Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.

So this is a bit of a personal reason as to why I wanted to read this, but first let me explain what it's about a little bit and then I will delve into the reasons why I wanted to read this and what I thought of it.

So it's a book about a girl names Lia who is suffering with anorexia, along with her friend names Cassie who was dealing with bulimia until the illness took her life when she couldn't handle it any more and she didn't eat so much. Lia feels like her life is being haunted by the memory of Cassie when she starts to get herself deeper into the disorder, she starts to eat less and less and wants to be the skinniest she can be. She lives with her father and step mother and her step sister who she adores, her mother is still in her life but she's extremely strict ordering her to eat and not understanding some of the other issues that are affecting her life. So yeah let's get into why I wanted to read this and what I thought.

Basically I myself have suffered with an eating disorder when I was growing up, I dealt with this for almost 2 years of my life and it's a horrible thing to deal with - but it's been 4 years since my eating has been an issue for me, I have days like everyone else who has overcome it but not to the extent that I was at, so I basically wanted to read this to see how the author dealt with such a taboo subject as it is something that doesn't come up in usual conversations. So I want to start off by saying that this is a beautifully wrote book, she really does hit nerves with this book and it is such a heart wrenching story that you can't help but fall in love with the story and the character of Lia, that you get hooked onto it and you are constantly hoping that she will overcome this horrible disorder. She deals with depression and self harm and body images and it's something that every teenager should read whether you're suffering with something like this or not as it really opens your eyes to some of the problems that people go through, and it helps you realise that some people don't always have it easy.

Lia throughout this book feels guilty about her friends death, because the night she died she called Lia 33 times and not once did she offer, the two girls had grown apart at this time, but the guilt that she feels all the way through the book is something that doesn't help her eating at all, she goes back to the motel where she died and wanted to see the room where she died. It's a deeply saddening book but it also wrenches you in and I found it very hard to put down, I literally read it in two sittings because I couldn't find myself putting it down. I know most of my book reviews have tons of spoilers in but this is one of them that I feel would be better if you read it yourself, so you can understand the true beauty of this book and why I love it so much. This is definitely a must have book on your shelf.

"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."

I rate this 5 out of 5 stars!

UK Front Cover (I think it's only the UK one.)

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

I'd been interested in reading this series for a while, since I saw that it was a movie. I wasn't too sure what I expected when I decided to read this and I'm still not sure what I think of it. I liked how Ethan was the main character instead of it being Lena because I've never really read a book like this where the main character was male. But I don't know what to say about it - like it was a different type of book that I would usually read - yes it's a YA novel but it was something a bit different than that.. he was dreaming of this girl for months, feeling that he was going to keep losing her, and it was a girl he'd never even met and he didn't understand why he was dreaming of her himself. But it turns out she was dreaming of him too, having the exact same dreams that he was and she didn't know who he was. They finally meet when she joins the school and he is instantly drawn to her - but she's not your typical girly girl and the girls of the school take an instant dislike to her. So it's basically about something that is going to happen on Lena's 16th birthday, she will be chosen whether she will be good or evil, she doesn't get a choice in the matter.. and Ethan is convinced they can find a way to change it and that she won't have to go evil or what not. A lot of the story is surrounded around a locket that the pair of them find and when they touch it, it sends them back into the past at two of their relatives who are drawn to each other like they are - and the girl is destined for the same future as Lena is also.

It turns out that Lena's mother is trying to kill her, or so she has been told and it goes to a graveyard where she meets her mother for the first time - as she is told that she was killed when she was younger in order to protect her. But then all of a sudden she doesn't have to have her future chosen for her now until she is seventeen.
It starts off too slow for my liking, like it just dwindles and doesn't really get to the point of the main story until quite far into the story and it feels like it's just going to keep dragging on forever. I mean its a gripping story when it finally gets into it but it just took too long for me, it just felt like it wasn't going anywhere for ages and that it just kept building it up into something that was going to be so good but turned out that it wasn't as impressing as what you would think it would be, it just ends and it isn't as impressing of an ending as I thought it would be. It's the first book in the series, so I'm not too sure whether I am going to read the rest of the series as I wasn't overly impressed with this book, and I have heard rumours that the 2nd book isn't too good either so it's kind of putting me off reading it. But I don't know, I will see. I can understand why this is such a good series in other people's eyes - but in mine, eh, not impressed.
I've got the film off a friend that I need to watch but once I'd seen the trailer I'm not too sure if the film will be any better, I will keep you all updated in case you want to know.

So I rate this a 2.5 stars out of 5.

UK Book Cover.

Champion by Marie Lu.

So I realise that I haven't updated this in a while and in fact the last book update that I did was Allegiant, and I have read 5 books since then but I kept forgetting to update this as I had a lot of college work piling up and then I had Christmas (as did everyone else who celebrates it, ha), but yeah I just kept forgetting because I haven't had chance to get on to the laptop and I'd do it on my phone but I can never be bothered writing a long ass review. Anyway lets get to the review of this book.

So this is a book from The Legend series, which is a trilogy and the other two books are called, Legend (as you may of guessed) and the other one is Prodigy. It's a dystopian world that see's a girl called June Iparis and Day, two of the least likely people to find one another and fall in love. June is a girl who follows all the rules and Day, well he isn't so much. There is an outbreak of an illness and his family gets his, he didn't pass his test - or so he was told and he went on the run afterwards, he found out his brother was ill and went to break into the hospital to get the cure for his brother, there he was chased by a bunch of soldiers, in that crowd of soldiers was June's older brother Metias who was murdered and Day is the one who is being accused of murdering him, so June wants to capture him and take him in to custody for killing her brother, Day goes on the run with his best friend Tess, hes also in disguise as he so often is in the series. So cutting a story short of the whole story, it turns out he never killed him and June falls for him, but a ton of complications follow.

So coming onto Champion, this was a very anticipated book for me as in the last book he found out he had something wrong with his brain, and was most likely going to die - so I wanted to read this desperately to find out whether or not he was going to die and what not. He goes through the series not speaking to June because he thought it best to part ways as he didn't want her to go through the turmoil and the upset of him dying when and if he eventually did die - he was doing everything in his power to make sure that his little brother was protected and not kidnapped again to be experimented on so he'd hired help who would help them out, ad his little brother was also blind due to the  experiments that they had done on him. Eventually June gets in touch with him asking him to come to some party because Anden needs his brother to experiment on because they think that the cure for the illness which has broke out again is in his blood and they need to test it on people. So he goes, finds out why they wanted him there and refuses to allow them to test on him until his brother allowed them to. The capitol gets attacked and Day gets shot twice but survives, but his memory gets wiped and he doesn't remember anyone such as June, or Tess, just his brother.

So I was slightly disappointed that he lost his memory and didn't remember June because they're my OTP and I really ship them because they're just adorable, but June decides not to remind him of who she is and just says she's there to tell him to get better. It skips to 10 years in the future and June had dated Anden for a few years and then she bumps into Day again and then they start to get to know one another. Then it pretty much ends, so you basically have to picture for yourself what you expect to happen in their relationship - do they get back together or not. I quite liked the ending but I wish he never lost his memory and he still remembered June because they were just adorable! I know I said that before but they are haha. So basically I'm gutted that it ended and that there won't be anymore books in this series but I'm excited to read more of her work.

So I rate this 5 out of 5 stars.

Cover of Champion.

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Also just a quick side note, I am currently rereading the Harry Potter series, so I may not do reviews of them, as I have already read them, I don't know whether I should or not but yeah... for now I will review the books I haven't already reviewed on here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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