying to make a point because the smaller the number is, the more calm Lia seems to be. Like if she says, "I'm taking a HUGE BAG OF CHOCOLATE (1000) and 10 gallons of SODA (500) and I'm chugging, chugging, chugging until I am not myself anymore!" You'd probably feel pretty freaked out, too. But hey, to those of you annoyed at those numbers, at least she wasn't freaky to the extreme, like "I take a square slice of steak (153.23424523413423424) and I swallow it." That probably would have been kind of . . . OF COURSE WHO WOULD DO THAT?! (I didn't look up that calorie decimal, by the way, that was me mashing my keyboard numbers.) The crossed out words--actually I have no idea why Halse-Anderson included those, but it made an affect on the writing! A good affect. It was like . . . oh man, how do I describe this . . . ? It was like a 2 faced thing . . . Like when she said " 1. She wasn't as close to her Mom, so she knows the person is her Mom, but she sees her more as the respectable, super smart adult. I mean you're not as close to a doctor as you are to your mom, so I guess this makes an inference on the relationship between the two! 2. It also infers that she sees her mom as...a uh...classy, very serious person like a doctor, I guess. Near the middle of the book, she starts crossing out Dad and writing "Professor Overbrook", so it was like the view and outlook was changing. It's like if my life were in this book and my little brother was a little evil munchkin that I didn't see as a brother but as a little enemy, I'd say " She also does the same for some quotes. Like Lia would be thinking "Oh my gosh I want to eat a whole tray of cupcakes" and that would be crossed out and then she'd say, "I'm not hungry man." So it's like she's also trying to shield out the thoughts she doesn't want to have. THE LITTLE THINGS IN ITALICS IS WHAT WAS STRANGE TO ME, but at the same time it wasn't strange. It was the little voices in her head that would come up before she'd start to cut. Stupid/dumb/stupid/dummy/stupid/dum dum/stupid-- I do think voices are little raspies like that, and they're all shoved in your head at one time. I mean I have little demons in my head. I should know. So this is a form of that put into writing! ORIGINAL IDEA RIGHT THERE. And . . . . . . what other weird little thing was in here, OH.....the constant dashes. "My name is Theresa. I type my review while texting the love of my life, feeling happy/excited/glad/in love/floating on a cloud like 400000000000 miles into the sky." or "I am so angry, I feel like punching/kicking/throwing/slashing/killing, I feel like crying/sobbing/screaming/screeching/shouting." THE CONSTANT DASHES. Probably one of my least favorite things in here, but still something I had not seen before. Granted, commas would have worked. This book has the weirdest prose ever, but hey--it is something new. I've read reviews on this book criticizing how this wasn't a "formal" "orderly" and "normal" book, but honestly, I loved the originality. I loved the difference. I've never found that in another book. It was just....IT WAS JUST INTERESTING. As for the characters, the people around Lia made me want to sob. 1. Her mom, the doctor, VERY DETERMINED to lock Lia up at a psychologist to fix her problem, regardless of Lia feeling like crap. 2. Her step-mom, Jennifer, threatening to toss her out of their house because she doesn't want Lia affecting Emma. 3. Elijah. He just . . . HE JUST LEFT. He was like "I DON'T WANT YOU IN MY ROOM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE ARRESTED BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THEM THINKING I KILLED YOU BECAUSE I'M REALLY JUST A POINTLESS CHARACTER IN THIS STORY, UHHHHHHHHHHHH!" It was like no one was willing to help this poor girl be happy. They just wanted her to eat so she wouldn't die. But she was standing there and it looked like her talkative version was on the other side of the mirror screaming, "BUT I CAN'T CONTROL HOW I FEEL! I FEEL DISGUSTING WHEN I EAT!!!!!" So this book really did make me a little sad. But I think that's the point. When you have anorexia, I think the people around you do try to force you to eat so you won't die. When you don't eat, everyone's like, "WHY NOT?!" But they don't understand how gross you feel . . . Over all, this book did stick onto me and I did not want to stop reading (hence I FINISHED IT IN JUST A FEW DAYS. Or A day, I don't . . . I don't really know . . .) but because it was a little triggering, because it was a little sad, it's not something I would want to read again and again and again and again-- BUT IT DID EMOTIONALLY TOUCH MY SOUL. It was powerful. So powerful that I'm telling my fellow review readers to BEWARE. ...more |
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I. SWEAR. This was the one book that almost brought me to tears. This is the one book that made me stay up late trying to read it. (Actually I've had a I. SWEAR. This was the one book that almost brought me to tears. This is the one book that made me stay up late trying to read it. (Actually I've had a lot of books like that, BUT STILL.) THIS WAS THE ONE BOOK.........THAT I GAVE UP MY HOMEWORK FOR!!! (Well there were other books like that, too--NEVERMIND, okay?) The clear, hard, solid fact: THIS BOOK TOUCHED MY SOUL. I felt it! I felt it deep inside my heart! This was the book I've been searching for--or at least one of them--with BEAUTIFUL WORDS. A beautiful character and a beautiful story and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. I was in the school library with the writer's club, and one of the girls touched a book on the shelf and said, "What's the title of this?! I LOVE Laurie Anderson!" So I looked at it. [image] Of course I hesitated a little . . . She ended up walking away from it, and so did I, ALMOST, until I walked backwards back to the shelf, took it right off, brought it straight to the librarian, and checked it out. 1. I feel like I took away an opportunity . . . . . like what if she was planning on checking it out after the club or something?! 2. THIS WAS A BOOK MIRACLE! I feel like it chose me! And that is how my brief happiness with a book started. I can't remember reading a book this fantastic, this cultivating. It made me laugh, it made me smile, it made me go "AWWWWWWWW", it made me tear up, IT. MADE. ME. THINK. ABOUT MY PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE. Hayley has thoughts, beautiful thoughts, sarcastic thoughts--I wanted to hear every single one of them. When she's happy to when she's annoyed, to when she's intimidated, to when she's lazy--she has a personality! I want her to be real. I want to KNOW her. I want to be able to text her like Gracie and Finn do! I want to hear her sarcasm... Every part, every memory, every character, every chapter was in the perfect place. This was a perfect book. I would reread passages just to feel the writing in my bones. As for Finn, nerdy yes. Dorky, yes. But that anti-date was one of the most romantic things I have ever read in a book. MORE ROMANTIC than a book fully based on romance! Plus, the gory war memories made me even more interested in war. More interested in what it was like..........a hellish zoo.... But I will tell a story my history teacher told all of us last week. His dad was in the Vietnam war and there were too many soldiers for two choppers. So they put all these names in a hat to draw out the one person who would stay behind while the choppers would fly off to a base. His dad's name was chosen. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THOSE CHOPPERS, everyone he knew that flew away, died. And my teacher said his dad constantly asks why his name was chosen . . . and "Why him, why him?" THAT . . . was an amazing story. And these descriptive words in this book inspired me! I doubt that I'll go into service or anything (since my religion doesn't allow that and . . . because I'm not a strong person), but I want to know what's seen. I'm afraid of blood and gore, but . . . I'm interested. JUST READ THIS BOOK! Just! READ IT! Just pick it up and read it! YOU SEE IT ON THE SHELF, YOU BETTER NOT IGNORE IT! Dude, you . . . you better sense it on the shelves. Because this is one read you do not want to ignore. IT IS FANTASTIC. (Makes the turkey with my fingers........you know, when you put your thumb and index finger together and stick your 3 fingers in the back up.) P.S. I did find some beautiful typos, Anderson's editor. pg. 130: She hadn't said a word on the bus. I suspected that was she was a little bit stoned....... That was she was? WUT. pg. 199: "Oh, God, I said. "Are you okay?" MISSING A QUOTATION! ...more |
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Oh boy. Okay . . . . . . . . . THIS WOULD MAKE A FANTASTIC KOREAN DRAMA. Or Japanese drama . . . some kind of drama with really dramatic actors. But as Oh boy. Okay . . . . . . . . . THIS WOULD MAKE A FANTASTIC KOREAN DRAMA. Or Japanese drama . . . some kind of drama with really dramatic actors. But as a manga . . . . AS A MANGA . . . I want to slap all of these characters . . . Alright, Sumi. She has a brother who wastes money and is very very irresponsible. She has to take care of this HOARD of kids and it is very very hard because she lives in such a condition where she does not have trillions of bucks to spend on food and a good shelter and such. Then this super rich guy (the girl has to be DIRT POOR in order for a story like this to work, of course!) comes right in and goes "WHY I WILL GIVE YOU MONEY!!!! (*whispers) FOR YOUR BODY!!!!!!" I'm just kidding, it's not like that. Well . . . sort of, but not in that prostitutish kind of way . . . you see, UNFINISHED ...more |
