About

I am a quirky OCR (obsessive compulsive reader) and am rarely ever without atleast one book in progress. I'm currently an AP Honors student in my Junior year of high school and am hoping (fingers and toes crossed!) to grow up and become a writer. My main line of proffession has yet to be nailed down and currently jumps around like a bunny on a sugar high. I have a deep love for animals and all things nature, but have a special fondness of Cats and Forests. I don't watch much Television, with the exception of a few favorite shows that I watch dutifully each week, but ofen watch movies with my family and gaggle of pets, especially Disney Movies which I can recite most lines and songs like a pro! I also have a strange and unsaturable love for quotes, and will constantly put some on here for everyone to enjoy as much as I do :)
Book-wise i'm not at all picky and find favorites in most genres, thought I do have a fondness for Fantasy Novels!
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Literary Meme answered by yours truly:

What Literary Character do you Identify with Most?
- Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter Series
- Tris Prior from the Divergent Series
- Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice 

Who is your Biggest Fictional Crush?
- Harry Potter
- Etienne St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss
(can I have a mix of both??)

If you could travel to any place in any era, what would it be?
- Victorian Era London or Paris
- Medieval Europe

If you could spend the day with any fictional character, who would it be and what would you do?
- hmmmmmm.... probably Sherlock Holmes, solving mysteries of course, or
- Eragon from the Inheritance Cylce, learning how to sword fight!!

Who is your favorite protagonist of all time?
- oh, this is hard.......probably Harry Potter

Who is your favorite villain or love-to-hate character?
- This one is difficult too.....probably Professor Snape or Draco Malfoy (I know Snape and Malfoy are not really villians, but we all did love to hate them for most of the series)

Who is the most annoying character in any book you’ve ever read?
- Bella Swan from the Twilight Saga

What is your favorite classic (British or American)
- Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur C. Doyle (British)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (American)
- To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (American)
- Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien (British)

What is your least favorite classic or classic that you could just NOT get into no matter how hard you tried?
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

What’s the first book you remember really loving?
- Harry Potter (started reading when I was about 7)
- The Little House books by Laura Ingles Wilder
- Dear America Books 

What is the longest book you have ever read?
- hmmmmmm....probably A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Favorite quote:
"Laughter is timeless, Imagination has no age, and Dreams are forever" - Walt Disney

" You'll fall into place with his hand if the fit is right" - Cheyenne Drews

" And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it"
- Roald Dahl

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn the light on"
- Albus Dumbledore

"Never say good-bye because good-bye means going away, and going away means forgetting"
- Peter Pan


E-reader or Hard Copies?
- Both. I love my Kindle Fire, but nothing will ever compare to the feel of a paper book in your hands

Frost

Title: Frost (The Frost Chronicles - Book One)

Author: Kate Avery Ellison

Edition: Kindle

Date Read: October, 2012
Genre: Dystopia, Fantasy, YA

Rating: 7

In the icy, monster-plagued world of the Frost, one wrong move and a person could end up dead—and Lia Weaver knows this better than anyone. After monsters kill her parents, she must keep the family farm running despite the freezing cold and threat of monster attacks or risk losing her siblings to reassignment by the village Elders. With dangers on all sides and failure just one wrong step away, she can’t afford to let her emotions lead her astray. So when her sister finds a fugitive bleeding to death in the forest—a young stranger named Gabe—Lia surprises herself and does the unthinkable.
She saves his life.
 - Goodreads

My Review:
 Lovely, lovely little novel.
Ms. Ellison created this beautiful but deadly world of the Frost. I was so intrigued by the setting, I just loved how this little town was tucked away in the harshest winter forest and was able to survive and thrive. I wish we knew a little more about that aspect though, like the quotas and such, I felt it was a little bit untouched when it had some more potential.
Lia and Gabe were lovely, I really enjoyed their romantic interests but at the same time wished it was drawn out just a tad bit more, to me it just felt a little rushed.  I respected Lia's determination to keep her family going and I loved that part of the story, that drive to hope the family was going to be okay. Gabe was a lovely character and he balanced out Lia's personality really nice, but again, I really do wish he and Lia would have interacted a bit more during the story.
Lia's siblings were good supporting characters, I think they provided the correct amount of input to the story, but I did feel like some of the other characters were lacking something, though some did start showing potential near the end. (I'm holding out for the second book that all those loose ends with the characters will be tied all nicely for me)
The ending was rather quick, and I wished we would have had a more in depth view of the Watchers, who are the monsters that the villagers fear, but I did really like that we got some history on them and why and what they are watching, though it did seem slightly rushed as the end of the book neared. The situation with Gabe and Lia at the end left me rather unsatisfied, though I was really touched by the letter he left her for when she got home. It definitely made me go "awwwwwwwwwwwwww" out loud!
Over all it was lovely, and I did really like it. I can't wait to read the second book, and I really am hoping its going to answer a lot of my questions that were left kinda dangling.

Favorite Quotes:
 - “Love is a perilous dance too, you see. And if we stop dancing, we'll die. Don't ever stop dancing.”

 - “I’d allowed myself to feel love –yes, love– for another person in a way I’d once sworn to myself I never would. I’d become completely vulnerable, and now I’d been torn apart with hurt and catapulted onto a path I might never have taken otherwise. I’d risked my life for an outsider. For a stranger. Worse, I had a feeling I was going to do it again.”