Books, Books, And More Books

I'm a bibliophile (a person who collects or has a great love of books). Yas...yasss...YAAASSSSS. MY PRECIOOUUUSSS. BOOKS ARE LIFE <3

Okay, ehem. 

Recently, I've been collecting books to read and my TBR pile keeps getting bigger and it is awesome.

These past couple months I've been reading the Chaos Walking series, recommended by my lovely friend Anna, and it is absolutely AMAZING! THE FEELZ.  I just started the last book of the series, Monsters of Men, this week. I totally recommend this book to anyone 14+! (It has a bit of cussing in it.)

I also finished the first book in the Hunger Games series this week and it was so good! SOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE MOVIE....which my family watched and it made me not want to read the books for a while, but my friends also recommended the series and I found all of the books at a yardsale for only $1.50 and I'm so glad I bought them 'cause I can't wait to start on the next book, but first I gotta finish Monsters of Men. (gasps for air)

My mom (thanks Mom <3) bought me a book I've been wanting for a long time this past week, as well. The Beautiful Pretender by Melanie Dickerson. Yay! I've been wanting her to do a Princess and the Pea retelling because I saw so much potential with that story and she also combined it with my all time favorite princess story, Beauty and the Beast! 

Today I found The Maze Runner at a yardsale for only 50 cents. Booyah! I know it was turned into a movie and I've heard some things about it, but not exactly sure what I'm about to dive into when I read the book besides the fact that they are trying to escape a maze...

Anyway, here is a list of my TBR books (that I have with me) in order of when I shall read them:

(After Monsters of Men)

1. Catching Fire

2. Mockingjay

3. The Beautiful Pretender

4. The Maze Runner

There are a lot of other books that I want to read that my friends recommended, but I don't have them yet, so I won't add them to my reading list. 

EEK, I WANT TO READ THEM ALL RIGHT NOW, BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET THROUGH THEM SO FAST. 

2 Book Reviews

Good evening everyone!

I am going to write my very first book review!  I'm reviewing 2 of my favorite medieval books:

 Princess Academy and, the sequel, Princess Academy: Palace of Stone!
I will do my best to make this helpful and fun!

Princess Academy  

By Shannon Hale

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(Sorry for the bad quality)

This is one of my favorite and first really good and well written medieval book that I've read!

Genre: Fantasy

Romance: Nothing really.

How I like it & a bit about the book:

It's really awesome if you love medieval books!  The title might sound like it's for younger girls, but you know the saying: Don't judge a book by its cover!

Miri gets to find herself, even in an unexpected way.  There are a lot of plot twists, which makes you get engrossed in the story.  It's really fun to see the story unravel.

Shannon Hale describes the characters and places very well.  The way the teacher makes harsh punishments and the girls work together at some point (Not saying anything else...) you get emotionally attached to the story. 

The book is pretty thick, 314 pages to be exact, which is awesome because after you start reading it, you'll never want to put it down!  (That is, if you like medieval book and reading, in general.)  On the top of each new chapter there is a short poem that kind of describes the chapter, in a way.

You see on the cover that it has won a award and it has definitely deserved it!

(If you are looking at buying the book, the cover as changed to an updated look.)

Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

By Shannon Hale

Genre: Fantasy

Romance: There is some, like kissing, but not bad.

This is not a stand-alone book! ;)


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This has some spoilers from the first book. 

How I like it & a bit about the book:
So, one day, I was looking for medieval books online, because I really wanted a new one, and decided to google Shannon Hale just to see if she had other books.  I almost squealed with delight when I found out she wrote a sequel to the Princess Academy! 

I like how Shannon Hale describes the places and people in Miri's eyes, like I said in the first book review.  She does it in a way that makes you feel like you're there with Miri.
There are a few different stories within the book and it's fun to decipher each one.  I personally think one of the intense fighting scenes at the end of the book ends too easily, but that doesn't make the book any less great!

I hope this helped!  I tried not to spoil anything, but it's kinda hard not to without doing a review, so if my review is kinda bad, sorry about that! xD

*~Joy~*