Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed

This is a list of 10 books that over time my love has grown for. Okay so Geek Girl had to make it, unfortunately the rest of the geek girl series book covers wouldn't fit on.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke And The Bookish

Top Ten Tuesday - Characters I Didnt Click With

This is actually hard for me because I do tend to like most of the characters in books I read.

For a start I never clicked with and of these characters. Troy, Femi, Lee, Karen and Blaze, all of these characters are in Concentr8 by William Sutcliffe. Straight away that is 5 characters straight up, but to be kind I shall count them all as one. None of the characters connected with me and I just didn't see any possibility of a connection ever happening.

Madeline's mom from Everything Everything, just every part of me just didn't agree with her, she was too smothering of a mother and her character just made me mad for some indescribable reason.

Morgan from Confessions Of A Queen B* , it wasn't that I hated her character it was just that she was always pressuring Alexis and she never really made a connection with me from the start. I cared very little for her unfortunately.

Unfortunately due to my way of always clicking with characters I can only think of these three ( seven) characters that I just didn't click with. This ladies and gentlemen is why I'm bad at these lists.


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Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon

Title: Everything, Everything
Author: Nicola Yoon

Publisher: Random House Children's

Publication Date: September 1st 2015
Available Editions: Hardback and for review, EBook.
Rating: 5/5

Netgalley Synopsis:

This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.

But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.

Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Review:

Scrolling through Netgalley I spotted the colourful front cover, closely followed by the intriguing synopsis that I read seconds later. Intrigued about how the story would plan out  I went ahead and requested for the right to read the book for a review, thankfully I got an email to say I had the right to read for review and I soon got down to reading it. It took me around 5 hours to read the book in total.

There were several good parts to the book, its plot was the main one, it was a great idea to write a story of a severe allergy that literally takes away a life away from a teenager and how she lives and deals with it. The progression of the story was the next best thing, there was now lingering for too long and I must admit that I loved the incorporation of diary entries, emails and diagrams etc. so that its was not just the basic line after line layout.

Bringing up the characters I have to admit I was quite happy with the few characters there were, based around Madeline and Olly, her mother and her nurse Carla. Madeline turns 18 close to the start of the book, that means 18 years in confinement, of air sealed packages and home taught education and no social life. She seems to be very withdrawn but intelligent, her sarcastic humour shines throughout when she is with Olly, is her new neighbour and he's quick off the line and wanting to be her friend, nothing stands between them except her allergy, he's funny and sarcastic with a very unique pass time hobby. Madeline's mom is her only parent and loves to spend time with her, protecting her from everything and always doing what she can to keep her out of harms way. In doing this Carla, a nurse is hired to care for Maddy whilst her mom is at work, she supports and encourages her much like her mother, just like Maddy was her own child.

Each character helps bring the story together, taking the reader on a spectacular journey through the eyes and mind of a world allergic teenager who's falling hopelessly in love with a boy who by the rules of her mother, can not be a part of her life much like anyone else from the outside world to help prevent what could be a deadly reaction.

Much like other times, I read this book page after page, with very few breaks and all in one, I was so hooked on where the story could go I couldn't put the book down. I had no problems with any part of the book and I did not miss understand or get confused over anything, it was a great read and I'm so thankful for getting the right to read for review and I'm looking forward to more book from Nicola Yoon in the future.
At times the book made me want to cry, scream and laugh out loud, despite the emotional roller-coaster that the book took me on, I give the book a rating of 5/5 and recommend it to anyone who's up for a well written story to read for fun or in search for a book to review.

Book Haul - Tuesday 28 July

So on the 28th of July my mom had allowed me to buy some books from some online stores, three of them were ones to finish off a collection and two others were just two random choices from some recommendations I had. Not only did I order these 5 books but I also had a few EBook editions of books for review that I'll also add to this 'Haul'. The books I ordered online begun to come today so I thought to share them with you.

Geek Girl Geek Drama - Holly Smale

Geek Girl Picture Perfect - Holly Smale

Geek Girl All That Glitters - Holly Smale

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The Humans - Matt Haig

The following books were those I was granted the right to read for review on Netgalley, I look forward to read them and review them for you guys.

Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon

Burn Girl - Mandy Mikulencak