YA Books Central | Annamaria | Activity https://yabookscentral.com/members/annylost/activity/ Activity feed for Annamaria. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:02:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d42d89bd9f959dbbf43575430460d3a6 Annamaria added Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine #3) to Young Adult Fiction https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/74451/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:44:29 -0500
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13+
Release Date
September 22, 2015
]]> 0 278d4c34a52ecc6ed1f8623e59d2f440 Annamaria added Flawed to Young Adult Fiction https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/74395/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:44:00 -0500
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14+
Release Date
April 05, 2016
]]> 0 e9c7ce330f68fe76110158f8dffe9300 Annamaria added Station Eleven to Young Adult Fiction https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/74270/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:43:11 -0500
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16+
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January 01, 2014
]]> 0 33b4de47561d6958790c9824e5c770f7 Annamaria posted an update: gorgeous and sweet but messy towards the end "Fallon Dupree […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15452/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:00:13 -0400 gorgeous and sweet but messy towards the end
“Fallon Dupree was fascinated by people in love. She noticed how easily some couples fit together like puzzle pieces, fingers laced, matching smiles, and the same small, deliberate strides.”

If you follow my reviews you’ll know that I’m not very fond of romances, I feel like our literature is…Read more

]]> 0 daf6df60a2ca768a46941633a2117b50 Annamaria posted an update: beautiful style but the plot had me cringing "Viewed from my […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15449/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:27:05 -0400 beautiful style but the plot had me cringing
“Viewed from my bed, he was a distant constellation. From Alpha Centauri, we were twin stars, side by side.”

This book pulled me out of an upcoming reading slump and for that I owe it. It is beautifully written, it’s weirdly compelling and 300+ pages flew by without me even noticing (even though I…Read more

]]> 0 18042dcc90d5556527c8f5649bd979d0 Annamaria posted an update: really unique and interesting concept "I am your completion! […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15448/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:24:10 -0400 really unique and interesting concept
“I am your completion! I am your deliverance! I am your portal to the mysteries beyond this life!”

I found this book simply brilliant! I’ve been obsessing over its concept for months now! Scythe is about a utopian society that has managed to excell in everything, world hunger and poverty have been cured,…Read more

]]> 0 ad7b7a52c18c3a0a5fd4a87506bfbb97 Annamaria posted an update: gosh I LOVED THIS! "One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15447/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:18:52 -0400 gosh I LOVED THIS!
“One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad.” *and one to be crying in fetal position in her bed*

Marissa Meyer, one day I will find you and I will marry you! (cannot make it less threatening, sorry!) How she manages to transform the tiniest details of the tales she’s retelling into greater…Read more

]]> 0 4a1f7a47402552c743368d1c8e05034e Annamaria posted an update: different! I didn't know what Vicious was going to be about, […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15446/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:06:34 -0400 different!
I didn’t know what Vicious was going to be about, I rarely read synopsis, sometimes I trust the author, some others I just need key words. This time it was the former. And, oh boy, did Victoria live up to my expectations!

Vicious was different. This is the only thing I kept thinking while reading it. I don’t have a meaningful…Read more

]]> 0 dcb250c199dd7eb9e5fab01d620d9e7f Annamaria posted an update: cool premise as always Ms Schwab "You wanted to feel alive, […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/15445/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:01:15 -0400 cool premise as always Ms Schwab
“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”

I wasn’t expecting much diving into this story. Sure, we’re talking about Victoria Schwab, the woman who gave birth to ADSoM, with its mouth-gaping magic system and charming characters (Gaahhh Kell ?) but I always try…Read more

]]> 0 3ba19599270f334ab1a06259fd1f20ba Annamaria posted an update: better than the first one "The men weren't even looking at […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/12185/ Fri, 27 May 2016 08:07:14 -0400 better than the first one
“The men weren’t even looking at the window when she hurtled through. And by the time she landed on the mezzanine and rolled into a crouch, two of her daggers were already flying.”

Finally Celaena Sardothien kicked some ass. LOADS OF ASSES! Basically, if you were not her friend in this book, you got your ass kicked as…Read more

]]> 0 6845768225d929aea405aa2404b39a89 Annamaria posted an update: reading slump? here's the solution! “I don’t like it when you […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/12184/ Fri, 27 May 2016 08:02:19 -0400 reading slump? here’s the solution!
“I don’t like it when your head breaks.”

This book pulled me out of an awful reading slump during which I started four books and got bored ten minutes into each one of them. So, for that, thank you Ms Zappia.

This book is about Alex, a girl who’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia which makes h…Read more

]]> 0 ec3cf3f9a2069dca7c751ee77a7793b4 Annamaria posted an update: worth trying! "This is who we are now, terrified and […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/12183/ Fri, 27 May 2016 08:00:36 -0400 worth trying!
“This is who we are now, terrified and unafraid.”

I’ve never read a book like this before. Situations like the ones here portrayed are not very common where I live so I’ve always seen them happening very far away from me.

This book is set in a school under the siege of a teenage boy who’s brought guns with him. It is told from the…Read more

]]> 0 1d8ee5ca38b9c0a85ed8bee2d2d719f5 Annamaria posted an update: badass... WHERE?! "My name is Celaena Sardothien,"she […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11609/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 11:07:22 -0400 badass… WHERE?!
“My name is Celaena Sardothien,”she whispered. “But it makes no difference if my name’s Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I’d still beat you, no matter what you call me.”

If only she had actually been the bamf she has claimed to be for the entire book.

The Throne of Glass is marketed as High fantasy but I’m struggling to…Read more

]]> 0 960e4815937a183d1c166619d3da5385 Annamaria posted an update: better than the first one “You can’t feel bad every sec […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11532/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:39:22 -0400 better than the first one
“You can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”

I must say this, I liked Hollow City better than I liked Miss Peregrine’s Home for peculiar childr…Read more

]]> 0 81dcdfdbe22284af0a6df8f5e5ce32dd Annamaria posted an update: the characters are just a bad copy of the classic Holmes and […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11465/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:20:32 -0400 the characters are just a bad copy of the classic Holmes and Watson
“We weren’t Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was okay with that I thought. We had things they didn’t, too. Like electricity, and refrigerator. And Mario Kart.”

I feel so torn about this rating. I was so very excited about this book when I marked it as to read almost a year ago.…Read more

]]> 0 ab8c9667ff866ba7f5139830d1bd1b2e Annamaria posted an update: My New Favorite Book You guys. This book. I have to share […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11441/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:09:21 -0500 My New Favorite Book
You guys. This book.

I have to share the original moment I lived while reading this book. I was on the bus, riding home from our field trip to a science museum, sharing a seat with a 6th grade girl who used JUSTIN BIEBER twice as her word in our morning games of Hangman. I was a bawling mess over the book, so these sweeties…Read more

]]> 0 975dd6715b9bd86458a8f2e08bf4468f Annamaria posted an update: not my jam "The last act was to infect me with nightmares and […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11419/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:18:52 -0500 not my jam
“The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.”

I did really want to like this book. I love creepy pictures and most of all I love when the creepiness is coupled with a Victorian style. Thinking back about Miss Peregrine’s Home for…Read more

]]> 0 7e97db8f394556ac739fd09b92ed95b8 Annamaria posted an update: Interesting and engaging "I've learned that people aren't […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11415/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:40:00 -0500 Interesting and engaging
“I’ve learned that people aren’t cruel. Most people aren’t, anyway, apart from the Logans, the Colleens, the Gavins, and the Natashas of the world, but people are strong on self-preservation. And if something doesn’t directly affect them, they don’t get involved. I should know; I was like that up until last month.”

By…Read more

]]> 0 9623e948887f75688b3febb00a486ac8 Annamaria posted an update: the snark is strong in this one! "Satchel meets the boy from […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11362/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:58:13 -0500 the snark is strong in this one!
“Satchel meets the boy from the amulet, the handsomest one she’s ever seen; he tells her this isn’t a safe place for her or the others and that they should run; then he tells her she’s beautiful in her own special way and that’s when she knows she can trust him.”

Patrick Ness’ snark towards nowadays’ YA novels…Read more

]]> 0 2262a551cd4cdb40f3884af43a7b305f Annamaria posted an update: Rainbow, between me and you it just doesn't work! "You called […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11327/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:39:19 -0500 Rainbow, between me and you it just doesn’t work!
“You called me Simon before.”
“No, I didn’t.”

I hate it when I dislike popular books. People enjoy them and rave about them all over the Internet, I get all pumped and then… Meh. Still I don’t believe that I disliked this book because of the hype, I usually don’t get influenced by it. I do…Read more

]]> 0 0df0682e56736d2c333c0438f34b85bf Annamaria posted an update: Four Londons and a magic coat?! I'm in! "No London is truly […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/11326/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:38:12 -0500 Four Londons and a magic coat?! I’m in!
“No London is truly without magic.”

Ok, ok, do not lynch me! I enjoyed this book but I don’t feel like it was this grand thing that the Internet overhyped for months. The plot was rather thin and many plotlines were left loose. I get suspence but when I’m not given the whys and hows I feel like I missed…Read more

]]> 0 8d7b2e45e66e21b061b27fcc999624a2 Annamaria posted an update: Station Eleven "Viola had a harrowing story about [...] […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10599/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:37:21 -0500 Station Eleven
“Viola had a harrowing story about […] walking alone for a hundred miles, whispering French to herself because all the horror in her life had transpired in English and she thought switching languages might save her.”

