96. The Magicians Nephew - C.S. Lewis

I love Narnia.

The movie = amazing all the time. Just so we're clear.

I knew I wanted to read these books so long ago and I finally got my hands on a boxed set that I liked. (The all in one book did not appeal to me at all.) This book? I had no idea how badly I needed to read it. Honestly, the best decision I made all year.

It starts off a little funky and took me a little to get into, but once they're travelling through the worlds, my heart soared.

If you love Narnia (the movie) and you haven't read this, you need to. There is so much information packed in here that the movie missed out on and they should have started in order. Like for real, why couldn't they have done the movies correctly?

I'm going to see how bad they are as I continue, I know that and I'm prepared to hate the movies from here on out, so wish me luck.

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95. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia

I'm not going to lie to you about my experience with this book.

I read it probably too long ago to write a proper review now about ti but we're going to try.

However, I would like to let you know that I liked the movie a lot! It's one that my dad and I watched frequently together. Like a weird amount of times but it is such a great movie and I will watch it over and over again.

Of course the book was different and I can think of like two different parts that really stood out to me about the differences.

Which I think is a good thing?

In other news, I still haven't read the next books in the series, partially because I'm scared due to bad reviews about them but also because I just know I'll love other things better. Even though that sounds terrible I did give it 4 stars when I read it! So that's got to count for something!

94. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Okay I will admit that I watched the movie first on this one.

The movie is one of my favourite movies of all time and now this book is one of my favourites of all time.

I loved the ideas and details that went into creating this universe inside an online video game. This was everything 80's and I really, really, really wish I could live in the Oasis. So, so bad you have no idea.

This follows a cast of characters inside the Oasis, an online video game where pretty much all life is lived these days (the future). Here the creator of the game has died and created one last thing, a contest. The contest is a race to find three keys after completing three challenges where you open a door and you win everything. Literally everything.

The trials are heavily based on the creators early life in the 80's where he felt most comfortable and enjoyed his life the most. So, the contestants really have to know a lot about his life in those days to understand where and what the challenges are.

In the movie, the challenges change drastically, but both of them are well thought out and incredibly detailed.

I literally cannot describe to you how much I enjoy reading this and watching the movie.

93. Vengeance Road - Erin Bowman

I honestly did not think I would like reading westerns! Which is stupid because I love western movies. I was so glad I picked this one up!

Kate's father is murdered and she discovers a journal that will lead her to a hidden gold mine that her mother and father found when she was just a little girl. Now she's out to find the gold and avenge her father's death.

I love Kate and every other person she meets along the way! This book made its way to my favourites shelf so easily.

I don't know why my mind was amazed at how much I loved it, maybe because I didn't think reading a western would be as good as watching it in a movie or on the tv, but this definitely fit right it! I cannot wait to read more westerns thanks to this book!

That and the cover is beautiful!

92. Stardust - Neil Gaiman

This was my first Neil Gaiman book, and it wasn't half bad.

To be completely honest, I didn't know what I was going to read with this book. I just read it for the OWLs readathon I was doing and I needed it for Astronomy. It was a book with the wors 'STAR' in the title and every other book with the word star in the title that I own is in a series I have not yet started and it's not the first book. So I figured Stardust counted.

I originally bought this alongside Neverwhere on recommendation from a coworker. I've owned American Gods for about a year now but never have gotten to reading it. As per my usual story as to why I've never read a book.

This one also has a movie that I need to watch. Though I think American Gods is more up my alley, Stardust was an interesting story.

A fallen star with a bunch of people after her makes for an interesting tale, that's for sure. I finished this about a week ago and when I finished it I gave it a three-star rating because I didn't know how I felt about it. Now it's more like a 3.5. I really did enjoy it and I will definitely be reading more Neil Gaiman soon.

But first, I kind of want to watch the movie. I have also heard good things about it.

Also, last thing, a town called Wall is so funny to me and every time they brought it up I laughed a little.

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91. The Dragon Heir - Cinda Williams Chima

To be completely honest, I'm a little disappointed.

I know that's not how I should be starting off this review but this book took me 200 pages to really get into the story, and I kept reading because I knew from the first two books that I was going to like it sooner or later. So I suffered for a bit, and then it did get good! Like I knew it would!

It turned out a little differently than I had predicted and I had forgotten so much from the first book that I had to just go along with some of the plots, but it honestly got so good that I couldn't put it down for the last 300 pages.

And then the ending happened.

Three pages of an explanation to where everyone's future went was not enough for me. I am fully aware that there are two more books after this one (I own them already, so of course I know), but this rushed end with no solid future for any of the beloved characters really upset me.

Yes, again, this series has two books after it, but those books (upon reading the summaries) seem to have nothing to do with the original characters from the first three books. I'm going to give them a shot just in case we can see where my favourites are at, but if they don't appear then I'm going to be a little upset.

Okay, maybe a lot upset.

They deserved better than a couple sentences each. I don't think I've ever been this upset about a book ending. Probably ever. I'm going to probably be salty for a bit now. But I still gave it 4 stars.

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90. Everland - Wendy Spinale

One thing you should know about me is that as a kid, after the live-action Peter Pan came out, I was OBSESSED with the story. I watched the cartoon all the time and I'm convinced Jeremy Sumpter was my first love. I am 100% getting at least one Peter Pan tattoo in case anyone is wondering as well. Eventually.... not right away though, I am a broke college student right now with $19 to my name and a credit card to pay off so. Tattoos have to wait, but this is a book that I loved so I should talk about that instead.

Everland is a futuristic, steampunk, little girl Bella with gold fairy dust and mechanical wings, apocalyptic, AMAZING.

I have always kind of underlined certain things in books that really resonated with me when I'm reading. For example, the To All the Boy's I've Loved Before trilogy if you go find one of the reviews (I think its the second book, PS I Still Love You) you can find the quote from Stormy that moved me at that time in my life. When I read it I just went, "yes, I needed this right now." So I do that now but I like to highlight it so I can always go back and reread the book and see if any feelings have changed or if I leant out the book then whoever is reading it can see if they have similar feelings.

So anyway, with that explanation, I highlighted A LOT. Normally I get one or two quotes that I love, but in Everland there were many. Probably like six, but that's a lot for me.

When Pete says "to die would be an awfully big adventure," I cried. Then obviously highlighted it.

I knew it was a Peter Pan retelling going in, but I honestly didn't know what to expect and I think it was better that way, for me at least.

But the basics of it for anyone who wishes to know is:

London has fallen, everyone is pretty much dead. Hook destroyed everything and accidentally let loose a virus that leaves no one unharmed. Pete helps Gwen save herself and her family and she helps him save the lost boys(/kids) and it's a GREAT adventure and probably my favourite retelling ever. I mean it.

Spoiler!!!

Gwen chopping off Hooks' hand gave me life, and days after I'm still living for that moment of pure amazing.

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89. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

Right so...

A little background before I tell you my thoughts on this book.

I have a friend, who is obsessed with Stephen King. She owns like half of what he's written and has read most of them. I want so badly to start reading Stephen King and I purchased IT like two Christmases ago but like that book is so big, its intimidating.

So my friend, who loves Stephen King, asked if I wanted one of his books last Christmas. Obviously, that's a yes from me. She went shopping with her other friend, who neither of us is friends with anymore for different reasons, and that second friend told her to buy me The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. That friend told my Stephen King friend that I would love it because she and I have the same taste in books? No, I've recommended her some books that I thought she'd like and she did so she picked out this book for me.

My aunt, whom I live with, also loves baseball and many of my friends are well aware of this. So I guess she got it in her head that I too, love baseball.

I suffered through this book for the most part. It only took me two days to read it really. My Stephen King friend also told me when I was halfway through that she never actually finished reading it because she didn't like it at all.

I was mostly reading it because of the OWLs readathon I was doing and I needed it for Charms - an adult genre book. So I got that class and all is well.

But this book is a lot of hallucinating baseball in the wild that I didn't need in my life. The only thing I got from this is I actually finished reading a Stephen King books whereas it has been about nine months and I've still only read about 100 pages of IT.

Spoilers:

In case you got bored and didn't finish the book either...

She talks to a lot of people that aren't there. Three 'Gods' tell her they don't have time for her. Nine days after she goes missing, she tries to fight a bear with her walkman. Then she is rescued when some man shoots that bear and brings her to the hospital (I think).

That's it.

I gave it three stars because it wasn't terrible, it was just a tad boring and I could have probably taken a nap while reading it. The end.

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88. Nightfall - Jake Halpern

So, I started this review early (you'll read the whole thing when I'm done the book) but I've read only 52 pages and I have some feelings about it already.

Listen, it is March and it has taken me two weeks to read 52 pages. This book has an air of full creep factor that I was not prepared for. I had put this book up for a spooky September-October read last year but after finishing Nevernight I decided I wanted something creepy because Nevernight was a little creepy, but this is a whole different level of creep.

Seriously, not even 'Bad Girls Don't Die' or 'Hocus Pocus' or 'There's Someone Inside My House' was this weird. I'm getting into the habit of reading before bed and I thought that picking up this book before bed was the reason it seemed so creepy but I read it in the middle of the day on a train full of people and had the same feeling of full creep factor so it wasn't that problem.

There's just something freaking scary about it and I can't figure it out.

Okay, now that I'm done:

Still creepy like no one's business. I had to read this book during the middle of the day while I was at home with the sun still up. I couldn't read it on the train or at school because horror in public is a terrible idea for me.

On top of that, I have many unanswered questions. What happens when they make it to the desert lands? What happens when they have to return to Bliss? Please tell me these things. I need answers.

Anyway, if you want to get freaked out for a couple of days while you read this (or weeks because I honestly needed the perfect setting to sit down and read this) then you should read this book.

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87. Manners & Mutiny - Gail Carriger

An end to an era.

If I'll be completely honest, this book was great until maybe the last two chapters. She ended up with the guy I liked best for her and graduated and all those good things, but she then just kind of decided to sit around and do nothing because her services weren't needed.

What the hell are you trying to do to me?

You spend four books getting her to be so great and awesome and then you give her a job where all those skills are now useless and not needed.

Thanks.

That being said, no matter how angry I am, I still love this series and all the characters in it.

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