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As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming. . . .
This monster, though, is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth.
Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final story idea of Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

	I'm really unsure of what to give this book!? It was a heartfelt, moving read but not at all aa I expected. It wasnt scary at all, it was more sad then anything. And even though it's supposed to be YA, it seemed more middlegrade to me. The main character Conor really annoyed me, he seemed so selfish and mean and angry and I didn't like the way he treated people who were trying to help him. He was going through a lot as his mum was ill and I could understand that but he just seemed so unbelievabl...moreI'm really unsure of what to give this book!? It was a heartfelt, moving read but not at all aa I expected. It wasnt scary at all, it was more sad then anything. And even though it's supposed to be YA, it seemed more middlegrade to me. The main character Conor really annoyed me, he seemed so selfish and mean and angry and I didn't like the way he treated people who were trying to help him. He was going through a lot as his mum was ill and I could understand that but he just seemed so unbelievably horrible. The monster was not at all scary though he was wise which I liked! I hated the ending, it was kind of a "Cliffhanger" in a way but it really wasn't. I don't know the ending was kind of implied rather than said directly in black and white and that did annoy me a bit. I think Im going to give this book 3.5 stars because I DID enjoy it and would recommend it as a nice quick read, also there are illustations throughout the book which is always a plus. I would recommend borrowing this book from the library because it really isnt worth the money but is still worth a read if that makes any sense? 3.5/5 :)
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Beatrice "Tris" Prior has reached the fateful age of sixteen, the stage at which teenagers in Veronica Roth's dystopian Chicago must select which of five factions to join for life. Each faction represents a virtue: Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. To the surprise of herself and her selfless Abnegation family, she chooses Dauntless, the path of courage. Her choice exposes her to the demanding, violent initiation rites of this group, but it also threatens to expose a personal secret that could place in mortal danger. Veronica Roth's young adult Divergent trilogy launches with a captivating adventure about love and loyalty playing out under most extreme circumstances.


Ok, So this book was SUPER hyped up and I was very dubious (is that even how it's spelt?!?) about reading it! Also the cover was a turn off for me and stopped me from buying it, not to mention the length of the book. I'm a girl who reads 300 page books MAX and this book had a whopping 487? (I think that's the amount lol) pages! INSANE!
It did not dissapoint me though. The hype was right, which I rarely say, and this book was FANTASTIC!
I love the main character Beatrice/Tris and thought she was so relatable and I almost always agreed with her point of view and related to her. Another character I just FELL IN LOVE WITH was Four! He just seemed so handsome and dark and sexy and as the book went on I was not disappointed with him, in fact I loved him even more than the previous chapter until by the end of the book I wanted to run away with him, get married in vegas and give birth to his children! Yes I know!
I loved the idea of "factions" and it seemed really realistic in a weird way. I can actually imagine that happening in like 100/200 years time. I had never reaad a dystopian of sorts and I was soo impressed.
This book is just toooo good for words and I give it 1 million stars! It's my new favourite book EVER!
See my review by going to my youtube page. HalfBloodPRincessVW :)
5/5 :D

So the book is about a girl named Mia, her family decided to go on a nice drive and end up in a car accident which leaves Mia in a coma. She is kind of in an out of body experience state and can see and hear everything going on around her. Throughout the book, there are "flashbacks" of sorts about her life previous to that point.

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! The saddest yet sweetest book I have ever read! I am speechless when it comes to this book. Words cant explain how great this read was just please check it out for yourself! Watch my video on youtube to hear and see how much I enjoyed this! Http://www.youtube.com/HalfBloodPRincess... IT'sJUST AWESOME!

I loved all the characters and found every single one of them relatable and awesome. She seemed to have such a nice life and to have it all slip away was what was soo sad! The ending did however frustrate me a little as it was a cliffhanger but luckily there is a second book, (Where she went) which is a sequel and should reveal what happened.
It was such a moving book and it made me cry and not many things do that!!

5/5 stars!         

