Top Ten Tuesday (14)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the amazing Broke And The Bookish.

Top Ten 2014 Releases I meant to Read But Didn't Get to

Uh I had such a big long list of books that I wanted to read last year, but unfortunately there were quite a few that I didn't get to, that I really wish I had. However there's always this year, and some of these are definitely near the top of my TBR pile.

So both of these are sequels in series that I absolutely adored. Ashes to Ashes is the last book in the Burn for Burn trilogy, which hopefully will answer all my questions, when I finally get around to it. The treatment on the other hand is the second book to 'The Programme', which was one of my favorite books of 2013. Both of these I wish I had gotten around to last year.

These all look like great contemporaries which I wish I had gotten to last year. Almost all of them I have heard fabulous things about, which makes me want to read them even more. Hopefully I will get around to some if not all of these this year.

These last 3 are also books I've seen around heaps, and heard good things about. I've heard that We Were Liars is best not to read too much about and go into it blind for maximum enjoyment, therefore I have tried to avoid spoiler reviews for a whole year... which is very difficult. Rebel Belle is on my list of near future reads, and Panic, I feel I'm sure to enjoy as I've enjoyed the authors previous books.

What 2014 releases do you wish you'd gotten around to? Any plans to them this year?

Feature and Follow (13)

Here's this weeks question:

 

Do you have any fun collections (Other than Books)? 

Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The purpose is to meet new people and gain more followers in the book blogging community.

Books are probably my biggest collection. Although, I do have quite a large collection of DVD's and  TV series. The only other thing that I collect which pops to mind is Buffy the Vampire Slayer paraphernalia. I have every season on DVD, plus books, comics, calendars, diaries etc. I use to be a huge Buffy nerd ...and still kind of am!

Review- Premeditated (Josin L. Mcquein)

 

Synopsis

A week ago, Dinah’s cousin Claire cut her wrists.
Five days ago, Dinah found Claire’s diary and discovered why.
Three days ago, Dinah stopped crying and came up with a plan.
Two days ago, she ditched her piercings and bleached the black dye from her hair.
Yesterday, knee socks and uniform plaid became a predator’s camouflage.
Today, she’ll find the boy who broke Claire.
By tomorrow, he’ll wish he were dead.

  - Goodreads.com

My Review 

When  I first added this book to my TBR there was more than a year to wait until its release. During this wait more and more books were added to the list, and by the time the book was released the excitement had kind of worn off. Forward another year later and I finally got around to reading it, as luck just happened to place it at my local library, bringing it back to the forefront of my mind and reminding me of all the suspense and anticipation I had felt reading the blurb that first time, and boy was it worth the wait.

The book focuses around Dinah and her plan to exact vengeance on the rich prep school boy who broke her cousins heart, driving her to attempt to take her own life. While her cousin remains in critical condition in the hospital, Dinah along with the help of her two misfit friends begin down the dark road of revenge. Dinah starts off be enrolling in her cousins prep school, and completely changing herself in order to fit in with the rich kids, in hopes of befriending the boy in question so she can fulfill her plans of making his life a living hell. But not everyone appears as they seem, and sometimes the devil you think you know, may not be the devil at all.

"Killing someone's easier than you think. All it takes is a decision, aim and follow through...Revenge on the other hand, and I mean real, calculated, make him sorry he was ever born vengeance, takes time, planning, and patience."

- Josin L. Mcquein (Premeditated)

One thing I really liked about Dinah's character, besides the fact that she's pretty badass, is that despite wanting revenge she has a moral compass. It's like there's a war that's going on inside her; kind of a devil and angel on the shoulder scenario which the author writes so perfectly. On one hand she wants to protect her cousin and cause pain to the boy who hurt her, but on the other she knows that on some level two wrongs don't make a right, and causing more pain won't help her cousin.

The plot twist was relatively easy to pick up, I wasn't sure what it was exactly but I had a fair idea. Although the author kept me reading right till the end, eager to see how everything was going to be revealed in the end. The book definitely had elements of suspense and mystery, maybe not quite as much as the synopsis leads you to believe, and it all had a rather 'John Tucker Must Die' feel to it but a little edgier with darker undertows. 

Overall I really enjoyed the book. I liked the authors writing style, and the last few paragraphs of the book were just the perfect way to end it. 

Things I loved about the book:

• The main characters internal struggle with the morality of what she is doing wa sfantastic and completely believable. I liked that she wasn't just a robot doing things without some semblance of a conscience. 
• The ending! Both the plot twist and the last couple paragraphs.

Things I didn't so much like about the book:

•  There were parts that were a little slow, but the mystery kept you going. 

My rating: 5/5

 

If you wanted to get someone back, how would you go about it?