Extras - Scott Westerfeld (Uglies #4)

First off, happy birthday to me! I could have posted this yesterday but I chose today because this review is the mark to the end of the Uglies series and I am sad at the fact that I will not be reading and reviewing this anymore. It is a series that can be read over and over again without the worry of becoming bored. 

Published Date: October 2, 2007

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Synopsis: 

Fame

It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of "American Idol." Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules.

As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself.

Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.

I love Scott Westerfeld as an author because he definitely knows how to focus on the whole end-of-the-world teen dystopian novels with a small romance but it is not the main focus of it. It is of the action and fantasy of these novels. 

Okay, at first I was definitely confused as to why it was a different story from another characters point of view. By the end, I loved how Scott Westerfeld incorporated the other three books into the bone chilling conclusion to the Uglies series. I do not know if I want to start reading his other series but it was a good, no, it was a great book.

These series was definitely a great re-read especially since i never really understood it way back in middle school. It was entertaining and something that I could read on the train every day to work. 

This book was a perfect conclusion to the entire series and although I wish it was continued, it was definitely a great ending to an amazing series. 

I rate this book 4 stars out of 5 only because I was slightly confused on the fact that Westerfeld started this series with new characters and by the end, I loved again, how he connected everyone together.

Watch for my review on Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl ; Rebels: City of Indra - Kendall/Kylie Jenner & Maya Sloan ; The Young Elites - Marie Lu ; City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare ; Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare ; Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire.

Thanks for reading awesome book nerds. 

Dangerous Deception - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Dangerous Creatures #2)

Published Date: May 19, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Synopsis: 

From the world of Beautiful Creatures--a dangerous new tale of love and magic continues in the sequel to Dangerous Creatures.

Love is ten kinds a crazy, right?
Let me put it to you this way: If you can get away, run. Don't walk.
Because once you're exposed, you'll never get a Siren outta your head.

Some loves are cursed. Others are...dangerous. Especially the love between wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, and Dark Caster, Siren, and bonafide bad girl, Ridley Duchannes.

But now Ridley is missing, and Link was with her-right up until she vanished. Determined to find her, Link reunites with his New York bandmates and the mysterious Lennox Gates, who wants Rid for himself. Together they travel to the deep south, find the crossroads where blues guitarist Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil, discover a menagerie of Casters locked in cages, and uncover an evil in New Orleans that threatens to destroy them all.

This time, love might not be enough.
"There are three types of girls in the world. Good girls, bad girls, and Ridley Duchannes. Ridley is in a category all on her own."

Dangerous Deception had me on my toes throughout the time I have read it. Trust me, I had it with me while I was waiting in my car, reading in bed, even dog-sitting. I absolutely loved this book and I really do believe that anyone who is interested in fanatical creatures, this book is for you. It is not the typical vampire/werewolf novel like Twilight but it definite has its cheesy moments.

Throughout the book, I was washed over with emotions from happiness to sadness to anger. Why? You'll just have to read the book series in order to figure it out. Without knowing that Dangerous Creatures was a spin-off from Beautiful Creatures, I was kind of thrown into the characters and the plot line. Although, I cannot commit to saying that you need to read Beautiful Creatures before Dangerous Creatures but it would be a good way to brush up on the characters which is what I will be doing as I finish up the City of Bones series, Red Queen, and Scarlett Undercover.

Published Date: March 27, 2007

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Published Date: February 10, 2015

Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy

Published Date: May 19, 2015

Genre: Contemporary/Young Adult/ Mystery

I rate this book a solid 4.5 stars out of 5. Do read this by checking it out at your local library or just buying it. Do keep in mind that not only Red Queen is an option for a movie deal and the title for the second book has been released: Glass Sword.

Thanks for reading awesome book nerds. 

Dangerous Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Dangerous Creatures #1)

Hi everyone! I'm back from my camping trip and I come bearing a review and a potential reviews.

