Sand - Hugh Howey

Finally finished Sand by Hugh Howey! Took me some time but here we are :) This is the same author who wrote the Wool trilogy (got the reviews on my blog in case you want to read them :) ) and I loved those books which is why I just had to read Sand too.

The Blurb:
The old world is buried.
A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes.
Here in this scorched desert, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.
Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing their family together.
And the secret that could tear their world apart.

My Thoughts:
I have no idea how to do this review because my head is not with me today (got so much to do before work.. eep!), so be nice to me :P Gonna try my best (as I always do)!

One thing first; there was a lot of sand.. a lot... that's all I can say. Of course there was a lot of sand in this book.. I mean.. it is called Sand and they were in a desert so... anyway. Jokes aside. I liked this book :) Not as much as Wool but I really did like this one. I thought this would be kind of a part of the trilogy, but I was wrong. Yes, the characters lived in a post apocalyptic world but everything was different. It was a whole different world.

Was bit of a slow start but at the same time, things already started to happen from the beginning. Just after few chapters something real bad had already happened. So there was always something. And I also learned loads of different names for sand too. It was nice of Howey to make footnotes under the pages for the different kind of sand the characters felt in their boots, mouth and so on. Like I said, a lot of sand which also means lots of different types of sand. Oh, and also, they dive through the sand like it's water! Which sounds awesome, but at the same time scary cause everything depends on their diving suits. Yes... diving suits! Was lot of technology going on in this book as well like power to the suits so they could go through the sand and visors to see through the sand and lots of things they needed for the diving.

While reading this book, I struggled a bit to understand some of the words he used like ker (kind of a scarf in front of your face to shield from the sand) and other words I can't remember right now. But after reading those words in different settings, I started to understand more and it got easier for me to continue. And the diving part, I actually tried to figure out how it would look like if they make a movie out of this, like, how would they manage to make it look like they're actually diving through the sand? And how would the suits and stuff look like? So there was a lot of thinking while reading this time :P

It did take me some time to finish Sand, but it wasn't because I got bored. Life just happened :P (And, also, another book happened (Norwegian - originally Swedish - book so no review from that).)  When I started to read Sand again after finishing the Norwegian one, I got hooked and couldn't put it down because more and more things started to happen and you also get to know more about the siblings past and why they do the things they do.

All in all, I liked the story. It got more and more suspenseful the more I read and there were anger (always a bad guy in his books) and smiles (when good things happened), surprise (when unexpected things popped up) and also sadness (people die in this book as well).

Got no idea what else to write so I hope this review helps you a bit and also that I haven't spoiled a lot of things for you (you get to know all about the diving and stuff from the start so..)

That was all for now! Sorry for the bad review, but like I said; My head doesn't work right now :P

Bye x

4/5

Next book to read: Behind Closed Doors - B. A. Paris

Dust - Hugh Howey (#3, Silo Trilogy) Review

Click here to read the last review on this trilogy.
For the ones who hasn't finished Shift or wants to read this trilogy: Don't read this review as it contains spoilers for you guys!


The end of a great trilogy is here and I have to say it's sad to leave Jules and the rest of the characters. I will miss them all!

If you haven't read any of the books, then...why haven't you?? It's great, it's awesome, it's dystopia, it's sci-fi, it's...I could go on and on! If you're still not sure if you want to read the Silo trilogy then fear not. I did a review of the first one right here. I know it's kinda bad review as all the other ones that I have written, but I hope it will help you. If you're still unsure then I suggest that you look it up on goodreads to read more reviews (that's probably better than mine) and make your decision then.

Let's just say that if you like the Hunger Games trilogy or the Divergent trilogy and all the other books that's in that category, then I know you will like this one as well!

Ok.. it's getting late and I want to start on another book by Hugh Howey called Sand which is kind of a part of the Silo trilogy I think... My coworker told me that I shouldn't read Sand before I finished Dust because it would be some spoilers. Will know more about it when I dive into the book pretty soon!

Bye xx

Bookgeek + Working in a Bookstore = More books in my shelf

Told myself after last book haul that I wouldn't buy more books in a while...
Was quiet at work today and I ended up buying more books...
Maybe working in a bookstore is no good for me and my shelves (seriously!) :P Won't quit my job though no matter what so my shelves just has to deal with it!