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OH. EM. GEEZAY. .......(*sniff.) ...............(*sniff sniff) Oh no.....(*sniffle)......(*sniffle) Urrrgh (*sniff)....(*cough).......Grggh! (*sniffle sniff OH. EM. GEEZAY. .......(*sniff.) ...............(*sniff sniff) Oh no.....(*sniffle)......(*sniffle) Urrrgh (*sniff)....(*cough).......Grggh! (*sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle sniffle) I HATE WHEN MY NOSE GETS CLOGGED WHILE I'M CRYING!!!!!!!!!! (I'm not necessarily crying right now but I swear. I'm this close to it.) I want to just... do THIS: [image] And then jump into the book and go right to Ann's face and say [image] SDIFJALSGUWSAPDNGALSDBUIASNFASABBADOOGIE!!!!! (*Ahem...) I would like the fellow review readers to know that...no. I didn't read this whole book. I only...opened it up. Halfway. And then I saw the worst spoiler I could ever see. And I don't want to spoiler it for the rest of you because....just because it's horrible. WHAT THE (BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*)?! NO. NO. NO. NO. NO! NO! [image] (*cough) (*wheeze) (*sniffle sniffle) NOOO! Noooo... [image] Noooooooo! NO! To the review readers that I love very very much... Don't ever tell somebody you love them just to leave them! "I love you" is something very important. It doesn't mean NOTHING unless you use it and abuse like a butt face! And there's nothing worse than believing someone when they say "I love you"...and then having them change their mind. There's NOTHING I despise more in this universe...than heartbreakers. And liars. And cockroaches. (Ewww, how I desPISE cockroaches...) And to me...liars and heartbreakers...ARE cockroaches! But seriously. ...more |
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No way. [image] Okay, so my last review....I wrote like half an hour ago. No, TWENTY MINUTES AGO. For volume 1. And then in that volume, I said, and I qu No way. [image] Okay, so my last review....I wrote like half an hour ago. No, TWENTY MINUTES AGO. For volume 1. And then in that volume, I said, and I quote DIRECTLY FROM MY REVIEW: It's a good story, don't get me wrong. But I'm not sure if I want to read more of it! Dude, this is the kind of book that will easily get you feeling depressed. After you're done reading it, you're just going to close it, and then slump back to your bookshelf, and put it there, and then sit down right on the floor beside it and just think about your place in the universe. AND THINKING ABOUT YOUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE IS A THOUGHT THAT WILL SURELY GET YOU DEPRESSED!!! (Read more here.) I DON'T WANT TO SIT AND THINK ABOUT MY PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE AND GET DEPRESSED!!! But directly after my first review for this series, I just...go to my bookshelf and grab the next volume I have and just start tearing through the thing at NINJA SPEED. And no, I'm not crying. I mean there was a lot of drama in this one but I SERIOUSLY ALMOST DID! And I've never cried over a book before. Just movies. You know, because movies are visual and such. BUT DUDE. This just made me realize something super important. It's torturing for two people who love each other to not be able to see each other. It pulls on your heartstrings and makes you think and wonder what they're doing and what you could be doing with them if you were there with them, and all the happy moments you could have with them if you were there with them, which you're not because you're separated somehow by distance or boundaries or SOMETHING. IT HURTS! IT HURTS THE SOUL VERY VERY MUCH! Urgh! I don't want to get reminded of that! And then when I finally reach the end of this book...there's....there's a CLIFFHANGER THAT MAKES ME WANT TO READ THE NEXT BOOK SO BAD!!!! And you know the scariest part? Volume 4...is already sitting on my bookshelf. And so is volume 5. URRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! This must be some sort of torturing fate. Sure, crying relieves stress but.....I don't want to cry about this! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Jeez, calm down Theresa...) What kind of review is this? This isn't a review...this is the typed version of my sobbing....... Anyway, this story so far feels pretty emotional and will tug and clutch on your heartstrings. Very good story. (*sniff) But............please know that if you're like me..........after you close these books, you're going to sit there sniffling and thinking about your place in the universe and feeling pretty depressed........ GAH. These books are trapping me. ...more |
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SPOILER MINEFIELD UP AHEAD. Beware of stepping on/reading/seeing spoilers! One cannot un-read . . . Let me first say that for me there are different ki SPOILER MINEFIELD UP AHEAD. Beware of stepping on/reading/seeing spoilers! One cannot un-read . . . Let me first say that for me there are different kinds of one-star reviews. There is: (the following are negative reviews that might ruin your day.) 1. Lord of the Flies (MY REVIEW HERE) was a book that I read when I was 13 and did not understand because as my first classic I had to read in English class, and as a young young young adult I felt BORED--although this book WAS a good book. I just rated it badly because it was boring to me and I had so much homework off of this freaking book, AND projects and other school things. And I blamed the author for all this torture. (And I'm not rereading this book to rewrite the review. All I remember is torture.) and then there is: 2. Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson (MY REVIEW HERE) was a book I truly hated with all the hate found in my soul because this book turned me into an ANGRY GORILLA. A VERY. ANGRY. GORILLA. DON'T READ IT, OKAY?! It will give you a kick on the butt. Point is, this one-star book is a different one star book too. I did not hate this book, I merely . . . dislike it. Why the negativity in the first place? 1. It felt like it took forever to read. I had to keep rereading some paragraphs because some metaphors were ridiculous and I needed to understand how exactly 400 cottonballs in a windpipe felt. And then some metaphors I just did not get at all, couldn't imagine them, couldn't understand them----THIS THING TOOK FOREVER TO DECIPHER! It's like hieroglyphics. You see a bird, a beetle, a lizard, a shovel--and somehow it translates into a sentence relating to a girl and her incredibly intense feelings. 2. I did not connect with these characters at all. Juliette was a beautiful girl but I had a question mark for her face because she was never described and/or cannot really perceive a beautiful person with no flaws on their face (no offense to everyone who's not as perfect as Juliette). I only know that many guys in the story were attracted to her and/or fell in love with her, and that's not relatable at all. And all she wanted to do through the whole story was touch Adam. I mean I know that she hasn't been touched often because she can SUCK THE SOUL OUT OF PEOPLE, but . . . but still . . . She reminded me of what I was like when I had a huge crush on this cute dude in my 4th grade class and I would poke him (and his stuff) once and start blushing like crazy and freaking out and fainting and stuff . 3. Adam was just a muscly guy for Juliette. She was OBSESSED WITH TAKING HIS SHIRT OFF. And "ripping off his clothes". I ran into a lot of those, hence the status updates down below. I don't need a description for Adam. Just watch this, SKIP TO 0:25, and look at him. "LOOK AT ME JULIETTE". 4. This was a dystopian novel that was not-so-dystopian because the romance interfered so much. I forgot for a while that they were in a different place because all Juliette talked about was Adam Adam Adam Adam Adam. Besides, lately dystopias have become the number one popular thing and when I realized this was yet ANOTHER one I couldn't help but sigh until my sigh turned into a MOOOOOOAAAAN. There's a billion other cliche things I can pick out of this book. It's really ironic because the beginning seemed so original, the fact that this girl is isolated gives the author the chance to express her feelings of loneliness, of hesitation, of fear of herself (like that one very Frozen movie). But this wasn't about her getting over that fear--or perhaps it was but that wasn't something stuck out as a sword for readers to pull out. It was . . . all about Juliette and Adam. Maybe it was a thrill between the two. Thrilling romance, the feeling of touching someone you're really attracted to, I get it. But through this whole book I couldn't help but think that this was an OPPORTUNITY OF ORIGINALITY GONE TO WASTE. But why do I dislike it and not hate it? THIS THING HAD POTENTIAL. ORIGINALITY AT THE START. (It lost it of course but you know . . . it HAD it. That's a start!) I mean I will still throw it across the room or use it as a weapon, but let me say something. This book for me started uphill. Not at the top of a mountain but up there. I was interested. The writing sounded original at first, it flowed well, it was carefully written . . . AND THEN it went downhill form there. MEANING, THIS BOOK HAD SOME POTENTIAL THAT VANISHED. Vanished, like Mafi was focused and then an alien took over Mafi's brain and rewrote the rest of the story for her. Mafi: "Let's use strikethroughs! And numbers to emphasize how she's so bored being so isolated. How original is that?" (*100 pages in) Alien: "Hey! Hey! MAFI!" Mafi: "What? I'm trying to concentrate on my carefully written book--" Alien: "I am taking over your book now. I feel like I want a book about romance." Mafi: "But there are already tons of romance books out there like the one you want--" Alien: "IIIIII DON'T CAAAARE! And include some crazy metaphors! It will make the readers want to decipher what you really want to say! That way your writing isn't so upfront and BORING." Mafi: "But--" Alien: "And no more strikethroughs!" (*explaining why the strikethroughs vanish near the half-point of the book*) Mafi: "But--" Alien: "And let's make it quick! I don't want to wait for my absolutely fabulous romantic idea. Dystopias are cliche anyway." Mafi: "But so is your romantic idea--" Alien: "HURRY! END THE BOOK AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN!" (*implying that THIS BOOK SEEMED SO RUSHED NEAR THE END. That the metaphors weren't carefully structured but HAMMERED AND VIOLENTLY STRIKED BY WEAPONS OF MADNESS.