Dangerous Creatures, a beautifully written book that shares two perspectives between two people: Ridley Duchannes and Wesley (Linc) Lincoln. I just want to start this review off with how true their relationship is because it shows how parents, mainly the mother usually doesn't think any girl is good enough for their only son and it shows throughout the story. Wesley is swoon-worthy but Ridley can treat him a little on the bad side.

Published Date: May 20, 2014

Spin-off from Beautiful Creatures (book series and movie)

Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Synopsis: A new series returns to the world of Beautiful Creatures. Some loves are cursed...others are dangerous.

Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's Dark. She's a Siren. You can never trust her, or even yourself when she's around. Lucky for her, Wesley "Link" Lincoln can never seem to remember that; quarter Incubus or not, his heart is Mortal when it comes to Ridley. When Link heads to New York City to start a music career, Ridley goes along for the ride-and she has her own reasons. As if leaving small-town Gatlin for the big city, trying to form a band, and surviving life with a partially reformed Siren isn't hard enough already, Link soon learns he has a price on his head that no Caster or Mortal can ever pay.

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthors of Beautiful Creatures, are back and casting another magical spell. Their signature mixture of mystery, suspense, and romance, along with a dash of fun and danger, will pull fans in and leave them begging for more.

Even if Wesley was turned into a quarter Incubus and it comes with all of the negative side-effects including not having to eat, not being able to sleep, however when it comes to his on and off girlfriend, Ridley, he is completely vulnerable and Mortal.

But later on within a novel, a surprise and heartbreaking moment comes into play. Wanna guess it? I would rate this book a 4.3 out of 5 stars. Read this book and you will not regret it. The potential reviews coming up will be Specials - Scott Westerfeld and Dangerous Deception by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. 

Published Date: May 3, 2011

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Published Date: May 19, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Thanks for reading awesome book nerds. 

Updated: The Strange Maid - Tessa Gratton

So late post, understanding that but I am in the process of drowning in Netlifx: How I met Your Mother: Season 6, Episode 9 ; Reading Dangerous Dream and The Strange Maid. 

I've been busy, running around from work to this, also working on a fan fiction myself. 

I haven't finished my books just yet but they are so good so far and full of action and surprises.

I was putting off reading The Strange Maid because at first I didn't find it interesting but the same thing happened with Divergent but I got through it and liked it enough to finish. I am still unsure of The Strange Maid but then again I am only halfway through. 

I just started Dangerous Dream but so far, it already has given me a surprise. 

Synopsis for The Strange Maid:

Fans of Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, and Maggie Stiefvater will embrace the richly drawn, Norse-influenced alternate world of the United States of Asgard, where cell phones, rock bands, and evangelical preachers coexist with dragon slaying, rune casting, and sword training in schools. Where the president runs the country alongside a council of Valkyries, gods walk the red carpet with Hollywood starlets, and the U.S. military has a special battalion dedicated to eradicating Rocky Mountain trolls. 

Signy Valborn was seven years old when she climbed the New World Tree and met Odin Alfather, who declared that if she could solve a single riddle, he would make her one of his Valkyrie. For ten years Signy has trained in the arts of war, politics, and leadership, never dreaming that a Greater Mountain Troll might hold the answer to the riddle, but that’s exactly what Ned the Spiritless promises her. A mysterious troll hunter who talks in riddles and ancient poetry, Ned is a hard man to trust. Unfortunately, Signy is running out of time. Accompanied by an outcast berserker named Soren Bearstar, she and Ned take off across the ice sheets of Canadia to hunt the mother of trolls and claim Signy’s destiny.

I cannot wait to update this and share my thoughts with you on The Strange Maid because all I can say is that it was a slow beginning at first and it made me cry and laugh and almost throw my book across the room. Signy is a strong Child Valkyrie and has a lot of standards to uphold with all of her older sisters. Her heart is in trouble within the grasp of men and Valtheow the Dark.

Why was she called that? Read the book and find out. I promise that you will not be disappointed. I rate this book a solid 4 out 5. Time to read the third book of the series, if I can find it anywhere. 

You guys are awesome. Keep on reading. 

Next book up is Dangerous Dream by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

XOXO fellow readers.