Falla Sönder / Destroy Me (Shatter Me #1,5) REVIEW +

Swedish Review

Av Tahereh Mafi

förlag: B|Wahlstöms

Juliettes berörning är dödlig. Hon satt inlåst på grund av sin förbannelse i åratal. men så träffade hon Warner. Den vackre unge mannen utan hjärta, han gav henne frihet, men bara i hans fångeskap, och hon använde sin kraft i tyranniets tjänst. Juliette vägrade och flydde tillsammans med Adam, rebellen som bad henne att slå för friheten och för deras framtid som älskande. Men lika brinnande och okuvlig som Adams och Juliettes kärlek vuxit sig . lika förbjuden kommer den bli.

I denna novell får vi lära känna Warner lite bättre. I Shatter Me slutar boken väldigt abrupt, Juliette rymmer från basen med Adam, vilket inte alls skulle ske.

Warner var i mina ögon den där hemska mannen med inte en endaste gnutta mänsklighet i blodet. Han var brutalt barmhärtig och verkade inte bry sig om någon annan än Juliette. Fast jag skulle nog kalla det 

besatthet.

Som jag sa i Shatter Me REVIEW så tyckte jag att Tahereh Mafi försökte för mycket. Hennes karaktärer förstod sig inte på humor, och de var ytterst seriösa. *gäsp*. 

Jag börjar inse att Mafi vill få Warner att framstå som en man med en tragisk bakgrund vilket resulterar hans nuvarande beteende. Han är egentligen inte hemsk. Han har en mjuk insida. Han är sårbar. Han är BLA BLA BLA, jag vill verkligen inte höra det! Warner var BRUTAL i Shatter me, han gick WAAAY för långt för att "lära upp Juliette" som jag sa I min Shatter me recension så tror jag att Juliette lider av något mental handikapp, så I guess att Warner och hon passar, för han lider ju av seriösa besatthetsproblem.

Jag kommer inte läsa uppföljaren. 

English review

By Tahereh Mafi

ebook, 103 pages

Published October 2nd 2012 by Harper

Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow.

In this novel we get to know Warner a little better.

In Shatter Me book ends very abruptly, Juliette escapes the base with Adam, which was not suppose to happen.

Warner was in my eyes that horrible man with not a single ounce of humanity in the blood. He was brutally compassionate and seemed not to care about anyone but Juliette. Though I'd probably call it obsession.

As I said in my Shatter Me REVIEW I thought Tahereh Mafi tried too much. Her characters did not understand humor, and they were extremely serious. * yawn *.

I begin to realize that Mafi want to get Warner to appear as a man with a tragic background which results his current behavior. He is not really horrible. He has a soft interior. He is vulnerable. He is BLA BLA BLA, I really do not want to hear it! Warner was BRUTAL in Shatter me, he went WAAAY too far to "train Juliette" as I said in my review Shatter me, I think Juliette is suffering from a mental disability, so I guess that Warner and she fits because he clearly suffers from serious obsession problems. 

I am not going to read the sequal

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

It's easier that way.

Get angry,  get frustrated,  get furious,  but never get sad. Because sadness is what will break us.

I feel very misfit. I want to be understood. I want my mother to stop asking me to act normal. Because I will never be. I will always be myself. She is being unfair and very hurtful.
Having only one parent to turn to is always hard. Because they are the people we really need.

All i want to be is understood and accepted. And im furious,  because I'm neither of that.

Thoughtless REVIEW +

By S.C. Stephens

For almost two years now, Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.

Feeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source – a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first, he's purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes...and none of them will ever be the same.

I've had this book on my e reader for quite a while now. I think my subconscious knew I would hate it.

So freaking slow. I have probably read 150 pages vy now and seriously,  NOTHING special have happened. This Kellan dude is always shaking his head while laughing,  im not kidding,  every single time, and every single time Stephens have to point that out.  What is he, a nick doll?

UPDATE: Im done with the book. and No, I did not finish it. The story line was quite boring I must have read 150 pages before something SLIGHTLY abnormal happened, otherwise - nothing. The characters were deadening, and I mean all three of them, Denny, Kellan and Kiera. 

after 150 pages I got to a plot twist, but at that time I was so tired of the story and the characters, that the plot twist didn't affect me a bit. so I just closed the book. I figured nothing more interesting would happen.

