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Showing posts with label Caster chronicles. Show all posts
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12/22/2011

Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles, #3)Hii peepz,
loved this book!! Here's my review


book: Beautiful Chaos
written by:  Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
genres: young adult, fantasy, paranormal romance
pages (my version): 516
release date: October 18th 2011
own / library / borrowed
series?: yes, the Caster Chronicles #3
publisher: penguin


note: I have loved this series since I've read them first (which was somewhere in 2011) and I have already reviewed #1, to see my review click here. It was one of my old reviews so it is not a very good one and I have lots of grammar errors... Sorry for that...


the book:
(spoilers if you have not read part 1 and 2... sorry for that but I couldn't get around it)
Ethan and Lena are finally happy together, and they just go to school again, like nothing happened. But actually everything has changed. Ridley is not a siren anymone, Link is now an incubus (Linkubus) and all the girls are after him. So you can actually say everything has changed. Ethan keeps on hearing a new song. Eighteenth moon. But they know it cannot be Lena's eighteenth moon. It has to be someone elses. 
Meanwhile the world is acting weird, because the order of things is broken. It has to be restored, or it will be the end of the world. The 18th moon keeps on coming closer, and the horror goes on. Will they survive?


my opinion on:

  • the cover: This is awesome! Seriously, when I opened my present and this book was inside I had to do the banana dance for 15 minutes at least :) I love my parents for giving me this book, because this is the most beautiful cover ever! (okay, maybe it is not but whatever) I have got the version with the silver letters <3 This book can stand on my book shelves forever!
  • the characters: I have always loved Ethan and Lena. And this book made me love Ethan even more. I want him as my boyfriend, he seems perfect. He is my fictional crush of the moment :D Only I hated Amma in this book... I have never liked her or something, but I did most certainly not like her in this book. Also, I did not love Lena as much as in the other books, because she was too jealours... This book made me like Link even more, and I got sympathy for John Breed and Saraphine aka. Izabel. The authors made an almost impossible job possible!
  • the casters:  I want to be a caster. The authors made casters such good characters with the light/dark claiming. Being a caster seems a great thing to do with your life. Or being a Wayward or Incubus. I want to have John's powers! I want to... (blah blah blah)
  • the way the book was written: Book was written just the way I like it :) 
  • the end:  Damn, this is a effing torture!! I have to wait so long for the next book it is impossible. Waiting one day made me crazy, but one effing year O.o I hate hate hate hate hate cliffhangers, and this is one of the best cliffhangers, and with that the biggest torture for me... I want to read the next part soo badly, I want to invent a time machine, go to the future, buy the book, go back and read it!  
total: 
Perfect awesomeness. Loved the book. Loved the contents, loved everything actually. You should go read it now! But do not start reading late, because you'll want to finish reading the book in one session. This book left me tired the day after reading, and I read it in 2 sessions. I only made the mistake to start reading 11PM, I should have never done that... This is a pageturner every teen girl who is into paranormal romance will love!

rating:
5/5 stars (obvious...)

x Mar-who-is-tortured-by-the-ending

ps:
next review:
either 
- Pretties - Scott Westerfield
- To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Halflings - Heather Burch (ARC)
- Scorpia Rising - Anthony Horowitz
- The last envelope - Maureen Johnson

still have to make up my mind which one I want to read...

ps2:
thanks to all my followers and other people that clicked on my page, you are awesome!

12/08/2011

In my mailbox #2

Hello guys,


I just figured out I forgot to post in my mailbox yesterday,
so here it is:


This week I got lots of books (8) from my parents. It was saint nicholas, the dutch version of christmas
I got:
1)

The host by Stephenie Meyer
and let me say one thing. I am reading it now and I actually like it. (No, I did NOT like twilight!!)


2)

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini 
Have to start reading it soon. Loved parts 1 - 3
THIS BOOK LOOKS SOO THICK O.o


3)

Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margareth Stohl
This is the book I am most exited about. I have not started it yet, cuz when I start it I'll read it in one day!


4-8)

A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy box set - Douglas Adams
I will love this books, from what I read about them!!


I can't wait to read them, and I will review them ;)


xoxo Margot


upcoming review: the host by stephenie meyer (still reading it, takes damn long)





11/21/2011

a few of my old reviews

hi guys! 

I decided that I did not post enough reviews, so here are four of my old reviews
enjoy!


Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

#1 of the caster chronicles.
categories: young-adult, fantasy, witches, romance
first tought: wow, the cover is awesome! have to read!!

