Saturday, July 28, 2012

Candor

Hello before I started writing this post I looked at my stats which shows how many people came to my blog and I noticed that this week I had more than 60 people who came to my blog.I know that it isn't what you actuall call much but normally only 50 to 30 people will come to my blog so I'm quite happy even if the number of people is still not that much.I will try to improve this blog as much as I can and I thank you for all the time you spent reading my blog.I read a book called Candor this week because I want to read something that was not very well known so I did some research and found this book while it did have it's own fanbase it wasn't that large so I thought why not.It is a book written by Pam Bachorz and it was published in 2009.

The High and Low
.It definitely had an interesting story.
.The ending was great a little bit predictable but still great on it's own way.

.The characters felt uncovincing and dull.
.The book was simply too short to be reach what it could have been.

Quick summary
Candor is a town that is simply perfect all the kids there are never late,get good grades and are polite to their parents.If  family moves there and there's a rotten kid not to worry one week late he will be the pride of your family and why is that.Oscar Banks the son of town's founder knows exactly why the town is filled with music created by his father to messages in these kids brain so that they will turn over a new leaf.He will fill the kids brain with messages until they becomes "perfect" so Oscar Banks who somehow managed to fight this messages makes business from the "rotten" kids who comes here they pay with anything interesting that they still have and he will find them a way out of this town................................................That's all for the summary

The conclusion
Candor was definitely an intersting book to read the story was told on how Oscar always help kids who have something for him to get out of the town but weirdly he never had the thought for himself.This is probably because he loved his dad even though I never really thought that his dad really loved him.While the story was short and quite simple it definitly a to read on how he tried to fight the messages getting from his head and how he As the story kept going I hoped for the characters to become more interesting but sadly this is not the case most of the characters never felt really convincing on their feeling and by that made them duller.Then I when I reached near the end of the book I were already starting to imagine that I were probably going to give this book a six but then I reached the final two chapters and whilI had in someway pedicted the conclusion it still was a great conclusion to this book.While there was definitely things to improve I felt satisfied that I decided to but this not so underrated book.

Rating:7 out of 10

Sunday, July 22, 2012

City of Ashes

Hello everybody as you may have noticed for my last post some part of it was alittle bit different.I'm trying to make my blog better with giving a better review so you may see some changes on my old post because I'm trying to make them  better.The point of review will still be the same but it will be more detailed.Last week I read the sequel of the Mortal Instruments.It is written by Cassandra Clare and was published in 2008.

The High and Low
.The characters feels more solid this time around
.The story also felt fresher and more exciting

.Yes I didn't like the cover
.While the most of characters becomes more solid some of the characters a re almost transparent

Quick Summary
(I highly recommend to anyone who has not read the first book yet to skip this summary because it contains spoilers)Clary's mom is still in a coma so for the time being she's living with Luke while Jace has been kicked out of the institute be cause Mayse(Alec's and Isabelle's mom)thought that he was a spy for Valentine.With nowhere to go Jace heads out to a bar where most of Luke's pack hangout .He picks a fight with the pack but is quickly stopped by Luke.As Jace explained what happen to him to Luke and Clary,Luke decided to come with Jace tot he institute to convince Maryse of Jace's innocence.Maryse was of course shocked to see her long lost friend who she thought was dead appearing in front of her eyes.Matryse still doesn't believe him so Jace decided to use the sword...............That's it for the summary

The Conclusion
I found the book to be suprising as I merely thought that the predecessor was simply good so I was expecting this book to be moderate but as I read the book I noticed the characters feels more stronger.Jace and Clary becomes a better character in their own way,the story was also more thrilling and exciting something that I felt lackedin the first book.Sadly characters like Isabelle and max was like non-existant.They weren't fleshed out Max didn't appear that much.This book definitely improves on the first book the characters and story are more engaging and it definitely makes me more excited for the third than the first book did with the second.

Rating:8 out of 10

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Gifted:Here Today Gone Tomorrow

I read Gifted book number 3 which is Here Today Gone Tomorrow.The person on the cover is Emily the dreamseer.The story focuses on Emily and Jenna.This book is of course written by Marilyn Kaye and it was published in 2010.Like the first two books the story focuses on how the students try to control their power and keep them away from anyone who's trying to abuse them.

The High and Low
.The story is more engaging than the first two books
.More of the Gifted class are shown

.Amanda isn't one of the leads
.The story feels a little bit stale

Quick Summary
Emily always felt guilty about her father death.The day he died she had a dream but she didn't understand of it then so she said nothing.Even now she feels useless because she can't actually understands her to help anyone.One day she had a dream which one of the gifted students is absent and it came true as the day pass by more and more of the students dissapeared.Until even Emily herself gets kidnapped.The remaining students must rescue their classmate before it's too late because the students are being forced to rob a bank.........................That's it I guess.

The Conclusion
I really liked the first two books in the series and one of the biggest reasons were Amanda and Jenna(Especially Amanda)but sadly I found that Amanda isn't one of the leads this time,she does have a lot of appearence but she is a better character when we actually know what she is thinking.The story is definitely more adventurous than the first two books.Marilyn Kaye knows that if she didn't take the story to another level some readers will feel tired.This time around more of the Gifted student are showed and explored.While the author did managed to take the story into a more engaging field we cant help to feel a little bit tired of the series probably like the first two books it's quite short and sometime that makes a book uneven and a little bit rushed.Don't get me wrong I do recommend you to read this book while waiting for the next installment which will probably have Amanda as one of it's leads.

Rating:7 out of 10