I do not recommend this book to anyone.

1/5

~stay smart, and stay away from this book

xoxo Lihini

The Perks of Being a Wallflower REVIEW +

by Stephen Chbosky

Paperback, 213 pages

Published February 1st 1999 by MTV Books and Pocket Books

 Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

Let's begin with some thoughtful quotes.

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

Those are just some things that came up in the book that made me stop, put the book down and just reflect. Stephen has the most brilliant brain, he seems to hold the answer to all of lifes question, his characters are well thought, and nothing that happens in the book happens without a reason. every chapter makes you just crawl under the blankets.

Chbosky seems like a person that studies everything around him, he describes relationships and put things into words in such a beautiful way, 

Patrick to Charlie “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” that is the way I would like to describe Stephen Chbosky.

You see, nothing really BAAAM happened in this book. Charlie was just living his life as well as he could. But he saw everything in a different way, and he was very honest in his letters, which made everything that happen't in the book quite interesting because Charlie was a real thinker. He got upset a lot, he cried, he loved, he was humble, and he put other people first. always first. 
We got to see the world from a thinkers eyes. 

but the best thing was that I truly felt like I was in Charlies head. Chbosky can do that to you, he knows the power words beholds.

The thing with Charlie is that you never know where he will end up.
He does and says the unexpected thing, but the more you think about the more logical his actions become. 
Charlie thinks so much that his own thughts kind of takes over him.
This could be really scary, Charlie would say things that would make you close to tears, and not just him, but all the other characters were just as beautifully written. Every character was so unique, I came to really like Patrick because of his mental power. He didn't take crap, but in the end we are all human and a human can only bear as much as a human can bear.

5/5

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

Blunda och Hoppa / This Lullaby REVIEW +

Av Sarah Dessen

• Originaltitel: This Lullaby
• Översättare: 

  Johanna Lindbäck

• Förlag: 

  Rabén & Sjögren

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Remy är en ganska cynisk, lite bitchig tjej som tycker att relationer är bäst om de är korta och utan engagemang. Hon tar aldrig några risker, hon har noll tillit till människor, och hon är expert på att göra slut. Kanske har det någonting att göra med att hennes mamma är inne på sitt femte äktenskap och på att hennes pappa är död. Men så träffar hon Dexter, en musikerkille som inte alls är hennes typ. Tror hon.

Med karaktärer man bara älskar och tar till sig, med en somrig miljö på den amerikanska västkusten, och en kärlekshistoria som många bara drömmer om, håller Sarah Dessen läsaren i sitt grepp från första till sista sidan.

Johanna Lindbäck måste nog vara den kändaste översättaren i Sverige.
Sarah Dessen följer sitt eviga mönster och tar med oss till sommaren och allt vad en sommar har att erbjuda - sena kvällar, fester, vännerna, familjedramat, kärleken...
Remy, som många andra tjejer, vet vad hon söker hos en kille. Men ändå kan hon inte neka bandet hon och Dexter har. En kille som egentligen inte ska vara hennes typ. Jag tycker att Dexters karaktär var en väldigt uppfriskande karaktär, han var ingen typisk manlig bokkaraktär med dom galna ögonen, musklerna, badboy attityden osv, inget sådant fanns inom honom. Han var en vanlig musiker med glimten i ögat. Han är en ärlig kille och står för det han säger. 

Sarah Dessen är känd för att sätta mycket fokus på familjen i hennes böcker, jag skulle nog kalla det hennes signatur, det är ett så typiskt Sarah Dessen drag. Vi får följa Remys mammas utveckling med hennes nya man från Remys ögon, och vi ser hur hennes familjemedlemmar får henne som person att växa.
Vad jag hade lite svårt för med denna bok var det att Remys ödmjukhet gentemot hennes familj, det vill säga hur hon liksom accepterade det hennes familjemedlemmar sa till henne, fast det gick emot hennes egna åsikter, det stämde inte riktigt överens med hur hon annars var som person. ibland kändes det som om det fanns två Remys i boken. 
Annars var detta en härlig sommarbok, lite tråkig på sina ställen men man dog inte utav det direkt. 

