I have to be honest with you all… I haven’t played PokemonGO yet. I’m a poor eighteen student who is on a pay-as-you-go phone which means not enough data to play. I’ve played it through my friends, brothers and cousins phone a couple of times.Thank you so much to
Thank you so much to Joey for tagging me!
I was a HUGE fan of vampires when I was in my early teens. (who wasn’t tbh?) So the Darren Shan Saga and Morganville Vampires were the two series that kicked off my love for reading.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke And The Bookish! Each week, a new topic is put into place and bloggers share their top ten (or your own amount) accordingly.
Chowder from Check, please!
I don’t think I’ve spoken enough of Check, please which is a damn shame because it’s so amazing. Chowder is one of the later characters since he joins while Bitty is in his second year and he’s so adorable. He just wants to play hockey and makes sure his friends are happy. Check, please! is actually a webcomic but sometimes the artist occasionally sells physical copies (YOU CAN READ IT HERE FOR FREE!! PLS READ AND THANK ME LATER )
Briseis from The Song of Achilles
While we don’t get to see much of Briseis in the Iliad, we delve more into her story TSOA and I just really appreciate that Miller added more depth to her character and gave her a backstory.
Rene Walker from All For The Game
Honestly, one of the best characters in the series. Don’t @ me, we all know it’s true.
Khalila Seif from The Great Library
MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE CHARACTER.
Maia Roberts from The Mortal Instruments
You all know how much I don’t like TMI but Maia Roberts was a character I really liked but her story arc was the worst and it felt like CC barely even tried with her character. But I am #MaiaRobertsDefenseSquad since the hate for her is so unnecessary.
Niccolo Santi from The Great Library
MY FAVOURITE. Honestly, his boyfriend basically adopts the Postulants when he wasn’t looking and now he’s an exasperated father of like ten kids and it’s amazing.
Kevin Day from All For The Game
His character development was one of the best in the series, giving us one of the best scenes in the entire series.
“Let Riko be King,” Kevin said, with the exaggerated enunciation of the thoroughly sloshed. “Most coveted, most protected. He’ll sacrifice every piece he has to protect his throne. Whatever. Me?” Kevin gestured again, meaning to indicate himself but too drunk to get his hand higher than his waist. “I’m going to be the deadliest piece on the board.”
David Wymack from All For The Game
Listen, Coach Wymack is so under appreciated. He loves and cares for his foxes so much and he is such an important character.
Victor Krum from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
He was so humble and I liked that his fame annoyed him rather than enlarging his ego. And he was so friendly with Harry despite competing against him.
Scorpius Malfoy from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Such a precious and pure character. Can you believe the wizarding community thought he was Voldemort’s son? (TBH it’s the same community that didn’t believe Voldemort was coming back until he physically came back….)
you can find the book at:
GoodReads | Author’s website | Amazon | Bookdepository
my review:
Rating: ★★★☆☆
~e-copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review~
After purchasing a coin, Tim Harrington starts to have nightmares that become dangerously vivid. When he goes into a coma, his wife, Anna, embarks on a journey and soon learns that an ancient curse is what’s keeping her husband unconscious. She finds herself returning to Paris but her search for the truth goes much further in history. She has no choice but to follow her instinct, even if it means going against scientific logic, history and her own beliefs.
Aceldama has an intriguing premise. It was interesting reading this story as this coin is slowly passed through history, impacting the lives of all its bearers until it reached the hands of Tim Harrington. Hazen has created this intricate line of action with a variety of engaging characters. There were moments of great suspense and paranormal detail. I was intrigued by Anna as a protagonist and was attached to her from the beginning to the end as she did all that she could to save her husband.
However, for no one’s fault apart from my own, I found it difficult to start this book. I wasn’t at all captivated at the beginning but that did certainly change once everything started going. The mix of different perspectives was hard to follow at first, which was strange because I don’t usually struggle with that. For example, there are scenes set in Jerusalem around AD30 (I think) but the language used didn’t fit into the timeframe. The way some of the characters talked felt too modern for that time period and, to me, it felt jarring. There were moments, especially in the beginning, of info dumping which was a struggle to get through but, overall, it was an interesting read.
Kindle Edition, 285 pagesPublished May 12th 2016 by Black Rose Writing (first published June 25th 2009)
ASIN: B01F7Q62M6
Celebrated Eid! – This year was a strange Eid because we usually split our time – the first half of the day staying at my grandma’s house (dad’s side) and seeing all my relatives from his side before going up to London to see my other grandma and aunts (and my many, many cousins – I currently have eleven cousins, with another one due soon and I recently found out another one of my aunt’s pregnant again so YAY more cute babies to come!) But this year we didn’t go to London which was really sad because I haven’t seen them at all this year. 😦
you can find the book at:
GoodReads | Author’s bio | Amazon | BookDespository
Rating: ★★★★☆
As an Iranian-American, Leila’s different enough but if word got out that she liked girls, life would be twice as hard. But when Saskia shows up, Leila begins to struggle to sort out her feelings.
I really wanted to love this book. It’s diverse, challenging, and absolutely needed in YA. But Farizan’s writing style doesn’t appeal to me at all. What I liked about Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel was that it captured the awkwardness of high school. Leila has a great and sarcastic sense of humour. Her small comments were really funny and I think she’s a well-rounded protagonist. I liked reading about her cultural conflict, in both her sexuality and future. While I can’t relate to the former, I could certainly relate to the latter. This kind of cultural conflict introduces a newer perspective that isn’t really discussed in young adult literature.
However, the story, overall, felt extremely simplistic in terms of plotting and characterisation. And I felt like the story focused way too much on Saskia as an attempt to bring in some drama when Farizan gives us so much more than the novel could’ve focused on if the plot hadn’t revolved around Saskia so much. (Leila’s family, Lisa’s family history, the way she used the Twelfth Night was a favourite part of the novel and I really wished that was introduced earlier into the novel and developed more.)
Despite the problems I had with Farizan’s characterisation, I did enjoy Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel. While the plot was a little cheesy and predictable, but the romance between Leila and a certain character was adorable, and I loved their backstory. I know I’ll be reading more from Farizan.
Kindle Edition, 304 pagesPublished October 7th 2014 by Algonquin Young Readers
ASIN: B00KNCWLP2
you can find the book at:
GoodReads | Author’s website | Amazon | Bookdepository
my review:
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
*This review is not spoiler-free*
~ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~
Set years after a virus wiped out the older population, the only survivors are prepubescent children. SCHISM follows Andy and her friends as they are forced to love their home in Bermuda and return to the US. Soon they band together with other fellow survivors in search of a new home.
SCHISM wasn’t all that bad. It was adventurous and fast-paced. I’ve been wanting to go back to reading more dystopian types of books. And I guess I was sort of satisfied. But my opinions on this book were quite divided.
A big weakness of this book is that, in my opinion, too much happens. In this one book alone, the time frame is quite long and wasn’t delved into that much. So much happens that the suspense that should be there didn’t have much of an impact because whatever issue there was, it was basically resolved in the next few pages.
As I was reading, I kept thinking that this one book could’ve easily been written as two, maybe three. Many things happen and could’ve been much better if they were expanded on.
Overall, I believe the author had something with this novel. So much could’ve been explored in terms of setting, history and development.
Kindle Edition, 274 pagesPublished March 14th 2016 by Delirious PixieASIN: B01D0KTJYO
as told by zaheerah 