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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It's been a while since I read a book like this. It was sad but at the same time so true. What I mean is, the author really stayed true to the theme se was sharing with us. Esting disorders affect more people every year, younger every day, in constant battle with themselves. I could easily recommend it to someone who is going through something like this, if they are having the problem or a family member or a firend is, either way Wintergirls is a really good way to show those people that ther ARE NOT alone. That is the problem so many times, they feel alone, desperate for attention, or just plain wishing to fit perfectly in a rather NOT perfect world. Eating disorders are such a difficult theme to talk of, but Ms.Anderson did it great. The feelings and situations Lia, the girl in the book, was going through really seemed to be like what a real person would go through. I haven´t met anyone with that kind of disorder, except for a distant aunt ( it´s complicated), but i really felt that if I did knew someone with that kind of problems and I read this book, it would be a good representation of what that person is feeling.
Lia's parents divorced, her dad, David, remarried with Jessica and now she has a new stepsister, Emma, who obviously likes her and Lia does too in return. But her Mom Dr. Marrigan, the cardiologist, is, what would you call, a pain in the you-know-what. So after two times in the prison New Seasons, a center for people like her, who suffers of bad eyes, because obviously they don't see the world as we, the rest and normal people do, she decides to move with her dad and step-family. But her eye problem is not cured, she still checks her calories, still works out in secret and has a secret weight-goal everytime she accomplishes the one before. The thing with Lia is that she is concious of her problem, but she DOES NOT see it as a problem rather than a way to be strong, a way to show the world how tough she is. There are episodes through out the book that you can clearly see it, how she fights her own body, avoiding eating. She chants how good it will taste, how delicous it will be to eat it and enjoy it and that's when she crumples and denies her own bopdy of nourishment. She sees food as a punish, may I say. A way that tell her she is weak, that food is stronger than she is. But food isn't her only problem, now Cassie is dead too. Cassie, her best friend since 3rd grade, died, alone in a motel, and she called Lia the very same night she died. But Lia didn´t picked up. Cassie ended their friendship, why would she? But now, she sees Cassie's ghost, hunting her. Encouraging her to stay strong,meaning not eating, starving.
SHe is afraid and VERY hungry. But she can beat the logic, she does NOT need food. She and Cassie were Wintergirls. Now she is the only one to prove what she is. And there is where you see how much an influence a friend can be. When I finished the book I couldn't decide where Lia's problem began. Was it when Cassie returned form Drama Camp and started vomiting after she ate? Was it when her parents got divorced? When her dad remarried? When her life wasn't having any sense anymore? Who is it to blame? And after very deep thoughts, I got it. The author provides the answer to that hiding question. There is no one to blame.Not even the eating disorder person. They cannot fight it, they didn't wish to be like that. And no one told them to do it either. NO ONE IS TO BLAME. And rather than trying to find the guilty party you must find the person or group of people that will help you. And when you finally get that it feels awesome. there is, also, a secondary character named Elijah, he was the last person to see Cassi alive. And he is not that important to the story becasue it all centers on Lia, but he has the last message Cassie wanted to tell Lia. He is the trigger for Lia's worst breakdown ever and her recovery. I loved that, very much really. You see Elijah as a nobody but in reality he is the cause for the outcome, for Lia's ending of this chapter of her life. Sorry for the spoilers, they wer much needed! =D



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RollerCoaster Story =D

Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Sooo......wow!
It was a fantastic story, a bit confusing xD..but when you get it you are like...WOW!!! o-O..xD
The one thing that bugged me like crazy was Adam and Megan...LOVELY couple,Adam GORGEOUS! of course..Megan is likeable enough..what? she is with Adam!....BUT!!! The big BUT of The week! The scene where he pours his undying love to Megan it was FLAT!!! SO FLAT! Flatter than a 8 year old chest! It was soooooooooooooooo unbelievable, so out of reality..i just didn´t bought it! The author could´ve work more in it or something. I just didn´t get how it started, how they came to the way the felt for each other, because from that start point It´s amazing! Adam is a fantastic male character, the hero in every way! Rough start, nice trip. I´ll just wait for the end of the road to keep bitching about that.
Other than that, I LOVED the story. The scenery, Ireland is amazing and there aren´t that much books written on that set. And just imagining the accent of the hot guys...it was a really good gift for girls like me. ^^
Although, I can´t wait for the next book I just can´t decide if the ending was the perfect one. If it will get the attention of the readers for them to die for the next one, but it was okay. The chapter before the last one made my heart go nuts! It totally freaked me out, but no worries, everything turns out just fine. An I´m really curious if Aine will get to know her future husband and if she will totally like him and fall for him. And of Course, there is Rian and Fionn's love life. Will Rian meet the girl just right for him, that helps him control all that power? Will Fionn get another chance at love? Maybe or maybe not. But I´m really looking foward to the outcomes!
The book was nothing I expected, it had great action and the problem of both Adam ad Megan being together was nerve wracking. ANd obviously she has to enter more deeply into both The Order and The Knox worlds just for us to understand it and get the story a whole other nudge deeper. It will make it better and it will be the key to success. Either way, I liked this book very much. Can I have the next,please? Like, right now? =)



