Review: The Mind Thieves

Title: The Mind Thieves
Series: Mind Readers #2
Author: Lori Brighton
Pages: 228
Format: Kindle
Genre: Ya

Goodreads Description 

What would you do if someone told you that your past and everything you believed was a lie?

Cameron Winters is a freak, a mind reader who can hear the thoughts of those around her. Although her life has been far from ideal, she has finally found peace on a Caribbean island far away from her troubles. But her troubles are about to find her in the form of a gorgeous government agent named Maddox. 

Maddox claims Cameron’s father sent him to protect her from encroaching enemies. There’s only one problem…Cameron’s father has been dead for over a decade. When men arrive, threatening Cameron’s very life, she has no choice but to trust Maddox and escape to the United States. Shockingly, Cameron realizes Maddox has been telling the truth all along when she’s introduced to her father, a man she barely remembers. Suddenly, Cameron has everything she has always wanted…a family and home. But as her powers are exploited by the very people she trusts, Cameron realizes the old adage is only too true…be careful what you wish for.

My Rating

4.5 Stars

My Thoughts:

Another great book in the Mind Reader series. This book was a little faster passed than the first one. In this book Cameron starts to learn about her past but the real questions is, it that what is the real truth and who can she trust? The only thing I did not like about it was all the flash backs. But then again it does add to what had happened in book one and shows a deeper reasoning to her feelings. This book also shows me that you never know who you can truely trust. This book has a lot of twist and turns which made me keep turning the pages to see what would happen next. Can not wait to read the next book and see where her abilities take her and what more she can learn about her past and her abilities. 

Review: The Mind Readers

Title: The Mind Readers
Series: Mind Reader #1
Author: Lori Brighten
Pages: 170
Format: Kindle
Genre: YA
Goodreads Description
Cameron Winters is a freak. Fortunately, no one but her family knows the truth... that Cameron can read minds. For years Cameron has hidden behind a facade of normalcy, warned that there are those who would do her harm. When gorgeous and mysterious Lewis Douglas arrives he destroys everything Cameron has ever believed and tempts her with possibilities of freedom. Determined to embrace her hidden talents, Cameron heads to a secret haven with Lewis; a place where she meets others like her, Mind Readers.
But as Cameron soon finds out some things are too good to be true. When the Mind Readers realize the extent of Cameron’s abilities, they want to use her powers for their own needs. Cameron suddenly finds herself involved in a war in which her idea of what is right and wrong is greatly tested. In the end she’ll be forced to make a choice that will not only threaten her relationship with Lewis, but her very life.

My Ratings
5 Stars

My Thoughts
I absolutely love this book. Cameron is a mind reader who had moved from place to place .When she meets another mind reader, Lewis. Lewis takes her to a place that is home to many others like her. Here she learns that she has other abilities that she never knew about.
I so enjoyed watching Cameron learn about her abilities and how she could use them. This book made me want more. It is such a page turner. It ends with a breath taking cliff hanger that I absolutely had to get the second book. 

Review: Divergent

Title: Divergent
Series: Divergent #1
Author: Veronica Roth
Pages: 487
Format: Kindle
Genre: YA/ Dystopian

Goodreads Description

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

My Ratings

5 Stars

My Thoughts
After seeing the ads for the movie I decided to read this book. Once I started reading I could not put it down. This book was so great. It mad me want to learn more about the people and factions. I loved seeing Tris go through every step of initiation as she tries to figure out what she is and what is truely going on in the  town. I love the seeing the interactions each character has with each other.
I can not wait to see the movie and read the other books in this series.

Review: Dollhouse

Title: Dollhouse
Series: Dollhouse #1
Author: Anya Ally
Pages: 373
Format: Kindle
Genre: YA
Goodreads Description 
A dark, Gothic, Young Adult Horror.
Four teenagers chance across a mysterious, crumbling mansion in the depths of the mountains....
- One of them is about to vanish.
- One of them is lying about what he or she knows.
- None of them will escape the fate awaiting them in the terrifying Dollhouse beneath the old mansion--a place of nightmarish horrors and insanity.
A slow-burn nightmare, a world of supernatural darkness and strange secrets.
Six months ago, fifteen-year-old Cassie Claiborne reluctantly moved from her home in Florida with her social worker mom. In her new home--a remote, mountainous Australian town, Cassie meets new friends--Aisha Dumaj, Ethan McAllister and Lacey Dougherty.
For the first time, Cassie falls in love. The only problem is that the boy she falls for is her friend, Ethan--and he and Aisha are already an item. When Cassie goes on a school hike to Devils Hole with her new friends, she tries desperately to keep her feelings for Ethan secret.
Aisha disappears on the hike without a trace--with the police believing she was murdered.
When Cassie, Ethan and Lacey return to the mountains to search for Aisha--Cassie begins to realize she never really knew any of her friends. Everyone has their own secrets. She discovers the stranger lurking inside everyone she thought she knew.
The darkest secret of all waits beneath the old mansion in the mountains--a secret from which there is no escape....

My Rating

3 Stars

My Thoughts
All together I thought this was a good book. It had a good plot. The characters were  interesting and well developed.
This was an interesting read. I liked how the characters interacted with each other in the dollhouse. The ending leaves you wondering if they will ever escape.
The only problem I had with this book is that it moves slowly. I believe that it could have been better with a little more action. 

Hang in there with me!!

Hi everyone!! Today I am going to start to do reviews on the books I have read. I am extremely new at this so hang in there with me while I get hang of things. The first few might not be that good but I promise as time goes on that I will get better. For those of you who also write reviews if you have any advise you would like to give feel free to comment or message me. My first review will be up later today.

Found My Love for Reading Finally!!!

Hi everyone and welcome to my new blog!!!
I have recently found my love for reading. The world of ebooks has opened my eyes to a new and better life. How you say did I finally fall for reading? Well I was bored one day and decided to surf the web. I ran across places that you could read books for free online and started reading. I read excerpts from Divergent and read some of Damien's Oracle. My man caught me reading one day and decided to get me a kindle. The day I got my kindle in the mail I opened it up and started searching the kindle bookstore. The second I did that I was hooked. There were so many free books it was hard to choose from. The first book I read on my kindle was The Mind Readers by  Lori Brighton.

This booked had me hooked and ever since I have not put my kindle down.

I decided to start this blog to share my love of reading and my reviews of books that I read. I hope you all enjoy. You can also going me at https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/30239140-cyndel-schafer

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