Montag, 3. Juni 2013

Well, with beeing new to blogging, I somehow didn´t think that anybody would read what I have to say, but right now I wanted to share some thoughts on books :)
Recently I´ve been on vacation, and as the weather was going to be not all that well, I prepared and loaded tons of free eBooks on my Kindle. (but from amazon.de, so I do not know, wether they will be free on amazon.com)
Right now I am more into Fantasy and Dystopians, so I could not wait to read them all, and indeed, some were quite marvellous, so as soon as I was home, i could not help it. I just had to buy some sequels!
So, here are some of my favourite reads during my holiday:

First one is Lark by Erica Cope

Mia is very much in love with Grey, her best friend.
It is not only a little crush, she fell hard.
But even though Grey has this longing inside his gaze, something is holding him back.
After some creepy occurences, she gets the perfect gift from Grey: a book. Though, the fairytale inside seems to be quite boring, as it deals with the family history of the elves.
After a terrible car crash, Mia has to realize that the fairytale might not be so boring anymore.
Well, how could she with being a part of it?

I just loved it! Sometimes it has the feeling of a fairytale, sometimes it is more about a lovestory and then again it is full of action.
A huge BUT: I just hate love triangles! Why is it, that every time I start to fall for a character, he has to be challenged by another and be betrayed? I mean, what is wrong with a straight love? You know, without having to worry it will be your endeared that will win the girl´s heart? Seriously, I can´t understand it!

Second in line: Sweet Delicious Madness and the Many Mysterious Deaths of Silvio Berlusconi by Julie Sarff

As I simply can´t write summaries (something I often enough failed at in class), I decided to takt those from goodreads:

 Forced to take a job as housemaid at the villa, Lily finds intrigue around every unkempt bed and dirty cooking utensil. In her quest for a new romance, Lily must face such horrors as rampaging kittens, a gardener with a mysterious orange box, a fellow housemaid who claims the Italian Prime Minister will keel over at any moment (even this one), a sexy man with a very nasty surprise, a search of a claustrophobic basement for some long lost diamonds and preschoolers.

This book made me laugh so hard, but at the same time feel so sorry for Lily! I think Julie Sarff has done an amazing job to entertain. But one thing, that made me crave more, was Brandon Logan! He is not ony hot, super rich and generous, he is also funny, endearing, nice, helpful, understanding. In short: He simply is the perfect man. No offense guys, but noone can compete to him! Well, maybe except for Will from the infernal device series... (yum!).

Third (and for today the last): The Selction by Kiera Cass

America is more than happy with being a five. I mean, she could be a seven, or worse, an eight!
Being a five, she can stick to what she loves: music. Her secret boyfriend Aspen, on the other side, is not that lucky. He´s a six, what makes him a servant. Living in a society, where everything is determined by your caste, love between them seams hard. If they should be marry, it would be an decrease in living conditions for America, though this doesn´t seem to bother the 17-year-old girl. Aspen, on the other side, insists that she takes the chance to escape all this poverty when she is invited to sign up for the Selection. With the additional pressure of her mother, America decides to try her luck not to be selected for one of the 36 girls competing for Prince Maxons hand and thus the crown. Too bad for her, that she is among them.

Fairytale meets Bachelor in a dystopian novel. Well, if I had to give it any rating from one to ten, it´d get a nine. Although I just loved the book (and by the way, also the sequel) it seems to be a bit slow-paced AND why do all my favourite books have to contain a love-triangle! I really don´t get it! Okay, as i complained about it before, I´ll just drop the topic for now. At first I hesistated to buy the book as many gave it a negative rating, but I´m happy that I decided against it. This book made me stay up late and nearly missing a date I had! It even made me cry from time to time, but at the next moment radiated happiness.
Believe me, you simply need to read this if there is a little girl inside you, dreaming of being carried away by thei prince on the back of a horse. 
Oh, and by the way: I´m Team Maxon and I can´t wait for the 6th of May 2014 to finally come so I can read the third book and know, wether everything turns out allright!


That was it from me, at least for today. I find it hard to begin with a post, but once I´m into it, it goes easy, so I hope I´ll be able to start some more frequently!
For the chance that there is somebody reading this, I would like to know what book you can recommend, I am desperately looking for good dystopian novels :)

Love,
Sanna :)

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