Becoming Alpha Review

4/5☆☆☆☆

Tessa has always been an outcast

a loner

A freak

She has unusual gift that allows her to see visions of people's past with just one touch.

If she touches someone or  something that's been touched by someone else she'll get a vision and there is no stopping it.

She's had this gift her whole life and has been avoiding it by distancing herself from others and wearing gloves everywhere she goes.

Tessa and her family are moving to Texas for a fresh start.

  A place where no one knows about her gift and she can be as normal as possible.  

But I one night with an amazingly hot guy changes all of that for Tessa. 

One tiny little kiss is about to change her whole world. 

And if she thought her gift made her a freak then 

Being turned into a werewolf is going to be a trip for her. 

And her relationship with the mega hot guy 

Who turned her is about to get very complicated.

Not to mention the price they'll have to pay

for breaking the pack law

even if it was an accident. 

***

Paranormal Romance lovers  will adore this book!

I know I do.

With all the

Werewolves

Vampires

Witches

and oh yeah the attention whore

who can't let go of a man who was never hers to begin with

there isn't much in this book for you to hate.

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Uglies Review

4/5☆☆☆☆

In a world where everyone gets to become pretty at the age of sixteen,

where everyone undergoes surgery to become the ideal image of beauty

and no one - except those who are underage - has to deal with 

the harshness of being ugly, 

how could anything possibly go wrong?

Tally Youngblood can not wait until her sixteenth birthday to finally have the operation
 so that she can be with her friend Perish in New Pretty Town
where all the new pretties live. 

Where everyone has big eyes, plump lips and high cheek bones and perfect skin. 

In New Pretty Town everyone's only job is to have fun.

It's been Tally's dream for as long as she can remember 

and in only a few weeks she'll be there partying with all her old friends
who have already gotten the operation.

All she has to do is keep out of trouble for a few more weeks
and she and Perish - her best friend - will be together again. 

Except Tally's new friend, Shay, doesn't want to become pretty.

She's convinced that the operation takes away more than just your ugly features.

Days before their birthday Shay decides to runaway

and take her chances outside the city to live
among other uglies who, like her, refuses to be made pretty.

When Tally is taken to New Pretty Town for her operation
she's exposed to a very ugly side of the pretties
working in special circumstances and  is given an ultimatum:
Find Shay and turn her and the other runaways in,
or stay ugly forever.

***

This book really shows how obsessed society is with looking a certain way.
It shows how cruel we can be to one another just because someone simply looks or acts different.
We give each other nicknames that point out our flaws just like the characters in the book
for example: Stick, Squint, Nose etc.
We make ourselves believe we are nothing because we are "ugly"
and most of us would risk our lives by going under the knife
and go through a massive surgery just to become "pretty",
to become accepted, without fully understanding
that we are just being brainwashed into thinking a certain way.
Being tricked into thinking that big eyes, a thin nose and full lips and a certain height
is what makes a person pretty.

I've read a few reviews before finally reading this book
and a few of the people who wrote them were upset because they
felt that this type of society is unbelievable, but I disagree.
 If you pay attention you can see how society judges people who look different
and they're telling people they have to look a certain way to be beautiful
and there are many people out there who would do anything
just to become "pretty".

Maybe if more of those people can read this book
or books similar to this they can see how wrong they are
and change some of their minds.

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Vampire Academy Review

4/5  ☆☆☆☆

If you have been unlucky enough to have seen the movie before reading the book

 -as I have- then I want you to forget everything you saw and felt about the movie. 

Forget about the actors, the acting, the storyline...everything. 

Just shake it all out of that pretty little head of yours.

 If you loved it, hated it, somewhat liked it, I don't care.

 forget it! 

Forget it all and read Vampire Academy and then decide how you feel about it.  

The movie is good, I liked it, but I might be a little bias because one of my lady crush stars as the bad ass Rose Hathaway. 

This book is the perfect example of "The book is better than the movie" line you hear from every die hard bibliophile.

Rosemary Hathaway is a kick ass Dhampir who has dedicated her life to protecting the Moroi -  Most importantly her best friend Vasilisa- against the strigoi.

Strigoi are undead vampires whose purpose in life is pretty much to drain blood and life 

out of every moroi, dhampire and human they come across.

Vasilisa Dragomir is a Moroi Princess.

The Dragomir's are one of the twelve royal families and  Lissa is the last of her bloodline.

Some time after the accident that killed her entire family, Lissa began noticing some weird things happening to and around her. The usually sweet and caring Lissa would experience violent mood swings, depression and sometimes got the feeling that someone was watching her.

After what happened to their teacher Ms. Karp and her warning about Lissa 

Rose does not hesitate in deciding to take Lissa away from St.Vladimir Academy 

to hide and live among humans to protect her. 

Two years on the run and the girls are caught and dragged back to the academy.

St. Vladimir is supposed to be a safe environment for both moroi and dhampirs

 but when Lissa starts getting threats in the form of dead animals in her dorm room 

and attacks against her from a jealous, stuck up, royal wannabe 

Rose goes on high alert and steps up her game as guardian 

and if you read this book you'll know that Rose is the type to punch first and find out who she actually hit later.

*incoming Rosemary Hathaway gifs*

If you haven't read Vampire Academy yet you should

and if all of the action isn't enough to get you to read this then please for the love of Romitiri (Rose+Dimitri)

pick up the book!

Richelle Mead is killing my heart with the adorableness of these two

and just look what it's doing to Amy Pond!

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk