The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner) REVIEW

By James Dashner
Pages: 374
Publisher: Delacorte Press


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.

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.

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


What a fine piece of adventure. The story started of quite direct, but with all the made-up words it was a bit hard keeping up. But the author did a great job explaining the words, and I eventually learned them all. The story got me hooked at page 32 (I wrote it down), and that's very early in. I couldn't put the book down, It was so fast-paced. 
Every chapter is very intense and eventful. The Maze Runner got a high suspense-level. It's never quite boring or even just okay. Every chapter is fantastic. 

My heart-rate always went up to 180, and that had me very exhausted. I've never been THIS exhausted by a book. You never know what might happen, and that sets you on edge. 
TMR is not only filled with suspense and events, but it's also darn hilarious. It's quite shocking, that a story about teenagers who are literally fighting everyday to survive can be hilarious. 

What shocked me the most though was the ending. I didn't expect a sad ending but that's what I got... 
But the sadness was forgotten from the time I read that WTF epilogue. It made no sense at all. I'm scared to even think about what it could have meant......

Av James Dashner

Sidor: 368

Förlag: Semic

När Thomas vaknar upp i en hiss minns han ingenting, bara sitt eget namn. När hissdörrarna öppnas möter Thomas en stor grupp tonårskillar, som liksom han själv har fått sina minnen raderade. De är inlåsta i ett stort område som omges av höga stenmurar.

Allt de vet är att dörrarna till en enorm labyrint som omger dem öppnas varje morgon, och varje kväll stängs de. Labyrinten myllrar av dödliga faror, och väggarna i den flyttas dessutom varje natt.
På något sätt måste de försöka hitta ut, men hur?

Då händer något oväntat - Teresa skickas dit. Hon är den första tjejen någonsin som kommit. Det verkar som om hon och Thomas känner varandra sedan tidigare. Vad betyder det? Kan hon vara till hjälp när de ska försöka ta sig därifrån levande? Och vem vet vilka svar som väntar där ute ? 

Vilken fin äventyrsresa. Historien började ganska direkt, men med alla påhittade ord var det lite svårt att hålla reda på vad som hände, men författaren gjorde ett bra jobb med förklaringen av dessa ord, och jag lärde mig så småningom dem alla. Jag var fast vid The Maze Runner vid sida 32 (jag skrev ner det), och det är mycket tidigt. Jag kunde inte lägga ner boken, en riktig bladvändare!

Varje kapitel är mycket intensiv och händelserik. TMR har en hög spänning-nivå. Det är aldrig riktigt tråkigt eller bara okej. Varje kapitel är fantastiskt.

Mitt hjärta gick på 180 under hela läsningen, och det gjorde mig väldigt utmattad. Jag har aldrig varit så utmattad av en bok. Man vet aldrig vad som kan hända, och det är nästan obehagligt, på ett väldigt förunderligt sätt. 
TMR är inte bara fylld med spänning och händelser, men det är också jäkligt humoristisk. Det är ganska chockerande, att en berättelse om tonåringar som bokstavligen kämpar varje dag för att överleva kan vara rolig. 

Vad chockade mig mest var dock slutet. Jag förväntade mig inte ett sorgligt slut, men det är vad jag fick ...
Men sorgen glömdes från det att jag läste WTF epilogen. Den var helt oförståerlig. Vad kommer egentligen hända nu? Det får vi väl reda på i nästa bok....

Miss Peregrines hem för besynnerliga barn / Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children REVIEW

Av Ransom Riggs

Sidor: 384

Förlag: Raben & Sjögren

En ödslig ö. Ett övergivet barnhem. Och en samling märkliga fotografier. Sextonårige Jacob tror inte längre på de historier hans farfar brukade berätta för honom.

Skrönorna om barnen med märkliga förmågor är bedrägliga minnen från hans farfars barndom, och samlingen med sepiatonade fotografier är såklart bara ett av farfars alla påhitt. Men omständigheterna kring farfaderns död tar Jacob till en avlägsen ö utanför Wales kust och till de fallfärdiga ruinerna av Miss Peregrines hem för underliga barn.

Bland dess övergivna rum och ekande korridorer kan Jacob inte motstå en djupdykning i sin farfars förflutna och snart inser han att barnen i huset kan ha funnits i verkligheten. Att de måste ha varit mer än bara märkliga - kanske till och med farliga - och att de inte skeppades iväg till en enslig ö helt utan anledning. Men framförallt står det klart: De underliga barnen kan fortfarande vara vid liv.

Jag kommer inte ihåg när jag senast läste en nyutgiven ungdomsbok med bilder.

Bra var den i alla fall! Jag tycker att boken började väldigt spännande, det var en bra grund till historien. Början på en bok är enligt min mening lika viktig som slutet. Det är början som fångar in läsaren och slutet som släpper läsaren.

Som sagt innan tyckte jag att boken började väldigt bra, jag gillade Jacobs farfar väldigt mycket, fast vi inte fick så jätte mycket tid med honom. Dock så är han alltid närvarande genom boken då det ändå var han som började allt. 

 
Jag skulle dock inte bli ledsen eller så om vi hade fått lära känna honom i hans levande stadium haha.

Barnhemmet. Det besynnerliga barnhemmet. Eller jag kanske bör säga, barnhemmet med de besynnerliga barnen. Speciellt hem det där. Vet ni, jag vart faktiskt lite besviken på just den delen…
jag tyckte inte att det var så värst intressant där, det äventyret Jacob kände att det var gjorde inte jag, och jag fann mig själv sucka lite för mig själv när han gick dit. Jag ville hellre att han skulle göra andra saker än att gå dit.

Slutet då? Dramatiskt var det, väldigtdramatiskt. Actionpackat och det är inte fören slutet som jag känner att jag verkligen får grepp om dessa besynnerliga barn. Dessa trasiga varelser.

Det här är inte direkt en komisk bok, så om du verkligen vill ha en bok men som får dig att skratta lite då och då är inte detta en bok för dig, men om du gillar mysterier och lite mörka historier med kusliga bilder är detta en bok för dig!

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By Ransom Riggs

Pages: 352

Publisher: Quirk

As a kid, Jacob formed a special bond with his grandfather over his bizarre tales and photos of levitating girls and invisible boys. Now at 16, he is reeling from the old man's unexpected death. Then Jacob is given a mysterious letter that propels him on a journey to the remote Welsh island where his grandfather grew up. There, he finds the children from the photographs--alive and well--despite the islanders’ assertion that all were killed decades ago. As Jacob begins to unravel more about his grandfather’s childhood, he suspects he is being trailed by a monster only he can see.

I cannot remember when I last read a newly released young adult book with pictures.

Good thing was it anyway! I think the book started very exciting, it was a good foundation for the story. The beginning of a book is in my opinion just as important as the end. It's beginning that has to capture the reader and the end that releases the reader.

As I said before, I thought the book started very good, I liked Jacob's grandfather very much, though we did not get very much time with him. However, he is always present through the book as it still was he who started it all.

However, I would not be sad or so if we had gotten to know him in his live stage haha.

The peculiar home. Or perhaps I should say, the home with the peculiar children. Special home that. I was actually quite disappointed with the whole peculiar home idea.

I did not think it was terribly interesting there, the adventure Jacob felt it was I didn’t., and I found myself sighing a little to myself when he went there. I would rather that he would do things other than go there.

The end then? Dramatic, it was, very dramatic. Action-packed and it was around the end that  I felt like I REALLY got a grasp of the peculiar children.

This is not exactly a comic book, so if you really want a book that makes you laugh every now and then then this is not a book for you, but if you like mysteries and little dark stories with spooky pictures, this is a book for you!

xoxo Lihini

  

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) REVIEW

The day you have all been waiting for is finally here. I've been bullied to no ends by my friends because of this. I've been laughed at and people have said " and you call yourself a book-blogger? HAHAHAHA"

All because I hadn't read Harry Potter.
All because of THAT Potter.
Well cry no more readers because I finished HP yesterday and here is my review.

By J.K. Rowling
Pages: 310
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in ten years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

3/5

I don't really know what to say about this book, what is there left to say really? 
I knew reading this book would be much like Percy Jackson but in it's own way, I knew I wouldn't hate the book and I did not, I enjoyed it quite a lot actually. There was so much adventure, and I was amazed by the friendship the kids at Hogwarts had, and how loyal they were to their friends. 
My favorite character's much be Hermione and Neville. They were both loyal to their friends and they were both very brave characters in their own way. 
I am truly sad over the fact that I didn't read this book sooner, and by sooner I mean around the age of 13 because the book was more or less EXACTLY like the movie, and I think I would have liked it in a different way If I read it at a younger age.

I will definitely be reading the other books in the series, because I've that they are supposed to be better.

 ~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Book Releases: July

Im not so excited for this months book releases, because there are like 2 books im planning on reading that comes out this month, Summer-season always looks like this...

Frigid (Frigid #1)

By Jennifer L. Armentrout (penname J. Lynn)

Expected publication: July 30th 2013 by Spencer Hill Contemporary

For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. 

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. 

But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor'easter, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.

just picture 17 year old Lilo Stitch dancing the hawaiian dance, yeah that's how I will look when I have this book in my hands! Jennifer is such a great author that anything she writes, I have to read. I do not like the summary that much, but heck, Its Jennifer.

Dirty Little Secret

By Jennifer Echols

Expected publication: July 16th 2013 by MTV Books

From the author of the “real page-turner” (Seventeen) Such a Rush comes an 

unforgettable new drama that follows friends-turned-lovers as they navigate the passions, heartbreaks, and intrigue of country music fame.

Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.

Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…

Jennifers name keep coming up everywhere, I even have "going to o far" on my eBook (unread) maybe I should check this one out? it doesn't sound that bad.

Search Me

By Katie Ashley

Published July 2nd 2013

Twenty year old Lane Montgomery never imagined her usually boring summer in the boonies would require her to trade her toe shoes for hunting boots or her monotonous college textbooks for treasure map deciphering. Never would she have imagined after breaking her grandmother’s precious Native American statue, danger, a lost treasure of Cherokee Gold and a hostage situation would arise. Nor could she predict that the one man destined to protect her and her family was her childhood nemesis and former crush, Maddox Diaz.

Returning after three years in the Army, twenty-three year old Maddox Diaz is confronted with more than he bargained for when agreeing to help his childhood buddy and deepest regret, Lane. Suddenly he is thrust into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with armed and ruthless treasure seekers that results in car chases and gun battles all in the presence of the one girl who still manages to haunt his dreams and drive him wild with desire.

Lane is determined to deny the sizzling chemistry with the man who stole her virginity and broke her heart. She just wants to stay alive with her heart intact. Will she be able to resist the man whose body sets fire to all her senses?

The cover. Im not saying more.

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

The Hobbit / Hobbiten REVIEW +

English Review
By J.R.R. Tolkien

Paperback, 351 pages

Published August 15th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin 

This book was recommended to me by a boy with nice hair that you just wan't to braid, and because he had nice hair I decided to give this book a try.

I have this rule which i know a lot of other people have too "read at least 100 pages before putting it down"

I did and I just could not finish the book, so because of that this review will be short. 
The thing with this book is that It was good. I loved the language, words were used in a marvelous way, great main character that seemed very nice and humble.

everything was there for me to like, I shuld have liked the story but I just... didn't.
I don't know if it was because so much happent so fast I felt like I couldn't cope, or if it was because I just could not see the point of finishing this book. during the time I read this book I found myself looking longingly at my bookshelf, just wanting to read something else but this book.

However, I must point out that I think this is a fantastic children's book and I wish I had read it a few years before, or had someone read it to me as a bedtime story or something, I think I would have appreciated the giants, trolls and dwarves more then.

Bilbo Baggins, a simple Hobbit, never asked for adventure. It literally came knocking on his door -- 13 dwarves (Tolkien's spelling with the "v") and Gandalf the wizard show up to tea to hire Bilbo as a thief in their quest to reclaim a hoard of treasure. It's stashed far away and guarded by a fierce dragon, Smaug. Bilbo will have to cross the Misty Mountains -- troll and goblin country -- and the untamed wilds of Mirkwood, where straying from the path can be deadly. In exchange, he gets an even share of the treasure and quite a story to tell. But is one little hobbit really up for such a big adventure?

Swedish Review

Av J.R.R. Tolkien

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• Originaltitel: The Hobbit

Författare: 

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Översättare: 

  Erik Andersson

• Översättare: 

  John Swedenmark

• Förlag: 

  Norstedts

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Den lille hobbiten Bilbo Secker dras av trollkarlen Gandalf grå med på äventyr tillsammans med tretton dvärgar, ledda av den sturske Thorin Ekensköld. De ska röva bort en stor guldskatt som vaktas av den eldsprutande draken Smaug.

På vägen stöter de på ruskiga troll och vättar, men också hjälpsamma varelser som alver, jätteörnar och den store Beorn. Bilbo träffar också den slemmige Gollum som håller till i en mörk grotta uppe i bergen. Gollum utmanar Bilbo på en tävling och blir där av med sin magiska osynlighetsring. En ring som kommer att spela en viktig roll i berättelsen.


Denna bok rekommenderades till mig av en pojke med fint hår som du bara vill fläta, och eftersom han hade fint hår beslutade jag att ge denna bok ett försök.
 
Jag har denna regel, som jag vet att många andra människor också har "läst minst 100 sidor innan du lägger ner den"

Jag läste 100 sidor och jag bara kunde inte avsluta boken, så på grund av att detta kommer denna översyn att vara kort.
Grejen med denna bok är att Den var bra. Jag älskade språket, var ord användes på ett förunderligt sätt, fantastisk huvudperson som verkade mycket trevlig och ödmjuk.

Det här var en sådan historia jag borde ha gillat men jag bara... gjorde inte det.
Jag vet inte om det berodde på att så mycket hände så fort jag kände att jag inte kunde klarde av det, kändes lite som en soppa på en soppa, eller om det var för att jag bara inte kunde se poängen med att avsluta denna bok. under tiden jag läste denna bok jag fann mig själv tittar längtansfullt på min bokhylla; ville bara läsa något annat som inte var denna bok.

Jag måste dock påpeka att jag tycker att detta är en fantastisk barnbok och jag önskar att jag hade läst den några år innan, eller haft någon läsa den åt mig som en godnatt saga eller något, jag tror jag skulle ha uppskattat jätterna o trollen och dvärgarna mer då.

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini