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Legend by Marie Lu     Pictured above is one of my absolute, all time and forever standing, favorite series. The first book is called Legend, and it was no lie, this story is  legendary!  This was Marie Lu's first series and it was my first time reading something by her, and she knocked it out of the park completely. These books were so good, that now I feel like I need to read everything she writes,  just in case is as good as this series is.  This story takes place in a futuristic dystopia where the government is ingrained in everyone lives.  The society is split between the nice government sector and everything else is slums. All kids take an exam to determine they're worth and potential, and all kids take them, from the wealthiest kids to the ones living in poverty.  We follow a young man named Daniel, who is known as Day, who scored perfectly on these exams, too perfect for being from th...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue   by V. E. Schwab      I love V.E. Schwabs writing and I was so excited to pick up this novel! I had no idea what it was about when I bought it but it I enjoyed the story.  This is a realistic fiction about a young woman named Adeline LaRue born in the 1700’s. She never fit in in her life, she didn’t want to marry or be forced into cooking and laundry and being a mother.   Her modern ideas came from the village “crazy lady” who prayed to the old gods. This woman taught Adeline (Addie) to pray to these god, but to never pray at night.  Addie grew into a young woman and her parents were forcing her into marriage. On the night of the wedding, Addie took off into the forest and prayed for someone to save her from the empty life ahead of her. She prayed all day and into the night, and in the night, a god answered.  He granted her her wish, to live her life as she pleased for as long as she pleased. It came with un...

  Dark Life   by Kat Falls      I don't usually re-read books, especially those I bought over 10 years ago, but this book is the exception. I bought this book out of a junior high book catalog and I enjoy it every time I read it. It's a futuristic dystopian/utopia where the outer boarders of the world's continents have collapsed into the sea and people have adapted and built structures that allow them to live underwater.  We follow the story of a young man who is one of the first in the first generation to have been born and lived his entire life in a house under the surface. Rumors have started going about how the underwater pressure affected the brains of the children born under and that it gave them special abilities, known as a "dark gift". These are just rumors, aren't they? Our young protagonist is an adventurer at heart, exploring the ruins of sunken humanity. He's out in a sunken building when he runs in...

The Love Interest   by Cale Dietrich      It's be loved or be killed in this stand alone novel from Cale Dietrich. This is one book I picked up on a whim (meaning the cover looked interesting. It is what it is), and I am so glad I did! It was one of the most unique novels I've read in a long time.  It's a  realistic fiction, slightly dystopian, young adult twisted romance.  This world is set up exactly like ours, only there are academy's that mold young men and women into the perfect matches for important people in the 'real' world (I'll refer to them as VIP's). These academy's determine successful people who are most likely to change the world for the better, given the chance and the right support system from their romantic partner.  Therefore, they build the perfect match for them. These matches that are created are called "Love Interests', and they're sent out into the world of the VIP they...

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss          Welcome back to my book blog! I'll be giving my review over the book pictured above, Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear , the first two installments of Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles . I read these books in 2015, so it has been a few years, but I think that is the best way to tell what was unique and memorable about these two books. This story was a stepping stone for me, they were my first dive into fantasy novels that involved the fey, world-building and a completely different magic system than I've ever come across before.  A few words I would use to describe this story are: fantasy, science-fiction, thought provoking and thorough. The way Rothfuss set up this story was each 1000 page book contains a single day of the main  characters life. It's told through the first person perspective of Kvothe, our hero of sorts, and Rothfuss expertly builds the worl...