august wrap-up

hi guys! today i have my august wrap-up for you! so, let's get right into it:

'the tooth' by shirley jackson (goodreads) - this is a collection of short sinister stories by the queen of creepy. it's part of the penguin mini modern classics collection which i adore, they're very short reads and a great way to take a break in the middle of a monster 800-pager or something. the stories were about having a tooth pulled, a creepy man on a coach, a bad child at nursey, a village lottery, and a young girl at an adults party. the first and last stories didn't have any real effect on me, but i found the three in the middle to be really unsettling and creepy. they're too short to give any kind of explanation of the events so you're just left going, "oh my god, what?! what?! what was that about?!", and i LOVED that reaction.

'peter pan' by j.m. barrie (goodreads) - 'peter pan' is my favourite disney film and i adore the characters, and felt it was about time that i read the book. we're all very familiar with the beautiful story, so i won't explain the plot. it was so charming and wonderful, and it was such a pleasure for me to read. i feel like j.m. barrie knows and understands both children and adults really well, and he appealed to both the young and old in me.

'scott pilgrim' #4, #5, and #6 by bryan lee o'malley (goodreads 4, 5, 6) - as i said in my last wrap-up, this was a re-read for me, and i adored getting back into this world. it was like putting on a lovely warm blanket in winter. we all know what 'scott pilgrim' is about so i won't say much about it other than it is pretty much the original graphic novel series and i really enjoyed reading it again.

'so long, and thanks for all the fish' by douglas adams (goodreads) - this is the fourth book in the 'hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' series that i've been reading for quite a while know. it's a widely celebrated sci-fi story most well known for it's PERFECT british humour. this book is kind of a bit of a love story as the protagonist, arthur, returns to earth and meets fenchurch, who is an adorable character, and it's essentially about their relationship and how they spend their time together. fenchurch really made this book for me, i thought she was excellent.

'mostly harmless' by douglas adams (goodreads) - this is the final book in the 'hitchhiker's series. sadly fenchurch was absent in this book, which i was really sad about, but it did feature a lot of hilarious ford/arthur dialogue, which i adore. overall i feel like the ending was a bit sudden and kind of underwhelming but, having thought about it, it did resolve the series nicely. i'm actually really sad that the series is over; i've been reading it so gradually over the past year that it's become a part of my life and i don't really know what to do with myself now, haha!

'four: a divergent collection' by veronica roth (goodreads) - earlier this year i read and loved the 'divergent' series (i wrote about it here, here, and here) so of course i had to pick this up. it is a bind-up of four novellas from four/tobias' point of view, and also a few extra scenes from 'divergent' from his point of view as well. i have mixed feelings about this book, really. i really enjoyed learning about four's initiation and his transfers to dauntless, but getting his perspective on scenes i had already read from tris' point of view just didn't add anything for me at all, and i found them quite boring. i felt the same about the extra scenes at the end. overall, i liked getting back into the world, and i love veronica roth's style and i can't wait to read more from her, but this book just didn't excite me. if she were to write some stuff about eric, however, THAT would excite me.

'the disenchantments' by nina lacour (goodreads) - this book is about a group of friends who go on tour with their band the summer after they finish high school. the protagonist colby thinks that he and his friend bev are skipping college and going to europe after the tour, but it turns out that bev has other plans, which she breaks to him just after they set off, and the story unfolds from there. i ADORED this book! it's the perfect road-trip story and made me so eager to go travelling. i loved the approach to life that was shown through their adventures as well - starting a band and playing shows even if you suck, travelling across states just to talk to a guy with a tattoo you're interested in, drawing and creating things all the time, making friends and coming together to collaborate on artwork, just DOING STUFF. it's exactly the kind of life i want to lead and i actually found this book so inspiring. other than that, the story was excellent and i loved the characters, but it just really spoke to me.

'the bermudez triangle' by maureen johnson (goodreads) - i was in the mood for the some contemporary this month so of course i turned to the queen of contemporary, maureen johnson! i've adored every maureen johnson book that i've read so far and this one was no exception. it's about 3 girls who are all best friends, and during the summer one girl goes away to a summer school, and when she returns she finds the other two friends have started seeing each other. i adored the characters in this book, and it approached the issues of exploring your sexuality as a teenager and dating a close friend really really intelligently. i loved it!

'horrorstor' by grady hendrix (goodreads) - i wrote a whole review on this incredible book so you can click through to read that here, but let me tell you: it is FANTASTIC. i loved it. it is incredible. go read it right away.

thanks for reading guys! hope you had a great reading month, and please link me to your wrap-ups in the comments below! x

july wrap-up

hi guys! sorry that i've been gone a little while but i'm back now with my july wrap-up for you! let's get right into it!

'fly on the wall' by e. lockhart (goodreads) - 'fly on the wall' is about a girl who goes unnoticed in school and wishes she could be a fly in the boys locker room, and the next day she wakes up and she is one. there's lots of observing and reflecting going on but nothing really happens, you just get some interesting insights into various people who go to her school. i didn't find the book particularly exciting but i do love e. lockhart's writing style so it was a pleasure to read.

'say her name' by james dawson (goodreads) - 'say her name' is about the classic 'bloody mary'/'say the name in the mirror' story line that we've all heard several times before, so it's not exactly an original premise, but it doesn't pretend to be, which i liked. it accepts it's been done before and doesn't try to pretend that it's unique, which really worked in its favour. i really enjoyed this book and it definitely succeeded in scaring me a few times. james' writing style is also really refreshing and very honest to how teenagers actually talk and act nowadays. my only issue with the book is that i felt like the last chapter/epilogue could have been fleshed out a bit more to give a bit more of an explanation, but that's my only bad point.

'scott pilgrim' #1, #2, and #3 by bryan lee o'malley (goodreads 1, 2, 3) - i've been re-reading the 'scott pilgrim' series in anticipation of bryan's new book 'seconds', and i've absolutely adored getting back into this world. i first read it many, many years ago and i really think it is the best graphic novel series out there. i'm sure you all know the premise but if you don't, it's about a guy called scott who has to defeat all the ex-boyfriends of his new girlfriend. i forgot just how much more you learn about the characters in the books than in the film (which is excellent in itself, by the way), like i loved reminding myself all about kim - i love kim!

'life, the universe and everything' by douglas adams (goodreads) - another episode in the fabulous 'hitchikers' series that i am loving! the characters, the setting, the writing, the brilliant british humour! there's really no way i could ever sum it up and do it justice (although i did try here). i love it, go check it out!

'shades of earth' by beth revis (goodreads) - obviously this is the last book in a series so i can't really tell you what happens. the basis for the series is a portion of the world's population which has been sent up in a spaceship to reach a new-found habitable planet in 300 years time, and about how that situation works socially, environmentally, politically, and so on. the premise is excellent and i found this series so interesting. i have mixed thoughts about 'shades of earth' but i love the series as a whole, and i'll be writing a full series review for you guys soon.

'lola and the boy next door' by stephanie perkins (goodreads) - this book follows lola, a costume designer, and cricket, an inventor, as the main couple. i really liked it but it is just a fluffy romance story - nothing too exciting. although a book about a costume designer seems right up my street i found lola to be really annoying, and stephanie perkins used to whole overdone 'wears a new costume everyday' quirky character profile that i hate. when you push the quirky, eccentric character to the extremes like stephanie did it just becomes an unrealistic joke. also, has anyone seen 'the confessions of a teenage drama queen'? lindsay lohan's character also demands to be called 'lola' and is exactly the same. SO OVERDONE. (lindsay is great though) despite that, i really did learn to like lola, and oh wow, did i love cricket! he's my ideal man and i want him to be real so bad haha. i love the name 'cricket' too. plus, there were lots of themes in this book that i adored - it was like it was tailored specifically for me. costumes and figure skating?! yes please! overall, i have mixed feelings, but i recommend giving it a go and making up your own mind. i definitely did prefer it to 'anna and the french kiss' though, and i'm very exciting to read 'isla and the happily ever after' soon!

'landline' by rainbow rowell (goodreads) - i wrote a whole review on this book (linked here) so i won't say too much, but i LOVED it. it's essentially about a woman who has a fight with her husband and she tries to contact him through her old phone at her parents house, only to find that he answers from the past, back when they had their first big argument as a couple. i gave it 5/5 stars! everything rainbow writes is perfect!

'rookie yearbook two' edited by tavi gevinson (goodreads) - i also wrote a review on this book (linked here), a physical yearly publication of the absolutely perfect rookie mag online website for teenage girls. go check it out!

thanks for reading guys! again, sorry for leaving this blog for a little while, i've been so busy with work, but i've still been reading and i've got a lot of reviews lined up for you in the next few weeks, so keep checking back. hope you're having a lovely day. xx

june wrap-up

hey guys! today i have my june wrap-up for you!

'is everyone hanging out without me? and other concerns' by mindy kaling (goodreads) - this is a hilarious memoir/autobiography/thing about mindy kaling's life, mostly focusing on how she became successful as an actress and writer. i want to put this straight out there and say i have never seen anything written by/staring/involving mindy kaling, i pretty much have no idea who she is, and i still loved this book. if you like the humour of tina fey/kristen wiig/amy poehler then you're gonna enjoy it. to me mindy is just this super cool girl who's really funny and it was like i was reading something that a friend had written for me. the only downside for me was that i've never seen the US version of the office so some chapters went kind of over my head but it didn't matter because they were still funny! i loved it!

'poison study' by maria v. snyder (goodreads) - i bought this book a long long time ago from the works after seeing sarah churchill haul it, and i have only just got round to picking it up. the synopsis sounded really exciting - it's about a girl who, instead of being executed for murder, is given the opportunity to live and work as the commander's official food taster - but i was put off by the fact that it's a 6 part series and i've never heard anyone talk about it. for the first 200 pages or so i was so uninterested in this book, i just could not have cared less, but after the halfway point it just got SO GOOD. i love the side characters, especially valek, but that might just be because i have a big crush on him. i loved the writing style as well and i'm so excited to get back into the world and can't wait to get the next book in the series. however, having said all this, i will say that i don't care for the magic element at all. i feel like the main selling point of this book (for me, anyway) is the poison tasting and the murder and the dangers that come with that - i feel like the magic element isn't really needed and kind of feels like something that's been put in to create a ~deeper~ story to lead onto a sequel or something. kind of unnecessary. but i still liked it! 4/5 stars!

'ready player one' by ernest cline (goodreads) - i wrote a whole review on this book so to read a synopsis and to find out what i thought you can read that here!

'across the universe' and 'a million suns' by beth revis (goodreads 1 and 2) - for most of 'across the universe' i completely disliked all of the characters, i felt like the writing was average, i thought some of the dialogue was unrealistic for her characters, but the thing that got me through was how amazing the plot is. the series revolves around this spaceship that has been sent off with a portion of america's population on board to land on a new habitable planet 300 years into the future, and it's all about how that ship would work socially and technically and environmentally and all that jazz - it is EXCELLENT. the marketing for this series is all wrong though - the blurb focuses on a girl called amy on board the ship but she is so unimportant to the story and not in any way an interesting character. the premise alone was enough to drive me on to buy the next in the series and oh wow was i glad i did! 'a million suns' is so much better - it really upped the game and i can't even BELIEVE how beth revis managed to create such good twists two books in a row (although i did guess some of the smaller twists in both books). not only was the plot incredible, but the new characters were FANTASTIC. i CRIED, TWICE, during this book, which is crazy if you think about how little i cared in the first one. it just completely surpassed all my expectations! i LOVE this series and cannot wait for my copy of 'shades of earth' to arrive so i can find out how it ends!

'anna and the french kiss' by stephanie perkins (goodreads) - this book is exactly what you'd expect it to be - a fluffy contemporary that's super cute but makes you want to visit france so badly that you start googling city breaks between chapters. i loved it, but i found anna to be a bit annoying, and it had that thing that i hate in books/tv/anything aimed at teenage girls where it's like, "you can totally look a mess and fall over all the time and constantly embarrass yourself but it's okay because the hot guy will just think you're quirky and fall for you anyway!!" because yeah, that doesn't happen. plus, one thing i couldn't get over was, even though the romance was great and stuff, it was all happening while st. clair was still with ellie, and that just put me off the characters so much. i mean, right up until the very last moment he was still her boyfriend! even in fiction that's such a silly disrespectful thing to do and it ruined the book a little for me. i loved stephanie's writing style though, and it was such a pleasure to read, so i'll definitely be picking up the rest in the series - 'lola and the boy next door' seems right up my street!

'hollow city' by ransom riggs (goodreads) - i wrote a whole review on this book so to read a synopsis and to find out what i thought you can read that here!