So here we are, again, with 6 more books. On the bright side, I got a reason to blog about other things while waiting on the review for the book(s) I'm currently reading.
Anyway. Today's little "book-hoarding" includes these books:

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Night School (#1, Night School series) by C. J. Daugherty
An Ember in the Ashes (#1, An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir
Sand (#1-5, Sand) by Hugh Howey
The Passage (#1, The Passage) by Justin Cronin
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

And that's that! Hopefully these will be the last for a looong while because I got so many books right now and I have to finish them all (or most of them that is).

Currently reading update
Since I'm already here I can tell you that I'm almost done reading Dust and that I might be able to finish it tomorrow (Wednesday, hopefully) or on Thursday. So expect a review coming up real soon!

See you soon!

Bye x

Shift - Hugh Howey (#2, Silo Trilogy) Review

The review for Shift is up! Took me a while to finish it, but here we are at last!

Click on this link or go to the Series/Trilogy review section on the side to read the review! ->

And if you haven't read the first review then scroll down on the site and you'll find it (or just use the archive to find it there):P

Bye! xx

GISHWHES and new books!

And by new books, I mean the ones I bought a few weeks ago (after the previous blog post)...

I wanted to wait till I got all the books that I've ordered (also ended up buying a few more at work in the meantime) and today I finally got the last one in the mail. Yey!

Been waiting for this book for weeks! So happy to have this book which probably sound weird, but I am! :D Found out about Carrie Fletcher through her brother Tom who's in a band that I have been a fan of for 12 years (McFly if you wanted to know). And I've also been watching her videos on her youtube channels for the past few years. It's the same thing with Tom's wife, Giovanna and when I got her first book (Billy and me). I'm proud of them both for coming this far and am so happy to get the chance to read their books and also knowing that I will love the stories before I even read them.

So there's that!

Anyway... so over to the latest additions to my bookshelves:

The Lake House by Kate Morton

The Little Shop of Happy Ever After by Jenny Colgan

The Key to It All by Joanna Rees

Inkheart (#1, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

Inkspell (#2, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

Inkdeath (#3, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey (Three novels collection) by the Brontë Sisters

And that was all of the new books!

Updates on currently-reading (and "gishing")

Not long now! Tried reading every day or more like every night and at work to finish this but it's taken me some time to finish it :P Been working and "gishing" this past week(s) so I haven't had that much time or energy to read for very long when lying in bed at night :P But the book is really good! In this book you get to know about how it all started and why people are living in silos. 

And talking about "gishing", this  year was the first time I signed up to GISHWHES (The Greatest Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen)! Have wanted to try it out for a few years, but haven't had the money or the guts to try it out. This year I decided to finally sign myself up and go through with it (also got my bf to sign up or more liked begged him to sign up with me).

Seriously... even thought I didn't do as much as my teammates, but I had lots of fun doing this! For someone who's shy, socially awkward and also got some degree of socially anxiety, this has been a huge thing for me to do. I literally dressed up as a prospector (looking for gold in a public fountain) and a zombie (at work) this week and that was waaay over my comfort zone. But I did it! Yey! And I also have to add that I made a panda out of sanitary pads (named him Padnalecki)....yeh... It turned out great though and the panda looked really cute X) But anyway.. it was a lot of fun and I hope that I'm able to do it next year too! 

Have to go now 'cause dinner's ready and I'm hungry!

GISHWHES <- In case you want to know more about GISHWHES

Bye xx 

Booksies and sales!

Last week I ended up ordering 6 books (one being a pre-order) and got one of the books this week. I wanted to wait with the "bookhaul post" till I got them all. After I bought three more books today (two of them was the rest of the Wool/Silo trilogy), I thought that I could make a post now and then write another one when I get the rest :)

So this is part 1 of the bookhaul I guess :P

Let's get on it shall we? ;)

The Miniaturist by Jesse Burton

Shift (Nr. 2, Wool/Silo trilogy) by Hugh Howey

Dust (Nr. 3, Wool/Silo trilogy) by Hugh Howey

Eeny Meeny (Nr. 1, Helen Grace series) by M. J. Arlidge

This is how it goes when there's online sales. And also how it goes when working the next day I finish reading the first book in a series/trilogy...Oh well!

And that was all for now :) Make sure to read the new review I did just a few minutes ago! 

Hopefully, there won't be so long before I write a new one this time :)

Bye!x

Wool - Hugh Howey

Wool is the first book in the Silo/Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey. It's also the first book that I have read from this author. It kind of reminds me of The 100 with the whole post-apocalypse were the air is toxic but these people lives in a underground silo on earth instead of space. So if you like The 100 then this might be a book for you! I enjoyed this book so much that I bought the last two books in this trilogy at work today! :P

The Blurb:
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exist in a giant underground silo.

Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full og rules and regulations.
But some people choose not to conform.
These are the people who dare to hope and dream.
These are the dangerous ones.
Jules is one of these people.
She may well be the last.


My Thoughts:
I finally finished it! The beginning was bit slow, but when I started reading it again after finishing Always With Love, I could barely put it down! When I first started on this book, all I could think about was the beginning(?) of the second season of The 100 with the new people that shows up out of nowhere. Not the grounders, but the others. (if you have seen it, you'll know :P)

Apart from reminding me of that tv-show, I really liked this a lot and am glad I bought it! The beginning might be slow, but the rest was a thrilling, suspenseful read. The characters got their own personalities and it is easy to get to "know" them. And, of course, there's one character that you just hate :P Never fails with these kind of books! The silo seems like an exhausting place to live with all the stairs you have to go to just to get to a level. If you live on level 1 and have to get down to level 100, you have to walk all those stairs to get there which will take you 2-3. And then you'll have to go back up again... so yeah.. sounds exhausting! Of course they stay over night to rest on different levels when going up or down, but still...

Without saying too much about the story, I can also say that a tiny part of it kind of reminds me about Divergent. Not sure how to explain that but, it's about the jobs and the kids shadowing  older people and have to decide if this is the place they want to stay and work. Like, if you're smart, you end up working on the IT level, if you're good with machines and fixing things, like the main character, you become a mechanic and so on. If that made any sense...

Other than reminding me of tv-shows/books, I was really into this book. I had a huge grin on my face and got excited when things happened, and also got angry, sad and all the different emotions you get reading books like these.

And as always, I'm not sure what more to say other than it was a thrill read and I can't wait to read the next book in this trilogy!

Bye! x

5/5

Next book to read: Shift (Nr. 2, Wool/Silo trilogy) by Hugh Howey

Bookhaul and update

I got me some new books...again! They just keep coming and I can't help it!

I guess that's how it goes when I work in a bookstore... aaaand also earning my own money again...

Anyways, I now got 6 new books in my shelf! I'm also waiting for the newest book by Giovanna Fletcher called Always with love to arrive. So looking forward to read it! It's the sequel to her debut novel called Billy and me and I completely adored that book and her little short christmas story Christmas with Billy and me ^^

Here's this month little bookhaul:

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
I am Pilgrim (Nr. 1, Pilgrim series) by Terry Hayes
Mr. Mercedes (Nr. 1, Bill Hodges trilogy) by Stephen King
Irène (Nr. 1, Camille Verhæven series) by Pierre Lemaitre
Half Lost (Nr 3, Half Bad trilogy) by Sally Green
The Missing by C. L. Taylor


Update on Currently Reading:
I am still reading Wool by Hugh Howey. So far so good even though I haven't read that much! :) It kind of reminds me of the place Clarke and the others ends up in season 2 of The 100 really. And the world is toxic so the people in this story can't go outside without dying. That too is similar to The 100. It does say that it's the new Hunger Games or something, so we'll see if they're right :P

That's all for now!
Bye x

New books and some update!

Long time, no see! Sorry about that... I haven't had the time to read much lately...or I have had time, but I've been looking after my friend's dogs and it wasn't that easy to feel relaxed enough to sit down and read my book. And that's my excuse this time...Oh! I also got a job now! In a bookstore! Yey! It's not much though, only 1 weekday and 1 Saturday every 3 weeks and some more during summer and when they need someone to take a shift. But it's something! :D

So, moving on to my new books, ey?
Today my bf and I went to this new geek store called Outland that opened last month and they had loads of geeky things and books there so I ended up buying 3 books (they were a bit cheap so I thought, why not?) and Castiel Pop! Funko thingy (now I got Destiel on my shelf! X) also bought s. 10 of spn too in a different store...).

Anyways... here's my latest collection of booksies!

Nevermore (Nr. 1, Supernatural) by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Wool (Nr. 1, Silo (or Wool?)) by Hugh Howey
Gone (Nr 1, Gone) by Michael Grant

Have wanted to check out the Supernatural series and found some of them at Outland so I decided to buy the first one to see how it was! So excited to read it!
So these were the new books for now :)

As for the one I'm reading now, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, I really like it so far even thought I haven't read that much. It was a nice change from The Twistrose Key because it's kinda the same, but more "grown up" and the "animals" are more or less humans in this one. Hopefully I will finish it soon and give you a review sometime this week or next week!

And that was all for now!
Bye x