Skin Deep Review

Sorry for not writing for ages everyone but basically I have had a lot of revision and work to do. Anyway.
While being away I had read Laura Jarratt's book skin deep. I was going on holiday and desperate for something to read and was willing to settle for anything. So when I saw the cover of this book it was a photo of some boy and girl looking at each other and I wasn't overly bought by it but as I rather liked the boys curly hair I had a look at the blurb.

''Ugly people don't have feelings. They're not like everyone else. They don't notice if you stare at them and turn away. And if they did notice, it wouldn't hurt them. They're not like real people. Or that's what I used to think. Before I learned...

After the car crash that leaves her best friend dead, Jenna is permanently scarred. She struggles to rebuild her life, but every stare in the street, every time she looks in the mirror, makes her want to retreat further from the world. Until she meets Ryan. Ryan's a traveler  When he and his mother moor their narrow boat on the outskirts of a village, she tells him this time it will be different. He doesn't believe her; he can't imagine why this place shouldn't be as unwelcoming as the rest. Until he meets Jenna. But as Jenna and Ryan grow closer, repercussions from the crash continue to reverberate through the community. And then a body is found.''

So I read the blurb and thought it deserved a shot not expecting much but I was honestly hooked after the first few pages. The story is told at two peoples point of view. Constantly switching from Jenna to Ryan. The story opens out at Jenna's point of view where she is having a flashback of the night her and her friends were in a car crash which killed her best friend leaving her with what is described as a hideous scar across her face. So many months on she still had this huge scar across her face and has lost all past confidence. It then switches to Ryan who is a traveler with his mum on a boat, In which they arrive at a village where they plan to live for a while since the leaving of his mums past boyfriend, Cole.  As the story goes on it's the typical boy meets girl, or I guess you could say some kind of modern version of beauty and the beast as Ryan is perfect. As their lives become entwined with one another and help each other through both their problems.

It's an amazing mix of drama and romance, and not going to lie, I fell in love with Ryan and the jokes he makes. The only complaint I had about the book was that Jenna often got on my nerves a bit by being incredibly over sensitive, but then when I think about it, I'd probably be the same if I lost my best friend and had a scar across my face. 

I give the book a 4.5/5 and would definitely recommend it to anyone who's into the whole classic love stories and wants a bit of a break from the whole typical dark romance that floats about a lot at the moment.  

Delirium

finished the hunger games?

Hunger games is like my all time favourite book series so when I finished them I was pretty gutted to say the least, but recently I've start getting really into Lauren Oliver's book Delirium.

Delirium is about the world in the future where Love is seen as a disease and scientists have came up with a cure given to everyone once they reach the age of 18. It's wrote at Lenas point of view, who lost her father to cancer and mother commited suicide because of her heartbreak as her love was too strong for the cure. Lena was then given to her aunt and uncle to look after her. She's 17 now and has been looking forward to being cured ever since the loss of her mother. That is, until she meets Alex, An Invalid.
Again trying not to give away to many spoilers! I found out about it in my cosmo magazine saying it was the next hunger games and I love it so hopefully you will.

and if you have read it you should totally message me so I have someone to talk about it to! I've kind of fallen in love with Alex, and I think Jeremy Sumpter should totally play him.

-Megxxxxx

Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies

 

So is anyone else as excited for this film coming out as much as me?

Seriously it looks great. It's got zombies and romance in it, not to mention Nicholas Hoult. it due to be released on Febuary 1st in the UK. I think it's fair to say for the past year the whole vampires and warewolves twilight stage is over and everyones been hyping and raving about zombies, so this is bound to be a popular movie when it hits cinemas.
So the films based on Isaac Marions book 'Warm Bodies' published in 2010, Which is a great book that I would recommend anyone to read. without giving to much away, a disease which has turned most of the worlds population into these walking dead zombies, the survivors are protecting themselves in these safety domes. the story is at one of the zombies point of view who calls himself 'R', him and his friend 'M' are the last of a few who are still capable of having thoughts. These undead zombies roam around and live off human flesh though if they eat a humans brain it allows them to experience the humans life. 'R' decides to attack a party of teenagers and kills one of them called Perry by eating his brains but by doing so feels his emotions to one of the girls, Julie, who he was protecting.

So hopefully that sums up enough without giving to many spoilers! if you haven't read the book I recommend it for anyone and I'm so excited to see how the film turns out.

click here to watch the trailer

-Meg xxxxx