Best Book Front Covers

Best Book Front Covers

       Looking through my book shelf I've realised how many cool book front covers there are out there. Authors put so much effort into making their book perfect and most of them just smash it by having an amazing front cover on the book. Infact, once I bought a book just bacause I loved the front cover, it wasn´t actually a great book after all, but the picture on the front of the book, made me open it and read every single word in it. It´s just that when the front cover is good, the feeling that you HAVE to read the book grows inside you. And that is exactly what happened to me that day. So I´m going to list my 5 favourite book front covers!

1. Shatter Mevseries by Tahereh Mafi

    

    I think I´ve fallen inlove with this front covers, I don´t know if that is even possible, but I love them so much. I think the reason why is because I love eyes, just anything that has eyes in it, drawings, pictures or... front covers!!! Eyes mixed with nature, plants, snow, flowers; its just like the whole pretty part of this world has been drawn together into one amazing image. 

    If this front covers make you feel the same way they made me fell when i saw the, the felling that you had to read them, well, this is a short summary: 

I have a curse

I have a gift

I am a monster

I'm more than human

My touch is lethal

My touch is power

I am their weapon

I will fight back

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

       The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

      The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.

   Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

2. Starters by Lissa Price

I haven't read this book yet, but I am really looking forward to it because I have heard so many good comments about it. But most of all, I want to read it because the front cover is just AmAzInG! When I saw it at the book shop is was just like "that is a good book. That looks good" . So I bought it and it is at the top of my bookshelf waiting for me to read it. I like the front cover so much because of 3 main thing I think, because it's mainly white and that is my favourite colour so, I just like it, because it's different to other front covers, for example, the girls face is close up and you can see that the eyes are two different colors, blue and orange and the last thing is because in the backround, there is some kind of electricity circuit or something like that... Which makes me think that the story is going to have to do with the future in some way. 

I haven't read the book, but this is what I found out from my research: the story is about a a girl that has everything taken away from her, her family, her home, everything, all she has left is herself, but not long after, that only thing thing she had left, her body, is also taken away from she and it is used for murder, but she keeps fighting to get it back. 

3. Divergent series  by Veronica Roth

Most people like the front cover with Theo James and Shailene Woodly (the actors that play the main characters in the movie); but I personaly like the copies with the plain black backround and a symbol in the middle. There are four differrent symbols, if you include the one form Four, the book in which we see some part of the story from the boy's/lover's point of view. In Divergent (the first book) the symbol is a flame, it represents the Dauntless, the faction that she chooses to be in. In Insurgent (the second book) the symbolis a tree, which represents Amity, the faction that's helps them (Tris and Four) hide away from Erudite because they are trying to find them and also helps stop the war. And in the last book, Alligent, the symbol is a snowflake in the shape of a flower, I haven't hear of an actual meaning for that, but I think if it a the snowflake representing the bad and cold times that the characters have to go though along the story and the flower representing, the good times they spent together and the "happy" ending. As I said, there is also a book called Four, and the symbol for that is a circle of sparkles.... I don't know why and I haven't figured it out yet, sorry. 

If you are planning on reading it and you want more info I recommend you read the review I wrote a few months ago. 

4. Teardrop by Lauren Kate

                               

          

   I don't know what it is about this two front covers, but I just love them so much. I guess that the dress that the girl is wearing in Teardrop is just amazing, the way, it starts by being a dress and then turn into water is just so cool. I also think that the colous where chosen very wisely, the blue and purple in the backround combines really well with the silver from the title and itlooks great. Everything about this book is amazing, starting from the front cover, all the way to the story line, this book is defenitely in my top 10 and I really encourage you to read it! 

The blurb in his book is: 

Never, ever cry...

Seventeen-year-old eurek won't let anyone close enough to feel her pain. After her mother was killed ina freak accident, the things she used to love hold no meaning. She wants to scaoe , but one thing holds her back; Ander, the boy who is everywhere she goes, whose turquoise eyes are like ocean.

And then Eureka uncovers an ancient tale of romance and heartbreak, about a girl who cried an entire continent into the sea. Suddenly her mother's death and Ander's appearance seem connected, and her like takes on dark undercurrents that don't make sense.

Can everything you love be washed away?

5. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard


                    

When i show this book to my friends or my family, they all say that the front cover looks too plain, or they say that the crown upside down with the blood looks weird or creepy. To be honest, there is not much more to this front cover other than that, but that is why I think it is such a great front cover. Because it shows that the story is going to be that kind of story in which the characters have a hard time moving on from the past, finding themselves, like the front cover, nothing is complete clear and everything seems comfusing. It is probably a kind of book that most people who don't like murder or blood would try to avoid, but once you open it, it is actually an amazing YA book that everyone could and SHOULD read because it is just so, so, so good. 

In case you are interested, this is the summary:

In the world where Mare Barrow has been living at, there were two types of people. Red blooded and Silver blooded. While the Silvers were all about the ‘betters’ ―really, better clothes, better foods, better wealth, better life― and powers, Reds were the description of poverty and desperation. All Silvers were gifted with superhuman abilities thus they were the ones who got to rule the whole country. Reds had no abilities and were born to serve the Silvers. 

Mare was Red. She spent her life living in Stilts, a poor village inhabited by Reds. Unlike her sister who actually had a skill that brought her to work on Summerton to Silvers, Mare was a pack of trouble. She had no skills, only those of stealing. She sure was not proud of that but really, she had nothing else that she could actually do. Just like the rest of Reds who didn’t have jobs, Mare would be sent to the war. It was unnerving even for Mare who practically had no fears toward anything. 

When her best-friend slash partner in crime, Kilorn lost his job and had to be sent to the war as well, Mare felt even more scared despite what she herself would face. Kilorn wasn’t supposed to be in the war, he was supposed to stay and have a proper job. Mare devoted herself to do anything to pull Kilorn away from the nightmare. One thing led to another when Mare found herself in a complicated circumstance that actually pulled her own self away from the village to serve the King. 

Mare was always the different one. At home, she was the black sheep among her own family. Among the Reds who served the King, Mare was more than just a Red. She was a Red with superhuman abilities and she was not even aware of that in the first place. In one night, her life changed completely from a Red servant to a Silver betrothed to one of the Princes. As she constantly had a mental suffer by living among the monsters that has been making Red people’s life like her miserable, Mare found more and more the contrast of the two bloods. When the brave Red ones decided to fight for their fates under the name Scarlet Guard, Mare realized that her position could be a perfect bridge to the Reds revolution. But whatever this Mare was in was far more dangerous than what she could imagine. Only one thought she had to hold on in this impossible world: anyone can betray anyone.

I hope you liked this post and enjoyed reading it. 

ABooktifulLife

How to get over a book hangover

Hello book Lovers!
This post is going to be about how to get over the worst feeling in the world, the feeling that makes you feel empty and depressed, this feeling is called.. BOOK HANGOVER! For all of you who don't know what I'm talking about, a book hangover doesn't mean that you drank too much alcohol while reading so when you wake up you have a hangover. A book hangover is when you have just finished a book, the book that you finished was great.... But after this amazing book, you can't start a new book, you just don't feel like reading anymore. This usully happens when you completely forget to think about what you were going to read next. So you are there, sitting on the side of your bed, looking at the wall, looking at the bookshelf and you start wondering what you are going to do with your life now that you don't feel like reading. Are going to just watch the vampire diaries or any other TV show for the rest of your time alive? Are ever going to read again? Is this it? Are you done with reading all the amazing book that are out there?

So, I'm now going to tell you how to avoid that,or if you have already been caught, these are some ways to get over it... i hope al least one works, they all halped me.

1.  Go to your public library or book shop. What I'm trying to say is that, what you have to do is surround yourself with books. Sometimes, just having them around you, make you feel "connected" to them in some kind of way. Just reading the titles of the books, reading the authors´name, small things like that really can help. Because, sometimes,while you are walking around you suddenly see an amazing front cover, then you walk toward it, almost as if it was pulling you towards it. Then, you pick thebook up, and that´s it, you turn the first page and you are pulled back into the amazing world of reading.



2. If that doesnt work with you, something else thing you can do is find a book that is really cheesy, short  and nice and with romance if you like that kind of stuff. They are really great when it comes to getting you back into reading. Normally it´s because they are easy to read, sometimes you can relate to the story, or you fall inlove with the boy in the book and you need to keep reading to find out what happens to him in the end... for example: Anna and the french kiss, Lola and the boy next door and Isla and the happily ever after.



