Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book. Such a quick read I finished it in an afternoon. It was truly emotional and heartwarming at the same time. It follows the lives of two women who eventually become friends against great odds when they have the same abusive husband and the same horrible lives for the most part in Afghanistan. It is definitely a story of sisterhood and women standing together against extreme oppression and yes I cried like a baby. A great read for anyone.

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Review: Red Queen

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I’m still not really sure what I thought of this book to be honest. I just felt like I had read this story so many times before.
Mare the main character isn’t exactly likeable she is just so miserable. I mean I get it the world she lives in sort of ‘Hunger Games’ level sucks but dude even being made in to a princess doesn’t stop the angst for like a day. The romance here was just unrealistic since it was quite obvious that Mare hates and doesn’t trust anyone. I don’t know if I want to read the sequels to this might give it a go in the hopes it gets better.


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Review: Reached

Reached by Ally Condie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Matched was definitely the best book of this series. The second one I really didn't think much of but this one was at least better than that. It did tie up the story nicely in a kind of predictable but what we all thought would happen anyway kind of way.

I think the fight between the rising and society could have been done better. It seemed like the book missed out on a lot of what should have been an epic war between the two.

I did enjoy the whole plague part and the different POV's of Ky, Cassia and Xander. I kind of thought Cassia and Xander were better suited, to be honest. Also thought the whole pilot thing turned out kind of pointless.

I mean a decent read to finish off the series but I just thought it could have been better basically.

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Review: The Crossover

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Not normally a book I would read as I have literally no interest in sport but for the reading challenge i was doing a sports book was required. That being said I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read and the poetry was clever and witty and told a great story that had me totally crying through the sad parts with his dad. Definitely worth a read for someone that likes poetry, has an interest in sport or just likes a good family story.

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Review: Carve the Mark

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I will start by saying I loved the Divergent series so assumed I would love this. A pretty good read but not super memorable book to me.

I think the problem this book faced was too much world building. The reader basically gets thrown into 100 pages of this fictional world description, which makes the book much too slow, and it was too much for me and left me mostly confused for a good portion of the book.

I wish they had introduced us slowly into the world. The story was a pretty good one when it finally all started to come together with lots of twists and turns. One thing I did enjoy about the story was Cyra the female lead wasn’t completely good and honorable. She had killed people, whether willingly or not she put her survival above others which is unusual for this type of book where the female lead is always some selfless heroine. I enjoyed the romance and I liked the unique situation that brought them both together.

Still, I’m excited to read the sequel to this so it was pretty good.


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Review: Fallen

Fallen by Lauren Kate
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book. There is no denying it's very similar to Twilight. Girl meets two hot guys who fight over her straight away. The difference being this one grows wings instead of gets all sparkly. That being said though I loved the idea of always falling in love with the same person throughout all your lifetimes and the tragedy of having that torn away every time. Honestly, the basic plot is why I'm so interested to read book two.

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Review: American Gods

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book so much I honestly never wanted it to end and was kind of devastated there wasn’t a sequel. There is literally no slow and dull parts in this book, every page seems to have its own story which is impressive for a book that’s as long as this one. I loved the stories of the old gods and the original coming to America stories. Some parts are very strange like the swallowing up of a person during sex or the agreeing to let a stranger cave in your head over a game of checkers but it all added to this brilliant dreamlike quality that the whole book had. I loved all the characters from Mad Sweeney and Wednesday and I really loved Shadow’s relationship with his dead wife. Which actually is as strange as it sounds. Five stars and definitely one of my favorite books ever.

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