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The Beast found beauty.

Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This kind of books always remind me why I love to read and why I spent so much time around them than with people. You are never wrong of what the book is trying to tell you and it always understands you, giving you advice on how to overcome a dark place in your life. Many girls felt like Beth did..like a Beast. Being able to account all their faults as easy as count 1, 2, 3. I'm one of those girls on bad days. But like Beth you could end up with a life changing situation that brings to you an opportunity to change, to transform yourself, for better of course.

In Beth's case was her being chose to be the soprano soloist in her choir because if there is something that Beth excels at is at singing. She has a voice that doesn´t matches her outter appearance. The only person who truly sees Beth as who she is, is her best friend, Scott. Awkward Scott who doesn't call her mean things and support her when she is dealing with bullys at school. Scott who seems to care for her and not only in a friendly kind of way.

And after the transformation of her life ( a total makeover) Beth and her choir are ready to show the entire choir world what are they made of. What Beth doesn't see coming is that her choir's biggest competition is also her most unattainable dream boy. Derek, mysterious Derek, lead singer of the Amabile Boys Choir is dazzling. Gorgeous guy who posses a voice to die for and a secret...one that he doesn't want Beth to know about because it could change everything.

After the uprising romance begun at Switzerland it moved to theri hometows. Beth with the giddyness of first love and both of them trying to make it work, though Derek seems to be falling apart from her, disappearing for days without notice. And that only complicates her now very awkward relationship with Scott who, after she came back, revealed a secret that she didn't saw coming but inside her knew it was there.

After several months, still Derek disappears but now is different. He missed a very important presentation of Beth's choir and she is not going to get the opportunity go. But when she founds Derek and Derek's ultimate secret she can only understand him now more than ever.









*Spoilers*

It really bothered me how jealous Beth was of Derek, her attitude didn't help in me liking her. But you can only understand what she went thorugh. And after finding out Derek is dying, you just can wish for the best, although the ending is no surprise. Derek dies, and that last scene with him makes you cry all over. You feel like losing something very precious. I loved Derek and loved how he encouraged Beth to move on and telling her that maybe Scott isn't a bad choice for her. He always knows he is going to die, what makes his relationship with Beth more painful. Buit knowing Scott will be with her makes him feel relief and hope for the girl he loves. I just love this book, this story, this character. Based on a real life Amabile boy. May he rest in Piece. =) Angela Morrison became one of my favorite authors ever.



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Grief.

Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is the saddest book I've ever read..and I know COurtney Summers would be the only one writing like this, with such grief that wraps you..doubts that constantly wakes you from your favourite dream..loneliness when surrounded by the whole world..and this story is just..I've never lost anybody close to me, thanks God, and not under this circumstances either. But it is just perfect for the one's who, in fact, have gone thorugh it.Grief.The real kind.

If you have lost someone and you read this because you believe a work of fiction will bring you answers..don't waste your time. It won't.Simple as that. But read it becasue it allows you to understand and to learn how other people deal with what you are dealing with. And the story has a great message to it...if you seek answers you'll only find more questions.If you try to understand you´ll only doubt. Just try to shape your life to the outcome of something terrible, something that in a way had to happen even though you didn't want to.

Eddie, who is a girl, has lost her father through suicide and now she wants to understand why. He didn't left any answers, he jsut needed to go. Eddie´s mom s wreck, barely coming out of the bed, always wearing her husband's housecoat, losing his scent, any trace of his existence. Eddie doesn´t know why her father did what he did, did he had a motive? Of course, but what was it? But he was a photographer, an artist, and artists have a different point of view of the world..their senses are sharper..would that be? Eddie was no artist so she wouldn't know what her father felt or sense.

Milo, Eddie's best friend, tries to help her..but to Eddie's eyes he doesn't just get it. She is all by herself. Until Culler Evans come into the picture...literally. A student of her father's..goign through the same things as her. Seeking for anwsers..a why. They have a connection and they feel it.

