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I Want These Prequel Series!
I know that these may never happen but you never know. Stranger things have happened yah know. Anyways saw this as a video and I thought that this would also be an awesome blog post. I know I have read some awesome books over the years and there are some I would love more to the story be it a story from the previous generation or the newest generation but in this case it’s going to be the previous generation before our current characters!
For example, Harry Potter! We all love it and this is the number one choice for a prequel series I for one would love to see happen. A prequel series involving Harry’s Parents. The parents of the children we’ve all loved to read about and grown up with for the most part when some of us think about it. These books are books we’ve all loved to read about now why wouldn’t we love a series about their parents and the first battle against Lord Voldemort. The struggles and battles they faced in school. Seeing how each of them came together especially Lily and James. The night that their lives tragically ended.
Another book that I would love to see a prequel series to is the Splintered Trilogy. I would love to see how things would play out for Alice in this newer version of Wonderland. Spoiler Ahead! You have been warned if you have not read this book yet. I would love to read the queen’s story in a prequel. How she managed to escape and trap Alice in her word. I would love to know so much with this world and story. I would just love that so much because I enjoyed the twist at the end of the first book when you learn of this new information. How our main character and everyone before her until Alice were all connected to the Red Queen. This would be an amazing set of books or even just a book. I would totally read this.
The Hunger Games would be an awesome set of books to have a prequel. I think it would be kind of cool to read about how it got to the point it was. How, the different districts were lined even the uprising of the 13th district and the bombing they did to make an example of the district. We know things about it but we do not know the whole story and I would love to read the whole story. I would love to be able to make sense of why the world the United States got to the point that it had gotten to that it thought that sacraficing children to something called the Hunger Games would be a good idea to keep people in line. The idea that children are killing other children. I think that this would be an amazing prequel to read.
Twilight was a series I would have loved to read a prequel of some form to. Be it a different book from each of the Cullens outlining the life that they had lived before becoming the vampires they are today. And even being able to read more about Edward and the things that he went through when he was trying to adjust to the change that he was going through. I think that these would have been good books to get out at one point. They still even now may be good ideas because people are always going to love Twilight because it’s some part of their reading story like it is mine. I would love to see all of the different things that happened to each of the Cullens before becoming a Cullen. We get small bits and pieces and I would love to read the whole story. We got it with Bree now I would love it with our main characters.
I loved Snow Like Ashes! LOVED! I think reading about the war between Winter and Spring before Hannah sacrificed herself and her daughter would be a good read. It would be a story that I would find interesting. I mean it’s not at the top of my list but I would love to read something along these lines for a prequel. Maybe not a series but a prequel for this one would be nice as well. I would totally read this to be honest. I would love to know why Angra was thinking the way he was and why Hannah thought that it was a good idea to have her daughter become the conduit knowing where the answer would lead.
These are the five series that I would love to see some for of prequel happen for. I think that these would be an amazing thing. I know I would totally read these.
Stay tuned for my next blog post on Thursday!
These are my 6 worst books of 2016. These are my own thoughts and opinions about these books and have not been influenced by anyone else. You may not feel the same way that I did about these and please let me know how you liked the books if you did maybe I just read them at the wrong time in my life. So without further ado lets get this thing started.
1. Insanity
I started to read this in February or March of 2016 and I was thrilled when I bought it. I always enjoy a good fairy tale retelling. So when I purchased this on Amazon the synopsis sounded promising. I really had hoped to enjoy this book but… Looking back at this I probably should have just gotten the kindle version of this book and spent less money. I was not very impressed with this book at all. The writing was not the best that it could have been in my opinion. I think the characters could have grown even more as well. The book was not printed in the normal style of a book and that was one thing that I noticed because one page would be a full page and then the next page would be half a page but continue on another page without it being a new chapter. I think this book had so much potential but it took me way to long to read this book. I think I eventually finally finished this book in August or September of 2016. This book I think could have been so much better and had so much potential but I know that I will not be finishing this series.
2. Chopsticks
I am normally not one that I would read a picture book and for the most part that is exactly what this was. It was a picture book. I think the story was interesting told in pictures but this was not for me. I enjoyed seeing the book told in picture form but for me this was not something I enjoyed. I am an old school person and love my words better than pictures. I do not mind pictures and words but prefer more words over just a few words. I believe that I gave this a three out of five star rating. I know that there have been good ratings of this but like I said these are my opinions and this was not a favorite book for the year of 2016. The end I think was also unsatisfying to me as well because it does answer questions but at the same time I found myself asking more questions because with the fact that it was a picture book and there was only so much detail that was given of course there was much left to speculation over the details of the things that happened in the book. I was unable to full enjoy the book because of this. I need plenty of details when it comes to a book.
3. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
I remember a time when I was all about the Twilight Saga. I enjoyed reading it and even read it multiple times. However, with this book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, I did not enjoy it. I just did not and I could not figure out why I did not like it. I just thought that it was because I outgrew the story and part of me probably has finally outgrown the story. However, I started to notice something that I had not noticed as I read the book. There were no chapters. Like none. It was just one long short story but even short stories have chapters. I use chapters to help me gauge a book and there were no chapters in this book whatsoever. And that is part of what turned me away from this book. I just thought it was outgrowing the books but it was not completely that because I have to be honest that this was the series that got me back into reading heavily so this is always going to be part of my reading life to be honest. I just will not be adding this to my reading life or story. I may donate this book I may keep it I do not know. If there had been chapters I may have had a better time reading it and enjoy it but the lack of the chapter fact and the fact that the characters grew very little even in this short story was not enjoyable. I know that it is a short story and I should not judge it so harshly but in these few opinions I believe there should have been chapters and maybe a little more character growth even though we know that Bree does not live long.
4. I Was Here
This was my first Gayle Forman book ever. I own the If I Stay Duelogy but I have not yet read it. I am thinking about not reading them now but I may read them and give this author another chance. I was trying really hard to like it but I just had so many things in the book that I could not get over. The stalking that was promoted by the author of this character when another author had been stalking a reviewer and this book received tons of praise but all of the people reading the book giving it praise was also the same ones shaming another author for stalking a reviewer. The book also has a trigger of suicide. The best friend is lost after her best friend commits suicide and she tries to figure out what was going on in her best friend’s life that made her want to do such a thing. She thought she knew her best friend but she didn’t really understand what she was going through. She stalks a person on a computer trying to figure out what would make him want to tell a person that she needs to commit suicide. Eventually the website that the main character’s best friend was visiting was shut down. I just found so many things wrong with the book and like I said I tried to like it but it was just hard for me to like it. I did do a review of it and if I can find it I may repost it and make a link to it.
5. The Ludwig Conspiracy
Normally, I like reading a physical book but my mother-in-law gave me this audiobook to listen to and I started to listen to it and did enjoy it. I loved the mystery that was there. I thought that this was the most enjoyable audiobook that I had listened to but I am still more of a physical copy of a book kind of person. I think that while I enjoyed this I still rated it 3 out of 5 stars. I know it’s not a horrible rating for a book but I rarely give out 1 star ratings. I always give out between 2 to 5 stars. This book was given three stars and I think I rated it this because of the fact that the person who was reading the audiobook was not someone that I could listen to without wanting to fall asleep. I think this was why my rating was the way it was it had more to do with the person reading the story rather than the story itself.
6. Wink Poppy Midnight
I enjoyed the duelogy by April Genevieve Tucholke Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Between the Spark and the Burn. I, however, could not really get into Wink Poppy Midnight. I mean I did get into it but it was just a bit difficult to get through in some areas. I was not sure who I was supposed to like and who I was supposed to dislike. I mean Poppy was the mean girl that everyone wants to get revenge on but I do not believe that she was meant to be the villain of this book. Wink was a strange girl who you could or could not be sure if you want to like her. She was the weird girl the girl you make fun of as she walks by because she dresses weird. Lets not even pretend not to know what I’m talking about. Midnight was the boy that kind of dated Poppy but not really and Midnight did not know if he wanted to be with her. It was typical high school stuff but the book was just not something I fully enjoyed. Now that I think about it I may lower it to two stars as I sit here thinking about all of the things that I truly did not enjoy about the book.
So there you have it my top 6 worst books of 2016.
So be on the lookout on Tuesday for my next post.
Possible book review or some other topic book related.
Top 6 Books of 2016
So I read a lot of really great books during the year of 2016 and while I would love to say that all of the books that I read last year are my top books it is with a heavy heart that I say that this is not true. I did read some that were not to my liking and I’ll get to those in another post.
I did do some re-reads last year and this post will not include those. At some point during the year I’ll do a few post about my top reads of all time. These are all books that I rated 5 stars on goodreads. Let’s start with two that I absolutely loved and have to say that the third book is my most anticipated book of 2017.
1. Illuminae & 2. Gemina
So I lumped these two together because these are the first two books in an amazing trilogy that will end some time this year. The tentative release date is set for October. However, lets not talk about a release date for a book that does not even have a title yet even though that is really honestly all I want to do because the third and final book of this trilogy is my most anticipated book release of 2017. I have no shame in admitting this.
So Illuminae is the first book in this sci-fi young adult novel. The story telling is told through files, documents, instant messaging, and even from the artifical intelligent systems of the ship that they are on. We follow Kady and Ezra our two main characters of this book. The planet that the two of them are living on is attacked by a company and as they are trying to flee are being stopped but our two main characters and Kady’s mother manage to flee. From there it is non stop action for this book. The graphics are amazing and the story telling is the best that I have seen because of the way it is told.
Gemina is the second book in this sci-fi young adult novel. The story telling is told though the same way that the first book is. Except in this one we follow two different characters. While I am usually not a big fan of character switching in books I could not help but love this. This makes the story bigger than the original book. You see more of the world that they have created for you to see and live in and it’s an amazing world at that.
I love the world building that the two of them have done and the story telling just keeps getting better and better and it just sucks you in from page one. While I will be sad to see this story end I am wonder what other amazing things these two authors will come up with.
3. The Kiss of Deception
So this was one of the last books that I read during 2016 and I loved it. I could barely get enough of this book. Once I got to reading it I just couldn’t stop. I enjoyed all of the different perspectives that I got to read. It as amazing seeing all of the different points of view (POV) and how either the other character was angry or sad. And you never really see it coming on which of the boys was sent to kill her.
You think that they both have feelings for this run away princess pretending to be a tavern maid it’s just an amazing book and I highly recommend this book to anyone. I think that this is an amazing read and I for one cannot wait to finish the trilogy. All three of the books for this trilogy are out. I hope that if you have not read them you decide to pick them up and read them. This is an amazing start to a trilogy.
4. Sea of Shadows
I love fantasy. I’ve always loved fantasy. It’s a world that is not your own. So in this particular fantasy by an author I had never read before sucked me in. I was pulled in from the very beginning. A dark forest looming beside a village where twins are there to protect the village. These twins are teens young teens if I remember correctly but they are bound to make sure those in the forest are given proper burials after they have died in the forest that they have been sent to die in. They want to make sure that their spirits are at rest.
If the spirits are not at rest they can cause all kinds of havoc upon the kingdom that these two twins are part of. Many things happen and the village is suddenly taken over by these things that are signs of things to happen. These twins discover that all of the adults have been killed but the children have been taken as hostages. They then travel through a land they have never traveled as they have always been in the village they were raised in. I have to say that I feel as if I am not doing this book enough justice. I recommend this book. I want to say highly recommend actually.
5. Lux: Beginnings
I did not know what to expect when diving into a book that I was barely sure about. I had heard amazing things and great things and seeing on Booktube that these books are amazing. However, for me I was walking into a part of the young adult genre that I had never really envisioned myself walking into.
I have barely done sci-fi because I never really see myself as a huge sci-fi person. I was taking a huge leap of faith trusting some of the booktubers I watch who said Jennifer Armentrout’s Lux series is amazing. I had never read sci-fi and this is coming from someone who loves Star Wars and Star Trek (Star Wars overall) and has never read a sci-fi book.
So I picked up the first two books in this huge bind up. After seeing how big the bind up was I was slightly terrified by the size. I won’t even being to lie about that. I was terrified by the size of this book and started to back down from the idea of reading it. Then I told myself that I would read this book.
And read this book I did. This was a different book and amazingly good different book. And from an author I had never even heard of. I had read one book that was sci-fi and it was great but it didn’t have aliens in it and it was something I was not sure on how I would feel. I’m not a big aliens kind of person.
However, this book was amazing. I thought it was different and a good different. I found that while at some moments it was slow it was slow in the right places usually after a really fast paced area and you needed that slow pace to make sure your brain actually kept up with you…you not the book but you. I enjoyed this book and cannot wait to finish the series. No, I have not finished the series but I plan to this year.
6. The Testing
This book was something that I was not sure if I was going to love. I thought the idea for this book was an amazing one for sure and it was also during a time when I was reading a lot of dystopians. I was starting to get burned out and I was unsure how well I was going to accept this book.
Turned out I enjoyed it a lot. The idea that if you do well in school and are then able to test to go to University. Well it is thought that if you do not do well in The Testing for University that you are just sent home. Well not everyone is given that luxury. Our main character believes that something is going on and she isn’t really sure what it is. Until someone she came with dies and she has to watch because he made a mistake.
The idea that this book could become a reality is actually one that I can really see. That if our world was turned so upside down that this book could become our reality is amazing. This book just kind of opens up a ton of possibilities of what we could see if we don’t change our future.
Keep an eye out for my next post on Thursday!
It could be a book review or my worst books of 2016!
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