Hey there reading addicts! If you’re like me you probably have a reading list longer than your arm and just can’t decide what to read next. Check out my weekly reading list to see what I’ve got going on and see if anything here tickles your fancy. Continue reading Weekly Reading List #20
By Cynthia Ayala
“Special Circumstances” was supposed to be just a myth, something to keep Pretties and Uglies in check, a scary story. But for Tally, they were very real, and now, they have made her and most of her friends Specials. Dangerous and apathetic, the team of Specials have been given one mission: destroy New Smoke and their allies. Still, nothing has ever been easy for Tally whose heart continues to fight what she has become. Now she has a choice, be a hero to the so called villains or destroy them.
Specials is the third book in the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. The series, a young adult dystopic/fantasy, was published by Simon Pulse on May 9, 2008, follows Tally Youngblood as she discovers who she is in a world that divides people by their looks.
Continue reading “A Hard Hitting Conclusion | Review of ‘Specials’ (Uglies, #3)”
By: Cynthia Ayala
Hey there avid readers—or who I hope are avid readers. I’m sure you have noticed that I have made some changes to my reading list. That’s because The Last Ever After by Soman Chainani is coming out this Tuesday, and even though I am a 23-year-old adult, well, I’M JUST SO EXCITED! I loved the first two books and I read the second one in a night, just could not put it down. I’m hoping this one does not disappoint.
Oh—before I forget—all synopsis are the courtesy of Goodreads.com. Happy reading.
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By: Cynthia Ayala
The final novel in The Chemical Garden Trilogy by Best Selling author Lauren DeStefano. Published on February 12, 2013 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. A dystopic science fiction novel for young adults, this final novel follows Rhine as she solves the mystery of the chemical garden as she searches for her brother, a known terrorist working with the one person she never thought: Housemaster Vaughn. However, with Linden’s help, she finds refuge with Vaughn brother and finds a way to save her brother from the monster she knows.
Continue reading “Heartfelt Storytelling But Anti-Climactic | Review of ‘Sever’ (The Chemical Garden, #3)”
By: Cynthia Ayala
Fever, by Lauren DeStefano, is the second novel in her Chemical Garden series published by Simon Shuster Children’s Publishing. Released on February 21, 2012, the novel follows Rhine and Gabrielle as they escape the clutches of the Housemaster Vaughn and seek out their freedom a broken world. However, a sudden illness has caught her off guard, pushing her back to the one place she would like to avoid.
Living within the realm of dystopic fiction, DeStefano gave the young adult genre something beautiful yet broken at the same time, incorporating romance to spin a tale of hope and the price of freedom.
Continue reading “A Caged Bird Brought to Life | Review of ‘Fever’ (The Chemical Garden, #2)”
By: Cynthia Ayala
R is just a zombie who goes about his daily life eating brains and flesh here and there, taking care of his zombie wife and zombie children. That is, until he meets Julie and scarfs down her boyfriend Perry’s brains. Something is changing him, something from Perry and his inability to draw away from Julie is changing him, turning him into something else or rather, something old. Slowly, but surely, R is becoming human again, his heart is beating again. But that’s only if he can survive the Boney’s, the flesh freed Zombies, and Julie’s father, the general.
Continue reading “A Study on the Human Experience | Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)”
