Book Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Release Date: May 7th, 2013
Read: January 22nd - February 8th, 2016
Publisher: G.P Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Series: The 5th Wave, #1
Format: Hardcover, 457 pages
Source: Borrowed, Class Library

Description from GoodReads:

   After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

   Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

Review:

   That's a lot of bloody tears.
   Having been released for a few years now, most people have known about The 5th Wave for a while. The same went for me, expect I first discovered it when its sequel, The Infinite Sea was being released. At the time dystopian books were just coming down from their trend, and I had just become so bored of them. It wasn't until they released the first trailer for the movie adaption, that my interest was peaked and I wanted to give the book a try.
   After reading The 5th Wave, I found myself not impressed with the story. There was nothing special about it, the aliens or even the characters. I thought with the waves being so advanced that these aliens would be exciting and special, but really they were just spirits inhabiting human bodies. For once when someone says aliens I want a odd looking green guy, not another human looking creature. If I wanted another human inhabiting alien book I would have read The Host again, or even the Lux series. 
   The characters like I said, were nothing special. I felt no connection to either of them, even with the 3 different point of views that we got. Not to mention the confusion I had when we switched the narratives, when we first swapped from Cassie to Ben I had no idea that it had happened and so I went on thinking I was still experiencing Cassie's point of view. Even with the black page separating the views, I'd have at least liked to know whose view I was swapping to.
   Another item that I could just not comprehend was Cassie repeatedly going back to Evan, she knew he was lying and eventually even found out the truth about him, but the second he mentions saving her brother she was all for trusting him to get Sammy back. You're a very bipolar one there, Cassie.
   Even though The 5th Wave was not my favourite, I still look forward to seeing it's movie as well as possibly reading its sequel in the future.

Rating:

Favourite Quote:

"Love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can't know what you feel."

"Nothing is not important anymore."

Recommend to People Who Enjoy:

Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Aliens, 

Book Blitz: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

   Hello and welcome to the Glass Sword Book Blitz! For all you Red Queen fans out there, the day is finally here, Glass Swords release day! So to celebrate, we have the perfect giveaway for you! Good luck!

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Release Date: February 9th, 2016

Publisher: HarperTeen

Series: Red Queen, #2

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages

Description from GoodReads:

   Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. 

   The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.

   Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. 

   But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. 

   Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

 

   Victoria Aveyard is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen. Victoria was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She has sold several television pilots and feature-length screenplays. You can visit her online at www.victoriaaveyard.com or on Twitter at @VictoriaAveyard. 

One winner will get a RED QUEEN Prize pack from HarperTeen, which includes:


- 1 Physical Copy of CRUEL CROWN (0.1 & 0.2 Red Queen)


- 1 Red Queen foam sword that reads “Kneel or Bleed”


- 1 Scarlet Guard scarf



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Movie Review: Paper Towns

Paper Towns

(Contains Spoilers)

Movie:

Film Corporation: 20th Century Fox

Released to Theatre: July 24th, 2015

Audience Rating: 6.6

Length of Time: 109 minutes

Director: Jake Schreier

(Movie trailer)

Book:

Title: Paper Towns

Author: John Green

Publisher: Speak

Release Date: September 22nd, 2009

Format: Paperback, 305 pages

Movie Review:

   All the strings inside him broke.

   After reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and seeing how perfect they made the adaption I was excited to hear the news of a Paper Towns adaption. Unfortunately that was before I had read the book, after reading it all I could hope for the adaption was for it to be better than the book.

   To me the movie was the same level of dull as the book was, it was plain and boring. There was nothing special to the plot, or storyline. I found John Green's characters in Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska to be too alike that when reading Paper Towns I just kept getting flashbacks from reading Looking for Alaska. 

   Although they film makers did a great job recreating the settings and story, the film just wasn't for me. The only things that I enjoyed from the film was the secret cameo of Ansel Elgort, and when drunk Ben started singing the Pokemon theme song and everyone joined along.

