Book Review: The Boy in the striped pyjamas

Hello people ,
Haven't posted in a while because I've been too busy to read much so I'm still in the middle of the book I am currently reading but I realised that there were some books I read in the past that I haven't reviewed on this blog yet so I thought to cure my writing itch for the day I'll write a review on one of those - the boy in the striped pyjamas , you've all probably heard of the film but this isn't a film review it's a book review. So here goes:
The Cover:

This Book is about a young German boy called Bruno who is growing up in second world war Germany, his father was high up in the Nazis ( what job or person it doesn't tell you) and when the beginning of the holocaust starts Bruno's father is promoted and is sent to live in Poland and work at what Bruno thinks throughout the book is called outwith and isn't shown to be some other famous place until the end of the book. With having no one to play with around 'outwith' apart from his know it all sister bruno sees outwith through his bedroom window and wonders why they are all dressed the same , one day while he's exploring alone he sees a little boy about his age near the fencing of 'outwith' and goes over to talk to him. After talking to him for a while he finds out that he is a jew and they become good friends. within a few months they spend everyday talking at the side of the fence and Bruno sees Shmuel as his best friend no matter how different they are. One day Shmuel says that his father has gone missing inside the camp and Shmuel has looked everywhere and misses him terribly. Bruno agrees that if Shmuel can find striped pyjamas like the ones Shmuel wears for bruno then bruno would come into the camp and help Shmuel to find his father. What will happen when Bruno goes into the camp and what will they find?

This book was compelling and made me cry for hours on end.Unless you have heard of what this book is about you would realise it until right at the end because it is written so sensitivly and from the point of view of bruno - someone who has no idea what is going on- and is written innocently enough for it to be hidden until the end.
I loved this book and I Reconmend it to anyone who wants to make themselves cry a lot.

Love,

Book Review : A Walk to remember

Hello again , It's only been a couple of days since my last review but I read quite fast. I finished this book late last night but I didn't have time earlier or last night so I'm writing it now.
Anyway enough about my reading and writing habits and onto the review!
This is the cover:



The Book is A walk to remember by Nicolas Sparks and looking at the cover really doesn't give you any indication of what the book is about so I wouldn't analyse the cover too much or judge it by it's cover because I've read the book and don't even understand the cover.
Anyway onto the book's plot, It starts as Landon Carter at 57 explains that when he was seventeen his life was changed forever and that he is going to tell the story of how it changed. He starts talking about his childhood and his rich family before he gets onto the actual story that he is telling and while this drags on a little it is all relevant later in the story. He then starts explaining about how he chose performing arts in his senior year because he thought it would be easy, this is how he gets into the kind of meeting with Jamie Sullivan. I say kind of because he has known her his whole life but this is the first time he actually has a real conversation with her. She is the ministers daughter, a Minister who Landon and his friends used to call names and pick on him. Despite being misjudged by her peers Jamie doesn't change who she is to fit around other people , he describes her to make her seem like a misfit who wears jumpers and her hair always in a bun but he never says she is ugly and observes that she could be pretty if she tried harder to be. He also explains that she is one of the most giving people you will ever meet and volunteers and an orphanage most weekends.
He takes her to the homecoming dance later in the story only because he has to go because he is class president and doesn't have a date. this starts their friendship and she asks him for a favour to be in a play that her father wrote as a leading roll opposite her. When he accepts they start spending time together and he soon realises that he has unintentionally fallen in love with her.After a while he makes his move and kisses her and tells her the depth of his feelings for her. This is where I have to stop telling you any more because if I keep going I know I will reveal Jamie's secret and ruin the shock of this particular story.
Like all Nicolas sparks books it is so romantic and it pulls you into and tells you mostly everything about the characters from their upbringing to their deepest thoughts and feelings which makes you fall in love with them and the same thing goes for Landon and Jamie. By the time the twist came to the story I was so emotionally attached through the story that for the last half of the story I literally had to have a box of tissues next to me because I cried so much. The Ending was my favourite part of the book because instead of telling you exactly what happened he leaves you to decide for yourself what happened because he says it so one of two things could have happened and you can decide which one you would rather it be.
In a whole this book just made me feel so many emotions and I couldn't put it down after a started the first page. The only reason I put it down was to go to school which may be pathetic to some people but to me it's perfectly normal. I felt every emotion for the characters in the book and That is definitely what I look for in the perfect book.

