Rant, not an Update.

Okay people, this isn't so much of a "talking about books I've read" it's more of a "rant about an author everyone thinks is good but I think is over rated" The author in question today is John Green. Now, before we(I) begin, I have to say, John Green is a good author but I do not believe he is as good as everyone claims him to be. Granted, I've only read two books by him (Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars). The books were good, nothing more. In fact, The Fault in Our Stars compared to Looking for Alaska is like comparing call of duty games, The same thing with a different skin on it. Now, John Green was ruined for me in a way that movies are ruined for people; one of my friends told me that Looking for Alaska is so wonderful and would not shut up about it and practically forced me to read it. SO, because she said so many good things about it, I was expecting a lot, and I was thoroughly let down by the book. It was, like I said, good. Nothing more.
     Okay, I'm going to talk about how Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars are very similar. Character  meets the love interest and life is completely flipped around, has fling with love interest till love interest dies near the end of the book, then they show life after the love interest dies at the end of the book. That was the concept in both of those books. Also every single one of his books involve romance. You do not need romance to make a book good.
OKAY. That was my rant. Next time'll be of books. PEACE.

17th Post

I haven't been on in a while, but, that always means I've read plenty of books for you guys. I left off with "Triangles" by Ellen Hopkins, which I still haven't finished.... But in the middle of that book I read "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan. This one's in Percy's perspective and HE lost HIS memories too, just like Jason did in "The Lost Hero" all he can remember is Annabeth's name. Sweet, yes, but he makes new friends, one named Frank who hasn't been claimed by a god yet, he thinks he's a son of apollo because he's good at archery. Then there's also Hazel who's a daughter of Hades and has the power of riches. I read the Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. This book is about a girl whose sister died and is now torn between two boys, her sisters boyfriend and this boy at school named Joe who loves music.I read the Heir Trilogy (Warrior Heir, Wizard Heir, Dragon Heir). The first book is about a boy named Jack, who is tall and has Red hair. Yes, I'm being 100% serious,he looks pretty much exactly like me. Who is a warrior. Want to know more about Jack? Read the book. The next is about a boy named Joseph, but they call him Seph, he's a wizard and he's sent to this school where he's mentally tortured by the headmaster Leicester. Then there's the Dragon Heir, the POV is kind of hard to tell in this one because it's between a lot of people. I'd have to say it's mostly a guy named Jason and Madison, who is Seph's Girlfriend. This is actually the first time I've read this series all the way through, because the beginning of the Dragon Heir is so freaking boring, how boring? Well, I started reading it in Eighth grade and got halfway through, I put it down and just picked it up after 2 years. Yeah, it's boring. But it's worth it. I've also read Between Shades of Grey which is about Russia back during the times of Stalin's Rule. It's boring but very good, if that makes sense. Then Finally there's Ashfall by Mike Mullin which is about a boy named Alex whose parents go to visit family and leave him home alone when suddenly the Yellowstone super-volcano goes BOOM and causes an apocalypse. Everything is now covered in ash.... Haha I see what you did there, ashfall and there's ash falling ahaha....haha. No it's not funny, stop laughing. If you want to find out what happens to Alex, read the book, it's really good. Right now I'm reading Brotherband by the same author as The rangers apprentice, I'm like 20 pages in, but I can tell you this, it's about a skandian boy named Hal who doesn't exactly fit in with other skandians. Right, that's all I've read lately, hopefully you enjoyed it. PEACE.

16th Post

Holy Crap, I have read books, and it is awesome. I have read Subject 7 by James Moore. It's about 5 kids who are secretly sleeper agents who have literally different people living inside of them. They come out by a code word and their physical appearance changes and personality. I thought it was very good, but the ending... Oh, the ending.... Lets not talk about that shall we? I've read 13 reasons why.... Holy crap that book is awesome, I think it should be a must-read for teenagers, it's thirteen reasons why this girl killed herself... It was so freaking depressing but I came out of it like "Holy CRAP! That was AMAZING!" I read World War Z by Max Brooks... Another good book, it's recordings of survivors from the zombie war. I personally think it would've been more entertaining in audiobook format because I can tell when the speaker changes, that kinda confused me in the book, other than that it was really, really good. I read Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, another very good book (obviously, it's by ellen hopkins, it's amazing) Impulse is about 3 kids who are in a mental institute a girl because she almost killed herself by cutting herself, a boy tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the chest, and another tried to kill himself with pills, the reasons why? Hm, read the book. Lastly, I read Don't sweat the Small stuff for Teens by Richard Carlson, I was told to read this by my girlfriend. It's mainly just things in adolescence that you shouldn't freak out about. I'm in the process of reading Triangles by Ellen Hopkins which is like a chick flick in a book form haha but I think it's really good. Anyway, that's the books I've read lately. PEACE.