'tiger lily' by jodi lynn anderson (goodreads) - this is a re-telling of peter pan, set before wendy and co. show up in neverland, focusing on tiger lily and narrated by tinkerbell. now, does that not sound like the BEST BOOK EVER? well, yes and no. for one thing, i didn't really feel anything for tiger lily. one of the plot lines is her impending forced marriage, but i felt no sadness for her in that situation at all. also, she seemed so different than who i thought she was - she was stubborn, silent, stocky, antisocial, whilst i always knew her as cheerful and friendly and strong. another thing is that i really disliked how wendy and peter were portrayed. wendy came across as an annoying selfish rich girl who was actively pursuing peter and always got what she wanted, while peter was a grumpy whiny baby who stormed off a lot. peter pan is one of my absolute favourite stories and i just wasn't happy with how jody lynn anderson altered it. however, it was a real treat to be able to explore more into a world that i loved so much and i only read a few chapters at a time so i could keep living in the story; it was a pleasure to read. so, i have mixed feelings about this book, but if you like peter pan then you should definitely give it a go.

so those are all the books i read in june! please let me know what you guys read in the comments below! thanks for reading! xx

may wrap-up

hi guys, today i have my may wrap-up for you! i didn't read as much as i wanted to in may considering i finished college on the 6th and had LOADS of free time, but i really enjoyed the books i did end up reading!

'mercury and me' by jim hutton (goodreads) - this is not a book you ever really see reviews of; it's an autobiography by jim hutton about his time being freddie mercury's lover. it's definitely the kind of thing you'd only enjoy if you love freddie and queen (although the other boys from queen were very rarely mentioned). although i loved reading about freddie, i felt like the book was focusing on all the wrong things. some chapters were just 20 pages of things they bought on shopping trips, just kind of showing how extravagant they all were, and i think it focused more on the luxury lifestyle freddie brought to jim than anything else. it kind of made it feel like the book was written for the wrong reasons; freddie was a really private guy and he would've hated some of the stuff jim put into that book, but i can see why jim wanted to share it. i didn't love it but, as a queen fan, it's just one of those books you have to read.

'the restaurant at the end of the universe' by douglas adams (goodreads) - this is the second book in the 'hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' series; i read the first one in february and absolutely loved it so i bought the rest of the series to read. i can't really say anything about the actual plot because it is one of a series and i don't want to ruin it for any of you, but i will say that it is a scifi series about a group of people travelling around space after they come together by chance when earth is destroyed to build a highway. the main thing i love about this series is that the books are so funny. it reminds me of all the classic british tv shows like fawlty towers and monty python, i love it. to be honest though, i found this book a lot harder to read than the first book and it put me in a bit of a reading slump actually, i just wasn't interested in picking it up at all, which made me quite sad as i had loved the first book so much. because of that i'm not very excited about reading the next books in the series but i am very interested to see what my reading experience will be like and if getting back into the world we re-ignite my interest in the story.

'the bell jar' by sylvia plath (goodreads) - this is such a huge famous book and loved by so many of my friends that i can't believe it took me so long to read it! it's about a girls experience with her declining mental health and a stay in hospital to overcome it, and i found it to be very honest and realistic on that aspect. i did get slightly confused because i thought it was autobiographical and then a character called the narrator 'esther', but i think it is very heavily based on sylvia plath's own experiences. i loved the story and i particularly loved the first section of the book which is set in new york - i LOVE books about people travelling in new york! (if any of you have any recommendations of books that involve people studying in new york or travelling to new york then please comment them below!) i found it very easy to read and to follow for a book that might be considered a classic and i really loved her writing style, i'm very interested in reading some more of her work! i know she's written a lot of poetry so maybe it's a good excuse to delve into some poems.

'the turn of the screw' by henry james (goodreads) - 'the turn of the screw' is a really short horror story (very much like 'the woman in black') about a woman who gets a job teaching and caring for two children, but she starts to notice weird things going on in the house and seeing what she thinks might be ghosts stalking them. it's a classic, and you guys know how i feel about classics, so i did struggle through it a lot, especially for the first 50 or so pages. henry james didn't help me out at all though; i kind of felt like the book was more an exercise in long complicated sentences than an actual story, so a lot of the details were lost on me. i read a review on goodreads that said something like the book was like "words words words words plot point words words words ghosts words words words words is she crazy? words words words are they all crazy?" are so on, it was just so much language, i couldn't process it at all. when i finished the book and thought about the story in itself, it literally could've been told in about 10 pages if they'd just cut out all the nonsense. plus, i wasn't scared at all! for a horror story i think it's important not to confuse your reader so that they can experience the same fear as the narrator, but the narrator just rambled on about the apparently 'shocking' appearance of the ghosts, but they didn't get the shock across to me at all. so all in all, i didn't enjoy it that much.

