Rainbow Rowell-Carry On-Young Adult Fantasy

Alright, let me tell you about this book. It was fantastic. Having loved Fangirl by Rowell I was so eager to jump into another one of her books. So, for those of you who need some more information:

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell was published on September 10, 2015. This was a realistic fiction novel about a girl named Cath.  If you would like to know more about Fangirl Click Here!

So Carry On tells the tale of Simon and Baz. It's sort of like Harry Potter but for young adult readers. It carries on the humor from Fangirl but brings in real life problems  to and having to accept who you are. Simon's the Chosen One who rooms with Baz, a vampire. The problem with Simon is that there is this thing after him called the Humdrum and no one really know how to defeat it, but Simon was prophesied that he was the one to save the world. Simon also has no control over his power and it doesn't make it any better that Baz hates him.

When I finished the book I couldn't help but Fangirl myself. This book gave me a romance that I will never forget and I so love to originality to it all. I highly recommend this for anyone that wants a funny teen romance novel with a little extra flare and difference. I also think this is really good for everyone, no matter gender or age or whatever, it really gives off something that I at least don't see a lot of in the world of literature.

Any questions at all about this book feel free to leave a comment below and I'll get back to you. As always have a good day and be safe!

Dreams of Gods And Monsters-Laini Taylor-Young Adult Fantasy

What I liked most about the ending to this trilogy was that it wasn't rushed at all. It took its time and the writing was unbelievable, like it was from the beginning. I found myself when reading this is that I had to constantly pay attention to what was going on. And that was fine and everything, but it did take me a little longer to read this, not because it was thick or anything, but mostly because something important was always happening, and I was finding myself only being able to read like one hundred pages a day of this book because I was always paying attention. So I was confused at times, and it did get frustrating, but everything turned out good. I loved the surprises in this book, and everything that happened. I love Zuzanna, I feel like I could relate to her very easily. I have a friend like Zuzanna, and I couldn't stop imagining my friend as her.

The main character in this book, Karou, reminded me a lot of Celeana, from the Throne of Glass series, and I think that is because both are very strong female leads and have a great adventure in their stories. Karou had a big impact on me. I can't really place on why I liked her so much because she was so fabulous, but she had a certain something that I thought was hard to find in characters. The ending was so great. I got some really great closure which is always a good thing to get in books. and I am just so happy to have finished another series. Now that I look back at it, this series was great, and it surprises me how much I liked it. I knew from the beginning that I had to pay attention a lot and that it was meant for more mature readers, and I showed myself that I am a very mature reader, and finishing it was such a great feeling. There is nothing better or worse that finishing a series. 

Hope you liked this post and please leave your comments below! 

Bloodlines-Richelle Mead-Young Adult Fantasy

YYYYAAAAAYYYY! I have finally read the first book in the Bloodlines series. I was so excited to start this, and so sad to end it. I have the first four books in the series and desperately need the last two, because something tells me that these books will go fast. 

There was not a single boring part in this book. It felt so great to come back to this Vampire Academy world. I was just relieved to be with familiar characters, and I was so happy to read about Adrian some more, because he was one of my favorite characters in Vampire Academy. Now, if you are interested in reading these books, I would definitely read the Vampire Academy books first. This series follows young Alchemist Sydney, who if you read Vampire Academy, is the one who helped Rose Hathaway. After reading the first book I was thirsty for more...he he. Get it? Because...you know....vampires. Anyways, I was on this vampire high and everything and I just wanted nothing more than to read the second book. Although, I am pacing myself, and now I am reading Ruby Red, but that is another story for another time. 

What I would like to say is that the book was fantastic and I cannot wait to sink my teeth into The Golden Lily. He he!

I thought Sydney was a great character, and there was a surprise in the book that I was not prepared for. And I thought I was seeing a new side of Jill. I thought she was more like teenage puberty kind of character. She was just a teenage girl that wanted to be normal.Sydney showed a new side to a strong female character, and that was her intelligence. 

Thank you for reading and leave your comments below! Hope you liked this and everything and I will have another post up soon.     

The DUFF-Kody Keplinger-Young Adult-Maybe Adult-Contemporary Stand Alone

This book was hilarious and I loved it. It was in my Christmas book haul and the first book I read from that ginormous haul. I did see the movie with a very good friend of mine and I loved it. Being a very big fan of Mean Girls and these funny contemporary reads, I just fell in love with it. This book was well adapted in movie form, but they did have to take out a lot of things to keep in PG-13, but it was still really good, I thought, if you like movies like Mean Girls. Of course in the book there was a lot of frickefrackling (sex) and a lot of swearing, but being the mature reader I am I was able to take it like an adult. 

I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone due to the content in it. But the overall story line of it was good. It captured a girl who was not at all perfect and really wanted to just be the hot one in her group of very hot friends. I really liked Bianca Piper as the main character, and I thought it was very relatable to girls who are not perfect in body form or in like life, and boys, too. Of course I liked the book better, but the book was very good.

Thank you for reading, please leave your comments below, and hopefully you read the book!  

Sorry!!!

I forgot to write some things on my last post about joining YouTube. I want to reassure everyone that I will still be writing on here if I do make a channel and that the only thing that would stop me from joining YouTube would be the fact that I do not own a camera. And I think that would be my biggest problem. I do have a phone, but as to how long that can record and how easy that would edit is not in my knowledge. That would be the only thing stopping me from having a channel on YouTube.

Should I Join The YouTube Community?

