Legend book review

Legend (Legend book #1 of 3.5) by Marie Lu

Paperback, 305 pages
Read: Nov. 18
Rating: 4.5/5
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Action, Adventure, Romance
Summery: From different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths...
Until June's brother is murdered, and Day becomes the prime suspect.
In a shocking turn of events, the two uncover what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths to which their country will go to keep its secrets.

Review: The story starts from Day's P.O.V. in Lake Sector, with Day hidden from view watching the soldiers doing routine plague checks. 10 pages later we switch to June's P.O.V. at Drake University in Batalla Sector, June is in the dean's secretary's office again. The pacing for this story reminds me of the Penryn and the End of Days series by Susan Ee, as well as The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner, this story has a fast pace to it, and feels like a movie playing in my head, which I really enjoyed. I really liked both Day and June, as well as June's brother Metias, Day's brother John, and Tess. I did end up figuring out the situation with Metias around the second time we switch to June's P.O.V. (I suspected what happened in the first 20 pages), as well as figuring out what was going on with the plague virus's about page 118, I don't know if this was because of how the writing played out or if I've read too many Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic books that I what was going on with those two situations.But either way I did really like the story. Of course with Young Adult novels comes romance, while the romance doesn't really come about until around 100 pages so I got to know both characters enough that it didn't feel fast, but it did develop quite fast. I really liked this book, and can't wait to read the rest in the other two in this series. I also really liked the fact that through out the book June and Day's P.O.V's were short (anywhere from 1 to 12 pages), so you could get their perspectives on events quickly, I also liked that you could tell who's P.O.V. you were reading not only from a personality perspective, but each part has their name on the corner of the page, as well as June's type being in black and Day's type being in a matte gold color, the boldness of the lettering is also different June's being Thin and Day's being slightly thicker.

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.

April Book Haul

Both my review for the second Harry Potter and this one are late, while I finished Harry Potter on the last day of April (Yesterday), I wasn't able to get on my computer until now.
Now onto the book haul.

First up, what I bought at Winco.

I have heard quite a few good reviews about this book so I decided to pick it up. I also like the fact that you can tell who's P.O.V. you're reading in each chapter because one character has black text and the other has gold.

Second up is what I bought from Amazon.com

First is Howl's Moving Castle, I had seen Studio Ghibli's movie before I had known it was based on a book, so since I loved the movie I put this on my To But List, and it stayed there for at least three years before I finally bought it. Next up is Throne Of Glass, I had seen a video on PeruseProject's channel with this book I fell in love with the cover, and then when i heard the summery, it sounded like a really great action packed book to read. And again, I have to say how in love I am with this amazing cover (the back of the paperback looks pretty awesome too), I kind of upset that they changed the cover to one that is not only generic in the YA world, but also doesn't seem to fit the summery, the cover makes it seem like the book would be your typical historical YA romance novel, which it doesn't sound like it will be.

Third and last up is what I bought from Thriftbooks.com

First is Alanna: The First Adventurer, I had, again seen a video on LittleBookOwl's Youtube channel about the book and it sounded like a good, and interesting book so I decide to buy it. Next is Wicked Lovely, I had heard interesting things about the love triangle that peaked my interest in reading this book, then I read the summery, and it sound like a good fairy story. Third is I m Not A Serial Killer, I had seen a review of this book on The Readables channel and it sound like a good, and possibly gory story, for some reason lately I've been really into gorier stories. Last is The Monstrumologist, another book that I had seen a review on The Readables channel, and again it sounded like it would be a good and possibly gory story.

Later tonight I will have a May T.B.R. list up.

Hope everybody had/has a great day : )