Feature and Follow #11

Feature and Follow Friday is a meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

Question of the Week: Describe your favourite book character death scene. Why is it your favourite? Was it a villain or a hero? What made it so good?

This question is so hard. The best death scene where the villain dies was definitely Voldemort's death. But the most beautiful death scene was Dobby's. It broke my heart into tiny little pieces! 

What about your favourite? Tell us all about it in the comment section below!

Review: Gone Girl

Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn

book rate: ★★★★★


Brief Introduction: (adpated from goodreads)

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media--as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents--the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer? 

Review:

It took me a bit to get into Gone Girl. Maybe it was college keeping me busy maybe I just wasn't all that interested. Truth is, halfway through the book my mind was blown and I became physically uncapable of putting it down.
Gone Girl's plot is supernaturally strong and... well, mind blowing. The characters are consistent and stunningly interesting. I was so very happy Gillian Flynn did such a excellent exploration of the inner self of each main character!
I must also add Flynn's writting style is quite captivating. I loved the way Nick's narrative was mixed with Amy's diary entries, it gave the whole storyline a different and more interesting prespective!
I believe the only not-so-strong point I noticed in the whole book was the lack of a better and closer analysis of the parents/child relationship. It was there, I just think it had a lot more of potential... especially Amy's.
Besides this the only other thing that bothered me was... the ending was not enough... I NEED MORE!

All in all, a book I recommend 100% to those looking for a creepy book to keep you awake at night!

Series Review: The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Lynburn Legacy 

By Sarah Ress Brennan 

Review:

Kami Glass lives in a small English town called Sorry-in-the-Vale. All her life she has had a voice in her head, a boy who speaks to her. When she was a child she did not make a secret about her imaginary friend, so she has always been an outsider. She runs the school newspaper with her best friend, she has her imaginary friend who is always there for her - she lives her normal and calm life and she loves it. That is, until the Lynburns return. As soon as the twins and her sons, Ash and Jared, get to Sorry-in-the-Vale, everybody starts fussing over them. Everybody talks about them with wonder, fear and secrecy. Kami knows there is a story behind that family, but every time she asks questions about them, people refuse to answer. As an aspiring reporter, Kami is determined to uncover her town's secret. But she can't do it without the help of her friends, and especially without the help of her imaginary friend, who, now, has a face, a body and a voice that not only speaks in her head anymore.

I really enjoyed these books! I love books where the main character is connected to a boy/girl in some way. Especially because they can read each other's mind. For some unknown reason I find it fascinating. But that was only one of the reasons I enjoyed this series so much.

Something I noticed in some books I've read is that the writer tries to make characters that are different from most people, but sometimes they end up being so different that they are unrealistic or even ridiculous. However, Sarah Rees Brennan, created so unique and fascinating characters that are so realistic and likeable ate the same time. I love all the characters in her series, except for Ash; he was such a spoiled brat. I know this is bad, but there were times I wish he would die! Although I didn't like him, I understand that he was crucial to the all story and it was important for him to live.

The only reason I only gave 3,5 stars to the second book, was because it was a little slow paced, nothing much happens until the end of the book. They are basically looking for answers and making plans. But I really don't think you should stop reading this series because of the second book. It gets so much better in the end, and the wait is worth it! I gave 4 stars to the other two, just because I like to save my 5 stars to my favourite books of all time. Those who are absolutely mind blowing! But, I really did enjoy this series.

This Lynburn Legacy is full of mystery, adventures, love, friendship and family. I highly recommend this series. I had such a fun time reading these books. It really is a quick read, and a perfect series to marathon! You should definitely pick this out!

Isabel's Unfinished Series!

I have tons of unfinished series! Some I intend on finishing very soon! Other I'm not sure I'll be ever read and others I already decided I won't read the next books. So I decided to make a list! The list is quite big so don't freak out!

The series I won't be continuing are written in red. The reason I won't read the next books is because I didn't like the first one that much.
The series I'm not sure I'll keep on reading are written in blue.
The series I want to finish are written in black.
The titles crossed are the ones I've already read.

