Week of November 17, 2014
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Insurgent Teaser Trailer
The first Insurgent Teaser Trailer went live a little over an hour ago!
We get roughly a one minute trailer featuring a pretty sick action sequence. And when I say pretty sick, I mean, pretty dang sick.
I still can't get over Shailene Woodley with short, blonde hair! She looks so different, but incredibly kick ass! Here is a pic of this new-ish hair and Theo James. Because who doesn't like Theo James.
Watch, watch again, and re-watch this trailer because it is all we will have for a little while.
Or of course, you could re-read the book series for the hundredth time ;)
Make sure you mark your calendars with the release date: March 20, 2015!
-Shawnee Smith
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Publisher: January 3, 2012 by Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 390
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1
"Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future."
I thought it was about time to read this series since everyone, and I do mean everyone, is talking about it. That, and I may have something planned for early next year that has something to do with this series. So I better read it. You know, so I am not standing there like a bumbling idiot.
Many people know that this is a futuristic re-telling of Cinderella. There have been several, if not dozens, of books written on the subject. My personal favorite author that does re-tellings of Fairy Tales is Gregory Maguire (the guy that wrote Wicked). Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Cinder.
I really liked this re-telling. I thought it was a fresh idea to have it set in the future, in Beijing, and have the main character be part cyborg. I liked the futuristic take on a classic tale. It made it really interesting to read and I was excited to see how the author would incorporate all the different ideas into the story.
The one negative thing I have to say about this book was that it was predictable. I saw everything coming the second the story line was introduced. Even the parts that I'm sure were supposed to be huge plot twists. I saw some of them coming after page 35. It was slightly disappointing.
However, I did enjoy reading this book. It was like nothing else out there and that in it's own right is what made it so good. I almost didn't even care that it was predictable all because it was like nothing
I have read before. It took a classic tale and made it something new to the readers. It was terrific.
In the end, I do think that everyone should read this book. It was brilliant and I honestly can't wait to read the second installment, I just have one question, will we get to know about Cinder and what happened in her life? Or will we be placed into someone else's life? I WANT TO KNOW!
Go read Cinder by Marissa Meyer, you won't be sorry!
-Shawnee Smith
Monday, November 10, 2014
What I'm Reading Right Now
Last night I began reading...
What It's About: "How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.
Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate."
What I Think So Far: I'm still not into this whole first-person-narrative-but-lets-not-say-whose-point-of-view-it-is-until-three-pages-in thing. It REALLY bugs me. Especially since I was expecting the book to start in Cassie's point of view since she was the main narrator last book, and it started in Ringer's. I quit after 3 chapters last night. I'm going to keep reading, don't worry. But so far, I haven't seen anything fantastic about this book.
-Shawnee Smith
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Happy Birthday To My Blog!
I can't believe it was one year ago today where I got the idea to start a book blog. Through the year, YA Fiction Review has gone through many changes.
If you really want to, you can read the first review I ever wrote by clicking here (I don't recommend it...like...at all).
I started out as a review only site but that started to not be enough for me after a few months. It was then that I changed the platform, including new releases every week, challenges, movie reviews/news, and basically whatever else I wanted.
I think my knowledge of books has greatly increased since I started this blog and I can't wait to continue this journey.
At this time I would also like to just update you all on what has been going on in my life lately. I had a Midterm for anthropology due this week as well as a test for Nutrition. The Anthropology midterm ended up being five pages long which is kind of excessive but whatever. And since Nutrition is a since based class and well, I suck at science, I spent A LOT of time studying for that. I think (hopefully) it paid off. I will know sometime this weekend.
That is why I haven't really been reading or posting much this past week. But now that it is over I will post more. I do have a few reviews that I will be working on today that I will post sometime in the near future.
Have a good weekend! And Happy birthday to my blog :)
-Shawnee Smith
Sunday, November 2, 2014
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