M-L's Review on Ashes

          Hey friends!

Hope you've been enjoying your summer so far! I am!.. but I'll be honest... I have a hard time enjoying the summer heat..! :') Other than that though, it's been a thumbs up!

Today, I wanted to tell you about this new thing I want to do on my blog. I wanted to write reviews about things that I've tried the last few days or weeks, and share my experience with you and discuss about how I feel about them, good or bad. I've been thinking about calling them M-L's Review on insert thing here. I am literally going to review on so many random things...
So I'll be doing a review today! Since I'm just starting off, I'll start with a novel that I LOVE and have read for probably more than 5 times! I've had this book for almost a year now, and it's actually a trilogy! It's called Ashes, from the Ashes Trilogy by Ilsa J. Bick.

Starting off with a brief summary, Ashes is about a seventeen year old girl named Alex who is an orphan and has a brain tumor. She runs away into the woods and wants to release her parent's ashes in a lake. But suddenly there's an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse, that causes older people to die, electronics to go out, and teenagers and adults to turn into zombie-like creatures, or Changed. Alex is a Spared, and teams up with an eight year old girl named Ellie and a 21 year old (I believe) soldier named Tom who are also Spared to survive and make it to what they believe to be a sanctuary place, Rule.



I really like this book because first off, I really like post-apocalyptic novels. I also like mysteries, sci-fi and dystopian novels, but we'll save that for later. Anyway, I also like this book because of how well the author describes how the story goes! It's so descriptive, and it's like you're actually in the story! The way she describes the setting or a character, the way she describes the way something sounds, the way something feels like, the way something tastes like, and especially the way she describes the way things smell like, it's AMAZING.

I think that this story is very unique compared to other post-apocalyptic stories. It has a twist to it, and has a darker meaning in it, in my opinion. The heroine in the book has cancer, and has to fight off the Changed to live. And I like the fact that the author puts in an 8 year old girl in a situation like this. You get the perspective of a teenager, a young adult and a child in a world like this. It's very creative.

I don't know if this would be a spoiler for you, but beware. This book has a little romance. Not a lot, but I guess enough for you to feel the romance...? :') While I was reading the book, I was kind of in love with the love story going on! I was and am also in LOVE with one of the characters in Ashes! You know how some people have crushes on characters in a book? Like Peeta and Gale from The Hunger Games? Or Four/Tobias Eaton from the Divergent series? Yeah, I have a "crush" on one of the characters from Ashes! If you also have a crush on a character in a book, tell me in the comments!

I would have to say that this book isn't meant for like, kids though. I was twelve at the time when I got the book, and to tell you the truth, I was kind of disgusted by the events that happened in the story. But then again, it is a book about zombies, of course there will be blood and guts and gross things like that. Considering age, I have to rate this as a 13+ novel to read. It does have bad words in the book too. VOYA said that Ashes made the Hunger Games look like a tea party.

Not only do I have and read the first of the trilogy, I also have, and read, the second book too! The second book is called Shadows, and I will eventually write a review on the second novel. The third has come out already too, but I'm waiting for th
e bookstore near my house to sell the paperback version of it, because both of the other ones that I have are paperbacks and I want them to be the same. Plus, they're cheaper. ;) The paperback version is coming to my bookstore in September, so I have to wait 2 months to get it.

I hope you read Ashes because it really is a page-turner. You'll get sucked into the world like that *snaps finger*.
If you have a book you really like, please feel free to tell me in the comments! I've been kind of... "book dead?" lately. Meaning that I haven't found a book that I like. I'd love to hear about some of the books you like so that I can read them for the summer! 

Thank you for reading! Once again, these are my opinions!

Keep Smiling,
M-L