Stormbreaker (Alex Rider) by Anthony Horowitz

Rating: 5 Stars

Goodreads blurb
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle’s car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain’s top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle’s killers and complete Ian’s final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out. The original novel that started the worldwide phenomenon is now a major motion picture!

My Review
The chances of me becoming a spy tomorrow is nil but Alex was the one with the luck,and up to now I haven't figured out whether he thinks it's bad luck or good.
Alex Rider woke up 3 o' clock one morning with the news of his Uncle Ian death in a car accident,he didn't have his belt on.This was strange because he knew what a safety freak Ian was.

Alex being the curious kid he is,he didn't sit on his behind mourning his loss,nope he didn't, instead he got up and sneaked into the scrapyard where Ian's car was to be laid to rest.Things didn't add up when he saw bullet holes that dotted the side of the car.
 He thought Ian worked for some big-shot bank but as it turns out good ol' Uncle Ian was a spy for MI-6 as it's head,Alan Blunt, filled him in.Now they want Alex to continue the mission Ian had started,the one he got murdered trying to complete.

Without him knowing it his uncle had been training Alex all along,with the hiking,martial arts,flying,and he speaks about a handful of different languages amongst other things, to become a spy himself, or so I deduced.We learn that Alex is smart and resourceful and him being a 14 year old that's saying something.

For a boy who had lost his parents to an accident at a very young age,in a plane crash (I don't believe that rubbish,I suspect that they were spies as well)  he didn't cry about why it had to be him,what did he do to be dragged out of his boring life to do something so risky,nuh-uh, he accepted he had to do, albeit skeptical at first and along with those little threats Mr.Sunshine and Flowers Blunt smoothly laid out, but he did what had to be done, and moved on to the next task ahead.

Colleen's up coming release of Tiger's Voyage!

*Warning: Contains minor spoilers*

I'm dying of suspense over here in my part of the world! And I almost died when I heard how long we have to wait for it to come out! I automatically gave it a 5 Stars on Goodreads knowing that it'll get me gripping at the edge of my seat for dear life!

What's the next item on their unusual grocery list? Will Kelsey make her decision to choose Ren or Kishan any time soon? Will Ren regain at least some of his memory? Will Kells get a grip already and stop behaving like a child?What!Well she can be childish sometimes, you've got to admit.

I'll attempt a few of those questions. I strongly feel  that she'll end up with Ren and personally I hope that she'll wake up and choose him already. He might have made some bad remarks that she had happened to over hear, but that was only hours after they had dragged him out of Lokesh's grip.Now he's slowly  falling for her again but now she's being unreasonable and fights with him. But it's gotta be hell when two brothers love you and the final decision will get one hurt. I don't look forward for that as a personal experience too, cursed Indian Princes,  heck yes, but not choosing between them like Kelsey had to.

Tigers Quest (Book 2 of the Tiger Saga) by Colleen Houk

Rating: 5 Stars

Goodreads blurb

 Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. But danger lurks around the corner, forcing her to return to India where she embarks on a second quest-this time with Ren's dark, bad-boy brother Kishan, who has also fallen prey to the Tiger's Curse. Fraught with danger, spellbinding dreams, and choices of the heart, TIGER'S QUEST brings the trio one step closer to breaking the spell that binds them.

The Cover
The cover is as beautiful as Tiger's Curse.This tiger is Kishan, who's stare makes you want to run in the opposite direction! He really cool but needs to sort out his messed up choice of girls,I'm not saying Kelsey's bad or anything it's just that he want's what's already taken. But it's not like he does it on purpose, poor guy.


My Review
Three words: Oh.My.God.

This book was even more gripping than the first one.Kelsey was stupid for thinking that she didn't deserve Ren,but I can understand why, and when things started to look brighter something had to happen and kill the moment!Now Kells has to continue their journey to break the Tiger's curse but this time with Kishan and not Ren.

I've just finished this book,about 10 minutes ago, and I'm emotionally unable to go on but I must so I'll keep it short.After all what had happened I wanted to kick Ren into next year December or even Pluto for that matter for how ... how ... he treated Kells after they had found him.But I know that it wasn't his fault.It was that nasty, evile, poisonious, vile, scum of the earth, that son of a bitc... I don't really swear much but Lokesh would make me say much worse... he was the one responsible for what Kelsey is going through, and not only her but everyone else was suffering for her.

The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

Rating: 5 Stars

I can't believe that I've waited so long to read this book! The time wasted seems absurd. When a book keeps me up 'til 2 in the morning, at the edge of my seat, well my bed, makes me ignore being yelled at to turn out the lights and commands my attention it definitely deserves 5 stars at least. The Hunger Games was no exception. I haven't read a book so captivating since Harry Potter but it doesn't beat Harry, mind you. This is a diehard Harry Potter fan talking here and apparently a Hunger Games one as well!

