Julie’s Review: Bloodlines is my first spin-off type novel. I really enjoyed the Vampire Academy series (Dimitri is my book boyfriend) and so after having this series recommended to me for some time, decided to give it a try. This first book was pretty good, but not as good as I was expecting. It didn’t […]
Julie’s Review: Hex Hall is probably the first book I truly enjoyed in MONTHS! Finally I came across a book that might get me out of my rut? The first thing that I immediately liked was Sophie already knew something about her special abilities, so this book did not fall into the way overused trope […]
Julie’s Review: I really liked the concept of Dorothy Must Die because The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite stories, and spin offs can be really fun – I mean Wicked is the coolest thing EVER. I also liked having the characters turn evil and be different from how they were the first […]
Julie’s Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children started off great with a lot of mystery and intrigue and action. We almost immediately get introduced into the world of Peculiars by way of Jacob’s Grandfather, and his untimely and strange death. Jacob then decides to go on a quest of his own to figure out […]
Julie’s Review: *SIGH* I was really hoping Graduation Day would return to the exciting storyline I read in The Testing. But, alas, it was more like Independent Study, which I was hoping fell into the second book syndrome category. I was expecting some EPIC of epicness conclusions, that dystopian trilogies like this typically have, but […]
Julie’s Review: The Rules is a series that I can definitely see has some potential but the first book wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be. The series is called Project Paper Doll, and I’m not too sure what that means, actually. From the redesigned covers, it looks like a bunch of dolls […]
Julie’s Review: Uglies is a pretty good dystopia where at age 16, everyone gets an operation to make them pretty – as opposed to the uglies they are now. I liked that the novel explored what we as people think is beauty (symmetrical faces, little body fat, etc) but also explored the truth behind the […]
Julie’s Review: I was disappointed with Cruel Beauty, especially with the 5 star reviews staring me in the face when I log into Goodreads. I got this through the summer Sync audiobook program, so free is free right? I gave it a listen, and was expecting it to be a really interesting retelling of Beauty […]
Director: R.J. Cutler Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley Information from IMDB. Julie’s Review – Book: Movie: I actually liked the If I Stay movie way better than the book, even though I read the book first. I know, that’s almost unheard of in the bookish world, but […]
Julie’s Review: Independent Study was a decent follow up to The Testing, but this book really was a “second book syndrome” kind of book for me. It was just a bridge between the first book (which was awesome) and the (what I hope will be epic) conclusion to the series. I didn’t have any strong […]