Movie Review: Beastly

Synopsis:

A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love. 

Director: Daniel Barnz

Kyle: Alex Pettyfer

Kendra: Mary-Kate Olsen

Lindy: Vanessa Hudgens

Will: Neil Patrick Harris

Review:

A modern day take on one of my favourite fairy tales of all time. Kyle was horrible and vain (and very very good looking) and a witch named Kendra turns him into what he is on the inside. He has to find one person to love him. He's a good character, so is Kendra because she isn't a bad person, she wants him to see what it is like to be ugly so he gets a conscience. Lindy is too because she doesn't run or stare at him. But I have to say my favourite character (and Ciaras (who I went to see it with and is now sitting next to me watching Dr. Who with me)) is Will, the sarcastic blind tutor who gives good advice in weird packages.

So if I were to give it a rating out of five: I would give it a 4 1/2 because I think it needed more of Will and Alex Pettyfer shirtless doing pull ups. 

I haven't read the book but I am considering it after watching the film.

Morganville Vampires 10: Bite Club by Rachel Caine

Blurb:

After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble.
There's a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Internet: bare- knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against each other-or humans. Tracking the remote signal leads Claire- accompanied by her friends and frenemies-to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville...

Review: 

Sorely awated next book in the Morganville Vampires chapter. I adored this book, more than the last few, I think. This book alternates, unlike the others, between Claire and Shane. I liked this one better because Claire really fully comes into her own self. She gets more of an edge and learns how to fight for herself. This book usesd all the other plot lines, revisting old characters and developing the regulars more. This book has unexpected plot (the only word I can think of) happenings.

I reccomend you read the Morganville series, just for this book.

Just 9 books before this.

Good Luck! 

Mortal Instruments Film

The Mortal Instruments series is has been featured on this Blog a lot because I think Cassandra Clare and the world of the Shadowhunters is an amazing world. And as some of you might know, it is being made into a film and is currently in pre-production. That means: getting a cast; location; crew; costumes; props; and running through scripts.

They have at least one of the characters cast. Clary Fray. Who will be played by Lilly Collins.

No one actually knows who playing her romantic interest of Jace Wayland is going to be. When I researched it, two names came up for the role of Jace Wayland. These are either people wanting them to be Jace or they have been offered the role.

Alex Pettyfer & Max Irons

Max Irons most recent work is on the Red Ridding Hood and Alex Pettyfers has been in two recent films: I Am Number Four and Beastly.

Both of them are good actors and I think both of them would be good as the role of Jace but, who do you think would be good?

Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Blurb:

Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still.
When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.
Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length...everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world...and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

Review:

I was hesitant at first with this book. I loved the Mortal Instruments series and I thought this might just be a lame spinoff. But I was happily proven wrong. This books is set in my country (well not my country, the country where I live) of England in the time where London most excites me. The image of Victorian London was exactly as I expected it to be and Clare puts the a good image in your head.

The characters are believeable and are all linked to the Mortal Instruments series in one way or another. It was a very good book and the plot was fantastic. Twists and turns and the ending was completely unexpected.

I can't wait for Clockwork Prince 

Whos your favourite character?

Okay, you might not know that I am a Twilight Addict. I'm didn't create the trend, I went along with it as soon as I saw the film in an English Lesson. Yeah, I know what you are thinking. 'English Lesson, Twilight, how do they mix?' Well it was a free lesson at Christmas and I saw the first five minutes and was hooked.
Well, I was interested in Edward Cullen and that character got me into reading. That was over a year ago now and I blame my friends and Amazon for making me buy more books. But in every book I read, there is a heroine who doesn't know it and a hero that would make any girl drool.

 I <3 him and others and hate the fact that they are all fictional






So I wondering
Who is your favourite hero/ heroine?
What book got you into reading?
Life long reader or one of the converted?
And what is your favourite book of all time?

Comment below!

Mortal Instruments: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

Blurb:

To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters -- never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.
As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadow-hunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadow-hunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he's willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her new found powers to help save the Glass City -- whatever the cost?

Review:

This book is the best book I have read in this series so far. It is mostly set in the City of Alicante in the country of Idris. The native home to the Shadowhunters. There are secrets that the other books built up to. Everything changes in this book, everything that happened in the first two books, all the unanswered questions are answered in this book.

The way the perspectives change, leaves you hanging on the edge and keeps you reading until the very end. This book has fights and alliances and everything the first two books had too.

Jace and Clary have to work out their relationship, they have to try to be brother and sister. Jace has to find out what he really is and why he and Clary are so different to the rest of the Shadowhunters.

You meet new characters in this book too. People who add to the story more. But the book also looses some characters.

This book is full of twists and turns and sharp corners that will leave you breathless. A truly amazing book.

I just want to thank my friend Ciara for recommending it. :)

Can't wait to read City of Fallen Angels

Soul Screamers: My Soul To Save by Rachel Vincent

Blurb:

When Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies.

So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul.

The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad's ironclad curfew and putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls: a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld—a consequence they can't possibly understand.

Kaylee can't let that happen, even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk….

Review:

This book is the second installment of Kaylee Cavanaugh Bean Sidhe. I read the first book and liked it because Kaylee didn't know what was going on when everybody else did know what was wrong with her. She has to go through a huge change to know what it is to be a real Bean sidhe and balance a boyfriend with his grim reaper brother.

In this book, you don't know who is going to survive until the end. The relationships were built up in the first book and before the first one. Their loyal to their friends and Nash has an tough loyalty to her. He sees her as a beautiful girl with a beautiful voice when she wails but the rest of the world see her as a normal girl with a high pitched wail that could burst eardrums. This was an action packed story with a beautiful sub-plot. Loved it.