This is a very random introduction to a post, but in future posts, some of these books may not have pictures as I don’t have the books anymore and I’m not going to buy these books just to take pictures of them. Anyway, here are more books that defined my teens.
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
A cyborg Cinderella sounds pretty cool, right? Definitely right. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up and because I couldn’t afford the book and wanted to read it so bad, I read Cinder on my iPhone. Thinking about reading entire books on a phone screen makes my eye hurt, I don’t know how I did it.
I recently re-read Cinder and I still adore this series. It’s not quite the five stars I rated it back then, but it is still pretty good.
This whole world is something that amazed me more and more as I read each book. Marissa Meyer shows amazing character development, especially with Captain Thorne – who you meet in book two ‘Scarlet’. She writes funny and witty characters who you can’t help but love and cruel and evil characters who you love to hate.
Synopsis: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.
She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
The Fallen Star (The Fallen Star #1) by Jessica Sorensen
I feel like this book was a staple read for most teenaged girls, but please correct me if I’m wrong. However, I remember finding out that all of my friends had read this book without any one of us recommending or talking about it.
Now I have found that I can’t really remember a lot of what happened in this series as I did read it when I was like 12. Which I know means I wasn’t a teen when I read it but it’s close enough. That was over 10 years ago now which seems absolutely crazy. I remember it being really good at the time, however as I said that was over 10 years ago and my standards have gone up a lot since. Maybe I will re-read this at some point and see how I would rate it now, could be interesting.
I vividly remember reading this book as I used to stay up late and read books on my phone (as I mentioned above), oh how much easier life is with a Kindle. I dread to think of how that has damaged my eyes.
What I find strange about this book now is that I really liked the main guy Alex and he was probably my ‘book boyfriend’ at the time. Now my real boyfriend is called Alex and I honestly laughed a little thinking about that.
Synopsis: For eighteen year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life. But with Alex seeming to hate her and secrets popping up everywhere, Gemma’s life is turning into a chaotic mess. Things that shouldn’t be real suddenly seem to exist. And as her world falls apart, figuring out the secrets of her past becomes a matter of life and death.
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