Favorite Book Covers

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly

 meme held over at The Broke and the Bookish. 

This weeks topic is a Top Ten Tuesday Freebie! 

Your time to pick whatever topic you'd like!

I picked my top ten favorite covers :)

So obviously today is Thursday, and not Tuesday,

but I completely forgot about this weeks TTT,

and it was a freebie, so I just had to do it :)

I really love this cover because: 

#1- the girl is gorgeous!

#2 I love how they snuck in the second head. If you don't know what I'm talking out, you can see a profile of another person on the right side of the cover. the nose being right under the 't's' in What's.

#3 I also love how the ME is so big! 

I like this cover because of the overall green color. I don't know that the cover directly represents the story. It's about a girl who died when she was younger and was put into a special program where they test a drug to revive you if you die. I suppose the cover could represent her hiding from the world, because since she was pronounced dead she now has a false life with all the essentials included: new name, new town, new parents... 

This one is just gorgeous, I love all the colors. I especially like the purple. And the way Elder and Amy's heads are on there. The first time I saw the cover I didn't notice it, but now I can't forget it. I also did a post on the new covers, you can see it here, they are not very pretty... But whatever. 

This is the new cover and I'd have to say I'm really loving it. I'm about 25% through this book right now, and I don't see the resemblance with the trees and waterfall, but maybe I will later...? Either way the colors are absolutely amazing and the trees coming out of the lashline--GORGEOUS! 

I like this cover because:

#1 House creepy is the haunted house in the back?! I think it really sets the mood for the book, even though I haven't read it yet.

#2 I love the little specks of red throughout the cover.

#3 I love the way her hair looks so animated, and it's all blown to the side like that, with that little twist at the end. It's cute!

This one is great because I love the gothic like vibe it gives off. With the darkness of the woods with the blur-ish hue. And of course the gorgeous girl in the dress with her pale skin. Loving it!

I like this one because of the high tech looking apple and the puzzle pieces. I can't wait to read it and see more about what it will represent in the story.

Love the colors and the butterfly wings on the eyes. Love the fading in the corners and the vibrant colors. Also, the font, it's very different.

Another favorite because of the colors, I love how the cover artists put so much color into something without it looking like a rainbow. And the tree branches that sort of look upside down. And the floors that almost look like glass tiles with the reflections. It's beautiful.

I've always liked this cover... From the first moment I saw it. I don't know what it is about the water and the look on her face. And the sky above with the rocky waves and huge moon. Gahhhh! 

Well those are my favorites.

I know I pretty much described

the covers, but that is what comes

to mind when seeing the covers.

What are some of your favorites?

Leave a link to your TTT :)

Have a great one!

Happy Halloween!

This is our Halloween post! So Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day. This is also going to be my wrap up post. I didn't exactly follow schedule, but I tried... Which has to count for something right?! So I read 5 books, 1 naughty short story (with a naughty cover, so I didn't show it here, but it's Hannah's Choice by Selena Kitt) and 1 comic issue, I had a whole lot more on my list, but it's over now :) I'm pretty happy with what I read and some of the reviews are already up. I'll link them in the bottom. Enjoy!

**Covers link to Goodreads**

Reviews: What's Left of Me & Jenny Pox

What did you read to get

 in the Halloween spirit?

Leave a comment or a 

link to your site :)

Thought this was cute!

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Book Review: What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang

What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else—two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. 

Why aren't they settling? Why isn't one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except, she wasn't . . .

For the past three years, Eva has clung to the remnants of her life. Only Addie knows she’s still there, trapped inside their body. Then one day, they discover there may be a way for Eva to move again. The risks are unimaginable-hybrids are considered a threat to society, so if they are caught, Addie and Eva will be locked away with the others. And yet . . . for a chance to smile, to twirl, to speak, Eva will do anything.

My Thoughts:

I'm writing this little bit after reading the first chapter. I can already tell this is gonna be a great book and right up my alley. I can't wait to see where this goes. I'm already getting that feeling where I want to constantly read it. So I'm going to go do that.

Now I'm about half way through and I'm really liking it so far. Its very different. I am having a little trouble grasping the whole bit about how there are two people in one body. You know how when you're reading a book it just plays out in your mind like a movie. Well that little bit keeps getting me stuck. I'm not sure how to picture it. I'm trying to use special effects in my brain to help me out, so far it's doing okay, but I keep picturing a set of eyeballs inside this girls head looking out into the world through her sisters eyes. It's actually pretty creepy to think about. The characters are growing nicely and there are some suspenseful parts, I'm going to go finish it now.

So yeah. I just finished the book and wow. Just wow. It was amazing. And very confusing at times. But mostly wonderful. So from the start of the book, you know it's wrong that they're hybrid. So that kinda sets the mood for the book. It was mostly suspenseful and then at about 80% through the book, it really picks up. Everything gets crazy. All the action starts. I started getting really anxious and wanting everything to be okay.

It took me a little longer to read this book than I had wanted, but I had to take a little road trip to California. And that took several days of my time since I did most of the driving. But I really got back into it. And I'm really glad I did.

It's kinda hard to talk about this book without giving stuff away, but I'm going to try. At first I didn't like Addie. She seemed like she was kinda stuck up and better than Eva just because she was the dominant soul and could control the body when Eva couldn't. But her character really grew, as did all of the characters.

Let's talk a little about the climax and plot twist. It got crazy. I didn't expect it to be that, but it makes a lot of sense. I was really skeptical toward the end. I didn't really know how all this was going to end up.. And I was really scared there for a minute. But after that I was very pleased. I'm just wondering what the next book will hold. It closed everything off pretty nicely which I was pleased about. But it doesn't say what the future holds for them.

Overall I give it four stars. It was a really good book, but don't think it made my favorites list. It would make a really interesting movie though. And props to the author for coming up with such an interesting and original idea. And executing it very well. Go Kat Zhang!

[Goodreads - Amazon - B&N]

So this was my first read

for Halloween this year.

You can check out my

Halloween TBR here.

What are you reading 

this Halloween?

Have you read this book?

Is it on your TBR list?

Halloween Reads

OoOoOoOoO... October has finally come!

Top Ten Books That Should Be Movies

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly

 meme held over at The Broke and the Bookish. 

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday topic is a rewind!

You can pick any past topic that you might have

missed or one that you just  want to do again!

I picked the top ten books you think should be made into movies. This was the topic on April 12, 2011. My blog wasn't created or even thought of back then. And this is a fun subject for me. I'm always thinking if I would want it to be made into a movie or not. I think that one question is what really makes up my final decision if I should put it on my favorites list or not. And I'm obviously talking about a world where the movie would be made my way and be exactly like the book and feel just like how it played out in my head while reading it. 

**Clicking on cover will direct to Goodreads**

I haven't finished Shatter Me and What's Left of Me yet, but I'm pretty far in and I know I'm going to love the ending, and hopefully the full series for both. Looking for Alaska wasn't that great to me, but I think it would actually be a pretty good movie. All the rest I just really loved and most are on my favorites list! :)

Now I'm going to insert a few that I would want to become movies and they actually are becoming movies. I can't wait for these!

[Goodreads - IMDB] -- [Goodreads - IMDB] 

[Goodreads - IMDB]  -- [Goodreads - IMDB]

Alrighty guys! There's my list!

What's on your list?

Did you do a TTT?

Leave a comment & link.