The Thousandth Floor By Katharine McGee

I think first I will give my opinion on the book as theres some things I want to get out there, my thoughts of the book have not left me all day so I thought I would share them.

First things first I want to talk about the actual blazingly obvious mishap with the book, they never real got into the nitty gritty explanation about the THOUSAND FLOOR BUILDING. There just wasn't enough information about the amazing building which made my mind unable to visualise most of the book. It was like they had glazed over the facts as if they weren't a part of the title of the book. I mean it's why I wanted to read the book, it's why I picked up the book in the first place. 

Secondly it took until the last 100 odd pages to actually hook me and give me an actual plot for the book. When it did happen I was finally glued to the book that had taken me over a week to get through. The overall ending was a pretty okay plot which actually managed to bring my attention to the second book which I would probably by when released.

The book is about 5 or so characters life, living in the building that has a thousand floors. The main character is the 'perfect' Avery Fuller who lives on the actual thousandth floor. Literally genetically modified to look perfect by her parents. She has looks, personality, wealth, friends everything but the person she truly loves.

Book Slumps and Other Shenanigans

So here I am... A failing Blogger.

Book slumps has hit m heard this month, work has been crazy but I love my job. But I miss how much I was reading when I was jobless.

This month I have read a shitty 5 books in total is horrific for me, I can't even express how much this fact saddens me especially when I want to read 100 or hopefully more books this year. i honestly feel like I am letting my self down when I think of the amount of books I have read this month. Hopefully next month I can read some more.

Luckily I have started a new and exciting route in my life, I have started to try out online courses to build up to a degree type one, what I will do is still unknown to me but today 27th of June I have started Literature of the English House and I am so excited to see how it goes.

I might be able to put up a Review within this evening I will try and will also attempt to start a book to push the slumps away. Maybe I need to watch some Booktubers, do any of you watch book tubers if so who are they?

Anastasia x

Things People Say In Relation To Books That Piss Me Off

I should probably do a disclaimer here, yes these things do piss me off but I do know the intentions are for the good but after years of these sentences that many have uttered to me... Yeah I feel it's right to share them and let them be known.

They annoy me for a number of reasons and I am sure I am not the only one who feels this. Or I hope I am not the only one who feels this agony with some of these experiences.

• 'Oh you read, if you read then obviously you have read this book and that book it's a classic so of course you have read this'.

• When people start up conversations with me full well knowing that I am trying to read and also fully aware that i do not want to be disturbed.

• 'What are you reading?' They ask whilst I am reading and do not want to be disturbed.

• 'If you haven't read this specific book then clearly you don't read as much as you say you do'.

• 'I read this book and because you read I must suggest it to you regardless of you liking this genre or not.

• Judging me because I read or making assumptions based on me reading or even the materials I read.

• When most adults give me book recommendations.

• When people assume that because you work in a bookshop that you know where every single book is and what the book is about.

• When people make assumptions that I have read every book out there and then begin testing my book knowledge or saying oh have you read this or that in a test way.

• When someone starts judging me because I haven't read a book they have.

Reading Goal 100 Books This Year Part 1

So my goal for 2016 is to read 100 books, I don't know why but I just want to challenge myself and see if I can do it. It will be a huge accomplishment for me if I complete this challenge this year and read all the books I need to.

This will be a record of the first 5 months of books I have read and in December Part Two will come out, the books are from a wide range of genres and hopefully I will have Classics, YA,  New Adult, Sc-Fi, Historical Fiction and more genres involved with this years reading list.

So the past 5 months I have managed a grand total of 47 books and my Goodreads challenge says I am 8 books ahead of schedule which I am thrilled about, the best month for me was March for some reason I managed 12 books and the second best month was May. And the worst months where I got 8 books read was Jan, Feb and April.

The month goals for the next 5 months will be 10 or if I can more than 10 books a month, this also depends on what is going on in these months as I have just started a job so will obviously have less reading time.

     January

1. Four by Veronica Roth
2. Playlist For The Dead by Michelle Falkolf
3. Seed by Lisa Hathfield 
4. Denai Touch by Tiffany Shand 
5. Switched by Amanda Hocking
6. Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
7. Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
8. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conard

     Feburary

1. Darkmere by Helen Maslin
2. Crow Mountain by Lucy Inglis
3. Simon vs the HomoSapien Agenda by Becky Allbertini
4. Denai Bound by Tiffany Shand 
5. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
6. The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
7. Half Blood by Sally Green
8. Half Wild by Sally Green

     March

1. The World Of Odysseys by M.I Finley 
2. Finding Audrey by Sophie Mckenzie
3. Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
4. Looking for Alaska by John Green
5. Stolen by Lucy Christopher 
6. How Hard Can Love Be by Holly Bourne 
7. Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater 
8. The Scorpion Races by Maggie Stiefvater 
9. Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad 
10. Beautiful Dead, Phoenix by Eden Maguire
11. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
12. Torn Amanda Hocking

    April

1. Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel 
2. My Sister Lives On the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher
3. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
4. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
5. Hate List by Jennifer Brown 
6. Angelfall by Susan Ee
7. World After by Susan Ee
8. End Of Days by Susan Ee

    May

1. Storm Born by Amy Braun 
2. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
3. How To Be A Wild Flower by Katie Daisy
4. Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
5. Half Lost by Sally Green
6. Demons Daughter by Amy Braun 
7. The List by Siobhan Vivian 
8. (Graphic Novel) Angel Fire by Chris Blythe
9. Dark Divinity by Amy Braun 
10. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch 
11. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Dark Divinity by Amy Braun

Dark Divinity is the second in the amazing trilogy Cursed by Amy Braun. To catch the book review of the first in the trilogy Demon Daughter click on this link: https://anastasiarobsonwolfe.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/demons-daughter-by-amy-braun.html

My thoughts on Dark Divinity:
Overall I really enjoyed the book, the writing was really efficient, vivid and just capturing. I really enjoyed the flashbacks throughout the entirety of the book it helped weave the history more than the first book making it like a dot to dot with all the history.

