Burning Impossibly Bright

*Need I say that this will probably/definitely contain spoilers for the first film and possibly parts of the second one so if you haven't read the book/have but want to have the film unspoiled before you see it, stop here!* Hello! I am talking about films today again. Namely Catching Fire because it was amazing and I loved it and I want to tell you about it. Is that not a good enough reason?  I wasn't too sure if I was going to like Catching Fire as much as The Hunger Games as I don't remember liking the book as much and I knew that the tone would be different and I wasn't sure if it was going to maintain that same sort of emotional connection that we had in the first film because it's not as much about the games as it is about the burgeoning revolution. Well, I was wrong. It was, in my opinion, better than the first one, and it captured the spirit of the books beautifully. Katniss is probably one of my favourite characters not just in the series, but ever. I think ...

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Holly Black September 3rd 2013 Indigo Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown  is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black. I've always been sort of ambivalent towards vampires. I think that they...

Title:  Cruel Summer Author:  James Dawson Series:  Standalone Pages:  324 Publisher:  Indigo Date of Publication:  1st August, 2013 Source:  Bought Synopsis from Goodreads: A year after Janey’s suicide, her friends reunite at a remote Spanish villa, desperate to put the past behind them. However, an unwelcome guest arrives claiming to have evidence that Jane was murdered. When she is found floating in the pool, it becomes clear one of them is a killer. Only one thing is for certain, surviving this holiday is going to be murder… A compelling and psychological thriller - with a dash of romance. My Thoughts: I had high hopes for Cruel Summer after reading all the glowing reviews and also after reading and loving James' first novel, Hollow Pike , last year. I am delighted to say that Cruel Summer surpassed those expectations and I think I liked it even better than Hollow Pike . Before reading, I'd heard that the story was told like a TV series and th...

Letterbox Love is the UK's version of IMM, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at  Narratively Speaking  :) Bought: Captain Marvel volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue DeConnick Wonder Woman volumer 2: Guts by Brian Azzarello (I have been reading some comics lately! They are actually pretty good and I've been planning on doing some mini-reviews or something for the ones I've read lately maybe.) Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy (Right, so, on the recommendation of Cait , I started reading these books, and the first one was really good but I'm so annoying because the 3rd one has arrived before the 2nd and I just want to carry on reading them but I can't and boo.)  So yeah, comics and middle-grade books about talking skeletons. Who really needs anything else in their letterbox?  What did you get this week?

This is Not a Test Courtney Summers June 19th 2012 St Martin's Griffin It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago,  her  world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually  want  to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life— and  death—inside. When everything is gone, what do  you  hold...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel Ransom Riggs (story), Cassandra Jean (art) October 29th 2013 Headline Ransom Riggs's haunting fantasy bestseller adapted to a graphic novel!  As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. I have yet to read the actual novel novel of Miss Peregrine, so I'm just going to give a heads up about that and this is my first experience with the story and all that, so I can't really judge the graphic novel on how it matches up with the book itself, but I will say that it...

Letterbox Love is the UK's version of IMM, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at  Narratively Speaking  :) Review: Dead Ends by Erin Lange (This book looks really great and I've heard awesome things about her other book, Butter, so I'm really excited about this! Thank you Faber!) Bought: Spy Society by Robin Benway The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (after reading and loving Audrey, Wait! about 4 months ago, I finally decided to splurge and get the rest of Robin Benway's books. A little bit because everything I've read has been so dark lately...) Black Heart by Holly Black Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan (I went to Holly and Sarah's event at Foyles this Monday and it was a lot of fun! Loads of other book bloggers were there and it was so awesome to see them again, plus I got to meet Holly Black for the first time ever and embarrass myself in front of her and everything. It was great. And I'm not even being sarcastic. I love her books.) So...

Title:  Zom-B Baby Author:  Darren Shan Series:   Zom-B, #5 Pages:   215 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's Books Date of Publication:  26th September 2013 Source:  For review from publisher Synopsis from Goodreads: B has spent the last few months bunking with the Angels, a group of teens dedicated to eradicating the evil dead from the face of the earth, beginning with the undead roaming the abandoned wreckage that was once London. But the Angels' mission is a bit more complicated than that, and B takes to the streets of a very changed London to decide: is it a mission really to be believed? But instead of answers, B finds a horror beyond imagining. My Thoughts: I think that Zom-B Baby is my favourite so far of the Zom-B series. I was so excited to read it that as soon as it dropped through my letterbox I quickly finished what I was reading so that I could get onto reading this. Sorry it's taken a little while to get my review o...

So, things have kind of been a bit slow on the blog lately, haven't they? I wish I could blame college but I think I'm just having a bit of a blogging slump, so there isn't really much for me to round up but I'm going to do it anyway. It's been too long since I last posted anything... Sorry about that. But anyway! Books read: September Fearsome Dreamer by Laure Eve Raw Blue by Kirsty Eager Geek Girl (reread) by Holly Smale The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater Geek Girl: Model Misfit by Holly Smale This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales October Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Wonder Woman volume 1 by Brian Azzarello Hawkeye Volume 1 by Matt Fraction Hawkeye volume 2 by Matt Fraction Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs Young Avengers volume 1 by Kieron Gillan Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Total: 14 Books reviewed: September United We Spy by Ally Carter Briar Rose by Jana Oliver The Dream ...

Hey everybody! Welcome to my wrap-up for October! Here are the books I read this month:       1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (reread) 2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (reread) 3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (reread) 4. She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick 5. Zom-B Angels by Darren Shan (reread) 6. Zom-B Baby by Darren Shan 7. Fearsome Dreamer by Laure Eve 8. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (for school) I started off this month with a reread of The Hunger Games series, as I thought it would be a good idea to reread Catching Fire at least before seeing the film which comes out in THREE WEEKS!! Very exciting indeed. Of course, they were great, just as they were last time I read them :) Then, on 17th October it was my birthday and I received She Is Not Invisible from my parents, and so I read that as quickly as I could and really, really enjoyed it. Then I reread Zom-B Angels so that I could review it before reading Zom-B ...