63. Recreated and Reunited - Colleen Houck

Book two. Let me tell you, I picked up the wrong book the day I started to read this. I accidentally picked up the third book and read about 30 pages on my lunch break and was filled with confusion left and right. Which was also how book three starts, because our main character has no memory. So I thought I was just losing it,

However, when I finally picked up the real second book, it was much more clear.

I then read these two back to back so I'm going to talk about them together.

I loved them. There are obvious slaws as there is with Colleen Houk's Tiger's Curse series, mostly that would offend the religions involved, but I like her ideas. And I wanted more out of an ending.

Spoilers:

Everyone fucking died. Even people who were nowhere near death. And the main girl and love interest split off at the end in isolation like Tiger's Curse. Frustrating AF.

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61. Lady Renegades - Rachel Hawkins

The finale of a strange concept.

This book is the last in a trilogy that started off amazing. I love Harper, she stays her girly self the whole way through and yes I loved this a lot but it also has so many flaws.

The first book was the best. It will always be the best.

However, I don't think I'll re-read it any time soon. Because of how salty I am.

This was nothing I ever expected and I think I needed something this refreshing. A girly girl who insists on being in charge of everything becomes a badass warrior and she's amazing at it. I would have honestly loved this more if I read it in like junior high or something like that.

Spoilers:

Why the fuck did they kill David and why the fuck did she leave?

 I'm a little salty.

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60. Hollow City - Ransom Riggs

To be honest, I didn't know how long it was going to take me to pick up this book because the first one felt a little like nothing had happened in it so I figured the second would also be a tad boring. I was pleasantly surprised to find this book was much better.

What do I mean by better?

Well, it was more fast-paced. There were more defined goals for the kids. They needed to get somewhere and do something rather than Jacob just finding out what his grandfather used to do. They're going around with people chasing them. There are fights and life-threatening situations that they have to get through and we learn a heck of a lot more about the peculiar world. Which by the way is awesome.

Just saying, my best friend is Addison and she is in love with dogs and when I told her about Addison the dog we were both laughing our pants off.

The different things they see and encounter on their adventure and the pictures included are awesome. I don't think I could even look at my own pictures from a trip I've been on and make a story from it. That's creativity.

I also love the extra photos in the back that he didn't end up using. Those are cool too. The best picture book I've ever read.

So please, if you read the first book and thought it was a little meh, pick up this one. It's much better. Not even the movie was this good. Actually, after this book, I can see why other people found the movie so disappointing.

Five stars!

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58. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is everything I needed.

This book got me out of a reading slump and straight into a bookhangover. I couldn't even make proper conversations at work because I was just so deep in thought, thinking about it while I was reading it. My boss probably thought there was something wrong with me. I finished it yesterday and there is still something wrong with me.

The good thing is I have the next three books so I can continue ASAP. The bad thing is I'm doing a readathon this month (the OWLs from a YouTuber I cannot remember the name of but I heard about it through ReadByZoe) so like I have specific books I need to read this month. So those books are just going to have to wait a bit. And I'm going to suffer.

Red Queen was my Defence Against the Dark Arts book.

Still, I need some people to talk to about this book so hit me up if you've read it and we can chat. Because of that plot twist though!

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55. The Uncle Duncle Chronicles; Escape from Treasure Island - Darren Krill

I read this in grade six I think, for a novel study. Recently I found it at a used bookstore and knew I wanted to read it again to see if I loved it this time as much as I loved it the first time.

I have never read Treasure Island - I own it and it's on a list for my new book club to read in 2020 during one month - but this book is so cute and childish I can't help but love it!

In this book, Sage's uncle that's been on so many adventures finally gets to take him along with him. They go flying off and Uncle Duncle tells Sage that he has this magic stone that will take them anywhere they want to go. Time and place. It will transport them anywhere. They just need the momentum of the plane (falling) to get there.

Sage panics and they get stuck on Treasure Island, right in the middle of the story.

I'll probably have more to say after I finally read the actual Treasure Island but I love this book so much I don't think I'll ever get rid of it.

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49. I Was Here - Gayle Forman

Well. I have a lot to say about this one.

It took me like a year to read this because it started off slow. Once I really got into it however, it took me like three hours to power through.

For starters; the online guy was a fucking dick and I wish he had been the dead one all along. But I still cried like a baby when Cody finally accepted that her best friend was dead. That and her best friend killed herself because of depression.

It wasn't the best book but it sends some good messages.

Problems I had with this book mostly revolved around Cody, the main character. She is so freaking dense and refuses to accept anything that she doesn't believe. I understanding not being able to fully accept your best friend is dead, but this girl needs to take some therapy or something to help her move on. Not obsessing over her best friends last few months of living.

That's why it took me so long to read it originally. Because Cody just irks me and I needed her to stop. If that makes any sense.

I gave this one 4 stars because it still made me cry terribly.

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50. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Top five books of all time. Probably second after The Lovely Bones. Here is why:

This book lifted me up and got me to the highest point of happiness and amazement before it crushed me, my heart, and my dreams.

If you've read it, then you know why.

They met and it was beautiful and I should have stopped reading right there and let the memory of the day those two had together live on forever with me wondering what happened after. I should have stopped and let my heart have a good day.

Instead, I had to finish the book and cry.

Most times, we need to get a glance into the future and see what happens, but this was not one of those times.

Spoilers:

He fucking died. He got captured and got sick and then fucking died.

Additionally: I gave this to my grandma to read and her review is...

The first 3/4 is kind of boring but the last bit is worth it. She finished it instead of talking to me while we waited for dinner so I assume its a good sign.

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48. Curtsies & Conspiracies - Gail Carriger

Book 2 in this series made me happy so I kept reading it.

I flew through this book! No struggles to read at all. I'm pretty sure I finished it in two days actually.

Also, this love triangle that developed. Soap VS. [a] Lord (something - I can't remember), is the best love triangle and both are great choices (to me at least). So I cannot wait to see who she picks (although I have a pretty good idea).

I've been in pain trying to not read the next one so quickly so that I can soak it all in and really know what I'm going in to.

I have a rule with myself that I cannot read books in a series back-to-back because if I do then I get them all mushed into one long story (which I mean they are but,) if I want to talk to someone about a specific book in that series or write about it here I need to be able to know where one story ends and the next one begins. Make sense?

So as painful as waiting to read the last book is, I will wait. But for real, this book is my favourite in the whole series so far.

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53. The Darkhouse - Barbara Radecki

The Darhouse by Barbara Radecki is a short book filled with twists and turns.

I picked this book up originally because it could fit in a small purse and its written by a Canadian who did one of the voices for a Sailor Scout on Sailor Moon. So, hell yeah.

This shit is wild. From a normal boring island life, to the craziest shit you ever read. The main character's dad had told her that her mother was crazy and so he took her away from her when she was a baby and brought her to this island where her crazy mother would never find her. For her own safety of course.

She wasn't allowed off the island.

Then she finds this cave and honestly I figured he was crazy enough to keep her mom under there because he didn't seem like a good dad to begin with.

Bot no. This secret is much more terrifying and just the whole deal is awful. This book kept me on the edge of my seat and I really think more people need to hear about it.

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Hey 2018 is almost over!

Hello, people of the internet,
or whatever.

Long time since I posted, I'm in school now. Still reading lots, I promise I'm going to post reviews really soon. As soon as I write my exams you will start seeing them again. I'm 38/50 for my reading goal which is just awful but I'm planning on doing a lot of reading come December. I'll have a lot of downtime and you'll be seeing so much more of me!

Hope you're all well,
see you soon!!!