Book Review - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard | ★★★★★

Mare Barrow is a 17-year old girl living in a divided world. There are the Silvers, they form the upper class of citizens, have special powers and bleed silver blood, and the Reds, they bleed red blood and are the weak and powerless subjects of the Silvers.

“The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”

Mare was born red, grew up in poverty and, like all reds, struggles to survive. Together with her sister and her parents she lives in The Stilts, a red town not far from a royal residence. Without a talent or apprenticeship, which are both rare, Reds are forced to join the army by the age of 18 to fight in a seemingly everlasting war, for most of the Red it means death.

Book Review - The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey | ★★★★★

I finally got around to writing a review about my favourite book of 2014!

It´s The 5th Wave written by Rick Yancey. It belongs in the dystopian YA genre.

Cassie (for Cassiopeia) is 17 years old and all alone in the world. It has been weeks since Cassie has seen another person and she may be the only remaining human survivor of a brutal mass extermination.

A few months ago, the Arrival of the Others was a worldwide sensation. Bringing chaos, hope, but also fear to all humans. Ten days after the Others arrived, the 1st wave struck: A global EMP destroyed all electronics from one second to the next, killing half a million people. The 2nd wave was even more mortal: The Others unleashed a massive earthquake and tidal wave which killed everyone living within a 60 miles radius of an ocean coast. Three billion people died.

Book Haul - March 2015

In March I bought quite an unusual high amount of books. All in all I purchased 21 books (2 are made out of 2 Stories, so it was actually 23 Books).

These are the Books I got:

• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• The Art of Wishing by Lindsey Ribar
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Cress by Marissa Meyer
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
• The Fool´s Girl by Celia Rees
• Four by Veronica Roth
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Line by Teri Hall
• Pirates! by Celia Rees
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• Sovay by Celia Rees
• The Sin Eater´s Daughter
• Ultraviolet by Rebecca Anderson
• The Unseen 1 (It Begins/Rest In Peace)
• The Unseen 2 (Blood Brothers/Sin and Salvation)

I´m looking forward to reading all of this books. I´m really happy that I finally bought The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder, Scarlet and Cress), Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Gone Girl. I think these are the books I´m most excited about.

I will try to write a review about all of them, but it may take a while. If you have any wishes which books I should read an review first (not just these, but the ones on my book list, too), let me now :)

Book Review - The Line by Teri Hall | ★★

In The Line a girl named Rachel lives on The Property together with her mother Vivian. Vivian is employed by the owner of the property, Ms. Moore, to take care of the house. Rachel does not go to school, her mother teaches her at home. During the day she works in Ms. Moore´s greenhouse and helps her with breeding orchids.

Rachel is a very curious girl and while her mother teaches her everything she needs to know about the Unified States she is drawn to the Line, an invisible barrier, which separates the country from the abandoned and terrifying land Away, where it is said that strange people and animals live, ever since it was barricaded off many years ago by the government. If anybody tried to cross the line they would get in to a lot of trouble with the now extremely controlling government, but they aren´t even physically able to anyway.

My TBR-Jar Pick - The Line by Teri Hall

Just yesterday I put book titles of all my new purchased books into my TBR-Jar. Today I picked a piece and it was one of the newly added titles: The Line written by Teri Hall. 

It isn´t a very long book, a bit more than 200 pages, so I will be quickly done with it. It was published in 2010 and there are 2 other books in this series (Away, The Island). 

A review will be posted as soon as possible.

Synopsis

A desperate message from a forbidden place can change everything...

Rachel and her mother live peacefully on The Property owned by Mrs. Moore, far away from the city, where the totalitarian government is most controlling. Rachel quietly tends to Mrs. Moore´s orchids in her greenhouse - the one that overlooks the Line, where you can see Away. Going any closer to the Line is forbidden. And Rachel has heard that Away is an unimaginable and frightening place. But then she hears a recording - a voice desperately pleading for help-that could only have come from Away. Rachel wants to respond, but will she dare to Cross the Line?

Book Review - Shattered by Teri Terry | ★★★★

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE READING THE REVIEW FOR SHATTERED IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ SLATED AND FRACTURED, YOU MAY GET SPOILED! 

And again, the story continues to follow Kyla´s life after she was slated, found out about Ben and her leaving after the explosion of Nico´s com. After everything that happened, Kyla is finally ready to find out who she is and where she comes from. With the help of MIA(Missing in Action)-Member Aiden, she has the chance to get a new identity and travel to Keswick, the place where her mother should live.

While in Keswick, she discovers more and more about her past and at the same time lots of memories come back, mostly about her father, who she now knows died trying to safe her. But the more she finds out, the more disturbing it gets, because what Stella, her mother, tells her does mostly not go along with the memories Kyla´s getting back. For one point that is, that Stella and Daniel aren´t Kyla´s real parents.

Book Review - Fractured by Teri Terry | ★★★

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE READING THE REVIEW FOR FRACTURED IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ SLATED, YOU MAY GET SPOILED! 

I finished Fractured a few weeks ago and finally found time to write the review (I already read Shattered, the third book of the trilogy). 

The story continues to follow Kyla´s life after she was slated. It jumps right in after the violent struggle with Wayne Best in the woods. Memories start to surface and Kyla is very confused, since Slateds are not supposed to be violent. If they are, their Levos are programmed to stop them by rendering them unconscious or even killing them. But right after she gets away from the badly injured Wayne she discovers that her Levo isn´t working anymore. Soon memories of someone named Rain appear and she starts to realise that she is someone else.