3. That doesn´t work for you. I get it, i´m not that kind of girl who likes reading  either, and if you are a boy, I get why option 2 wouldn´t work with you either.  So, the 3rd thing you can do is find a short book from your book list that you have always wanted to read but never had a chance to actually do it; if you have a hard copy of it, put on the front of your bookshelf, your bedside table, anywhere that you will be able to look at it often. If you dont have a copy of the book, screenshot the front cover and set it as your backround photo. the more you look and see the book you want to read, the more you will want to read it, until one day, you will finally turn the first page!



I hope this helps, if you know any other ways to get over a book hangover, please comment them below!

Love, Rosie···Book and Movie

Hey Guys!

         I´ve thought of doing something new and not just book reviews. So this post is going to be about the book and movie Love, Rosie. It is a romance story, but apart from that there is also a lot of parts that teach mainly teenager girls  what they should and shouldn´t do. For example, one of the things that changes Rosie´s life is going to the ball with wrong boy. That might sound ridiculous, but it really does turn her life upside down, so the massage behind that is: don´t just go to the ball with any random guy, go with someone who you really do want to go with to the most important even in your whole teenage life with some weird boy who you might not even know that well. 

   

        I am aware that that whole paragraph didn´t make any sense to anyone who hasn´t read the book or watched the movie, so this is the summary that will hopefully clear your mind:

   Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn't possibly fall inlove with each other... but maybe they do. They are the worst two people in the world when it come to making the right choice and choosing their lovelife. One awkward moment when they were 18, one missed opportunity... and life sends them in different directions. Rosie has to stay at home looking after her new born baby instead of going to university with Alex. And Alex has to move away to study in America.

   Somehow, across time and two different continents, the tie that binds them cannot be undone.They might find their way back to one another, but it might be too late.

Movie

   So now going to movie. I thought the two main actors were just amazing; I mean Lily Collins and Sam Claffin!!! Wow, they are like the two best actors in the world and then when they put them together they were just great. Lily did an amazing job acting as Rosie, Sam as Alex was just OMG he is gorgeous he was perfect! I though Will Poulter would have been a great Greg, but that is just my opinion. I don´t know what to say, it was so much like the book, but all I can really tell you is to go watch the movie if you are interested in any kind of teenager stuff. 

The Cast

  

Details of the book:

1. Published: 2004
2. Author: Cecilia Ahern
3. Adaptations: Love, Rosie
4. Followed by: If You Could See Me Now
5. Genres: Romance, Fiction Novel

If you liked this book, I would recomend you read: 

· P.S. i love you

· If I Stay

· Before I Die

· How To Fall Inlove 

· One Hundred Days

 By ABooktifulLife 

Divergent by Veronica Roth Review

  Divergent #1 book of the Divergent series!
Hello book lovers!

This year I've read lots and lots of books, some have been amazing, some have been breath taking, some have been just too good to put into words and... this book, Divergent by Veronica Roth, fits into all of those categories; so I thought of writtng a reveiw about it.

Top books of 2014!!

                          Top 10 books of 2014

   2014 has been one of the most amazing years for all the YA (Young Adult ) readers. So many amazing books around! It makes it awfully hard to choose!!! So I'm going to give you a short summary about the top 5 and just title and the summary for the top 6 to 10! If you have any book recomendation please comment them below!!!!

 
So, the top 10 books that I read in 2014 were:

1. City of glass by Cassandra Clare! Even though it isn't the first or last book of the series Mortal Instruments, it's the one that stood out to me the most. I still love the rest of the books, specially City of Lost Soulds and City of Heavenly Fire, but this book just took a piece of my heart. So if you like vampires, angels, dimons warewolves and that kind of stuff, this is the perfect series for you. There is also a movie for the first book, but unfortunatelly not for the rest because of a lot of reasons, but they are going to make it into a TV show, which is very exciting. So, this book was just amazing and I recommend it for any YA reader, I personally thought I wasn't going to like it, but I ended up falling inlove with these books.

