Legend by Marie Lu Review

A couple of days ago I found 'Legend' on my bookshelf and since I was waiting for my latest book order to arrive I decided to give it another shot and reread it.
The first time I read Legend I wasn't fully convinced.. So, this time I was pretty sceptic but thought
"Well, maybe I just didn't really get the background of the story".

Here's a quick summary of the book content:

Basically, there's the Republic and the Elector with a great amount of soldiers, a boy, Day, who is considered the public enemy number one and a girl named June Iparis, who is working for the Republic as an agent.
After finding out that June's brother was killed she wants to find the murder and make him pay for what he's done. From what her supervisor told her, Day is the one to be blamed for this incident.
Long story short June finds the supposed murder and what happens now is nothing Day or June would've ever expected...

And let me tell you one thing: I am so unbelievably happy that I did reread it! I loved it! And I give 4/5 stars. The only thing that kind of bothered me was that the main character June is only 15 yrs old and a republic agent. That's just my opinion but I also don't really see why the Republic would feel threatened by Day, who is also 15 yrs old... But other than that I really enjoyed this read and though I do not like ebooks too much (I wanna smell the book and feel the paper!) I almost immediately downloaded the beginning of the second part 'Prodigy' from the ibooks app!

Legend by Marie Lu

Endgame by James Frey review

I absolutely loved ENDGAME by James Frey ! I had no idea what i'd be reading but like the second I started this book I was lost. Lost in the game. I thought about endgame all the time and tried to figure out what's next. Who will survive, who will not? It's so hard to pick favorites when on the next page something terrible and shattering happens...
The writing is really unique too! You see everything from every angle while it happens and this just gives you so many options to twist and turn the actions! You can definitely understand, or at least see reasonable motives, for why a certain person acted a certain way. The whole book itself was a mystery for me from the very beginning to the end! The puzzle inside is yet just another bonus in the book!
Totally worth reading!! 

I give 5/5 Stars!

Review the Danish Girl

"The Danish Girl" gets 4.5 points out of 5 from me.

This great, and true story tells the life of two married painters, which live together in Copenhagen. Einar Werder, which is played by the academy award winner Eddie Redmayne, poses for a painting his wife Gerda, played by Alicia Vikander, has to finish for a Ballet dancer, which couldn't make it to this appointment herself. So Einar gets to hold a dress and wear stockings and this is the moment when his true self comes to the surface.
As a game, Gerda suggests Einar going to an event as a woman, Lili. For his wife all of this is just a fun thing to try out but Einar/Lili is starting to find out who he really is...

I am not going to go on here because I for my part did not know the whole story so it was a fascinating time watching the movie. What I did know was which actors would be starring in this film so I have to admit that I set my standards really high and I am not overacting by saying that they exceeded all my expectations! And of course, Eddie Redmayne is nominated AGAIN for an Oscar which makes me so unbelievably happy because he really would deserve another one in my opinion. Alicia Vikander is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a supporting Role, and after her performance in The Danish Girl I would be less than surprised to see her going home with a prize!

I can say this is a heart-rending story, amazingly told. So a thousand congrats to the director Tom Hooper and Lucinda Coxon for the screenplay.

The whole content of this film is very important especially for people struggeling with intersexuality! It shows so much strength in only 1h and 59 minutes and I think it helps to understand what it means to be worn in the wrong body.
I actually don't have the right to say something like that because I don't know those problems and I cannot even imagine how hard it must be to be treated insane but I just felt the urge to share my thoughts.

So if you are looking for a movie that makes you laugh and cry and has stunning costumes you should definitely go and check out "THE DANISH GIRL".

The Danish Girl - True Story

Review Requiem by Lauren Oliver

Hey there!

So, I've finished the third book out of the delirium trilogy: REQUIEM by Lauren Oliver.

Here my review:

To be honest, I didn't really get into it until page 50 I guess but even after that I didn't really get captured by the story. I liked part one and two, pandemonium a little bit better than delirium, but requiem… I don't know. There was just no chemistry between us! And that's a pity because I was really looking forward to reading it!

Other than that I was kind of annoyed that Lena wouldn't choose between Alex and Julian. And I was hoping for some great romantic parts but they were barely there sadly. 

I did enjoy reading the book though because although there was a lot that bothered me, there was also a lot that I liked! 

I think it was great to see how Lena's character would grow and change, get stronger and become who she finally wants to be!

The ending is not quite clear in my opinion, I am not gonna spoiler it no worries! :)

The story all in all is really interesting and I loved how different all the characters were and how their paths crossed some way or the other. 

All in all I can just give 2/5 stars for requiem.

X,C

Delirium tv show

I have just finished the pilot for delirium and I am in love! They twisted the story a little bit so it's not exactly as in the book but they really did an amazing job! And the cast was on point! 

I'm fan girling so hard right now!

But sadly they never aired any more episodes so I am really hoping that they will change their mind someday and let us watch the rest! ☺️

X, C.

book challenge

Thanks to school I couldn't be as active in the past few days as I would've wanted to...

So anyways, I came across a lot of reading challenge requests and I was thinking about it a lot too.
How many books do I wanna read this year? But then I thought, well, I don't know! I don't want to set a "goal" because I know I will be sad if I don't reach it. And what if school or maybe something else keeps me distracted..

So no, I am not settling down on a number of books I might or might not be reading in 12 months.

To be honest, and there might be some hate now, I don't think too much good about those reading goals! I know they are fun for a lot of people and don't get me wrong I am sure they motivate a lot to read many books in a certain period of time, but shouldn't reading a book be about enjoying the story and everything around it and not thinking about how much time I have left to finish my tbr list?
So you get stressed because you have only read 50 books out of 200 and it's already october.. That's just my opinion but I would be under so much pressure to reach my goal and literally devour the whole book! lol

Nevertheless everybody who decided to join the challenge,  I really wish you guys a lot of fun! Not in a sarcastic way, I swear!

It seems like I'm all negative about this topic but there are, of course, good sides too! Like the fact that you are likely to find really great books which are pretty unknown yet!

Everybody have a great week!

x, C

Jennifer Lawrence in JOY