The Fault In Our Stars Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

Emotionally damaged.

I have been I have been utterly and irreversibly damaged emotionally by John Green 

and the characters of this absolutely wonderful novel.

but seriously

I do not care what you think you know about love or

 if you think that Bella and Edward had an amazing love story or

 even if you think that the story of Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy

because if you do then you are a fool.

Sorry but that is the truth. 

Hazel Grace is a sixteen year old girl who just happens to have cancer 

and although she's been given this miracle - the miracle being that the test drug that has been 

given to her has hardly worked on anyone, yet for some reason worked on her 

now extending her life by ... oohhh I don't know, but still longer than it would have been while she was lying on her death bed drowning from the liquid filling her lungs- she is still what she calls herself a grenade. 

Any day could be her last and thus she distance herself from others in hopes of lessening the damage 

she will create when her time comes. She keeps to herself, mostly, and her best friend is An Imperial Affliction - her favorite book.

That is until she meets Augustus Waters, a seventeen year old cancer survivor,

 at one of her support group meetings. 

Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters develop this beautiful relationship and together they 

embark on an amazing journey through this fantastic roller-coaster ride called life along with all of it's 

side affects.

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

Possession Review

4/5☆☆☆☆

Once again we find ourselves in a controlled society where not everything is as it appears.

We have goodies who aren't really good,

Baddies who really aren't that bad,

Thinkers who can get into or control people's mind,

Creepy robots, and

A rebellion on the rise.

Walking with a boy 

Out past curfew

Wearing contraband

Not plugging in to her transmission at night

and Cutting and dying her hair

Yeah Vi has always been a rule breaker

A free thinker

You'd think that would be a good thing right?
(Being a free thinker I mean, not a rule breaker.)

Not in the City of Water.

Violet has gotten up to seven offenses.

It's off to prison for Vi after being spotted past curfew with a boy-
 even if he is her match or that Zenn is as good as they come. 

While in prison she meets Jag. 

A baddie.
 Probably the worse kind with his tanned skin and jet black hair.
You can tell, just by looking at him that he's a rule breaker.

At first Violet could not stand Jag
but soon they learn to depend on one another
and develop a close bond. 

They have to stay together to survive

But can she really trust a baddie?  

With all the lies, half truths, spies and betrayal
it's a wonder she can trust her self.

***

I loved this story
but damn 

Goodies

Badies

Thinkers

Come on! There could have at least been a little more creativity with the names here.

Oh well what's done is done.

The main reason why I love this book is because
Violent is a very strong  free thinking individual.
She refuses to be controlled and put into a category.

She's presented with many choices:

duty or death

Zenn or Jag

Left or right 

control or don't control

alone or together

But it seems to me that Violet is always fighting for a third option
 because she understands that not everything is either good or bad.
Somethings just don't fit in either category.

I also love how Jag isn't one of those guys who hides behind a mask - at least when it comes to Vi.
 The fact that he cries in front of her or let's her see when he's vulnerable has got to be the sweetest thing ever. Even if he is supposed to be this big bad ...Badie?

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

This third book in the Vampire Academy series is much more darker than the first two.

  Our characters relive the horrible events of what happened with Victor Dashkov

 when they find out about his trial hearing, and the possibility of him being set free.

Rose and Eddie deal with the death of a friend
and struggle to come to terms with all that they have been through
when they were kidnapped and held by the strigoi.
Lissa is practicing magic again

trying to understand and strengthen her control over her gift

and we all know what happens when she use magic.

Rose might be losing her mind,
unless you count seeing ghosts as something completely normal,
but even among the moroi and dhampir seeing things that aren't there
is not a good sign.

Moroi are being beat up around the academy,

Secrets are being kept,

The queen is making plans for Vasilisa's future,

and the safety of the academy is tested.

There's a storm coming 

One that the guardians may not be ready for.
People will die and
Rose will have to chose between the two most import people
to her in the world.

*sigh*
So much stress and Rose still has to worry about graduating
talk about a totally bummer!

Romitri shippers will have a feel trip in this book.
Things are heating up between these two
but it may be only a matter of time before
the truth about their forbidden love comes out.

Xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Origins (Zombie Games #1) Review

 2.5/5   ☆☆

The only reason why this book got two and a half stars is
because the main character, Cassie Wild, actually knew how to defend herself
 and isn't a pathetic child how needs a guy to protect her every two seconds.

 She's brave,
bold,
smart,

She's a black belt
and daddy taught her how to use a gun!

   

The book was was okay.
It wasn't a complete loss. I liked it enough to not gag.

 It was an easy read and it is definitely the type of book you read
if you just want to sit back and relax. 

The story line isn't too complicated and it won't give you a major headache
and the fighting scenes aren't so graphic that they will give you nightmares
 if you decided to read this before bed.

The lack of zombie activity seriously made me want to beat the crap out of the book
but that's a big no, no since I was reading it my nook
and I kind of love my nook.
Usually at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse the world is
kind of overruned by hungry and vicious zombies not these lameos.
I was expecting a lot more chaos than this.
[[Yeah, I said lameos]]

I was also really looking forward to the romance between Cassie and Bryce 

but it got really annoying with Eva (the local queen bitch) throwing herself

 at him every two seconds and I hardy doubt that any guy is as dumb

 as he is to not understand what is going on. 

One minute he's all "I really like you blah blah blah"
to Cassie and the next he's letting the little trap hang all over him

and Cassie is trying very hard not to just kill Eva herself.
Seriously the girl has more self control then I do because if that was my guy
Eva would be taking a few lessons on
personal space...

Then there is this random solider who only knew Cassie for like five seconds

 and he's obsessed with keeping her safe

-as if she wasn't capable of doing it herself. 

 I swear when I get to the next book, if I find myself reading about
another obsessed guy bending over backwards to protect Cassie
because she is a girl or because she is cute,

even though she can pretty much take on half the people in her group,

 I am going to go on a craze rant about how completely idiotic and pointless
 all the male characters in this book are and not even bother to continue reading
 the series and just

           

I have read better zombie novel but when it comes to a series
you can't always judge it by only the first book
so hopefully the next books will be filled with a lot more action.
This is after all the end of the world
.... right?

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) Review

4.5/5 ☆☆☆☆

Everyone knows that love is complicated. 

Love is never easy when you're trying to figure things out

even more so when you're a seventeen year old dhampir in love with your twenty-four year old mentor.

A mentor who may be moving on to an older woman who can give him everything you can not. 

But who cares about love triangle nowadays 

they're not nearly as complicated as 

a love ...square? ... rectangle?

or maybe it's a circle. 

ugh!

help me out here, please!

Rose is definitely in love Dimitri.

Dimitri might have the hots for Tasha Ozera
(she definitely has it for him)

Mason would die for Rose 

and there's this new royal moroi, Adrian Ivashkov
who's constantly flirting with her.

Yeaahh... Love's a mess 

and no matter which relationship you ship

you will still end up like

Josh Dallas in my next gif

And gawd I want to say more about that 

but David Tennant is telling me to

 

So let me just jump right into the real drama here.

In the last book we learned that Lissa has a very special,
very rare set of abilities that put her 

in danger of not only strigoi,
but her fellow moroi as well. 

A guardians job couldn't get anymore harder.

Except ... well, until they soon find out that

life as they all know it will never be the same. 

Strigoi are out right attacking moroi
and dhampir in large groups with outside help.

Now if you know anything about the strigoi in this book then
you know that between the blood thirst,
savage killings and complete lack of
morality that strigoi usually end up  attacking each other unless there's
a yummy "snack" near by.
The strigoi often work alone or in small groups of maybe
two or three, but now 

They're doing the impossible and are working together.

They're organized, 

and it seems no matter how many trained guardians or wards the moroi put up

no one is safe anymore. 

Not even during the day.
They're breaking all the rules of typical strigoi behavior
and unless the moroi and dhampir can keep up
there is going to be a lot less of them
and a whole lot of strigoi to fight off.

"'This changes everything doesn't it?' I asked
'Yeah,' he said.'It does'" - FrostBite, Rose and Dimitri

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

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