2 The Maze Runner by James Dashner! This is an amazing book, it's the first book of the Maze Runner trilogy and it is beautifully written from the main characters point of view, Thomas. It's about a group of boys who find themselves stuck in the middle of a maze and their memories have been errased. One day a boy appears  in the place where they are living and somehow becomes their kind of leader; the one who has to find a way out for all of them. As I said, it is a really great book and if you like science fiction, this is your book. There is also a really good movie if you are interested in that. The movie came out in 2014 too, so it shouldn't be hard to find it on a website or at the cinema.

3 Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. It is just too good to put into words, this book was a best seller. It was written by an Australian woman. It's about an Australian girl with Italian backround. She lives with her mum and doesn't know who her dad is, unfortunately because all the Italian old ladies talk behind other peoples back, she has to hide the fact that she is the daughter of a single mother. Then at school she meets a boy and of course they fall in love, but they're relation ship doesn't really work becuase of they're different families and ways of living, so she has to solve two problems, who is her dad is and why can't she have a normal relationship with the boy she loves. I recomend this book to any teenager girl, this book will make you laugh, cry, smile, sob... It is really trully an amazing book.

4 The Giver! This book will take you to the future, show you what the would could look like if it carries on with wars and fights. It shows how anyone can be important and make a difference..... so the story line goes a bit like this: the world has tuned black and white, everyone is exactly the same as the preson next to them appart from their name, children study, teensgers study and adults work, they don't choose they're job though, it gets chosen for them. During one of the choosing ceremonies, one boy doesn't get selected in any job, instead he becomes a receiver which means he gets the memories from the past back... So, if you like science fiction, books about the future and a touch of romance, this is the perfect book for you.

5 Love, Rosie! I wouldn't be surprised if you have already heard about this book, or the movie which came out recently in the last months of 2014. I can't tell you if the movie is good or bad because I haven't watched it yet, but i have a felling its amazing, I mean... Lily Collins and Sam Claflin!, that has to be good. But anyway, the book is just great, it is all written in letters and emails that everyone sends Rosie during her life. The story is about a girl and her friend Alex who have been best friends since they were 3 years old. When school finishes Alex moves to America. Rosie has to go to the graduation dinner with another boy because Alex had already left, and she ends up pregnant without anyone really knowing. Her and her daughter try to live a normal life, but its just too hard for her and ends up needing her best frined, Alex again. This a very romantic novel, but still, it's very interesting seeing how someones life can turn into such a mess and how hard it can be to be claned it all up.

6 The Divergent series by Veriona Roth
Summary witten by the author is: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her

7 We were liars by E. lockhart

Summary written by the author is:

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

8 Silent Echo by  Elisa Freilich
The summary written by the author is : Portia's silence is about to be broken with the abrupt discovery of her voice, unparalleled in its purity and the power it affords to control those around her. Able to persuade, seduce and destroy using only her voice, Portia embarks on a search for answers about who she really is, and what she is destined to do.

9 All that burns by Ryan Graudin
Summary writen by the author is:

In this thrilling sequel to All That Glows, the worlds of magic and mortal are colliding as London celebrates its new king, marking an era of unity between the Faery realm and the human one. Emrys, the Faery guard to the British royal family, sacrificed her powers to be with King Richard, choosing love over immortality. But now, as Emrys struggles to navigate her place bet In this thrilling sequel to All That Glows, the worlds of magic and mortal are colliding as London celebrates its new king, marking an era of unity between the Faery realm and the human one. Emrys, the Faery guard to the British royal family, sacrificed her powers to be with King Richard, choosing love over immortality. But now, as Emrys struggles to navigate her place between the Faery queen’s court and London’s lavish galas, danger looms beyond the Thames.When a prisoner with dark, strange magic breaks out of Queen Titania’s labyrinthine prison, endangering Emrys's king and sparking an uprising, Emrys must make the hardest decision of all.

Will she reclaim her magic to save Richard’s life and lose him forever? Or stay powerless as the kingdom goes down in flames?

10 The Shatter me series by Tahereh Mafi
Summary written by Author: Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance.
She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch.
Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible.
In this exhilarating sequel to Shatter Me, Juliette has to make life-changing decisions between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might involve choosing between her heart—and Adam's life.