'we were liars' by e. lockhart (goodreads) - i read 'we were liars' as part of the #liarsliveread with hot key books on twitter, which was actually really fun! i don't usually participate in readalongs or anything like that so it was a nice change. i don't want to say too much about this book because anything i say is going to give something important away, but i will say that i found that the story wasn't as exciting as i wanted it to be (i was amazed at the revelation in the last chapter though) but the manipulation and the untrustworthy narrator made the reading experience so unique and wonderful, i couldn't stop thinking about the book for days and days.

'the DUFF' by kody keplinger (goodreads) - 'the DUFF' is about a girl, and one day a guy comes up to her and tells her she's the 'DUFF/designated ugly fat friend' of her friendship group and it kind of revolves around how that effects her, but there's also lots of stuff going on with her family and her friends and school and crushes and so on. it's a totally fluffy contemporary but the protagonist is not at all what you'd expect - bianca's cynical, she's strong-headed, she doesn't believe in high-school romances, she's everything i've ever wanted in a contemporary female protagonist! it is a very easy, light read, and i could get through 100+ pages in less than an hour, but i enjoyed it so much. at the time, as well, i was in a bit of a reading slump so 'the DUFF' was exactly what i needed. also, one thing i really appreciated about this book is how frank and straight-forward it was about sex and relationships; it didn't gloss over the subject at all, which is always the right approach for YA.

'the program' by suzanne young (goodreads) - i won't say too much about this book because i wrote a full review on it which you can read here - but i LOVED IT! can't wait to read the next in the series!

thanks for reading guys! lots of exciting posts coming up soon so keep checking back! and please let me know what you read this month (or link your blog!) in the comments! x

april wrap-up

hello! i'm so bad at this blogging thing; every time i decide to start blogging seriously i do a week of commitment and then forget it for a month. i'm so sorry! i've been crazy busy working on my final deadline for college, which i finished and handed in on tuesday, so from now on i've got as much free time as i want to spend writing here!

'allegiant' by veronica roth (not pictured) (goodreads) - i finished this INCREDIBLE series this month and absolutely loved it. maybe i even loved it more than the hunger games? the jury is still out. i don't have it to show at the moment because i lent it to a friend. i will be speaking a lot more in depth about the series and the final book in my series review which should be up soon (i know you've been waiting, sorry again!).

'the key to the golden firebird' by maureen johnson (goodreads) - it took me a while to get into this book just because i was really too busy to be reading, but once i actually put aside the time to read i loved it. i'm not sure why but i love books with sports involved (maybe not a play-by-play of a game - the quidditch world cup scene in the harry potter books made me want to cry), like in 'the silver linings playbook' i absolutely loved reading about the football fans and things, so, being centred around softball, this was right up my street. this book is centred around a family whose father has recently passed away, and it focuses on the 3 daughters as they cope with that, and other things, in their own way. it was just exactly what i needed to read at the time and i just enjoyed reading it so much. plus - this book was published by hot key books in the uk, but it's a floppy paperback?! i love floppy paperbacks!

'a monster calls' by patrick ness (goodreads) - this book was so not what i was expecting! it's about a boy whose mother is suffering with cancer, and one day a huge monster appears in his garden calling his name. i was expecting it to be very creepy and dark, like something neil gaiman would've written, but it was actually so heartfelt and touching; i was crying at the end! i think every child should read this book, it teaches so much about coping in difficult situations and dealing with anger and things. i personally didn't read the illustrated version and i didn't feel like i was missing anything, but i'm told that the illustrations are incredible in themselves.

