Saving Wishes ~ G. J. Walker-Smith

So in this book the main character is Charlotte Blake (a.k.a. Charli). She wants to get out of the small town of Pipers Cove. Probably the most boring place she will ever be. She wants to go out and explore the world. She does not want to be held up in a small town. Then she meets Adam. He comes bearing a postcard that she made. Or more took a picture of. She said, "Fate brought you here." (pg. 108) She believes it is fate that brought him here bearing this beautiful postcard that she made that came all the way from New York to Australia. I am just going to go out on a limb here and say they are going to end up together! Wouldn't you say so? But I am only in the beginning and they are sort of coming together already so what is going to happen the next 800 pages? (It is not as big as you would think since there are more pages on a smaller screen; I am reading this on my phone)

I believe that something is going to happen to make the other person mad or something happens where they can't be together any more or Adam leaves because he has to go back to New York some time. Isn't that almost what always happens? Then sometimes they get back together

or they don't but I will have to keep reading to find out!

My Sister's Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. BEST. BOOK. EVER. This book is so good and soooo well written! The author is amazing and you feel like you are living each characters emotions! What the author does is she writes each chapter in first person. But each chapter is a different person! So you get the whole book from all the perspectives in first person, which is really helpful in this book because you need to know what is going on to understand. I have almost cried several times during the duration of this book. One of those times I was in class and the only reason I didn't cry was because I didn't want to embarrass my self...
Anyway! Imagine you were only born so you could be used to help your sister get through cancer. You would feel a little used right? Well that is how Anna Fitzgerald feels. She has to go to the hospital every time Kate, her sister, goes. Well, she won't let that happen anymore because she is suing her parents for the rights of her own body. (oh no she didn't!) The only confusing thing is, she is best friends with her sister! So why is she doing this? And that is one thing you are just to have to find out. :)

I have heard the movie is a real tear jerker too! Almost everybody that I have asked has watched the movie and have cried. I really want to watch it now!!! But below is the trailer so enjoy :) (you might even cry at the trailer; that's what I did)

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The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 3

Okay, throughout the whole book, I will admit that I have been a bit confused...I was always thinking: what, how, why? But I just came across a memory of the main character that possibly explained the whole book!
"'Do you have any idea what clairvoyance means?'
Clairvoyance. The forbidden word. I glanced around the restaurant, but nobody was looking. Or listening it seemed.
'Unnaturalness,' I said.
Jaxon smiled thinly. 'So the Archon calls it. But do you know what the word means? From the French.'
'Clear vision. A kind of extrasensory perception. Knowing things that are hidden.'
'And where are they hidden?'
I hesitated. 'In the subconscious?'
'Sometimes yes. Or sometimes' --he blew out the candle in the middle of the table--'in the æther.'
I looked into the smoke drawn to it. A chill spread through my chest. 'What's the æther?'
'The infinite. We come from it, we live within it, and when we die, we pass back into it. But not all of us are willing to part ways with the physical world.'
'Jax,' Nick said, keeping his voice low, 'this is meant to be an introduction, not a lecture series. She's sixteen.'
'I want to know,' I pressed.
'Paige--'
'Please.' I had to know.
His expression softened. He sat back in his seat and sipped his water. 'You choice.'
Jaxon, who was looking at us with raised eyebrows, pursed his lips before continuing. "The æther is a higher plane of existence," he said. 'It exists alongside the corporeal plane. Clairvoyants--people like us--have the ability to draw on the æther.'
I was sitting in a restaurant with two unnaturals. 'How?' I said.
'Oh, there are an infinite number of ways. I've spent fifteen years trying to categorize them.'
'But what does it mean to 'draw on the æther'' Asking questions about clairvoyance gave me a sinful little thrill.
'It means you can commune with the spirits,' Nick clarifies. 'The dead. Different voyants can do it in different ways.'
'So the æther is like the afterlife?'
'Purgatory,' Jaxon said.
'Afterlife,' Nick said." (pg, 186-188)

THis wasa when she got introduced to her"gang" of people. They were trying to explain it to her to try and get her to join them. She did. So now, if you ever read the book, which I highly recomend you do, you will be ahead of the game. :)

Relativity ~ Cristin Bishara

Looking at what I have read so far, I think that the cover has something to do with space and wormholes and lighting and that stuff. What I don't understand is the the saying on the front cover:

"What would you give up for the perfect life?"

