Saturday, May 4, 2013

Die for Me- Amy Plum

My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.
Suddenly, my sister, Georgia, and I were moving to Paris to live with my grandparents. And I knew my life would never feel normal again. Then I met Vincent.
Mysterious, sexy, and unnervingly charming, he put me in danger of losing my heart all over again. But I was ready to let it happen . . . until I realized that Vincent Delacroix is no normal human--that he has a terrifying destiny and enemies who are determined to destroy him and all of his kind.
Can I risk everything for love?













The Review

3 Stars

The book was very low and I found myself putting the book down to read a different book. That is something you do not want to happen. Ever. But it was necessary for this book. It was annoying and because of it I couldn’t really get into it. Throughout the whole book I wasn’t sharing a connection with the main character Kate. Speaking of Kate she was a horrible main character. She was so whiny and at the beginning we see her mourning the loss of her parents and then we never here about her parents again. It just seemed odd. If your parents died don’t you think you’d feel the loss for a really long time? You would think. Wouldn’t you? Well Kate didn’t. And her love interest Vincent seemed a little too good to be true. He wasn’t even a strong romantic partner. No he wasn’t. If I had to choose someone for Kate I would’ve picked Jules because he’s fun and he’ll bring light to counteract her darkness. But the author decided that Vincent was going to be a good love interest. Well she was way off the mark because he’s not even close to being a good love interest. Ms. Plum should model Vincent after Jules then we would have an interesting romance going on. Then there’s the action. It would appear that the only thing rushed about this book was the action and fighting. It’s like why put in the action if there’s A.) Not going to be enough and B.) If it’s going to be rushed. If Ms. Plum would’ve put more action and make the action not rushed, this would be a very different review. But she didn’t and now she has forced us, her readers, to deal with the fallout, a book that is somewhat boring.




An Excerpt



A motion at the top of the bridge drew my eyes up from the water’s moonlit surface, where I had been watching for any trace of the girl. The man who had been trying to coax her down was now standing on the edge of the bridge, his widespread arms transforming his body into the shape of a cross as he threw himself powerfully forward. Time seem to stop as he hovered in midair like a giant bird of prey between the bridge and the black surface of the water.

            And in that split second, a streetlight by the water’s edge flashed across his face. Recognition jolted through me. It was the boy from the CafĂ© Sainte- Lucie.

            What in the world was he doing here, trying to talk a teenage girl out of a suicide attempt? Did he know her? Or was he just a passerby who decided to get involved?

            His body sliced cleanly through the surface of the water and disappeared from view.

            A shout erupted from underneath the bridge, and crouching silhouettes appeared in the murky blackness of the tunnel. “What the—!” Georgia exclaimed. She was interrupted by a flash of light and a sharp clanging of metal as two figures began to emerge from the darkness. Swords. They were sword fighting.

            Georgia and I seemed to remember at the same moment that we had legs, and began sprinting back toward the stairway we had come from. Before we could reach it, a man’s form materialized from the darkness. I didn’t have time to scream before he caught me by the shoulders to stop me from mowing him down. Georgia froze in her tracks.

            “Good evening, ladies,” came a smooth baritone voice.
























Friday, May 3, 2013

Alice in Zombieland- Gena Showalter


She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. Her father was right. The monsters are real. To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.













Songs
  1. Love Makes Me- Hunter Hayes
  2. All You Ever- Hunter Hayes
  3. Radioactive- Imagine Dragons

The Review
4 Stars
I loved the characters and the storyline but the romance was scarce. Yes there was some romance but not enough. Alice and Cole are obviously made for each other I just wish Cole wouldn't of strung Alice along for so long. He wasn't doing it to be mean it's just he gave a lot of mixed signals. And for a girl mixed signals make you want to throw a chair at a wall. Am I right? Yes I am! No arguing. The book honestly didn't have anything to do with Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll except for the appearance of a white fluffy rabbit cloud in the sky. That made me a little disappointed. And to tell you the truth I am kinda, maybe, sorta getting sick of the whole Zombie craze. I love zombie books and everything but in moderation. Obviously Zombies are the theme for this book hence the title. But Ms. Showalter did such a good job of telling the tale that I didn't actually care all that much, that the book was about zombies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Excerpt

"She was such a happy child, wasn't she?" said someone at my side. A woman I couldn't quite place but knew I'd seen before was peering at the smallest casket, tears streaming down her red cheeks. "We're going to miss her. I remember this one time..."
On and on she talked. I stood there, suddenly unable to breathe. I opened my mouth to tell her to shut up, but the words wouldn't form. I tried to walk away, but my feet were rooted in place, as if someone had poured concrete over my shoes.
“And then there was the time, in class, when she helped…”
A loud ringing sprouted in my ears and I couldn’t make out the individual words. Didn’t matter. I knew who she was talking about, and if she didn’t get out of my face, I was going to lose it. Already I was spiraling into an abyss, screaming silently.
“…and the other girls utterly adored her…”
Argh! Spiraling… spiraling out of control…
I deserved this, I reminded myself. This was part of my “worse.” My words, my insistence, had killed my family, had put them in those boxes. Had I done anything differently, a single detail, they would still be alive. But I hadn’t, and so here I was. There they were.
“…her talent, her spirit, were rare and glorious and I…”
The abyss threw me one way, then the other, cutting me up bit by bit, destroying me. The woman had to shut up. She just had to. Shut. Up. My heart felt pinned against my ribs, warping the beat, and if she didn’t shut up I would die. I knew I would die.
“…used to tell me she wanted to be just like you when she grew up. She admired you so much….”
Shut up, shut up, shut up! But she kept talking and kept telling me all about my…sister….
…about Emma…
…Emma…gone…my lily…gone…
I’d promised to keep her safe. I’d failed.
A scream ripped through my throat, followed right on the heels of another and another. I lost track of everything around me, clutched my ears to stop from hearing the utter horror in my voice, and fell to my knees.
No, not just to my knees. I fell down, down, down, the abyss, a never-ending pit of despair, still screaming, screaming. Consumed by grief, flooded by sorrow.
Hands patted at me, but I didn’t calm. I screamed so loud and so long my voice eventually broke. I gagged and chocked, tears pouring down my cheeks, pooling around me, a lake of misery. I cried so hard my entire body shook and my eyes swelled shut. I couldn’t breathe, didn’t want to breathe anymore. Dying would have been a relief.
I don’t know what happened after that. For the second time in my life, I lost consciousness. Maybe I would never wake….