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Ayee, I am back with another book review, and today it is about Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children.

Now interesting story about this book I actually have read it before, I read it last year but for some unfathomable reason I could not get into it and I don't get what is happening. But because of the buzz and my love for creepy, scary books I decided to give it another shot. AND I LOVED IT!

Now I dont really know what to tell you about this book because in my opinion its best to go into the book not really knowing anything, but what I can say is this book is about a grandfather, Abe who's told his grandson, Jacob fantastical stories about his life, mostly about this childeren home he was in, filled with amazing and peculiar childrens and guarded by a brid. One day something happened to his grandfather, and Jacob has to follow the clues his grandfather left him and venture the island of Cairnholm and find the childrens home. This book is just so unique that it doesnt feel repetitive in some ways, and the pictures throughout the books were just amazing and it played such amazing role in the book, it made the book fell more alive and real.

I thats really all you have to know or even probablly less than that, so if you haven't read it yet, I suggest you do and come back here after you've read it and we can discuss it together, thats it for non spoilers then BYE NONSPOILERS BAAAAII

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SPOLERS AHEAD

HMM.. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, how do I even begin talking about this book, it was such unique book and it really stood out in my opinion.

I wanna talk first about the childrens home, like the whole concept of the loop was really well thought of and I loved that idea, but just the thought alone of me living on the exact same day on repeat is just scary, the fact that there are more children homes in a loop like this one is also very well thought of. This particular childrens home though everyday is September third, 1940, and the day restarts just before the nazi bomb hits the childrens home.

Now the cool concept that is interwoven with the whole loop thing is the ymbrine, Miss Peregrine, all the children calls her the Bird and as we go onto the book we learned that the only way you can make a loop is by manipulating time and the only one that can do that are ymbrines, which Miss Peregrine is. Ymbrines are the time manipulator, that can shapeshift into birds, because apparently in this book birds can manipulate time, birds are time travellers. Doesn't that just make you wanna be a bird? You can shit on people and time travel, thats the dream.

Anyways lets talk about the characters, I absolutely to die for loved Millard the invisible boy, I can just imagine him being one of those cute know-it-all, proper, always in a suit type of boy and Emma was also great, even though I kind of was creeped out by her and also pissed in a way, but at the end of the day she is still quite the lovable sarcastic one of the bunch, I also enjoyed reading about Olive the floating girl, and the scene when she parachuted them out the house it seems so fun, I want an Olive to float with, okay that seems creepy. Jacob, our main guy. He was very persistance which I loved about him, and his love and belief for his grandfather was just so sweet and the jealousy with Jacob's father, the fact that Abe spent more time with his grandson than his own son, it was very bittersweet. As for Abe I feel like I knew he had to die or at least went to a coma or something to set our story, so I wasn't very much shocked about it.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT EMMA AND JACOB??!

They are honestly so cute together I kinda ship them even though I'm still weirded out by the fact that his grandfather dated Emma and now he is kind of dating her, Jacob himself said in the book that dating her would be kind of incest and I just laughed so hard at that. But despite that, they are still very cute, and that one minute of Emma being outside of the loop and Jacob was just chasing her around and taking pictures of her, it was just so adorable. And how Jacob kept looking at the picture before he went to bed, and placed the apple Emma gave on his bedside table, ugh it was too cute. And even when Emma keeps pinching Jacob and he was like, 'I'm no expert in girls but I'm pretty sure when sge's pinched you four times, she's flirting it was so adorable.

Did you guys foresaw the whole Dr. Golan being a wight thing? Because I didn't. When that goddamn wight was like,'I was your bus driver, I was your grandfathers neighbours, I... Am.. DR.GOLAN!' and I'm just like what the hell?! This is some real effed up shit.

The end where, Millard, Emma and Olive came to prove to Jacob's dad that they were real, I WAS LIKE YEAH, EAT THAT DAD.

The climax scene, a lot of things was going on and I actually thought someone was gonna age up and died, but it didnt happen so hmm yea..

I GUESS THAT IS IT FOR MY REVIEW TODAY! Comment your thoughts about the book, I'm Rana and I'll see you guys on the next review, BUH BAI

"Okay so if I could pick an obsession besides coffee right now I would pick The 5th Wave." -Me

So here's a brief non-spoilery explanation about the book,or obviously  more known as a summary, because I can't just say that due to the idiot I am. Anyways, The 5th Wave is phase 5 of the alien invasion happening on earth, to wipe out humanity and take earth for their own, sounds fun I know.

Our main character, Cassie is a 17 year old badass, smart, sarcastic teenage girl. Cassie, not short for Cassandra or Cassidy, but for Cassiopeia.

So basically one day everything was just going by normally until suddenly this mothership comes across and it wasn't invisible or anything, people can see, they can see clearly that a HUGEASS MOTHERSHIP IS RIGHT ON TOP OF THEIR HEADS, not scary at all. So fellow earthlings were like, 'okay heyya up there we were just wondering watcha doin here, and just to be clear we are friends tho, right? um right?' and the aliens up there was just like '. . .' . So I mean obviously the people were starting to get batshit crazy, right I mean they're supposed to, I'm just saying.

So ten days they were there just, chillin. BUt on the tenth day BAM, they shut the lights on us, all the electricity went out. And that was just the beginning, of what seems to be the end.

Our main protagonist, Cassie, survived 4 of these waves like I said she's a badass, and we get to see the story progressing through her pov and we get to travel through her thoughts while these events occured. But we don't only get to explore the story through her pov, because there are other pov's.

I think thats really all I can say about this book without spoiling it, so if you haven't read this book, which I highly doubt, you totally should though if you haven't and come back and check out my spoilery parts of this review. Goodbye non-spoiler peeps!

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HELLO PEOPKE WHO HAVE READ THE 5TH WAVE! You have cascaded into the world of spoilers and discussions about The 5th Wave.

Lets start!

Okay there are so much things going on that I will be quite literally going all over the place with this review.

THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK! I swear they were all just so easy to fall in love with, Cassie was great, her dad was great, SAMMY was adorably amazing, just so much amazing characters. Even at the beginning when Ben Parish was being described by Cassie I fell in love with him because I just feel everyone has those types of crushes, everyone has a Ben Parish. I have a Ben Parish and he still is a Ben Parish, ouch *heart physically crying* lol jk but for real I loved the way Cassie portrayed Ben it was just so adorkably cute, and the story about THE BABIES! It was so cute how Cassie said that if she ever met Ben again, she'd ask to him if he remembered the whole ordeal with the story of the babies in the bus, it was just too adorable. While we are talking about characters, Evan Walker. Can I say H. O. T. T. HOT! Evan was introduced so well in the story and played such an amazing role, regarding to what he was at first it scared me, and I so badly wanted Cassie to leave him but to not leave him at the same time, but I wanted her to run away from him but I want her to stay with him, ITS JUST SO COMPLICATED, but anyway yeah I loved the romance dynamics between Cassie, Evan and the not-exactly-present-there Ben.

OKAY MOVING ON! Hmm to come to think of it maybe I can manage to make this review not so all over the place, well we'll see, lmao.