(There's no particular order what so ever)

Chasing Nikki by Lacey Weatherford:

• #1 Chasing Nikki
• #2 Finding Chase
• #3 Chased Dreams 

Edgewood Falls by Rhonda Helms:

• #1 One Broke Girl
• #2 Two Little Lies

Slammed by Colleen Hoover:

• #1 Slammed
• #2 Point of Retreat 
• #3 This Girl

Hex Hal by Rachel Hawkins:

• #1 Hex Hall
• #2 Demonglass
• #3 Spell Bound

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi:

• #1 Shatter Me
• #1.5 Destroy Me
• #2 Unravel Me
• #2.5 Fracture Me
• #3 Ignite Me

The Giver Quarter By Lois Lowry:

• #1 The Giver
• #2 Gathering Blue
• #3 Messenger
• #4 The Son

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

• #1 Hush Hush
• #2 Crescendo
• #3 Silence
• #4 Finale

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer:

• #0.5 Glitches
• # 0.6 The Little Android
• #1 Cinder
• #1.5 The Queen's Army
• #2 Scarlet
• #3 Cress
• #3.1 Carsuele's Guide to Being Happy 
• # 3.5 Fairest
• #4 Winter (not published yet)

Take Me by K.A.Linde: 

• #1 Take Me For Granted
• #2 Take Me With You

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan:

• Saga, Volume I
• Saga, Volume II
• Saga, Volume III
• Saga, Volume IV (not published yet)

The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater:

• #1 Shiver
• #2 Linger
• #3 Forever
• #4 Sinner

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead:

• #0.5 Kisses From Hell
• #1 Vampire Academy
• #1.1 The Meeting
• #2 Frostbite
• #3 Shadowkiss
• #4 Blood Promises 
• #5 Spirit Bound
• #6 Last Scrifice

Jade by Allie Everhart:

• #1 Choosing You
• #1.5 Garet
• #2 Knowing You
• #3 Loving You
• #4 Forever You
• #5 Finding You

Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith:

• #1 The Cuckoo's Calling
• #2 The Silkworm
• #...

Henderson's Boys by Robert Muchamore

• #1 The Escape
• #2 Eagle Day
• #3 Secret Army
• #4 Grey Wolves
• #5 The Prisioner
• #6 One Shot Kill
• #7 Scorched Earth
• #...

Legend by Marie Lu:

• #0.5 Life Before Legend
• #1 Legend
• #2 Prodigy
• #3 Champion

Crush by Lacey Weatherford:

• #1 Crush
• #2 Smitten
• #3 Love
• #4 Smolder

Love by Megan Smith:

• #1 Trying Not To Love You
• #2 Easy To Love You
• #3 Hard To Love You
• #4 Let Me Love You
• #5 Made To Love You
• #5.5 Need To Love You

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

• #1 Clockwork Angel
• #2 Clockwork Prince
• #3 Clockwork Princess
• #3.1 After The Bridge

Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry:

• #1 Pushing The Limits 
• # 1.1 Crossing The Line
• # 1.5 Breaking The Rules
• #2 Dare To You
• #3 Crash Into You
• #4 Take Me On

Touch By Jus Accardo:

• #1 Touch 
• #1.5 Untouched
• #2 Toxic
• #2.5 Faceless
• #3 Tremble
• #4 Truth
• #...

To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han:

• To All The Boys I've Loved Before
• P.S. I Still Love You (not published yet)

The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan

• #0.25 The Spring Before I Met You
• #0.5 The Summer Before I Met You
• #1 Unspoken
• #1.5 The Night After I Lost You
• #2 Untold
• #3 Unmade 

Games by Nyrae Dawn:

• #1 Charade
• #2 Façade
• #3 Masquerade

The Secret by Jessica Sorensen:

• #0.5 The Prelude of Ella and Micha
• #1 The Secret of Ella and Micha
• #2 The Forever of Ella and Micha
• #3 The Temptation of Lila and Ethan
• #4 The Ever After of Ella and Micha
• #4.5 Lila and Ethan: Forever and Always
• #4.6 Ella and Micha: Infinite and Always 

Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins:

• #1 Rebel Belle
• #2 Miss Mayhem (not published yet)
• #...

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

• #1 The Darkest Minds
• #1.5 In Time
• #2 Never Fade
• #2.5 Sparks Rise
• #3 In The Afterlight

My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick:

• #1 My Life Next Door
• #2 The Boy Most Likely Too (not published yet)

Sweet Home by Tillie Cole:

• #1 Sweet Home
• #2 Sweet Rome
• #3 Sweet Fall
• #4 Sweet Hope

Countours of the Heart by Tammara Webber:

• #1 Easy
• #2 Breakable

Providence by Jamie McGuire:

• #1 Providence
• #2 Requiem
• #3 Eden

The Promonition by Amy A. Bartol:

• #1 Inescapable
• #2 Intuition
• #3 Indebted
• #4 Incendiary
• #5 Iniquity

Beautiful by Jamie McGuire

• #1 Beautiful Disaster
• #1.5 Mrs. Maddox
• #2 Walking Disaster
• #2.5 A Beautiful Wedding
• #3 Beautiful Oblivion
• #4 Beautiful Redemption

Significance by Shelly Crane:

• #1 Significance
• #2 Accordance
• #3 Defiance
• #3.5 Reverence
• #4 Independence
• #4.5 Consequences
• #5 Undeniably Chosen

Precious Stones Trilogy by Kerstin Gier:

• #1 Ruby Red
• #2 Sapphire Blue
• #3 Emerald Green

Trace + Olivia by Micalea Smeltzer:

• #1 Finding Olivia
• #2 Chasing Chase
• #3 Tempting Rowan
• #4 Saving Tatum

Forbidden Men by Linda Kage:

• #1 Price of a Kiss
• #2 To Professor, With Love
• #3 Be My Hero
• #4 With Every Heartbeat

Wait for You by J. Lynn:

• #1 Wait For You
• #1.5 Trust In Me
• #2 Be With Me
• #3 Stay With Me
• #4 Fall With Me (not published yet)
• #4.5 Dream of You (not published yet)
• #5 Forever With Me (not published yet)
• #6 Fire In You (not published yet)

Aramov By Rober Muchamore:

• #1 People's Republic
• #2 Guardian Angel
• #3 Black Friday
• #4 Lone Wolf
• #...

The Vampire Diaries by L.J.Smith:

• #0.1 Matt and Elena - First Date
• #0.2 Matt and Elena - Tenth Date on Wickery Pond
• #1 The Awakening
• #1.5 After Hours
• #2 The Struggle
• #3 The Fury
• #4 Dark Reunion
• #4.5 Blood Will Tell

Lorien Legacies by Pitaccus Lore

• #1 I Am Number Four
• #2 The Power Of Six
• #3 The Rise of Nine
• #4 The Fall of Five
• #5 The Revenge of Seven
• #...

Robert Langdon by Dan Brown:

• #1 Angels and Demons
• #2 The Da Vinci Code
• #3 The Lost Symbol
• #4 Inferno
• #...

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien:

• #1 The Lorde of the Rings
• #2 The Two Towers 
• #3 The Return of the King

The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan:

• #1 The Lost Hero
• #2 The Son of Neptune
• #3 The Mark of Athena
• #4 The House of Hades
• #5 The Blood of Olympus

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin:

• #1 A Game of Thrones
• #2 A Clash of Kings
• #3 A Storm of Swords
• #4 A Feast for Crows
• #5 A Dance With Dragons

Musing Mondays #10: The Simple Joys of Life

MUSING MONDAYS asks you to muse about one of the following each week… (you can see the topics in MizB post)

A big thank you to MizB from Should Be Reading who is the host of this meme!

My Musings:

There are things that can make any girl truly happy. But for a book lover there's nothing better than getting home and see these waiting:

I ordered 4 books a few weeks ago, last week I finally got 3 of them and the forth 2 days afterwards.

I already read In The After Light and I loved it, so, so much! The other book I got was The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare! I'm so excited to dive into all of the remaining books!

Rebeca's November TBR

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Never Too Far by Abbi Glines
• Mr. Penunbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken (if Isabel finishes it soon)

Review: The Maze Runner triology

The Maze Runner triology

by James Dashner

The Maze Runner                      The Scorch Trials                   The Death Cure

book rate: ★★★★☆       book rate: ★★★★☆        book rate: ★★★☆☆

Brief Introduction (from goodreads):

"If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human."
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
"Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade."
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
"Everything is going to change."
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Remember. Survive. Run.

Review:

I marathoned this triology and its prequel and I'm starting to feel that maybe it was a bad idea. The prequel is excellent and so is the first book in triology. The second book is good, maybe not what I was expecting but still a good book. The Death Cure, the third and last book in this triolidy was the death of the triology for me.

The Kill Order (the prequel to this triology and which review you read here) and The Maze Runner were quick paced and action packed books that kept me on the edge trough the entire story.The characters were very good, incredinbly consistent and the plot was sometimes mind blowing. By the time I finished them I was officially in love with James Dashner for being such a realistic dystopian author. You can actually noticed my adoration for him in my The Kill Order's review!

The Schorch Trials were slightly more slow paced but plot was still interesting and the characters still gripped me.

The Death Cure was a disappointment honestly. It was so much more slow paced than I could ever expect a James Dashner's book to be... Some characters disappointed me, the plot didn't even seem like a plot, everything seemed slightly disconnected and the story looked like it was going nowhere. The ending of the book itself was good, I was satisfied with it, but the development of The Death Cure had so much more potential.

Regardless of my opinion of the third book I still think this is a series worth reading and I will not hesitate to reccommend it. Alhtough I will always be careful to give whoever I reccommend it to (including you guys) a heads-up about the third book.