The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #1) Review

by Rick Riordan
Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper. His best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids”, as Leo puts it. What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea — except that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret. Her father, a famous actor, has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? 

Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunk-mates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.


love. Rick Riordan is a d*mn good author, and will most definitely make you laugh unless you're a stone. or after a second consideration he will make you laugh whether you're a stone or not. the language is easy, the characters are warm, and after a while they come to feel like MY friends. Rick is always seen on the best seller list and that is understandable. he is well known for his Percy Jackson series, and this is actually a follow-up serie but i do not necessarily think you have to read the Percy Jackson to understand The Lost Hero, but it does get better if you have read Percy Jackson before

bookcirlcle, out now!

aaand the book circle is up now!
you can join it on goodreads, and I will also upload the books here, but it would be more fun if you could join :) we are thinking about starting with a mermaid book, since the book market is exploding with mermaid books these days. but we will not start until maybe next week or something, because me and my friend have to finish the books we are currently reading :)
 click HERE to get to the book circle

Live Video Chat with P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

"Join us on Thursday, October 18 at 7pm ET/4pm PT for a live video chat with bestselling author duo P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. We'll be discussing Hidden, the latest in their popular House of Night series. Don't miss it!"

 

Date:	October 18, 2012    04:00PM -- October 18, 2012    04:30PM

Josephine Angelini wrote to me!

so i wrote to Josephine Angelini's facebook wall how much i loved her book 'dreamless (starcrossed #2)' (find the review here)
and she actually wrote back!

me:

Hi Josephine, im a big fan of your books, just finished Dreamless, and OMG, the book was GREAT! I can not express in a better how much i loved the book :) I can not wait til Goddess comes out! LOVE from Sweden! :D ♥

her: Love back from Los Angeles!!! ♥

A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1) Review

by Libba Bray

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel.

Sixteen-year-old Gemma has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother's death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to England, she is enrolled at Spence, a girls' academy with a mysterious burned-out East Wing. There Gemma is snubbed by powerful Felicity, beautiful Pippa, and even her own dumpy roommate Ann, until she blackmails herself and Ann into the treacherous clique. Gemma is distressed to find that she has been followed from India by Kartik, a beautiful young man who warns her to fight off the visions. Nevertheless, they continue, and one night she is led by a child-spirit to find a diary that reveals the secrets of a mystical Order. The clique soon finds a way to accompany Gemma to the other-world realms of her visions "for a bit of fun" and to taste the power they will never have as Victorian wives, but they discover that the delights of the realms are overwhelmed by a menace they cannot control. Gemma is left with the knowledge that her role as the link between worlds leaves her with a mission to seek out the "others" and rebuild the Order

I personally have not read this book, but i have heard so many great things about it, my friends is like going crazy about this book series. I, however, can not see the interesting in this. I have a slight feeling it might be like Jane Austen book, and let's just say I'm not her biggest fan right now :)

FRIDAY

wehoo, PARDYYYYYY, DRINKING, BOOOYS!!!!! no, not really, im going to hang out with my 3 year old cousin(so much for company), and watch X factor :)
so today i had a test. went OK, but i regret not bringing something to eat during the test, because my brain stopped working when i came to the harder questions because of the lack of sugar or something :(
but anyway, after lunch we went to Drottningholm, where our King and Queen live :) their castle is HUUUGE, and so much gold everywhere, it was pretty awesome :) later we had our traditional friday-coffee, always fun(and tasty) and then i went straight home, and now im sitting behind this beautiful screen, the only thing connecting me to the beautiful world, i wish you could all be here, so we could have a tea party! no, not really, that would be awkward.

calling on all my swedish readers!

so now im calling on all my swedish readers! when i was younger, maybe 13/14 i started to write a manuscript. (that's what you call the text before I'ts a book) i wrote it during the summer, and then when school started i put it on "rest" then the following summer i began to write on it again, readjust some thing's etc, and thought to myself, why not put it up on a blog, so that other's can read it and give me feedback?
turned out to be a great idea because my readers LOVED it, and became very sad when i quit writing, so no, it's faaaaaar from finished, but f you would like to read it click HEEEEEREEEE :) P.S.  It's in Swedish!

On the Jellicoe Road Reiew

by: melina marchetta
I'm dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years ago.

Taylor is the leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. She has to keep the upper hand in the territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggs - the enigmatic leader of the cadets, and someone she thought she would never see again.

And now Hannah, the person Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor's only clue is a manuscript about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road.

perfect. perfect storytelling, perfect characters, just. perfect. this is one of the most UNIQUE stories i have ever read, so beautiful and captivating. when i first started of with this book i had heard a lot of beautiful things about it which gave me high expectations, and boy, this book rose above them.  

xoxo Lihini

someone give me foooood haha

aaah, i live 1 hour away from my school, and when i woke up the other day i did not feel so well, but i went to school anyway. and then when i came to to school i decided to take a trip to the nursery room to get some tablet's for my awful headache, but of course, she did not have her license yet to give me any tablet's.. so i went to my Spanish class, and like 30 minutes in the class i felt like my head was going to collapse, and im pretty sure i fell asleep during some point to, so i wen't home. that's right, 2 hour on the train just for nothing.. when i came home i watched TV and read the book im currently reading 'Matched' and let's be honest, i do not like the book very much. i do not know why, but the book is just so.. grey and dull somehow.. when i read i wan't to read about great views, and color's and so on, but this was just so very.. grey, and even the characters seemed lifeless somehow, I think the author is concentrating a bit too much on the main character that she somehow forget's about the surrounding..
and today is no different, i stayed home from school, my throat hurt so much, and i just feel like a rotten tomato that has been forgotten in the bottom om the refrigerator. ( i found something like that a week ago in our refrigerator, cute, i know)
but i still have to be a man and do my homework... so my friend and I are going to start a book circle on Goodreads, i will put up a link here when I'ts up, if you want to join :)

obsessed with cinnamon and apple, and peanut butter during this time of fall, but i haven't been getting a chance to eat either of it yet ;(
if you wan't to know how to make these, click HERE
xoxo Lihini

Authors on facebook

i love following authors on facebook, in case they have a book tour and come to a town near me, i would know :D

im going to share some of my favorites.
Simone elkeles
Josephine Angelini
Rick Riordan
Richelle Mead
Meg Cabot
Cassandra Clare
Jennifer L. Armentrout
just to name a few ;)

im going to sleep now, night night beautiful <3
xoxo Lihini