I'm not sure what was the purpose of this "novella". Was it supposed to show that Taryn didn't do it to hurt her sister? That she's somehow brave? ThaI'm not sure what was the purpose of this "novella". Was it supposed to show that Taryn didn't do it to hurt her sister? That she's somehow brave? That she's an active player and not just a bystander?
It was written from her point of view! I expected that I would be a bit more convinced by what she was saying! But come on, any villain would do a better job trying to persuade us that his intentions are good than Tarny did.
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Taryn needs a smackdown in Blair Waldorf fashion! She's a pathetic little girl that's worried that no one will like her and she will have to do something! So, she did the easiest way to possibly secure a comfy, little life. 😂😂😂 Well, let's wait and see how that will turn out for Taryn.
So, I'm really busy at the moment, but I could not miss this one! Some of these books were my all time favourite!
So, let's break this one down.
The BaSo, I'm really busy at the moment, but I could not miss this one! Some of these books were my all time favourite!
So, let's break this one down.
The Bad Ones - This book is actually in my top 10! I really really love how wicked those two are. Unfortunately, I wanted a bit more from this. But they were mostly visiting old places and not really doing bad things. However, I liked the ending! I would love to see Dulcie talking to the journalist that would be really fun! So, I'm a bit sad that was not included. 3/5
My Time in the Affair - I did not read that book, so I skipped this part.
The Mercenaries: Law - Okay, I love Law! And Love Damiano - wish there was a part just about those two. However, the story is split into two parts and does not really seem to work together because in the short length it does not make sense. However, I enjoyed this part. 4/5
Muckle Memory - I did not read that book, so I skipped this part.
Twin Estate - Okay, I should have skipped this part. I did not like this series. And I did not like this. These characters do not work for me. At all! And what Liam did in the end? Absolutely wrong! 1/5
While I Was Away - I did not read that book, so I skipped this part.
The Kane Series - oh, this was my first series from Stylo Fantome! I was really looking forward to this! We were teased about this story in Completion (The Kane Trilogy, #3.5). I really liked this, but I felt like several times it did not work with what we were told before. In Completion Tate said that while they were in Russia visiting Sanders, Jameson was angry with Sanders, not her. But here we were presented with a different story. Then there is the fact that Tate was (view spoiler)[pregnant and lost the baby (hide spoiler)] which I think does not work with what happened in Reception (The Kane Trilogy #4). (view spoiler)[Tate wanted to get Jameson's attention she said she was pregnant and he reacted really badly. If things from Checking In really happened, I do not believe she would be joking about it, and he would react that bad. (hide spoiler)] It seems a bit like the author forgot about these since things do not really add up. Or maybe a little confusion in the timeline. 3/5...more
I feel so sad rating this low, but it really felt empty. Not at all as the previous series. I feel very disappointed in this story even considering thI feel so sad rating this low, but it really felt empty. Not at all as the previous series. I feel very disappointed in this story even considering that Bren and Six were not my favourite.
By the way, if I understood correctly, this takes place before Ashwin?...more
Alright... I got it, it is fiction, and I do not really know everything about US legal system but: (view spoiler)[ Are you telling me that Steve was oAlright... I got it, it is fiction, and I do not really know everything about US legal system but: (view spoiler)[ Are you telling me that Steve was officially deemed dead for like nine months. And he can just parade himself back to town. Pretty much with no one asking any questions. And then take his daughter from her legal guardian? I know. He is her father. But I would suspect that somehow social workers would be involved. (hide spoiler)]
Most of the book (like 70% or even more) is just about nothing pretty much. It is just bunch of What Ifs and (view spoiler)[My not-so-dead-daddy hates me being with my boyfriend and how can I go behind his backs? (hide spoiler)].
But the ending is certain redemption. I would like few chapters more, so that way we would get more answers: (view spoiler)[ Did Dinah really tried to kill Steve? More on the Steve/Maria episode. Gideon's reaction when the blackmailing material was gone. Is he going to try to get back with Savannah? (And I do not really like her) And the Wade and Val? I love Wade. Val is cool. But just the simple mentioning that they are together? Not cool. At all. They deserved so much more! (hide spoiler)]
I would love to read something about the twins in the future. And even Easton....more
EDIT (03/04/2020): Ok, after finishing the fourth book I sort of forgot about this book and started reading book six because I thought that that was tEDIT (03/04/2020): Ok, after finishing the fourth book I sort of forgot about this book and started reading book six because I thought that that was the next one. And after a couple of chapters, I realised what I did. So, I went back to it, and there was a lot of skipping. I just had such a hard time to get into this book. < spoiler>So, looking at my original review and after finishing all books in this series. I have to say I'm officially disappointed that they never used those things they took from Sector Five. And making Hana sick, so, Finn could play a hero was just so cheap.
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"You're a crazy motherfucker." "I know."
I love so much the Ace&Jared&Cruz scene! So cute and I need more of it! As it's from Cruz's point of view - we can see his affection for Ace.
I actually liked that Mad hates Finn. And I also like that Bren and Jas were giving him a chance. < spoiler> Well, Jas gave him a chance after he hit him. It's way better than if everybody was reacting the same.
One thing that really disappointed me was < spoiler> that Hana was sick and it feels like they just needed a way how to make Finn look like a hero. < spoiler> I hope that they took something important that will be useful in next books. Otherwise, it will be a huge letdown and wasted opportunity.
I wish Dallas, Lex, Jas, and Noelle also played poker.
"... You're not even gonna take me to your leader, lady?" "You just had that meeting, sunshine."
I wish there would be more brotherhood scenes. Like the one at the very end. I also think that it was way much just Finn&Trix. That the rest of O'Kanes had less space than in other books. Well, maybe it was just because I love them so much and wouldn't be angry if every one of them had another book.
"A silk nightie and a fur coat splattered with blood. And cool as can fucking be. If she's not high on something, then I'm a virgin." - Ace
< spoiler> Cannot wait to get more of Lili, when she came there it was pretty crazy. And she's half crazy too. Cannot wait to find out if Logan got a chance to start drug therapy so Lili could be pregnant.
I hope that there will be Gideon's book, cause I probably love this guy.
< spoiler>And I think that I'm pretty sure about three characters for Beyond Ruin: Mad, Doc, Jade & - who knows?
EDIT: Re-read time. (2/24/2017) Well, I had to change the rating because I am a bit disappointed because < spoiler>When they went to Five to steal the cure for Hana I just hoped there was more to it. That maybe they took something they can use in the future. So, it was really just to make him a hero in some artificial way. Not a fan....more
Když jeden potřebuje zabít čas - nechce se do toho nijak extra zažrat, protože třeba ještě musí poslouchat učitele, tak je to docela dobrý. :D Ale samKdyž jeden potřebuje zabít čas - nechce se do toho nijak extra zažrat, protože třeba ještě musí poslouchat učitele, tak je to docela dobrý. :D Ale samotný Percy je mnohem lepší :)...more
I wrote the whole review and then just deleted it by accident so I'll try to rewrite it. - The first time it was much better! I have so much to say anI wrote the whole review and then just deleted it by accident so I'll try to rewrite it. - The first time it was much better! I have so much to say and on the other had almost nothing. What I can say is that not everybody was happy about this book and the begging me neither but at the end, I found out that I have to love this book. ♥ And right now I just wish I could turn off my feelings. [image]
(view spoiler)[ At the begging I wasn't sure about the dual Tris/Four POV because they felt just same. Sometimes when I left in the middle of a chapter, I wasn't sure whose POV it is. But then when I got into it, there was no trouble at all. I just found out how to deal with it. [image]
Let's continue with our main heroes. Tris, she's strong, she decided that she's worth living. And that's good. Except for the point where she decided she knows the best: "I told you so" that was so annoying! I don't know why she said that because she did a lot of stupid things in Insurgent. But then she was strong, and adult with her decisions. I like her.
Then I thought of how strong I have become, how secure I feel with the person I now am, and how all along the way he has told me that I am brave, I am respected, I am loved and worth loving.
