This young adult book is a weird amalgamation of The Matrix movies, Ender’s Game, The Giver and the movie Equilibrium. Beatrice Prior, or Tris as she later renames herself, lives in a society divided by factions based solely on emotional personalities. This book has been deemed the next Hunger Games, yet it is a step above that. The writing, while nothing spectacular, is a step above Collins, Meyer and other young adult writers. Still, Roth leaves a lot to be desired. I didn’t necessarily hate […]
This book had handsome werewolves, but I liked it anyway
Let me just start out here by saying that this sort of book isn
I hate everything
Full disclosure: I’m a sucker for Amazon’s Daily Deals and getting books imported immediately to my phone/Kindle for, like, $2, so I end up reading a lot of shit. Like, a lot. I should probably get Prime so I can just rent books instead. Because I should probably be embarrassed to have read as much of this as I did. I didn’t finish it. I couldn’t finish it. I’ll add an extra book to this year. Pinky swear. Anyway, this particular piece of cow dung […]
Best damn guilt trip I’ve ever taken….
Wow. I’ve been sitting here considering just copy-pasting “wow” two hundred and forty-nine times. I’d give this book six stars if I could. I think North Korea holds a fascination for many of us in the west. Certainly it does for me. I was eight when the Berlin Wall fell; old enough to know that something was happening, but too young to really grasp the significance. North Korea is the only closed country I’ve ever been aware of. Cuba is near enough and porous enough […]
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
I haven’t been as excited about a new book in a while as I was to pick up the newest installment in Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt mysteries. While I didn’t love it as well as City of the Dead, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, the second in the series, definitely entertained me and keeps me eagerly anticipating Claire’s next adventure. In this entry, we find Claire living in San Francisco, mentoring a budding detective, and snorting more cocaine than I thought humanly possible. Paul […]
CB VI #2: The Fault in Our Stars
I kind of wish I could sue John Green for emotional damages because this book fucking broke me. I’m talking, full-on, Clair-Danes-worthy-ugly-crying-alone-in-bed broke me. Ugh. I mean, in a good way. But still. I haven’t fully recovered from this book. Hands-down, Hazel’s dad is one of my favorite dads in literature. I love my father, I have the best dad in the history of ever, but if you offered to let me swap for Hazel’s dad, I’d have to stop and consider it. There’s a […]