nedeľa 25. septembra 2016

We Were Liars - E. Lockhart

Autor: E. Lockhart
Originálny názov: We were Liars
Slovenský názov: Klamári
Počet strán: 225
Rok vydania: 2014
Anotácia: 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.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

nedeľa 18. septembra 2016

Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

Autor: Sarah J. Maas
Originálny názov: Throne of Glass
Séria: Throne of Glass
Diel:  prvý
Počet strán: 404
Rok vydania: 2012
Anotácia: After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her ... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead ... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

štvrtok 15. septembra 2016

Minirecenzie 2.0

Keďže mám na svojom zozname ešte stále pár kníh o ktoré sa s vami chcem podeliť, no z nejakého dôvodu si ich už detailne nepamätám alebo o nich nemám veľa čo povedať, rozhodla som sa priniesť ďalšiu várku minirecenzií. Tento krát pôjde o zmes autorov aj žánrov.

Torn - Cat Clarke
Táto kniha ma zaujala už od úplne prvého momentu, kedy som o nej počula. Na školskom výlete jedno z dievčat záhadne zmizne a zomrie. Iba malá skupinka jej spolužiačok vie, čo sa skutočne stalo. Tento jemne desivý príbeh mal podľa mňa veľký potenciál, ale bohužiaľ ma nenadchol tak veľmi, ako som dúfala. Predpokladala som, že sa hlavná záhada bude riešiť celú knihu a až na konci sa všetko vysvetlí. V skutočnosti sme sa však všetko dozvedeli už asi v polovici knihy a zvyšok bol iba o tom, ako sa s tým jednotlivé dievčatá vysporiadavali. Napriek tomu však bol koniec trochu prirýchli a otvorený. Jednoducho to nebolo to, čo som od tejto knihy čakala a to ma sklamalo. Ale samotný dej sa mi stále páčil a ak sa necítite na poriadne strašidelné thrillery no chcete to tohto žánru trochu načrieť, táto kniha by mohla byť dobrým medzimostíkom.


nedeľa 11. septembra 2016

What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty

Autor: Liane Moriarty
Originálny názov: What Alice Forgot
Počet strán: 487
Rok vydania: 2009
Anotácia: Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.

So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes.

Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over.

streda 7. septembra 2016

Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson

Autor: Morgan Matson
Originálny názov: Since You've Been Gone
Počet strán: 449
Rok vydania: 2014
Anotácia: It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.

On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?

Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough.

Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not?

Kiss a stranger? Um...

Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane's list. Who knows what she’ll find?

Go skinny-dipping? Wait...what?

nedeľa 4. septembra 2016

Augustové zúčtovanie

Posledný letný mesiac pre mňa nebol, čo sa týka čítania, taký úspešný ako by som chcela. Toto sa tu už však začína opakovať pravidelne, takže prázdniny môjmu čítaniu asi skôr škodia ako pomáhajú. Uvidíme ako sa to vyvinie v budúcnosti.