Sophie Mercer is a witch. Something she though was innocent and a  friendly gesture landed her in Hecate, Hex, hall. A school for bad witches, warlocks, shapeshifters and faeries. Join her on this crazy adventure!

5 star book. Absoletely amazing. Really good writing and really good plot. I liked that it was in first person and that you really got to know Sophie Mercer and that the main character was so funny in places. The book was hilarious and words really cant sum it up. Excellent book!
5 stars!

(PIC TO COME!)


This book gets 5/5 stars. It was so good. I say this about every book it seems, but I have to say this is my favourite book I've read this year! It was soo amazing.

So there is a group of 5 best friends, Aria, Emily, Hanna, Spencer and Alison. Alison goes missing one night and the friends are getting weird texts from a mysterious A. They all have their secrets. Aria is hooking up with her english teacher, Hanna is stealing and using unhealthy habits to stay beuatiful and Spencer is stealing her sister's boyfriend. Emily is falling in love with her new best friend, that happens to be a girl. And A is telling all their secrets and causing trouble in their lives.

I really enjoyed the writing style of this book. I thought Sara Shepard did an excellent job in really portraying the main characters. The book just zippped by but not in a bad way. I got through 25 chapters in one go because it was just that good. Although I must say it did take me a few chapters to get into it. There is drama right from the begining though and it keeps you reading.
I highly recommend reading this book :)
5/5 stars.

OMG! Asides from Harry Potter, (OBVIOUSLY) this is the most epic, best book I have EVER read! It was just soo cute and I can definitely see why it's being made into a movie. It has that typical movie line plot but not in a predictable way.
So first of all let me just say, sorry I have been away and not reviewing many books, a lot in my personal life has been going on. Anyways to this epic book!...


So we start off with Kyle Kingsbury, a typical blonde hair, blue eyes, perfect kinda guy. He only cares about him self and shallow doesn't even begin to cut it! He is just soo mean. So there is this witch at school (this isnt a spoiler by the way, its the basic plot so its important to know...) that he really messes with. (I won't spoil it in how he does, he just does.) And boy does he end up paying for it. He losese the thing that matters most to him in the entire world, his good looks and he is transformed into a beast. Basically he has two years to find his true love and they must love him back.


It's an epic love story and I really don't want to say too much about it because I don't want to ruin the experience of reading it but I HIGHLY recommend this. 5/5 stars!!

Lily wants to be alone but you know what they say, be careful what you wish for. Her mother meets a new man named Gordon and decides to leave Lily in charge of her younger siblings, Baxter, Bliss and Pixie while she goes away on holiday with him. Now Lily has to manage alone with the kids for a whole week without mum, with no money and little supplies, plus she has to keep the secret about mum and make sure no-one finds out what's really going on.


Book trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHOVSxu0jo
Author talks about book- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjmZAY1kEZw&feature=related

4.5/5 stars!
I loved this book even though it is for younger YA readers and was a little immature for me, I thought it was great and a really good bit. I thought that the storyline was good but there wasnt much plot but to be honest it was just really cute to read and the Lily and her little siblings were so cute together. I read it to my little sister at night time and it took about 3 days of reading at night and we both really enjoyed it! I definitely recommend it but would say maybe if you are 10-12 you would really enjoy it and if you're older like me you might find it a little childish. Sorry for the bad review, I am really tired and not in the mood :(
Anyway excellent book and worth a read!

The misadventures of Tallulah Casey is certainly right! Tallulah Casey is fourteen and a half and wants to be grown up. She feels that she is finally getting there by being sent to a performing arts college alone. From there she is living with dibdobs and the psycho stare-a-lot twins. She goes on a little adventure and trys to fall in love in her summer of love while discovering new friends and BOYS! Will she get her first kiss? Will she be able to stay at the Dother Hall and will her "corkers" ever develop? Find out in this HILARIOUS new series!

