One creepy looking book... (New book)

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Nr. 1 in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy) by Ransom Riggs

So, I've seen this book sometimes around the internet and thought it was a really creepy book because of the cover, but yesterday I saw the trailer by Tim Burton and it turned out to be not so creepy after all.. just a bunch of kids with abilities (probably a lot more is going to happen I know..). So today I decided to buy it at last :) I think I'm going to read it after I finish Second Life by SJ Watson which, by the way, I'm currently reading. 

And talking about Second Life, I haven't read that much of it yet, but I will probably finish it by next week. Yes, long time to read it, but right now I'm currently playing sims 4 and got a lot of things to collect (got a long list of collectible items so I'm busy doing that apparently). So for now I'm gonna read it whenever I take some break from sims and other things :P 

There's not much that have happened yet and the beginning was kind of 'slow', but I think that things might pick up a little bit soon (hopefully), especially after the end of the last chapter I read last night. We'll see. Maybe I end up ditching sims soon and read and read and read because serious things are happening :P

That was it for now and I will come back soon to do a review!

Bye! x

Review Feedback - Robison Wells

A new review about Feedback by Robison Wells is added as a page under 'Series/Trilogies Reviews' on the side --->

It's a bit short because there wasn't that much to say without spoiling things :P And besides, it was kinda the same as the first book. You also got to find out everything about the whole Maxfield Academy and I was a bit surprised about the whole truth.

Mind you, the ending was a bit disappointing, but I thought that the rest of the book was good :) If you want to find out more about what I thought of this book then you know where to click! And if you haven't read Variant then I got the review right under this post :)

Bye! x

Variant - Robison Wells

Variant by Robison Wells is the first book I've read from him. There's also a sequel to this book called Feedback. If you liked the Maze Runner, I'm pretty sure you will like this one as well! It's similar, but with a twist. And by a twist, I mean things turned out to be completely different from what I imagined.

The Blurb:
Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence, where video cameras monitor his every move - and where breaking the rules equals death.
All Benson wants is to find a way out. But when he stumbles upon the real secret the school has been hiding, he realizes that escape may be impossible.

My Thoughts:
When I started reading this, it wasn't like I could barely put it down like other books that's been so good that I can't leave it, but I wanted to see if Benson made it out in the end. It wasn't boring or anything because stuff happened all the time and the way the school was run by teens, I wanted to know what this was all about. Same as Benson.

And then, after halfway through the book when he finds the truth about this place, I couldn't put it down! Seriously, I finished this book around 4 this morning. I couldn't stop reading and when I finished it, I jumped out of the bed and got the sequel out of the bookshelf and continued. When the clock turned almost 5 a.m, I told myself that I had to put it down and go to sleep :P Everything changed and trust me, I did not see this coming, at all! At one minute, things felt a bit strange about this place, but nothing really happen and then everything changed when he found out what was really going on. Usually, you have an idea about how a book might end, but this was something else.

It went from ok, this reminds me of Maze Runner..they're stuck in this school and Benson's the only one in this place who actually wants to escape to What is happening?? What is this place? Omg! I did not see this coming!! You can't trust anyone here! What's going to happen now? and so on.. It ended up becoming a thriller more or less.

Of course, this is my thoughts about this book and I thought this turned out to be one awesome story. Some people might not think that this was any good at all or maybe thought the twist sounded weird or something :P But, if you like the Maze Runner (and I don't mean the movie version) then I'm pretty sure you will like this one too.

4/5

Review Gone - Lisa McMann

New review under the 'about me' section on the side! ->

This is the last book in this trilogy and, maybe, I should have told you in the first review that if you haven't read the first book in this Dream Catcher trilogy then you should read more about them before you go buy them. I loved them even though it was complete different from what I thought they would be. These books might not be for everyone so some of you might be a little bit disappointed. But if you're like me, then you will like them :)

Anyway! I guess I have to find something else to read now that I'm finished with this trilogy and I've no idea which book that would be yet. I guess we'll find out on my next review!

I'll see you (hopefully) soon!

Bye x


Edit: Whoopsie! Forgot to add the review page to the side under the serie/trilogies review section. It's there now! --->

New review, Fade - Lisa McMann

I have made a new page for this review so there won't be any "spoilers" on here. The review is right under the "About me" :)

I thought I could try this out with this trilogy. I have other reviews on this page from other series, but they were already a part of a series so... as lazy as I am, I haven't bother editing those and add them to a new page the way I have done with this one. Maybe I will fix that in the future, but right now this will make do :P

Hope you still enjoy this blog as much I am writing my thoughts and stuff and of course, to have a reason to read as much as I want :)

I'll see you soon!