Love,

Book Review : Message In a Bottle

Hello, another book review for any one who wants to read it. This is another book review on a Nicolas Sparks novel that I just finished reading so for anyone who is bored of my reviews on Nicolas sparks' novels stop reading now.
This is the Cover Of the Book:

The theme of this book is as the title suggests is Messages in bottles that are sent out to sea. It starts off in the future after the story the book explains has happened with Teresa Osborne - A columnist from Boston - is reliving the last two years. It then goes into the past and shows how the whole story started and how Teresa's life had been turned upside down with one jog in the summer. While she is Jogging on Holiday in cape cod she stumbles across a bottle with a message inside. After she reads it she is so touched by it's content that she shows it to her friend Deanna who Suggests publishing the heartfelt letter from a man named Garrett to a woman named Catherine in her column. They change the names to initials and publish it. Later a reader calls Teresa and explains to her that she has found another letter by the same person and emails it to her , she also finds another letter again by Garrett to Catherine and she is intrigued by finding three heartfelt letters from the same person and finds herself thinking about Garrett and confides in Deanna who helps her track down Garrett and convinces her to go find him she does so and then he asks her to go sailing with him they eventually start a long distance relationship and he bonds with her son - Kevin - and they end up falling in love harder than both of them could have anticipated. but what happens when Garrett finds out what drew Teresa to his small town? and will his undying feelings for Catherine ever subside?

This book really renewed my faith in destiny and as always Nicolas Sparks draws you into the story and makes you believe that everything can really go right for the main characters then right then when you just think everything is going right , everything suddenly goes wrong and you're left feeling sad and losing faith in true love at all , but even if the ending of this book got abit depressing i still loved every part of it and it left me wishing for more!

Love,

Book Review : Something Blue

Hello again , this is the review for the squeal to something borrowed ; Something Blue
If you haven't read something borrowed yet stop reading this now because there isn't anyway I can explain what Something Blue is about without telling you the ending to something borrowed. I will try to not divulge much about the first book.
This is the Cover:


This book is from Darcy's point of view which was interesting for me because I heard about her obviously from something borrowed but we never knew much about her other than Rachel's observations and opinons so it was nice to see how she sees herself and the rest of the world. She desperately moves to London to live Ethan after her relationship with Marcus - the father of her unborn child- falls through and all of her friendships disapear because of her obsession with Dex and Rachel's relationship. Soon after she moves to London she realizes that she needs to be less self obsessed to become a better mother to her child , she then meets Geoffrey who is her doctor and tells her that she isn't having the one daughter she wanted but she is having two twin boys. She later starts dating him but they soon break up. with a lot of other things happening this book is filled with drama and somebody trying to be a better person for her child while Darcy starts out as a spoilt PR woman who lives her life going out parting and looking good to her friends , she reforms herself and becomes a generous person who learns to love another more than herself , in her twin boys and her msytery man , I loved reading this book because i found it interesting to figure out the whole thing from the first book from Darcy's point of view as she was having an affair as well, also it was good to really see how vain and self centered she was before she reformed herself.

Love

Book Review : Something Borrowed

Hello , here's another book review from me , I just finished reading the sequel to this book and I thought i should do this book review first then do the second one next.
Anyway I will start this review now , this is the book cover:


This book was about an intelligent thirty year old Lawyer -Rachel- who's Best friend -Darcy- has just got engaged to Rachel's law school friend , Dex. On the night of Rachel's 30th Birthday Darcy throws her a huge party but goes home early leaving Dex and Rachel alone , which starts on innocently but leads into them going back to Rachel's apartment and sleeping together behind Darcy's back. this starts their full fledged affair which carries on through the rest of the summer. They start being more than just an affair as they fall in love with each other and Dex Decides to come clean to Darcy right at the end of the book and Darcy has a shocking secret.

