Sunday 24 November 2013

Allegiant by Veronica Roth.

Okay so I don't know where to start from this, first off this series is absolutely amazing and I have not been able to put either of the first 2 down whilst I was reading it, but I didn't expect this book to be the way it was. I loved how they had it from both Four and Tris' perspective I thought that was quite clever especially with the way it ends and stuff so you do have to have it in his perspective too. I don't know what I expected from this book, I don't know whether I expected it to be good or bad, or whether I thought it was gonna go a completely different way compared to the first 2 did. I enjoyed how Tris wasn't constantly trying to get herself constantly killed with every couple of chapters. But I hated how her and Four kept having loads of problems again, like they didn't have enough to begin with? They get into a really good place and BAM another problem comes there way - like Four betraying them and not believing when Tris said that they were lying to him, he just cast her aside and blanked her.

So I suppose the main thing I want to talk about and the main thing that probably confused not just me but everyone else is.. Tris dies?! What? I did not expect that at all I mean I genuinely thought that they were gonna live happily ever after and be all lovey dovey and it was going to be a happy ending but no, she kills her off. I kind of got that spoilt for me thought which I am pissed about because loads of people just wrote it all over facebook and tumblr and just wrecked it for all the people who hadn't read it - but I still didn't expect her to go like that, I at least thought that Four would be there to be there for her and hold her whilst she died, not all the way in Chicago trying to change his mum to be a good guy and stuff. But she basically died alone which I thought was sad.

I liked the way that he gave his mum another chance and tried to make her change because I liked her a little bit to begin with because yano she hadn't had an easy life and she got knocked about by his dad the same way that he did so she wasn't bad all that bad and she hadn't had the easy life, but she was a bit of a cow to be fair. I did really enjoy this book and the series but I didn't like the way they ended it, I didn't like the fact that she killed her off - was a bit unimpressed by that and I don't think I'll ever like the way she ended it. But it just makes me even more excited for the Divergent movie to come out.. OH speaking of Divergent, I can't believe Four isn't actually Divergent, didn't expect that at all, I also didn't expect Uriah and Tori to die, god she just kills off anyone doesn't she? And the fact that her mum was from the Fringe, goodness there was so many twists and turns and I just didn't expect it to be so good, but then again the first 2 were so this had to be! Let me know what you thought of it in the comments below?

So I rate this 5 out of 5 stars.


UK front cover.

Monday 11 November 2013

Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart.

So, I am a huge fan of the movie and I've wanted to read this for a long time to see what it compared to the film - I had quite high expectations considering the movie was so good and it was one of my favourite films. But let's just say I was very disappointed. This was nothing like the movie, it didn't have their friendship to it's full glory and they barely saw one another in the actual book. I will admit that I did not end up finishing this because I got to page 150 and just couldn't carry on because I wasn't enjoying it and I know people will be like 'you should persevere and carry on' but you know when you get them books that you just can't finish reading because you're just not enjoying them? Well it was like that. So lets get down to some of the details and why I disliked it.

  • The friendship.
Well for starters it isn't portrayed to the way it is in the film and yes I know the book came first and whatnot, but still they don't seem as close as they do in her book, and yet they're not! For one Bertie (or Whitney as she is known in the film) believes that her best friend would have an affair with her husband, I mean if you truly trusted your friend you'd know she wouldn't do anything like that - whereas in the film they fell out over Whitney saying she doesn't seem mother material. I don't know I just didn't think they where as close as they could of been and ugh - it aggravated me.
  • Her mum was dead and not her father.
In the film its her mother who was dead and her father was alive and in the book it was the other way around, now to be honest I don't get why they did this in the film because it would of been just as easy if they had of left it the way it was in the book, but they complicated it - slightly. But then the mother ends up getting sick the same way the dad does in the film and she dies, the same way the dad does, so why not just keep it as it was in the book, I don't get it.

That was most of what annoyed me, there were other little bits like how bloody annoying Bertie's husband was saying how annoying Cee Cee was and that she should give up on their friendship and how she thinks she has a big gob and stuff. I don't know I think if I hadn't already seen the film, I would of probably enjoyed the book a lot more - but because of that fact, I didn't like it one bit. By all means if you'd rather read the book and then watch the film go for it, but it just wasn't for me.

