Wings review

This is the first book of the series...so there will be coming more reviews of this series...hopefully

The "Wings by Aprilynne Pike" book review

Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.

Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.

In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever. 

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Laurel is an extraordinary girl. She can only eat vegetables and fruits. So she isn't somebody that you can call a vegan by choice. She doesn't need to wash her hair with shampoo and she has never had acne problems like most of her teenage-friends. That may sound odd but one day she wakes up and she notices a flower on her back. She and her friend David try to figure out what it is. While doing that she discovers she is not the only one with powers like that. She mees Tamani, who is pretty similar to what she is. Laurel also gets in trouble for being the way she is and has to make decisions of life and death....dam dam dam...........

It sure is a high-fantasy novel and I liked it but I didn't really love it. The cover is beautiful and it is well written but Laurel sometimes makes wrong decisions and that sometimes wanted me to go into the book and shake her. For example the love triangle between her David and Tamani .... as you may have figured it out ....it happens. But it's not something like the love triangle between Katniss, Gale and Peeta or Clary, Jace and Simon and it's not even like the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob ....although if you think about it ,it has some similarities. Like straight up I wanted to scream at Laurel for starting this triangle...why? it's not even shipable...I mean yeah feelings are feelings but don't go around and make out with both guys .......straight up noooooooooooooo.

This is not meant to be offensive and I did like the book, this is just my personal opinion. And I'm probably like 100% going to read the whole entire series to find out about how it continues....or maybe just to scream at Laurel a bit more ...jk ;)

3 out of 5 cupcakes 

The Picture of Dorian Gray review

I read a lot of classics this months...I don't really have a reason for it and I'm not going to write reviews about all of them . Besides this book I also read the Great Gatsby, A Midsummer Night's Dream and I want to read the Scarlet Letter soon.

The "Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde " book review

(I haven't found a proper description for this book neither on the book nor somewhere else, so I wrote it myself)

The book is about Dorian Gray who is a beautiful, wealthy,young man. He is new to London and he is the object of a painter called Basil. While being painted he is introduced to Lord Henry Wotton who is instantly blown away by the beauty of Dorian. They become good friends. But Henry makes Dorian to dread the process of getting older. So Dorian wishes to stay young and beautiful and instead of him a picture that Basil had drawn should age. 

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I could spank myself that I have never read a book of Oscar Wilde before. He is/ was ;( an amazing, cultivated writer and I could read his books every day. I first thought that it will be a book with real difficult English so I would spend my time looking into a dictionary rather than reading it. But it's so well written that I understood everything. At one point in the book I was a bit bored because of a three page description of the books that Dorian read (which was quite nice but damn....that lad sure reads a lot) The more I read the more I started to hate Sir Henry. He is a very smart man but his theories of life kind of screwed Dorian and made him grow pretty fond of himself...not in a good way. The influence of Henry broke him..which was devastating to witness because as a reader you slowly see it coming...and you hope that it won't come true. Every other chapter I closed the book and prayed that something will change......:(

It's a damn good book and it even made me watch the old and the new film adaption. I like the new version more....the actor is pretty gorgeous ...

5 out of 5 cupcakes

Me before you review

This is the book that caused me to have a massive book slump of two days and an obsession of Ed Sheeran songs...so enjoy

The "Me before you by Jojo Moyes" book review

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time. 

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I knew when I started reading this book that it will not end well. First of all the whole entire book community has been buzzing about this book. And comments like " I could not stop crying" made me suspect that someting was going to happen. But I haven't expected that....Oh my God... Ok so let's start at the beginning. Louisa aka Lou is a young woman with a funny taste in clothing. She has a job in a coffeeshop and kind of earns money for her whole entire family. All of a sudden she loses her job and has to look for a new one. She finds one: As a "nanny" of a disabled man. Well that's how she thinks it will be....Will is grumpy, depressive and doesn't want to live anymore.He despises Lou at first but little does he know that things will change soon. Ok ...I totally fell in love with Louisa. I love her character and her point of view . She is so delightful and full of enthusiasm. Will on the other hand is the complete opposite....

...Jojo Moyes did a great job in writing this book especially the change of point of views when you don't see it coming. The cover is gorgeous and you won't be able to put it down. I seriously read it in one day. It's like I breathed in the words. After I finished it I locked myself inside my room and watched the movie trailer.....they had to add "photograph" by Ed Sheeran..didn't they?! And that's how my obsession with Ed Sheeran started. But seriously, if the movie is anything like the book it will tear me apart. 

An interesting fact is that there is a second book !!! I need it ....soon....when my heart is whole again....

