Delerium By Lauren Oliver

Title: Delirium By Lauren Oliver
Rating: 4.5/5

Description:

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -the deliria- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable.

My Review: This book is very gripping and a wonderful read. If you like books to be a little intense then this one is for you. I was on the edge of my seat from the first words of the book until the very end. Lena lives in a world where Love is a disease and she can't wait until her 18th birthday so she can receive her cure because  her mother suffered from Deliria and Lenna believes that the disease is the reason she took her own life and left her that night. However a few months before her procedure a series of  events take place and change Lena's perspective on the world in which she lives and the events of her past and the people around her.This book will keep you going and maybe even keep you up a night or two. I listened to it in audio format and it was a wonderful experience. A story that you could truly dissolve yourself into and forget about the world around you. Now you just have to read to see which path Lena chooses and how it all unfolds you will not be sorry that you spent the time reading this one.

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Wake by Lisa McMann

Title: Wake
Rating:4/5
Description:
Not all dreams are sweet.
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant...

Review: This book has a very interesting concept that I had not previously come into contact with. What if every time some one falls asleep and has a dream you are sucked from your body and into their dreams??  That is exactly what happens to Janie. She can't control it and from the outside you would think she was having a seizure.She keeps this a secret for her whole life until she finally tells one boy Cable who she is not really friends with but has been a frequent visitor of his dreams since he insists on sleeping in class.Janie has to figure out if this is a blessing or a curse and a way to have a normal life with this CONDITION. The book is a short read and very gripping from the first page so it is well worth giving a read I myself cannot wait to get into the next one.
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The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Title: The Iron Queen
Rating:4.5/5
Description: My name is Meghan Chase. I thought it was over. That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who's sworn to stand by my side. Drag me into the core of conflict so powerful, I'm not sure anyone can survive it. This time, there will be no turning back.

My Review: I am thoroughly hooked on this series. The first book was really good and I could not put it down and the second was good too just not as good as the first but this one is by far the best of the series so far. Meagan was banished from the Nevernever with Ash and now it is just time for them to live their lives together in the real world. Did she really think it was going to be that easy? No sooner than they get home is she being tracked by the Iron Fey, someone always wants to kill this girl. This is another adventure of survival and love and friendship. She is once again having to fight to keep the one she loves and save everyone else too. This book really develops some of the relationships and even clears up some questions you had from book 2 but in the end it leaves you with just as many as it answered. Not exactly a full cliffhanger but if there is a such thing as a half cliffhanger then this is it. In some ways it ended out well enough that I am not frantic to read the next book but in other ways I am. You will just have to read it to see what I mean. i highly recommend it so go pick up all 3 and Happy Reading!! 

What Happened To Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Title: What Happened to Goodbye
Rating:4.5/5

Description: After a scandal involving her mother and a famous college basketball coach rocked her family and her old hometown, McClean decided to live with her dad. His job as a restaurant consultant requires they pick up often, and at each new place she carefully selects who she’ll be—Eliza, Beth, or someone else with a new name and different interests. It’s easier this way for McClean, who is reluctant to form any true attachments. Then at their latest stop, McClean does something she’s not done in a long while—reveal her real name. But who is this McClean and is she ready to forgive her mother, fall for the boy next door, and finally stick around?

My Review: Ok I have to say after waiting for over a year for Sarah to release a new book she did not disappoint I just hope we don't have to wait so long for the next one. McLean lives with her dad and has for the last 2 years. She has been through court battles and just wants a new life so she has given herself just that. About every 6 months or so it is required for her and her dad to move on the his next assignment and when all the signs start to turn up McLean cuts and runs with no goodbyes or explanations. Then in this new town something happens and her character does not choose her so she is McLean and she has to discover who she is again and might actually make friends along the way, real ones.A community project and the boy next door that is completely not her usual type of usual at all my just provide what she needs to forgive and move on.The story line is very sweet and the characters are true Dessen characters. I am a huge Dessen fan and will read anything she writes.If you have liked any of her books then this one will be another one you can add to your reading list. If you have not read any of her books then pick them up and get started. They are the most fun to read in the order she wrote them because she does this cute little cameo thing with previous characters and it is kinda fun if you catch them.Her characters are what make her works stand out and come alive. They are so real and relate-able. You either knew someone like them in high school or you were kind of like them and the friends that they have or gain also have their own weird little quirks about them that you will never forget. Dessen is a wonderful author and congrats on a great book 10!!

City of Fallen Angels By Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Fallen Angels
Rating:4.5/5
Description City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone’s killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary’s plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever. Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.

My Review: Okay I haven't really settled on how  I feel about this book. It is another book to the amazing series but I do not feel it meets the same standard the other books set. It was far easier to put down. The characters are still great and they really pull you in. The mystery to this book is also really good because you don't figure it out early. Also be prepared to be mad can I say CLIFFHANGER. It was fun to read and connect the characters from Infernal Devices to it and it even leaves you a couple of little clues that you can ponder over until Clockwork Prince. If you have read  COB. COA, and COG then you have to read COFA it is a great installment to the series and adds more to the characters and it has new villains and  action I just hope the next installment is revved back up to COB standards. I enjoyed it and I believe I will enjoy the rest of the series and the infernal devices also.


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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Rating 5/5

Description:

Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.
When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets.
Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.
Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length . . . everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. . . . and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

My Review:Okay!! Wow!! This is another solid start of a series for Cassandra Clare. Even though it is a prequel series and has completely different characters it stays true to her writing style and the Shadowhunter lifestyle. The main character is Tessa and she has come to London to live with her brother after the death of her Aunt that has raised her since the death of her parents. When she arrives in London she is greeted by strangers and is unknowingly taken prisoner and is told her brother will die if she doesn't do as she is told. When she is accidentally rescued she meets the shadowhunters and  can actually start to learn a little information about who she is and the world she did not know she belonged to. The action in this book is just as gripping as the Mortal Instruments series and I have to tell you that the characters are reminiscent of each other. Tessa is a strong minded individual which is unusual for her time and coincidentally does not know what she really is and has been raised blind to the shadow world- Ring a bell  ummhmm! Clary! Jace also has a counterpart in this series his name is Will he is egotistical and even has a very self sacrificing dark side and he is also the love interest of our protagonist but their relationship is also not without complications. Alex has a counterpart as well his name is Jem and he has a secret that will surprise you just as much as Alex's did in MI and they Mrs. Clare keeps you guessing til the end. I know what you are thinking now what about our fashion diva Isabelle who is so self- confident and ass kicking bad well she has a counterpart too her name is Jessamine and as she and Isabelle are the same when it comes to clothes and fashion they are quite different in all other aspects. Don't miss this prequel series because I think you will not only see some familiar characters in the future MI books but it is quite the read that you will regret not picking up.

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Book blogger Hop

Wow It has been crazy! not a lot of time for reading but I did find this and wanted to post my answer to the question.

Question: When you read a book you love do you hunt down and read other books by this author?

I have found that if an author has a book that you love then you will like many of their other works as well. I am an author geek in a way. I read a book and lose sleep over it and so I must read their other books. This obsession started with the very WONDERFUL Sarah Dessen. I picked up one of her books at Wal-mart and then had to read them all (In order of how she wrote them). She is now one of my most favoritest authors and I fiend for more of her works. I am working on Elizabeth Scott's books and have read all but 3 of Nicholas Sparks. There are others like the amazing Cassandra Clare. I feel like if you enjoy an author's work then their other stuff should be at least similar unless it was an off the wall book like "living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott.


SO I guess you can consider this a bit of book related randomness and feel free to comment and answer the same question!!

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