Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
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About the book: When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.
Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood. http://www.amazon.com/Bloodlines-Richelle-Mead/dp/1595143173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324311346&sr=1-1

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Well I'm a huge fan of the vampire academy series. There are my number one top favorite books. I really enjoyed Rose and Dimitri and Lisa as well. I couldn’t wait for bloodlines to come out mainly because it was based off the same characters as the vampire academy. It wasn’t as good as vampire academy but it’s the first book so I’m hoping the next one gets a little better. I still loved it though and Sydney was interesting to read about but if it wasn’t for Adrian I probably wouldn’t be as interested in the book. Adrian makes the book I just wish Sydney wasn’t so uptight all the time. It was definitely different reading it from an Alchemist perspective but I liked it. Overall I loved it and I cant wait for the next one! :)

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Brittany-Blues

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
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About the book: The book Pretties follows the story of Tally Youngblood, except in this book Tally has become a pretty, where she lives in new pretty town, and has forgotten everything about being an ugly. She has undergone surgery that not only changes her looks but has turned her into a mindless bubble head. In her new life she’s preoccupied with going out to parties and drinking. Tally starts dating this new guy Zane whose also a pretty and he starts to help Tally start to remember. Zane's trying to help Tally stay bubbly so she can remember about the old ugly days. One of the guys from the new smoke breaks into new pretty town to give Tally two pills containing the cure to fix her brain. Tally and Zane both take one pill and they start to see differently everyday. Zane starts getting really bad head aches though as a reaction from the pill. In a desperate attempt to save Zane, Tally must escape pretty town and take him to the only Dr.'s that know how to save him at the new smoke.

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What I think:
I though this book was incredible and brilliant. It kept me on edge the whole time, always wanting more. I think its incredible how Scott can make up such a brilliant story. He’s constantly adding new twists and turns to the book and I love it! At first when Tally and Zane were together I was a little mad because I wanted David and Tally to be together but then at the end of the book I realized that I liked Zane more and that David was actually a mommas boy. What ruined it for me with David was that he never came to rescue Tally from new Pretty town like he was suppose to. Zane has been there for Tally the most and there just meant to be. The ending made me so mad though as soon as Zane and Tally finally could be free, everything changes and special circumstances comes and ruins it all! But over all great book!! LOVED IT! I'm reading Specials right now.. : )

Love,

Brittany-Blues

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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Amazon.com Review

Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider’s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell

 

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What I think:

The synopsis has already been described above so I wont go into it to much. To make it simple Tally lives in Ugly Ville which is outside of Pretty Town. According the story everyone’s considered ugly until there 16^th birthday. On there 16^th birthday everyone gets plastic surgery and there made into a pretty. Tally meets Shay her new best friend who wants to run away to a secret village called the smoke. In smoke it’s a hidden village that no one knows about and everyone stays ugly there. Shay goes with this guy from the smoke named David and Tally stays behind to become pretty. All Tally ever wanted was to become pretty as well as everyone else because that’s what she was raised to one day do.
The day of her 16^th birthday she goes to get the surgery but they wont give it to her because her friend Shays missing. They want Tally to travel to the smoke to find shay and signal them so they can locate the smoke. Tally refuses because she doesn’t want to betray her friend. She ends up going because if not they’ll never turn her pretty. She follows her best friends directions to the smoke alone. Once she gets there all she has to is open the locket they gave her and they’ll be able to track her and the smoke. Once Tally arrives in Smoke she’s welcomed and ends up liking it there. Tally has to make a huge decision to either betray her best friend or to stay at smoke and be ugly forever…
I absolutely loved this book and Tally and David and Shay! I loved the ending and I’m dieing to read the next book! : )

Love,

Brittany-Blues

Mockingjay by Susan Collins

Mockingjay by Susan Collins
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Amazon.com Review

About the book:

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins's groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

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What I think: Mockingjay is the third and Final book of the Hunger Games. It was a great ending to the trilogy. I loved the first two books and I read this book too quickly because I wanted to find out what happens to Katniss. In the previous book Katniss escaped the hunger games but Peeta was taken prisoner. Her home in district 12 was blown up and is now destroyed.

In the third book Katniss now lives in district 13, which no one knew still existed, where the citizens all live underground. The rebels want Katniss to become the Mockingjay, meaning she’ll be the face for the rebellion. She accepts and becomes the Mockingjay as song as they give Petta and the other tributes immunity. She’s being used as a pawn still even as a volunteer. Peeta is long gone mentally and its sad to see Katniss in the state that she’s in. Katniss has changed mentally as well, she’s been through war and back and she’s barely holding on. This book becomes much more than a love story, it’s a story about war and fighting. This book felt so real to me it was unbelievable. I’m not going to say anymore because I don’t want to give anything else away! I loved this series and HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE! Now go read it! : )

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Brittany-Blues

Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins
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About the Book:

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?

 

 

 

 

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What I think: Catching Fire is the second book of the hunger games series. I loved the second book just as much as the first!! I read this book in maybe ten hours! I loved it I couldn’t stop reading it! I love how Katniss is the face of rebellion against the capitol! I was so engrossed in this book that I actually wanted to pick up a bow and arrow and start fighting with the rebellion! I love Peeta and Katniss and Can't believe what president snow does to them!! What happened in this book was completely unexpected but I loved every second of it! This series is now one of my favorites! <33

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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About the book:
Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death - televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love. http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/about_the_book

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 What I think:
Wow . . Where do I start . . Well I guess I’ll start with the fact that I absolutely loved this book! Ever since I read the vampire academy series I’ve been looking for something in comparison and I’ve finally found it! I read it in one day, I was obsessed and couldn’t get away from the story line. Katniss is stunning, courageous women who is also strong and independent. I loved everything about her will to survive the games. She loves her family and will do anything to save them. I really am torn between Peeta and Gale! I really love both of them and I’m torn down the middle! I think Peeta is great and treats Katniss like a queen. Sometimes I feel as though Katniss doesn’t even deserve him because of how nice he is to her. She’s kind of putting him through a lot and I feel really bad for Peeta. Gale on the other hand I picture to be handsome and strong but I don’t know what will happen between Gale and Katniss. I feel like Gale can be stubborn and not very understanding at times. There are times when I want Peeta and Katniss to be together and sometimes I feel that with Gale and her too. Its complicated and I guess I’ll have to keep reading to find out!

This book is written so brilliantly its incredible. It takes you to a another world pretty much and I have no idea how Suzanne Collins did it. I try to explain it to my friends and its just too hard to explain in words and I tell them they just have to read it! Congratulations Suzanne Collins! :)
　
Katniss Everdeen is one kick ass girl!! I give it 5 stars!!

Love,

Brittany-Blues

Awakened by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast

Awakened by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast

Awakened by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast
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Awakened is the eighth book from the House of Night series. I loved this series! I’ve been waiting for this book to come out and once it did I had a hard time getting back into the series. I feel as though Zoey is no longer interesting to me, but I do love her best friend Stevie Ray and her love for the Raven Mocker, Rephaim. I do love this series and also like reading the other view points from the other characters. However, I do not like reading from Neferet’s view point, mainly because she’s an Evil b*itch from ****! Anyways I know this sounds creepy but I kind of like Kalona. . . I know it sounds crazy but there something sexy about him minus the whole killer part of course. I’m looking forward to following Stevie Ray and Rephaim’s relationship in the next book but hopefully there will be more sexytime between them. I hope theres more about them and less of Zoey and Stark. I love Zoey and Stark but I feel like there story has ended. Over all I really enjoyed it and I give it 4 stars! :)

Love,

Brittany-Blues