2013-08-08
2013-08-07
How Books are made +
I've always wondered how books are made, I mean I come in contact with books everyday, without really knowing how they are made, so I decided to check it out, and found a great video! I thought that I should share it with you guys so here it is!
xoxo Lihini
Pandemonium / Pandemonium REVIEW +
Av Lauren OliverFörlag Bonnier Carlsen (tack för boken)
387 sidor
Hon offrade allt för kärleken. Nu har hon förlorat den för alltid.
Lena ger sig av på en livsfarlig resa genom Vildmarken, till den växande motståndsrörelsens fäste. Samtidigt som det börjar viskas om revolution dras Lena in i ett livsfarlig spel. Här är äntligen den gastkramande uppföljaren till "Delirium". Den gamla Lena är död. Hon lämnades kvar med Alex blodiga kropp bakom en mur av eld och rök, när de tillsammans försökte fly till vildmarken. Den nya Lena lever från dag till dag. I Vildmarken finns inget förflutet. Det enda som spelar någon roll är nuet, och vad som kommer att hända i framtiden. Och i framtiden finns en möjlighet att motarbeta regimen. I framtiden finns hopp. Den andra delen i Lauren Olivers dystopiska trilogi tar vid direkt efter den dramatiska upplösningen i "Delirium". Lenas uppvaknande till sanningen bakom den värld hon levde i var bara början.
Bättre än den första boken i serien!
Sällan andra boken i en serie är bättre, brukar oftast vara den boken som är sämre men åh nej, här hände det saker! Jag var inte världens största fan utav första boken Delirium, tyckte att Alexs och Lenas band accelererade lite för fort, och så kändes det hela lite dött, lite tråkigt. Men i Pandemonium får vi se mer action, Lena växer till en sjukt cool tjej och hela berättelsen håller dig på kanten av stolen, medan du sakta biter ned på naglarna. Oliver dödar sina karaktärer hur hon vill, så den rädslan sitter alltid där - vems liv tar hon härnäst? Även fast du inte gillade Delirium så värst mycket tycker jag definitivt att du ska ge Pandemonium en chans! Och ett sista ord: Cliffhanger!
4/5
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By Lauren Oliver375 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.
Better than the first book in the series!
Rarely the second book in a series is better than the first, it's usually to be the book that is worse but oh no, here came the stuff! I was not the worlds biggest fan of the first book Delirium, thought Alex and Lena's band accelerated a little too fast, and I felt the whole thing just felt dead and boring. But in Pandemonium we will see more action, Lena grows to a crazy cool girl and the story keeps you on the edge of the chair, while slowly biting down on your nails. Oliver kills her characters the way she wants, so that fear is always there - whose life will she take next? Even though you did not like Delirium that much I definitely think you should give Pandemonium a chance! One last word: Cliffhanger!
4/5
xoxo Lihini
2013-08-06
Sea of Monsters out now!!
Sea of monsters had world premiere today, have you seen it yet? The movie haven't had premiere here in sweden yet (august 21th) so ill have to wait
2013-08-05
2013-08-04
Jellicoe Road / On the Jellicoe Road REVIEW 2 +
Av Melina Marchetta
Förlag: Xpublishing
Som barn överges Taylor på 7-Eleven av sin mamma. Sex år senare börjar det förflutna komma ikapp henne då ännu en person i Taylors närhet försvinner, och en annan återvänder. Samtidigt pågår gängkriget på Jellicoe internatskola för fullt och ett manuskript visar sig innehålla nyckeln till Taylors förflutna. Vilka var barnen som var med om det fruktansvärda för 22 år sedan? Är deras öden sammanflätade med Taylors?
Jellicoe road är inte bara en suggestiv spänningsroman som håller läsaren i ett kompromisslöst grepp. Det är också en vacker, skakande och intrikat skildring om två generationers vänskapsband som visar hjärtskärande likheter med varandra. Ett finmaskigt nät som spänner över tid och rum. Berättelsen kan börja.
Fin, så fin.
Jellicoe Road är en skatt i bokformat. Alla som hinner dö innan dom läst denna bok har inte levt sitt liv fullt ut. Alla som avfärdat boken för den halvtråkiga sammanfattningen som finns på baksidan av boken har avfärdat en stor grå klump. En klump de inte ens orkar borsta av, för om de gjorde det skulle de inse att de höll i guld.
Första gången jag läste boken, för ca 3 år sedan läste jag den på engelska och förstod typ hälften. Jag sprang ned till mamma som stod i köket och sa "det här är nog en utav de bästa böcker jag läst" Mamma svarade "så säger du om alla böcker du läst Lihini"
Nu när jag kunnat uppleva hela denna saga på ett språk jag begriper helt och fullt kan jag bara säga detsamma som fjorton åriga Lihini sa. Det här är fortfarande en utav de bästa böckerna jag läst. Kärleken jag känner för Jonah, Santangelo, Raffy, TAYLOR, och hela historien i sig. Det som gör denna bok så gastkramande är det faktum att dessa tonåringar i boken lever en verklighet som många ungdomar lever i verkliga livet. Mitt hjärta gjorde ont när vi fick träffa Sam. Hans liv rentav sög. Jag tänker inte gå in mer på det, för då kommer jag att spoila och det vill vi inte.
