Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) REVIEW

By Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 404
Publisher: Bloomsbury


After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. 

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. 
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. 

Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

What.
Is.
This.

That was my first reaction. What on earth is this.
I'm an avid reader. I read all the time, I talk about what I read, and I write about it too. I've come across some great, bad, fast paced, slow paced, incoherent, etc. books in my days.

But THIS book right here was just so hard to understand. The beginning did not make sense at all, the background story lacked important information that I'd like to have just to UNDERSTAND what I'm reading. Feeling clueless of what's happening 250 pages in is just not right. But as the real fighter I am I kept going. Kept fighting this book. 

AAAAND I did not like it. I think there's a great story that's being told BUT everything went super fast in my opinion and not much facts to why everything that happened was given. The biggest issue I had with this book though was that I had a very hard time remembering all the characters. They kind of just melted together. 

To sum things up, nice story, poorly told. 


xoxo Lihini

Pappersstäder / Paper Towns REVIEW

Av John Green
Sidor: 367
Förlag: Bonnier Carlsen

Quentin Jacobsen har älskat den iögonenfallande och äventyrslystna Margo på avstånd i hela sitt liv. Ända sedan de som grannbarn lekte tillsammans. Så när hon öppnar fönstret till hans rum och klättrar in i hans liv igen och övertalar honom att följa med på en genialiskt hämndaktion följer han med. 

Efter deras natt tillsammans kommer Quentin till skolan för att upptäcka att Margo - som alltid varit något av en gåta - nu har förvandlats till ett mysterium. Hon brukar försvinna ibland, men aldrig så här länge. Kan hon vara död? Men snart upptäcket Quentin att Margo lämnat subtila, smarta ledtrådar bara för honom. Budskapet är tydligt: Hitta mig om du kan! 

Vägen mot gåtans lösning är vindlande och tvingar Quentin att inse att ju närmare han kommer Margos gömställe desto mindre vet han egentligen om henne. Och kommer han att hinna fram innan hon försvinner igen? 

Vilken besvikelse till bok. 
Den kan lika gärna heta Alaska Town eller något sånt. Om ni har läst Looking for Alaska kan jag säga att denna bok innehåller samma koncept men karaktärerna har bara andra namn. 

John Green är känd för sina komplexa karaktärer men vad är vitsen med att skriva om trasiga ungdomar om man inte kan skildra dem på olika sätt i sina böcker? 

Början var intressant och spännande, deras äventyr höll ett bra tempo och stämningen var allmänt skön.
Men efter att Margo försvann förändrades hela historien (vilket var förväntat).
Vad som inte var lika förväntat var Quentins besatthet av Margo. Hela hans dagar och nätter kretsade kring henne, han vart arg så fort någon utav hans kompisar försökte leva sitt liv, försökte njuta av sina sista dagar i high school. Quentin var egentligen inte ens självcentrerad utan han trodde att han var tvungen att sluta leva sitt liv för att hitta någon som sprungit iväg av en anledning. Han slösade bort sitt liv på en besatthet.

Som nämt innan så handlade boken egentligen bara om en sak - att hitta Margo.
Detta gjorde dialogerna väldigt konstiga och metaforerna orelevanta. De var liksom för djupa för handligen och gick inte ihop med resten. 

Jag vill dock hylla bokaraktärerna litegrann, enligt min mening var de de enda som var värda att läsa om. De var roliga och väldigt kloka, kloka på ett sätt som var trovärdigt. Jag tyckte speciellt mycket om Ben, har var så oförutsägbar och fick mig att skratta flera gånger. Han lyfte upp boken ur dess mörka vrå lite grann.

E N G L I S H

Author: John Green
Pages: 305
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows.

After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Q gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.

What a disappointment to book. 
It may as well be called Alaska Town or something. If you've read Looking for Alaska, I can say that this book contains the same concept but the characters just have different names.

John Green is known for his complex characters but what's the point of writing about the broken youth if one can not depict them in various ways in his books?

The beginning was interesting and exciting, their adventures kept a good pace and the mood was generally pleasant.
But after Margo disappeared the whole story changed (which was expected).
What was less expected was Quentin's obsession with Margo. His whole days and nights revolved around her, he became angry whenever any of his mates tried to live their life, trying to enjoy their last days in high school. Quentin was not really even self-centered, but he thought he had to stop living his life to find someone who ran away for a reason. He was wasting his life on an obsession.

Like I said before the book is only about one thing - finding Margo.
This made the dialogues very weird and strange metaphors that were irrelevant. They were like too deep for the plot and did not go with the rest.

However, I must say that I loved the supporting characters.

 In my opinion, they were the only ones worth reading about. They were funny and very wise, wise in a way that was believable. I especially liked Ben's was so unpredictable and made ​​me laugh several times. He picked up the book out of its dark corner a little bit.

xoxo Lihini

Colin Fisher / I Huvudet på Colin Fisher REVIEW (English & Swedish)

Av Ashley Edward Miller och Zack Stentz
Sidor: 223
Förlag Bonnier Carlsen
Finns på Adlibis

Löser brott - ett ansiktsuttryck i taget!

Colin Fischer tål inte beröring. Han gillar inte färgen blå. Han använder sig av kort för att tolka ansiktsuttryck. 
Colin är fjorton år och lider av Aspergers syndrom. Han gillar inte att någon rör vid honom, inte ens hans föräldrar. Han kan inte tolerera höga ljud och han har svårt att tolka ansiktsuttryck. Däremot har han ett fantastiskt minne och en extraordinär slutledningsförmåga. 

