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2013-10-24

Allegiant (Divergent #3) REVIEW

Divergent (Divergent #1) Review
Insurgent (divergent #2) Review

Allegiant (Divergent, #3)By Veronica Roth
Pages: 544
Publisher HarperCollins


One choice will define you.

What if your whole world was a lie?
What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?


The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.

Told from both Tris and Tobias point of view.


I'm not going to rate this one, because I feel like this is a book that can't be rated, and I'm just not ready yet.

You broke me Roth. I will never forgive you for that ending. Ever.

I am supposed to write a review when all I want to do is cry. This is the hardest part a book blogger have to go trough - Having to face a book that broke you, and even worse, put word to it. 

I don't know how good this review will be, so if it sucks, I'm sorry.

Allegiant starts of around where we left in Insurgent and things escalate quickly.
And when I say quickly I mean real quickly, and many authors would have failed with making it all work but of course VR did. 

We get to meet a lot of new people which was some how confusing in the beginning because I didn't what this even had to do with the whole Divergent trilogy, but then I realized that nothing in this book is like the other two books. This one is packed with insensitivity and unexpected turns that left me having a hard time breathing correctly. And that scared the crap out of me. Veronica became something she's been telling us to be trough Divergent. She became brave. 

There wasn't so much character-development in Allegiant but one person I feel like did change was Tris. Tris and I have a lot in common and I really look up to her. Her power somehow makes me want to be stronger too. She isn't the small little insecure child any longer. She is a woman now. 

I feel like reading from Tobias POV gives us a better understanding about him as a character, he isn't really a wordy person, so we never really knew him. Until now. 

People talk about the ending and how amazing it was because she took a risk. How she is so brave for doing so and that more YA authors should do so but do you know what I think? I call it bull.

I felt betrayed by that ending. It felt like a personal punishment of some sort. One I will never forget, never accept.  It was like being stabbed in the heart over and over again but Life wont let you die so you have no other choice than to 
endure what is unbearable. 
You have to continue with your life.
So you bear it.
Good bye Divergent.

Love always
Lihini.

  

2013-09-09

Den Femte Vågen / The 5th Wave REVIEW

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”


Omslagsbild: Den femte vågen


















Av Rick Yancey
Sidor: 493
Förlag: Rabén Sjögren

 Efter första vågen finns bara mörker. Efter andra vågen är det bara de som har tur som överlever. Efter tredje vågen är det bara de som har otur som överlever. Efter fjärde vågen finns bara en regel: lita inte på någon.
Nu är det gryning efter den femte vågen och Cassie flyr från De andra. De som ser ut som vanliga människor men som dödar alla de ser. De andra, som har splittrat jordens få överlevande. Cassies föräldrar är döda och hennes lillebror tillfångatagen. Nu flyr hon för livet, hon flyr från De andra. Cassie har valt att inte lita på någon. Hon vet att ensam är stark inte bara är ett slitet uttryck, utan det kanske enda sättet att hålla sig vid liv.

Den här boken vart det en stor hype utav rätt fort, och låt oss inte neka det faktum att det var utav just den anledningen jag valde att läsa denna bok.

Grejen med dystopi böcker är att de oftast är så SJUUUKTTT sega. Man bara sitter där och vänder blad, för att man vill avsluta boken så fort som möjligt så att man kan skriva en recension man kan glömma bort boken helt. Detsamma gäller denna bok.
   Jag tyckte även att det var förvirrande i början hur de presenterade mig för nya huvudkaraktärer, eftersom att dessa karaktärer hade inte något med varandra att göra i början, vissa fick inte ens ett NAMN försen typ 50 sidor senare. Det var då man kunde börja koppla lite, men man förstod varför dessa karaktärer fanns med mot slutet. de fanns inte där av en slump.

Men en historia om aliens kan inte var hur dålig som helst.

Fast det är ONDA aliens.

Boken vart spännande efter 250 sidor, och efter 350 sidor blev det en riktig page-turner.



