Book Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2)
by Marissa Meyer
Release Date: February 5th, 2013
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends 
Format: Hardcover, 452 pages
Source: Amazon/Ireen
ISBN: 978-0-9126-4296-9
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Goodreads Summary: The fates of Cinder and Scarlet collide as a Lunar threat spreads across the Earth...

Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

Cindy's Review: I read this book like more than a month ago, so honestly, I might forget some stuff about the book. Why am I reviewing so late then? Ummm. Because being lazy me, I haven't reviewed my books. I really have this big stack just for reviewing and I don't even review ALL books I read. (Like the ones I speed-read too much so I don't know what's going on). Yeah. I'm such a bad bloger. LOL.

The Cover:

So like I pre-ordered this book for my friend and it arrived at my house. It was gorgeous. I love new books. All new and non-damaged. And my friend let me read it first,;) since I helped her order it. 

The Characters/Plot: 

If I'm not mistaken (due to my bad memory {and I'm not even old yet} ) there are two pov's. One, Cinder's from Cinder. And two, the new girl Scarlet from Scarlet. The two main characters start off really far away from each other and then they get closer and closer. Soon, they get to meet and find out how they are connected to each other. 

Cinder - Her name is so close to mine. ;D I always loved her character, even though she's a cyborg. Honestly, she seems totally human to me. So in Scarlet, Cinder had just broken out of prison with her prison cell mate, Captain Thorn (more about him later) and they're running away on this flying ship thing. Or spaceship. Like the ones aliens ride in (at least in my imagination). Cinder's goal is to find Scarlet's grandma, because someone Scarlet's grandma knows about Cinder and had something to do with Cinder coming to Earth.

Scarlet - Scarlet on the other hand, lives with her grandma, but somehow her grandma goes missing. Her grandma had been missing for two weeks and her frantic search for her grandma led her to discovering something maybe more important. Scarlet meets Wolf who helps her along the adventure on finding the secret her grandma knows.

Wolf - Honestly Wolf kind of sounds hot. Although he's not my type of guy and I would never drool over him, I think he's hot for Scarlet. ;) I dunno how old he is. (Or at least I forgot) but I really hope he's young. (Because the younger they are, or at least to my age, the hotter they are. But they can't be younger than 15 or they're not hot. Just not over 22 or something unless the author's really good at making them hot) ;D Wolf is like this secret agent type of person who knows things but won't tell. Like Zach from Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series. He's hot. ;) Okay. I connect like all different kinds of books together, even when they're sooo different. LOL. 

Captain Thorn - So like even though to me, Thorn isn't really a main character, I guess he was pretty helpful to Cinder. I think he's like this perverty, kiddish, weirdish, crazish guy who likes Cinder. Honestly somehow my friend thinks he is hot and he could be a perfect candidate for the Kai-Cinder-(Thorn) love-triangle. I'm just like ewww... no. But I guess, different point of views from everyone. Although I don't think Thorn suits Cinder, I think Thorn would be this really fun person to be around cuz he's actually kind of funny: "Do we have a thing going on?" Omg. Thorn. Haha.

The Extras:

Weeeee, after I explain so much about characters I get tired of explaining plots. LOl. You can go read the Goodreads one, cuz yet again lazy me came. Hey. This is like my fourth review in a row. Sucks for me cuz I save everything for the weekend. Cuz I have school and all those dramatic life stuff for college blah blah blah and pograms to go to. Ewww... AND no time to read!!! Okay. Yeah. One reason why I have a stacked up to-be-reviewed-stack of books. 

Rating: (1-10): 9.2

Happy Reading~ 

Book Review: Breathe by Sarah Crossan

Breathe (Breathe #1)
by Sarah Crossan
Science Fiction 
Release Date: October 2nd, 2012
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover, 362 pages
Source: Liana Chau
ISBN: 978-0-06-211869-1
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Book Summary: In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea - and unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears - walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome. What will happen on the third day?

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Cindy's Review: I was really surprised I actually got my hands on a book like this. I first met this book....oh I'm so weird.....okay I first learned about this book through a Goodreads ad thing and it seemed oh so very interesting. ;) 

Then one day, my friend and I went to this book signing for Marie Lu, Andrea Cremer, Jessica Khoury, and Brenna Yovanoff (Jealous? LOL. Jk.) and we saw the book selling on the book store!! ;) It was the first book signing I ever went and if you know me, I go nuts when I'm too crazily excited. The Selection was selling.....and omg. Tons of books. Then I saw this book.....and my friend wanted to buy it. So I decided I can just borrow her copy. Yeap. That's how I got it.

Gosh I sound like a kid telling a story. Anyways, I'm really glad I got my hands on this book though.

The Cover: 
So the cover is amazing. I finally understand what a pod looks like. Like in The Giver by Lois Lowry, there also this pod thing and now I can fully understand what it kind of looks like. ;) The book makes the outside world so harsh though.

The Characters/Plot:
So like even though these characters are super awesome, I didn't really connect and cry with them. So sorry if I don't explain enough about them.

Alina - Although there are three main characters, I still feel like Alina was the main main character. I felt like everything revolved around her and there wouldn't really be a story without her. Alina is this strong, smart, leader-ish type of girl, but she's kind of sad and breaking on the inside. Especially after that someone left her life. She is kind of like this decision maker leader thing. Although people look up to her decisions, many contradicts her, so I can't exactly say she is the leader. But out of the three main characters, I think she was the most brave and will walk on a battlefield even though she knows she will die. She is willing to walk to her death to do what's right. 

Quinn - Quinn is like the second main character to me. I mean, he is the guy. And i think he kind of held the group together. Without him, I think Alina would have by herself the whole time. Quinn is the son of this high society general person. So like if you read Pandemonium and Requiem (Lauren Oliver's Delirium series) kind of like Julian. {I just finished Requiem, so therefore my example} . Except I don't despise him like I despise Julian. Well, I didn't really hate Julian but it's all his fault why Lena......okay back to review. About Quinn. Before I get way too carried away. I feel like I'm talking to myself. Omg. So anyways, Quinn is like the glue. He likes Alina but Bea actually likes him a lot. I can say, on the outside Quinn likes Alina but deep down to his core, there's someone else.

Bea - Bea is the third girl on the adventure. At first, I hated her because I thought Quinn and Alina had a chance and Bea was the really annoying, jealous girl, but it turned out Alina wasn't even interested. I guess she just lost too many people in her life to care. At the end, Bea just turned out to be a girl to me.Nothing special. Just the girl. Bea kind of reminded me of Annabeth in the later series (The Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan) . I mean Annabeth isn't just a girl to me. Cuz she's like Percy Jackson's girlfriend, but later she became more whiny, and she gets jealous so much and like yeah. But I guess Bea is okay in the end.

So the three of them go out of the pod with two days of oxygen. So in there time, which is the future, so yes, this is a dystopian book. ;D oxygen is running out and special pods had to be created for people to live and people had to buy oxygen to breathe, so therefore the title. 

Quinn and Bea just wanted to go camping but Alina actually had a mission. To get to the people that hadn't listened to the government and created their own little group out there to survive. Alina actually is an agent there. SO yeah. Don 't wanna explain too much so I don't give the whole book away. ;) 

The Extras:
Yeah. Even though I talked a lot about other books. There's more.I'm just that talkative guys. It's a good thing right? :D

So the place Alina is going also reminds me about the Invalids in the Delirium series by Lauren Oliver. And all the other outcasts there are in books. SO I forgot what they're called in this book.

Rating: (1-10): 9

Anyways,
Happy Reading~