När en pistol hittas i skolmatsalen, och avbryter en klasskamrats födelsedagsfirande, är Colin den enda som kan lösa fallet. Det är upp till honom att bevisa att Wayne Connelly, skolans översittare och Colins frekventa plågare, inte förde med sig vapnet till skolan. För när allt kommer omkring så hade Wayne inte glasyr på sina händer, och det var vit chokladglasyr som återfanns på den rykande pistolens handtag... 

YES, YES YES, VILKEN HÄRLIG BOK!
Vad mer kan man förvänta sig från skaparna till Filmen X men: First Class och Thor?

Åh, nu vet jag varför jag läser böcker. Just för den saliska känslan som jag ännu en gång fått lyckan att känna, jag trodde jag tappat hoppet om bra böcker för alltid men sen så dök denna magnifika berättelse upp!
Vart ska man börja...

Låt mig säga en sak om Colin Fisher. Han är en dröm "with a cherry on top". Aspbergers eller ej, hans ärlighet, hans sätt att förmedla sina tankar, dv.s. rakt på sak, gör hela berättelsen förbaskat magnifik!

Colins karaktär är väldigt härlig. Han växer verkligen som person genom boken, och när skottlossningen äger rum så får man ta del utav hans fulla kapacitet som individ.

Det enda riktiga störmomentet jag fann var deras ålder. Ungdomarna i boken verkade inte alls vara 14, minst 17 år skulle jag säga. Jag kunde aldrig riktigt se dem framför mig som små barn.

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By  Ashley Edward Miller and  Zack Stentz

Pages: 227

Publisher: Razorbill

SOLVING CRIME, ONE FACIAL EXPRESSION AT A TIME

Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions.

But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate's birthday celebration, Colin is the only for the investigation. It's up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin's frequent tormenter, didn't bring the gun to school. After all, Wayne didn't have frosting on his hands, and there was white chocolate frosting found on the grip of the smoking gun...


YES, YES YES, WHAT A DELIGHTFUL BOOK!
What more can you expect from the makers of the film X men: First Class and Thor?

Oh, now I know why I read books. Just for the Salic feeling I once again had the good fortune to feel, I thought I'd lost hope of good books forever but then  popped this magnificent story up!
Where do we start ..

Let me say one thing about Colin Fisher. He's a Dream "with a cherry on top". Asperger's or not, his honesty, his way of conveying his thoughts, that is, bluntly, makes the whole story damn magnificent!

Colin's character is very lovely. He really grows as a person through the book, and when the shooting takes place, you get to take part out of his full capacity as an individual.

The only thing that really disturbed me was their age. in the book did not seem to be 14, at least 17 years I would say. I could never really see them before me like little kids.

xoxo Lihini

The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) REVIEW

By Michelle Hodkin
Pages: 527
Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK
Review of the first book: click HERE

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in constant fear that she might hurt him. She needs to learn how to control her power, and fast! Together, Mara and Noah must try and figure out exactly how Jude survived when the asylum collapsed, and how he knows so much about her strange ability...before anyone else ends up dead!

FINALLY, I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THIS BOOK!

I read the first book over one year ago, and I'm glad that I choose to continue with the series.
I forgot how addicting Michelle Hodkin's writing can be. I remember thinking that the first book reminded me of Twilight, but I honestly don't know what I was thinking then. 

Noah Shaw. Yet another fictional crush of mine. Hodkin's wrote about mental ilness in a very true way, and every page build p beautifully to the climax. No plot holes as far as I'm concerned, and the story kept a nice pace. 

BUT. Be prepared for a lot of unanswered questions that I think will be answered in the third installment. I'm curios to know what will happen, but i'm darn sure that ending was a bluff. It has to be.

xoxo Lihini

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

  

House Rules

By Jodi Picoult

Hardcover, 532 pages

Published March 2nd 2010 by Atria Books

When your son can't look you in the eye...does that mean he's guilty?
Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject - forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he's always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right.
But when Jacob's small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob's behaviors are hallmark Asperger's, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are directly in the spotlight. For Jacob's mother, Emma, it's a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it's another indication why nothing is normal because of Jacob.
And over this small family, the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder?

This book was very special. I haven't read a mystery book since I was 13, and they hardly even count. Jacob was a very unpredictable character, you never knew what he would do until he did it. His mother had struggled his whole life with trying to give him everything that he desired, and to do that she had to give away her life too. 

this book was told from five people's point of view and it somehow worked. The book contained so many small details that one sidestep would have lead to a disaster with all the different minds. in the beginning I didn't see why we got to read from some peoples pov, like Oliver, but all these five peoples life's got connected at some point to the end. And talking about the end

What on earth was that!? are you kidding me, the book ended, like really ended with a effing CLIFFHANGER? there isn't even a follow up book!

I give this book a strong 3,5 / 5

I really liked her way of writing, and I liked hr characters, but she could have used less examples in her book, for an example "Jacob looked at me the way h used to look at me when he was twelve and we would sit under the cherry tree and he would look at me and say that cherry trees aren't really trees..." etc, u get the point (that wasn't a citation from the book)

and the big mystery in the book wasn't really a mystery to me when they revealed it at the end, I had the whole thing figured out 250 pages ago.

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini