National Novel Writing Month!!

I'm super excited to announce that this year I will be participating in NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. This goes through all of November and the goal is to write 50,000 words in that space.
http://nanowrimo.org
So next month, I will be posting a lot of writing tips and progress.
Wish me luck and sorry this is so short.

Katytastic

This is an amazing book tuber that I adore, and right now she is hosting a giveaway! This is one of her videos:

WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT
SHE IS AMAZING

The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer

You wake up with no memory of the last few days.
Your friends were killed in an accident that you miraculously survived.
Your family has to move to another state to escape the fallout.
You meet a mysterious boy who seems to know more about you than you do.
You start seeing things that can't possibly be there.
You are afraid you are losing your mind.
Can you keep it together?
Mara Dyer is about to find out.

This book is the first in a trilogy.

OH MY GOODNESS. This book was simple amazing. It was so creepy, intense, depressing, funny, romantic, and so much more. Mara wakes up in the hospital after an old building has collapsed on her and her friends. Mara was the only one that survived, and her family moves to Florida to help her get over her grief. But soon, she starts to see her dead friends everywhere she goes and imagining things that are not actually happening. She meets Noah Shaw, a boy who has slept around, and feels drawn to him. But is she really going crazy?

I loved this book. This book spans over months (I think!) and while Mara's romance with Noah at first seemed like it would be another case of insta-love, it really wasn't. It would have been so easy fro Michelle Hodkin to make it that way, and I give her credit for not giving in. There were so many twists and turns in the story line, and it kept me on edge. It is not a horror story exactly, but there are some pretty heavy things in this book, but they are well passed with the happy, sexy, and funny moments. Overall just a wonderful story, and cannot wait to get my hands on the other books.

Angelfall by Susan Ee

Title: Angelfall
Author: Susan Ee
Genre: Dystopian
Page Count: 284
Awards: Over 4,000 5-star reviews, Finalist for Cybils Bloggers' Award for Best YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Of The Year 2011
Rating: 5/5 stars

Summary:
It has been 6 weeks since the angels destroyed the world as we knew it. Cannibals and human gangs threaten during the daytime, while almost no one dares to step outside during the night.
Penryn and her mother and sister are out one night when they see a group of angels attacking another angel. Penryn is soon spotted, and as her mother runs and her sister tries to wheel her wheelchair up the road, Penryn tries to distract the angels by giving the wounded angel back his sword.
And as punishment, Paige is taken.
And her sister will do anything to get her back, even making a deal with Raffe, the angel she handed the sword to. Raffe will do anything for his wings back, even helping a teenage girl go into his greatest enemies.

What I Thought:
This book was amazing. Penryn was such a strong lead character. She was willing to risk everything and anything to find Paige and return her home. Raffe was so difficult to work with at the beginning of the book, I probably would have given up on getting his help. But Penryn didn't and eventually, Raffe agreed to help her, which I thought was awesome. While this book was a dystiopian, it stood out in the over crowded washed out genre. It was dark, twisted, funny, and romantic, and I loved every second of it. I highly recommend this book

Check Me Out on Pulse It!

http://www.pulseit.com/domino

Looking For Alaska Review

Title: Looking For Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: Contemporary
Page Count: 221
Format: Paperback
Awards: Printz Honor Award, New York Times Bestseller
Rating: 4/5 stars

Pre-reading (the part with no spoilers)
 Going into this novel, I was both excited and also wary. While I had read two John Green books in the past (The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns), and loved them to death, this book sounded...different. After finishing this book, I still don't really 100% know what bothered me about this book. If you do not know what it is about, here is the summary taken from Goodreads:

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

I do recommend this book. I thought it was wonderful and strange and different and sad and amazing for a debut novel. However, I did have issues, so...

After Reading (spoilers) this ink will be posted in white, highlight over to read
So Pudge, our main character, knows the last words to a lot of famous people. A LOT. I felt this was kinda weird, and didn't see how it connected to the plot into later in the book, after Alaska had died.
Another thing. I felt like the whole mystery over her death was pointless. They did not find anything, and the Colonel was not really expecting to find anything. Everyone yelled at one another and Pudge's parents acted like concerned parents in the background.
However, I liked most of these characters. Alaska, Lara (except for that blow job scene...)m found the Colonel annoying. For such a small book, it took me awhile to finish.

Anyway, sorry this is so short, almost midnight and also my first review!