Book Review Archive

Here are my book reviews in alphabetical order:

***Note: Some of these reviews are, well… let’s just say I’ve definitely improved on my book reviewing skills, haha!  Also, if the book starts with ‘The’, it will be filed under the first letter of the next word in the title.

Reviews with an asterisk (*) beside them mean that I didn’t complete the book.

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A

• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1) by Michael Scott
• Allegiant (Divergent, #3) by Veronica Roth
• Angelfall (Penryn & The End of Days, #1) by Susan Ee
• Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1) by Stephanie Perkins
• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
• Awesome Blossom (Flower Power, #4) by Lauren Myracle

B

• Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1) by Richelle Mead
• The Book of Love (The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, #2) by Lynn Weingarten
• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4) by Stephenie Meyer

C

• Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1) by Marissa Meyer
• Cinderella Cleaners: Change of a Dress (Cinderella Cleaners, #1) by Maya Gold
• City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4) by Cassandra Clare
• City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3) by Cassandra Clare
• City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) by Cassandra Clare
• Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) by Cassandra Clare
• Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) by Cassandra Clare – Part 1
• Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) by Cassandra Clare – Part 2
• Coda (Coda, #1) by Emma Trevayne
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli

D

• Dark Souls by Paula Morris
• Dead Is Just A Dream (Dead Is, #8) by Marlene Perez
• Dead Is The New Black (Dead Is, #1) by Marlene Perez
• The Declaration (The Declaration, #1) by Gemma Malley
• Delirium (Delirium, #1) by Lauren Oliver
• The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1) by Cinda Williams Chima
• Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

E

• Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3) by Stephenie Meyer
• The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms, #2) by Cinda Williams Chima

F

• Fallen (Fallen, #1) by Lauren Kate
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Fruits Basket, Volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya
• Fruits Basket, Volume 2 by Natsuki Takaya

G

• The Golden Lily (Bloodlines, #2) by Richelle Mead
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles, #2) by Suzanne Collins
• Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Collins

H

• The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4) by Rick Riordan
• The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw

I

• The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines, #3) by Richelle Mead

J

• The Jewel of the Kalderash (The Kronos Chronicles, #3) by Marie Rutkoski

K

L

• Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1) by Shannon Messenger
• Lola and the Boy Next Door (Anna and the French Kiss, #2) by Stephanie Perkins

M

• The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2) by Michael Scott
• Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3) by Rick Riordan
• My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #1) by Janette Rallison

N

• New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2) by Stephenie Meyer

O

• Obsidian (Lux, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• OCD, The Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
• Of Poseidon (The Syrena Legacy, #1) by Anna Banks
• Of Triton (The Syrena Legacy, #2) by Anna Banks
• Onyx (Lux, #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Opal (Lux, #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Origin (Lux, 4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Originals by Cat Patrick
• Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1) by Susan Cooper

P

• Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) by Lauren Oliver*
• Pretties (Uglies, #2) by Scott Westerfeld
• Prodigy (Legend, #2) by Marie Lu
• Proof of Life by Laura Scott
• Pure (Pure, #1) by Julianna Baggott

Q

R

• Reached (Matched Trilogy, #3) by Ally Condie
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Rocket Girl by George D. Morgan

S

• Savvy (Savvy, #1) by Ingrid Law
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (The Sisterhood, #2) by Ann Brashares
• The Secret Keeper by Elizabeth Carroll
• The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers (The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, #1) by Lynn Weingarten
• The Secret Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (The Sisterhood, #1) by Ann Brashares
• The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass
• Sent (The Missing, #2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Shadow Girl by Jennifer Archer
• The Summoning (Sisters of Isis, #1) by Lynne Ewing

T

• Take the Reins (Canterwood Crest, #1) by Jessica Burkhart
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Translucent, Volume 1 by Kazuhiro Okamoto
• True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas
• Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) by Stephenie Meyer

U

• Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

V

• Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) by Richelle Mead
• V. B. Rose Volume 1 by Banri Hidaka

W

• Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1) by Michelle Paver

X

Y

Z

Book Review: My Fair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #1) by Janette Rallison

Title: My Fair Godmother

Author: Janette Rallison

Summary: Finding your one true love can be a Grimm experience!

