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I forgot to put up my favorite title from the first contest! The winner is.....


Shattered Perfection


Congrats Emma! This isn't the third contest yet, I just forget last time XD

Cress book review

Cress by Marissa Myer
five stars

Goodreads Review:
 In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.

What I liked about it:
      It was a take on my favorite fairytale ever, Rapunzel. I was able to relate to all of the characters in some way, even the robot ship! I winced through a couple of the scenes because I could feel the struggles that Cress was going through. My standards for guys was lifted even higher by the male lead who I think is my new favorite guy in a book ever, right up there with Finnick Odair. All of the characters were so human, not perfect a the time, but not evil creatures that never do anything right. I could even see the good in the villain, and it's rare that someone is able to create a villain that is both someone you dislike and understand at the same time. The book mostly focused on Cress and Thorne, but the author also had chapters in the four characters from the other books and really pulled the story together. The ending was a cliffhanger that makes you want to read more, but doesn't make you want to throw the book along with the author against the wall and scream at it. I really loved this book and I read it at least 5 times just in the few weeks I had it checked out from the library.

What I didn't like about it:
     Well, a few of the supporting villains ( is that even a term, it should be!) didn't seem to be very realistic. There were a few very very very slightly off color jokes, but not many.

Am I happy I read it:
     Oh ya, this is my new favorite book in my new favorite series!

Second day!

Comment all ideas below! Again, don't worry if you miss a day or haven't joined yet, just comment whenever you can.

Contest!!!!!

    So I've been working on my book sense October, and I still can't come up with a title for it! So I'm going to have a contest! Here's how it will work.....
1. I'll hold three mini contests. You'll all give me your best title, and I'll announce the winner the next day. If you miss a contest it's ok, you can just skip that one.
2. After these three are over, I'll hold a final contest. You will all decide which one of your three names from the other contests you like best, and comment with the names. I'll then decide my favorite out of those three. I'll give you three days to do this.
3. Winner get a plate of cookies, whatever kind they want, the next time I see them! If by some chance I don't actually know the person who wins..... I'll come up with something else, I don't know what yet.
4. I might not actually use any of your suggestions, but once you put them on this blog I have first dibs on them all. I will let you know if I choose any of them though so you all can use the rest if you want. If one person gives me an idea, I get first dibs, then it goes back to them. No one else can steal the title without the authors permission.

Summery :
A group of robots have been given control over the city by the citys founders. They're getting out of control, brainwashing people by the smoke, and Sara, Mark, Kayla, and Jake have to shut the robots down to restore freedom to the City. Kayla is a rich City brat who is hurt and confused when she finds out she has been brainwashed and thinks her life means nothing. Sara is still living in the shadow of her dead brother who the robots killed, and she is bringing them down for him. Mark is obsessed with perfection and making the City a perfect place again. Jake is a city official who has always known that something is different about him.

I hope that gives you all enough info! Comment if you're entering and we'll start in a few days.

Smack me someone!!!!

I've been planning to go and sit out in our huge tent, it's for eight people and it's more like a palace in our back yard than a tent, and write for days. My story needs to be done by the first of June so I can get my two free copies from Create Space, and I'm only done with my second draft. It need some real help, and some of my awesome friends have offered to edit it for me and that's super helpful. I'll email it out to both of you soon, but right now I'm still trying to figure out my new laptop and I'll get it out to you after I figure out Open Office. but right now, I just need someone to virtually smack me threw the screen and tell me to go write! I'm actually out in the tent right now, but I'm too lazy to go and get my papers....... smack me please! Scream at me to go and write! Do something anyone!!!!!

" When you really want to smack someone do it and shout ' mosquito!!'"
- Random Brilliant Person on the Internet

Book Review: Scarlet

Scarlet by, Marissa Meyer

4.7 stars

Goodreads Summery-
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison--even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

What I liked-
     These books just get better and better as you go along! I loved this book for most of the same reasons as Cinder. The characters are even more realistic in this book and some new characters are introduced to the plot that make the story even more exciting and really pull together the whole story. There were a couple things that she left hanging after the first book, and even though Scarlet pulls those together to make sense the author still left me hanging after this book because she introduced new questions. I have never had the characters in a book confuse me so much as this book and I loved it. The on-again-off-again-love-hate-relationship between two of the characters was wonderfully confusing, and at a couple points in the book I had to look around and make sure I hadn't woken up the rest of my family I was gasping so much. That sounds dumb, but it's true, this book really kept me on edge and I couldn't stop reading! I think I stayed up until 1am finishing this book, that's how good it was.  

What I didn't like-
     This book had .3 points knocked off of it because of the slight inappropriateness of some of the lines. It really didn't bother me at all, I actually didn't get most of the jokes or whatever until hours later when I was going through the book in my head for the hundredth time in a row, and I have a very high bar for these sorts of things. The jokes were Hunger Games level tops, and that's not bad at all. It was just enough for me to not make it a five.

Am I glad I read it-
     Yes, very glad. This book was even better than the first on and that's really saying something.

Book review: Cinder

Cinder by, Marissa Meyer

4.5 stars

Goodreads  summery:
Humans 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.

My note: Doesn't sound very interesting right? That's what I thought when I put it on hold at the library. The summery doesn't do it justice trust me.

What I liked:
     I read this book about a month ago and I have wanted to do a blog post ever sense, but I've been scared to because I wasn't sure how to capture just how great this book was in a blog post. I only made it a 4.5 instead of a 5 because I know how it compares to the other books in the series.  But here we go.....
     The plot line is wonderful. It's based loosely on Cinderella, but the author added twists that I would never have thought of. I have no idea how she made Cinderella being a cyborg and the villains coming to Earth from the moon work but she did it and it was amazing. Whenever something bad happened in the characters lives than it hit me really hard, the books Prince Charming was a really interesting character, not the normal nothing prince who all the girls have to fall in love with because reasons at all, and I could really imagine living in the world the story was set in even though it was dystopian. I liked how even though it's a fairytale novel, the author set it up so it could easily be fun for both guys and girls unlike most novels like this one. The story really pulled me in and I couldn't set down the book for the rest of the day. And best of all is it's a NaNoWriMo novel which all my readers should appreciate!

What I didn't like:
     There wasn't much in this book that I didn't like, but there are a few things. At a few points in the book the characters would do something that drew me away from the story and didn't make any sense. Then I had to spend a few pages getting back into the plot line. A few of the plot twists were taken lightly by the main character and that seemed to twist my view of who I thought the character was.

Am I glad I read it:
      Yes. These are my new favorite books, and I don't change favorites very often. I rarely get so wrapped up in a book that I physically miss the characters when I'm done and practically start crying when I see how long the wait list is at the library. This book made me cry and laugh. I stayed up the night of reading it for hours rereading my favorite parts and going back over the plots in my head. I read a lot, and so it's hard or a book to make a lasting impression on my lately, and this one I've been obsessing over for months. There are still three books in the series that I still need to gather up the bravery to write a blog book review for, so beware! You should definitely clear a week to read these books and gather them all so you can read them one after another without stopping, that's what I did.