Waterfall By: Lauren Kate

    This book by the author of the Fallen series is quite the let down. Waterfall is about a girl named Eureka that lost her mom in the most interesting part of the book the first chapter, her mother died in a car "accident" when a typhoon wave shoved there car off the bridge they just so happened to be the only ones on... And this guy, Ander, who was part of this plot to kill them both ended up saving her. But she apparently creates a typhoon whenever she cries and that's why they wanted to kill her but they only made one remark to it.
    I know I have to keep reading it because what if it gets better I'll never know because I know myself I never come back to books that I abandon. Is it me or do you think in the first 60 pages there should be something interesting besides the hook because sometimes you take the bait and the rest of the worm is plastic? I might just be too picky but I've read books the whole way through where the most well written part was the first page. Why can't they keep up the same quality throughout the book?

    It doesn't help the cover looks cool another deceiving plan of publishers and authors.

The Body Finder By: Kimberly Derting

                   This book half romance half murder mystery has enough of each to keep you turning the pages. When the main character, Violet, finds a dead body buried in the woods when she was young it starts a life-time hunt to find out whats wrong with her. Turns out Violet has a "gift"  for finding the dead,only the ones that have been murdered, and their killers. So when a serial-killer comes into town and is in it for the "hunt" Violet involuntarily get caught up in the "game".
                   My favorite part of this book is the fact that Derting has designated a few chapters in the book to tell it from the killers perspective.  This adds some depth to the story showing the other side.

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Winter Reading: Unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken By: Laura Hillenbrand

        This historical book about WWII shows so many point-of-views from this time period that if not for this book and some other biography's or autobiography's it would not be told books like; Night By: Elie Wiesel or Anne Frank's Diary By: Anne Frank, and even though it is not a nonfiction book The Book Thief By: Markus Zusak. While those show the Holocaust, Unbroken shows the American vs. Japan side of the war. 

       When Louis Zamperini an American runner becomes an American Pilot for WWII his whole world flips upside-down.  He lives through insurmountable odds, and faces many challenges many of us will never have to face in our daily lives including food shortage, discrimination, abuse, and even the idea of accepting death. One of the main concepts of the book is the idea once you loose your dignity you have no reason to live as shown in this quote from the book: “Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.” As Louis struggles to survive he becomes attached to this notion believing dignity is everything. 
       This as many know became a movie I haven't seen it yet so if you go see it and it is terrible don't blame me blame Angelina Jolie, and another hint you should have read the book. here is a link to the trailer below.

 Unbroken Trailer

Louis Left               Brother Pete Right 

Finale

The final book I read this semester was Once we were by: Kat Zhang, this is the sequel to What's left of me. So these books are pretty easy to read not really elevated and can drag on at parts but when Zhang gets into the action or the description she really goes all out. These books are about a society (future based) where two souls are born into one body, one recessive and dominate, once you reach the age of 7 the recessive soul dies off. But there is a group called the hybrids who have both their recessive and dominate soul still living in their bodies. That's the premise and I encourage you to read these because they have a great story line and are relaxing reads. I am to read Pictures of Dorin Grey by: Oscar Wilde over the break pretty pumped.

The Knife of Never Letting Go By: Patrick Ness

The Knife of Never Letting Go

By: Patrick Ness

 

 

         I read this book for a school project last year, and let me tell you it was one of the most interesting books I read that year, compared to Under the Never sky.  This book was about a boy who lives in a town of all males, and they can all hear each others thoughts. The way Ness Portrays this is "Noise" he calls it noise an appropriate title for what it really is. A girl comes down  from a space ship to do something, and he finds her, and a crazy guy chases them and it all goes to chaos from there. And WAR! Anyway the book as much as it wants to be a sci-fi novel, doesn't truly make it there. I mean the space ship  and all that jazz but yes I Loved this book. 

The Brokenhearted By: Amelia Kahaney

 

 

 

The Brokenhearted

 

 

 

                  This book pretty much had a stupid plot and One cool aspect, and the question is: why did I enjoy it so much? It was a wanna be Batman without the intelligence. Maybe it was the intrigue of the most intense part of the book! I went in knowing this book was about to be a Romeo and Juliet novel, ya know other sides of the spectrum. But no I got a man disappearing and her searching for him and whoa plot twist!!! So I cannot give to much away about why I loved it, but whether or not you will like it is obviously all up to you. I do believe the main reason I loved it is because of her makeshift heart she gets. The cover depicts what it looks like and It is the whole reason she becomes a superhero. Also they introduce a main character halfway through the book like what?  but I give it 4.5 stars. Just because.

 

                                                 And the Well anticipated sequel is in the mail!!

 

 

 

 

Pulse

Pulse by: Patrick Carman

            After being 90 pages in you think you would have hit some sort of spark to your interest but no, no spark, only a little "okay that's weird". But it's not the kind of book that has you stay up at night reading it, or if not reading it wondering about it. I almost read this last year for my distopian sci-fi unit, but passed and went with The Knife of Never Letting Go by: Patrick Ness. I LOVED it so glad that i picked it instead of this book. I'm going to continue with it because some books need a little time to get interesting, (but 90 pages really), anyway I'm not one to abandon books so i will continue on.