Book It! - May

I’ve recently finished reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver, finally! This took me awhile because the first few chapters were dreading. But as I progress the story begin to captivate me to a point where I couldn’t stop reading until it was already 3 in the morning!

As always I do not want to give out spoilers but it’s much like Romeo and Juliet, the-things-you-will-do-and-sacrifice-for-the-one-you-love, kind of thing. The twist is in the place and society they live in, although there are parts in the book that were misleading and will make you raise your eyebrows. But all in all, I enjoyed the book. Probably one of the books I would like to be made into a movie.

This is actually categorized as a Dystopian Fiction and Delirium is the first book I read in that genre therefore I cannot make any comparison. This is probably also the reason why I actually quite enjoyed it. But after this book I am now considering the Hunger Games series, also in the same genre, heard it’s better than Delirium.

* Dystopia - a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror)*

Current reads: Sleepless Nights by Sarah Bilston and The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordon (Book 1 of the Kane Chronicles).

Sleepless Nights is actually a Chick-Lit and although I enjoy reading Chick-Lits this one is just a snoozefest! I tried reading it but after a good 2-3 chapters I’m not left there… bored! Plus there are two protagonists switching back and forth narrating the story so it’s quite annoying. And the storyline is nothing special really. So I’m not sure if I’d want to recommend this but you can try.

Now The Red Pyramid, I enjoy! But since I only have the e-book for this so I had to read it at work and I can only read a few chapters every now and then. It is basically the counterpart of the Percy Jackson series. But instead of the Greek mythology it’s the Egyptian, hence the title. If you enjoy the Percy Jackson series then you will probably like this as well.

So far that’s the only update for my bookreads for the month of May.

‘Til next time,

Jcel♥