*) This book doesn't feel like it was reread or truly edited before it was published to the very confused public. Either there was a crazy alien that took over her mind while she was trying to write, OR . . . Mafi was a writer who went through this phase: P1: Write a carefully, beautifully structured book. P2: Start your metaphors to make your writing more complex and not so upfront! Let the ideas for metaphors FLOW IN YOUR MIND. P3: MORE!!!! MORE CREATIVE IDEAS! Anything you can think of that no one has ever used before! P4: Surely no one has ever compared wrongness to an upside down rainbow! SURELY NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT TO EXPRESS THE FEELINGS OF COTTONBALLS STUFFED IN THEIR WINDPIPES! P5: LET THE IDEAS FLOOOOW! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!! P6: DEATH OF THE BOOK/AUTHOR/READER This book...is the source of creative writing gone mad. Ever heard of ? So anyway I was sitting in writer's club listening to my peers read their writing out loud and then my friend Karen decides to read a piece. It was a good piece. It had people listening to it, it flowed well too, AND it used numbers. It was different to everyone and everyone was asking. T'was inspired by this book, called Shatter Me. Right when I heard that, I kept that title in the back of my head and looked all around for it until I finally got the book into my hands, brought it home, and read it. I was told this book was great, that it was original with all the numbers in the writing--and all of my fellow review readers know I really love originality in writing. This book was GLOWING when I picked it up. And through the first few pages, it was still glowing. I loved the strikethroughs. I loved the counting, it meant to symbolize. But then this book started getting rough on the edges. Not as original as the beginning. It slowly rolled downhill, then faster and faster and faster until it hit the pile of one-star ratings. After I put it down past about 100 pages did it stop glowing and start looking more like a brick than a book. Alright, so before I moved onto the review writing, I read through many of these reviews and the big popular thing that's wrong with this book is . . . THE WRITING THE METAPHORS. I explained those already. What I found wrong with this book (BESIDES THE WRITING) was how distracted our heroine was. 1. Be a strong woman, you are fighting for your freedom! You're angry with your captors! Instead: When will I see Adam again? 2. Use your touch as strength instead of something you fear! Instead: I'd rather touch Adam! 3. Show that you can defeat who stands in your way! Instead: No, I want Adam TO SAVE ME. Next, ALL THIS CHEESINESS MORPHED INTO A BOOK. Juliette and Adam were the most melodramatic couple. Don't get me wrong, if you're in a couple you would know how floaty and magical it feels to be melodramatic with your partner. Trust me, watching cheesiness from afar is awkward, weird, and seemed overly dramatic, but being within the cheesiness makes you feel mystical like you're in some sort of dream. I am a very cheesy partner. I'm cheesy, I'll admit it. But personally (and as a hypocrite) reading all these cheesiness in their romance was so . . . . . . (*sigh) It was so dramatic it was unnecessary. Every time they parted it was, "Will I ever see you again?" Every time he took his freaking shirt off, she wanted to feel EVERYTHING. EVERY TIME THEY TOUCHED it was like they got electrocuted with DRAMA. It felt more like lust than it did love. (Especially since this seemed more like an insta-love.) It was an "I can't have distance between us or I won't be able to take it!" kind of love. Second, this book was unrelatable. I didn't feel like I wanted these characters to exist in real life. I didn't feel like they COULD. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. One of the top cliches of romances--which doesn't convince me that Juliette and Alex love each other but have LUST instead. Juliette's face and Adam's face were big question marks to me. They were SO BEAUTIFUL their faces didn't make their way into images in my head. I didn't feel like Adam was a dreamboat or that Juliette was to die for. All I felt was that attraction to each other's beauty. And hey that does happen a lot in real life. People are indeed attracted to looks. But in a book, what lesson does that teach us about romance, especially since this book is so . . . ROMANTIC? And every dude character in this book besides the kid James was in love with this girl because of her astounding beauty. Which adds to my unrelatableness since I felt weird about this book being more about Juliette and Adam than the actual society and problems Juliette had to face. What came closes to breaking Juliette's character was not the society, but whatever bad thing happened TO ADAM. Which is why the climax was when the two were separated. So, if you're meant for this book, you should 1. Have a fetish for melodramatic relationships. The "NEVER . . . NEVER LET ME GO!!!!" relationships, like the ones you see in the hallways at school before classes start. 2. If you like muscly ab characters. The kind of people that seem so elusive that you can't relate with them. (I think Juliette would take one look at me and just flail her beauty at me and strut away . . . . . . sigh.) 3. If you like dystopias with a lot of romance in it. A LOT of romance. SO MUCH ROMANCE that the main character just flips off the whole society so she can run away with her boyfriend. 4. If you like metaphors that make you look at everyday objects differently. So if you write like Mafi, you will sit at a table and write a story about a girl who gasped, and then you think, "Gasp equals air . . . air being sucked in . . . . like a vacuum!" and then you will write The girl gasped like a vacuum cleaner over an extremely dirty carpet. CHECK MARK EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS and this book will be perfect for you. ...more |
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BEFORE THE BOOK HAS EVEN BEEN HANDED OUT BY OUR DEAR ENGLISH TEACHER Yes, BEHOLD THE NEXT CLASSIC WE'LL BE READING IN CLASS!! Oh...let the fun begin. Ok BEFORE THE BOOK HAS EVEN BEEN HANDED OUT BY OUR DEAR ENGLISH TEACHER Yes, BEHOLD THE NEXT CLASSIC WE'LL BE READING IN CLASS!! Oh...let the fun begin. Okay, this is just a . . . pre-review. But it's really just to ramble. I WANNA TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED!!! Today in English class (Pre-AP, if I might add), we were supposed to present the power point presentations that we made on our assigned concentration camps of the German Holocaust of World War II. (There were so many that there were enough different camps for each one of us to do. And there are about 30 kids in my class.) I did Herzogenbusch camp . . . because . . . it's unpronounceable. Almost. Anyway, my power point was just the normal kind, with facts and such, and a map of where it was. UNORIGINAL, I know, but I did make the class laugh a few times. ( . . . it wasn't on purpose though because . . . I'm so klutzy that they thought it was funny.) But this one girl . . . DID SUCH AN ORIGINAL PRESENTATION! I wish I was her! Anyway yeah. She was just totally original. When she was done and she sat down (she sits in front of me) I almost attacked her saying that her idea was SOOOOO COMPLETELY ORIGINAL! It was just . . . TOTALLY ORIGINAL. And you guys know how I feel about things being original, right? Anyway, here's how her presentation went: "Hey guys. Um . . . so, yeah. I apologize to you guys because of my lack of information. I didn't do the project with facts and a power point like everyone else. BUT, I have something to make up for it. "Anyway, I chose (fill in the blank with this name because . . . Theresa forgot what it was), and I chose it because it WAS pronounceable. Unlike that . . . young lady over there." (*Points at Theresa. Yes, her project went right after mine.*) "So, I want you guys to pass this around." And she hands everyone this . . . shoe. It's pink....it's small (I tried fitting my foot into it, and it didn't work.) And . . . it has a disney princess on it. Everyone looked at each other in this utter confusion. Why . . . is she making us pass around a Disney princess shoe? "So, you guys might be wondering why . . . I'm making you pass around a shoe. Well, take a look at the shoe. It's pink. It's small because it won't fit some of our . . . fellow classmates," she said as she looked towards the guys that were trying to jam their feet into the shoe. "So you see that it's pink, so it belongs to a girl." Well, it'd be pretty weird if it belonged to a guy. "And it's really small because it won't fit most of you guys, so . . . it's a YOUNG girl. Now . . . this girl probably had hopes and dreams, right? This shoe belonged to her. "So think about it this way. A shoe is something we take for granted. It prevents our toes from being prickled by stones and rocks and all that stuff, and it protects our feet, right? Some of us might not notice that sometimes. "Well, this shoe is a lot like life because of that. "So, everyone, just take a brief moment of silence to remember those in the Holocaust who lost their shoes." There was a silence. It was VERY AWKWARD. Everyone just looked at the girl with this stare. And the girl stared back at us. She nodded, smiled and said, "Thank you for your time." And then I attacked her with my, "OH MY GOD, YOU NEED TO BE REWARDED FOR YOUR ORIGINALITY!!!!!!" But what she said did have a REALLY, REALLY GOOD POINT. Not just for the people who lost their lives in the Holocaust, but for us, too. Shoes come in all different shapes and