Vain (The Seven Deadly #1) by Fisher Amelie

When it comes to reviews, number one, I'm not very good at all. Number two, I just don't know what to review. I was on GoodReads, looking through my books on my favorites pile, and I had an idea. These books are on my favorites list for a reason. Why not review these and explain why these books are there? They deserve to be spoken about. 

So here is a review, bear in mind once again that my reviewing skills are absolutely blah. oh and just a note, all plots/synopsis are taken from the GoodReads website. 

Vain by Fisher Amelie

My Rating: 5/5

The Plot: If you’re looking for a story about a good, humble girl, who’s been hurt by someone she thought she could trust, only to find out she’s not as vulnerable as she thought she was and discovers an empowering side of herself that falls in love with the guy who helps her find that self, blah, blah, blah...then you’re gonna’ hate my story.
Because mine is not the story you read every time you bend back the cover of the latest trend novel. It’s not the “I can do anything, now that I’ve found you/I’m misunderstood but one day you’ll find me irresistible because of it” tale. Why? Because, if I was being honest with you, I’m a complete witch. There’s nothing redeeming about me. I’m a friend using, drug abusing, sex addict from Los Angeles. I’m every girlfriend’s worst nightmare and every boy’s fantasy.

I’m Sophie Price...And this is the story about how I went from the world’s most envied girl to the girl no one wanted around and why I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.


Review: I don't even know where to begin with this book. Like Forbidden, this was a very hard book to get into, but once I did, I absolutely did not regret it. Hell to the no. This book was amazing. It was not what I had expected. It was an amazing journey and I'm glad I tread down the path. 

This book at first, angered me, frustrated me to the extent that I felt like smashing my reader. The main character really is Vain and all you feel like doing is jumping into the book and giving her a slap back into reality. But as the story progressed so did Sophie's character and in such a beautiful way that I will never forget. 

Vain, gives you a huge dosage of reality, it hits you right where it hurts. We are so engrossed into this world, caring about materialistic things and about ourselves, that we forget that there are people on the other side of the world that have it ten times worse. We throw away our money away like it is nothing, when there are people who need it more than us. We complain, we cry, we get angry over the smallest of problems when our problems will never level up to the problems that people have in another part of the world. 

This book teaches you, the true value of life, teaches you about love, happiness but most importantly faith. 

"You may have misery... you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness"

“No one can know sincere happiness without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.”

This book was an amazing journey, the characters you meet are so beautiful, the message portrayed opens up your mind and opens up your heart making it ache so much. This book bought me sadness, tears, but it bought me happiness, and gave me hope. And I recommend this book to all of you out there, read this book. Read it with an open mind and an open heart and I promise you it will leave you a changed person. 

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

This book, for God knows how long had been lying there on my iPhone library. I pushed it away thinking that it was probably a not so good book and being on a book slump at the time didn't really help either. But this book, this book is just, it's perfect.

I am currently re reading this book and I just had to type up a review. I'm just all emotional right now just thinking about it.

My Rating: 5/5

The Plot:  She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister.
Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.

Review: 

This was not an easy book to read. Not easy at all. 

In fact, it was so hard to read, such a struggle, because every page, every word, every emotion made my heart ache, my eyes hurt from a continuously shed tears. But in the end, it was worth it, all that pain felt, was bloody well worth it. 

I swear this book, is so tormentingly (is that even a word?) it was so tormentingly beautiful. It was so wrong in so many ways, but yet so right. 

I dived into the book without having read the synopsis, I dived into it knowing nothing. I was in no way prepared to read what I had just read. It's like once you start, you just can't stop, no matter what you're feeling. 

It's just so amazing that it just leaves you staring at your wall with just no words. I finished this book within 4 hours. My heart was beating so fast and so hard, it felt like it was going to come bursting out of my chest, my hands, my whole body, was shaking. 

This book, it repulses you, it disgusts you but you cry and you scream because you realize that it is painfully beautiful. It is reality. 

And through my heightened emotions at the time, this book broke my heart into so many pieces, it tore me apart leaving me to pick up the pieces, but slowly breaking again every time I thought about it. 

I love it. I love it so damn much. Because, it's real. It's so wrong but so right. The way it was written so beautifully, the way it makes you cry an ocean of tears, the way it rips your heart into a million pieces, I love it. I love Maya. I love Lochan. I love them both for never giving up, for never leaving each other whilst they had each other. I love Kit. I love Wila. I love Tiffin. I love them all. I would do anything to jump into their world and hug away their pain. I love them. I love Tabitha for writing this book. I love her for making me see reality. I bloody love her. 

I. Love. Forbidden

I loved it so much, that exactly half an hour of bawling my eyes out, I recommended this book to a friend, because I had to share my pain. I couldn't bear all this pain on my own. And I knew this friend would feel the same way I did. And I was right. So damn right. She read it straight away and I just knew that she loved it just as much as I did. 

I will love you forever Forbidden. 

An Absolute Epic Read

I didn't think I'd be posting another book review so soon, but I've gotta say, the book that I've just finished only moments ago has been an EPIC journey and I couldn't help myself but log onto Blogger and start reviewing and use this as an excuse to post something.

So the second book of the year 2015 is Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. Seriously if you've not read this book, I advise you to stop what you are doing right now and go read that book now!

My Rating: 5 BLOODY EPIC STARS/5

The Plot: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills.

Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.

Review: Why have I never heard of this Author? Why why why did I only discover this books 2 days ago? This book is absolute insanity. The prologue had my heart pounding and I was just left there wanting more, I needed more. You have normal book beginnings and then you have this, this epic prologue which leaves you yearning for more. I was hooked and dived right into it. 

In David's world, these Epics - humans with superpowers - have taken over. Sound very Cliche and comic book type story? But no, the creativity and the world Sanderson has created is far more greater and far more detailed than your average comic book. The description, the action, the characters, is all perfect and I was never once bored or annoyed or frustrated at anything throughout the whole thing.

Blaah, I don't even have the words to describe this book, my words will never give this book justice. And even if I attempt at a metaphor to help me describe it, I'll probably be just as bad David :P 

This was definitely a bloody good read after that disappointment of an ending in Daughter. 

Yes yes I know my book reviewing sucks ass, I've never reviewed books before, but please bare with me, I do hope to get better at this as the reviewing continues, so I hope you continue reading. 

My next post shall hopefully be up soon and it's going to be Cupcakes :) now who doesn't like Cupcakes? 

Until then lovelies,

- Amirah :)

Reading Challenge and Review

A new years means a new reading challenge. Last year I wasn't at all successful with my reading challenge, because to be quite honest, I went on a severe book slump. But I guess that happens to everyone right? So a fresh start brings me a fresh new reading challenge and my challenge is to read at least 50 books. 50 seems like quite the small number, but coming out o book slump, 50 seems quite large. 

Which now brings me to the first book I have read this year: Daughter by Jane Shemilt. I'm going to try and write Non-Spoiler type reviews, because I know there are people out there who hate spoilers, as do I. So I will try my utmost best, to not give a lot away. but bearing in mind, I'm actually really not that good at writing reviews. Well, I'm not good at writing anything, period.

 

My Rating: 2.5/5 Stars

The Plot: Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.

But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.
As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios—kidnapping, murder—seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter’s disappearance, she’s still digging for answers—and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she’s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised.

Review: I'm not really one for mystery books, it's not my kind of thing. So when a friend of mine recommended this book to me, I put it off for quite a while. When finally a couple of days ago, I picked it up, and read the book in 2 sittings. and let me just tell you, I was rather disappointed. How can an Author write a 400 page book, only to end it very ambiguously? I was so into the book, it did get quite interesting but the ending was far too fast paced and ended so abruptly, I was sat around for half an hour rather confused. What exactly did happen the night Naomi disappeared? Although that was the main question of the story, we don't actually get a definite as to what really happened.

So, overall, this book, was a huge disappointment for me, and I know I won't be reading another book like it quite soon.