Jellicoe Road är en bok om förhållanden. förhållanden till andra, till sig själv, till naturen, till allt. Berättelsen fick mig att uppskatta små detaljer. Jag började någonstans på vägen se saker ur Taylors perspiktiv. Sen ur Jonahs perspektiv. Och sedan ur Raffy.
Marchetta har vävat ihop två olika, men ändå så lika historier och gett dem ett extraordinärt samband som är så underbart att man bara vill krama om boken och gråta. Vilket jag gjorde. Köp den, Låna den, jag bryr mig inte. Huvusaken är att du läser den.
Ledsen att jag missade henne när hon var här, men tacksam för denna historia hon delat med mig.
Denna bok är markerad som YA, men det här är en bok för alla.
5/5 utan tvekan.
By Melina Marchetta
At age eleven, Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother. At fourteen, she ran away from boarding school, only to be tracked down and brought back by a mysterious stranger. Now seventeen, Taylor's the reluctant leader of her school's underground community, whose annual territory war with the Townies and visiting Cadets has just begun. This year, though, the Cadets are led by Jonah Griggs, and Taylor can't avoid his intense gaze for long. To make matters worse, Hannah, the one adult Taylor trusts, has disappeared. But if Taylor can piece together the clues Hannah left behind, the truth she uncovers might not just settle her past, but also change her future.
Beautiful. So beautiful
Jellicoe Roas is a treasure in book format. Anyone who dies before being able to read this book have not lived their life fully.
The first time I read the book, about 3 years ago I read it in English and understood the maybe half of it. I ran down to my mother who stood in the kitchen and said "this is probably one of the best books I've read" Mom replied, "you say about all the books you read Lihini"
Now that I've been able to experience this whole story in a language I understand fully, I can only say the same as fourteen year old Lihini said. This is still one of the best books I have read. The love I feel for Jonah, Santangelo, Raffy, TAYLOR, and the whole story in itself. What makes this book so thrilling is the fact that these teenagers in the book are living a reality that many young people live in real life. My heart hurt when we got to meet Sam. His life downright sucked. I'm not going to dwell on it, because then I will start spoiling.
Jellicoe Road is a book about relationships. relationships to others, to oneself, to nature, to everything. The story made me appreciate the little details. I started somewhere on the way to see things from Taylors perspiktiv. Then from Jonah's perspective. And then from Raffy.
Marchetta has vävat up two different, yet so similar stories and given them an extraordinary connection that is so wonderful that you just want to hug the book and weep. Which I did. Buy it, Borrow it, I do not care. The main thing is that you read it.
Sorry I missed her when she was here, but thankful for this story she shared with me.
This book is marked as YA, but this is a book for everyone.
Denna bok är markerad som YA, men det här är en bok för alla.
5/5 utan tvekan.
By Melina Marchetta
Paperback, 422 pages
Published March 9th 2010 by HarperTeen
At age eleven, Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother. At fourteen, she ran away from boarding school, only to be tracked down and brought back by a mysterious stranger. Now seventeen, Taylor's the reluctant leader of her school's underground community, whose annual territory war with the Townies and visiting Cadets has just begun. This year, though, the Cadets are led by Jonah Griggs, and Taylor can't avoid his intense gaze for long. To make matters worse, Hannah, the one adult Taylor trusts, has disappeared. But if Taylor can piece together the clues Hannah left behind, the truth she uncovers might not just settle her past, but also change her future.
Beautiful. So beautiful
Jellicoe Roas is a treasure in book format. Anyone who dies before being able to read this book have not lived their life fully.
The first time I read the book, about 3 years ago I read it in English and understood the maybe half of it. I ran down to my mother who stood in the kitchen and said "this is probably one of the best books I've read" Mom replied, "you say about all the books you read Lihini"
Now that I've been able to experience this whole story in a language I understand fully, I can only say the same as fourteen year old Lihini said. This is still one of the best books I have read. The love I feel for Jonah, Santangelo, Raffy, TAYLOR, and the whole story in itself. What makes this book so thrilling is the fact that these teenagers in the book are living a reality that many young people live in real life. My heart hurt when we got to meet Sam. His life downright sucked. I'm not going to dwell on it, because then I will start spoiling.
Jellicoe Road is a book about relationships. relationships to others, to oneself, to nature, to everything. The story made me appreciate the little details. I started somewhere on the way to see things from Taylors perspiktiv. Then from Jonah's perspective. And then from Raffy.
Marchetta has vävat up two different, yet so similar stories and given them an extraordinary connection that is so wonderful that you just want to hug the book and weep. Which I did. Buy it, Borrow it, I do not care. The main thing is that you read it.
Sorry I missed her when she was here, but thankful for this story she shared with me.
