Tuesday, March 15, 2011

13 Reason Why - By: Jay Asher REVIEW.

Title - 13 Reasons Why
Author - Jay Asher
Publisher - Penguin Group (USA)
Pages - 304
Genre - Young Adult

Cover Rating - 4 stars
Character Rating - 4 stars
Plot rating - 5 stars
Ending rating - 5 stars
Overall - 5 stars

Synopsis
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier.

On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.

Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.


Review:

Oh my where do I start with this book. It was incredible; I didn't think it was going to be as good as people made it sound, but boy I was wrong.

So many people have reccommned this book to me and so many times I've passed it and payed no attention to it. Finally I decided to see what all the fuss was about. Within the first few pages I was hooked. I thought Clay would take a big part in the book, but actaully he's character wasn't much interest; it was Hannah who took over the book. May I say Jay Asher did an amazing job of having Hannah's story about how little things no one noticed took a toll on her and ended in a way no one wanted. Hannah's character was beautiful in a odd way; she didn't over exaagerate things to make it seem like everyone in her 13 tapes was a huge asshole to her and such a bad person. She simply just showed how one mistake they may of made and ingored to fix could tear up one person.
This book was upsetting and yet addicting; I'm sure within every chapter I cried. Hannah's story makes you want to turn back time and change things for yourself. Jay Asher defiantly well thought out the plot for this book making the ending result worth reading. 


P.s. My book reveiws are how I want them to be and I write what I please. If you don't like them or how I write them; it's as simple as not reading them. I don't write my reveiws to sound professional. I write them to tell you about what I think about the book.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

13 Reasons Why.

On Tuesday I will be posting a review on 13 Reasons Why By: Jay Asher. I just don't have time to right now and have a busy weekend ahead of me, but look forward to it!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Cover Love (:

Just two covers that I love this week!




Almost Perfect
By: Brian Katcher 

Synopsis

Winner of the 2011 Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature Award
You only hurt the ones you love.
Logan Witherspoon recently discovered that his girlfriend of three years cheated on him. But things start to look up when a new student breezes through the halls of his small-town high school. Sage Hendricks befriends Logan at a time when he no longer trusts or believes in people. Sage has been homeschooled for a number of years and her parents have forbidden her to date anyone, but she won’t tell Logan why. One day, Logan acts on his growing feelings for Sage. Moments later, he wishes he never had. Sage finally discloses her big secret: she’s actually a boy. Enraged, frightened, and feeling betrayed, Logan lashes out at Sage and disowns her. But once Logan comes to terms with what happened, he reaches out to Sage in an attempt to understand her situation. But Logan has no idea how rocky the road back to friendship will be.

** This cover is amazing, I love how her lipstick is smeared some it shows that "Edgy" type of style and shows she isn't perfect, which obviously makes sense to the book.

 Breathless
By: Jessica Warmen
 

Synopsis

When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to boarding school, it doesn't take her long to become part of the It Crowd. She's smart, she's cute, and she's a swimming prodigy. What her new friends, roommate, and boyfriend don't know is that Katie has kept a secret about her past—that her schizophrenic older brother, Will, is quickly descending deeper into insanity. As her lie constantly threatens to reveal itself, it's all Katie can do to keep her head above water.

**I don't what it is about this cover, but it catches my eye and I love it. It's honestly beautiful.



xoxo,
Buzz.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Waiting on Wednesday #1

WoW is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine


Where She Went
By: Gayle Forman
Publish date: April 5, 2011

Synopsis

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future—and each other.
Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.


  Wither

By : Lauren DeStefano

Publish date: March 22,2011

Synopsis


By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?



Foever it has been.

So I know I said in November I would start posting and having my blog together, but it never happened clearly. It's a new semester and I have harder classes such as Honors English 9 and Honors Government which I actually have to try in to pass unfortunately. FBLA has been kicking my butt along with weekends filled with going to the grange to watch bands and having a life. Oh and my boyfriend has been taking up tons of time. So I haven't even had time to be on the computer much or read, but I am making time to start up on my blog again since I miss it.



 Look forward to post,
xoxo.
Buzz.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Reviews to look forward to.

So as you can see, I finally got my blog together.It took me quite sometime,but I finally finished it.Starting tomorrow I will be posting on this blog (:


Reviews to look forward to:
-13 Reasons Why - By:Jay Asher
-Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - By:Jane Austen
-My Sisters Keeper - By:Jodi Picoult
-To Kill a Mockingbird - By:Harper Lee
-And I don't want to Live this Life - By:Deborah Spungen
-Before I Die - By:Jenny Downham
-Evermore - By:Alyson Noel
-That Summer - By:Sarah Dessen
-Blood Promise - By: Richelle Mead
-Stranger with my Face - By: Lois Duncan
-Kurt CoBain - By:Christopher Sandford
-I Know What You Did Last Summer - By:Lois Duncan
-Don't Look Behind You - By:Lois Duncan

**** They will be done in that order. ****


Happy Reading,