Divergent - Veronica Roth

Di-ver-gent adj: 
1. differing; deviating 
2. pertaining to or causing divergence 
3. (Of mathematical expression) having no finite limits. 
All three describe Beatrice Prior. So what is she to do with herself when it comes time to chose which faction she will be in. Should she stay with her parents in the selfless people of Abnegation? Join the honest souls in Candor? Perhaps the peaceful of Amity or the knowledge hungry group of Erudite or the brave and daring Dauntless. For whichever she chooses will define her, and be her faction...for life.

That is just the beginning. This book, is a page turner by every sense of the word. When you are not reading you are thinking about it. Beatrice renames herself Tris (which I like better) and she meets some great and not so great friends in her new faction. Its hard to know who is friend and who is foe...I cheered her on, I cried with her, I was angry with her. I absolutely can not say enough about this book. I think fans of Hunger Games will enjoy this. I think anyone who likes dystopian books will like it. I think any one who can string words to form a sentence will enjoy it. Seriously. Great. Book. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the books, which as of this writing I haven't found information for. Keeping fingers crossed its not years from now!

Dead Beautiful - Yvonne Woon

This book was wonderfully written, with rich characters and interesting story line.
Renee thought everything in her life was ordinary, which suited her just fine. Then on her sixteenth birthday she finds her parents, dead, of apparent heart attacks. Their deaths open up a series of questions, with no easy answers. To make matters worse, her distant grandfather, is her legal guardian and has decided that she should attend an elite privet school 3,000 miles away.

When she gets there, she realizes that its not just the classes that are different, some of the students are as well. Finally questions are answers, but she has a hard time coming to terms with them.

I enjoyed this book right up to the last page. The last page, I turned and damn near threw it across the floor. Not because there will be a sequel, but I just wasn't happy with the ending. Its rare that I am, but this time I was really unhappy. So be warned.

All in all I thought this was a good book. I would look for more by her. (hopefully she isn't as cruel in her others books).

The Good House - Tananarive Due

Do you like Peter Straub? Stephen King? Dean Koontz? Then I am pretty sure you will like this book.

It is classified as horror, but I didn't find it scary at all. Course I grew up on Stephen King, so I could be jaded.

The story follows a family with deep spiritual roots. Angela's Grandmother, Marie, was a voodoo priestess and unknowingly awakened the baka. Seventy odd years later her grandson Corey, brought him out. Its up to Angela and her friend Miles to banish him once and for all.

I found the book wordy, though I am not complaining, just a fact. I am not sure if I will run out to read the rest of her books, but I feel like she will always be there for me to pick up when I am short on suggestions. A solid B+ in my opinion.

The replacement - Brenna Yovanoff

 

I enjoyed this book a lot. I couldn't put it down. Mackie is trying to be invisable. Kind of hard to do when you aren't human. Especially hard when you are in high school and things like metal, and blood send you into a fainting spell. But he makes the best of it, and has some really wonderful friends. Unfortuantly, he is getting sick. Its getting harder to handle the steel, blood, and other things that harm him. He is getting weaker. He finally find people who have answers, unfortnantly, they are the ones he wants. Now he must choose between getting better, or doing what's right. 

This was a fascinating book. I really loved how it took place in his point of view, instead of a humans. I look forward to more books by her.

Paranormalacy - Kiersten White

This book was fun - as my sister said, it was fluffy but it had a good plot, and a good story behind it.

Evie is a paranormal detector guess you would call her, and she works with a company that tracks down and tags all paranormal. Her best friend is a mermaid, he ex is a fey and she has a crush on a shape-shifter, oh and she is being tutored by a werewolf. Her biggest fantasy is to go to school and have a real locker, and real high school experiences. Instead she is tracking down vampires, who don't look cute at all under their glamor, and if they get rough, she had to tase them with her pink taser. All in the day of glamours life. Until paranormals start getting killed by something awful. When it comes on her doorstep, she starts to learn more of who she is, where she came from, and what kind of a future she wants for herself.

Like I said, it was fluffy, but it was a very enjoyable read. I would recommend it to..Twilight fans and the light. I think its enjoyable for that group of people. Especially some of her descriptions on vampires, loved it.

Delirium - Lauren Oliver

"And so it goes Till the day you die This thing they call love It's gonna make you cry" ~ J. Geils Band 

"Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and marks Any heart not tough or strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain" ~Nazareth 

...and probably a thousand other songs, poems, stories, paintings dedicated to the very pain that love can cause. It does hurt. It down right sucks. You feel like you can fly, like there is nothing in this world that can bring you down, when you are in love. When you are in love, the person you are with makes you feel like there is no one else. When they leave (or you leave), the pain is close to unbearable. The future is bleak. Things that held joy no longer do. Ask anyone who has loved and lost and they will mostly likely say, "better to have love and lost then to have never have loved at all." I agree. I have loved with everything I have, and I have lost myself in that love and in turn, lost myself when that love ended. I have mourned over futures that would not happen. I can't imagine a world without love. That is what Delirium is. Its set in a world where we have "cured" love. Where people no longer have to worry about that evil virus love. Its not spoken. People marry according to their statitistics not feelings. Mothers and fathers care for the children in a respectable distant way. No hugs, no kisses. 

This entire book made me angry. From the first page to the last. I couldn't bear to read one more sentence and then the book was over and I couldn't bear to turn the cover. I fell in love with the characters. I loved the writing style, I loved the idea. I think anyone who has an interest in dystopian future books would greatly enjoy this book. It didn't focus on the government or society and 'beating' it, it was more two people, who found love, in a forbidden world and how there really is no going back, once you no longer own your heart. 

Matched - Ally Condie

Should I have chicken or beef tonight? For snack do I eat popcorn or chips? Soda or water? Watch Desperate Housewives or House? Work in Retail or Road Construction? Two children or none? We have all of choices. Some of them are the hardest we can imagine making. Some are easy. But image a world where you don't have to make choices. Imagine a world where they tell you who to marry, what to eat...This is the world that Cassia lives in. This is all she knows. When its her time for her Matching Ceremony, she is so excited but then everything changes and she starts to question the perfect system.

I am so looking forward to the next book, Crossed. I am looking forward to anything that she comes out with...