The Ice Dragon book review

The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin

Hardcover, 128 pages
Read: Dec. 14
Rating: 5/5
Genres: Fantasy
Summery: In the world of A Song of Ice and Fire the ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.
Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara’s home. And only a winter child—and the ice dragon who loved her—could save her world from utter destruction.

Review: This story starts Adara who waits for winter every year. According to the summery the ice dragon is also in the world of A Song Of Ice and Fire, I wouldn't know since I have not seen the series nor have I read the book. I really liked this story. It's a children's story  I would have loved when I was younger, I love it even now at 22. The Illustrations are beautiful. The relationship between Adara and the Ice Dragon in this book was a subtle but nice relationship. I also liked the subtle character growth in this book as well. I really liked this story.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Book Review

1984 by George Orwell

Paperback, 326 pages
Read: Mar. 18 - Mar. 21
Rating: 4/5
Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Classic
Summery: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while the year 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions. A legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

Review: This story is about Winston Smith, who lives in a dystopian 1984, in a place called Oceania where people, thoughts, feelings are controlled by Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the beginning of the book we find that Winston, while he works and lives in the Outer Party with everybody else who is controlled by Big Brother he is against them, and wishes, and hopes for rebellion. I really love dystopian books like this, they're so well done that you could see how the events of that lead to this world could have a chance of becoming true events. This book reminded me in a way of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Which I review last month, the reason it reminds me of Brave New World is the way they used simple feelings of every person to control them, in Brave New World they controlled people with happiness, and in 1984 they controlled them with fear. They also had people, proles that were more or less viewed as animals, and in Brave new world they had Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. While I'm sure some people, along with me, wished it had ended differently, but I also liked the way it ended. I liked Winston, but my favorite character was probably Julia.


While I have been reading The Werewolf Book in between the other books I'm going to review that one last most likely.

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March T.B.R. List

Here is my March Reading List

#1
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days Book #1 of 5) by Susan Ee

#2
Worldafter (Penryn & the End of Days Book #2 of 5) by Susan Ee

The covers are what caught my eye, then I read the summaries and decided to buy them. The third book in this series is expected June 5, 2014, and there are 5 books announced to be in this series so far. Also I love the covers to these books.

#3
The Werewolf Book by Brad Steiger

I love Werewolves and the lore surrounding them, this books goes back to start of the origin of the werewolf.

#4
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter Book #1 of 7) by J.K. Rowling

I have only read the third book in this series, and that was back in  December of 2003. So I've decided to read all of the series.

#5
A Walk in Wolf Woods by Mary Stewart

I happened upon this at Goodwill and read the summery and decided to buy it. It sounds like a good story, and I like the illustrations inside the book.

#6
1984 by George Orwell

I have had this book for about three years and have yet to read it so i decided to read it this month.

#7
The Lake House (When the Wind Blows Book #2 of 2) by James Patterson

This is the second and last book in the When the Wind Blows series, It is also supposedly a prequel to the Maximum Ride series, it seems like from the first book, so I've decided to read this book series before i read the Maximum Ride series.

I have decided to read 7 books this month, most of them are not very long and I will hopefully be able to finish them all before the end of this month.

I hope everybody had/has a great day.