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Now this was a fantastic conclusion to this trilogy!
It wraps everything up and has everything that you would be looking for for in Book Three.
I am not really going to write a lot about it, but to say that I loved it.
If you have read Hunger Games and Catching Fire then you will love this book!
5 stars and definitely recommend it!
So go read it!
This was my first forray back into reading and I must say, it was the BEST idea ever! 🙂 Thanks to Kimber who kept encouraging me to read it with her, even though I was a little afraid that it would still make me sick.
So anyways, I was so, so, so, pleased with the conclusion of this duet. Her Mother’s Hope was such a great book, and so I was really excited about this one. And I must say that I was blown away by the intensity of emotions. I have a great relationship with my mother, yet I still was wrapped into this story like it was my own life.
I think this is such a wonderful book about healing relationships and how the way you say things can be received in a totally different way and how entire lives can be affected because of the power of words.
SUCH a great book and you need to read it STAT!
5 stars and totally recommend it.
This is a the 2nd book to The Forest of Hands and Teeth which is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time!
It doesn’t so much pick up where the last one left off, so I wouldn’t call it a sequal, it just sort of progresses the stories a few decades later.
But just like Forest of Hands and Teeth, it grips you and sucks you in. You connect with the characters and the love and the fear and the tragedy on such a deep level.
I TOTALLY recommend this book with 5 stars! Like seriously, go out and read both of them… like now. This instant!
Summary:
Gabry has grown up safely in the city of Vista. She lives in a lighthouse with her mother, Mary, the daring heroine of The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Delacorte, 2009), whose job it is to kill Mudo—zombies—as they wash ashore. Then one night, Cira, Gabry’s best friend, and Catcher, Cira’s brother, convince her to sneak outside Vista’s walls. With the attack of one Breaker—a fast zombie—everything changes: a friend is killed, Catcher is infected, and Cira is imprisoned and destined for the Recruiters, the army that protects the loose federation of cities left after the Return. Feeling both guilty for having escaped punishment and self-destructive after the revelation that Mary in fact adopted her, Gabry pushes herself to cross the city’s Barrier again. Some pieces of the narrative are well constructed: the constant, looming threat of the Mudo, Gabry’s quiet determination and daring in the face of fear, and villainous soldier Daniel’s palpably frightening power-grabbing sexual advances. Other details are less believable, like Mary’s suddenly abandoning her daughter and her duties to seek her past in the Forest. Though flawed, this volume has enough action, romance, and depth of character to satisfy, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave fans hungry for the third book.
Now this was an interesting book.
It’s all about what would happen if the extreme, religious right took over the country and for the “woman’s own good” began to strip away her rights to where within 10 years or so we were basically back in the Puritan era.
But then mix it up with the fact that because of all the pesticides, nuclear power plant explosions, etc the majority of Americans can’t conceive and 3 out of 4 babies are born with abnormalities, it’s just does not bode well for women.
This is a story, sort of like an oral diary, of a “Handmaid” which is just a nice way of saying birthing slave.
Also her personal tragedy is just heart breaking. I totally mourned for the loss of her life and her loves.
I enjoyed the book, although it has some mature content in it.
It was the kind of book that really got you thinking.
recommend it.
Summary:
In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist’s nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the “morally fit” Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: “of Fred”), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be.
Here was a nice, easy read that has lots of unrequited love and fantasy all mixed in.
I’m a little torn because although I found myself thinking about this book when I was not reading it, I also was not entirely in love with the book. It captured me, but didn’t grip me.
I think it was because I just felt the main characters were too young. I wished it would be have been centered around turning 18 instead of 16. They just felt too young for me to truly believe their devoted love. Does that betray my age/cynicism? 🙂
I did like the fact that the main narrator was a guy and not a girl. That’s pretty unusual in YA books, and I enjoyed reading from the guy’s perspective for a change.
The next one
Anyways, I really did like it though!
Summary: Ethan Wate is struggling to hide his apathy for his high school “in” crowd in small town Gatlin, South Carolina, until he meets the determinedly “out” Lena Duchannes, the girl of his dreams (literally–she has been in his nightmares for months). What follows is a smart, modern fantasy–a tale of star-crossed lovers and a dark, dangerous secret. Beautiful Creatures is a delicious southern Gothic that charms you from the first page, drawing you into a dark world of magic and mystery until you emerge gasping and blinking, wondering what happened to the last few hours (and how many more you’re willing to give up). To tell too much of the plot would spoil the thrill of discovery, and believe me, you will want to uncover the secrets of this richly imagined dark fantasy on your own
Destiny Cole 