01/18/2016 @ 5:17pm

Since I finished "Antigoddess", I have also read the following books:
"Take a Piece of my Heart" by Diane Rose Duffy
"The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey
"The Infinite Sea" by Rick Yancey
"A Bad Character A Novel" by Deepti Kapoor

I've reviewed all of these books, and so let me tell you what I think of them.

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Take a Piece of My Heart
Diane Rose Duffy

Take a Piece of My Heart

I'm not going to lie, I cracked this book open, just to slam it closed again after the first two or three pages, and left it like that for months. I didn't like the writing style, I thought the character was stupid. No the character development by the author, but the character herself, and I thought to myself, "How the hell am I going to get through 235 starch white pages of nothing but a dumb girl who cusses a lot and has sex with a dumb guy?"
Well.
After a month or two, I decided that the weight of a purchased, unfinished book was weighing too heavily on me, and I tried it again with a fresh mind set. A more open mind set.
I couldn't put the damn thing down. The character was easily related to, and soon I felt myself feeling all of the same things she was. Her struggles, her depression, her triumphs, were all mine too.
Yes, yes, yes, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to be close to the character, regardless of the trials or tribulations.

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The Fifth Wave

The 5th Wave

The Infinite Sea

The Infinite Sea
Rick Yancey

There are no words I have that can describe the greatness of these books. Others may not agree with my fangirlisms, but I feel what I feel and I'm not going to hide it.

Dystopian (which, as we all know I love), alien invasion, end of days, the impossible struggle to survive, the inability to trust anyone around you while the unbearable weight of lonliness suffocates you.

That is what it's like to be inside of Rick Yancey's newest novels.

The format of the books is unique and makes it interesting. Chapters within sections, which are each from a different character's point of view. Some are first person, some are third person. The imagery is astounding in some sections, all of my senses are in the scene, like I have literally jumped from my world into theirs.

I would recommend these books to anyone and everyone!

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A Bad Character
Deepti Kapoor

A Bad Character

This book was interesting. It wasn't intense, or thrilling. I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone.
It's written as a journal. No chapters, only three sections, to break up the monotony I suppose.
This girl lives in India, and though she knows she does not want to be arranged to marry anyone that her aunt wants her to marry, she is incredibly passive the rest of the time, taking in experiences as they come, exploring her city and seeing it as she's never seen it before.
The author goes into incredible detail about Delhi and the surrounding areas, the poverty, the culture, the laws of drugs, drinking, driving, and abuse that don't seem to exist in her world.

The book, at least for me, was somehow, at the same time, boring and intriguing. I suppose because I could not relate to the character what so ever, but there were so many interesting things about the way she lived, her habits, and her life, that I will never know as an American woman.

It definitely wasn't a page-turning, and it wasn't a happy story by any means, but if you're looking for something different, something with culture, I would really recommend this one.

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That's all I have for now! I think I'll go the route of non-fiction next, watch for my blog! :)

Much love,
~Heather