And then these little pieces of Seth Reeves start to appear..and maybe those are the keys to unravel the mistery behind his suicide.

So many things happen, you just feel Eddie's grief through all the pages. Like she is one of your nearest friends and without needing words or sounds you just know what she is going through.

Milo is a constant rock to Eddie but he is also a human being who also suffers her loss..because he has lost something too..the very same night everything happened. And Culler's part to everything is just key for Eddie to find closure. I liked it very much but just a little warning. After you finish it you'll probably end up a little sad yourself. Don't be scare. It'll go away but you will always know now.

Unforgetable.



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Do you believe in Time Traveling?

Timeless by Alexandra Monir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I'm still in shock for that ending..and here is why.
Michele..with one L please LOL....has to move with her big Money grandparents, whom she have never seen before after her mom died in a car accident. Life changing experience, and she has no idea HOW MUCH life changing will be. The discovery of a key, the only thing her long lost father ever left and wich her mom never spoke of..is one element of a recurrent dream, one Michele had almost her entire life. And now the adventure begins.
The Time Traveling sensation and the feelings of meeting all those family members in their respective time periods bring Michele to get over losing her mom and helps her explain her awkward relationship with her new found grandparents. But nothing would've been more important than meeting the very same guy from those life lasting dreams of hers.
Now she has a name for him, Philip, and their love will surpass everything, even the complicated laws of Time.

OH.MY.GOD. Though the feelings between Philip and Michele were lacking of some credibility, the story was amazing. I didn´t believe much their feelings toward one another, there was something missing but the way the author allows you to know the story's developement as well to Michele that it leaves you with a feeling of assurance that everything will go well at the end. Some facts were obvious a first but there is a moment were everything is kind of confusing and then the story starts to come out at it's fullest. And if you like to experience a bit of every time period Michele visits you will not be disappointed, the description are rather accurate and the music, though you cannot hear it you can feel it. It just awesome that some authors include some playlists to their stories, cause to books/music lovers like myself love to do that, match some songs with their favorite books, they just save us time.
The last pages just brought me to tears..I have promise not to include spoilers and I will stand by it so the only thing that I will say is that...WOW! It couldn't have ended better than that. Obviously there is a sequel because Michele has so much to discover still, there are some lose pieces here and there that I´m sure will come to end on the sequel.
Best Cliff Hanger Ending Nominee....no way to put it better than that..it just was unexpected.Although you kind of see that coming. There is too much to the story to just do one book. But I just couldn't believe my eyes when the words 'To Be Continued' appeared..awesome. I don't know much about Alexandra Monir..but I will defienitely never forget her name. She is a promising soon-to-be-author in my "Best Authors" list =)



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Never doubt your Amazon.com...LOL

This author form Georgia came up with this singular and captivating story that I´m sure you will love.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


After months of seeing this book coming up on my Amazon.com researches, you know, to keep up with what is new on the YA literature, one day from out of nowhere a blog of some sort came into my screen showing new deals on movies based on books. And in that list were some of my favorite ones and The MAze Runner was included, so yeah, I'm expectng that movie now, but first...My curiosity on WHAT this book had in order for Hollywood to want it steped up and I decided to read it.

Darkness....where was he? Thomas didn´t know..what are those boys doing in here? What is this all about? And the most important question of all....WHO WAS HE?????
One thing that will definitely appeal to you is the mystery..you never know what is going on, whay things are happening as they are and the writing is just delicious. James Dashner makes you feel IN there with the characters, moving along with the plot.
After getting himself, somehow, into this....how to call it? Questions, questions and more questions and barely a few facts. Once a month a new boy comes with the weekly supplies. The doors close at sunset. And there are the Grievers, ugly creatures that live in the Maze..a maze that surrounds where all those boys are with no way of getting out. All they could do was explore it and try to discover what it is guarding them from..or for. But the very next day Thomas arrived something that in the two years they´ve being living in there has never happen..ever. A girl arrived to their place and she will change everyhing. What is going on? Not even the older ones know..all they could figure out is that their time in the Maze is OVER.
The Maze Runner captvates your adventureside and activates your defenses..you want to help be in there with all of them but at the same time you don't because you are safe at your home. This is a definitely must-have nominee. I loved it. No disappointment whatsoever. I can't believe it took me this long to read it.



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Also by James Dashner:The 13th Reality series,The Journal of Curious Letters.

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