Reviews By Anna

Title: The Young Elites Series: fist book in The Young Elites trilogy Author: Marie Lu Format: Hard cover Page count: 355 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsys: This is a story about a group of kids(teens) who have survived and terrible disease. Somehow, some of these people who have survived, have now powers. These people are called The Young Elites.  The queen wants them all killed.  I am a big fan of Marie Lu. I absolutely love the Legend trilogy, it's one of my favorite trilogies ever. So, as you can probably guess, I had quite high hopes of The Young Elites. Luckily, this book did not disappoint! The World The Young Elites is set in a world that is made up. It's fantasy, but not high-fantasy. There is no such a thing as a magic system or mythical creatures. The only thing in this world that is magical are the Young Elites. Even though the world wasn't that special, I really loved it. I liked the atmosphere and the culture in this world a lot. The Characters No...

Title: End of Days Series: Third book in Penryn & the End of Days trilogy Author: Susan Ee Format: Paperback Page Count: 344 Rating: 5/5 stars This was an amazing conclusion to a fantastic trilogy! It definitely lifted up to all my expectations! It was kick-ass, heartbreaking, scary and, like the other two books, full of humor. This books starts right where world after ends. It's all just as past paced and action packed as I wanted it to be. I hadn't realized how much I had missed Penryn and Raffe. They are so funny, snarky and cute. I absolutely love them, as individuals and as a pair. Penryn and Raffe are not the only characters that I had missed, it was so good to see the twins again. They're hilarious! The humor in this book was very important for me. This is because everything that happens in this book, the way humanity is getting destroyed, the heartbreaking things the angels do to the people are just so heartbreaking to read about. It had me in t...

Title: The Winner's Curse Series: Book 1 in The Winner's Trilogy Author: Marie Rutkoski Format: Hardcover Page Count: 355 Rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis:  Kestrel is the daughter of the general. She is a Valorian who lives in Herran, a colony of Valoria. Kestrel has to choose, she must marry or become a soldier, but Kestrel does like neither of those options. One day, when Kestrel and her best friend Jess are at a slave market, Kestrel buys a Herrani slave without planning it. This slave changes a lot in the life of Kestrel, but the slave is holding something from her..  My review I can safely say that The Winner's Curse is one of my new favorite books! It's very original. The Winner's Curse is considered as a fantasy book, but it does not really have a lot of fantasy elements. The only thing that makes it fantasy is that it takes place in another world. I loved this book a lot, I flew through it! The World The world, for a fantasy wor...

Title: Snow Like Ashes Series: book 1 in the Snow Like Ashes trilogy Author: Sara Raasch Formar: Hardcover Page Count: 416 Rating: 4.25/5 stars Synopsis: Snow Like Ashes is a Fantasy novel that takes place in a world with 8 kingdoms. 4 season kingdoms, 4 rhythm kingdoms. All 8 kingdoms have their own magical conduit to make the folk stronger and healthier. 16 years ago, the Spring Kingdom took over the Winter kingdom. The queen died and the Winterians became slaves or died along their queen in the battles against Spring. Only a group of +/- 70 people escaped. Meira, who was only a baby then, was one of those people.  Now, 16 years later, there are only a few survivors of the escaped Winterians left. Including the furure king; Mather, the leader of the group; Sir, and Meira. They are trying to get the stolen Winter conduit back and save the Winterians.  .:My Review:. I really enjoyed this book. It is a very well written Fantasy book...

This december I've only read a total of 3 books. One of them I had to read my dutch class, so I'm not even going to add that one into this wrap-up because I don't think any of you are interested in that book. So for the wrap-up I only have 2 books to talk about. The fist book I've finished in December was: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. Third book in The Heroes of Olympus series 5 stars  So.. I've started reading this book in the beginning of Augustus and now, after 3 months I have finally finished it. The reason that it took me so long was NOT because I didn't enjoy the book. I just got in a massive reading slump and I didn't really have a lot of time to read sadly. But this December I finally got out of my reading slump!  I loved The Mark of Athena a lot! It is my favorite of The Heroes of Olympus series so far. I can't tell you guys a lot about the plot, but these books are about demi-god (half human, half god). There was a l...

It's a new year, which means new books, new challenges and 365 more days of reading! Last year I did a goodread challenge to read 40 books which I did complete. This year I want to do more than a goodreads challenge. This year is going to be a very busy year for me. I already know I won't have a lot of time for reading, but I also know reading is something you need to make time for. This year I am going to try to read 25 books. I know it is not a lot compared to last year and compared to a lot of other people, but for me this sounds like a lot at the moment. I also want to do the TBR-jar challenge. I got this idea from Katytastic on youtube. Click HERE to watch the video she made about it for more information. But basically I put 12 reading challenges in a jar and take one out every month so I can read a book that month that will complete the challenge. I want to do this because I like to read what I feel like reading, but still being challenged. You can make up...

So, this year was a big reading year for me, compared to all my other years.  I have read a total of 40 books this year. The majority of the books that I've read this year, I have read in the first half of the year. The second half of of the year I got in a huge reading slump. This was also because of that school got a whole lot more busy after the summer vacation. I am actually kinda sad about that, because in the month September, October and November I haven't read any books. Still I'm really happy with 40 books because 40 books was my goodreads goal for 2014! Because of the amount of books I have read, I want to give you my top 7 of 2014. (I know it normally is a top 14 of 2014, but my favorites that were REALLY my favorites only got to 7 books) #7 Legend by Marie Lu This is the fist book in an amazing dystopian trilogy. This is probably the best dystopian book I have ever read, that's why it got in my top 7 of 2014. There was so much action and drama, it wa...