Hey guys! I was recently told about the Big Book Challenge, by one of my friends, Poem Fanatic and I have been following the Big Book summer challenge for quite some time now, and I was very fascinated by it. It is hosted by BookbyBook. Its basically a challenge that encourages readers like us, to read newer and bigger books, as well as something that makes us go to our shelves, pick up a book we didn't get the time to read before, and read it! It's a great way to spend your summer and you have enough time, like 2 months! The rules are really simple. You only need to read one book which consists of 400+ pages from May 27 to September 5th. That's still more than 1 and a half months left! I hope all of you would participate!
I am done with 2 Big books so far- The first being “The fifth Wave”, by Rick Yancey. It was a great book- one which I really loved. I like to think of it like this: "All of us are so ignorant in our lives that we don't empathize or understand the suffering of people who don't directly effect us- That is, until we suffer ourselves. When we are hit by a catastrophe, we die by millions, but Yancey tells us that it is nothing but a perpetual drop in the Human population. Even in the real world, so many deaths occur every day, due to protests, wars, terrorists, but we don't really understand that we have to fight unified and extinguish a problem." That however, is my perspective to it. The main storyline is based on how Cassie and Evan, team up to survive "The Fifth wave", of a alien attack. Catch more of it on it's review, sometime this week.
“Carry on”, by Rainbow Rowell was the second. I have got to say, this book was "top-of-the-notch", and one of Rowell's best! However there were a few pro's and con's that I noticed.
The book was really fun, and was a good read. The story revolved around Simon Snow, and his friends, in a constant fight to defeat the Insidious Humdrum. The characters were also very dynamic, and the novel had a good combo. of romance, magic and humour. It is also a great book if you are looking to start reading YA fiction.
It was kind of slow and kind of dull in the beginning. But it did pick up pace when Baz was officially introduced. It also felt like a ludicrous premise of the Harry Potter series. I mean, the entire chosen one, "school of Magic", and the character's felt very closely linked to Harry Potter. I was also a bit disappointed by the ending, where Simon loses all his magic, and I am hoping for a sequel, cause I don't really like cliffhangers...
So, to conclude, it was a good read, and I do recommend this book, but I feel that it had a great potential, and I am also hoping for a sequel. (So many people would disagree with me right now but this was my opinion on it...)
I also decided to start “The knife of never letting go” (Patrick Ness), but I never got the motivation to read after the first chapter. The beginning didn’t strike me like other books do… It may be the style of writing, or the fact that it leaves you on a cliffhanger. Anyway, I am keeping that book in store for later.
Also- I am going to be posting regularly now and I have tons of stuff to share with you! So stay tuned!
