FEBRUARY & MARCH WRAP-UP

Hi! I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately, and haven't been reading very often. I find that when I read before I go to bed each night, I zip through books but recently... um... Netflix. Anyway, so I didn't feel like I read enough to bother making a wrap-up for February alone - I think it was something like just one book, yikes - so I'm combining the past two months.

• The first book I have is The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey.
   I read this book after I saw the movie, and I really enjoyed both. I think, despite negative reviews, they actually did quite a good job of adapting this to the big screen. My opinions will probably be different to someone who read this before watching the movie, but overall I think the adaption was really good. However, this isn't a movie review, oops haha. The book was enjoyable, the characters were likeable and there's romance, if you're into that.

• The next book is Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare.
  While some parts of this book struck me as similar to The Mortal Instruments series (such as the emotionally stunted blondes and the Malcom Fade/Magnus Bane characters) it was a quick, easy and exciting read. There was one scene on the beach with Emma and Julian - you'll know the one - where I was a little bit lost afterwards and didn't quite understand what happened until Julian brought it up. I don't know if that was because I was being a bit slow or if it was unclear to others as well. (by the way, if you want an uncut version of that scene, Cassandra posted it on her tumblr which you can find at: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/141990964319/as-promised-cassandra-jeans-emma-and-jules-from, which is much more obvious.)
  In the beginning I found it difficult to keep up with who was which character, there being so many siblings, but I quickly got over that. I loved the moments in this book where characters from previous series' made appearances - I think that will be a big attention grabber for other fans of her work, there was even a short story about the characters from The Mortal Instruments in the back of this book. I also really enjoyed the dark side of Julian that we caught a glimpse of and I am looking forward to seeing what Cassandra Clare does with that. Now the only problem is having to wait a year for the next book! I'll definitely need to refresh my mind on what happened haha.

• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick was the third and final book I read during these two months.
  The reason I chose to read this book was because I desperately needed to get over my book hangover from reading Lady Midnight and one of my friends has been telling me to read it for years. This was an incredibly quick read, I read it in about a day or two, and it kind of reminded me of a slightly higher quality fan-fiction, but I can't say it wasn't fun to read.

Let me know what you've been reading! x

JANUARY WRAP-UP

Hello! SO I finished three books in January and there are two that I am still reading!

The first book I read was The Maze Runner by James Dashner. I pretty much knew what to expect because I had seen the movie about a year prior and I really enjoyed it. The book was good and what I really liked was that it's primary focus wasn't on a romantic relationship. It was actually about survival and getting out of the maze. I feel like it's easy for books to kind of forget the main point of the story and get too swept up in the romance side - not to say I don't still enjoy that, though.

The next two books I read were, of course, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure - the two sequels by James Dashner. I didn't really know what to expect with these two, although I knew that The Scorch Trials movie was very different to the book, but I really liked The Scorch Trials! I thought it was interesting and I wanted to keep reading to know what happens - despite this being apparently the least popular out of the series.

The Death Cure was probably my least favourite out of all three - I read majority of it in one sitting and then it took me quite a while to finish the last third of the book. I just didn't find it as gripping or as interesting as the first two.
And although I generally enjoyed the stories of all three books, I'm not that crazy about James Dashner's writing style. It's quite young, something I'm moving further away from, though it does make the read very easy.

I do have the fourth book, The Kill Order (which is a prequel), on my kindle but I am not in any rush to read it, though I'm sure I will at some point in time.

Have you read these books? What did you think of them?
-Gracie :)