Review: Cinderella Ninja Warrior - Maurenn McGowan

4/5

I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of this book to review.

Just like Sleeping Beauty Vampire Slayer, this is another choose your own path kind of book. I know I've said this before, but I love these type of books!

This book follows the typical story of Cinderella, but with a twist! Cinderella's mother was a powerful witch, and Cinderella has been practising hard at both magic and ninja skills, when she gets the chance to enter the magic competition it seems like all her dreams have came true.

I really liked this book, and I hope that Maureen McGowan releases more of these choose your own path books!

Review: Switched (Trylle Trilogy #1) - Amanda Hocking

5/5

Having previously read the My Blood Approves series by Amanda Hocking, I really wanted to start this series as well, and I can safely say it did not disappoint!

This book centres around Wendy, who has never really felt like she fits in anywhere, even her own mother tried to kill her on her 6th birthday!
At school, Wendy meets Finn and at first thinks he is some kind of creepy stalker. As it turns out he is a tracker, and has been sent to find Wendy to bring her home.

Turns out Wendy is part of the Trylle tribe, trolls to be precise. Not only that, she is the princess of the Trylle's, and their future leader. As if that wasn't a big enough shock to Wendy, she has to learn how to be a princess, how to dress, how to act, how to rule, none of which she is remotely interested in!

The book left me wanting to start the second book in the series, I have a massive to be read pile at the moment so it will be some time before I get around to reading the rest of the series though.

Review: The Messenger (The Giver #3) - Lois Lowry

4/5

This is the second book in the companion series to The Giver by Louis Lowry.

This book picks up a few years after Gathering Blue, and this time instead of Kira being the main character, it is Matty's story we are told instead.

Matty is now safe in Village, and living with the Seer. He has a happy life, he has his friends, school and is hoping to be named as Messenger when he is old enough, as he visits nearby villages delivering messages.
The forest has always been his friend, and allowed him to travel through its paths time after time, but Matty's world is turned upside down when one day the forest starts to change. People are brought back dead from the forest and Matty knows the time has come to make his last journey through the village, to bring his old friend Kira back to Village.

Review: Gathering Blue (The Giver #2) - Lois Lowry

3/5

This is a companion book the The Giver, also by Lowis Lowry.

I was a bit annoyed at first because I thought this book would at least mention the characters from The Giver, but no it is set in a totally different world.

Although after a while I started to really enjoy the book, it is similar in a way to The Giver, Kira is an orphan girl with a bad leg and she needs a stick to help her walk. In her village, she should have been left to die at birth because of her leg, but her mother convinced the village to let her live and that she would be useful. Now her mothers dead and the women of the village are ganging up against her, they want the land her mothers home was built on.

I don't want to give too much away, but I really loved the ending of this book, and highly recommend it!

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