Flawed - Cecelia Ahern - Spoiler Free Review

Title - Flawed
Author - Cecelia Ahern
Series - Flawed #1
ISBN - 9780008125097
Genre - YA > Dystopian
My Copy - NetGalley ARC
Format  - Kindle
Release Date - 24th March 2016
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depsoitory - Amazon UK - Amazon US

Celestine lives in a world where if you are deemed flawed you will get branded and become an outcast someone who is just an inconvenience to every other citizen so when Celestine the girl who is thew girlfriend of the son of the most powerful man in the state help a Flawed man and ends up on trial her self only 1 person in the entire history of the Flawed system has been found innocent, will she be the second or will she be deemed FLAWED.

I got this off of NetGalley in December, i believe and i had a bit of trepidation about reading it but i actually enjoyed it, i read it in one sitting and it was a lot better then i expected i think because i have read her Contemporaries that is why i thought she probably wouldn't be able to write a YA dystopian but she pulled it off in a way only a contemporary writer can even though it was set in a world very different from our own it felt like it wasn't it felt very real and you can feel the pain, heart ache and inner turmoil of the characters and in such a short amount of time you get very invested in characters and wish very painful things for others. 
It is that common Dystopian Trope again one girl against the government but it feels different than the others with how public it is. It has such a good Premise and it also followed through with a story to back it up.

I could definitely read more of this book book, i felt that it ended in the right place for the story but i just wanted more and that is how i know i have read a really good book when i physically need the next book now. I only have one major down on this book and its hat i feel it would have been better with more that just Celestine's POV just so we can see the scenes that are missing the scenes we only just catch glimpses of because they are to do with other people that Celestine has no business asking what happened because of her trial. Over all the characters were good i could give or take a few but the character development in this book for certain characters like Summer, Celestine's Mum is phenomenal and so good we get to see characters grow in their beliefs and in their mind set, and the world building in some of the best i have read in a dystopian book in a while.

Celestine was a very strong female heroine who stood up for what was right even though she was raided to think it is wrong and is not something she was raised to believe in. and she was a good character to tell the story her "voice" was very entertaining and fun to read.

For her first YA book Ahern did an extremely good job in setting up the rest of this series, i cannot wait to read more.

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Brave New Love - Paula Guran Spoiler Free Review

Title - Brave New Love
Author / Edited By - Paula Guran
ISBN - 9781849016018
Genre - YA > Dystopian
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US 

Brave New Love is an Anthology of 15 Tales of  Love and Desire set in Dystopian worlds, from a community Underground to children being locked in compounds being trained love is everywhere but sometimes you have to fight for it as well as your life. These are compelling, emotionally - charged stories of young lives lived in desperate circumstances can love really survive when you are fighting for your life and have no idea what is around the corner? 

I have very mixed views on this book honestly it wasn't worth reading the entire way through i could pick out some amazing stories but most of them were wither really bad or just not worth reading and some of them just were not clear enough i think two of them didn't even tell you the main narrators name and if I'm being honest it was very difficult to read at times. 

I do have good things to say about this this book had lots of stories with LGBT themes which I'm glad there are more of now because it would be discrimination to only have straight characters in a book with 15 stories about love, so i glad there was a variety so i wasn't as boring as it would have been reading pretty much the same love story over and over again just in a different setting. 

One of the main problems for me was there wasn't really any original story lines most of them i have seen in other books on my shelf and that really bugged me because it felt like i was having Deja Vu all the time. 

But as i said before there were some that were really good like ...

The Salt Sea & The Sky - Elizabeth Bear
The Clearing - Kiera Cass
Now Purple With Loves Wound - Carrie Vaughn
Burserker - Maria V. Snyder
Foundlings - Diana Peterfreund
Seeker in The City - Jeanne DuParu
The Up - Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Out of 15 that's less than half that for me were actually worth reading so honestly i hope you read it and judge it for yourself but if you don't just read some of these stories and i promise you wont be disappointed. 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

 

Top 5 Wednesday - Top 5 Hunger Games Moments (Movies or Books)

Hello, so the last Hunger Games movie comes out this week and its bittersweet because i cannot wait to see how to do certain scene but i really don't want it to end. so if you haven't read the Hunger Games Entire Series then be warned there are spoilers below.

lets get started....

5. I Volunteer 

The "I volunteer" scene in the books was emotional but watching it in the movie and hearing Prims reaction had me almost crying.

4. "You Don't Forget The Face of The Person Who Was Your Last Hope"

I read this book back in 2012 just before the first film came out and this is the quote that stuck with me from this book and i still love it to this day.

3. Epilogue 

I don't know why some people hate this last book i loved it and that ending, i really don't want to spoil anything for the people who haven't read this series yet but it just hit me in the feels and it was a well constructed and written epilogue compared to some. I absolutely cannot wait to see it on the big screen i think i will probably cry. 

2. "Real or Not Real?" I tell him "Real"

What a last line to a book, i don't think that spoils too much but if it does I'm sorry. I love this line and what it represents, and like before i cannot wait to see it in the movie. 

It was really difficult to choose a picture that didn't spoil anything.

1. "Fire is Catching!. And if We Burn You Burn With Us." 

Again both the book and the movie versions were so heart wrenching and i get chills when i watch that scene over. You can just feel the pain and its very real its a WAR. 

There is so many more, and if you have done this weeks T5W put the link in the comments i would love to see what you chose. 

Top 5 Wednesday was created by GingerReadsLainey

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Until Next Time

Happy Reading