5 Frickin stars!!
First of let me just say this book was blooming fantastic! Full of fun, humour and intellect it was a perfect read. I loved the characters and the story! I thought this book was a great read for anyone but most definitely for english lassies like me! As you kinda have to understand the northern lingo in the book for it to not seem utterly outrageous. Excellent book, and 5 stars, I have nothing to criticize about this book apart from I wish it was longer so I could still be enjoying it lol! I couldnt put it down and spent a whole day straight just reading it and finished it within twenty four hours! A must read but I would recommend it for the summer. So you too can have a "summer of love" and fall in love with this book!

This adventure story is about a boy named Matt. He has just come to the International Bejing Academy and hopes to make the martial arts squad and win the tournament to win a replica of the famous Jade dish. Him and his friends form a group called the Tangshan Tigers to fight crime and when there is a break in at the museum, they suspect that the Jade dish has been tampered with and STOLEN! Can they save the Dish?

A really good, fun and interesting read. I know it's a middle grade book for younger teens and children but to be honest, I really enjoyed myself reading this book. I thought it had adventure and a good balance between fighting crime and focusing on the martial arts tournament. I didn't think it was unrealistic which is really good for a martial arts book. I will definitely be looking to pick up the second and third books in the Tangshan tigers series.  4/5 stars.

Lucette is just a baby, just a baby that happens to be cursed and threaten the kingdom's safety. The evil vampire queen has cursed her that when she turns sixteen and pricks her finger, the kingdom of Xandra will fall asleep every night apart from Lucette and Lucette will be alone in the darkness, plus she will sleep until sundown. Unless she finds true love to break the curse. You even get to choose the way the story goes.



I give this book 4/5 stars!
This was a really cool and inovative book where you could choose your own route. The story changed depending on what you chose,which I thought was a great idea. The story was a twisted retelling of sleeping beauty and it involved vampires. I have never read sleeping beauty so I thought it was a really cool story when I read this book. It was written perfectly and had that perfect balance between young adult and adult style writing.
I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend reading it!

NOTE: Pictures will be up shortly, blogger is being a BIATCH! :P x



Natalie Hargrove is so close to getting what she's always wanted. She's finally on the right side of the bridge, in the richer part of town, she has a gorgeous boyfriend and she is just about to be crowned Palmetto princess, prom queen. But when she gets caught up in the competion, she soon realises fate is not to be medelled with. When a prank her and her boyfriend pull on her competion for prom king goes terribly wrong, they are left to deal with the conseqeunces. Trying to hide what they have done whilst trying to frame it on someone else AND still win Palmetto princess and prince. Will it all be too much? Will she crack under the pressure? A story of love, enemies, regret, deceit and karma by the award winning, best selling author of the Fallen and Torment books, Lauren Kate.

Absouletly amazing book. An action pakced, thrilling adventure. This book is full of jet packs, evil aliens, CHAOS secret agents and much much more. It truley is too good for words.
The book is about a boy called Colt. He starts off by going to a training acadmey for upcoming CHAOS agents. Shortly after he returns his parents are murdered. Colt finds out why and, in an effort to avenge his parents, gets into more than he bargained for. Microchips in the brain that turn innocent people into savage assasins is just part of his problems. Not to mention he has to juggle school and liking a cute girl Lily.

This book was completely fantastic. It was a great science fiction/fantasy and usually I'm not really into that stuff but this honestly has to be one of the best books I've ever read. The plot was amazing and had so many layers to it. The characters were easy to connect yourself to and get attached to and the writing was superb. I can say no faults with this story at all. A must buy AND a must read.
Plus there is a sequel coming in Jan 2012!!
5/5

^Review from my goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/bookswithbridget

Rebecca is in love with Lance... only problem is Lance is a Zombie and even when he was alive he wasn't that interested! She is keeping him safe from other zombies and taking him wherever she and her two other survivor friends go. All's well until Ryan, another survivor appears.