And by soon, I mean tomorrow at the latest...this trilogy is so short that I will finish the last one by tomorrow. Or maybe tonight..I dunno :P

Bye! x

Wake - Lisa McMann

Wake by Lisa McMann is the first book in the Wake/Dream Catcher Trilogy. This is also the first book I've ever read from her. Before I read this, I thought that this was going to be a bit creepy and stuff. Some dangerous dreams or something. I don't know :P But this was something completely else! And in a good way too! Well, at least I think it was good tho..

The Blurb
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...

My Thoughts:
Like I said in the beginning, I did not expect this. Anyway. This is one of the books you read, but at the same time it doesn't feel like it at all. (If that made any sense? )I started reading this before I went to bed and suddenly it was time for me to put it down and sleep. You know those kind of movies/episodes/youtube vids that is so great that, when it's over, you feel like no time has passed and you look at the time and it's suddenly much later than you'd thought? That's the feeling I got from this book. Probably a bad example but you get the idea.. I hope? It's difficult to describe.

The way this story has been written is so different and peculiar from the others that I've read (apart from a few) with a date and time. There are chapters, but it's split up by day to day and time of day "entries" in Janie's life. I think that this was also one of the reason why it felt like I read it the way I did because the chapters was split up the way they had and the "entries" were short so it wasn't so "heavy" to read.

Seriously... especially this book! Ahh..

From trying to describe the feeling of reading this to how I thought about this book. I really enjoyed reading this and it was surprisingly great. Like I said earlier: I thought this was another creepy book that I would read this week (thanks to the blurb) but nooo. This was a lovely book and with a complete different plot than I thought. Instead of creepy psycho killers with horrible dreams, there was a guy with bad dreams and Janie and him becomes close. The only "creepy"dreams was his and her friend's. Other than that there was some weird dreams and a few sweet dreams. And that was it. No scary stuff at all :P And I'm looking forward to begin on the next book in this trilogy tonight! :)

This must be one of the worst reviews I made, but hey! At least I'm trying to describe my thoughts the best way a Norwegian can to describe things in English!
(Yes...that's my best excuse for writing bad! Ha!)



4/5

Finding Audrey - Sophie Kinsella

Finding Audrey is one of many books by Sophie Kinsella. I have read some of her books (not the Shopaholic series..yet) and I'm in love with her stories. When I found this book, I knew I had to read this because of reasons (that you can read about under My Thoughts :) ).

The Blurb:
Audrey can't leave the house. She can't even take off her dark glasses inside the house.

Then her brother's friend Linus stumbles in to her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile, and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again - well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do things she'd thought were too scary.

Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.

Be prepared to laugh, dream and hope with Audrey as she learns that even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you...

My Thoughts:
I loved this novel and for the first time (I guess) I could actually relate to a character. I know I say that about pretty much most of the books I've been reading. I guess I'm good at picking books that I actually enjoy! Anyway...so this book is about Audrey (obviously) and she got few types of anxiety disorders. And this is the reason why I wanted to read this because I got anxiety too. And weirdly enough, we both got generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder. When I read about the things she felt when she was faced with something, I knew what she meant. Of course, I got a 'lighter' version of it than her, but at the same time there was things I could relate to. The way the body tense up, the heart beating faster, the feeling that  your whole body is shaking and all don't forget all the things that goes through your head. The only difference was how it all started. She, because of some girls in her class and me, because I felt like a failure at school (if I was lucky I got a 2 + (E+) on most things, maybe a 3(D) on few) and had to take 5 exams after finishing high school because I had failed them. I just isolated myself from everything and everyone, including my bf (we broke up, but are now together again after 2 years :* ).

Ok..so that was a little story about me. I'm not gonna bore you with more of that. If you want to know more or want to talk about things, then we can do that :). Back to the book!