15th Update

Alright, now I know you're all going to be disappointed in me, but I haven't read anything this summer. SO, what I decided to do was make a sort of list of books to read in the coming school year. Where to start..... OH! YES! Triangles by Ellen Hopkins (I'm actually reading that now, it's AWESOME) I'm not disclosing anything about Triangles because it doesn't come out till...... October I believe.Next, there's Forever by Maggie Steifvater(?) which is the last book in the Shiver and Linger books by her, I'm really looking forward to it because I love this series haha. Next there is Where's my Wand by Eric Poole. I haven't read it yet, my dad has and he thinks I will like it. It's kind of Sedaris-y he told me(meaning the writing style was similar to that of David Sedaris, who is another author I like. (Author of Naked, When engulfed in flames, Holidays on Ice, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. He's wrote more, but those are his more popular titles). WAIT, I lied I HAVE been reading a book that my girlfriend gave to me. Don't Sweat the Small stuff (For teens) by Richard Carlson. It's basically this book about how to deal with "the small stuff" for adolescents like ME. It is SUCH a good book. She told me to only read the first chapter and I'm currently on Chapter 39. I also plan on reading The Blade of Shattered Hope by James Dashner. It's the third book in the 13th Reality Series. Lastly, I plan on reading The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy(Really?) Nelson. It's about this girl whose sister dies and then finds herself caught between two boys. Alright, I will leave it at that then guys, sorry I haven't read anything but next time, there'll be a few books I have read.

14th Update

Wow I have been DEPRIVING you people of my blog! I'm so sorry! But fear not, I have not forgotten you. I've read five books in my absence . I have read "Unearthly" by Cynthia Hand. The book takes place in southern California and southeast Idaho near the teton mountains. Oddly enough, this is where the author lives. The basics of the book is the main character is part angel and her powers are coming to her very slowly. She has these visions of a boy standing in the middle of a forest fire. Because of these visions she has to move to idaho where she meets a boy that screws up the whole idea of a GOOD plot. I have read "Perfect" by Ellen Hopkins. I'm not saying anything about this book other than my mom is awesome and got it signed for me. The book doesn't come out till September. Yes, be jealous you don't have a mom as cool as me. I have read 'Middle school: The worst years of your life" by James Patterson. I don't know if the book is out or not but I'll tell you my opinion on it: It was funny but the story is dumb. I've read "The forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan, it was a zombie book so I automatically thought it was good. Finally, I've read "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. I really like this book, the story as good, the characters were good, just the whole thing was good. Those were the books I've read since last time, PEACE.

13th Post

Alright. I have been FLYING through books lately. I have a lot to talk about, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Since the last update I've read..... About 5 books. I read "Dust City" by Robert Paul Weston, "SoulStice" by Simon Holt, "Hush Hush" by Becca Fitzpatrick, "13th Reality: The Hunt for Dark Infinity" by James Dashner and To kill a mockingbird. I thought Dust City was kinda dumb, I couldn't really take it seriously, because the main character was a wolf (no qualms on that) but his mom died from pixie dust..... Yeah..... Pixie dust..... I honestly don't remember much of this book because I didn't like it all that much. Next is SoulStice which I finished today, it's the book that comes after "The DeVouring" This book was absolutely amazing. The ending made me seriously tweak out. I went up to my mom AND the girl that recommended it to me and yelled: "WHERE'S FEARSCAPE?! I NEED FEARSCAPE NOW!!!!!" according to my mom the book isn't out yet, even though the girl that recommended it to me has it, the freakin school library has it (and believe me, they NEVER have any good books) and the inside cover of the book says it came out fall of last year. I'm gonna say this is operator error on my moms part. The next book is Hush Hush, it's an amazing book it really is. I mean, yeah, it's a love story pretty much, but it's developed. Unlike certain popular books *cough cough TWILIGHT.*  The Hunt for Dark Infinity is the second book in the 13th Reality Series and I was actually ashamed of myself because it took me 3 days to read. It usually takes me not even a day to read most books and this took me three? WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?! Now.... To Kill a Mockingbird..... I actually didn't like this book. I'm pretty sure if I A: wasn't forced to read it and B: was like maybe 2-3 years older I would've liked it a lot more than I did. I just kinda thought it was boring. Oh well. I'm sorry for not sharing anything about the actual books but seriously people, if you want to know what happens in a book, then read the friggin thing. Yes, I'll tell you if I like a book, no, I won't tell you what happens in it. That's your job as readers. That's all for this update. PEACE!

12th Update

Considering I didn't write much on my last blog, I thought I'd be nice (or my mom forced me, whichever choice you like best) and write another blog. I've finished 2 books in one day (okay, I know that sounds like a feat but one book I had already started and was like 10 pages away from finishing it haha) The 2 books I read were "The Throne of Fire" by Rick Riordan, if you haven't heard of him get your head out from under the rock it's been underneath for the past 5 years and pick up another title of his called "The Lightning Thief". ANYWAY, this book is the second in the "Kane Chronicles" which follows the adventures of Carter and Sadie Kane (hence KANE Chronicles) this book involves the Egyptian gods and how they're still "alive" (that's a common theme in his books) the mane villain of the series is Apophis and he's a giant snake. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have a giant evil snake take over the world. The other book I read is called the DeVouring by Simon Holt, it was recommended to me by a friend and I'm glad she recommended it haha. This book is so awesome, it's about these monsters that take over human bodies and live out their lives and send the REAL souls away to these places called "Fearscapes" where they basically spend all eternity with their biggest fears. These monsters are called "Vours" (it's why the V in "The DeVouring" is capitalized) it was a gripping story and had me reading it in the middle of some of my classes (mainly science because i finished it next hour ha ha). So for anyone who hasn't read the DeVouring or the Kane Chronicles; READ THEM BECAUSE I COMMAND IT! PEACE!