Four, he's different than in the first two books. Four without you is a much different person. He’s . . . Obsessive, explosive, insecure. . He made some stupid thing I supposed Tris would do. I almost forgot that he's older than Tris and the others. He seemed to me the same age as they are. When he goes through his fear landscape, and there is the part with Marcus I supposed that he's going to be like him. The man who abused his family. - Four is afraid of becoming his father that the way it's showed isn't the best one for me. I was afraid that he's not really able to bear it - all the losses that becoming someone else he could.
I love how Veronica Roth showed us their relationship. It's so real. They're in love, but they want it. They fight for their love. They want to be together; it's worth to them even the problems, the fights they have. They love each other.
every relationship having its problems.
It's not like something magical decided that they should be together - so there could be any problem - they choose to be together.
And the others: Caleb, since the first book I hated him, and I still do.
They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, you should let them do it.
Uriah, why? No!!! No no no no no no no! Not you! I love you! Peter, well somehow I understand you. Wish you the happy life. Christina, I never found out who she really is. And I accept her, but I don't love her. Cara, sorry young lady, I still don't like you. I don't know about who else I should talk. Maybe Fours parents? But I don't really want to. Just one thing, if I should decide who I would give the memory serum, I would also choose Evelyn.
I thought that there's gonna be something else out of the city. This is not what I expected, but it has its logic. Everything we knew is different. It's explained to us - what divergent actually means. And it's different to what we were told in the first two books. Anyway, it makes sense.
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This is the first book which made me cry since Delirium. I was crying, and I'm not ashamed. I was crying since Tris and Caleb were talking in the Lab. Somehow I felt what's going to happen. It's terribly sad, but I have to say that it's the right decision. Because not every story needs its happy ending.
Tris wants to live, she's in love, and finally, she may be happy. But at the end, she sees that there is no way Caleb may succeed, so she takes his place. She saved them. And I'm sad about it, but she did the right thing.
Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
She decided at the end, spontaneously. She knows what hers decisions going to make and she's willing to do it.
Our Tris - the strong one who is not a child anymore...She's not Beatrice. She'll be Tris, forever.
and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable—except that she had jumped first. The Stiff had jumped first.
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I thought that in the end they were going to take the memory serum to forgot everything and start over again. And Four almost did, unless Christina he would do it.
“It is impossible to erase my choices.” He says at the begging, and he tries to do it. “I know she wouldn’t want you to erase her from your memory like she didn’t even matter to you!” I understand why he tried to do it, I really do, but I'm glad that Christina stopped him. Tris cannot be forgotten. By none of us - she's just fictional character, but she's showing to us who we should be - Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through the pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.
The epilogue showed us one thing that we didn't lose only Tris but also Four who become Tobias. Since the start of epilogue, I felt like he's different than the strong boy/man we met in Divergent. He lived and lost too much, and that changed him. Took something from him.
I miss factions. I miss Tris. I miss Four. I'll miss this story. (hide spoiler)]
Thank you, Veronica Roth, for this amazing story. ♥ -Well, I fell like I forgot a lot of things I wrote into the first review if I'll found out something I forgot I'll describe it....more
You know what? If the whole series were written from this POV, I would read it. Okay, I may not read it because that girl would be still there, but atYou know what? If the whole series were written from this POV, I would read it. Okay, I may not read it because that girl would be still there, but at least it wouldn't be her POV, that's an improvement, right? But in all honesty? I think I only liked it because Mac's POV was so terrible. I still have some major problems with what happened in this scene, Barrons is an absolute idiot if you ask me. But, it is way better than anything from Mac's POV. That girl is absolutely annoying. I cannot stand her. If by any chance she dies somewhere down the series, please, let me know. I would love to read that. ...more
Milé, i když o ničem. Plusové hvězdičky získává za to, že mi a mým kamárádkám pomohl zabít asi tak dvě hodiny v buse :D Taky než ten jeden test udělátMilé, i když o ničem. Plusové hvězdičky získává za to, že mi a mým kamárádkám pomohl zabít asi tak dvě hodiny v buse :D Taky než ten jeden test uděláte 3x a ještě se u toho dohadujete, kdy už jste anebo nejste divergentní, to trvá pěkně dlouho :D Jinak nic převratného. Možná tak hezké zopáknutí, aby se jeden neztratil v tom, o co vlastně jde :D...more
This poem is simply amazing. In four strophes it says so much. One of my best friends introduced me to this poem the summer we've met. It really holdsThis poem is simply amazing. In four strophes it says so much. One of my best friends introduced me to this poem the summer we've met. It really holds a sentimental place in my heart.
