It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong

 

The first thing I liked about this author is the fact that she published under her husband’s name. Many women authors will publish under their maiden name, saying that their husband’s name takes away from their individuality. As if by taking their husband’s name meant that they were giving away their entire personality and becoming someone different. Taking your husband’s name is not something dirty. Taking your husband’s name merely means that you have accepted this new part of your life AS A NEW PART OF YOUR LIFE. You tied yourself to him for an eternity, that’s what you said in your vows.

 

I picked this up at the book store; I decided I needed a break from romance and comedy was what I needed.

                I could not put it down, the author reminds me so much of myself in her sarcastic tones. The book itself is an autobiography of sorts; Heather recounts what it was like for her first pregnancy as she falls into a deep postpartum depression and then checks herself into a mental institution for a brief stay when all else fails. This book made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me think about myself. I suggest this book to absolutely everyone, man or woman. I loved this book. 

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

                I already reviewed this book’s predecessor, Divergent, and if you don’t recall it, that was the book that I said I peed about eighty five times during PLUS almost bested Harry Potter. So this is my spoiler alert, if you haven’t read Divergent, then go and fucking read it. There is something wrong with you if you haven’t read that book yet. You are missing out. If you choose to continue to read this blog post regardless of my warning that there are spoilers to Divergent in it, don’t come bitching to me because I spoiled it for you. Fuck you. I’ll block your ass. I warned you.

You know how a lot of sequels are pretty shitty compared to the first book and then you are left feeling unsatisfied and pissed off because you went and spent all this damn money to get the book AS SOON AS IT CAME OUT which meant you could only get the hard cover copy which is TWICE THE DAMN PRICE of the paperback, and the damn thing sucked?

                Well, this book ISN’T like that, at all. This book was just as damn amazing, if not better than the first. I laughed, I cried, and I yelled at the book. Veronica Roth continues to deliver her edge of the seat writing style. I couldn’t put this book down and actually got upset when I had to because I could no longer keep my eyes open. It was amazing. There are so many twists you never see coming. I loved this book. Again, if you are weak of stomach when it comes to violence, this isn’t the book for you.

                At the end of the first book, you just discovered that Jeanine from Erudite and Eric from the Dauntless had some kind of plan where they injected everyone in Dauntless with serum and they killed damn near everyone in Abnegation. You also found out that it doesn’t affect the Divergent.

                Well, this book offers so many twists and turns. Will Tris and Tobias’s relationship make it through this war? What happens to Marcus? What the heck was Tris’s mother even doing there when she saved her? And so many other questions get answered. An unlikely foe will turn friend and an unlikely friend will turn foe. You will pee yourself at least three times a chapter guaranteed. 

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Divergent by Veronica Roth is FUCKING AMAZING.

Probably one of my top five favorite Books. And yes, that does include the Harry Potter Series. And if you've met me in real life, I am an INSANE POTTERHEAD. Okay, I'm pretty sure I thought I was going to marry Tom Felton at one point and waited for my Hogwarts letter every day of the week for three months straight after my eleventh birthday and also convinced myself I could do magic. 

It is freaking awesome. It's another Dystopian novel and it's also a series. Insurgent just came out and I just started reading that one as well. 

I seriously could not stop reading this book. I took it with me to the bathroom. I read it in the bath tub. I stuffed it down my pants so that I could sneak out to my venue to read it at night at Extras. I denied sex, food, natural body functions and drink to read this book. I read it in four days. It was so good I JIZZED my pants. FOUR TIMES. and I asked my fiancee why he wasn't more like Four/Tobias.

Anyway, this book is about a government controlled future where the people are divided into five factions based on what they blame for the reason why the government crashed and burned in the past and what personalities they have. The factions are Amity, Dauntless, Erudite, Candor and Abnegation. You take a similation test and they place you based on your reactions to the different situations you are put in. Ultimately though, you make the choice in which faction you choose to spend the rest of your life. If you leave your family's faction, you most likely will never see your family again. "Faction before Blood" is the motto. 

This book was amazing and I shit myself like eighty three times because there are so many twists and turns that you never see coming. The author is amazing.

The only complaint I have is that the author had NOT EXAGGERATING AT ALL, 52 FIFTY FUCKING TWO pages of BULLSHIT about herself. TALK ABOUT A FUCKING EGO. DAMN.