This book is marked as YA, but this is a book for everyone.
5/5 no doubt
2013-08-03
Darkness Divine (four short novels in one book) REVIEW +
By P.C. Cast, Geba Showalter, Maggie Shayne, Rhyannon Byrd
Kindle Edition, 432 pages
Published September 1st 2010 by MIRA
In Divine Beginnings, Healer Aine must chose between treating an enigmatic enemy or letting him die, whilst The Amazon’s Curse could kill the passion that Nola and vampire warrior Zane share.
Toying with New Orleans Voodoo, leaves Tessa haunted by a sinfully sexy man., whilstlast scion of the dragon clan Rhys is tormented by his desire for Alia as he struggles to fight the Edge of Craving.
This book contains four small novels, and since i've already written a review on the first one, Divine Beginnings which you can find HERE I won't write another review of it.
I liked these novels more or less, I felt that they could really have been turned in to something more, something more deeper. The Amazon's Curse kept talking about an Island that made me very confused, because everything that happent in this short novel was founded from everything that happen't on that Island, I felt left out, and that is very very amateur. you should NEVER make a reader feel left out like that. I give The Amazon's Curse 2 stars because I would love to know what happened on that Island.
Then we have Voodoo which I really liked while reading it, I thought It was something extra, and I wanted to know what would happen later (which I never will because there is no follow up book) but now thinking back I have to admit that everything happen't way to fast.
Edge of Craving was a bit of a joke, the lead male character was just so funny and not in the good way funny, no I just could not hold myself from laughing at this character, the character never laugh's, never smiles, always mean and grim, etc etc, but of course the innocent girl has to fall for this stone, but hey, oh nono, the guy is not a bottle of negativity after all, he actually likes her and want her body.
And the girl is not so innocent after all, very demanding. This was like a fantasy, very very very short version of Fifty Shades of Grey.
~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini
2013-08-02
Book Releases of the Month: August +
IT'S AUGUST PEOPLE!
SO much to look forward this month but at the same time there are things happening this month that I am not looking forward too. Like school starting August 21th... But at the same time It's going to be fun seeing all friends again!
I was just going through this months releases and YES after 2 awful book-months the authors are back on track again.
The Distance Between Us
By Kasie West
Publisher: HarperTeen
Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.
So when Xander Spence walks into the store to pick up a doll for his grandmother, it only takes one glance for Caymen to figure out he’s oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and that he’s one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. But Xander keeps coming around, despite her best efforts to scare him off. And much to her dismay, she's beginning to enjoy his company.
She knows her mom can’t find out—she wouldn’t approve. She’d much rather Caymen hang out with the local rocker who hasn’t been raised by money. But just when Xander’s attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. And that Xander’s not the only one she should’ve been worried about.
It's contemporary which mean perfect for kind of ending the summer with, I think this book can be sweet so I will probably give this book a try. If not for the story at least for that sweet cover!
For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with
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…
Of Beauty and Beast
SO much to look forward this month but at the same time there are things happening this month that I am not looking forward too. Like school starting August 21th... But at the same time It's going to be fun seeing all friends again!
I was just going through this months releases and YES after 2 awful book-months the authors are back on track again.
The Distance Between Us
By Kasie West
Publisher: HarperTeen
Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.
So when Xander Spence walks into the store to pick up a doll for his grandmother, it only takes one glance for Caymen to figure out he’s oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and that he’s one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. But Xander keeps coming around, despite her best efforts to scare him off. And much to her dismay, she's beginning to enjoy his company.
She knows her mom can’t find out—she wouldn’t approve. She’d much rather Caymen hang out with the local rocker who hasn’t been raised by money. But just when Xander’s attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. And that Xander’s not the only one she should’ve been worried about.
It's contemporary which mean perfect for kind of ending the summer with, I think this book can be sweet so I will probably give this book a try. If not for the story at least for that sweet cover!
Frigid (Frigid #1)
By J. Lynn (Jennifer L. Armentrout)
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporay
Release date: July 15th
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.
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.
IT IS OUT THIS MONTH!
I'ts no secret that Im obsessed with Jennifer's books, I've read two of her books last month, and I have been looking forward for this one for quite a while now!
Dirty Little Secret
By Jennifer Echols
Publisher: MTV Books
Release Date: July 16th
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…
There is one thing I do not like with Echols books, and that is that in every book she writes she likes to keep the readers clueless of the characters future which I find rather irritating, but other than that she is pretty decent.
Of Beauty and Beast
By Stacey Jay
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release date: July 23th
In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
I do not know what to think of this one but It has a nice cover so, maybe yes?
~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini
2013-08-01
Best Seller of the Month: July +
Insurgent (Divergent #2) By Veronica Roth!This book won in Goodreads choice award for being the best Young Adult fantasy book of 2012 And Veronica won the best Author award. I really liked this one, so if you wan't to read my review just search for "insurgent"
One choice can transform you, or destroy you. Every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves, and herself, while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
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