sizes. Some are brand new, some are battered and torn. Some are worn and they get all old after being used for a long time. Some are short, some are really long, some are floppy, some are extremely colorful, some are just bland. There's all kinds of shoes. There are all kinds of lives. Your life can be worn down and more fragile as you get older, just like your shoes. Your life can be brand new, without a single mark, like a newborn baby. Your life can be bland, with no color or mark, because you never used your shoes. Like those of us who might just spend all their time inside with no completely social life. And we take our lives for granted sometimes. Just like our shoes. And how can you live without your shoes, huh? How can you go outside and run around and stuff?! (Well you can but . . . it'd really hurt your feet. And stuff.) Listen. Your shoes take everything you walk through . . . well, most of the time, anyway. You walk over rocks, and climb mountains, or maybe you're just walking from one side of the room to the other. You walk. You run. You jump. You dance. You stomp. EVERYTHING. Same with your life. You can jump up and down from excitement, or laugh your heart out, or make as many friends as you can, and your life will get you through all that. Your heart can be broken, but it's still beating, right? When you need new shoes, that's when you buy new shoes. When you feel that you need to start over, it's like when you buy new shoes. But . . . if your shoes get taken away, and you can't walk anymore, that's something else, right? Or . . . when you just give up, and you just toss your worn out shoes away, and you don't buy new ones. You just . . . give up. That's something else, too. Yeah. Shoes, life, it's all pretty confusing. What an interesting pre-review. So, this book awaits, you know. We're starting it on Friday, I believe. Or tomorrow. Dunno for sure. --------------------------- AFTER the book has been read. I know . . . this review took me ages to type. And do you know what I hate about writing my reviews weeks after I've finished them? I FORGET WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BOOK! When I start my review, I'm just sitting there in front of the computer thinking, "Okay . . . what happened in this book again?" And I either end up REREADING THE BOOK or I just type a super short and super boring review saying something like, "I . . . really liked this book! I just . . . sorta . . . forgot what happened." Then I type a bunch of excuses and crap, URRRRRRRGH. And it's totally all my fault. Because I DIDN'T TYPE MY REVIEW ON TIME! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Anyway, I can't say that I forgot everything in this book. And this review isn't going to be short--I mean, I wrote a pretty long pre-read review, right?? But this book . . . is not a very happy book. It's actually fairly tragic. Of COURSE it is. I mean, every story I've ever read or seen about WWII isn't one of those super cheerful, happy stories filled with rainbows and butterflies. That's what makes them so EMOTIONAL. THIS IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, right? It's one (*BLEEEEP) of a good one. This guy remembered things as if it happened just the day before! Either it haunted him for years, repeating itself in his dreams night after night after night after night--or he just has the best memory ever. Because this was one really, really vivid memory to remember. THIS BOOK WAS JUST REALLY GOOD. Well, if you're rating it for an autobiography. I mean it didn't tell about his WHOLE LIFE. It told about how he survived WWII's halocaust. And yeah. Something like the halocaust would be the most DRAMATIC, TRAUMATIC THING EVER. If I was in something like that, I'd never forget it, either! This was just a pretty haunting thing to read. I mean . . . when I read it, I could hardly believe that it was something that actually HAPPENED. That was actually REAL. NOT fiction. So just read this book and realize . . . that your childhood is probably a lot better than those in the halocaust. ...more |
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BEFORE THE BOOK HAS BEEN COMPLETELY READ--September 8, 2012: I've read this book before! Around a year back! I totally finished it! The only thing is . BEFORE THE BOOK HAS BEEN COMPLETELY READ--September 8, 2012: I've read this book before! Around a year back! I totally finished it! The only thing is . . . I forgot the book. I FORGOT THE WHOLE MAJORITY OF IT!!! And since I just finished rereading the Hunger Games . . . I guess I'll be rereading this, too! Besides, the movie for Catching Fire is coming out in 2013. AND this is the book that I'm doing for my English project. (We actually get to CHOOSE our own books. NO CLASSICS FOR THE FIRST 3 WEEKS, YES!!!! Oh how boring classics can get in English class . . .) Anyway, yeah. Let this book end with me with my SMILE!!! -------AS OF SEPTEMBER 14th------ (The book is FINISHED!) ............... ............... ............... I need gifs to describe this book. Like this one: Like OHHHHH MY GOD, THIS BOOK WAS SO AWESOME THAT I'M GOING TO RAM INTO THE PERSON FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE STANDING CLOSEST TO ME! [image] This book. This book, this book, this book! FIVE STARS! FIVE STARS. Five freaking, solid, golden, blindingly sparkling stars. THIS BOOK WAS SO AMAZING. Even better than "The Hunger Games". It's just . . . errrr . . . errrr! I CAN'T EVEN, AND IT FRUSTRATES ME!! SOOOO... [image] Bam! AND ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE BYSTANDER GOES DOWN! Look. This book. This book was just so awesome. The movie better bring it justice! It's coming out in 2013! ANYWAY, before I start any I read this book long, long, long before I got a goodreads. Somewhere in 2009 or 2010. I forgot, but I was a tiny little seventh-grader when I read this book. And for SOME REASON, the impression this book put on me was just . . . NOT as awesome as right now. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH MY SEVENTH-GRADE SELF?! I'd go back in time and whack myself across the face once that time machine gets invented! Because before I started Catching Fire, I did vaguely remember that a long time ago, I did finish the book. And I did vaguely remember...that I SKIMMED through most of it back then. And why?! I KNOW I skimmed through it as a seventh grader! Because now, as a sophomore high school girl, I reread the book--NO SKIMMING--and I DID NOT RECOGNIZE MOST OF THE PARTS! Finnick. Johanna. Beetee, Wiress, Enobaria--WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!?!? I don't remember reading about them! But those characters played a...pretty...big part in the story, huh? HOW COULD I FORGET THEM?! (NOPE, not spoiling yet.) Anyway, I AM looking forward for the third book (even though . . . (view spoiler)[*sniff* I heard it sucks (hide spoiler)]. And I couldn't type the review RIGHT AFTER I finished the book because 1. I finished it at around 11-12PM. I need 11-13 hours of sleep a day, and I have to get up at around 5:30AM every morning. 2. I've been overloaded with all this homework. And things to do that have been shoved in my way! (Laundry. Homework. SCHOOL, in general. Sleeping, yes.) 3. MY ENGLISH TEACHER SUDDENLY THREW ALL THIS WORK IN MY FACE! Literally! I mean, one day, we were just doing some creative writing. No problem, right? And THEN . . . the classic book that we have to read suddenly appeared. THEN there was a bunch of homework. We have to do a power point on this book. We also have to do all this vocabulary, and vocab with college dictionaries is SO UTTERLY BORING. And a lot of work. Oh. And I have a book project on Catching Fire. Yes, my lovelies. THIS BOOK is the book I chose for my book project. The project is due on the 8th, I finished this on the 11th . . . I'm fairly ahead! Anyway, I really am glad I picked this book. Because I FREAKING LOVE THIS BOOK! And I will be willing to do a project on this book. I mean, I HAAAATED Lord of the Flies, and we had to do a project on it . . . (I failed that project.) So, anyway, here goes the reviewing. WRITING. WRITING, THE WRITING, THE WRITING!!! One of the HUGEST PARTS OF THE BOOK! (Without the writing, we'd have no book.) Anyway, the writing was just . . . just . . . IT WASN'T OVERLY DESCRIPTIVE AT ALL. I mean, it had the PERFECT amount of descriptions. And Katniss didn't keep describing hot guys over and over and over and over on every single page. I'm telling you people RIGHT NOW. YOU HARDLY FIND ANY BOOKS LIKE THIS. EVER. You know how many vampire books there are? Or how many books with really sexy hot guys in them? Or books with love triangles? Count them all! Or at least try. You'd lose count, just like I did! But what about a book like this? THIS BOOK HAS MEANING TO IT. Panem and the Capitol have a LOT OF MEANING. The whole irony is what makes this book dystopian. And it actually teaches you something. People are always watching you. Waiting for you to mess up. Expecting from you what they don't expect from themselves. That's the world. This book is just so original. [image] I've calmed down a bit from my freaking-out mode from how awesome this book is. And you all know how much I love originality, right? IT'S THE KEY TO AWESOME BOOKS. I mean who wants to read a story that they've read before? And what's an action book when it's predictable? NOT AS AWESOME, right? And it gives the author power too, because ORIGINALITY MAKES AN AUTHOR STAND OUT! If you copy off other people and make your story super cliche, it just makes you a copycat. And besides, if the idea is overrated and has lost its coolness (VAMPIRES! Like what's so cool about them? Besides the fact that they . . . sparkle? I kinda wish I sparkled too but still . . .), then all those authors who decided to rip off other people will have to just go down with the idea all together. [image] DOWN YOU GO. But this book is just so original. It's going to shoot way up the charts in awesomeness because THERE'S NO OTHER STORY LIKE IT! At least not one I've heard of. THIS BOOK WAS UNFORGETTABLE. It deserves all those gifs. Yeah. 5 sparkly sparkly stars. And about the movies . . . The Hunger Games came out in 2012, right? Catching Fire is next year, 2013. But I CAN NOT BELIEVE what they're planning to do with Mockingjay. Apparently . . . Mockingjay is coming out in 2014. Mockingjay, PART ONE. PART. ONEEEE! (THERE'S A SECOND PART!) [image] WHAT THE HECK?! Why are all the movies doing that?! I SPY UNORIGINALITY! First, Harry Potter did that! And I saw both of the movies, so it's okay now. But THEN, Twilight's Breaking Dawn decided to do that. (Which kind of angered me a little more because I was starting to thing that . . . Twilight was trying to BEAT Harry Potter! But it's understandable because Breaking Dawn was a freakishly PLUMPY BOOK.) And now . . . now . . . now . . . MOCKINGJAY IS DOING THAT TOO! Just because all the big based-on-novels movies are doing that DOESN'T MEAN MOCKINGJAY SHOULD BE LIKE THAT, TOO! It's not cool, dude! In fact, it kinda makes me mad! So mad that . . . I might just NOT SEE THE MOVIE. You won't get my money, you MONEY SUCKERS! Besides, I checked my copy of Mockingjay. IT HAS LESS PAGES THAN CATCHING FIRE! And it gets 2 parts?! No. NO. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS?! (*fume fume) There's no way I'm not seeing the movie, though. T_T (Sorta spoiler ahead. Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled! But then again, I don't think this particular spoiler is that big of a deal.) Oh, and there was this one part where they were in the games where Peeta passed out and Finnick gave him CPR. Katniss was like, "WHY ARE YOU KISSING MY BOYFRIEND?!" I thought that was pretty funny. I remember CPR class! I took that class 2 years ago! We had to Oh, and this is COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC, but have you guys heard Taylor Swift's new single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"? (Yeah. Maybe some of you aren't Taylor Swift's fans, but anyway . . . I love Taylor Swift.) THE SONG IS CATCHY, but I know a bunch of friends that don't really like that song. I bought it. I'm listening to it right now. I spent $2 on the music video. If you feel like it, bring up the topic and tell me about YOUR opinion. BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW! ...more |
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BEFORE ZE BOOK IS OPENED . . . DUDE, I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this on the catalog. I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS. (Eww, Theresa...) I'm on a se BEFORE ZE BOOK IS OPENED . . . DUDE, I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this on the catalog. I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS. (Eww, Theresa...) I'm on a search for even more of Lauren Oliver's originality! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let this book be a 5 star! Because...I love freaking out as I type 5 star reviews. >:D Urrrrgh, since it just appeared on the library catalog, it probably won't be here for another long while. T_T March 5th . . . so far away. AND DUDE, there are already like 50 reviews typed up for this book by other fellow goodreaders, with them saying, "OH-EM-GEEZAY, I'm so excited for this book that I can't wait for it to even be released yet to type something! I'm going to type a review expressing HOW MUCH I'M SO TORTURED OF WAITING!" (Which is exactly what I'm doing.) GIMME GIMME!!! I gotta find out what happens! I JUST HAVE TO KNOW!!!!!!! HAND OVER THE AWESOMENESS, GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! [image] Whoa, calm down Theresa.... AS OF JULY 5th, 2013 (Contains spoilers, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL.) ALRIGHT. I finished this in about a week. A little more. But ANYWAYS. The long awaited review for the final book in the Delirium trilililill, HERE WE GO! Alright, so I say that I don't put up 5 stars for books all the time, but either all the books I've read lately are really really good . . . or I just LIKE putting 5 stars for books pretty often. WELL, this book deserves those 5 sparkly sparkly sparkly stars! I'm not just putting the stars there because they're so, so sparkly. I'm putting them there because this book was just . . . just . . . . . . . . . xD (*squirms) This book made me feel a lot of things. Before I start, I'd like to say to everyone who normally reads my reviews, I'M SORRY! T_T For taking forever to just read a freaking book and review. I've been away from the library for a little while, but I'm finally back in my world of books. Oh, and also, I've been a little tumblr crazy . . . so I'm on there for a lot of my day. AND I'm sleeping. Texting my booboo (he'll thump my head when he finds out I call him booboo behind his back . . .). Spending days in hotels IN MY OWN CITY. I just . . . haven't been on goodreads lately. I'M SORRY. BUT BACK TO THE REVIEW: So I was jealous, along with Lena in this book. It was just super dramatic, don't you think? Alex: I DON'T love you Lena. I DON'T! Lena: (clutches heart) W-W-W-Wh-Wh-What? (Gigantic deadly bear approaches): RAAAAAAAAAWR. RAAAWR! RAAAAAAAAWR Imma bear RAAAAAAAAAA-- Alex: Lena, it's a bear-- Lena: You can't rawr louder than me, RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!!!!!! Bear: (runs away) Alex: Whoa, that was cool, Lena. Lena: ...........(*dramatically turns around) You don't love me . . . . . fine. GOODBYE FOREVER! (*dashes into the bushes) Well it didn't EXACTLY happen like that . . . but still, that part almost made me cry. And then I, along with Lena, remembered all the things that happened in Delirium. When they met, when they fell in love--ALL OF IT. I remembered it. And for Alex to say this . . . I WANTED TO JUMP INTO THE BOOK AND PUNCH HIS FACE!!!! (*karate chops the book) After going through ALL OF PANDEMONIUM missing this jerk and thinking he DIED, he just . . . he just . . . . . . . HYAH! And THEN . . . he starts flirtatiously FLIRTING WITH ANOTHER GIRL. I was like LENA. Why don't you DO something?! Anyway, here's where Miss Lauren Oliver's amazing writing comes in . . . Lena obviously still loved Alex, right? She was obviously jealous. Miss Oliver portrayed Lena's jealous/lovey dovey feeling PERFECTLY. Perfectly. She's jealous, and hurt, and sad and determined not to cry when she really wants to. She tried to deny still loving Alex by trying to love Julian. Trust me, that is really, really hard to do. You know what jealousy feels like? It feels like . . . . . like a hole in your stomach that's sucking you in from the inside. It's uncomfortable. You can't stop thinking about it. You feel a mix of anger and sadness and frustration all at once . . . It's awful. It hurts. All her feelings, all her words and thoughts and emotions . . . (*sniffle) they made me feel jealous with Lena too. Because through this whole series, I've been rooting for Alex. But not just that . . . it's because her writing is just . . . beautiful. To add to that, Hana's story was pretty interesting as well. I guess I was more excited to read Lena's part than Hana's, but Hana's story was still super, super interesting. I thought . . . (*sniff) I thought that Lena and Hana would never see each other again, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Anyway, my absolute, most FAVORITE parts of the book . . . were the mini stories used in reference. The Story of Wise King Solomon Or The Story of Solomon, you know . . . I love that story a lot, even before I read Requiem. Once upon a time, somewhere long long long ago, there was a really wise king, Solomon. One day, two women came up to him with a baby. One woman said, "This baby is MINE." The other said, "No, that baby is MINE." she explained to King Solomon, "This woman's baby had died, so she traded her baby with mine. I woke up this morning with a dead baby and realized it wasn't MY BABY!" The first woman said, "That is a LIE. You are a LIAR." So King Solomon ordered a servant to slice the baby in half. "That way," he said, "Each of you each have a half of the baby. That will be fair, and you two will stop fighting." The first woman agreed. "Yes, let's cut the baby in half. That would be fair." But the second woman said, "No! No, don't cut the baby in half! Give the baby to the first woman instead!" King Solomon said, "Since the first woman was the one that didn't want the baby hurt, she must be the real mother. Return the baby to that woman." Is how the story went. In a little more detail, of course. It's one of my favorite stories, ever. The mom loved the baby, so she'd rather it be with another woman than be killed. So reading the different story in The Book of Shhh got me thinking about it. The first woman had protected the baby because she loved it. But the revised version didn't show any love. It showed WANT instead. Both of the women WANTED the baby. But they agreed to chop it in half because they each WANTED their own share. So the baby WAS chopped in half, and there was a blood stain on the floor that could not be washed out, right? Because they both WANTED the baby, and they were both fighting over it, the baby died. And the lesson of THAT story...I think...is that it's not okay to want something that much. Or someone else will pay the price. It's a different lesson. It's like a whole different story . . . So I thought that was interesting. REALLY interesting. Hana's situation was based on the story of the Myth of Bluebeard, which I don't know if it's a real story or not. But I did imagine a man . . . with a blue beard . . . ANYWAY, that idea was original. REALLY original. GAAAH, I've never read books like these. ALSO, I usually have problems with love triangles, but this one actually had a POINT. Lena obviously still loved Alex, and she loves Julian too, but . . . she really loves ALEX. But she's hurt, and she wants to deny it by trying to love Julian. But . . . she really loved ALEX. (Jeez, it sounds just a little cliche. But when you think about it, love triangles are usually "I LOVE BOTH OF THEM, BUT I MUST CHOOSE! OH MYYYYYY" (*one of them is evil) "OH! I've figured out who to choose!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE EVIL ONE!" Just kidding. So, my darlings: IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR: 1. FEELING WHAT THE CHARACTERS FEEL 2. Love triangle (ohhh my.) 3. Beautiful, detailed, not-so-robotic writing 4. ACTION. Good action (not just, "I hit the guard. He hit me back."). 5. Something to get just a little teary over. 6. And ORIGINALITY--not so predictableness . . . Then I believe that you should check out this book. Errr . . . check out Delirium first. THEN check out Panda. THEN check out this one. :} The only problem I had with Requiem was how the ending went by fast. It just felt way too fast, like a roller coaster that is sailing along, and then BLOOOOOSH, down a super super very, very, very steep--so steep it's like a WALL--path, and CRASH at the bottom. That's how the ending felt. Also, you don't really know what happens to all the characters afterwards. It's like a cliffhanger in its own way . . . a cliffhanger that will never be solved. (*BAWLS) But yeah. THIS WAS A GOOD SERIES. Actually . . . I think this is one of the only series I've ACTUALLY FINISHED (that's not a manga series or a little kids' chapter book series . . . .) WHOA. (The first was Perfect Chemistry. The second is Delirium, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH!) To conclude, THIS SERIES WAS AMAZING, and I will forever treasure Miss Lauren Oliver's writing deep, deep, deeeeeeeeeeeep down in my heart. Deep down. Deeeeeeeeeep down. ALSO, did you know they're making Delirium into a TV drama? (*swoon) JEEZ. I actually kind of wanted it to be a movie because the drama will torture me even more with new episodes EVERY WEEK, but . . . it's okay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALSO, I know it's annoying to promote on my GOODREAD'S ACCOUNT. But it'd mean a lot to me if you could check out my Tumblr. NO, I'm not follower crazy. I just . . . . (*sniffle) want to show people my blog . . . . . . . I'd love it if you DID follow . . . It's a super romantic blog . . . . . because I'm just so in love with my boobooboo that I had to dedicate a WHOLE BLOG to it. (*sigh) AS OF JUNE 6th, 2013 Okay . . . . okay . . . I had a night and a morning to think about it and . . . . . . I think . . . . . I THINK I FEEL SORRY FOR JULIAN! I realized that he went through the whole book, loving Lena but . . . . . . . . . . . . . being more of the third wheel . . . WHY DID LENA DO THAT TO JULIAN, NOOOOOOHOHOHO!! (*sobs) Sorry, it's just . . . . . . . I know what it's like to be led on like that. IT SUCKS. 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Okay, do you have any idea what this freaking book did to me?! No, I didn't finish it as fast as I finished Delirium but 1. IT KEPT ME UP LATE AT NIGHT! Okay, do you have any idea what this freaking book did to me?! No, I didn't finish it as fast as I finished Delirium but 1. IT KEPT ME UP LATE AT NIGHT! (I guess that's okay for summer, I mean, right now, I can wake up at 3pm and NOT have to worry about missing school. AND I get about 11-13 hours of sleep a day.) This thing would definitely destroy me if I was in school. 2. At times when I COULDN'T read the book (like when I had to go to dinner, or whenever we went out of the house to do things that didn't include reading books), I just sat there WONDERING ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT. This book took up about 50% of the things I was thinking about. 3. THE END MADE ME YANK MY HAIR VIOLENTLY, RIGHT OUT OF MY HEAD!!! (My hair is . . . still on my head, but I was just THAT CLOSE to becoming bald because of this book.) And you guys know how much I love giving beautiful books 5 stars, right? I HARDLY DO THAT! Five stars go to TRULY AMAZING BOOKS. Anyway, on top of truly AMAZING ME and ASTOUNDING ME and nearly making me go bald because of how much I really, really, really need to read Requiem now . . . I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY JEALOUS. I mean, I get jealous over multiple things. Like . . . you know . . . girls trying to steal my princes. And my brother getting $200 headphones last week when my headphones are $150 (AND HIS ARE BETTER THAN MINE!), and . . . when my friends were able to go to a sleepover but I WAS STUCK IN MY PRISON-CELL OF A ROOM!! And . . . how on ŷ, I'm jealous of the people who get a bunch of views on their stories and their reviews, while mine remain . . . (*sniffle) UNREAD! But this . . . this is just something else! I mean, I've never really been this jealous over an author's abilities before! When I read really good stories or books or whatever, I think, "Oh, their writing was really good! I WANNA READ IT AGAIN! I wanna be able to speak to them and for them to read my reviews on their books because I TRULY WANT MY REVIEWS TO BE READ! And I think their writing inspires me SO MUCH! And if I ever see them, I will bow to them in utter and irrevocable respect!!" But not only did I think these things about Lauren Oliver. I also thought something along the lines of OH MY GOD! I WISH I COULD WRITE LIKE THIS!! I WANT TO BE ABLE TO WRITE AWESOMELY, TOO!!! My writing isn't this awesome! My writing is no where as descriptive and BEAUTIFUL AS THIS!!! I'm just so jealous! She's such a GENIUS, I'm just looking at her writing with my jaw dropping on the floor! The writing is . . . just so good!!! Okay, so anyway . . . ONTO THE REVIEW! 1. Plot I am SO FREAKISHLY GRATEFUL FOR THIS EXTREMELY ORIGINAL IDEA!! (You guys know how much I LOVE originality, right?) The romance isn't instalove, but the BELIEVABLE kind that can actually happen for REAL. Basically, in this book, it's about a girl that lives in a world where the government believes love is some kind of disease, but she's part of the resistance that believes in love. First of all LOVE IS A DISEASE. That's not fiction at all. It refers to real life. LOVE is actually sort of like a disease. Like an emotional sickness. And in some cases, you CAN catch it from other people. I mean, think about it. When you have a crush, or when you're in love with someone, your face sort of blushes at times, right? Your face gets all hot and you sorta get dizzy. (Well, that's what happens to ME.) And you can't stop thinking about this ONE PERSON. And you devote EVERYTHING to them. You want to protect them and your happiness depends on their being. If the person you love is sick or upset about something, you'd worry, right? And the fact that love can kill you (physically or emotionally) whether you have it or you don't is pretty deadly, indeed! So the cure for the "deliria" that's stated in this book probably protects you from loving or having those certain feelings AND it protects you from needing it. Please be aware of very long rambling. Maybe if we got rid of all the sad things love can do to us (including the feelings you get from unrequited love, or if the person you love dies, or if you get hurt by the person you love, or something of the sort), we'd be a little happier. I mean broken hearts take FOREVER to heal. And sometimes, the heart is so shredded up that it can't even be put back together. It makes us really stupid and crazy! I mean, the last time I got broken-hearted, I was thinking, "Okay. If this is what falling in love is, then I don't want to fall in love!" I cried OCEANS from all that. Who needs all that noise, right? But love also makes you very happy. Not only romantic love, but there's family love and friend love and my friends and family are the main things in my life that make me happy. They protect you and they make you smile and NO ONE can live being completely alone. THAT'S probably what the Resistance in this story is fighting for. Anywho, you might get really torn apart by love, but love is generally a good thing, and it's THE STRONGEST FEELING ON EARTH! It suffers, but it's able to endure anything. It protects, and it comforts NO MATTER WHAT. It hopes. And it's one of the most complicated feelings to understand because it needs two people. Not just you, but someone else has to be in your life too. In this book, their government looks at all the bad things love has done. Like . . . if the person you love dies, you'll feel HORRIBLE. Depressed. Unable to eat or sleep and you'll probably become like a walking dead body. And if you get jealous, you'll probably want revenge. Then there's just the general idea that love makes you crazy in the first place. Even if there's nothing going wrong, and everything is perfect, you still get dizzy once in a while, like the flu. I mean, in my case, whenever something's that perfect and I'm supposed to be really, really happy, I can't help but think, "Okay, this is too good to be true." "Something bad is going to happen to even out all this happiness!" But those of you fellow review readers, remember the GOOD things about love, too! Don't just pay attention to the romantic love because for girls, boys are extremely insensitive and stupid. And for guys, girls are extremely complicated and hard to understand. You get love from your parents, your siblings, your friends, the rest of your family (from aunts to cousins to nieces and nephews and great aunts and great uncles and your grandparents, and don't forget your great-grandma-ma), and probably a bunch of other people that linger around in your lives. And NO ONE can live without love because the people who love you SUPPORT YOU. It's way harder in life if you don't have anyone to support you, you know. I'm just rambling now. (Sorry.) But seriously, I think that the cure for deliria in this book is getting rid of love mainly because it's to get rid of all the bad things love does to us. BUT it also knocks out all the good things about love, too. So you're left with nothing. No good OR bad. Just a crowd of zombies with no feelings. So yeah. Love can hurt us sometimes, but we do need it. I mean, even if the bad things about love exist, the good things will always support you. Say that your prince boyfriend dumped you, and you really loved that boyfriend, so you're all heart-broken and shattered up and all dead inside. The love from your friends and family will support you, you know--if you welcome it. If you shut yourself up in your room, you'll never get better! But if you let your friends make you smile, you'll definitely get better. That's what they're there for! I mean, there was only ONE jerky prince boyfriend that dumped you. But there's a TON of friends and family that love you! It's 1 against 1000. So in conclusion: We DO need love. (*Ahem.) Anyway, I enjoyed the plot of Pandemonium! But the truth is . . . I LIKE DELIRIUM BETTEEEEEEEEEEER! I love Pandemonium. Trust me, I do, I do! The thing is, Delirium taught more about love. What love can do. The quotes from The Book of Shhh at the beginning of every chapter, Alex, the process of Lena (a very naive, clueless girl) falling in love--I LOVED IT. But Pandemonium had a....a......a............L......L....L....... SPOILER ALERT. L.....L..L......L....(view spoiler)[L...L...LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!! (hide spoiler)] (*BAWLS.) I'm not sure if this book taught anything new. Delirium taught LOADS, believe me. Pandemonium was a STORY. I mean, Delirium was a story, too, but Pandemonium was a STORY that...stayed in the book. You know what I mean? Like, after I was done with the book, I didn't continue to think about what the book taught or anything. My thoughts of the book and it's characters stayed inside that closed book, and they only came back when I opened it. But with Delirium, I would close the book, and put it across the room, and then sit there not even looking at the book, but I'd still think about all the characters, and all the things the book taught me, and what's going to happen next. I didn't even have to touch the book! I think the most VALUABLE thing that I learned in Pandemonium . . . was action moves. So that brings me to the next sub-topic. 2. WRITING Oh my god. MY GOD, THE WRITING WAS SO AWESOME. It was AMAZING!!! Absolutely ASTOUNDING! Especially the action. I don't know how she does it. I have NO IDEA how the author writes her action scenes, but they're VERY, VERY GOOD. VERY GOOD! I mean, it was like a TV screen in my head! It wasn't just, "I punched his face. He screamed. I used a karate move. He flew across the room." It was MUCH MORE DETAILED AND VOICED!!! And I would give an example . . . if I still had the book with me. (Alas, I returned it to the library a couple of days back and . . . I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ACTION SCENES BECAUSE THEY WERE SO DETAILED!!!) Aha. So you have to read about it YOURSELF! I have NEVER read an action scene like the ones in this book. EVER. EVER, EVER, EVER! The ones in this book are just REALLY REALLY GOOD. They're AMAZING. They're . . . sdhfksahfasgusifnsaughasuhfnlasaisufsnfjsl (So amazing that English words cannot describe.) 3. Romance ............No. This book was an action book. No, it was a dystopian book. No, this book was an ACTION/DYSTOPIAN BOOK WITH A DYSTOPIA ABOUT A GOVERNMENT THAT GETS RID OF LOVE AND THE MAIN CHARACTER IS IN A RESISTANCE THAT PROTECTS LOVE. NOT a romance. I mean . . . yes, it was a romance. But the romance in this book can't compare to Delirium. I mean, I love Lauren Oliver. And I LOVE her books. And I LOVE this trilogy. But maybe it's because . . . this book . . . . has a . . . a.......a....... L....L.....L........L--(view spoiler)[LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!! (hide spoiler)] Please note that the following hidden spoiler will contain ranting, even though I love this story so much. (view spoiler)[Okay. Love triangle. I kind of liked that idea at first. I mean, some of the stories I write are love triangles! (I know. I'm a gigantic hypocrite.) But . . . they're sort of hard to understand! I mean, in this story...Lena loved Alex, right? He was her first love. They loved each other SO VERY MUCH! Then in THIS BOOK, Lena thinks that Alex died. So she meets Julian, and falls for HIM, and then THOSE TWO love each other very much. But WHAT HAPPENED TO ALEX?! When she kissed Julian, she was like, "Alex . . . FORGIVE ME!!!" (*SMOOOCH!) Was it because she needed someone to love? Or was it because she thought Alex was dead, so she was like, "Okay. He's gone now...I'm free to choose someone else." Or was it, "If I can't have Alex, I have to have somebody!!!" Okay, this leads to story time. (Into the life of Theresa we GO!!!) This is going to get really confusing, okay? Because I'm going to name each character by LETTERS. I'm character A. Character A meets Character B. They instantly become friends because of how much they have in common. One day, B goes up to A and says, "Hey. I like you. I love Asian girls." A goes, "Okay, I like you too." Then B tells EVERYONE HE KNOWS that he is dating A. But A doesn't know about it at ALL until one of her friends comes up to her and says, "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE DATING B!!" A was like, "YO WHAT?! No, girlfriend. I ain't dating ANYBODY." Because A hates the idea of dating. She tells B her thoughts, saying, "I don't want to date." and "I'm not allowed to date anyway." Because 1. EVERYONE ELSE was dating the same way B wanted to date A. and 2. A wanted to be that one girl that wasn't like the others! She wanted to be DIFFERENT and SPECIAL. And 3. She does not like disobeying her parents because if she did, she'd get into mucho problemos. Then B says, "Okay. If you can't be my girlfriend, I have to find another girlfriend. Because I WANT a girlfriend." So then B goes and meets Character C, another Asian girl who already has a boyfriend, Character D. But D had to move away and they couldn't be in a long distance relationship so they have to break up when he moves. B was planning to steal C from D once D moved away. B told A that he loved C. A agreed to be friends with B. B says, "A, I still like you, and you and I might be together in the future, maybe when we're a little older and you're allowed to date. But not right now." A shrugs her shoulders not knowing what to believe. Anyway, when D moved away, and B was going on dates with C, A did not know what was going on because she did not ask. A week later, A was talking to her friend. Her friend told A that B has a NEW girlfriend, Character E. A wonders WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO C. Didn't B love C? All B wants is a girlfriend. If he can't have one, he must search for another. So Theresa is wondering . . . if Lena can't have Alex, is it really OKAY for her to have Julian???? I'm confused! TOTALLY CONFUSED! I mean, I'm sure Lena isn't as bad as B. But now with the fact that she has to CHOOSE between Alex and Julian, how is she going to choose? She can only have one! Or is there another girl that's entering into the story? Maybe I'm bugged about this because it reminds me of B, or because it confuses me about what love is, or something. Oh well. I'm along for the ride, so I guess I'll just find out . . . in Requiem . . . (hide spoiler)] ANYWAY, all in all, I really, really, really liked this book. My only confusion is the....the.......L....L...L..L...L.....(please refer to spoilers). I really NEED TO GET THAT 3RD BOOK IN MY HANDS, RIGHT NOW! RIGHT NOW! Or heads will roll!!! (4.5 sparkly sparkly stars. I LOVE YOU, LAUREN OLIVER!!!) (*Half an hour later...) Oh, I forgot to tell you about the point of view of this book! It kinda . . . alternates between two point of views of LENA. One is in the past, when Lena just got to the Wilds. One is further in the future. It gets confusing but I think it was a REALLY ORIGINAL IDEA!!! I've seen two points of views, and first person, and third person, and first AND third person point of views together in one book, but I HAVE NEVER READ A BOOK with the point of view from versions of the character in different times. That's so awesome. I just want to JUMP UP AND DOWN UNTIL THE FLOOR BENEATH ME COLLAPSES!! ...more |
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OH. MY. GOD. I just finished rereading Daughter of Smoke and Bone and I come onto ŷ and look at the review I typed over a year ago and . . . WHAT OH. MY. GOD. I just finished rereading Daughter of Smoke and Bone and I come onto ŷ and look at the review I typed over a year ago and . . . WHAT BLAS---------- DO I FIND?! 1. 4 stars. 4 STARS?! No. No no no no no this needs 10000000 stars where is the 10000000 star button, WHERE, GOODREADS?! THERE'S ONLY 5, and I DIDN'T EVEN PUT 5 STARS, I PUT 4. What was wrong with me?! 2. What kind of review doesn't describe how Daughter of Smoke and Bone literally RIPPED OPEN MY HEART and then STITCHED IT BACK WITH STAPLES, and then RIPPED IT OPEN AGAIN?! 3. I love books. But I have NEVER . . . EVER . . . EVER EVER EVER focused on every single word in a book like I have here. EVERY SINGLE WORD COUNTED. Every. SINGLE. PIECE. I skipped nothing. Skimmed nothing. It was too beautiful to look away from, like if you go onto the very top of the highest mountains on the Pyrenees and you see this entire view of the greens and waterfalls down below and you FOCUS ON EVERY DETAIL so you can remember it because your camera isn't doing it justice at all. This was a freaking library book. I'm gonna have to RETURN THIS THING. So I wanted to remember every piece of it. 4. Cliche. Yeah, this had beautiful people. Akiva following Karou and Karou constantly thinking about Akiva's face afterwards--a lust at first sight. But this cliche factor was unbent into this . . . . . . . . . . . . this explosion of the most creative, unthinkable thing. Read below about my review. I was shocked back then too, but not as much as I am now. If I'm rereading this review to try and remember what Daughter of Smoke and Bone was like, I say, "REREAD THE BOOK AGAIN. IT IS WORTH IT." If someone asks me, "What was the book like?" I will demand that they go and read the book themselves and I will refuse to tell them anything because this makes my speech go all nuts because I'm so excited, and anything I say--"fantastic" "flawless" "amazing" "MORE WONDERFUL THEN HUMAN PLEASURES"--it's not going to do this book justice. If someone tries to tell me what's wrong with this book, I will pull the terminator on them. If someone is also reading the book I will sit there just to watch their face because I wish I saw my face as I was reading this freaking masterpiece. MASTERPIECE. MASTERPIECE!!!!!!! MASTERPIECE! THIS was a truly beautiful book. What's my review for today?: GO READ IT. Just go. Reward yourself with this! As of May 2012: 4 stars :O. .................................................................................. [image] (5 minutes later) OH OKAY. The review. Let me tell you how I freaking finished this book. I was on page 280-something, and I freaking sat in my seat and promised myself, "I WILL NOT LEAVE THIS SEAT UNTIL I'M FINISHED!" So I finished the last half of the book in one seating, and it was painful when I got up because I was sitting there for so long, but I just did NOT want to stand up and close this book! I read ALL THE WAY TO THE END. To a . . . a . . . . . . . . . (view spoiler)[cliffhanger T_T (hide spoiler)]. This book had me possessed. A forced filled itself inside me and said, "NO......NOOOOO THERESA, YOU MUUUST KEEP REEEEEADING! This book is too amaaaaazing for you to put dooooown!" THIS WAS ONE KIND OF BOOK I HAVE NEVER READ BEFORE! It's different from all them other YA's. It's just . . . . just . . . . . . . . . . it's just different. NOTE: To my fellow review readers who are thinking: "SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT READ THIS BOOK???? I'll just scroll upon ŷ to see what my FAVORITE REVIEWER OF ALL TIME has to say." I say: You will NOT like this book if 1. You don't like detail. And by detail I mean DETAIL. DEEEETAIL. Description of beautiful things. Description of thoughts. Description of . . . . . *gah* it's hard to explain. But there are usually two types of readers. Readers who like DETAIL. DESCRIPTION. A character's THOUGHTS and IMAGE and ACTION. AND . . . Readers who like DIALOGUE. Where there is more speaking than flailing about, doing dramatic things that require no voice. But don't get me wrong. This isn't one of those books with detail that describes every little thing--like the Hunchback of Notredame (urgh)that literally had two chapters titled: "The Cathedral" "Bird Eye View of the Cathedral" Over TWENTY FREAKING PAGES . . . describing . . . a Cathedral. (And don't all cathedrals look the same anyway? You've seen one, you've seen 'em all! But this book isn't like that. This book has BEAUTIFUL detail that must have taken ages and ages upon ages and ages to write. I respect this beautiful lady who created this beautiful story! What the heck? WHO KNEW WRITING LIKE THIS WAS POSSIBLE??!?!?! 2. If you tend to RUSH through books. If you rush, you'll end up having to reread because you missed a bunch of important words and detail. This book is NOT FOR SPEED READING if you want to let this book's beauty INTO YOUR VERY SOUL! If you DO read this book, DON'T SPEED READ, okay? Just take it into your very . . . your very SOUL. Let it . . . set your soul on FIRE . . . . 3. THIS BOOK HAS BEAUTY IN IT. All the characters are pretty much beautiful. I guess it's not one of those stories where beauty doesn't matter. (*Sigh.) Because Karou is really pretty. Super sexy blue haired PRINCESS, she really is pretty! Akiva the hero of this fantasmic tale? He's beautiful too. Karou's ex-boyfriend. Kaz. The dude that's narcissistic and is more of a side character but still sticks in my head because all I got from the descriptions was a dude whose insides look like they exploded. (Ohohoho.) He pretty much GLIDES everywhere. Muscles throbbing. Grinning and thinking he's the most beautiful thing in the universe. Like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast (who was very, very close to being a Hulk). But don't think the beauty here is shallow, NO NO NO. Because this book is about ANGELS. AND DEVILS. And let me tell you a quote that had me thinking for a long long long time. The Devil might not be a little tiny red man with horns and a pitchfork. It might not be an ugly beast or foul looking creature. He could be beautiful. You know why? Because he used to be an angel too. He used to be God's FAVORITE. So these supernatural creatures should be more than human. If it was about a human girl and a human guy who were heartstoppingly gorgeous, I'd hate it because "beautiful" is really really hard to imagine. But beautiful angels are more believable. But all in all WHY WOULD YOU DISLIKE THIS BOOK?! Created by some sort of beautiful masterpiece creator. You read this story, and then you sit back and ask: CAN I EVER WRITE SOMETHING LIKE THIS?! I'm jealous. My fellow review readers. If you like 1. ANGELS. DEVILS. A new angel story that you've been searching for after utterly (*bleeping) cliche angel stories like A Beautiful Dark (blech!!) come to THIS BOOK! This is actually the first angel book I've actually liked. :O JUST COME HERE FOR ANGELS. 2. SOMETHING DIFFERENT. How often do you find a story about a blue haired girl traveling through realms, hunting things like teeth, and wishing? With the strangest of creatures and most interesting of stories? HMM? I mean you can find 20 other versions of Twilight all over the YA world, but THIS? 3. Reading beautiful writing. OF COURSE. 4. Are you a romantic? 5. IF YOU LIKE ADVENTURE, just . . . just come here and read. This was one book I will not soon forget, my darlings. Seriously. UNFORGETTABLE. IT WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS AT NIGHT!!! ...more |
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I love Machi's story! Technically, I love pasts where the past does affect who the character is. The character isn't just THERE the way they are just b I love Machi's story! Technically, I love pasts where the past does affect who the character is. The character isn't just THERE the way they are just because. There's a reason they act how they act and do what they do. Machi's fear of perfection was a really original idea. It's sorta interesting how it's strong enough to freak her out even if it's just a field of perfectly non-driven snow and a brand new box of chalk. (And those things are relatively harmless.) The kind of fears that bring an unwanted past back into the mind tend to be the ones that make up a pretty good story. It's also pretty realistic, and it's totally, highly, absolutely, positively original. Sure, fears of spiders are one thing (y'know, if it's because they have too many legs and they're kind of creepy because they crawl around and have a bunch of eyes), but a fear of perfection, like the one Machi has, is a different thing. It's not usual to be afraid of something like that, but she's afraid in a way where people can't exactly infer why she's afraid right away. If someone's afraid of spiders, you can infer why, right? I'm afraid of walking against walls. You might think that's weird, and it is. I mean walls can be relatively harmless. Well, unless you're walking down a very narrow hallway where the walls are slowly...closing in... OR unless you're pushed into a wall. When I was in the 8th grade, the guy I liked lied to be about something and I had to know why! Lying is mean, rude, and it makes me feel stupid because I believed it, right? So I went after him. He TRIED to run away, but I'm so ninjetic that I wouldn't let him go! I grabbed onto his shirt. And...you know the sound a shirt makes when you tug on it hard enough and something snaps? Like...a rip? Well, that happened to his shirt. I sincerely, absolutely, positively DID NOT mean to pull on his shirt like that. I started apologizing right away. And then his elbow shoved against my stomach, and that made me lunge against the stucko (SOMEWHAT SPIKY) wall that was about a foot beside me. I SAW his face. He had never made that face before. It was horrifying. He WANTED to push me into the wall. My head hit the wall and my vision went blank. Do you know how painful it is to like someone, and to have that someone lie to you? And when you go after that someone, do you know how painful it is to have that someone (that you like) shove you into a wall? It hurt not only on the outside, but deep deep deep down on the inside of my SOUL! Anyway, when I got up, I was on the concrete floor, lying there face down. There was this huge crowd around me. The guy who had pushed me into the wall stood in front of the crowd. I just want to say that my head and my stomach really hurt. So when I'm walking against the wall, I'm not afraid of the WALL. I'm afraid of being reminded of being pushed into it by the person I liked. That's kind of like Machi's situation. She's not afraid of the perfect box of chalk or the perfect field of snow. She's afraid of the memories that comes with those things. GAAAAAAAAAAH! It's so original for the author to think of something like that! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-- Anyway, Tohru and Kyou don't show up in a HUUUUGE majority of this book. The first part is on Yuki and Machi, the second is on Rin and Haru. I can't understand Rin and Haru's relationship (since I didn't exactly have volume 17 on hand today) because I have no idea what had happened. Um...Rin...cut her hair. IT MAKES HER LOOK OLDER! Anyway, yeeees!!! ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF FURUBA! FOUR STARS! ...more |
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