Fallen (Fallen #1) by Lauren Kate with SPOILERS

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. 

 Get ready to fall . . .

My Rating: 1.5/5
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal (Angels)
Read sometime in 2010 



Hardcover, 1st Edition, 452 pages 
Published December 8th 2009 by Delacorte Press (first published 2009)

Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth

Book Review:

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

My Rating: 2.9/5
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia
Read from October 9 to 15, 2014


Paperback, 487 pages 
Published February 28th 2012 by Katherine Tegen Books (first published April 25th 2011)

The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) by Michele Hodkin

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through she can fall in love.

She's wrong.

Paperback, 452 pages

Published October 23rd 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (first published September 27th 2011)

Personal Rating: 1/5
Genres: Young-Adult, Paranormal
Order online in Alibris


MY REVIEW:



Well, first of all, i was in deep thought rating this book. There were some little parts of it that were thrilling, but that was it. Starting with the good qualities

1) The parts that are meant to "scary", "terrify" or "trouble" the reader did make my hair stand up. 

2) Then, there are little twists in the plot i really liked. 

3) Promising theme and artwork on the cover. I was mistaken by judging this book from its beautiful cover. 

Moving on to the main body of this review. My main complaints are:

1) Difficulty to decipher the meaning of some of the dialogues. Period. I found that really annoying, it made me wonder if the american readers got easily through that part - because as an excellent speaker of british english, i lost the gist of it. 

2) What's going on with high-school drama these last After-Twilight years? I can see many resemblances, which upsets me. I personally think that Meyer's story did influence many others to become fans, readers and writers of the paranormal. But, not many do have the story-telling abilities of Stephenie Meyer. 

3) And then again, this book almost made me lose my interest with the pages spend on endless tell-tales of love and hate, between "him" and "her". Hey, hasn't anyone told you that this guy is spineless? It seemed like our hero had a taste for inadequate girls with lack of manners. We are lucky he didn't lick the soles of her shoes. 

4) Many parts of the story-line where not smoothly combined. I got the impression of someone who was in a hurry to finish a book, and just smashed in every pretty idea she had in her mind. 

Overall? It's a shame. I would not complain about the plot, or the guy's character if not for the last complaint i listed above. Sorry guys :) Hope we don't share the same point of view and you liked it/will like it if you read it.