Day 405: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Eight

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

I legitimately JUST finished this book. It was 662 pages long so it took me quite a bit more time to read than the other books. If I would have sat still and just read I probably could have read it in two days just like the rest of them, because this book FAR exceeded my expectations. I watched the movie first and then immediately went to the store to pick up the book knowing that it had to be far better than the movie. I mean, Anne in the movie was a bitch. Anne in the book? MOTHER OF ALL BITCHES. I've never hated a character as much I hated Anne in this book. I was actually GLAD she got beheaded in the end. She deserved it. If you enjoy anything from renaissance time but hate reading old English, this is the book for you. 

It's written in today's English and it's actually historically accurate. This lady knows her shit. I plan on procuring a few more of her books. THIS book has a place on my book shelf and will live to be read again.

Day 404: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Seven

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver Review

This series was introduced to me by the ever amazing Hanna, who I’m finding knows me inside and out when it comes to my tastes in books. This is a trilogy but I’ve been pacing myself on reading it all. I didn’t want to rush through it and then be unhappy when I was finished.

A new character is introduced in this one, his name is Cole and he’s one of the wolves that Beck changed in the last book. He willingly was bitten. And he develops a lot in this book. I hated him in the beginning but in the end you find out that he’s not such a splinter.

There really are no words to describe this series; they are like nothing I’ve ever read. It’s an intense love story and I suggest it to everyone. EVERYONE. READ IT. 

Day 403: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Six

Abarat by Clive Barker

I have had this book for a very long time. I have attempted to read it at least seven times. I would get about three or five chapters in and put it down because it just didn’t make any damn sense. I forced myself to finish it this time by making it my “taking a shit” book. That way I would have nothing else to entertain myself and would have to read it.

This book is a mind fuck if I’ve ever seen one. There were talking tables. There was a guy with eight heads and apparently they were all brothers with the same fucking name. It was just… what the fuck? The full way through. I have no interest in reading the next two books in the series. I don’t even want to see the fucking book ever again. That’s why I gave it to my friend Tamara, yes the Tamara, from the shit yourself car rides Tamara. She was overly interested in it when I was bitching about it to Hanna. SO I got rid of the stupid book.

If you like to be mind fucked then this is the book for you. 

Day 403: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Five. OFFICIALLY A QUARTER OF THE WAY THERE!

Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans

This book puts me officially a quarter of the way to my goal of one hundred books read by the end of the year. It’s a small victory, but a victory none the less. This book is the third in "The Walk" series for the previous two books reviews click either of these links:

The Walk

Miles To Go

Once again, this author has amazed me. I loved it and it ends on such a cliff hanger. The next two books aren’t out yet and this seriously kills me, I’d love to know what happens RIGHT NOW. I hate waiting. I’m waiting for the third book in the Divergent series to come out. And the Chemical Garden trilogy. And the Matched series. This is just ONE MORE THING I have to wait on to come out before I know the ending. Thank goodness I decided to do this challenge. It gives me something to keep my mind off the waiting.

This series is awesome and very inspirational, if you happen to be going through hell in a handbag and you need a pick me up, this book has many feel good qualities. The entire series does. They aren’t very long either for those that don’t like long books, they are about two hundred pages each. SO READ THEM. There isn’t a reason NOT to read them. 

Day 402: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Four

No Longer a Slumdog by K.P Yohannan

This book was sent to me in the mail from one of those “save a child” websites. And it’s basically just attempting to convince you to donate to them. I thought it would have a lot of stories about how children’s lives were changed for the better but it was not like that at all. It was mostly like “Here’s how much money we spend to take care of these kids, if you don’t donate you’re a shit person and god hates you.” 

Day 401: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Three

Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans

 The Walk Review

In the ending of the last book, Allan was stabbed and ends up in the hospital under a predicament. He is facing months of recovery and has to postpone his walk until then. He is taken in by a lady that he met in the first book. He helped her change her tire when she was parked on the side of the road.

This book was very good. I have given some piss poor reviews of some of Richard’s other novels but these have truly captivated and impressed me. I have not been able to put them down and because of them I do believe I will read the rest of the books of his that my future sister in law lent me. 

Day 400: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty Two

The Game by Monica Hughes

This was actually a book I got when Borders was going out of business. I paid exactly three dollars for it. The description on the back made it seem a bit like “The Hunger Games” and I had just finished Catching Fire at the time and wanted to continue reading dystopias. I started looking up information online about “The Game” and found that this book was one of the ones that English teachers force their high school students to read for a grade and therefore wasn’t widely appreciated. All I read were pretty shitty reviews of it but they were all done by some snot nosed sophomore who was just pissed that they had to pull themselves away from their porn or online video games to actually do something educational. So I decided that I would read the book and decide for myself how I felt about it.

                Snot nosed high school students SUCK at book recommendations, I absolutely adored this book and attempted to get anyone who told me that they liked “The Hunger Games” to read it. Now “The Game” has nothing to do with a fight to the death. This book is set in a future where most jobs are primarily taken by robots. When you leave high school you are transported to the place where you will be living the rest of your life. You have to score extremely high in order to get a job that ISN’T already taken by a robot. If you don’t get a job, you get taken to some dump of a town and have to fend for yourself. The government grants you a kind of allowance but it isn’t much.

                The ‘game’ that they speak of is a psychological thing. It’s all in your mind. If you are chosen to be in the game it’s the highest honor ever.
               

                I don’t want to reveal much more and risk giving things away, but the book is awesome and I would suggest it to any dystopia lover. And if you look up reviews of books like I do, don’t trust any that were done by some little weasel high school student. They are overly biased and poorly written. 

Day 399: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty One

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans

                So I know my last few reviews of his books weren’t exactly very nice, but I was EXTREMELY impressed with this book. I was skeptical reading it at first but I could not put it down. This is also a series, but only three of the five are out right now. It’s about this guy who literally loses everything. He decides that he’s going to walk as far away from it all as he can.

                He decides he’s going to walk from Washington State to Florida.

                Walk.

                All the way there.

                IT’S FUCKING AWESOME. My faith in Richard Paul Evans has been restored. 

Day 398: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Twenty

Moloka’I by Alan Brennert

I have read Honolulu by this same author and I absolutely loved it. So I was guessing that anything else written by him would be just as awesome.

Wrong.

I hated this book. It was frightening and gross, and just not what I expected.

Though what should I have expected when the book was about leprosy? 

Day 397: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Nineteen

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

                Recently, I took a car ride three hours away to celebrate an amazing woman. Her name is Hanna and she’s awesome. She lent me some books to contribute to my hundred book challenge. She spent about two hours straight talking about this series with me and of course it was the first book I picked up.

                Shiver is a werewolf series, but not like ugly half man half wolf things, they switch between wolf form and human form. If you are bitten, you only get so many years of changing back and forth before you become strictly wolf only. Well, this girl, got bitten when she was a very young age, but one of the wolves saved her. She remembered him and throughout the years they watch each other from afar. But one day, a boy is attacked and people try to kill the wolves off because they see them as a threat. The wolf that saved the girl is shot and it turns him back into a human. Usually they only turn back into wolves during the warm months. Heat keeps them human, cold turns them wolf.

                It turns into this intense love story and it is a trilogy and they are all out so you don’t need to worry about waiting. This book was awesome and I bet the next two are too. Be careful though, the author has admitted that she wrote the series in an effort to make her readers cry.

(Also, you will never EVER want two characters to JUST FUCK ALREADY as badly as you will in this book.)