THE RELATIONSHIPS IN THIS BOOK, I am not okay! And I am not just talking about the romance-y  relationships I mean ALL DA RELATIONSHIPS. Let me first talk about the family aspect of this book, it is so heartwarming and just so calming that despite the events happening Cassie's family is still whole and still feels like a family, I feel all warm up inside whenever there are family scenes. For example, the scene where their mother died, how Cassie's father stood by her til even her last hours didn't go ballistic over it and he didn't loose it, he just remained calm and loving, to his wife and the two childeren it was just so sweet, and Cassie's part in being there for her brother in that moment, and also being there for her dad, and telling him its okay to break down, that scene was just so emotional and I loved it. And the ever so present bond that Cassie and Sammy has is just amazing, I literally hugged my little brother when I was reading the scene where Sammy was on the big yellow school bus waving out to Cassie, and how he gave the bear to Cassie to protect and accompanied her it was just so emotionally amazingly put together, and I loved how Bear was so weirdly a big part of the plot annd Cassie's and Sammy's bond, and I particularally loved the scenes where Cassie had an actual 'conversation' with Bear its just so hillarious. Now as for the romance I am leaning more towards Cevan? Essie? I mena they are so cute and they also feel like endgame, and the witty and cute conversations they have are just to die for, I also kinda feel that Ben is into Ringer? right? yeah I think so, Ringer. I don't know about it but it feels like Benand Ringer is gonna happen, or is it just me? Another relationship worth talking about is NUGGET AND ZOMBIE RELATIONSHIP, I don't even know if I can fathom how giddy I felt reading Nugget and Zombie scenes, it was just as heartwarming as Cassie and Sammy scenes probably even better, by a little tho, but there is just so much feels in this book.

The end of this book was mind blowing, I knew this book is good, but I dont really ever expect too much because I don't want to be disssapointed but this book didn't dissapoint me at all, maybe there are a few things I'd change but all in all it was a very amazing book, and the end tied in together so well, how they all eventually came together, its just put together very well. All in all this book is a very good solid first book, and I can't wait to read what is to come in this story.

That is all from me, I'll see you guys soon with another book review, BAIII

"The  intrigue and romance will inescapably draw you in."

- Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling

author of The Mortal Instruments series.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is about a girl named Mara Dyer who just got into an accident that killed her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's sister, but left her unharmed. She and her family decides to pack up and move to Florida, to give Mara a fresh new start, but things started to happen, she started to hallucinate things, or were they hallucinations?

This book is a fast paced, thrilling, paranormal romance that will keep you on the edge of your feet. I enjoyed this book immensely, and I would have given it 5 stars, but there were a few things I would've change. I really recommend you to read this book, if you havent already. Thats all for the non spoilers, if you havent read this book, you should go read it and come back to the spoilery section.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

OKAY! Book talk time,

First of all can I just say how talented Michelle Hodkin is, during the whole book I felt like I was going crazy just trying to figure out what was real and what was not, it was crazy. Mara is a really unreliable narator, but it just makes the book so much better, and guys Noah Shaw, honestly if he wasn't in the book I might not have read it as fast as I did, even though he is sort of a stereotypical bad boy, I just cant help but fall in love with him. Can we just for a moment talk about the Harry Potter references, like the part where Mara describes one of the girl dressing up as a "slutty gryffindor" or when Jamie said he was gonna try and find an owl to send a letter to Mara, I loved that. Speaking of Jamie, that dude was pure gold, thats all I could say, pure gold. Mara honestly has the best brothers on earth, I love how protective Daniel is, and Joseph is just adorable, but that scene when Noah knocked on Mara's window and said Joseph was missing, that was so frickin scary, also throughout this book there were certain deaths that happens after Mara imagines the person dies, firstly it happened to the dog, Mabel's owner, then to Morales, Mara's Spanish teacher, honestly I didn't mind at all about Morales death, she was just so annoying, like what kind of teacher throws chalk at her students? But the part where Mara did her exams, BAM I loved that scene, Morales was like "You may sit down Ms. Dyer" and Mara was like "I'm not done yet" and urgh, yeah! So the murder case that Mara's father took in had something in common with Joseph's kidnapping, the man who did it both wore rolexes, and can someone just agree with me about how disturbing it is when we find out that Jude is alive and well, and he is wearing a freacking rolex! What? what? What is happening? Like, I can't even... This book gave me a new reading experience, and overall I really did enjoy it, I can't wait to get the 2nd and 3rd books in my hands.