   I stopped caring for John Green and his books and films a few books ago, I think Paper Towns confirmed for me that they just aren't for me.

Overall Rating:

Favourite Scene:

   My favourite scene would 100% have to be when they make their gas station pitstop, and Ansel Elgort was behind the desk. Before we started watching the movie my friend and I were laughing about how Nat Wolf was in The Fault in Our Stars as well, so when Ansel popped up we screamed with laughter. It was one of those, you had to have been there moments I guess.

Favourite Quotes:

  "You have to get lost before you find yourself."

Recommend to People Who Enjoy:

High School, Teenagers, Adventure, Travels, Nat Wolf, Ansel Elgort, Contemporary 

Waiting on Wednesday (53)

Riders

Veronica Rossi

Riders, #1

Tor Teen

Expected: February 16th, 2016

Description from GoodReads:

   For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.

   Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.

   Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.

   They fail.

   Now--bound, bloodied, and drugged--Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he's fallen for--not to mention all of humankind--he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.

   But will anyone believe him?

Why I Want It:

   THE FOUR HORSE MEN, THE APOCALYPSE,  SLEEPY HALLOW, AHHHHHHH. I haven't seen or heard a thing involving this topic since the Sleepy Hallow TV show, and boy did that turn into a bust. So obviously I'm super excited to get another go with the Horse Men. 

That's my Waiting on Wednesday this week! Will you be picking up Riders? What are you waiting on?

Book Blitz: Starflight by Melissa Landers

   Hello and welcome to the Starflight Book Blitz! I am a big fan of Melissa's first series, Alienated and when I heard of Starflight I just knew that it would be another great one! So I hope you all love it and give it a buy!

Starfight by Melissa Landers

Release Date: February 2nd, 2016
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Series: Starfight, #1
Format: Hardcover, 358 pages

Description from GoodReads:

   Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.

   When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...

   Hey there, booklovers! 

   I’m author Melissa Landers, and I’m thrilled to announce the release of STARFLIGHT, the first in a brand new sci-fi series from Disney-Hyperion. I originally pitched this story to my editor as “Overboard” (one of my favorite romantic comedies) meets “Firefly” (an amazing show that was tragically cancelled after one season). STARFLIGHT follows the misadventures of Solara Brooks, a penniless felon who indentures herself to her high school nemesis, Doran Spaulding, in exchange for passage to a new world. But when Doran’s memory is temporarily erased, Solara convinces him their roles are reversed—that she’s the master and he’s the servant—and leads him onto a renegade spaceship, where intergalactic shenanigans ensue. STARFLIGHT is very different in tone from the Alienated trilogy, but the story is still filled with all the things I love: humor, heart, and adventure.

   What do reviewers have to say?

   “Get ready for blast-off! Action-packed and utterly addictive, nobody writes like Melissa Landers. A smart, satisfying romance set in a vividly detailed world, Starflight was just plain fun!” –New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman

   “Teens will be bracing themselves during the swashbuckling action scenes. A great choice for fans of raw sci-fi action, reminiscent of the lawlessness presented in the television series Firefly.” –School Library Journal

   “A lively tale of romance, space pirates, conspiracy, and made (as opposed to genetic) families.” –Booklist 

   If you like your sci-fi adventure served with a side of romance, I hope you’ll pick up a copy of STARFLIGHT today. It’s now available in stores and online.

   Melissa Landers is a former teacher who left the classroom to pursue other worlds. A proud sci-fi www.melissa-landers.com.

geek, she isn’t afraid to wear her Princess Leia costume in public—just ask her husband and three kids. She lives outside Cincinnati in the small town of Loveland, “Sweetheart of Ohio.” For more information or just to say hello, visit

   To celebrate my book birthday, I’m offering one lucky winner a STARFLIGHT swag pack, complete with custom nail wraps, bookmarks, and a mini poster! The giveaway is open internationally. Due to sweepstakes laws, entrants must be 18 years or older to participate.

   Best of luck, and happy reading!

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