Title: A Single Girl's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Author: JT Clay
Publisher: Momentum Books
Publication Date: November 1st 2013
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Romance, Post Apocalyptic
Rating 4.5 out of 5
Synopsis:
It's the old story. Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Zombies attack.
Q, a trainee kindergarten teacher and martial arts expert, wants to woo beautiful vegan, Rabbit, but doesn't know how. Her luck turns during the zombie outbreak. She teaches Rabbit and his hippie friends how to make war, not love, and does her best to save him from the living dead.
But can she defeat evil ex-girlfriend, Pious Kate? And can love survive the end of the world?
This book was hilarious. The way that the main character, Q, acts will make this book worth while to anybody who reads it. I was hooked from the first page and I love this book.
This book follows Q through her 'average' life. I put average in quotes, because Q is the most unaverage girl you will ever met. By day she student teaches a preschool class, and by night she teaches the girls in that class self defense. Q is a very outspokenly weird person that s just one of a kind. The things that Q says will make you laugh out loud and definitely remember her character.
This book may seem a little cliche, but it isn't. It is a bout an independent girl that tries to get what she wants, and eds up with a bunch of hippies in the middle of the woods. I loved this book and I would recommend this to anyone who likes zombies, gory or not gory, and a hilarious book that is extremely well done.
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Title: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2)
Author: Marissa Meyer
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Publication Date: February 5th 2013
Genre: YA Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Pages: 454
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Synopsis: (Via GoodReads)
The fates of Cinder and Scarlet collide as a Lunar threat spreads across the Earth...
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
This book is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, and it is a continuation of the 1st book in the series. There are 4 point of views in this book, and that gives more input into the story as a whole. The story mainly focuses on Scarlet's side of the story, but includes Cinder, Prince Kai, and Wolf's p.o.v.
In this book we follow Scarlet who lives on a farm with her grandmother. She finds that her grandmother is missing and the reader is told that it has been two weeks since she was taken. The reader sees how Scarlet is a brave open-minded person who is very like-able As I was reading, I found myself being able to relate with the things she chose to do and that made the story better.
There were many twists and turns in the story that were shocking, compared to Cinder. I found myself comparing the story, as a whole, to Cinder and that made me not love the book as much as I loved Cinder. I found this book to be harder to get into, but it was a great continuation of Cinder in my opinion.
Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1)
Author: Marissa Meyer
Publication Date: January 3rd 2012
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Genre: YA Sci-Fi, fantasy
Pages: 387
Rating: 5 out of 5
Synopsis: (Via GoodReads)
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
This book is loosely based around Cinderella, but don't let that stop you. The only similar things between Cinder and Cinderella is a mean step-mom, a prince, and a ball. Everything else is completely different and amazingly creative. The main character, Cinder, is an empowered person who does what she wants, except for things dealing with her step-mom, and she is just an amazing character. The prince, Kai, is the regular male lead in a book, but that does not make the book less interesting.
Cinder is set in New Beijing, a futuristic dystopian world, and it is ruled by the king. The citizens are mixed with cyborgs and robots, and think very low of them. Cinder is a cyborg that is friends with her family's robot, Iko, and Cinder is a mechanic to the people who need help. That is how her and Prince Kai meet. At first Kai does not know Cinder is a cyborg and that makes the reader want to stay and read to see how he reacts when he does find out. The story line has so many twists and turns that there is never really a boring part. The main problem, that was my favorite in this book, was with the Lunars. Lunars are the moon people, and the queen wants to marry the prince and rule the world. I loved the Lunars background and what they added to the story.
I loved this book and will be posting a review of the second book, Scarlet, very soon. I recommend this book to anyone who loved the idea of Cinderella and for those who really love fantasy and sci-fi books.
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Title: Crash Into You (Pushing The Limits #3)
Author: Katie McGarry
Publication Date: November 26th 2013
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Genre: YA Contemporary, realistic fiction
Pages: 474
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Synopsis: (Via GoodReads)
The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.
Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look.
But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.
This book was an amazing Contemporary read. The reader follows Isaiah, the typical bad boy who is a sweetheart, and Rachel, a good girl who does what she is told. The two characters meet because of Rachel's love for driving. When they met there is an instant connection on Isaiah's part and a little on Rachel's part because of her being so innocent.
Rachel is in a wealthy put together family and is going through a hard time. She is basically her moms back up child. She was conceived when her older sister dies of Leukemia. Rachel lives her life trying to make her mom happy by being her late sister and doing whatever her mom wants. This causes Rachel to feel the stress of being perfect and it drives her insane, and this can be related to many teen girls. In society there is major pressure on being perfect and Rachel is the character that displays the emotions of this so well. She is a very relate-able and like able character.
Isaiah is the typical bad boy. He has a troubled past, parent issues, and a love for mechanics. Even with this it does not make you love his character any less. He does not want to do bad, he just wants to be good. He wants to make something of himself and get out of his life. He also has a heart, which the reader sees in his chapters. Isaiah is just that bad boy that every girl wants and needs, but he is the bad boy that will stay.
The author's writing was beautiful and made the story and characters more realistic. The underlining themes of everyday life were placed amazingly throughout this book and in a way that many teens can relate to. Even if this sounds like it could be a cheesy contemporary, it is not. I thought that this book was the average lovey-dovey book, but my opinion was changed quickly. I am very happy I read this book and you will be to. I believe that every contemporary lover will fall head over heels for this, and even if you are not a big fan of romances you should still check this out.