This book is about Ethan. He is just a normal boy from a normal village in America, the kind of village you are born in and you die in. The kind of village you never leave, and the kind of village where everyone knows everyone and new people aren't tolerated. And that is what happens when a new girl, Lena, moves to the village. She is different, different from everyone living in the village. She is goth, and wears a strange necklace. But Ethan does not think of her as a stranger, he feels like he knows her, he has had dreams of her, and he is almost certain that she knows, too. Later he finds out she knows. He also finds out she is a Caster, a kind of Witch. She will be claimed on her 16th birthday, when her fate will be chosen for her. good or bad, Reece or Ridley. And, most important, love Ethan or forget about him? They search for a way to stop the curse, and find a locket that gives them visions about a past in which their ancestors lived. (totally the vampire diaries...) Meanwhile the villagers will start to hate Lena even more, and their fear for her uncle, Macon Ravenwood, will stay the same. That's because he never leaves house, and only rumours are what they know about him. And some people may not be what they always seemed to be. Lena and Ethan go through lots of stuff, while her birthday is still approaching...

my opinion:
this was totally amazing, I read the whole book, 568 pages or something, in 2 days, which is even for me very fast, since english is not my origin language. I like that the book is written by 2 women, but the main character is male, but they still made him interesting, and a good character. Maybe even one of the best characters I've lately been reading about. That's why I immediately after posting this message will start reading #2 of the series, Beautiful Darkness!
Also I love the topic of this book, history coming to the present, people not being who they seem to be, witches and, most of all, the part about fate.
Tough I love Ethan, I think the best character of the book is Lena Duchannes, which is strange because she is not the one you can read the toughts of. She seems very interesting, loving to read and a wannabe writer. I want to be like her, and have a room which 'wrote itself' that would be totally amazing!

So that's why this book will get a 9.2 out of 10!

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley

 Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley.
Categories: Young (maybe YA...) Fantasy, humoristic
First tought about this book: the cover is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!
the sides of all pages are silver :D

The book is about Charlotte, a girl who is a nobody, and who wants to be a somebody at high school. She wants to have her midnight kiss at the school party. She wants to be bff''s with the most popular girl, but she never will, she dies.
but does life really end when you die? What if you haven't completed the one thing you really had to do. In that case, you go to the ghostschool, where you can still see people, but people can't see you. You have to stay there until you complete your final task. Charlotte meets new people at the ghostschool, but she does not want to let go her old, stupid, high-school life and all her classmates will start to hate her. Charlotte finds out that there is one human that can see her, Scarlett, the gothic sister of the most popular girl in school, the exact opposite of Charlotte. She and Charlotte can swap bodies, and they do. But both of them love the same boy, and that is a problem...
In the end everything will get right, and she can let go life

my opinion on this book:
this is a very very very very very very ... ... (it goes on for a long time) bad book!!! The main character is one of the worst I have ever read about, the story sucks, and all of it is predictable. And come on, she dies because she chokes on a GUMMY BEAR O.o (jeez, gummy bears really are dangerous)
She is a nobody that will never become a somebody. She is not even good at trying to be a somebody! She could just accept herself and be who she wanted to be, who she was, but no, she wanted to be popular so badly she died for it.



I will rate this book:
23 / 100 (haha okay that's a crazy rate...)
2 stars xD

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Fallen, the Fallen series #1 by Lauren Kate

The cover is amazing :)
The book is Young Adult and Fantasy
If you love twilight you will love this book!! 

The book is about Luce, a character I do not really like... (okay, I hate her.)
She meets this boy, Daniel, and he starts by giving her the finger and stuff. And what does Luce do? She falls in love with him (totally obvious)
But he does not show any interest in her. she starts stalking him (seriously, stalking? creepy...)

(from here spoiler - alert)
Luce find out about her past, and that is were the book gets interesting. She finds out Daniel is an angel (a fallen angel) and that they were cursed to be together for eternity.
That doesn't seem very bad, but it gets worse... Every time they kiss, Luce will immediately catch fire and die. 17 years later she returns, she finds Daniel again, kisses him again and dies. and that for over 1000 years. He still is in love with her, and in this life they can kiss. They find out that if Luce gets killed this time, she will not return again. Some people attemt to kill her, but they don't succeed.
The book ends with a battle between good and evil, ending without a winner

I do like the book, but it will never be my favourite book. thats why I rate it 3 stars

rest of series
#1 Fallen (3 stars)
#2 Torment (2 stars)
#3 Passion (4.5 stars) (!)

hope you liked them!!