This Book shows what real female friendships are about even the best of friends have competition between them it also show's that even in the hardest of situations true love always conquers all. It is a tale of true love and betrayal to even the best of friends and I personally love the realism in this book. I love how Rachel and Darcy are pretty much the opposite of each other as Darcy is Vain and dumb who cares more about social status than love and Rachel is a dreamer who is insecure and intelligent.
This book is good for most types of people and I would read it personally!

Love

Book Review : The Best of me.

This is a Book Review on Nicolas Spark's newest novel the Best of me , I'm sorry it took so long after being released for me to review it but I've been waiting for my local library to get it in and they just did two days ago and i couldn't put it down from the first second I started reading it
Here is the Book Cover:


The story is about two young lovers who were separated twenty years ago because of Amanda's parents Dislike for Dawson. Dawson never got over Amanda and spent the last Twenty years alone because he knew he could only truly love Amanda. Amanda Moved on with her life and got married and had 4 children but was devastated by the death of one of them.
After the death of a mentor who took Dawson in during his teen years Amanda and Dawson both make their way to their home town of oriental to pay their respects. when they arrive they are reunited and Amanda feels her feelings for dawson re-emergence from inside her.
They soon realise that their mentor had set it up for them to be able to spend the weekend together prior to his death because he knew that they both belong together.
After spending the weekend together They rekindle their romance and Amanda has a decision to make between her family and the man she'd always loved and was to her the one that got away.
Her Decision is faced by a shock and a twist in events ,that will leave you pining for Dawson and feeling sorry for Amanda.

This Book was an amazing tale of regret and love and how no matter how your life turned out there will allways be something you wished you'd done when it comes down to it. It is a story of neverending loyalty from Dawson as he spends his life living off the memories of what he and Amanda once had.
Like All Nicolas Sparks' books it leaves you wishing for a guy as loyal as Dawson and is such an individual story of true love!
Anyone who loves romance should definatly buy this book or at least read it.

Love

Book Review : The Lucky One.

Hello , I haven't reviewed a book in a while because I've been working on my writing instead of my reading because if I want to be a writer I have to practice my writing which is going really well and i have some good research and ideas!


Anyway to the real reason of the blog entry to review another truly heartwarming novel by Nicolas Sparks who is a reason why I want to be a writer so I obviously love his books otherwise He wouldn't be my inspiration to do what I want to with my life anyway.. going off topic again sorry.
This is the cover of the Lucky one



The Book is called 'The Lucky One' and is a romance novel like most of Sparks' books and it completely lives up to the name of romance novels being and compelling story with amazing characters that draw you into the story and make you feel like they are your oldest friends that are telling you about their life.
Just in case you haven't heard of it and want to know what it is about I will write a short synopsis about it here:

It starts of with a freaky guy who is speaking about how he is a police officer and is spying on college girls who are trying to tan naked ( this is what made him really freaky and is a very important thing to remember ) A hiker walks by and catches him and steals his camera that he was using to take pictures of the girls he gives the camera to the girls while he gets a ride with them , we eventually find out that the hikers name is Logan Thibault and he has Trekked across half of the country with his dog , he is a marine from Iraq and while he was in Iraq he found a picture of a blonde girl who was in her twenties shortly after he was almost killed and his friend was convinced that She was his lucky charm and after a few other near death experiences and easy winnings in poker he starts to believe in it too and after his friend was killed by a ore that should have hit him he becomes convinced that his story with the girl in the picture isn't over and he indirectly owes her his life , he decides to track her down using small details from the photo to find out where she is and where she might be at the moment , he eventually tracks her down but nothing goes to plan when he plans to just tell her about the photo and ends up taking a job at her family's dog training place and unintentionaly falls in love with her and she falls in love with him to and he also has a strong relationship with her son and helps her to overcome her ex husbands control over her life , but what happens when she finds out about the photo ? Will it all come tumbling down ?

T   This story to me shows that anythings possible if you put your best effort into it , it shows that being in a war changes even the strongest of people and sometimes things are meant to be and nothing is just a coincidence I love the charecters in this story and the storyline is so different to anyother book I have read , I really would recemend reading this book and all of nicolas spark's other books to 

      If you do plan to read this book i would highly recemend doing it before the new film comes out in april because the books are allways better than the film! 

Love