After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah Delano wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrissy (Chrysanthemum) Everstar: Savannah’s gum-chewing, cell phone–carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Showing why she’s only Fair—because she’s not a very good fairy student—Chrissy mistakenly sends Savannah back in time to the Middle Ages, first as Cinderella, then as Snow White. Finally she sends Tristan, a boy in Savannah’s class, back instead to turn him into her prom-worthy prince. When Savannah returns to the Middle Ages to save Tristan, they must team up to defeat a troll, a dragon, and the mysterious and undeniably sexy Black Knight. Laughs abound in this clever fairy tale twist from a master of romantic comedy. -Goodreads

 

Review:

One day, I was looking at books on Goodreads, and I saw this book, My Fair Godmother.  What made me order it was that it had a pretty similar cover to another book I read, The Secret Keeper.  Well, at least, aside from the shades, the pink (awesome) hair, the title, the big pink X across the word ‘fairy,’ and the word ‘fair’ scrawled in above it, it would have had the same cover as The Secret Keeper 😀

I hadn’t been too sure about this book because of the summary.  I mean, Cinderella?  Snow White?!  I was never into those Disney princess things–ew!  But, this was a great book!  Excellent, excellent, excellent!  It was funny, romantic… and, well, just PERFECT!

I’ve read one of Rallison’s books, All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School, and that one was great too, from what I remember, so I began to get more and more excited about My Fair Godmother.

I was immediately drawn into the book.  It just sucked me in and then spit me out at the end, haha!!!

My thoughts on Savannah in the beginning were that she was a spoiled brat who deserved to go back to the Middle Ages and see how people there lived.  They didn’t have luxuries like shampoo and flashlights.  She needed to know that she couldn’t take anyone or anything for granted.  By the end of the book, I’d say she definitely learned that lesson.

In my eyes, I think this book had a great moral.  Don’t take anything/anyone for granted.

The relationship between the two sisters reminded me of something–maybe another book?  I don’t know.  I can’t quite put my finger on it.  Maybe the relationship between Savannah and Jane reminded me of that between Claudia and Janine from Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club.  Both older sisters were smarter than the younger sisters, both younger sisters didn’t pay attention in school because whatever they were passionate about (Savannah: beauty, Claudia: art), they didn’t think they needed the education that school offered.

Anyway, I felt that Savannah was too quick to accept the whole “fair godmother” thing.  She barely questioned it.

Well, like I said above, this book was amazing, and I never once felt like closing it.  5/5 stars!!!  I can’t wait for the sequel, which is hilariously titled, My Unfair Godmother… BWHAHAHA!!!

There are a few things I’d like to complain about, though… these complaints don’t really affect my rating…

 

Book Batch 06/08/13

Hey, guys.

I know I’ve been slacking with my book batches–don’t ask me why, please don’t ask me why.

Anyway, I’ve decided to do a Book Batch today because I went through a book overload.  I got SOOO many books from the library, so here they are!  You can tell me what you thought of them if you read them in the comments.

Let’s go!

Pure by Julianna Baggott

Fuse by Julianna Baggott

The Selection by Kiera Cass

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

Prodigy by Marie Lu

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison (The reason
I got this book was because it has almost the exact same cover as
The Secret Keeper by Elizabeth Carroll, except that this one
has My Fairy Godmother on the cover, the sky
is a lighter blue, and the girl in the cover has pink
hair, but other than that, it’s the spitting image of The Secret Keeper.)

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Faerie Winter by Janni Lee Simner

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Pretties by Scott Westerfield

Faerie After by Janni Lee Simner

The Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries by
L. J. Smith

The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

Radiance by Alyson Noel

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

Angelfall by Susan Ee

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Wow, that was long!  Here’s a gold star for those who are still reading this post xD

I can’t wait to crack these books open.  Some of them I’ve been wanting to read for a while like Cinder and The Selection, two dystopians I’ve heard a lot about.

Catcha later, guys!

-littleonion