Recently I have been thinking about joining the YouTube community. It would be a lot easier for booktalks and I could have a bunch of channels about different things. Of course I would have a gaming channel, booktube, and just a regular life stuff. It would be easier I think to say more of what I have to say, because sometimes jst writing all the time is hard to put a lot of emotion into it without using things like figurative language which I just don't have time to write like: I love this book like I love Fall Out Boy. I would be doing fun challenges and you could meet some of my friends, and people who stumbled across this page by accident or something can get to see what I look like and more of my unique personalty. So please comment below, don't be shy. I would love to see what you have to say.

Sarah J Mass-Throne of Glass series

She has to be one of my new favorite authors. The style she has is just amazing, very similar to Richelle Mead or Cassandra Clare I thought. If you want a great and suspenseful adventure with beautifully structured characters than I highly recommend this book. This is definitely a more mature read, an one where you really need to pay more attention to as the book builds more character and progresses. Like Cassandra Clare each book always has a great surprise and surprises and a lot of great things are just going. The main character, Celeana Sardothian, is such a strong and fantastic character, one of my favorites. If you liked the Shadow and Bone trilogy or Brightly Woven or any of the authors mentioned above than I suggest you read these books. At the time the third book was just recently published and I am close to finishing right now. So please read these, they are so fantastic, and I am hoping to start writing a lot more. Thank you!

Book VS Movies

RANT ALERT:

Alright, so lately I have been thinking about people who see the movies before they read the book. Now, I'm not going to lie, I have been there before. I watched the first three Harry Potter movies before I read the books. But that is because I was young at the time and was not aware that there were books. Lord of The Rings, too. I am not a Lord of The Rings fan, they never really interested me. But what I really hate is people getting obsessed with the movies. And I mean obsessed, like fan pages and merchandise and photos on their phones and posters. And I get so mad because if you're obsessed with a movie, and you have a crush on the male or female protagonist YOU ARE NOT A REAL FAN! Because you haven't read the book and you don't know what its like in the book, because the book will always be better than the movie. 

And then what I find stupid is two things. People who see the movie and that is all they talk about and how much they just love everything and anything the has to do with the movie. Just. Stop. You can't be the fandom unless you have read the books before you see the movie. I hate it when people say the movie is fantastic and the people who have actually read the book(s) are like: No. This was different in the book. He never said this. And so on because we have actually read the book. Because we know what actually happened because we have read the book. You haven't, therefore you can't talk about it because you're not a true fan. I hate this because these people act like they are actually fans, which they are fans and that is fine and everything, but you are not a true fan. 

And then the second thing I hate is people that see the movie and then read the book. I hate this because these people see the movie and they're obsessed with it. And then they decide to read the book. And then they really like the book. I get mad because then they try to talk about it with someone like me who read the book when it first came out and everything, and read the book not because they just saw the movie but because they were actually interested in it before there was any possibility of it becoming a movie. So I don't consider those people fans either. I saw this happen with Maze Runner and of course The Fault In Our Stars which every girl in the school has read. I just hate because I am happy that they at least read the book but I am mad that they are only reading the book because they saw the movie and now the book interested them. It just makes me mad and I know a lot of these people and I just don't like them. At my school people know that I love books and so they come up to me and ask me have I seen this movie that was based off a book and chances are I'll probably say yes because I read the book and then saw the movie which was decent but they didn't follow everything. And this is what makes me mad. 

Them: Hey, Sara, have you seen Maze Runner? 

Me:Yeah, I thought it was really good. Did you see it? 

Them:Yeah, I did. It was awesome. Dylan O'Brien is so hot. 

Me: Did you read the book? 

Them: There's a book? 

I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me. I just can't even. So please. If you want to be apart of a book fandom read the book or series or whatever. Don't just see the movie and consider yourself apart of the fandom. It makes us true fans mad. And this is going to happen with a lot of movies this year and the next. And the next. And the next. 

So people, you know who you are, just read the books. You might actually find pleasure in it.    

Christmas Haul

Sorry I haven't been writing in awhile. I got many new books for Christmas, and I think that this year and the next will be the year for books. So I thought first I would start out with the books I got for Christmas.
The Bane Chronicles-Casandra Clare + varied authors
Requiem-Lauren Oliver
Fugitive X-Gregg Rosenblum
The Infinite Sea-Rick Yancy
The Young World-Chris Weitz
The Testing trilogy-Joelle Charbonneau
The UGLIES series-Scott Westerfeld
Brightly Woven-Alexandra Bracken
Throne of Glass-Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight-Sarah J. Maas
Heir of Fire-Sarah J. Maas
Siege and Storm-Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising-Leigh Bardugo
WINGER-Andrew Smith
The DUFF-Kody Keplinger
I was very excited receiving these. I jumped right into The DUFF since that was on the top of my list. I will post a review on that later but I absolutely loved it. After reading it I went immediately into the trailer and watched that. It looks so cute and funny and I just know its going to be a great teen movie. BUT PLEASE READ THE BOOK FIRST! I also received The Maze Runner movie. Being a big fan of the book I was so pleased to watch the movie. I saw it a bunch in the movie theaters so that was a pretty good movie to watch on Christmas day, even though it related nothing about Christmas. I have already read about 1/3 of the books listed so I will review those soon, but I am very busy a lot so I might not get those posted as soon as I would like to.
Thank you for reading! Please post what you got for Christmas below. If you have already read some of the books I got I would love to hear your thoughts on them. If you would like I would happy if you would want to send me a message at strictlybooksandmerch@gmail.com