This book was great! It's by debut novelist and fellow youtuber Richard Denney (AKA Devvourbookreviews) and it's his debut novel. It was really well written and I really fell in love with Rebecca, the main character. The book is sort of her journal of events and it really describes her feelings for Lance, her zombie "boyfriend" in depth. It's really exicting and there are lots of times when you don't think she is going to make it. She is really in love with Lance but then another survivor Ryan finds them and she starts to having wandering feelings and begins developing a thing for Ryan. There is even a sexy bit, which I LOVED! Overall I give this book 5/5 and think that it was great.
I won this advanced reader copy in a giveaway and don't know if the book itself is actually out yet but when I have more information I will update you of the release date and where you can purchase a copy, and I suggest you do!
5/5

Ash is a modern (Not really, considering it's set in what seems like a long time ago) retelling of Cinderella with a fairy twist! Aisling, otherwise known as Ash, loses her mother and father and is left to her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Her father left her stepmother in a lot of debt so to repay her father's debt she must become a serving girl to her stepmother. Ash meets a fairy named Sidhean who grants wishes for her...at a price! Then Ash meets the huntress and falls in love but she is bound to Sidhean.
This book was a bit strange for me, to begin with I really found it to be long winded yet intriguing and definitely worth a read. As I read on I found that the story really unfolded and became really interesting. I really enjoyed it because of the fairy twist and the love triangle (sorta). It is definitely worth a read, though maybe for the younger YA readers it wouldn't be so good because the language is quite formal and I found it to be a little bit confusing at times.
I rate this book a 4.5/5, definitely a great read. The story was great and a good twist in the Cinderella story. It wasn't that predictable like I feared it would be but I would have prefered a little bit more fairy parts. It was quite a short read and it took me about 3/4 days to finish. I felt like I couldn't put it down! Really worth a read.
4.5/5

  In the meantime there will be a video review up on my youtube soon which will show you not only the outside but the inside of the book too which is very detailed and shows all the different pictures and styles in the book. Which is a must see as it is the best part of the book. http://www.youtube.com/HalfBloodPrincessVW )


No summary as I didn't really get what the book was about. All I can say is that this book is about letters between Beatrice Baudelaire and Lemony Snicket. That is all I could really make out from this book.


This book is sooo pretty! From the front cover to the inside. First of all you open the book to find no writing but like a case file sort of holder containing the copy of the book with no pretty cover or anything and a picture/poster which is double sided. Throughout the books there are pages with a part of one side of the picture which is very strange. Then there are different letters and sometimes little fold up letters. I particularly liked how the different letters were in different fonts and set out on different style pages. I really enjoyed reading this book and managed to read it in an hour which isn't too difficult as it is only 72 pages long. The pictures and trying to figure out the letters and decode them made this book interesting. If you have followed the whole "The series of unfortunate events" books, which I have not, then you might find this book less confusing and more interesting. Don't read this if you are looking for a book that makes sense.
This definately isn't for everybody but I certainly enjoyed it and found it really fun to read. I would recommend it as it is fun and really doesn't take up much time to read at all.
Overall a good bit of fun, I give it a 3.5/5.

(Sorry for the small picture!! My apologises.)

Angel summer is a glamour model living every girl's dream. She is married to the hottest footballer and has the most trendy celebrity marriage. Her daughter Honey has just been born and everything is going perfectly for Angel, but is it?! This book see's Angel struggle with post natal depression, her husband's infidelity and has to make an agonising choice between her husband and another man. Along with all the pressures of being a new mother and celebrity. Plus dealing with some of the other psycho WAGs and ex girlfriends of her husband.

I started this book about a year ago but never finished it so decided to re-read it again and actually found it very entertaining! I was fascinated with the celebrity lifestyle aspect of the book and really enjoyed it. I did find it somewhat predictable though and the storyline was a dime a dozen. I feel as if the book was written by Katie Price herself (and that's not a good thing) instead of a ghost writer, though maybe that was the intention. I don't know but I wasn't impressed with the quality of the writing. I didn't connect with Angel the way you're supposed to. I found her annoying and bitchy which is never a good thing to feel about the main character when you're supposed to be feeling sympathetic for them and connect with them and understand what they are going through.
I would recommend this book to young girls, particularly british girls who know about the british celebrity and WAG scene. I would recommend this as a light read to take on holiday and enjoy while sitting by the pool.
3.5/5