Book Review - Eve

The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her. 
Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.

- The Book Synopsis


So here we have another dystopian novel, hoping to lure the readers into this popular genre. 
The book is set in the year 2032 after a deadly infection wiped out most of the population and now the country is ruled by a 'King' I believe.
Eve is an 18 year old girl who attends an all girls school, hoping this education will lead her into the city to secure a successful job. 
In this school they are taught that men are dangerous and shouldn't be trusted when they come to leave the school.
Just before leaving school she finds out the horrible truths about this school and what will really happens to all the girls when they are 'destined' to leave.


-plot explained here-


Eve then sets of a long journey to a 'safe' city but of course she must encounter people along the way. That was always going to happen which made the book slightly predictable. Along the way she comes across the boys who live in the wilds. I should add she with a friend called Arden here*


And yes all the dangers about talking to boys/men and not trusting them are suddenly thrown out the window. It was like the author built the plot up just to bring it all back down again. 

So being around the boys not only does she quickly trust these people but she soon finds herself falling in  love with one of them named Caleb who promises to protect her against the King's soldiers who are looking for her in the wilds. 

The character build up is not really explain well. I mean a few words here and there about the characters looks and feelings but that is about it. They felt distance to me. 

And now with Caleb, she sets out to find this 'safe' city hoping to start a new life with him but there are many obstacles ahead of them will they make it? 

Eve by Anna Carey - (2.5/3 stars)

 

Book Review - Warm Bodies

A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel. 
R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.

- The book synopsis

I don't know what it is I just want to write a review of every book I have read even though I have only had this blog for about 3 days haha.
So here is another one.

Spoilers!

I have never actually read a zombie book before so this was a whole new imaginary world for me.
So we have a zombie called 'R' and at first he seems to be doing what a typical zombie would be doing. Killing humans and eating their brains.
Along with his fellow zombie friend 'M' they go to a human hide out because they are hungry. (This could only mean more brain eating.)

The eating bit is a bit to detailed in my opinion and I was cringing just reading it. There, the zombies kill every human they see until 'R' notices a girl sitting in the corner.
And because he had just killed her boyfriend and ate his brain he knows her name which I thought was strange but it seemed the only way to fit at the time. -boyfriends memories floods his mind-

Somehow 'R' gets Julie - the girl to come back with him to a zombie infested airport. If I were her,  I wouldn't have done such a thing. I mean she just watched these things kill the people around her.

So we are going through the book pages now and the characters are becoming a bit more developed. I still don't understand why the zombies aren't crawling over each other just to get a taste of her because you know she is human.

-Through more pages-

'R' becomes protective over Julie after seeing more and more of her boyfriends memories.
I find Julie and 'R' friendship a bit weird because I kept thinking that he could turn on her and eat her because his hunger got the better of him.
But having Julie near is changing him, making him not want to eat anyone at all. (Now here comes the zombie changing thing)
'R' believes he is changing because of Julie but hey I've never heard of this happening in any other book so why not?

The characters are this point are becoming more understandable with the way they are thinking, you would of thought sometimes 'R' was human. 

So Julie can't stay at that airport forever so she decides she wants to go the safe base which is were the humans live.
I swear this base is only mentioned a few times that I almost forgot about it.

'So to avoid any more spoilers'

The characters in the book are different and can easily be liked. I mean over the coarse of reading this book I began to understand and like them. Even though the setting/scenes were lacking detail I did enjoy the book.

Warm Bodies - Issac Marion (3.5 stars)

Book Review - Raised By Wolves

Adopted by the Alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it.  That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two.  
But when her curiosity gets the better of her and she discovers Chase, a new teen locked in a cage in her guardian's basement, and witnesses him turn into a wolf before her eyes, the horrific memories of her parents' murders return. Bryn becomes obsessed with getting her questions answered, and Chase is the only one who can provide the information she needs.
But in her drive to find the truth, will Bryn push too far beyond the constraints of the pack, forcing her to leave behind her friends, her family, and the identity that she's shaped?

- The book synopsis


Yay! Another book about werewolves. I myself do love a good werewolf book and I had high expectations for this one. Well it started off good but then it started to come of track.
In the beginning of the book, the lead female character Bryn is the only human in an all werewolf pack and the words in the first few chapters helped me understand how this had happened.
I had never read of this sort of thing happening in a werewolves book before so I thought of it as different and at first I liked it.
I managed to get through the first few chapters in no time but then I started to lose interest when Chase came along. I thought that Bryn and Chase relationship was in my words a bit weird . It was so typical for them both to automatically form a bond that I had "I knew that was going to happen" laugh.

So eventually  Bryn breaks how ever many years of rules within the pack just to see, touch or by near him. I mean really? She would just chuck everything she learnt at the window just to be with some guy she has just met?
I guess so.

-skips a whole section of book to explain-

And this whole *Rapid killed her parents, turned him into a werewolf who is now whispering the same words over and over in his head and Bryn can hear the words because of the bond?* Meh, the single worded sentences were annoying to repeat over and over in my mind.

What happened to the page turning chapters at the beginning? I had high hopes for this one but unusually I was let down.

Raised by Wolves - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (2 stars)

Book Review - Across the Universe

"Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. 
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. 
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming." - The book synopsis 

Now I know we must never judge a book by its cover but that was the reason I picked up the book, it was because of the lovely cover. The colours are so vibrant that I thought the words inside the book would match up but they didn't.

I felt the male character Elder was very hard to like and I had trouble understanding his role in the book as a person not as a leader. When he first saw Amy lying in her ice block and only thing he could think about was being with her. He become so consumed by her that he almost killed her by disconnecting the ice box she was lying in.
It was like he expected her to fall in love with him as soon as she woke up without realizing that she could of died but in the end Amy survive it so everything was alright for him. 
Overall he only seemed to care about what he wanted and getting it.

Amy was more likeable then he was. I would of felt the same way, waking up how many years away from landing alone and confused. I felt sorry for her at some points knowing she would be older then her parents by the time Godspeed lands on the new planet which in the book was said to be different amount of years before it was going to actually get there.

Eldest was a horrible character in my eyes and I found it really hard to concentrate on reading when he was in the scenes.

On a plus note the author's explanation of Godspeed was done well and I could imagine it very easily when the characters were talking about it.

Overall I liked some characters and scene development but disliked others.

Across the Universe - Beth Revis (3 stars)

 

Review - The Book Thief

"It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . .  " A short synopsis of the book

When I first heard about this book I wasn't sure I would like it. I mean I have never actually been interested in the World Wars as such but I was willing to give this book to chance to change my mind and it most certainly did.

The characters and the writing style drew me in straight away. The words that the author uses are so remarkable and mind opening that I didn't want this story to end.
The characters were really likeable and understandable. The author must have done a great deal of research to write this book the way he did.
His main character Liesel Meminger was easy to relate to book wise. I loved the fact that she loved and sometimes* hated the words books can contain.

I love how her own words save her life even though she lost everyone she loved .
The ending was a truly sad and the author wrote it in such heartfelt way that I wanted to cry with Liesel because I felt like I could feel her emotions too.

Overall the plot, setting, characters and development of the story will definitely stay with me.

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak  (5 stars)