Rainy Day Reads

This is the first book of a dystopian YA trilogy, and I must admit I did not have high hopes for it. What little I had heard of it on Youtube was not great, but my library had it on the shelves, so I decided to give it a go. As you may know, I usually don’t like the majority of the books everyone else seems to love, so I thought I might like this one, even if everyone else doesn’t. But no such luck!  The book is about our main character Cassie, who lives in the near future. Something has happened (I don’t believe it is ever specified) and life is now run by the Society who control people in the smallest ways. The Society decides who you should marry, when you should marry, when you should have kids and how many, what your job is and what you can do for fun. Apparently our present society had too much surplus, so they have decided to cut things down to more manageable numbers. This means there is only 100 poems, 100 songs, 100 paintings and so forth left to the people. I ...

I loved this book so prepare for a gushing review! I feel like 2016 is going to be a good reading year, since I have already read a few good books, and I finally feel like I am coming out of the last of my reading slump of 2015.  Anyway this book is about a boy and a girl who meet in the school bell tower, each standing on the ledge looking down. The boy, Theodore Finch, is contemplating what this type of suicide would be like, when he sees the girl, Violet Markey, posed on the ledge. He talks her down, but because of their high school status, and because Finch is a nice guy, the story ends up being she talked him down. She is branded a hero, he a weirdo. He doesn’t seem to mind too much, as he is already an outcast in school and he lets people think what they want. He takes an interest in Violet, however, determined that she should know that life is worth living. The story goes on from there and I really loved the structure of it. It sort of ends up taking the form of a...