jueves, 11 de diciembre de 2014

CREWEL

Author: Geninfer Albin
Saga: Crewel (Book 1/3)
Spanish: La Tejedora de Destinos

The book is about a story of a young girl who lives in a place called Arras, her name was Adelice and she had a gift to weave the destiny of the person. She used to be attack by other students of the school because the mistakes she made, nevertheless the other didn’t know that her mistake was made them on purpose.
In spite be a Weaver was a honro she didn’t want to be one of them and she had the purpose to failed her final exam to won’t be part of they.
When the final exam arrived Alice couldn’t avoid that her gift arise then her gift was identified by the Everinas. It made that Adelice became part of them. When the past of the time she learned how to control the gift and her life of adventure.

My opinion:

This is a impressive book for me because it is the first time I hear about a theme like this, also I was impressed because it’s not a unique book it is a saga of 3 books. I have a lot of expectation to read it, the theme looks very interesting and it will be wonderful know someone with this ability.

miércoles, 10 de diciembre de 2014

EVERMORE

Author: Alyson Noel
Saga: The Immortals (Book 1/6)
Year of Publication: 2009
Pages:372
Spanish: Eternidad


After a tragic car accident with her family the Ever's life changed completely. She began to see the aura of people but not only that she also can hear their thoughts and she can see their past. Since then and because fear she started  to avoid the contact with people and change from being popular to be the oddball in her new school.

One day that looks as any other day she knew a rich and attractive guy named Damen, for her surprise she realized that he was the only one who could silence all the noise in your head. Nevertheless Ever tried to discover the real Damen since she noticed that there is something different about him; Ever can not see his aura and she knew the ones without aura are dead people.

My Opinion
Even though this book caused me much confusion within the meaning of the characters the first book left me eager to continue reading the saga.

Personally I felt very connected to Ever because in some way or sometimes I had similar feelings.
THE LIGHTNING THIEF

Author: Rick Riordan
Saga: Percy Jackson & The Olympians (Book 1/5)
Spanish: El Ladrón del rayo

Percy Jackson had a complex situation, he was fired from six different colleges, he had dyslexic and a problem to focus, nevertheless he has an amazing talent to invent fantastic stories, this ability also brought to Percy Jackson.

The hole life of Percy had a dramatic change when he was informed by the Olimpo gods that he was a semi-god it means he is a son from a God and a Mortal. Since he was a semi-god he had the responsibility to find the person who stolen the Zeus' ray and to stop the war between gods.


To accomplish his mission he wasn't alone, Percy can count with the help of his friends, Grove a young satyr and Annabeth the Atenea's daughter.

My Opinion:

In spite the book has a children book classification; I personally don't think it is the right category. I laugh a lot and learn a lot about Greek mythology.
Personally i like a lot this book is easy to read and you learn a lot of history.


ASCEND

Author: Amanda Hocking 
Saga: Trylle (Book 1/3)
Spanish:El viaje

This book it's about the real life of Wendy Everly. The challenges for Wendy started since she was a child, at the six years old her mother tried to kill her just because she thinks Wendy was different to others. At seventeen years old Wendy has another challenges because she wasn't accepted in the school because she was different, then she knew a boy named Finn Holmes who changed her life when he showed her the real nature of her. Wendy belong to a tribe named Trylle who lived in a hidden forrest named Forening in Minnesota, she is a direct descending to be in the throne and  because of it she was almost kidnaped by a rival tribe called Vittra. Her biological mother Elora tried to teach to Wendy how to be a true descent to be in the throne, but for Wendy was difficult to accept it because she grew in a life of lies and abuse.
Meanwhile Wendy was in the tribe, she started to feel an attraction for Finn, but their relation it won't be possible because the law in the tribe don't accept a relationship between someone from royalty and someone from trackers. In that moments Wendy realize that she had the ability to persuade others with her look.

My opinion:
Read the book changed my impression about it, my attention was trapped when a saw that the book belongs to Science fiction.  These is the first trilogy I identify and read about Trylle.

Definitely, I recommend to read the book, personally I was impressed with the trilogy.

domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2014

WAKE

Author: Amanda Hocking
Saga: WaterSong (Book 1/4)
Spanish: Sirenas, Cancion de Mar

The story begin with a girl named Gemma, she has a great passion for swimming and lives with her father Brian and her sister Harper in a town named Capri, Capri is a place visited by a lot of tourist between then one named Penn. In the town two girls captured the attention of the people what not everyone knows is that they have something supernatural. They are mermaids.
The book tells the Gemma's problem with her sister because she try to be like a mother for Gemma, but Gemma don't accept this role of her sister.
Everyday Gemma goes to a swimming training and in the nights she likes to go to swim near to the bay and far away of the tourist, just she and the sea, but her sister don't accept this behavior because lately it the town some people was missed and she is afraid that Gemma can be one of them, during that times Gemma became the girlfriend of her sister best friend "Alex".
After having been observed by a long time by Penn Thea and Lexi, they realize that Gemma is a great candidate to join their group, then one night Gemma disappeared and when you wake up the next morning she realize that she is a mermaid and because of that she has two options, one is let her previous live behind and became a mermaid joining Thea and Lexi or die.
My opinion:

At the begging the book was very tedious, but meanwhile I continue reading the book I begin to understand all the information I was reading  and the story was having a meaning. This is the kind of book that captured you attention and you can stop until you finish. Now it is one of my favorites books.

THE DUFF

Author: kody Keplinger
Saga: Unique Book
Spanish: The duff

Bianca was a part of a group of friends who used to be bad with her because as Bianca was uglies that they, they used her to show they look nice in comparation with she.
Bianca knew she wasn’t the beautiful, but she never lost the fate of one day in her live go in a date with Wesley who was an attractive guy, but he also was a womanizer.

One day Bianca was in a party and she had the desire to kiss Wesley to showed to her friends that she was able to got a kiss with him, but in that party Wesley told her that she was used my her friends to look better than her. Nevertheless Bianca and Wesley created a secret relation between they, with the past of the time Bianca discovered that both had common secrets and both are more similar than different. In that way their relation when further than only has sex.

My opinion:
When a realize that this book will be make for a movie, I got the desire to read it right now before the movie will be make.
In generally the book let me down because I think it will be more than a typical american love story, but at the end it is the same story that I can find in a lot of series in TV or books.