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Book Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

28 Friday Nov 2014

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth, Reviews

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adventure, book, book review, books, fiction, patrick ness, review, reviews, science fiction, The Knife of Never Letting Go, young adult

The Knife of Never Letting Go

by Patrick Ness

genre: adventure, science fiction, young adult

Summary from Goodreads

 

The Knife of Never Letting GoPrentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee — whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not — stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden — a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?

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Movie Review: The Maze Runner

17 Friday Oct 2014

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movie, review, reviews, science fiction, The Maze Runner, YA, young adult

The Maze Runner
Movie 1

genre: science fiction, dystopian, young adult

the-maze-runner-movie-posterUsually, I tell people to read the book before the movie. Don’t read the book. Wait for the movie to hit NetFlix. If you’ve read the book, wait a week or two from when you finished reading until you go see the movie. The movie changed 70-80% of the book. I finished the book the same day I went to see the movie, so I sat there the entire time shaking my head with my brows creased thinking, “That’s not how that happened. That didn’t happen. That’s out of order. That didn’t happen. You skipped that. What the…? Why did you change that detail? What did that accomplish? What??? How? That didn’t… How are you going to finish the movie if you changed… you changed the ending…”

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Book Review: The Maze Runner by James Dashner

13 Monday Oct 2014

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book, book review, book reviews, books, dystopian, James Dashner, review, reviews, science fiction, The Maze Runner, YA, young adult

The Maze Runner
Book 1

by James Dashner

genre: science fiction, dystopian, young adult

Completely by coincidence, Ermisenda and I have both been reading The Maze Runner. We didn’t realize it until she beat me to posting her review by three days. Though I could wait to post mine, she and I came away with very different opinions, so I hope you enjoy reading my take on the book as well. I’m going to see the movie this evening, so I will be posting that review on Friday.

Ermi, don’t you dare post yours on Wednesday. 😉

Synopsis from Goodreads

maze-runner-book-review

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Everything is going to change.

Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.

Remember. Survive. Run.

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I want to know and I want to know now!

26 Friday Sep 2014

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book, fiction, sci-fi, science fiction, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner

*Sigh* … You know what’s really helpful when trying to keep to a posting schedule? Actually clicking the Schedule button.

What should have posted on Wednesday:

Those of you who know me are smiling and nodding. You’re used to hearing these words from me. Usually, it is in reference to some present or surprise which is being kept (very rudely I might add) from me.

This is not one of those times.

When I first heard the plot for The Maze Runner, I thought it would be similar to The Hunger Games. Kids in a giant maze/arena fighting to survive and escape. Sometimes the teenagers play nice and sometimes not so much.

I’m only a chapter or two in to The Maze Runner but I still don’t know what’s going on. In The Hunger Games you understood the back story–why the districts had to participate. In The Maze Runner, you’re dropped right into the middle. It’s as if instead of seeing Katniss volunteer to take Prim’s place, you start the book right as the bell sounds and everyone makes a break for it. I’m getting about as frustrated as Thomas that no one is telling me anything!

What about you? Do you want to feel the same confusion and wonder as the main character, or do you want to know everything while you watch them figure it out?

-Eliabeth

Book Review: Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

21 Friday Mar 2014

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book, book review, books, Douglas Preston, drugs, fiction, Lincoln Child, Mount Dragon, mystery, review, reviews, sci-fi, science, science fiction, vaccines

Mount Dragon

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

genre: mystery, science fiction

Synopsis from Goodreads

Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildMount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed.

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Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

31 Friday Jan 2014

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book, book review, books, Cinder, Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer, review, reviews, sci-fi, science fiction, YA

Cinder

Lunar Chronicles #1

by Marissa Meyer

genre: YA, science fiction

Synopsis from Goodreads

Cinder by Marissa MeyerHumans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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Book Review: The Timetraveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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The Timetraveler’s Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

genre: science fiction, chick-lit, adult

It started out alright, but by the end, I thought I was Oprah handing out bad news. “You’re an a-hole. You’re a horrible person. You’re an idiot.” This was in no way a romantic novel and a far cry from the most romantic novel of [insert anything here].

Synopsis from Goodreads

The Time Traveler's WifeAudrey Niffenegger’s dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry’s unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

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Book Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

16 Wednesday Oct 2013

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book, book review, books, Catching Fire, dystopian, fiction, review, reviews, sci-fi, science fiction, suzanne collins, The Hunger Games, YA, young adult

Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2)

by Suzanne Collins

genre: dystopian, YA, science fiction

Don’t start Catching Fire unless you’re ready to read Mockingjay. I’m sure I looked like a raving lunatic with tears streaming down my cheeks for nearly the whole time I was driving with my audio book this past weekend. You have to get through some rather annoying Peeta-Gale love triangle drama that detracts from the seriousness of the storyline, but after that, everything builds to an incredible peek.

Summary from Goodreads

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she’s not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel in the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before…and surprising readers at every turn.

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Do Half Books Capture Your Attention?

11 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth, Reviews

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half books, Jason Mott, prequel, sci-fi, science fiction, The Choice

I’m not a fan of short stories. Rarely am I sucked into the story before it’s over, but I read them to pad my Goodreads Challenge list. Goodreads keeps reminding me that I’m 6 books behind where I want to be in order to read 24 books this year. It was with that goal in mind that I downloaded The Choice: A Prequel to ‘The Returned.’

I short 40 min. read, the plot is interesting–people are returning from the dead. How do the loved ones handle their return? Some have moved on with their lives, had more children, fallen in love again, married someone else.

At first, I was drawn in by the plot. “I might have to read the first book,” I thought, mentally spending my Audible credits. However, as the story progressed two things annoyed me. Mild spoilers follow.

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Are You Team Katniss?

07 Monday Oct 2013

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book, books, Catching Fire, dystopian, fiction, hunger games, science fiction, Team Katniss, Team Peeta

Team Katniss

I’m embarrassed to admit that when the whole “Team Gale” “Team Peeta” thing happened, I was Team Peeta because I didn’t come up with this answer. Now that I’m reading Catching Fire, I’m noticing the love-triangle drama that wasn’t in (or wasn’t as prevalent at least) in book 1. I can’t discus it further without spoilers I’m afraid so, minor spoilers follow.

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