Dorothy Must Die Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

Dorothy Must Die 

is a book that everyone must read.

Danielle Paige is an incredible author. 

I could think of a million ways this story could have been 

ruined, but Danielle Paige did a remarkable job. 

This book has made it's way up the ladder and landed a spot as one of my favorite books.

I have read many books, but this is the one that I will be taking about to my friends 

and family a month from now.

Our heroine, Amy Gumm, starts off as a non-violent and lonely 

teenager with only sarcasm as her weapon against the schools biggest bully

but after being dropped in Oz 

and being trained by the revolutionary order of the wicked

she begins to show some major 

character development.

Amy Gumm is Oz's last hope against Dorothy 

and her vicious friends.

 Glinda "the good witch", The Tin Woodsman, The Scarecrow, and The Lion

are stealing the magic from Oz and are terrorizing it's citizens.

Amy has everything she needs to defeat Dorothy:

Brains

Courage

Skills

and

Magic

but in this new Oz is there really anyone 

that she can trust? 

The Order?

Nox?

 The Wizard?

Is killing Dorothy the only way to save Oz?

and most importantly,

in a world where the meaning of the words Good and Wicked

are not what they should be,  

what kind of witch is will Amy Gumm become?

Is she Good or is she Wicked?

Find out what happens to Dorothy 

in this retelling of Oz 

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Original Summary

I didn't ask for any of this.

I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.

But when your whole life gets by a tornado-taking you with it- you have no choice but to go along, you know?

Sure, I've read the books.

I've seen the movies.

I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds.

But I've never expected Oz to look like this. 

To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion.

There's still the yellow brick road, though-but even that's crumbling.

What happened?

Dorothy.

They say she found a way to come back to Oz.

They say she seized power and the power went to her head.

And now no one is safe.

My name is Amy Gumm- and I'm the other girl from Kansas.

I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.

I've been trained to fight.

And I have a mission:

Remove the Tin Woodsman's heart

Steal the Scarecrow's brain

Take the Lion's courage

Then and Only then- Dorothy must die!

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk

CURRENTLY READING: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige 

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk

We're all stories in the end ...

                                  " We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

-The Doctor

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xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk

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NEW BOOKS FOR MY COLLECTION

This morning I woke up feeling like something 

Huge was missing from my life.

So what did I do?

I'll tell you what I did.

I hopped on the train and made my way to Barnes and Noble.

 The minute I walked into Barnes and Noble

I saw Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

and knew that it was made for me

but my Bookworm senses were still tingling 

So I made my way upstairs and found Partials by Dan Wells.

I have been meaning to buy this book on my Nook for some time now 

but when I saw it sitting there 

there was no way I was leaving the store without it.

♥♥♥

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk

Deep Blue Secret Review

4/5 ☆☆☆☆

I absolutely adore this story.

Rayne and Sadie are utterly adorable in this first book of The Water Keepers series.

Usually the story is a bit like this:

girl meets boy

boy saves girl

they fall in love

and then

they both dive head first into a relationship filled with passion and lust (depending on which story you're reading), but the point is that they always rush into a relationship with someone who is pretty much a stranger 

LIKE HELLO, STRANGER DANGER!

I like how both Sadie and Rayne have this intense emotional connection with each other,

yet neither one of them gives into it.

Sadie is always thinking that she is weak, but honestly I feel that she is very strong, emotionally, because if I had my emotions amplified by some magical water I would definitely be all over Rayne like… well wet on rain. (har-har I know I am hilarious) It is obvious that Sadie is in love with Rayne, but she does a pretty good job of keeping put.

Seriously though, her emotions were everywhere and she still managed to control her self, and not only with Rayne. Poor Sadie would be happy one moment and then severely depressed another.

 The only way I can properly explain this is to compare her emotions 

to that of a whovians, on Christmas night, during 

The Time of The Doctor

(minus the screaming)

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Summary

Sadie is a normal seventeen year old girl. 

She is carefree and very social at her school talking to everyone she meets

and always has a happy and energetic vibe about her… or so it appears.

Sadie tends to spiral into an emotional slump 

at the sound of music that either is or attached to some sort of sad or depressing memory. Sometimes for no reason at all she will become physically exhausted and unhappy.

As if those random episodes aren't enough Sadie's love life, or lack there of suddenly becomes complicated when a strange and incredibly handsome young man saves her from a near death experience. Her relationship with him becomes this huge emotional roller coaster ride. She is falling for him, but her feelings might not even be real - just a side affect of the healing water -  and besides knowing that he is only there to keep her safe - as a bodyguard - and nothing more makes things a bit frustrating for her. 

Sadie doesn't understand why her emotions are out of control. 

She is struggling to keep her feelings for Rayne, which might not even be real, to herself. 

She knows something weird is going, and that Rayne holds all the answers to her questions,

 but the most important question that has been bothering her since finding out about him is 

Why does she even need a (keeper) secret agent to keep her safe?

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk

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Tomorrow Land Review

4/5 ☆☆☆☆

Holy futuristic zombie apocalypse! 

Secret government agents

Flesh eating zombies

Betrayal 

Heartache

Addiction

Cybernetic implants

Gladiators

Love

&

a boatload of innocent children

This trip through futuristic zombie land will be a walk in the park,

 or rather a walk to Disneyland.

With an important code saved locked away in her head 

Peyton and Chase make their way across dangerous territories

with a group of orphaned children to Disneyland where Peyton's 

father awaits her arrival.

After being locked underground for four years she is on a mission to save what is 

left of the human race, but can she make it in time before the cybernetic implants,

created by her own father, fails and her body starts breaks down?

Will traveling with Chase, her former love, complicate her mission?

and how can she travel to Disneyland, fend off zombies and protect a group of mostly children safe from a fate worse than death while her only capable companion is constantly putting them in danger?

….

Sometimes finding a good Zombie Apocalypse book is hard to come by

because after a while they all start to sound the same, but I can say for sure that this book was like nothing I have ever read before.

The back and forth between chapters, going from the present to the past repeatedly, was extremely frustrating, but by the time I got to the end of the story I could not have imagined this book being written any other way.

This book was absolutely fantastic!

xoxoxo
-Natasha Blaxk

Matched Review

3/5 ☆☆☆

Only a few paragraphs into Matched by Ally Condie 

I got really excited about the story.

 I am great a multitasking and I am always either cleaning

or cooking while I am reading,

but WOW

I was so absorbed by this book that I suddenly found myself in my bed wrapped up in a blanket unwilling to separate myself from this story.

Unfortunately though by the time I got to chapter eight I was pretty much 

half dead due to boredom 

But I pushed through it and realized that it wasn't that bad.

The story is a bit slow paced *eyeroll*

 but other than that it's OKAY. 

I wish there was a bit more drama in the story and that Cassia wasn't so 

dang indecisive about who she wanted to be with

but who knows maybe the next book will be better.

I am really upset though.

I honestly thought that this book would be more than what it was

 but all of that put aside the story is really good.  

Also if you enjoy this book or have already read it then you might also be interested in reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver, which I also expected more from but do not let my slight dissatisfaction keep you from reading this book. After all there is a reason I gave this book 3 stars.

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ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS

Cassia has always trusted the society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate… until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. 

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk