Changes in Latitudes : review

Jen Malone

*ARC kindly provided by the publisher, Harper Collins, in exchange for an honest review!*

All Cassie wants is to get some solid ground under her feet following the shock of her parents' divorce. So when she learns of her mom's plans to take Cassie and her brother, Drew, on a four-month sailing trip from Oregon to Mexico, she's stunned. There is absolutely nothing solid about the Pacific Ocean. 

>This book will be released July 25th 2017

Goodreads' link to the book!
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Stars: ✦✦✦1/2✧

So as usual, I'll tell 3.5 things I liked about the book and 1.5 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The story is fluffy and entertaining - a summer contemporary that is quick and fitting for the season

+1 | I have read Wanderlust by the same author, and I think the writing has improved and now holds more within

+/-0.5| I liked how the book was based around the  relationships both within the family and outside of it, but they could've been developed more

+/- 0.5 | Like many summery contemporary books it has a road trip setting to it, so nothing new there, but the setting is actually on a boat so that makes it stand out

+/-0.5 | I liked the characters as they really stood out to me to have backround and quirks that made them unique - leaves, quotes and boats - but I felt like the main character was too hasty with her opinions and delt with things in a not-so-bright way

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S

Most Sold Books

Thoughts - Read, will or won't?

(Wikipedia, Jamesclear, The Guardian)

I made this to just map out a) what are actually the very best selling books and b) to see how much I'd read of them  and c) if anything grabs my attention and makes me want to read it.
You'll probably enjoy a and c

List of best-selling single-volume books

More than 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
O Alquimista (The Alchemist)	Paulo Coelho
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie
紅樓夢/红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber)	Cao Xueqin
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll

List of best-selling book series

More than 100 million copies

Book series	Author
Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling
Goosebumps	R. L. Stine
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner
Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain
Choose Your Own Adventure	various authors
Sweet Valley High	Francine Pascal and ghostwriters
Noddy	Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew	various authors as Carolyn Keene
The Railway Series	Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher Awdry
San-Antonio	Frédéric Dard
Robert Langdon	Dan Brown
The Baby-sitters Club	Ann Martin
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney
Star Wars	various authors
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien
Little Critter	Mercer Mayer
Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter
American Girl	various authors
Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
Geronimo Stilton	Elisabetta Dami
Frank Merriwell	Gilbert Patten
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James
Dirk Pitt	Clive Cussler
宮本武蔵 (Musashi)	Eiji Yoshikawa
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis
Mr. Men	Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer
Clifford the Big Red Dog	Norman Bridwell
James Bond	Ian Fleming
Martine	Gilbert Delahaye, Marcel Marlier

25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time

#1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)

by Miguel de Cervantes

#2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)

by Charles Dickens

#3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

#4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#6 – And Then There Were None (100 million copies sold)

by Agatha Christie

#7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber (100 million copies sold)

by Cao Xueqin

#8 – The Hobbit (100 million copies sold)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

#9 – She: A History of Adventure (100 million copies sold)

by H. Rider Haggard

#10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (85 million copies sold)

by C.S. Lewis

#11 – The Da Vinci Code (80 million copies sold)

by Dan Brown

#12 – Think and Grow Rich (70 million copies sold)

by Napoleon Hill

#13 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (65 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#14 – The Catcher in the Rye (65 million copies sold)

by J.D. Salinger

#15 – The Alchemist (65 million copies sold)

by Paulo Coelho

#16 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (60 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#17 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#18 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#19 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#20 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (50 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#21 – One Hundred Years of Solitude (50 million copies sold)

by Gabriel García Marquez

#22 – Lolita (50 million copies sold)

by Vladimir Nabokov

#23 – Anne of Green Gables (50 million copies sold)

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

#24 – Charlotte’s Web (50 million copies sold)

by E.B. White

#25 – Black Beauty (50 million copies sold)

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S

This is How it Happened : review

Paula Stokes

*ARC kindly provided by the publisher, Harper Collins, in exchange for an honest review!*

Somehow I’ve become a liar. A coward. Here’s how it happened. 
When Genevieve Grace wakes up from a coma, she can’t remember the car crash that injured her and killed her boyfriend Dallas, a YouTube star who had just released his first album. 