Rick Yancey har gjort ett mycket fint jobb när det handlar om att konstruera sina karaktärer. Karaktärerna fick inte en typisk kroppsbeskrivning, dvs. hur de såg ut så fort vi träffade dem, utan det handlade mer om att lära känna dem som individer. Allt hände i sin takt, för varje sida lärde man sig något nytt om karaktärerna. Det som gör den här boken lite speciell för mig var det faktum att jag inte kände att karaktärerna tvingades på mig. Jag tvingades inte till att älska dem, ingen beskrevs som "så söt och älskvärd" som t.ex. Prim beskrivs i Hungerspelan.

Efter att ha tänkt och tänkt har jag valt att ge denna bok 3/5, boken hade sina brister, men annars var den bra.


The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)By Rick Yancey
Pages: 457
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

This book became a hype fast, and let's not deny the fact that I woule never pick it up if it wasn't for that reason.

The thing with Dystopian books is that a lot of them are REALLLLYYYYYY slow. You just sit there turning pages, only because you wan't to finish it and get it over with. Same goes for this one.
   I found it confusing in the beginning how they Always introduced us to new main characters, because these new characters didn't really have anything with each other to do in the beginning, they didn't cross roads until a... while.

But a story can't be that bad when it's about aliens.

Even if they are BAD aliens.

The book became fairy intresting after 250 pages, and after 350 pages it became a real page-turner.

Rick Yancey have done a Beautiful job when it comes to construct great characters, They didn't get the whole body description one might get, but you got to know a bit about everyone as you got deeper into the story. He didn't throw it all at your face, he didn't force me to love the characters either; Everything was a work in process.

After thinking and thinking, I decided to give this book 3/5, the book had its flaws, but otherwise it was good.


~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

2013-07-21

Warm bodies SWE / Warm Bodies (Warm bodies #1) REVIEW +


Warm Bodies (Varma kroppar)
Swedish Review
Av Isaac Marion
  • Översättare: 

    Kristoffer Leandoer

  • Formgivare: 

    Malin Westman

  • Förlag: 

    Månpocket



Zombier har inga känslor - om de inte äter av din hjärna 
Världen har fyllts av zombier och ingen vet varför. R är en av dem.
Zombier har inga egna känslor eller minnen - men om de äter av en människas hjärna återupplever de scener ur den personens liv.
Det är så det går till när R blir förälskad. Han dödar en ung man och övertar hans kärlek till flickvännen. Nu har R ett mål i tillvaron. Han vill hålla kvinnan gömd från de andra zombierna och se till att hon överlever.
Den unge mannens känslor blir som en drog för R, bit för bit äter han av pojkvännens hjärna. Scen för scen upplever R hans liv, och det förändrar honom för alltid.

Vilken söt berättelse! R var så sjukt gullig, inte utseendemässigt då, utan mer sättet han tänkte på. När han träffar Julie vet han inte riktigt vad han ska göra med sig själv, som om han vore kär för första gången igen... vilket han tekniskt sett är. Jag gillar hela zombie ideén, inte för hemsk, en rätt passande sommarbok faktiskt. Att Perry skulle ha en så stor roll i boken trodde jag inte, med tanke på att jag har sett filmen innan, men han var viktig för boken.
Det här är Isaacs debutbok, inget mästerverk direkt, snarare en härlig luftig bok :)
När Maron skrev boken så var hans störta önskan att den skulle bli publicerad, dvs. han hade inte ens en plan på att den skulle bli så här stor. Nu när den har blivit det har han även passat på att avslöja att det kommer en uppföljare! 

3/5

Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)
English Review
By Isaac Maro

PaperbackUK Edition240 pages
Published October 28th 2010 by Vintage


R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.

Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.

This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...


What a sweet story! R was so cute, not in appearance, but more the way he was thinking. When he meets Julie knows he does not really know what to do with himself, as if he were in love for the first time again ... which he technically is. I like the whole zombie Idea, not horrible, a true and proper Summer Books actually. I would never have thought that Perry would have such a big role in the book, given that I've seen the movie before, but he was important to the book.
This is Isaac's first novel, no masterpiece directly, rather a lovely airy book :)

When Maron wrote the book his biggest wish was it to be published, that is. he did not even have a plan for it to become this big. Now that it has become just that he have decided to write a sequel!
3/5

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini