SYLO book review

I ended up having a situation and didn't have time for reading so I'm going to be reading The Monstrumologist and the Chaos Walking 2 in 1 Omnibus next month, which means I hopefully I will read 12 books next month. Also for next year I will be doing something different to decide what books I'm am going to read on my To Be Read book selves.


SYLO (The SYLO Chronicles book #1 of 3) by D.J. MacHale

Paperback, 416 pages
Read: Nov. 23 and 25
Rating: 4/5
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Adventure
Summery: THEY CAME FROM THE SKY
parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine.
They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world.
Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that traveled like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby - and experienced the powers it gave him - for himself.
What all this means, SYLO isn't saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery.
LOOK TO THE SKY
because Pemberwick is only the first stop.

Review: This story starts off with the night of Marty Wiggins death. This story was hard for me to get into, but once I did it was an exciting story. The high school running backs death, and the bizarre midnight explosion, and singing aircraft, both happen in the first two chapters of the book and including those the first 74 pages were dull for me. when I got to page 75 (Chapter 8) is when things really picked up, SYLO has appeared. The first 74 pages felt dragging to me, and took me 2 hours just to get through, I couldn't get a feel for the characters, and I didn't feel like I knew them, that continued on through the whole story quite a bit, so for me this was more of a world and plot driven book instead of a character driven book, so if you don't like very little character background/information then you might want to keep this in mind if you decide to read this book. While it did drag in the beginning,mainly because there was very little background on the characters, once SYLO had started to show up the story evolved into a fun and exciting book. Sadly, I didn't really have a favorite character, although I did enjoy Tori and Quinn more than the others, I did enjoy them well enough, I just couldn't connect to any of them. I'm surprised that I liked this story as much as I did because normally the books that I end up really enjoying are more character driven than plot/world driven books. But I did really enjoy this book and definitely want to read the sequel (it left on a pretty big cliff hanger) the main reason being I want to read more about the plot and world. If you think the book sounds interesting and you end up finding that the beginning is dragging then I would suggest at least reading up to when SYLO show up and see if you start getting interested then, the thing to keep in mind is that this is not a character driven book.

Hope everybody had/has a great day : )

November T.B.R. List

I did not expect to become so busy last week of Oct.. So I was not able to read Howl's Moving Castle in Oct., so I will be reading it this month.

#1
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle book #1 of 3) by Diana Wynne Jones

#2
Asylum (Asylum book #1 of 3) by Madeleine Roux

#3
Legend (Legend book #1 of 3) by Marie Lu

#4
SYLO (The SYLO Chronicles book #1 of 3) by D.J. MacHale

#4
The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds book #1 of 3) by Alexandra Bracken

#5
The Devouring (The Devouring book #1 of 3) by Simon Holt

#6
Soulstice (The Devouring book #2 of 3) by Simon Holt

#7
Fearscape (The Devouring book #3 of 3) bu Simon Holt

#8
The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist book #1 of 4) by Rick Yancey

# 9
Chaos Walking 2 In 1 Omnibus (Chaos Walking book #1-2 of 3) by Patrick Ness

So I have 9 books I'm hoping to read this month (technically 10 if you count the Chaos Walking Omnibus as 2 books). I'm hoping to read at least 50 books this year, so far I've read 34 books.

Hope everybody had/has a great day.

Reading Slump + May Book Haul

About a third of the way into my last book (Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas) I ended up going into a reading slump, I kind of had to force myself to finish Throne of Glass, I had hoped it would go away after I finish read Throne of Glass so I could move on to my next book which was going to be Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, but I fell right back into my reading slump afterward, so next month (June) I have decided not to have a predetermined reading list and just read what I feel like reading at the moment of time in June, and see how that goes for me, I'm kind of finally just getting out of the reading slump, and on the last day of May too. Anyway, I only got three books this month, so let's get on to the haul.

The first place I found a book I wanted was at Winco

I had seen a review for this book on PeruseProject on youtube. The Summery sounded interesting so when I found it at Winco I decided to buy it. (also Winco gives a 20% discount on all books and magazines)

The second book I found that I bought was at Fry's Marketplace

The cover caught my attention first, then I read the summery and had to buy it. It sounds very interesting, so hopefully it turns out to be interesting.

The last book I bought was at Walmart

I loved the first movie and the second movie looks like it is going to be good (I have not seen the tv show, although I have heard good things about that too). I didn't know that the movie was based on a book so I am very excited about reading this one, this was actually what brought me out of my reading slump some, so this is probably what I am going to be reading first. When I do do a  review on it I will also do a book to movie review as well. (by the way it came with two new short stories in the series, I have not read the series, it also came with a little poster as well.)

Hope everybody has/had a great day : )