I rate this 2 out of 5 stars.
Front cover of the book.

Saturday 2 November 2013

The Sleep Room by F.R. Tallis.

Okay so I'm slightly nervous to write my first book review because it's something new to me and I've never done anything like this before. But here it goes, hope you like.

So where to start with this book, first of all when I saw it the cover caught my eye almost immediately and once I'd read the blurb and got a bit of a hint that it was going to be a scary book I decided to go for it as it was something a little bit out of my comfort zone - seeing as I'm more into my young adult genre books, but it seemed good enough. So I started this and thought that it was going a little bit slow but a lot of books are like that and they build it up to something incredible, but let me give you a brief explanation of what this book seems to be about.

So it's about a psychiatrist called James Richardson who gets a job opportunity to work in a place called Wyldehope where it has mentally disturbed people who have had a rough upbringing and his partner/boss Hugh Maitland is he conjuring some sort of experiment in which he keeps six of his patients asleep in order to tell whether they are going to get better from it - or whether they are going to remain the same way. Throughout the whole book you see the emails that Maitland receives off other doctors who are asking him to help out their patients with his sleep room experiment, and you get to understand some of their background and why they were in the experiment in the first place. During his time there he becomes close to a woman called Jane and he starts having an intimate relationship with which suddenly comes to a halt when he finds out that she's had a previous relationship with his partner. It comes across as if it's going to be a ghost story from things such as when he's in bed with Jane he see's a silhouette of a woman who then suddenly disappears, another time is a patient who is not in the sleep room Micheal Chapman keeps repeating that someone is moving his bed whilst he sleeps - another is on Christmas day whilst he is sorting out the same patient he keeps thinking someone is moving his bed again and that he wants someone to get away, and again he see's another silhouette which once again disappears. Items go missing as well which makes him think that there is a poltergeist and yet there isn't. The patient Chapman ends up going insane and they have to place him in a straitjacket and place him in a cushioned room to which he escapes the jacket and gouges his own eyes out, and breaks his leg along with some hairline fractures that could only be from bring thrown around the room.

So it comes to a big thing where he's thinking that its haunted and then he gets a weird suspicion that something is going on with the sleeping patients when they all start dreaming at the same time - and that one day they won't wake up (as I should of mentioned, they wake them up each day to feed them, let them use the bathroom and then put them back to sleep), so he worries and has to get his partner down to the hospital to examine them and he doesn't see it as important and just keeps sending their dosages higher and more frequently. It then all ends in a pretty quick spiral, the hospital catches fire and his partner along with the sleeping patients all die in the fire, he goes back to his normal life and tries to forget about it... then the next minute he's waking up in a bed and it turns out he was a patient of the sleeping experiment, Maitland is still alive and Jane is his wife in reality. I don't know whether I liked the end or whether I liked how it turned out with the whole fire and stuff - but I don't know. I liked this book a little but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

So all in all, on a rating scale I would give this 3 stars out of 5.
Front cover of book.

Friday 1 November 2013

Welcome to my blog!

So I've had blogs in the past but I have never had one that is based on books and my reviews of them, so this is something new for me and I have wanted to do this for a while because I think it's something new and interesting. So this is just an introduction as to what you may find on this blog and all the different types of books that you may find - and to help you as to whether you want to know whether my book types are similar to yours and if you're wondering if it's worth to read that book. Just a pre-warning this blog probably won't be spoiler free, so if you're wanting to read a book but haven't yet and don't want it spoiled, best to steer clear.

So the types of books you will most probably find here will be the likes of:

  • Young Adult.
  • Fiction.
  • Vampire Novels.
  • Dystopian.
  • Futuristic Novels.
  • Demon Fighting.
  • Horrors.
  • Fantasy.
Something along the lines of them, I will also do tag types of blogs where I list my favourite characters and list ones I dislike, things along that line. I am currently reading The Sleep Room by F.R. Tallis, and I am close to finishing it so a blog about that will be along shortly so keep your eyes out for that.
For now, I hope you enjoy my blog and if so, give it a follow and I will be sure to follow you back! Thank you for taking your time to read this - it is very appreciated.