When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden world of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.
Review:
Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an advance reader copy in exchange of an honest review.
This is becoming an habit, unfortunately. Maybe I'm just bad at picking books, but I keep hoping something like And We Stay or Witch Finder will find its way to me. For now, this is another negative review.
I didn't like this one bit. The base idea was compelling enough, but the protagonist wasn't. I didn't like Kira, Raf was too flat and Simon was creepy. Once again, there was a love triangle and the female character couldn't make up her mind. How original.
Simon offended me at many levels. I felt uncomfortable, really. Half of the time he was just pushing Kira around like she was some kind of puppet and she didn't even try to stand for herself. Was he supposed to be the bad boy? Was I supposed to like him? Because generally I do like the bad boys, but this one was insulting and had little to no charm.
The pace was too slow, the conflict wasn't exciting. Not even the fact that there was a character from my nationality (Raf) kept me interested.
Classificação:
1 out of 5 stars.
Sinopse:
For centuries, the Furies have lived among us. Long ago they were called witches and massacred by the thousands. But they’re human just like us, except for a rare genetic mutation that they’ve hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years.
Now, a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel has led John Rogers into the middle of a secret war among the Furies. Ariel needs John’s help in the battle between a rebellious faction of the clan and their elders. The grand prize in this war is a chance to remake the human race.
Review:
Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an advance reader copy in exchange of an honest review.
I didn't like it, that's it. The book didn't start bad, I was enjoying the idea of witch trials and witch hunters and all but then it shifted to modern times and it kinda ruined everything. Lets just say that John wasn't the greatest of main characters. In fact, I didn't care for him at all. He wasn't interesting and the way his relationship with Ariel started was kinda creepy. Ariel didn't convince me either, mostly because she was there just to be a love interest. If that wasn't the author's intention, then he didn't do a good job showing it. Seriously, I could continue to read if the book wasn't this long and boring. Gang fights is not my thing. This entire book is not my thing. So, after going through sixty pages of a story I didn't enjoy with main characters I didn't relate to and a love story that felt gross to me, I decided to stop. Gorgeous cover, though. Very deceiving.
Classificação:
1 out of 5 stars
Sinopse:
Seventeen-year-old Raine Cooper has enough on her plate dealing with her father’s disappearance, her mother’s erratic behavior and the possibility of her boyfriend relocating. The last thing she needs is Torin St. James—a mysterious new neighbor with a wicked smile and uncanny way of reading her.
Raine is drawn to Torin’s dark sexiness against her better judgment, until he saves her life with weird marks and she realizes he is different. But by healing her, Torin changes something inside Raine. Now she can’t stop thinking about him. Half the time, she’s not sure whether to fall into his arms or run.
Scared, she sets out to find out what Torin is. But the closer she gets to the truth the more she uncovers something sinister about Torin. What Torin is goes back to an ancient mythology and Raine is somehow part of it. Not only are she and her friends in danger, she must choose a side, but the wrong choice will cost Raine her life.
Review:
Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with this book in exchange of an honest review.
I didn't like it, I'm sorry. I couldn't even finish it.
Somebody told me the first thirty pages of a novel should be the most important ones because if I read thirty pages and I'm still not enjoying myself, I never will. I waited for page 40 to completely give up.
The synopsis is interesting, the cover it's not the best but I like the colors and I was really hoping for an awesome story.
First off, why does every YA book have to be written in first person? While this can be pretty amusing sometimes, at some cases it just ruins things. I didn't like the protagonist, which makes it harder to like the book. And I didn't like the narrative either; it was poorly written, in my opinion.
It had a lot of cliches in it and I honestly didn't care about any of the characters, as they were just tropes and nothing more.
Oh, and please please please let me get what I want, stop creating female protagonists who go all dumb just because a pretty boy talks to them. It's annoying and insulting for me, as a woman (this book is written by a woman afterall, so she should be more careful, I guess).
I don't have much more to say. I'm so sorry for giving up on Runes, especially because I got it through Netgalley and I don't want to sound rude. I know it's really hard to write a novel and the author must have worked very hard to do it, but I just can't bring myself to like it.
Classificação:
1 out of 5 stars
Sinopse:
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms. Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.
(Mini-)Review:
I just gave it up and honestly I don't usually do this kind of things. It was so awful that I felt like I was just wasting my time. I wanted to finish it so I could do a good review about it, but the first pages were enough. Please, do a favor to yourself: don't read it. There's fanfiction way better than this "book".
Classificação:
1 out of 5 stars
P.S: Não estranhem reviews em inglês nos próximos dias, porque as originais estavam nesta língua e não me apeteceu traduzir. Qualquer erro, é culpa minha, but who cares?
Sinopse:
Primeiro romance realista da língua portuguesa, O Crime do Padre Amaro revelou o maior romancista português e chocou a sociedade da época com sua denúncia da hipocrisia social e religiosa. Romance anticlerical dos mais ferozes, é ambientado em Leiria, onde o Padre Amaro Vieira, ingênuo e psicologicamente um fraco, vai assumir sua paróquia. [...] O romance, que critica violentamente a vida provinciana e o comportamento do clero, foi, durante décadas, leitura proibida em muitas escolas de Portugal e do Brasil.
Frederico Barbosa e Sylmara Beletti
Review:
Não terminei sequer a leitura. Gostei bastante do estilo de Eça nos Maias e continuo a não fazer censura à qualidade da escrita do autor, mas a história em si não me cativou particularmente. Tenho imensa pena de ter de dar uma avaliação de apenas duas estrelas, mas perdi o interesse a meio do livro. As personagens principais não têm carisma de Carlos e Maria Eduarda nem por sombras e o ritmo é tão lento que dei por mim a obrigar-me a ler. A acção podia ser desenrolada com um pouco mais de velocidade e estar às voltas com o João Eduardo durante tanto tempo cansou-me. Desisto da leitura e não posso recomendá-la a quem gostar de ritmos mais rápidos, ainda que a crítica à sociedade beata e hipócrita seja apresentada de maneira excelente.
