We Were Liars by E.Lockhart

We Were Liars by E.Lockhart

It's been so long since I read an E.Lockhart book that I floundered for so long about if I should get this or not. Louise ended up buying it and then told me to start reading it...So I did after a few months. Yes I am late jumping onto the bandwagon but bloody hell this book blew my mind. It was so unsuspecting, it comes across as a summer holiday for rich kids gone wrong in that Jenny Han secret way. But the last two chapters decieve you and pull the wool from your eyes when you discover the big secret and my is it good!

The book series that doesn't stop growing!

There's always that one series you and your book bff love to hate and for Louise and I that's the Selection series by Kiera Cass.

My reviews love it, I did love it but now I love to bash it! Yes I am talking about outgrowing that series that you start as a naive teenager and end it as an adult or something like that. Nah the series just makes me tick.

“Which do you fight for?"
"Actually, I'm here by mistake." 
"Mistake?" 
"Yes. Sort of. Well, it's a long story. And now ... I'm here” 
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

Okay so this is a small quote I found to support myself here. America, the protagonist, enters what we know as the bachelorette and the prize is to marry a prince! It already sounds so wonderful and we've all seen a episode of the bachelorette or beauty and the geek right? So you can guess the amount of bitchiness that would go on in such a competition. The girls in this are all set apart by class structures. It's really just Hunger Games in the fight to win and survive except if they get sent home, they're still alive and booted to a higher class so it's a win-win situation. However there's a message in the books that I don't believe in. Since when is it okay for a boy, a man to say I love you to a girl, to make her think she's going ot be his best friend and eventually make her queen of their fictional land and then turn around and treat her like rubbish by leading on another girl all because she used to love another guy. It's a stupid and horrible message for girls everywhere and it makes us girls seem like we're just silly little barbie dolls all ready to be seen and not be heard.

Recently the series just published the supposedly last book in the series which was titled The One. As you can guess, it was meant to be the last of the series where we'd finally discover who will marry the prince and live happily ever after but it still contains trivial parts that made me laugh and regret pre-ordering the book. Now I've just discovered she's publishing not one but two more books in the series and that makes me sad. I just want it to be over and I can't not read these sequels, I need them in order to carry on laughing and joking about the series with my book bff

The Lunar Chronicles...

So after my recent trip to Barrow-In-Furness, I was lent a pile of books and in that pile was Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I've always expressed a hesitation of reading this series because a cyborg cinderella retelling was never something that appealed to me. I normally hate retellings of storys I love but somehow I managed to fall for this book. It was just wonderful to read and I was quite attached to the characters.

The second novel Scarlet is based upon Red Riding Hood and I REALLY loved this one!! This was the book where the reader really falls for the main guy. And Wolf really is to die for. He's a man of mixed reviews though so if a badboy-slash-rugged and handsome man is your thing, then Wolf is beautiful. Him and Scarlet continue the first book, though they flicker back and forth to Cinder which is done quite wonderfully. Most authors do this a bit good-bad, mainly bad but I was happy that it was something that still appealed to me.

Cress, the third book in the series wasn't the best book. I admit I enjoyed it but I found her a raher babyish character, something you'll discover why in the book. But again the series remained strong and good things happened!

So this is why you should all go read this series

When your book BFF and you disagree over a book...

Yup so Epic Reads on youtube is my most favourite thing ever! The two girls are exactly like my book bff and I and it's hilarious to watch their videos and be like "this is us" and so on.

Every reader and their bff have a book, author and/or series that they disagree on which at the time is shocking and just makes you, like the video, tear up your friendship contract or whatever you have to prove this friendship. However though it's a common thing this happens, for instance Louise lent me Kat Zhang's Whats Left of Me and I loved it. She on the otherhand hated it and I got to keep the book. She also lent me Inside Out by Maria V Snyder, an author who I adore (commonly known for the Poison Study and Magic series) but I could not share my love for that series. It was just too bland. Or maybe I was used to her magical lands with wonderful creatures and characters.

But you will get past this small bump in the rolercoaster that is the life of a reader and disccover new books and worlds that will captivate you and your book bff. Just remember whilst these worlds end, characters might die but your friend will always understand your emotional outbursts at midnight or whatever time you send her a message like "I hate Veronica Roth. WHY, WHY?" especially when your friend told you the big spoiler (Hate you louise for doing this).