I thought a little bit, and then I got to thinking. This book is about alternate universes and exploring them. I think maybe the main character found the perfect universe to live in and wants to abandon her own universe. But she has things in her universe that she won't have in the perfect one. How bout' that theory?

I think there is something, not entirely the same but similar to this story. Have you ever seen or heard of the movie groundhog day? Apparently it's quite hilarious. But that's besides the point. What strikes me as familarr to this story is he keeps on waking uop in the same place over and over again sort of like alternate universes. Here's a clip:

In this clip, he knows he will keep waking up each day at 6:00 am and he gets REALLY annoyed at his alarm clock. But the point is that he wakes up on the same day. This kind of reminded me of this book.

The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 2

This is the kind of book that you need to sit down in front of a fire and get as comfortable as possible with some hot chocolate in your hands. I am just saying you have to set aside time to read it so you can get into the interesting part. I am not that far into it, but I am in the transition from where you are bored to where the action begins. As I read this I kind of understand, but then they introduce a character that I was supposed to know but didn't. But you can still understand this enough to enjoy to the book. I am going to try and break this down. I might actually understand the book more after I write this.

The main character, Paige Mahoney, is sort of a criminal.

"From the age of sixteen I had worked in the criminal underworld of Scion London---SciLo, as we called it on the streets. I worked among a ruthless gang of voyants, all willing to to floor each other to survive. All part of a citadel-wide syndicate headed by the Underlord. Pushed to the edge of society, we were forced into crime to prosper, And so we became more hated." (2)

Paige is on a "wanted list". When Paige went to go visit her father and take a break from the criminal world, she was on a train when Underguards came and searched the train. This was bad. So she used her power to try to disorient them so she can make a run for it. Instead she ends up killing one of them and damaging the other one badly.
"I'd killed him, I'd killed an Underguard.
His companion hadn't been so lucky, He was on his back, his eyes staring at the ceiling, a slithering ribbon of saliva down his chin. He twitched when I came closer, Chills crept down my back and the taste of bile burned my throat. I hadn't  pushed his spirit far enough. It was still drifting in the dark parts of his mind: the secret, silent parts in which no spirit should dwell. He'd gone mad. No. I'd driven him mad." (19)

She then runs away to go to her fathers house. Once she gets there and stays for the night, the people come to get her.
"They had come for me.
They had finally come.
I was on my feet at once, throwing a jacket over my shirt and pulling on my shoes and glovelettes, my hands shaking. This was what Nick had trained me for: to run like hell. I could make it to the station if I tried, but this run would test my stamina to the limit. I would have to find and hail a cab to reach Section 4. Buck cabbies would take just  about anyone for a few bob, voyant fugitive or not." (29)

She tries to run away from them but they end up capturing her and putting her in some sort of cell. Then they take her to the welcome orientation for Sheal I.
"It was deathly cold outside the room, and the threadbare carpet did little to improve the temperature. It must have been red once, but now it was faded and stained with vomit. My guide led me through a labyrinth of stone corridors, past small barred windows and burning torches. They seemed too bright, too raw, after the cool blue streetlights of London." (37)

They assign them to "trainers". That is where they train there gifts to use them to their advantages. Paige gets put with the Warden. Everybody says she should be really grateful because he rarely takes interests in humans.
"'I have good news for you, Paige Mahoney.' Nashira placed her hand on her companion's arm. 'You have attracted the attention of the blood-consort: Arcturus, Warden of the Mesarthim. He has decided to be your keeper.'
The Rephaim looked at each other. They didn't speak, but their auras seemed to ripple.
'It is rare that he takes interest in a human,' Nashira said, her voice as quiet as if she were entrusting me with some closely guarded secret. 'You are very, very fortunate.'
I didn't feel fortunate. I was sickened.
The blood-consort leaned down to my level. A long way down. I didn't look away.
'XX-50-40.' His voice was deep and soft. 'I lay claim to you'" (55)

