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The Book Thief

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 The Book Thief By  Markus Zusak My Rating: 5 Genre: Historical Fiction, YA Finished on: 5th Mar, 2015 Beautiful. Synonyms? Attractive, Fair, Pleasant. That's how I'd call this book. Beautiful. However.. Was it attractive? Was it fair? Was it pleasant? Not at all. Ohh, wait a moment. This was attractive, fair and pleasant. In a bitter way, in an ugly way. Yes, the book was fair in an ugly way, and that's how makes it a beautiful one. Confused? You just won't understand. Let's begin the story of how I decided to read this book. It's predictable, the title attracted me. The idea borned in my mind was of stealing. Probably the book must be about stealing. And people steal when they crave things. When they crave things which don't belong to them. But then, why to steal a book when you can have it in your possession? When it can belong to you? Yes, I read the book to find out, to get my answers. From the beginning, from the start.. I was deeply attracted to the n...

The Kill Order (The Maze Runner #0.5)

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 The Kill Order (The Maze Runner #0.5) By   James Dashner My Rating: 5 Genre: YA, Sci Fi, Dystopia, Fantasy Finished on: Feb 11th, 2015 James Dashner. This Book. I... have no words. I honestly don't. I still don't believe I actually got done with this book. I remember after finishing TDC I had vowed myself to never read James Dashner's read again. TMR was a nightmare I could never forget. It was hard to come out of the world Dashner had pulled me into. I was stuck, I couldn't get out. And maybe this was the reason I had chosen to read TKO. I don't know which crazy part of my mind had felt that this read might be the solution or the missing piece of the puzzle for me to get out of this nightmare. I was wrong, so wrong. It just made it worse, much worse. This book described the origin of it all. I couldn't help but recount TMR and the characters and the pain I felt along with them. This book was a cruel joke. In TMR Thomas kept hoping there would be a cure and I k...