By Sarah Dessen

Paperback, 345 pages

Published March 8th 2004 by Speak

When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn't mess around. After all, she's learned all there is to know from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. But there's something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy's rules. He certainly doesn't seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can't seem to shake him. Could it be that Remy's starting to understand what those love songs are all about?

Sarah Dessen follow her eternal patterns and takes us to the summer and all the summer has to offer - late nights, parties, friends, family drama, love ...

Remy, like many other girls, you know what she's looking for in a guy. But still, she can not deny the band she and Dexter have. A guy who really should not be her type. I think Dexter's character was a very refreshing character, he was not a typical male book character with the crazy eyes, muscles, badboy attitude, etc., no such thing existed within him. He was an ordinary musician with a twinkle in his eye. He is an honest guy and stands for what he says.

Sarah Dessen is known for putting a lot of focus on the family in her books, I would probably call it her signature, it is such a typical Sarah Dessen moves. We follow Remy's mom's development with her ​​new husband from Remy's eyes, and we see how her family makes her as a person to grow.
What I had a little difficulty with this book was that Remy's humbleness towards her family, that is how she sort of accepted that her family told her, though it went against her own views, it got it wrong with the way she was otherwise that person. sometimes it felt as if there were two Remy's in the book.
Otherwise, this was a lovely Summer Books, a bit boring in places but it did not die out of it.

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

A star has left us.

I woke up 7:38 today. I don't usually remember the exact time I wake up, but today I did. maybe I new today was going in to the history. Maybe I knew something had happened.
As I said yesterday I wen't to bed feeling sad. I woke up with my heart a bit lightened. It felt good. until I checked my cell.
"R.I.P Cory Monteith we will miss you"
had one Glee fan-site written. I got a bit chocked but didn't think to much about it, assuming it was fake.
Until I saw another post. and another. and another. And then a magazine wrote about it on facebook. I still did not believe it. but then I saw the video the Vancouver police had uploaded. confirming the internet. Cory Allan Monteith was dead.
For those of you who have followed my blog for a long enough time know that I love Glee with all my heart. You know that It's not just a TV show for me. It's so much more than that. The show saved bits of me from my depression and made me feel like I belonged, a little bit at the time, with every new episode. And Cory aka Finn was the freaking sun on that show.
31. 31 years YOUNG and dead. He had his whole freaking life in front of him. a new season of Glee, a new movie coming up, HE WAS GETTING MARRIED IN TWO WEEKS with Lea Michele (Rachel Berry).
Instead of planning a wedding she will be planing a funeral.

When it kind of started to sink in I started crying. My heart was broken. If God could take the brightest stars from our world I saw no hope left.
He is leaving behind too much unfinished business. This is not his time to pass away. So why God, Why did you take him from us? Why did you take this star on a midnight train going anywhere?
I wish I could be with Lea and just hold her and be there for her. Like she have been there for me with every new episode.
R.I.P Cory Monteith. 
R.I.P Finn Hudson.
R.I.P Bright star.
You will forever be in my heart.
I will forever be grateful for what you have done.

I hope I wake up soon and find this all just being a horrible dream.

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Im very confident and sad today, I hate hearing "you are not normal" "act normal lihini" like my whole life I have been trying to be what I think others want me to be, and when I'm myself its not good? I get grounded for walking in a certain way?  I can't deal with this right now and I won't,  good night loves

NEW CITY OF BONES STUFF (MOVIE) +

WHY do they do this? WHY do they keep giving us new trailers, and stills, and videos, and pictures, and aaagh!

I am excited as it is, you don't wan't to kill me do you? you don't right? I hope not.







OMG IT'S ISABEL'S WHIP!

the german trailer is so intense, I can't even, It's in their language, so most of you will probably understand nada like me, but it really does not matter, because the trailer is awesome anyway, ugh, this movie trailer will be my freaking death.

I found all the pictures on Cassandra Clares tumblr which you should check out, she Is awesome!

~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