Panem had thirteen districts with the Capitol at the top of things and I emphasize on had. After the districts came together to overthrow the Capitol, District 13 was obliterated and the rest of them were in shambles, well most of them.

Long story short, the Capitol is full of a bunch of greedy power hungry, heartless loonies, with a few exceptions. Body alterations that you wouldn’t believe I mean they take surgeries to look perfect, a few dyes their skin colour, even guys wear make-up as a norm.

To remind everyone of their huge mistake the Capitol punishes everyone by forcing them to give up a boy and a girl from each district to participate in The Hunger Games, where they fight to the death until only one remains. So the people of Panem watch their children die before their eyes. Can you imagine being helpless, having no choice but to give up your kids for slaughter?

Along For The Ride by Sara Dessen

Rating: 4 Stars

For some reason I've always steered clear of these kinds of books, chick-lit, I had this idea that all of them are boring and cliche.I've seen 'Along for The Ride' a while, and it always tugged at a part of my mind, practically screaming "Read me! You wouldn't regret it, I promise! Perty please!" well I gave it a try and to my surprise I wasn't disappointed!

This is my first Sara Dessen and I really admire how she captured Auden. You could relate to her, how she felt about her parents’ divorce to her social isolation.

Oh, and Eli! Even I have a crush on him! He’s totally unlike that jerk brother of his, Jake.He really cares about her. He made Auden realize that she has a second chance to have a childhood she didn't have. The guy was sort of a reck at the begining, not talking to anyone since the accident until Auden came, which was kind of sweet. She helped him as much he had helped her. Now he talks and begins to joke around like he used to, before Abe's death.

I also liked how Auden and Eli didn't get into all that boyfriend-girlfriend routine, holding hands and kissing all the time and going gaga over each other eek!That's what really turn me off of with these books.

Her dad was a selfish bastard and he was going to make the same mistake twice! He needs his nine hours of sleep, sheesh! Heidi needed more than he did by far and deserved as much. She was on the verge of a meltdown, but lucky Auden was there.

The Mediator: Shadowland by Meg Cabbot

 Rating: 4 Stars
*Mild Spoilers* To be honest I didn't realize she wrote The Princess Diaries,not that I read them.I never really expected to like ghost books much so I was in for a supprise,I totally enjoyed this one!I've always loved witty and sassy heroines, who don't take nonsense without giving you their special of knuckle sandwich!And Suze fits the bill.

So now Suze just moved to sunny California from crowded New York since her mom had remarried.It was easier for them to move since her mom was a reporter when her step-dad was a carpenter with three kids,boys to be a bit more specific,would be more harder.

At first sight she nicknamed her new brothers Dopey,Sleepy and Doc,which pretty much covered their personalities.Doc,his real name was David, is my favourite!He was probably,no definitely, Suze's favourite stepbrother as well.
Suze was hoping to get away,or at least to get a break, from her normal routine.She's a mediator,she solves ghosts' problems and send them off wherever it is that they're supposed to go.They usually come crying and screaming for her help-literally- and there's no way she can refuse,them ghosts don't give in easily.Sometimes she's forced to get physical with certain stubborn ones,you remember that knuckle sandwich I mentioned?

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K Rowling

Rating: 5 Stars

*Spoiler Alert*
I just loved this book! Just yesterday I got myself a copy and couldn't put it down! Mrs J.K Rowling's works always had that effect on me. The introduction gave me a peculiar feeling that washed over me in waves and made me want to cry, especially when I came to the part I read about the Second Wizarding War and when I read the bit that reminded us what Professor Dumbledore said about truth to his ‘favourite and most famous pupil,' and we all know who that was. Then I recognised that what I felt was nostalgia.


I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Dumbledore's notes, this had also given me this feeling of home sickness when he refers to Hogwarts, when I know that everything's over, but then again, it never really would ever end to me, in my hearts of hearts

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Rating: 5 Stars
Today, Sunday the 10th July, around 1:55 AM, I had finished the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. A book, though breathtakingly beautiful, it showed mankind at its worst and its best. How? I have no words that could tell you. Maybe the words were there, but they weren’t enough, no amount of them could ever be.

I couldn’t find one word that could that could describe the way this book made me feel as I burned through its pages full of life and death and as I read every single word it held so dearly.

Words, words, words. It was also the story of Liesel’s love affair with words and yet the words themselves could not do her story any justice. I’m sure, sure as Death, sure that even from the moment I read the first words that I was then a lifelong fan of Marcus Zusak. Making Death the narrator was truly original, very unusual indeed. He gave Death a personality, a personality that was interesting and that had drawn my attention and approval from the very start. Deaths was kind, had a sense of humour and believe it or not, he had a heart.

Now I attempt to share and describe my thoughts and my feelings. It was like riding some sort of emotional rollercoaster that had begun slowly and gradually gained momentum. Happiness had been constant after the cloudy days, but that didn’t mean that sadness and despair wouldn’t catch up. They did. Oh, yes they certainly did.