This was the realest dystopia I’ve ever read. A pandemic might happen, even in the nearest future, and…Read more

]]> 0 a4076cee172591133be2a3a74cc83df6 Annamaria posted an update: great premise but too much instalove The premise was […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10560/ Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:58:37 -0500 great premise but too much instalove
The premise was interesting, the pace was fast and I found it an addictive read but I guess that wasn’t enough. When A falls in love with Rhiannon the story ends. It is just the two of them being all stalkery and cheesy and not romantic at all. I don’t like romances in books because I think they are difficult…Read more

]]> 0 9f6a5258200bc14116e8a5f5ad1d8d8f Annamaria posted an update: FANTASTIC premise POOR execution This book didn't work for me […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10495/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:02:03 -0500 FANTASTIC premise POOR execution
This book didn’t work for me at all.

The romance was too dry, I didn’t care for the main characters, I didn’t root for them. As I always say when writing a romance the task of the author is not to show me the love but to make me feel it. If you introduce two characters who were meant to be and that love each…Read more

]]> 0 0813fcdca1dd883e83e34cf3aac71179 Annamaria posted an update: MIND BLOWING!!! 4.5 Suzanne Young!!! What have you done?! […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10494/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:55:41 -0500 MIND BLOWING!!!
4.5
Suzanne Young!!! What have you done?! Believe me, I forgive you for that stupid book that “The Willing” was because this series is going to be the death of me!

This book was the best one in the series. It takes into account a vast variety of feelings, from grief, to regret, love, the need of belonging somewhere or to someone.…Read more

]]> 0 1aa5519f23fa7be6968b491d088f1dae Annamaria posted an update: Great premise, hope it'll get better in the next […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10493/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:54:11 -0500 Great premise, hope it’ll get better in the next instalments!
“We women are a sad lot, aren’t we?”
“What do you mean?”
“Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us.”

I liked this story but, since it revolved around the romance, I just didn’t feel it. Don’t get me wrong, when Shahrzad a…Read more

]]> 0 eb0f5cdc4f5ea1d5ef5c3a2de4cac744 Annamaria posted an update: OMG! OH MY GOD! Just... Wow! This would have been the perfect […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10456/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:36:25 -0500 OMG!
OH MY GOD! Just… Wow! This would have been the perfect Halloween read if you ask me. That ending gave me the chills! Terrifying!

]]> 0 8c13a101f4115e87b960dbee27c038e4 Annamaria posted an update: could have been much better! I liked Anna, the badass […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10455/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:28:49 -0500 could have been much better!
I liked Anna, the badass villain! I disliked though Anna, the ghost involved in an out of place romance and whose role changes drastically throughout the story! Could have been much better indeed! Still her backstory was amazing and the horror truly terrifying!

]]> 0 9f7a248e3c1b87724bc943ea54d23ef4 Annamaria posted an update: LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! "You must learn some of my philosophy. […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10454/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:24:54 -0500 LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

OMG, I’m going to have a Pride and Prejudice hungover, I can feel it in my bones! But luckily I realized there’s a shiteload of retellings out there and I need to get my filthy hands on them as soon as possible!

I loved this…Read more

]]> 0 74cf576d32bda51349debe67f44e22ec Annamaria posted an update: Lovely!!! I absolutely loved this book! Winter has got […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10453/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:21:57 -0500 Lovely!!!
I absolutely loved this book! Winter has got already all the prerequisites to become one of my new favorurite characters of all times and Queen Levana is slowly turning into the Umbridge’s favourite niece. I loved the characterization of all the characters, Thorne above everyone else. And Iko… She already was super gorgeous and now I…Read more

]]> 0 50068fcc64a0c29740f82ce832981dea Annamaria posted an update: even better than Cinder! 4.5 I loved this book more than I […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10452/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:20:30 -0500 even better than Cinder!
4.5

I loved this book more than I loved Cinder (and I did love Cinder so much!). Once I got the hang of the action it took me a day and a half to go from its first part and the ending. Scarlet was an awesome character and I’d have liked to know her grand-mère better, I squealed like an idiot everytime Wolf did or said…Read more

]]> 0 692a261c2a895c95ae6166c8deed66fb Annamaria posted an update: moving! I was going to rate this book 3 stars. I already […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10451/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:10:54 -0500 moving!
I was going to rate this book 3 stars. I already knew what happened to Melinda so it kinda spoiled the suspance for me. I couldn’t wait to get to the point in which the story would get “juicy” so I rushed the first part. It was my fault and I’m sorry about that. The ending though was what convinced me to add the fourth star.

“I have…Read more

]]> 0 64a45ea069a198bd7262526b09d8e8e0 Annamaria posted an update: Winter (The Lunar Chronicles) "I'm going to make it a law […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10450/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:00:36 -0500 Winter (The Lunar Chronicles)
“I’m going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is by giving a high five.”

I’ve tried so hard to convince myself to rate this book 4 stars. I’ve loved this series and Cress’ ending left me drooling over the awesomeness that this book was supposed to be. This book was not awesome though and…Read more

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