Getting my thoughts together...

I haven't been researching lately, but I have been reading for my reviews.  I need to set up my basic review set up with all the parts that I want.  I know I need to have a sentence or two at the beginning of my review to show the readers a little bit of what this book is about.  Then I need to write what I thought about the certain books and if they are age appropriate for younger readers.  Also, I want to try to set up a rating system for each book.  The books I choose to write reviews will mostly be Young Adult books.  I will have to have a website to put all of my reviews on, so I will need to research some on that soon. I know that on the front page of the website or atleast on the website somewhere I want to put when new books are coming out or when some other Young Adult books come out that appear to be interesting. 
I used the links below to help me with my review for Vampire Academy.
http://www.lovevampires.com/rmvampireacademy.html
http://mrsgiggles.com/books/mead_academy.html
http://www.yareads.com/vampire-academy-richelle-mead/book-reviews/285

So for my review I think I want to keep them all something like this....

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead Review

I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Rose Hathaway is not your average teen, she is stronger and faster.  She is a dhamphir, a half-vampire half-human hybrid.  She lives in a world where there are two types of vampires, the good mortals who can weld magic, the moroi and the undead immortal evil vampires, the strigoi both drink blood, but are completely different.  Moroi can go into the sun, but strigoi cannot.  Dhamphirs protect the moroi from evil strigoi. Rose is training to be able to protect moroi from the evil vampires at her vampire boarding school St Vladimirs. Rose is very special, she can see into her best friend Lissa’s mind and can feel all of her emotions.  Sure Rose is feisty, sassy, and disrespectful teen, but she is extremely loyal.  Rose is the kind of girl you don’t want to be on her bad side.  With this uncontrollable girl comes the only guy that seems to be able to control Rose and his name is Dimitri. Dimitri is Rose’s personal guardian mentor.  He is a god among the dhamphirs for his legendary strigoi killing skills and his killer looks.  Even though this book is set in practically another world, they all are still in high school, and we all know with high school comes drama.  And can you guess where most of this drama is centered???

Vampire Academy is the world I want to live in.  This book is adventurous, humorous and even has a bit romance.  Packed full of suspension and excitement, teens won’t want to put this intriguing book down once they start reading. This amazing story sucked me in and still won’t let me out.  

Read about Rose’s adventures in Vampire Academy.  Then continue on with Rose’s story in the next book of the thrilling Vampire Academy Series.

This book is for middle school and up.  I would rate this book PG-13.  There are, in the later books and a little bit in this book, fighting scenes and some suggestive situations that the characters get into.

I still need to fix some things, but this is sort of what I want to have my reviews all look like.

Old Researching....

August 16, 2011

As of yesterday I have official decided what my personal project is going to be.  I want to write book reviews and post them on a website, so that teens my age will have some choices of books they can read if they love to read and can’t find anything new to read.  Starting off I am just going to write reviews for the books I have in my personal library, but I hope to expand my reviews to different genres and having people write their own reviews for books to put on my website. 

I am looking at how people set up their reviews right now to get an idea and hopefully find a set up I will use in my reviews.  I think I am going to have a book of the week for my favorite book at the moment with that certain books review and summary.  Then I will have a link of the books I am currently reading.  And I will have on another link all the reviews I have done hopefully by genre and age group it will fall under.

http://www.bookreview.com/$spindb.query.listreview2.booknew.19082  I really like how this cite sets up their reviews. 

http://www.allreaders.com/bookSearcha.asp#S2  I know my reviews aren’t going to be big enough to do this, but hopefully one day it will be.  I really love this! You can choose what your main character is like and find a book!

I am going to start writing reviews tomorrow or after I finish a my next book.

August 25, 2011

I just started a little research again.  I really want to do a rating system and my take on this.  Also I think it will be a good idea to put a summary of some sort.