Paige goes to the wardens house and explores around and he explains shortly what she is supposed to do.
"'I will be away tomorrow. You may acquaint yourself with the city in my absence. You will be back my dawn every day. You will return to this room at once if you hear the siren. If you steal or touch or otherwise meddle with anything, I will know'
'Yes, sir'
The sir just slipped out." (58)

After she explores the surrounding city she comes back and lays down and fakes sleep when she sees the Warden come in. She goes into his room to look at him and sees he is injured. She has an argument with herself in her head. Should she kill him? Or should she save him? Or should she just ignore him? She decides to save him.
"I had three options. I could sit here and watch him die, but I sensed it might be better to save him . I was reasonably safe in Magdlaen. The last thing I wanted to  do at this stage was move. He hadn't hurt me yet, but he would. to own me he would have to subjugate me, torture me, make me obey by any means necessary. If I killed him now, I might save myself. My hand reached for a pillow. I could do it, I could suffocate him. Yes, come on, kill him. I flexed my fingers, grasped the cotton. Kill him!
I couldn't. He'd wake up He'd wake up and break my neck. Even if he didn't, I wouldn't be able to escape. The guards outside would string me up for murder.
I had to save him." (83)

Now here come the inferences...
The second time Paige goes out in the city she asks some questions. Like why we have to take pills and what they are for. She gets some answers but those answers leave even more mysteries.
"'Right.' I watched her smoke. 'Do you know what's in the pills they give us?'
Tilda nodded. "The little white one is a standard contraceptive. Surprised you haven't seen it before.'
'Contraceptive? What for?'
' To stop us breeding, obviously. And bleeding. I mean, would you want to punch out a sprog in this place?'
She had a point. 'The red one?'
'Iron supplement.'
'And the green one?'
'What?'
'The third pill.'
'There's no third pill.'" (86)

I think that the third pill has to do with her special trainer, the Warden.She has to train with him, so maybe this will give her extra powers while training with him. The Warden also mentions something how she can't see the spirits. "'You do not have the spirit sight,' he observed. 'That will be a disadvantage here. Unless you have some means of compensating, of course. Perhaps a stronger sixth sense.'" (58) Maybe the pill will help her develop the "spirit sight".

I cannot wait to find out!! :)

What I Didn't Say ~ Keary Taylor

Imagine this. You are a senior and you can't talk. At all. Nada. You're mute. This is the situation for Jake Hayes, except he wasn't always mute. On the night of the big homecoming game, he went to a party and got into a car crash with a t-post speared right through his vocal cords. He's alive but he can't speak. Which is really bad because his life goal was to say "I love you" to Samantha Shay. "My biggest regret is what I didn't say..." Now he would never be able to. But what he couldn't say, he made up for by actions. "There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that  kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability." 

Anything can change your life dramatically, and it is up to you to try and make it the best you can make it. Or it will be harder to live through.

At first, Jake had a hard time dealing with being mute. “Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating." At first, he was just trying to get a grip on things. But then he found Samantha. And Samantha found him. "It would have been really easy to spiral down into drugs or alcohol that year, for both of us. But instead we were there, together. We'd taken all the bad things that had happened to us and turned them around into something good and bigger that the two of us." They both helped each other live through what they couldn't have lived through alone. Sometimes you just need that one person to help you through life.

The Bone Season ~ Samantha Shannon 1

When I first saw this cover I was like, "What in the world...?" Then I thought it looked a little like a clock. But then I thought, "What does a clock have to do with the story? From the little I read, can't seem to make a connection from the cover to the book. But I have heard that the book is kind of like a new Hunger Games. So then I thought about the clock arena in the second book of hunger games, Catching Fire. Probably no relation, but I won't see until I read the book right? And when I read the book I will let you know how it went!