I love this poem so much! I just read it in English and in Czech, so I can say that 100% I prefer the English version. Now, I'm going to look for the French one.
EDIT: Well, in French, it is also amazing. Still, I'm the fan of the English version :)...more
July 2020: Well, I did not entirely plan to re-read this but seeing that I had no idea what I was even talking about in the "reaction" from 2013 plus tJuly 2020: Well, I did not entirely plan to re-read this but seeing that I had no idea what I was even talking about in the "reaction" from 2013 plus that it's only three pages long, re-read it was. And I have to say that I still agree with myself (Quite shocking, I know). Overall it is a fun, quick read but I still have a little issue with it.
So, that next time I remember what I actually meant: (view spoiler)[So, I always thought that Dimitri would be very... I don't know... professional? That he would see Rose only as a rough dhampir, a problem. That slowly, with more time spent together, he would start to see more in her. And the fact that he was already noticing how gorgeous she's during the first meeting was against how I saw him. (hide spoiler)]
Original: Don't know what to thing. I really enjoyed it, but I feel like this was something that the author should keep for herself. That maybe some of us had an idea about Dimitri, which was destroyed with this short story. Maybe some of us supposed him to be kind of different persona. Well, I think that I imagined him a bit differently and I still do. Anyway, still glad to read this....more
That was.... sweet. There is no other word how to describe it. And I think that it doesn't fit to the image of Ash we had all the time in front of us.That was.... sweet. There is no other word how to describe it. And I think that it doesn't fit to the image of Ash we had all the time in front of us. I think that this was pretty week story. Just like a part of classic Harlequin. Wow, as I'm listening to myself I feel like I should lower the rating. Well, maybe I'll do it later on time. But for now I keep it. ...more
For the first time, Wendy is someone to whom you actually can give the kingdom, and it doesn't feel like a baby being handed matches and canister of pFor the first time, Wendy is someone to whom you actually can give the kingdom, and it doesn't feel like a baby being handed matches and canister of petrol. Tove is still is the purest soul in this wholes series, and he is just so lost in his sad life. I really wish we had more of their marriage or maybe just the two of them working together. I really enjoy them on the page together even if I do not ship them. The day after helping the survivors, I hoped that they would move in their relationship. It was something. But no... Don't get me wrong; I'm team Loki since the first book even though that he isn't there. But I really want to see something between Tove and Wendy. I ship them as BFFs. When Wendy was honest with Finn, I was so happy. Shea told him the same thing I was thinking about him since the first book. Really glad that there was a minimum of Matt and Rhys. Anyway, the end was not written properly; there is so much to change. The author missed an amazing opportunity on how to finish this series....more
Asi to bude znít divně, ale líbilo se mi to mnohem víc než Loď mezi hvězdami. rozhodně zajímavý náhled na život lidi v nemocnici. rozhodně bych se chtAsi to bude znít divně, ale líbilo se mi to mnohem víc než Loď mezi hvězdami. rozhodně zajímavý náhled na život lidi v nemocnici. rozhodně bych se chtěla dozvědět víc......more
It was nice and maybe even interesting and everything... but the problem is that I missed something that I really liked in the previous book. I don't It was nice and maybe even interesting and everything... but the problem is that I missed something that I really liked in the previous book. I don't know what it was, but I could feel that it was missing in this one. Anyway if you enjoyed reading BB, you should read this. It is an interesting extra story for the original book but do not expect much from this one. ...more
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