AFTER CHRISTMAS BOOK HAUL!!

Merry Christmas Ya'll!! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. This year we were gifted with several new books to add to our bookshelves. We will have more books to add to our Christmas Book Tree next year!!

We hope all our fellow bookworms got the books they were dying to get their hands on!! 

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***This year's Christmas Book Tree***

(Look's like this is going to be a new Christmas tradition)

Now let's get to this year's Christmas Book Haul!!

Christmas Gift From Mia at M&EMReads:

Everything Everything by: Nicola Yoon

Crash into You by: Katie McGarry

Chloe's Christmas Book Haul:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by: J.K. Rowling

(The Illustrated version)

Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy by: Cassandra Clare

My Christmas Book Haul:

Two by Two by: Nicholas Sparks

United by: Melissa Landers

The Kiss of Deception by: Mary E. Pearson

The Chemist by: Stephanie Meyer

Apollyon by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sentinel by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Stone Cold Touch by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Every Last Breath by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Wait for You by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Wild Crush by: Simone Elkeles

What books did ya'll get for Christmas this year?

Published by: K&C

Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by: Michelle Hodkin

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

By: Michelle Hodkin

Series: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Series

Genre:  Young Adult Paranormal, Romance

Length: 456 pages

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. 

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. 

She's wrong.



My Review:

Rating:

Warning: Spoilers Ahead

This book was absolutely amazing!! I devoured it from the very beginning. Even though this is my first Michelle Hodkin book I found her to be a magnificent author, she has definitely made it to my list of favorite authors. She has done a remarkable job developing this odd, crazy world that Mara has found herself a part of. 

This book has been on my to-read list for a very long time. However, it was never really on the top of that list until my best friend read it and fell in love with the series. She was nice enough to buy the entire series for me, just so I could read the series and share in her joy of such a remarkable book. And I have to say she did not disappoint (Not that I would very doubt her lol).

I liked Mara's character from the very beginning, she had such a strong personality that really drew me to her character. I just had to know what really happened to Mara while in the Asylum and why she survived when no one else did. As I started the book I truly thought she was losing her mind, so when the paranormal twist came in towards the end I was completely caught off guard. I can't wait to see what kind of paranormal abilities Noah and Mara possess. 

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” 

I truly did not expect Mara to have anything to do with anyone's death, at least not until the end. I was just has baffled as she was as to why these people were dying. So when we find out that she and Noah possess very Yin and Yang powers, I was shocked and couldn't wait to see where they came from and why them. Looks like I have to wait until the next book to discover more about these powers the both possess. 

“Today, tonight, tommorrow, forever. I was made for you” 

Noah and Mara are the cutest! I loved watching their relationship grow, and slowly dissolve towards the end, as Mara began to embrace her new power. I look forward to seeing if they can get their relationship back to where it was or have a stronger bond with their shared abilities. 

I look forward to reading book two, especially since it has been sitting on my nightstand for the past couple nights. Being such a busy past couple days I haven't had the opportunity to start it yet. I can't wait to see what the future has in store for Mara and Noah. And why is Jude still alive? Does he have a power all his own?

By: K