>This book will be released July 11th 2017

Goodreads' link to the book!
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Stars: ✦✦✦✦✧

So as usual, I'll tell 4 things I liked about the book and 1 thing I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | First of all I want to say how important the message of the book is,
and I really liked how the world we live in was portrayed in regards to the internet and the slew of problems it brings.

+1 | The characters I really liked and it was interesting how all their layers were brought out bit by bit

+1 | The writing style and the pace was so well done and fully thought out

+1  | The story and premise itself was really different which I found to be a good change.
Also like I stated in the previous point it was so well thought of that the story arc was clear even though they brought parts from the past alongside the main storyline

-1  | I felt like the relationship that was brought in at the end wasn't needed,
and also the last twist wasn't how I hoped it would go, but at the same time I didn't hate it if that makes any sense



!!! If anyone else has an ARC of this book, go to the authors goodreads to check if you have a page that is missing from the early versions !!!

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S

Read This Month

June

1. I See London I See France REVIEW
2. This is How it Happened REVIEW

Data:

Male/Female author:
        100 % female
Genre:
        100 % contemporary

Pages:
        761p
Format:
       100  % physical books
Average:
         3.5
Arcs:
        100 % sent to me (for honest reviews)

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S

Recommendations of the year

2017 first half

(From ones I've read this year)

    Heartache
       Boy in the Striped Pajamas
     
    Funny
       My Lady Jane

    Romance
       PS I Like You

    Fairytale Retelling
       Geekerella
       Heartless
   
    Non-Fiction
        A is for Arsenic
        Girl Code

SEQUELS
     Torch Against the Night
     The Shadow Cadets of Pennyroyal Academy

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S

Favorite Opening Lines of Books

Pennyroyal Academy - If I'm still in this forest by nightfall, I'll never leave it again.


The Raven Boys - Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love.


All Fall Down - When I was twelve I broke my leg jumping off the wall between Canada and Germany.


Cinder and Ella - The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy. I understand the reasoning behind it. No one likes a pampered heroine. A great character neeeds trials to overcome - experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you're the heroine.


The Shadow Society - knowing what I know now, I'd say my fostermother had her reasons for throwing a kitchen knife at me.


Ella Enchanted - That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.


Assassins Curse - I ain't never been one to trust beautiful people, and Tarrin of the Hariri was the most beautiful man I ever saw.


My Lady Jane (prologue) - You may think you know the story. It goes like this: once upon a time, there was a sixteen-year-old girl named Jane Grey, who was forced to marry a complete stranger (Lord Guildford or Gilford or Gifford-something-or-other), and shortly thereafter found herself ruler of a country. She was queen for nine days. Then she quite literally lost her head.

Yes, it’s a tragedy, if you consider the disengagement of one’s head from one’s body tragic. (We are merely narrators, and would hate to make assumptions as to what the reader would find tragic.)

We have a different tale to tell.

CLASSICS:

Pride &Prejudice - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

1984- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen


Peter Pan - All children, except one, grow up


Metamorphosis - As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed


Catcher in the Rye -
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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S

I See London, I See France : review

Sarah Mlynowski

*ARC kindly provided by the publisher, Harper Collins, in exchange for an honest review!*

Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out. She’s spending the next four and half weeks traveling through Europe with her childhood best friend, Leela.
     Her plans do not include Leela’s cheating ex-boyfriend showing up on the flight to London, monitoring her mother’s spiraling mental health via texts, or feeling like the rope in a friendship tug-of-war. 

>This book will be released July 11th 2017

Goodreads' link to the book!
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Stars: ✦✦✦✧✧

So as usual, I'll tell 3 things I liked about the book and 2 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The idea and premise is fun, simple, light, quick and quirky - so an entertaining summer read

+1 | Like many summery contemporary books it focuses on traveling, but I liked how it also talked about the annoying things in traveling and all the mundane things as well - like getting your tube pass and it costing money when you exchange money...

+/-0.5 | I liked the characters as people well enough but definitely wasn't agreeing with some of the things they did

+/-0.5  | The writing style took getting used to with it's shorter sentences, but I loved how the author used a lot of intertextuality!

-1  | In my opinion it focused too much on all the relationships

Read on lovelies,

S