Monday 9 March 2015

More Than This by Patrick Ness | Book Review


 “We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.” 

I don’t even know where to begin with this book. My sisters (thanks guys) gave it to me for my birthday, and in the height of procrastination, I figured it was time to read it, and thank god I did. This god damned book bundled me up into a little ball and shook me about until I was pretty much taken over with emotion.

Friday 6 March 2015

Allegiant by Veronica Roth | Book Review



Disclaimer: this review was written as soon as I finished the book and so may not be fully coherent (there was just too much emotion).

I don’t even know where to begin with this. Allegiant is the 3rd instalment and conclusion in the Divergent series. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Divergent tells the story of Tris Prior, a girl born into a society divided into factions that are separated out according to personality type. Tris, however, doesn’t fit into any faction; she is known as Divergent. And the story pretty much unravels from there. The second book, Insurgent, was fast paced and told the story of the aftermath of Erudite’s mass killing of the people of Abnegation. In the final pages, we were left with the knowledge that the outside world is ‘waiting for the Divergent’ to come and rescue them
And so here we are. I had this book for so long that I had to actually reread Insurgent before eventually diving back into the world of Factions (or lack of oooh spoilers)