A Dogs Purpose

A Dogs Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Length: 319 pages
Four out of Five Stars

W. Bruce Cameron has managed to capture the perspective of a lovable dog the way only a true dog lover like himself would be able to do. This book is a creative take on the "typical puppy book" and has left all the others behind. As the back cover states, it is more than just another lovable dog story.

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Entwined by Heather Dixon
Length: 472 pages
4 out of 5 stars

The fantasy element of this novel helps to set it apart from many books of a similar style. It has a perfect blend of fantasy and reality that creates an image that is both mystical yet believable.

 I would recommend this if you have read:  The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale or Journey to the River-Sea by Eva Ibbotson.

Just so you know...

I plan to start featuring a book every so often with a picture of the front and back cover as well as a brief description of the book. It will not have a summary that I wrote so I will be able to get these reviews out faster. However, the back cover summary will be visible in the pictures. I hope to be able to do at least one of these every week,  but that depends on how easily I can get a hold of a new book and how busy I am. I hope you find these reviews helpful.

~Abbie

Series of the Month: the Delirium Trilogy

Summary:

Lena lives in a world where love is considered a disease. A cure for amor delirium nervosa (the scientific name for the disease) has been formulated by scientists and is distributed to every person in the community around their eighteenth birthday. Lena, like many others her age is excited that soon she will be cured and will be completely safe from the disease that tore her family apart. Lena's mother was given the cure three separate times after she contracted the disease but it was never totally diminished. She disappeared when Lena was still a young child and left her with nothing but  memories and an older sister. After the incident with the disease, Lena went to live with her aunt and uncle. The story starts a little before Lena is going to be evaluated to decide who she will be paired with for marriage. A few minutes before her evaluation starts, Hana (Lena's best friend), whispers something strange to her which Lena can't quite keep out of her mind, even during her evaluation. Just as she is about to make a horrible mistake, the alarm in the building goes off accompanied by a stampede set by the Invalids, people who don't agree with the idea that love is a disease. Lena is scheduled to have her evaluation a different day, but not before she catches a glimpse of a strange boy standing on the observation deck above her evaluation room. What Lena doesn't know, is that the boy she saw for only a few seconds during the stampede, was about to change her life so drastically that she wouldn't even recognize her old self.

Lena continues her journey in the two other books in this trilogy, Pandemonium and Requiem. This series had me hooked from page one! This is one of my favorite trilogies, however, there are several typos in the books and even if they don't take away from the story, they can be a little confusing at times.

I would give this trilogy a 4 out of 5 stars.

Just so you know...

I just wanted to notify you that I'm using my dad's blogging account to make my book blog so if there are any messages you would like to get to me, then you need say that they are for me specifically when you write them. They go to his g-mail account and if you don't state that they're for me, we won't know who they are for. Thanks!

~Abbie

My Reading Interests

As you can see based on the picture above, I can usually be found reading a fantasy or science fiction novel. I like to think that I read a variety of books although I do read many books that are popular at the time. However, I do also read books that are less commonly known, for example the Delirium trilogy. In my book blogs, I plan to list a "top book of the month" (possibly two books depending on the length of the novels). I will give a brief summery of the book (without spoilers) as well as a rating out of five stars. Obviously, my ideas of how highly rated a book should be may conflict with yours.  If that is the case, then it seems like a great opportunity for a discussion! If you would like, you can suggest books in the comments that you think I should read and review. I will also pick a series or trilogy to be featured as series of the month, with a summary and a rating. I hope you enjoy my book blogs and find them useful when you are looking for a new read.

~ Abbie