"The simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have"

Ladies and gentlemen, I have found another genre/theme for my reading list! Aside from angels and reincarnations, I have added dystopia on my shelf. I never thought I'm going to love dystopian novels especially after what happened in The Hunger Games and Divergent. First of all, I love those books especially the Hunger Games. It's just that when I read them, I could really feel for them. I hate it that their government thinks that  they are so perfect and that they can control everything. I hate that their people think that they live in a perfect society wherein everything is all right as long as they do what their leaders wanted them to do. So after those two, I tried to stay away from dystopian themes. But I am a sucker for beautiful covers. When I saw Matched, I just couldn't resist buying it. Well anyway, after reading it, my view of dystopian novels changed. I started to love the genre. I realized that what made this genre great is the fact that the main character is fighting to gain freedom and live the way he/she wants and make their own choices. 

Matched by Ally Condie is really a page-turner. I was actually surprised on how fast I was reading it. I love how well it was written. I also love the concept and the story. It was just that I am ambivalent with the three main characters. I mean, I both love and hate them - Cassia, Xander and Ky.

I love Cassia for being brave and loving. I hate her for hurting Xander. She was two-timing him for heaven's sake. Cassia, Xander is your match! Can't you just love and look at him? But then we won't have this story. LoL. Anyway, I love Xander for loving Cassia and being understanding. I hate him since I know he might be doing something in the future that might hurt Cassia, you know like desperate moves to have her back. I love Ky... I love Ky... oh wait, I couldn't think of any. Do I love Ky? Maybe I would love him in the future like Peeta. But for now, I hate him for loving Cassia. As for now, I am currently in team Xander. But I think that's going to change just like what happened to me in the Hunger Games. Before, I was definitely on team Gale until I realized that Gale is not fighting for Katniss, but Peeta is. Unless Xander won't be doing something grave to hurt Cassia, that might not change. LoL. I just hope they're going to sell paperbacks of Crossed so I can read it when it comes out next week! I am so excited. 

Angel's Fury

Two things why I picked up this book: One - Angels; and  two - Reincarnation. The title says Angel's Fury and also the synopsis at the back talks about a fallen angel who wants to bring  world destruction. But as I was reading the book, I began to doubt if this is really a fallen angel novel. The Reincarnation theme was very evident since there is no doubt that Cassie is dreaming of what happened in the past or in her previous life. The big question is who the hell is the "fallen angel"? Could it be that Cassie is the fallen  angel? Nope, definitely not. I've been reading and reading and it felt like Angel's Fury is just a Reincarnation themed novel and maybe the one who wrote the synopsis was mistaken  about the fallen angel thing.

Until Cassie saw an image of a boy with mismatched light and dark brown eyes, which she later knew as Seth - another patient in Orion. When she saw the image before falling asleep at the doctor's office, I thought maybe it was my long awaited fallen angel in the novel. But then, as the story went on, it seemed like he is also not. And then it felt like reading a psychological thriller.

Until finally, I realized that maybe I was just reading too much romantic YA fallen angel novels. Maybe the fallen angel that I've been looking for is not necessarily romantically involved  with the main character which is Cassie. I felt stupid for that especially that the synopsis did not say anything about the main character falling in love with a fallen angel. At the back it says - "he has come to torment one girl's dreams." And then it hit me. If you are paying attention closely, who is the closest thing to a villain in the story? No one else but the doctor! And so it turned out that my suspicion was right when they found the book with the story of Shemhazai and Azael. Stupid me. And so finally the book got my full attention.

Actually, the book was well written. And it somehow gave me a break from all the fallen angel romance novels that I've been reading. I love the story but it did not leave me a mark. Actually when the book ended, I was like "Ok... I'm done. Next book please." Still, I was glad that I read it because of the story of Shemhazai and Azael. Because you know, stories of fallen angels really interests and intrigues me.