Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad | A Review


Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad (An LA Candy Novel) | A Review

    I'm not sure what to really say about this book. It's a teenybopper novel that doesn't really have an overall moral value to learn. All you really get from it is that one of the main characters, Madison, is basically a she-devil, that lies catch up to you in the end and sometimes you have to let your friends make their mistakes on their own so they learn from them.
    This is the second novel by Lauren Conrad and it's pretty good. It wasn't as good as the first one, LA Candy. As I couldn't put that one down and read it in about a day and a half. But it was still alright, and I will still buy the sequels and read them. Other than that, there's not much I have to say about it. I guess you could say these books are a bit of a guilty pleasure. 

[Side Note: Don't get me wrong, I love LC.]

Friday, January 25, 2013

Paper Towns by John Green | A Review



Paper Towns by John Green | A Review

    This is the second book by John Green that I've read in about a week and a half. I'd never read any of John Green's books previously, but obviously had heard rave reviews. Needless to say, they've been living up to the hype. 
    The thing I loved about Paper Towns is all the adventure, and the dialogue, and the funny banter. It's all very real. It also puts you on a bit of an emotional roller coaster, which just adds to the heaviness of the overall story line. You don't even realize that you're reading something with a heavy kind-of moral value until you're sitting there, having finished the book and think back on it. 
    I absolutely love how a lot of the book is based around Q, the main character, learning that you have to see people for who they are, not who you've made them up to be in your head. You have to accept what's on the inside, right in front of you. I think that's a really important thing to touch on that a lot of people could learn from. 
    John Green's books never seem to end the way you'd want them to. But I guess that makes the story even more real, because life never does really turn out exactly how you had planned. So I guess that makes it okay. 

"What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person."