There was a few times in the book where the vividness of the book made me shudder, feel queasy
and outright shiver leaving goosebumps up and down my arms. They scenes were so very well detailed at parts it was so hard to read without getting a full mental image of the incidents it was just amazing.

The effortless way Amy writes pulled me in and trapped me, I love the fact that she has completely created a new untold way for Angles vs Demons to be in the same book without it being cliché which happens so much with many books now.

The amount of information and detail that has been poured into Dark Divinity is just outstanding, I feel there is more detail in Dark Divinity compared to Demons Daughter but the action was more in Demons Daughter compared to Dark Divinity.

I feel the transition between Demons Daughter and Dark Divinity is really smooth making it so much easier to jump from Demons Daughter to Dark Divinity without having to scrabble aground to remember everything that had happened no matter how long the gap was between both the books.


About Dark Divinity:
The gates to Hell and Heaven are open bringing chaos and destruction down to earth. Lucifer the most dangerous, most powerful person from hell used his daughter Andromeda (Dro), to open both the gates. The underground place where they found Lucifer, the creatures from hell and the with a witch called Isobel who was a neighbour to the sisters Constance and Andromeda when they lived with their parents.

They escaped with two angels who where helping them Sephiel and Rorikel, John Warrick a Demondhunter that knew Max and Manny (Max is physic amongst other abilities and Manny a Demonologist). Constance and Dro found Max and Manny out of desperation and has stayed with them since protecting each others families. They where safe until Drake Bounty Hunter for the Blood Thorns a Mexican Drug cartel that Constance once worked at to keep her and her sister safe. 

Dro becomes more and more powerful the more she uses her powers both the Hellfire and Anglefire, the hell powers taking a pull on Dro the more she uses the powers.

Constance and Dro escaped from the Blood Thorns clasps when Isobel turned up asking for Dro. 

It's a race against time to shut the Gates of Heaven and Hell, making sure the Demons don't create chaos and for Angels to stop trying to irradiate the Human race.

 

A Reading Update/ TBR Meltdown

So last month (23/4/2016). I had just over 70 physical books that I owned in Paperback/Hardbacks that needed to be read. Somehow I have mated to get that total up to 84 books this month not including 1 Graphic Novel, 3 Comic Samples, 6 Arcs, 1 Old Comic and 5 Short Stories!

I don't know where I went wrong really, This months (May 25th) I have read 9 books so far and in April I read 8 books. Not including my good reads TBR which is over 100 books. I just love buying books, where I live there is so many places to get second hand, cheap books and that just widens my book reading genres. It makes me so happy because I could have £10 and buy over 10 books with that money, unlike the bookstores where books are priced £7.99 or over per book unless you get the By One Get One Free deals but even then it's still pricey

I just love the experience of walking in to a shop and going to the secondhand book section, taking a second to breathe in the beautiful smell of old must books, I love the fact that someone else has read the same book, someone cherished it and enjoyed the books, for me that just adds to the book experience and high tens my interest in the book.

Currently I am reading 3 books 2 are Arcs for Authors and the other is rather slow process. I do like the books but I have to admit I am liking the 2 Arcs more than Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch. They just seem more out there and different, they break more boundaries, connections to the plot itself and I just personally like them more.

Anastasia x

My Opinion on Goodreads

For anyone that doesn't know what Goodreads is, it is a book media where you can rate and review all the books you have read, set up personal book challenges for the year plus update them, find new books to read, start up a TBR with Goodreads, add book enthusiasts and talk about books with them or join groups related to books.

So I will start wit the positive things:

I love adding over people who love books as much as me, it makes me feel that I'm not alone in this book world, I love having an account of what books I have read and also what books I want to read all in one place. Since being on Goodreads I have so many great books that I want to read that are slightly different from what I normally read which is great since I can broaden my horizons.

Friendly people. I have met some really lovely people since starting on the site, I've talked to a good few people and started on some amazing groups! So far I have had a positive experience on Goodreads and I really am enjoying it. Also I'm really enjoying reading books and also posting what I'm feeling about the book or how far I am coming along with the book it makes the reading experience so much more fun.

Lets go on to Cons.
I would count this as a con, wanting too many books. There are so many books I have wanted to read since starting out on there and then of course I made it worse buy asking for recommendations... probably shouldn't of done that, plus you get to see pictures of books and some where just so pretty or beautiful I just had to click Want To Read I just had to.

Reviews, some of the reviews have been rather horrid. I have seen some before when I was not a member and some where just really harsh, more like having a rant than actually putting a review with formed sentences and explanations of the books. I think as a review you have to try and say positives with the negatives to show that you can put Pros and Cons to make it a level review with your opinion in there. I don't see the point in just hating a book and then sending a shitty review without  real reason for hating the book.

Personally I like to try and keep the good and the bad in a book review I don't want to be harsh simply because that is just not how I am.

So that's my opinion on Goodreads.
Anastasia x