DNF Review: Firstlife by Gena Showalter

DNF'd at page 80. TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT ALL OF THE TROPES SPESHUL LOVE TRIANGLE SNOWFLAKES WITH SPESHUL POWERS AND IS GONNA PROBS OVERTHROW THE WAR BETWEEN THE TWO OPPOSING FORCES. This is book is just absolutely terrible. Tenley is a cardboard cutout special snowflake that is absolutely whiny, bitchy, and overwhelmingly annoying as all hell. I will admit this concept is intriguing as all hell yet the writing itself includes choppy, short sentences that is over descript  Title: Firstlife (Everlife #1) Author: Gena Showalter Page Count: 467 Genre: YA Fantasy, Rating: DNF'd at page 80 Source: Booknerd Babes Travelling Book Links: Goodreads IndieBound Amazon Barnes & Noble The Book Depository Synopsis: ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE. Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she’s drawn to isn’t home to the boy she’s falling for? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision… REVIEW: DNF'd at page 80. As I go along in my reading journey, and I read more novels... I have been much more lenient on putting them aside. Most of the time, I will try to come back to them... but there are a few special books like this one that I will never be finishing because I just couldn't handle it. TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT TROPE ALERT ALL OF THE TROPES SPESHUL LOVE TRIANGLE SNOWFLAKES WITH SPESHUL POWERS AND IS GONNA PROBS OVERTHROW THE WAR BETWEEN THE TWO OPPOSING FORCES. This is book is just absolutely terrible. Tenley is a cardboard cutout special snowflake that is absolutely whiny, bitchy, and overwhelmingly annoying as all hell. I will admit this concept is intriguing as all hell yet the writing itself includes choppy, short sentences that are over descriptive and filled with proper nouns that make absolutely no sense until pages later when they are "explained" and even then you are still completely confused. Ten has an interesting quirk... she likes to count and I enjoyed that aspect and the concept itself.... But a cool concept and one intriguing character (Bow) cannot make up for a love triangle that you can see from two thousand miles away and just plain bad writing.... I did, however, really enjoy the email conversations and wish more of the book had that style because I may have continued with it for a little longer. Because the snark and sass was amazing in that section. I tried so hard to like this one and it's seriously a cool concept, yet sadly another case of great idea but a failed execution. I cannot recommend this to anybody. Don't waste your time with this one.

DNF eARC Review: Reawakened by Colleen Houck (Out August 2015)

I received an e ARC from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

Title: Reawakened
Author: Colleen Houck
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Genre: Young Adult, Mythology, Egyptian
Rating: DNF When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. 
And she really can't imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe.
 
But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world. 
 
From New York Timesbestselling author Colleen Houck comes an epic adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself.


Review: I have only read Tigers Curse by Colleen Houck, but never continued with the series despite my love for the novel. The concept of this book was intriguing to me because I absolutely love mythology. Egyptian mythology is especially interesting and starting this I was very very excited.

As I begin, I am noticing the drastic switch between the cool, interesting mythology, to the modern day society. This reminds me a lot of Tigers Curse and what the prologue entails for the rest of the novel. I like the way Houck did this in her last piece I read by her, but really? You could be a little more original than that.

This character is immediately kinda likable (but really not at all), because she seems to be given everything she wants, but at a price. She isn't perfect, and she already seems to have her own problems, right from the beginning. This should be very interesting.

This mummy is crazy! He's a prince too? WHAT? So, Lilliana will probably end up falling in love with him. I'm calling it when I have barely started the story because it's Colleen Houck and it makes sense, I mean have you read Tigers Curse?

I'm interested to see how Houck combines these two world and if they collide well or not.

Update: 8/15
This book has taken me FOREVER to read. I keep trying, and getting bored and switching to another book because I am desperately trying to avoid a reading slump. I have lots I have to read for school (which I am almost done with! WOOT WOOT) and a slump would be horrendous.

Update: 9/1
I keep updating this because I really want to read this but every time I begin I put it down for something better. Will I ever finish this? Time shall tell, it is on my TBR for September but so are a LOT of ARCs. I'm publishing this now, because I don't know if I'll ever finish it....

STAY TUNED MAYBE I'LL FINALLY READ THIS ONE!