The house of night...

Okay :) so I took a 2 month reading vacation and i am back :()


First off I started a series... not one of the best I have read anyway here it is :

The House of night 

 Well this is till where I read and to be honest I am not sure I want to read further...

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It starts with a normal teenage setting and immediately I was annoyed at the way it was written. The author tried so hard to make the characters sound like teenagers that they sounded like annoying robots I can quote a feel lines but it's not worth it.

Summary of the first book :

When your entire world is thrown upside down do you know what that means for Zoey ? It means she does not have to write geometry exam :).

In this book it is a world of vampires and humans that lives peacefully together but vampires are treated like freaks and outcasts. All that Zoey want is to fit in.

The rules in this book of being a vampire is when you get changed (to complicated to explain) you have to move in to a house of night. Other wise your body starts rejecting the change and you ..die.

But even when you are at a house of night your body can still reject the change and then well you guessed it you die. So your never really safe from the change.

Zoey is a exceptional vampire all the vampires has a crescent moon tattoo on their head Zoey is the only different one well here its just like Harry Potter he was extraordinary and everybody gawked at him and wanted to be his friend the same here.

So will Zoey know who her true friends are? Can she trust her most awesome mentor when her gut tells her she can't ? Is she as strong as the Goddess herself told her. Can she be strong enough to stand up to the evil most gorgeous girl in school? And is she going crazy or is she seeing ghosts?

Find out in this book*


Well your themes our typical :

• True friendship
• Power VS Will
• Evil Vs light
• Popularity or Happiness 

What I hated!

CLICHES!!!!!!!!!!
Robot characters with a bit emotion
The over explaining


Don't get me wrong this is a AWESOME series ... but the story is hidden under cliches and unnecessary explaining

For example there is one gay vampire and with every new vampire there is this thing were they test the new vampire to see if he is judging the gay vampire and then they explain in DETAIL how the character reacts and what they think of the new character every time!!!!!! Where they could have just shrugged their heads and get on with the story!!!!!!!!!

Still for this book * * * 3 stars

For some of the book * * 2 stars

So for the entire series * * * 3 stars




Some people will love these books because its easy to follow and to understand  I like a puzzling book that you can't predict

But if this is for you enjoy :)


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Boot camp

Boot camp
Todd Strasser

* * * * (4 stars)
I really liked this book!

This was a very eye opening book.

Have your mother or father ever hinted that they wish you were more like a friend of yours. That you like somethings more and somethings less? Well I bet they have but would never sent you away to force you to become that image would they? Boot camp is about a boy named Garrett who is in love with his teacher. Of course his parents found out they were dating and before he could think of a lie a car was sent to forcefully pick him up and takes him away to a camp. What nobody knows this is no ordinary boot camp this is more like brain wash camp. Garrett is tortured for months physically and psychological. Will he stay true to his believes? 

"you don't get out by giving them what you think they want . You get don't get out until you are what the want"

A very good read!!!

I also want to quote another paragraph :

"Once again I pick up the wrapper then wait for the next order. Joe tells me to give it to him,when I do, he drops it. "Pick it up ,stupid." 

I do what he says."Give it to me."

He drops it.

"Pick it up, stupid"

"Give it to me"

"Pick it up, stupid"

"Give it to me"

(I skipped a few lines here)

"Finally, I make a mistake. He drops the wrapper and I bend to pick it up. Crunk! He knees me in the face. Blood gushes out of my nose dripping onto my shirt.

This was a very good book. I loved it read it in 3 hours. It is terrible and quite traumatizing. You won't ever want to go to a camp ever again.

Themes : bulling, identity , religion , Parents believes VS there child's , torture , forced respect , depression,  
In the end of the book there is even a few real facts about boot camps.
 
The main idea of the camp is parents pay thousand of dollars a month to get the child they always knew they had. The rules of the camp is simple obey the laws of your parents. Believe your parents are always right and then you get out of there.

The end didn't exactly make me cry but my eyes were kind of watery and it was just sad BUT I won't give anymore spoilers

 I highly recommend this book but not exactly for the faint hearted.


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Sara's Face

Sara's Face

If you struggle with your identity... you aint seen nothing yet until you have read this book!


This was a very gripping tale. It was a thriller mixed with comedy and it was just a very refreshing read!

Sara is a girl who struggles with typical teenage girl problems thinking she's ugly and fat. The only difference is when she looks in the mirror she truly sees a stranger. So when there is a "accident" with an iron and her face is scarred is her career of becoming the biggest thing the world has ever seen in jeopardy? What is she willing to sacrifice for fame? Is Jonathan Heat the fairy godmother she think he is or the demon of her worse fears?


I loved this book!

Sara is a extrovert and a very unique girl. She loves changing who she is. One day she is a 20 year old woman trying to get an education the next week she is a girl from Ireland.

Jonathan heat is a very big celebrity who struggles with the same problem Sara does there fear for being ugly. Jonathan is famous for the changes he makes in his industry and later he is famous for his changes. For example when he appears in a music video with a dog nose it is an actual nose that a plastic surgeon added to his face.

A really fun read but also quite sad.

Themes : Identity , Cost for fame , split personalities , depression , insane , selfish

Another very funny book Melvin Burgess wrote was Doing it.

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No way to go...

No way to go

Bernard Ashley

The first few chapters had me in goosebumps!

It is a thriller mystery and a fun read that is set in London.

A little boy Connor can climb any mountain with his eyes close. So, what happens when his sister gets the report he "fell off a building"? Why did he wear 2 different colors in his shoe laces? Could her 10 year old baby brother been involved in a gang?

I liked this book * * * (3 stars)

Some of the chapters were dull and contained paragraphs I just wanted to scan. It was nerve cutting though and had me on a mission to finish the book so I could know what the mystery was.

Themes :
Deals with alcoholism, gangs , parents that don't care, brother and sister bond , parents locked up in prison

 I also want to state that I enjoyed his book 10 day to zero much more then this one.

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Animal farm = finished

Animal farm

I have finished animal farm.


First off i give this book 2 stars out of 5. " It was okay".

I did not find the book boring and I will recommend it to anybody who loves a good fable with hidden truths but the book annoyed me immensely.(Reason for 2 stars and not 3)

It was good written because I could feel the suffering of all the animals.
The panic when they took Boxer away.
All the commandments slowly changing
but it's just so sad how anybody could be so blind!

I understand the reason we have to read this book is to ready our selves for the near future to have a bull...dust detector and be able to see when a politician is pulling a squealer and when a politician is a caring snowball.

BUT i still don't see any reason why we have to do it 2 years! They can give us another political piece if they are so keen for us to learn about politics

Still I liked boxer he was very sweet and an inspiration too all the other animals.

Squealer was fascinating I wish i could lie as fast as that little pig without blinking an eye.  In our class we call him the propaganda machine.

I hated Benjamin in the end because even though they slaughtered his best friend his comrade. When Squealer told all the animals he was taken to the hospital Benjamin just kept quite!!!


So in a nutshell
2 stars

Recommended to fable  lovers with hidden truths and also persons who are very negative about humans behaviour .

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