5 out of 5 cupcakes

(I'm sorry if I gave away spoilers ;(  )

Gorgeous Carat review

So this is a little bit different because this is not someting I would normally read....but there's always a first 

The "Gorgeous Carat by You Higuri" book review 

Florian Rochefort is the heir to a once-wealthy aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. One way to save the family's fortune would be to sell the Flame of Mughal, a 120 carat diamond that has been entrusted to the Rochefort family, only Florian's mother refuses to part with the treasure. But then a distant relative, Ray Balzac Courland, shows up at a Rochefort family party, and becomes intrigued by Florian and his beautiful "amethyst" eyes. Ray offers to pay off the Rochefort debt in exchange for ownership of Florian, and much to Florian's dismay, his mother agrees. Florian's new life as Ray's property immediately gets chaotic as he discovers that Ray is actually the famous phantom thief, Noir, who has been haunting Paris!

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A friend lent me these "books" a long time ago. And ever since then they have been lying in my bookshelf. ....Until maybe two weeks ago when I had a real bad reading slump after "Me before you "....it was bad. And I discovered that I still had these books on my bookshelf and I started reading them and within one day I finished the whole entire series. (There are four books in the first series and two in the second one) Oh my god they were so good. I've had so bad experience with mangas because normally the mangas I first started reading were about schoolgirls with short skirts trying to seduce their teacher or other things I did not really want to read about ...but this series....Whoa. It's a high-fantasy "novel" and it's amazing. I totally ship Noir and Florian. They are my number one OTP ,but they both don't know how to express their feelings for eachother. Which got me into an even bigger reading slump at the end of the series. But I don't care because I still ship them. Together the go on adventures and they normally get in trouble ...like a lot especially Florian who is obviously saved by Noir. Florian slowly learns about the past of Noir. And of course while discovering his past he discovers a few not so great surprises aka a few bad villains . The whole series is full of mystery, adventure and fantasy. It's definitely a good series for people who want to start reading mangas.

5 out of 5 cupcakes 

Broken Juliet review

As you may or may not know: I have recently read "Bad Romeo" a book by Leisa Rayven. So I managed to read the second book which is called Broken Juliet.

The "Broken Juliet by Leisa Rayven "book review

How do you fix a love that’s been broken beyond repair?

For years, Cassie Taylor tried to forget about Ethan Holt. He was the one great love of her life, and when he failed to return her love, a part of her died forever. Or so she thought. Now she and Ethan are sharing a Broadway stage, and he’s determined to win her back. Claiming to be a changed man, he’s finally able to say all the things she needed to hear years ago, but can she believe him? What makes this time different from all his other broken promises?

Ethan knows he can’t change their tumultuous past, but if he’s going to have any chance of being with the woman he loves, he’ll need to convince Cassie that her future belongs with him. 

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The book starts where the first one ended, which I find quite good because I don't like it when the second book of a series starts like 5 years later. That totally confuses and mind-effs me as a reader, so I'm pretty thankful to Leisa Rayven, that she didn't do that. I liked the first book and I started reading this book with really high expectations.....What can I say : I was kind of disappointed. Not to give away any spoilers but in the first book the main character Ethan was pretty depressive and he had a lot of problems with self-confidence that he seriously needed to deal with. But in this book Cassie and Ethan magically seemed to have switched roles. So now Cassie is the broken one and Ethan is the one that tries to build her up. Also I did not like that Ethan says all these cheesy romantic "you're the only one that I love"-lines. I mean come on.  The first few times I liked it and I kind of wanted him to be my boyfriend.... but then........dam dam dam..... it was just too much. I guess there's a reason he's called Romeo....
Jk, although I didn't like this book as much as I would have liked it , it was still a nice and quick read on a Sunday afternoon with a cup of coffee/tea in your hands.....2.5 out of 5 cupcakes

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If you are new to this page let me introduce myself: My name is Anna and I love books. I'm still going to school and  I currently live in Germany. I'm also a native speaker but I've been learning English for a long time now so I consider myself a fluent speaker. 

I first started reading when I was 5 and I instantly fell in love with books. They are my passion and it's an amazing feeling when you can go somewhere else but still stay at the same place.

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Short Information

Hey lovelies!

I'm sorry I haven't updated for so long....but I've been quite busy. Thankfully "Easter break " starts next week so I'll be able to update more frequently! Also I decided to write reviews on Sundays and I'll be telling you what books I've read at the end of every month. And what books I'm going to read on the 1st of every month.

I hope you all find this idea more organized!

See ya my lovelies