Books with Bridget

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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!

Hey guys! First of all sorry I haven't been blogging a lot recently, I've been too busy to read. SHOCK HORROR!!

SO to welcome myself back and to celebrate nearly reaching 100 subscribers on my youtube channel, I am having a youtube giveaway. It's hasn't started yet as I have 90 subs at the moment and am waiting for 10 more subscribers! When I reach my goal I will be giving away THREE book packs.
And you guys can chose which packs I should give away!
So head over to my youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/HalfBloodPrincessVW and look for the giveaway video on my channel :D
Subscribe and comment on that video which book packs you want me to giveaway :D

And as soon as I reach 100 I will open the giveaway and let you guys know which books I have decided on giving away from which were the most popular choices!!

PS. I will have a review of Anna and the french kiss and Pretty little liars up very shortly! Thanks for being so patient!
:D xoxo

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!

Hello everyone, so if you live in the UK and you are a book addict like me, you should know that today is WORLD BOOK DAY! So to celebrate I am giving away a copy of Evermore, the first book in the immortals series, by Alyson Noel. :D

So the rules.
You must be a subscriber to me on youtube and/or follower of this blog (one or the other, bonus if both)
International.
Must get permission to give out your mailing address if you are under 16/18.

How to enter:
Simple. No extra entries or anything just one way to win. Comment below on this post and say which book you are currently reading!

Good luck!!
Winner will be chosen at random and notified, however if they fail to respond to my notification within 48 hours a new winner will be chosen. Sorry. :/

Here is a giveaway I found. It's open internationally and it's to win a SIGNED copy of 13 secrets and SWAG!


Go to withoutabookshelf.blogspot.com to enter.
 Link below.
http://withoutabookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/02/giveaway-signed-13-secrets-michelle.html

Good luck :D x

So this book is about a girl named Mary, she lives in a world after the "Return" and now she thinks her village is the last in the world. The village is surronded by Unconsecrated (Zombies). Mary's mother and father get taken over and turned into unconsecrated  and she is left to the mercy of the sisters. She soon finds out that the sisters hold some serious secrets! One day the village is breached and she has to find a way out. Is there a world outside the village?



INCREDIBLE. Absolutely amazing. I give it 4.5 stars simply because the begining was a bit slow and it took me AGES to read but I really enjoyed it. I was a really great book, Mary (the main character) was really relatable and I found mysefl yelling out loud whilst reading this book. Travis was a huge part of this story for me, whenever he was in danger I got really worked up and started shouting at it! I know I know how sad!! I absolutely loved the end. HIghly reccomend this book!
4.5/5

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!

Hey everyone, girls without a bookshelf AKA http://www.withoutabookshelf.blogspot.com/ is having a giveaway to win a SIGNED copy of Karen Mahoney's The Iron Witch. It's international.
Follow this link to read more and enter.
Good luck!
http://withoutabookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-review-iron-witch-karen-mahoney.html

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.

Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS.

The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people.

Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts.

But the soldiers' actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector

Hey everyone. So I have decided to have a giveaway because valentines day is approaching and as I'll be alone this year (I just got dumped :| ) I thought I should spread the love in the book world. So the rules are simple.

• You don't have to be a follower of this blog but you will gain extra entries (3) if you are!
• You don't have to be a subscriber of my youtube page but you will get extra entries (5) if you are!
• You must be able to provide a valid shipping address.
• If you don't respond to my email in three days a new winner will be chosen.

How to enter:

1. Leave a comment saying what is your favourite book that you have read in 2011?
2. Leave a comment on my youtube video: Giveaway! (http://www.youtube.com/HalfBloodPrincessVW) (It will be up shortly if it isn't up already so keep checking back!) = 1 extra!
3. Subscribe to my youtube = +5
4. Follow this blog= +3
5. Make a blog post about this giveaway and send me the link in an email to halfbloodprincessvoiceswithin (@) hotmail (.) co.uk = +10

Prizes-
 There is one copy of the book The Whisperers by John Connolly for an international winner and a £25 WH Smiths Giftcard for a UK Winner. If you are in the UK and you enter you will be entered into both drawers but if you are international you will only be entered into the book giveaway this is because I'm not sure which countries have a WHsmith and the prize will be in £'s (Great British Pounds/Sterling) so US/Canada/International winners will not be able to cash it. Sorry :S.

The winner will be chosen at random on Monday 14th Feb 2011.
So to enter post either a comment on this blog post or on my youtube video titled GIVEAWAY and tell me how many extra entries you can claim, your blog username/blog/ youtube name and your email address. If you don't want to post your email address on a comment, email me the information at halfbloodprincessvoiceswithin @ hotmail . co . uk .

NOTE: If you are a UK enterant you CAN win both giveaways.

Good Luck xoxo

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

Books I bought this week:

Tescos:

• Strictly Shimmer- Amanda Roberts
• Saints V sinners- Katie Agnew
• Celebrity shopper- Carmen Reid
• The book of tomorrow- Cecelia Ahern

Waterstones:

• Shiver- Maggie Stiefvater
• The betrayal of Natalie Hargrove- Lauren Kate
• Nightshade- Andrea Cremer.

Animal shelter:

• The Novice- Trudi Canavan
• Seeing me naked- Liza Palmer
• The dark domain- Mark Ronson
• A series of unfortunate events; The Penultimate peril- Lemony Snicket
• Tangshan tiger; The stolen jade- Dan Lee
• Shadowmancer- G.P Taylor.

Pictures!!!