I N K E D P A G E S

a little book club, where we read books and post reviews :)

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The most voted for book was Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman! So, for the majority of March and April, we will be reading Noughts and Crosses. :)

here is the link to the epub if you do not own a copy/cannot get your hands on a copy.

we will be reading this from the 1st March to the 20th of April, after which we will vote for the next book, and discuss what we’ve read.

There is no set schedule, just read at your own pace!

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whilst we let the new members trickle in, we’ve decided to introduce a get to know the members creation meme! there is no limit on how much you can create, and no limit on how long you have to make things; it’s just so we can get to know you better!

how it works:

make something based around one of the themes below

caption your posts  @inkedpagesnet creation meme: [theme name] caption

tag #inkedpagesnet within the first 5 tags!

the themes:

favourite standalone books

favourite series

favourite characters

favourite minor characters

favourite canon romantic relationships

favourite headcanon romantic relationships

favourite platonic relationships

characters you wish were friends

headcanon crossovers

favourite locations

favourite familys

favourite quotes

favourite authors

there’s quite a lot of themes, but remember: you don’t have to complete them all! there’s a lot so that there’s a lot of options for you, choose the ones that appeal to you the most, because this is so that we can get to know you!

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welcome to INKEDPAGESNET, a tumblr book club where we read stories together and write reviews on books that we’ve read.

we will read a book together every two months, discussing the twists and turns of the novel, what we like and what we dislike, and at the end of each reading we will write a book review :)

TO GET INVOLVED:

follow the founder and the blog

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submit the following information name: age: url (if applying through a sideblog): what’s your favourite book and why?: are you willing to join a discord chat?: are you willing to read a book every two months?: are you willing to write book reviews to be posted onto the net blog?:

if your application is successful, you will be contacted within a week of sending in your application with a link to join the discord chat and blog. 

happy reading!

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SHATTER ME by TAHEREH MAFI  ↳ by tash

“I look down and can’t understand why there’s no blood on my dress, why this pain in my heart feels so real.”

RATING: ★★★★☆ |  GOODREADS | OTHER REVIEWS

SUMMARY:  Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

OVERVIEW: I really liked this book. I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, and this book really helped bring me out of it. I basically started this because of all the warnette edits I’ve been seeing floating around and my friends’ high opinions of the book, so I was expecting a good read and I wasn’t disappointed. The language is sometimes a little too flowery for my liking, but the concept is really intriguing and I really liked Juliette, the main character.

WHAT I LIKED: Juliette, as a character was really intriguing to me. She can’t touch anyone, has been shunned and treated horribly her entire life, has been locked away from the world because she’s a danger, and yet still manages not to be completely cynical, still manages to keep her regard for human life, despite the fact that most of them would rather her be gone than be around and a threat to them. In addition, I love Kenji. He’s hands down my favourite character in this book. Snarky & sarcastic, and not to mention handsome, I love the way he teases Adam and also didn’t hate Juliette once she’d touched him. Kenji felt like a breath of fresh air in this book, he stood out so much because he’s a break from all the intensity.

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE: I liked Adam to begin with, but after he turned out to be one of the soldiers my opinion of him just went down. Not because he was one of Warner’s soldiers, mind you, but because from that point on it seemed more and more like he was too good to be true. The boy who Juliette knew as a child, who she was in love with, just so happened to be the only person who could touch her? I was half expecting him to betray her at every turn, because he genuinely felt too good to be true. In addition, while I liked the use of flowery language, sometimes it got a bit too much. There were a lot of metaphors, and I understand that it’s supposed to be Juliette’s point of view, but it still felt a bit too much.

CONCLUSION: I gave this book a 4/5 star rating because, while there were some things I didn’t like, they didn’t hinder my enjoyment of the book too much. I would definitely recommend this book, and I cannot wait to read the rest of the series!