'2001: a space odyssey' by arthur c. clarke (goodreads) - a while back i was on a huge sci-fi kick and started reading this book, but got stuck after 30 pages. then, this month i saw it had been sitting in my 'currently reading' on goodreads for so long and i decided i had to power through it and get it out of the way. you all know how much i struggle with classics, and i definitely struggled with this. there were some sections that i loved - i especially enjoyed the dialogue between characters, but, because most of the book was based on a spaceship with a 2-man-crew, the conversation was limited, and there were some 50-odd-page sections that were pure description, which were very hard to get through - especially because those descriptions involved a lot of space-jargon that was hard to follow. the book is split into about 5 sections which jump backwards and forwards in time, which didn't help either. if you're struggling to get through a book, and you've just started getting the hang of what's happening, and then suddenly you're a few million years into the past, it made it really hard to want to keep going and try to get a hang of the new scenario. the story in itself was excellent and very interesting (a lot of the 'incredible' technology seemed normal to me because space travel is something we can already do, but when you think about how this book was written before the moon landing, then it becomes incredible) but i just did not enjoy reading it at all.

so those are all the books i read in april! sorry again for the long absence guys, i promise you i'll have a lot of new posts up soon! thanks for reading!

march wrap-up

hi guys! march wrap-up time! i can't even believe how much i read this month, this is actually double what i need to meet my reading challenge goals for march. maybe i'll even surpass the 50 book challenge this year?! who knew it could be possible! ANYWAY: let's get on with the books! 

'unhinged' by a.g. howard (goodreads): my thoughts on 'splintered' were mixed (the 'damsel in distress' card was played on practically every page) so i was a bit reserved about 'unhinged' but a.g. howard definitely stepped it up! alyssa's character was a lot more developed and interesting and i felt like, once the initial 'alice in wonderland' story was over, it took on much more of it's own life and i LOVED it! team morpheus all the way! the ending was incredible and i CANNOT wait until january for the next book!

'the lover's dictionary' by david levithan (goodreads): this book was very interesting; it wasn't, like, a great epic love story, but it doesn't claim to be one either. it was more of an exercise in getting a story across whilst working with a limitation, which was very successful, but i just didn't feel connected to the story and i didn't really care about the characters very much. it's definitely a unique read though, and i read it in one hour-long-ish sitting, so if you're behind on your reading challenge definitely give this a go.

'paper aeroplanes' by dawn o'porter (goodreads): i would've loved this book so so much when i was younger, but it just wasn't for 19-y/o me. i have mixed feelings about it; at some points is was very realistic and raw and honest, and at others (especially at the ending) it felt either unrealistic or underdeveloped (what happens to sally in the end was very random and out-of-the-blue - on reflection it's definitely something sally's character might've done but it just wasn't explained enough). i also guessed any and every 'twist' in the story, which, again, is probably just because i'm quite a bit older than the targeted reader. i loved dawn o'porter's writing style though and will definitely be reading 'goose' - even though this book wasn't perfect i'm very interested to see what happens next.

'whip it' by shauna cross (goodreads): maybe one of my favourite books ever?! i loved it! i absolutely adore the film version of 'whip it' and it is very true to the book, so of course i was gonna love it! i felt like some of the characters in the book weren't as developed as in the film and didn't really have any back story, which was a bit disappointing, but otherwise i have no complaints. go read it, and then go see the film!

'annihalation' by jeff vandermeer (goodreads): i won a proof copy of this book on my local waterstones' twitter page, and it is definitely something i would have never picked up by myself but i actually really enjoyed it! it's one of those books that doesn't make that much of an impression on you whilst you're reading it, but once you're done you can't stop thinking about it. i didn't really feel anything towards the narrator at all, i was kind of indifferent about her, but the story she was telling was excellent. definitely going to be picking up the next two books in the trilogy once they're released.

'eleanor & park' by rainbow rowell (goodreads): ahhhh THIS BOOK! everyone has been going on and on about this book for the last year and it is so completely worth the hype! i don't know how rainbow rowell does it - how do you write a book that is nothing but a love story and have it just the PERFECT amount of romancey mushy kissy stuff?! eleanor and park are both such perfect characters, together and on their own; i cared so much about them and i wanted them to be together so badly and they were just completely real perfectly-formed people in my mind. and that ending! oh man, i had to stay up 'til early in the morning to finish it and i was sobbing onto the pages, i was a wreck! emotional rollercoaster or what! this book is perfect!

'divergent' by veronica roth (goodreads) & 'insurgent' by veronica roth (goodreads): OH MY GOD THIS SERIES! i love it i love it i love it! i'm not going to talk too much about it here because i'm going to do a kind of full-series review, so look out for that. please nobody spoil me for the end of 'allegiant'!

thanks for reading guys - please link me to your wrap-ups in the comments! can't wait to get more involved in this community! :)