Most of the story is about her brother (the story's from Audreys p.o.v), Frank, who's a gamer and her mother is all over the place and things that games destroys his brain and stuff.. poor woman. And especially poor Frank! Even I got annoyed at their mother! But it was fun though and the ending was priceless. Seriously, I had no idea that would happen at all! I'm going to try and not spoil so much, but there's one thing that I thought was really sweet and that was Frank's friend, Linus. The way he treated Audrey and how he tried to help her. Like I said in an earlier post, I'm a softy when it comes to people helping and caring about others even though they don't have to. And that's what Linus did. Of course, there was a tiny part where he says something and I couldn't help but to think, Oh no, do NOT say that! It's not that easy!! If it was that easy, don't you think she would have done that already??? Trust me, I know... It's not that easy when your whole body tell you to run, and you try and try and try to calm down but your head won't listen... It just get too much. I was really proud of her too when she tried to do things that she thought she would never do again. Even though it was just small steps. But that's all it takes.

I enjoyed reading this novel, and the explanations around the way she felt was pretty accurate. Apart from the anxiety, I laughed, and cheered, and got annoyed (the mother and that little sentence that came from Linus), and laughed some more.

Yes, this might be about anxiety, but trust me. It's funny, with her mother all over the place getting comically angry at Frank because of a game and just...the whole story. It's great, it's lovely, charming...you name it. If you've read any of Sophia Kinsella's book you know you're in for a great treat!


4/5

The Accident - C. L. Taylor

The Accident is the debut novel by C. L. Taylor and the second book I've read from her. After reading The Lie last week, which is the second novel from her, I wanted to read this right away because The Lie (in my opinion) was creepy, but at the same time a thrill read.
Here's what I think about her debut novel. (Contains spoilers)

The Blurb:
You took my child. Now I'll take yours...

Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she has to face a very dark reality.

Retracing her daughter's steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte's diary and is forced to head deep into her daughter's private world. In her hunt to discover the truth, Sue begins to mistrust everyone close to her and is compelled do delve into the murky depths of her own past.

Sue will do anything to protect her daughter.
But what if she is the real reason that Charlotte is in danger?

Fast-paced, suspenseful, this is a book with more twists than a helter-skelter. Prefect for fans of Before I Go To Sleep and Gone Girl.

My Thoughts:
It started a bit slow, but after some chapters it started to pick up. It wasn't like The Lie were I wanted to continue to read right after I'd put it down, but it got better after round 100 pages in. After I had finished her previous novel, I had some expectations with this story. Of course, this was her debut novel I started to like it more and more in the end. So much that I ended up finishing it round 4 o'clock this morning. Long night, but it was worth it. Lot of things happened in the last few chapters that I couldn't just put it away and sleep. I needed to know what happened and was not disappointed at all. In one of the last chapters I thought that maybe Sue had been so delusional that none of the things that had happen in the present time was real. But she was right all along and am glad that she trusted her instincts when no one else did. Finding the true reason why her daughter had walked in front of the bus was scary. I understand why she wanted to find out the truth because her past had caught up with her (literally). And not in a good way.
The way the chapters went back and forth with present day and diary entries from the 90's made it better than if there only was about the present day, because so many things happened in the 90's and reading the entries, I got to know more about the reasons why she acted the way she did and why she was so caught up with finding the truth. And that's all I want to tell you about this novel without spoiling that much (although there are spoilers at the end of this post)

This book started slow but ended up being one suspenseful read. I'm glad I continued to read this and I'm looking forward to read more from her. After reading The Lie and The Accident I know that the novels will be better and better. The Lie was so good that I couldn't put it down and The Accident might have been slow in the beginning but all in all, I can't wait to read more from C. L. Taylor!


4/5





SPOILERS:
There was also entries from her diary from the 90's about her psycho ex-boyfriend. In the beginning I got a bit annoyed because obviously he was manipulating her and she made excuses for not leaving him. And then I started to think from her p.o.v and understood that it's difficult to just up and leave when someone manipulate you the way he did. One second he was nice and all, and then out of nowhere he accused her of cheating and couldn't bare the thoughts of her having dated guys before him and wanted her to throw away her bed (because other guys had slept in it), her presents from previous boyfriends (because he thought she kept them 'cause she missed them or something) and so on. Even I got scared of the way he treated her! And got so, so angry at him! I mean, he even locked her up in his mum's house where they both lived so she couldn't leave! He treated her like garbage and called her things and he also made her stand naked in front of the window so everyone could see how ugly her body was and that no one could believe how anyone would touch a fat girl like her. That was the kind of creepy messed up guy he was. I completely understood why she was so scared when she found out that he had found her again after all these years and was after her daughter. I'm not going to say anything else because you just have to read it yourself.