Winging It (Dragon Diaries #2) by Deborah Cooke Review

5 STARS

I am really in love with this series it is just beautiful. It is nice to see even from the beginning of this novel how much Zoe has developed from the first book and is much bolder and more attuned with her Wyvern powers.

In this novel Zoe and her fellow Pyr (Liam, Nick and Garret) must deal with the Mages once again as they did in the first novel. On top of this Zoe must has to deal with her parents possibly splitting up, her best friend Megan who she is constantly headbutting with lately and try and balance homework and school on top of that. Not to mention Jared keeps giving Zoe hot and cold signals. So Zoe isn't very happy even with her sixteenth birthday coming up.

Even though this novel didn't have as much action as it's predecessor it worked heavily on character development and Zoe working on developing her Wyvern abilities.

Definitely can't wait for Blazing the Trail.

This originally appeared on Goodreads.

Wings of the Wicked (Angelfire #2) by Courtney Allison Moulton Review

5 Stars
What a great sequel to Angelfire.
Honestly this was so great and dark compared to it's predessor.
CAM does a fantastic job:
*Endless fight scenes that are well described and are never old.
*Death-I won't say anymore but everything in association with that word was just great and dealt with perfectly and realistically
*Ellie chooses who she wants to be with, instead of beating around the bush and avoiding the love triangle being the plot of this book and the next boook. Finally a heroine who is friggin intelligent!
*Ellie still faces challenges and nothing comes easy to her, she also doesn't completely ditch her family and friends and still has a social life.
*Ellie contemplates having sex before marriage like nearly every teenager does today. What a shock!
*Plot is unique and very detailed, wow an author that actually researched for her novel.

So if you haven't gotten the hint yet, go read this book. Whether you are an action girl or a romantic this is fantastic and I think everyone needs to read this series.

*Anxiously waits for the third book*

The Hunger Games Movie

So I saw The Hunger Games Movie at Midnight today. What I thought of it? It was good but honestly it wasn't great, and it could have been a lot better than it was.

When saying this to my mates who I saw it with thought I was just comparing it to the book and that I can't expect it to be better than the book. Well first off no shit, of course it isn't going to be better than the book that is impossible to happen.

Only one of my friends agreed with me and she is a bigger Hunger Games fan than I am. Some of the things that bugged me were the following:

Gale "Remember I..." line - One of the biggest plots of these series is the love triangle between Katniss, Gale and Peeta. But they made barely any evidence of Gale's feelings for Katniss. (Only 5 second images of him watching her kiss Peeta which I think doesn't show it.) They even cut out right at the beginning Gale trying to tell Katniss that he loves her but it was completely cut out. How hard is it for him to say two words in a freaking movie? I don't think it is going to harm the time limit the movie has.

Rue's Death - It was pretty well done and I honestly teared up a bit when she died in Katniss' arms but this one small thing bugged me, which was that the spear wasn't left in her stomach and was pulled out straight away. First thing when a spear goes into you like it did in Rue it is near impossible to get out of her stomach and she would of have died much quicker and basically instantly than she did in the movie. Also the whole point of her having the spear protuding out of her stomach after Katniss had put the flowers around her was to show that this beautiful, innocent, young girl was killed brutally for some stupid game for the Capitols entertainment. But instead the spear was taken out and her wound was covered which irritated me.

Censoring of the deaths - There was blood and gory scene if you can call it that but it was nothing compared to what the books described it. The movie could of easily beaten the book in these scenes since the images are put there in your face instead of imagining it yourself. Cato's death I could barely see because it was so freaking dark. This whole story is based around these children being forced to literally become monsters and do these violent and grotesque things to each other for entertainment. But I guess all the movie makers want it to be a low rating so younger people to watch it since the world is about money. Don't make a movie like this if you are not going to do it freaking properly.

Seneca Crane's Death - Seneca's death was meant to be a brutal murder as punishment of his stuffing up of The Hunger Games. Instead Seneca is put in a room with a bowl berries. Seriously WTF?

Katniss and Peeta Unrequited Love - It is not made clear that what Katniss said and did in the games with Peeta were just to entertain the sponsors and him being heartbroken over this revelation. Also that she found out Peeta didn't do it for sponsors and actually liked her (if you can call watching a girl walk home everyday not creepy). Instead people who haven't read the book could be led to believe they liked each other and not unrequited, which is another important detail of the love triangle.

Well these were just a few I can think of from the top of my head but there are probably more that annoyed me. Anyway I am not saying I hated it, just that it was pretty mediocre and left out certain points that could have easily being put into the movie without causing too much hassle.