Confessions of a Bibliovore

Title: Perfect Days  by Raphael Montes Series: N/A Genre: Thriller Publication: February 16, 2016 by Viking Format: Hardcover Source: Purchased Rating:   ★★★ Synopsis: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. She's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo begins to stalk her, first following to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, Teo kidnaps her, and they embark upon their v...

This feature was created by Lauren from 365 Days of Reading Title: "Kin" by Bruce McAllister Source: Levar Burton Reads Podcast Rating:  ★ ★ ★ ★ One Line Summary: Bruce McAllister's "Kin" is a boy-meets-alien story that hits all the standard buttons of that form. Thoughts:  Like many other reviewers on Goodreads, I listened to this short story on the podcast, Levar Burton Reads. If you're not familiar with it, Levar Burton was the host of the show Reading Rainbow, and his podcast features Burton reading one short story per episode. "Kin" was his first episode, which he narrated amazingly. I am not a big science fiction fan, but this story had me captivated from the start. It could've been because of Burton's voice, or the cinematic sounds that come along with each story (sponsored by Audible) but I wanted to know where this story was going. The short story follows a young boy who has requested a meeting with an alien, whom he wants to hi...

NOTE → This is my first series review, and I think I prefer it to reviewing books individually. This will become a regular feature where I discuss series that I have finished. These posts are very likely to contain spoilers , since I will be discussing aspects of the books after the first in the series. Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1 Genre: YA - Contemporary Publication: March 20, 2015 by Penerbit Spring Format: Paperback Source: Purchased Rating:   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Synopsis:  What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are fo...

Title: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Series: N/A Genre: Young Adult Publication: October 6, 2015 by St. Martin's Griffin Format: Hardcover Source: Purchased Rating: ★★★★ Synopsis: Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here -- it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell sto...

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield I was extremely disappointed, I couldn’t even really read the book, sort of had to skim to the end. The writing was choppy and I had a hard time liking or connecting with the protagonist. While dealing with such a difficult topic, I found the author sort of rushed the ending and wrapped it up too nicely to feel realistic. Not what I was expecting; this book was not for me. Rating:  ★ Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford I found this book to be dull, and really had a hard time concentrating on the story. I did not finish it because I was not able to connect with the MC. The character development wasn’t well executed, and felt no problem just DNF’ing this one. I am only giving this two stars because some of the secondary characters were a bit more interesting and the story had potential. Rating:  ★ ★ The Brides of Rollrock Island  by Margo Lanagan All I could really think while reading this was, "What the hell is this about?!" and then about 20 pa...

I was doing really well for a couple weeks there and then the Booktubeathon happened over on YouTube and Instagram and Twitter, that I literally forgot to post anything here for a couple days. By the time I remembered it was already half way through the week and I was trying to read more for the readathon, so I decided to take a week off from blogging. Now the readathon is over and I decided to join a new one for this week. So I decided to pop over here really quick and say that I'll try to post a review or two this week, or something, but it's not likely. I am really excited to be participating in these readathons, they've pumped me up to read more, and I was sort of going in and out of slumps for the past couple months there, and now I'm not. I posted my TBR for my current readathon ( the Alphabethon ) which just started today and goes until August 6th. I had a lot of fun choosing the books for this one, and am going to be reading books that have been on my shelves fo...