Review: The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige

Title: The Wicked Will Rise (Dorothy Must Die #2)
Author: Danielle Paige
Published: March 31st 2015
Date Read: June 3rd - 13th 2016
Read In: English 

My name is Amy Gumm –

and I'm the Other Girl from Kansas.

After a tornado swept through my trailer park, I ended up in Oz. But it wasn't like the Oz I knew from books and movies. Dorothy had returned, and she was stealing magic from the land. The Wizard was back, too. Even Glinda could no longer be called the Good Witch. And the Wicked Witches who were left? They had joined forces as the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. They gave me a mission:

Kill Dorothy.

Except my job as assassin didn't work out as planned. Dorothy is still alive. The Order has vanished. And the home I couldn't wait to leave behind might be in danger.

Now, I have to:

Find Dorothy.

Destroy the Road of Yellow Brick.

Save my Home.

The Wicked Will Rise.

This book was rather short. I didn't expect much to happen, and it didn't. It's more like a short story. Amy's alone, the Order of the Wicked gone. She's still fighting Dorothy. It was great to read, even though it took me some days to finish it.

Amy is still trying to kill Dorothy, but before she has to find and kill Dorothys little helpers. This book doesn't contain much of the other witches, but more of Ozma. She's kinda cute, actually. When you liked Dorothy Must Die, you shouldn't miss this one.

Review: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Title: Dorothy Must Die (Dorothy Must Die #1)
Author: Danielle Paige
Published: April 1st 2014
Date Read: May 26th – June 3rd 2016
Read In: English

I didn't ask for any of this.

I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.

But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado – taking you with it – you have no choice but to go along, you know?

Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. But I never expected Oz to look like this. A place where Good Witches can't be trusted and Wicked Witches just might be the good guys. A place where even the yellow brick road is crumbling.

What happened? Dorothy.

My name is Amy Gumm – and I'm the other girl from Kansas. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked, and I've been given a mission:

Remove the Tin Woodman's heart.

Steal the Scarecrow's Brain.

Take the Lion's courage.

And then – Dorothy Must Die.

I really liked how the book took Amy to Oz within the first chapter. It would have been quite boring to read chapter for chapter before she finally came to Oz, so i really liked how the author did that in only one chapter. Danielle Paige made Oz a kinda creepy place, but Amy didn't know why. For the reader it was quite obvious Dorothy is her enemy, but Amy figured it out eventually.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I've read lots of fairytale retellings, but i still like them. Sure, it was kind of disappointing when Dorothy didn't die in this book (since its title is Dorothy Must Die), but since it grew into a series, it was quite obvious. But Dorothy really is a character you can hate.

Review: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
Published: September 21st 2006
Date Read: May 21st - 25th 2016
Read In: English

19 Katherines and counting...

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine.

And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Jody-loving best friend riding shotgun – but no Katherines.

Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship and avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.  



I really loved The Fault In Our Stars, but some of John Green's other books gave me quite a hard time. They're easy to read, but some just didn't have a real plot, at least not for me. An Abundance of Katherines was ok, the characters were alright. I don't understand much about mathematics and such, so i didn't try to make sense out of Colin's theorem. Colin was ok, his best friend was ok, all those Katherines were not such much ok.

What bothered me are all those footnotes. When you write a story, you shouldn't need footnotes on every single page to explain something. Your story should explain itself. This short book has more than 80 footnotes.
Another thing is, how can you count a 2-minute-relationship a relationship at all? I know Colin was very young when he met Katherine I, but WHAT? That's not dating. So he definitely didn't date nineteen Katherines.
And third, John Green couldn't quite make up his mind if he should call her Katherine XIX, K XIX or K-19? I don't think it would have been too hard to just choose one of those.

May Book Haul.

I didn't buy any books in all of May, except at the end of it. I ordered some books on Amazon, and some time later i bought lots of second-hand books. Some of those second-hand books look still great, and one of them was still wrapped, so it's completely new. 




 The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern
 A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
 The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige
 Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige
 Dorothy Must Die Stories by Danielle Paige
 Dorothy Must Die Stories Volume 2 by Danielle Paige





 Autumn #1 by David Moody
 Autumn #4 by David Moody
 World War Z by Max Brooks
 Das große Tier by Veit Etzold
 Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
 My Take by Gary Barlow
 The Leap by Jonathan Stroud
 Die Alchemie der Unsterblichkeit by Kerstin Pflieger
 The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P. C. Cast
 Breed by Chase Novak
 Das Joshua-Profil by Sebastian Fitzek
 Out of Orange by Cleary Wolters

Most of them are in german language, but i've listed them in order of the picture. Das Joshua-Profil is new, and Out of Orange looks a lot like it's new too. And this second-hand edition of Das große Tier is even signed by the Author, Veit Etzold. I really hope it's real, haha.

Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Title: The Darkest Part of the Forest
Author: Holly Black
Published: January 13th 2015
Date Read: April 28th – May 4th 2016
Read In: English

In the woods is a glass coffin.

It rests right on the ground, and in it sleeps

a boy with horns on his head and ears as

pointed as knives...

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Tourists drive in to see the lush wonders of Faerie and, most wonderful of all, the horned boy. But visitors fail to see the danger.
Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.
Until one day, he does...
As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. But as she's swept up in new love, with shifting loyalties and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?



I've bought this book a while ago because i really liked that cover. The story was interesting, even though i haven't read any books by Holly Black before and didn't know anything about her Faeries.

I think i expected something else, because the synopsis sounds to me like Hazel and Ben go hunting together. Well, they did when they were younger, but they don't in this book. The horned boy was a charming character. Hazel and Ben were alright. I'd recommend this book to readers of Holly Blacks other books. I was somehow annoyed by her way to write the word Fairy.

Review: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Title: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2)
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Published: February 9th 2016
Date Read: April 20th - 27th 2016
Read In: English

Mare Barrow's blood is red –

the color of Common Folk –

but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tris to control.

The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince – the friend – who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.

Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.

But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.

Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known – and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.

I was really excited for this book because the ending of Red Queen made me rate it 5 stars, so naturally i wanted to know how the story went on. Well, i liked Glass Sword, but not as much as i liked Red Queen. Most of the book was about recruiting people and training them. It wasn't that interesting and i was glad when the author began to skip lots of recruits.

I've read a lot of reviews about Glass Sword, many missed Maven (i didn't), even though he is the evil one. And lots said the ending was great, but when i read it, i actually thought it was quite obvious something had to happen because the author plans two more books. So that end didn't quite surprise me. But apart from all that, i liked this book and would recommend it.

April Book Haul.

I'm kinda late for posting my April Book Haul, but one part of my order from Amazon got lost on its way to me, so i had to write down what happened and then waited for their answer... Well, they said it was their own fault (i don't know why) and sent me my ordered books again over night express.




 Legend - Berstende Sterne by Marie Lu (Champion, Legend #3)
 Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
 Half Lost by Sally Green
 Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

I could've bought Champion in english, yes, but i already own parts #1 and #2 in german, so i bought the third book in german aswell. It just looks better on my shelf when the books look alike