The Sleeper and the Spindle

You can see my vid review in english here
and in spanish here

Product Details:

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens (23 Oct. 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1408859645
• ISBN-13: 978-1408859643
• Product Dimensions: 18 x 1.2 x 24.7 cm 

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.

On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents.

Lavishly produced, packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift.

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

Reseña de "Quédate a mi lado"

• Ed. Terciopelo. 
  Fecha de publicación: Julio 2012
  Protagonistas: Jared y Nur
  Formato: Trade (hay también una edición de bolsillo con otra cubierta a 6'95€)
  Páginas: 160
  PVP: 12.95
  ISBN: 978-84-15410-25-6 
• Finalista VI Premio Terciopelo
• Ganadora Premio Rosa 2012 al mejor romance actual de la Revista Romántica´s
• Ganadora Premio Aels al mejor romance hispano de novela romántica 2012

Publicaciones en el extranjero: 
- en Portugal como Fica Comigo
- en Eslovenia como Ostani z Menoj
- en Argentina como Quédate a mi lado

Sinopsis:

En una ciudad en la que puedes tocar el cielo… o caer en el infierno.

Invisible para aquellos que lo rodean, Jared camina sin rumbo por las calles de una gran ciudad, buscando un futuro mejor que el presente en que está inmerso. Su deambular le lleva hasta una pequeña tienda regentada por Dolores y su nieta, Nuria. Allí, la afable anciana le dará la oportunidad de cambiar su presente, aun en contra de los deseos de su desconfiada nieta.

Bajo la desamparada apariencia de Jared, Nuria descubrirá a un hombre valiente que conquistará su corazón, aun sin pretenderlo y que, asustado por la pasión que siente por ella, intentará por todos los medios ocultársela. Al fin y al cabo, no tiene nada que ofrecer, él solo es un “sin techo” más.

Pero Nuria no es una jovencita soñadora e insegura, sabe lo que quiere, y está dispuesta a luchar por conseguirlo. Utilizará todas las armas a su alcance para vencer los recelos de Jared, y la pasión, será una de ellas…

 

Podéis leer el primer capítulo aquí

 

Y aquí podéis ver por qué la gran persona que es Noelia decidió crear una novela alrededor de Jared, un sin techo.

 

Y, por último, aquí podéis ver mi video reseña :)

"Fangirl" review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (September 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1250030951
• ISBN-13: 978-1250030955

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

You can see my review in English here
You can see my review in Spanish here

Reseña de "Eleanor & Park"

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (February 26, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1250012570
• ISBN-13: 978-1250012579

“Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”—John Green, The New York Times Book Review
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we’re 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

A New York Times Best Seller!
A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013

You can see my video review in Spanish here
You can see my video review in English here

McFarlane Michone action figure (Comic Book Series 1)

Hi!

I succumbed and got myself a Michonne action figure from the Mcarlane Comic Book series, and she is amazing!

Even her packing is great!

I made a video review of her (part in Spanish and part in English) that you can check out here to see a more in-depth review.

Also, I'm gonna share some pics of her on here for you guys to check her out:

EVER AFTER HIGH Kitty Cheshire Review

I can't get over how beautiful this doll is. She is everything I could have hoped for in a Ceshire humanization. Upon my first glance at her box I was already in love:

Awesome, isn't she?

The back of her box tells us a bit about her:

You can see more on her box here

As all the EAH dolls she cames with a stand, a brush, and her diary (where she tells us about Lizzie Hearts kind of dating with Daring Prince who is kind of dating another girl. Kitty warns her bestie off of him).

You can see a more in-depth review of this doll in my YouTube Channel here, and I'm sharing some pics of her so you can see how beautiful she really is (she really is one of my fav dolls <3)

And here she is in relation to Maddie (Kitty seems to be a tad shorter):

And in relation with the other EAH inhabitants at my home:

I really love that all the girls have different heights and body sizes. It makes all of them more unique and endearing to me <3

that's all for now, thank you for reading! :)

Review of: LAST OF US AMERICAN DREAMS

BOOK STATS:
Paperback, 104 pages

Published October 30th 2013 by Dark Horse Books (first published July 31st 2013)

ISBN13: 9781616552121

Edition language: English

Collects the Last of Us: American Dreams, issues 1-4

Nineteen years ago, a parasitic fungal outbreak killed the majority of the world's population. In one of the few remaining quarantine zones, thirteen-year-old Ellie begins her new life as a ward of a military boarding school, where a friendship with fellow student Riley leads to her first trip into the outside world. Beyond the walls of the regimented civil order they know, Ellie and Riley are soon confronted with the violent way of life of the insurgent group the Fireflies--and with the monstrous victims of infection!

 So. First of all, I love The Last of Us. Its atmosphere, its human drama, the infected, the landscapes, music, art, EVERYTHING. But this comic? This comic was a waste of time. I had seen some of its art and was encouraged by the good reviews it had. It was supposed to throw some light into Ellie's past, her time before meeting Joel, even before the little DLC that we got after the game, where we have this adventure with Riley. but this comic offers NOTHING. You really don't need to read it to understand anything because it gives up nothing.

The comic was published on 2013, and the DLC Left Behind is from Feb, 14th, 2014. So it looks like the comic paved out the way for the DLC set up, maybe they had it already planned out, but the downside is that if you don't read the comic you miss out on nothing, and reading it provides nothing, so...

In the comic book we find the girls meeting at the military school, doing their first escapade, Ellie meeting the man from the mall that "appears" on the DLC, and then meeting some Fireflies. We can see Riley trying to go with the Fireflies, which we already knew from the game; and the fact that the leader of the Fireflies knew of Ellie's mother, which we also knew from the game.

The story telleing is nothing from the other world, in fact it is very simple and kind of poor, at least compared with the one in the game. It's just the girls running around, finding themselves in sme iconic locations from the games, and then getting in some action with the fireflies. Nothing more. All perfectly skippable and not relevant. For me, reading this comic book has provided me with very little to non intel. Also, not a good comic book for me. Maybe I had high expectations as it was a Last of Us thing... but it really has failed short of my expectations.

My video review is here

Review: Ensnared by A.G. Howard

 BOOK STATS:

• Tapa dura: 416 páginas
• Editor: Harry N Abrams Inc (6 de enero de 2015)
• Colección: Splintered Series
• Idioma: Inglés
• ISBN-10: 1419712292
• ISBN-13: 978-1419712296

After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles ...and even if the only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through the looking-glass world--a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent netherling outcasts. In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered trilogy, Alyssa and her dad journey into the heart of magic and mayhem in search of her mom and to set right all that's gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, they must salvage Wonderland from the decay and destruction that has ensnared it. But if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after?

I  made a mini review on my Goodreads profile, stating more or less this:

I couldn't get into this book. I just couldn't. It is crazy, not like the others, where craziness was useful to the story, but bat-shit crazy with no purpose. I got boooooored with the love triangle. It appears almost every three pages and it feels like it drags into forever. The solution to this one is just... not going there as not to make spoilers, but I found it to be easy and non compromising.
I tried to get into the book time and time again only to found out I just couldn't. It was a bizarre book with no other purpose in its bizarre-ness (is that even a word?), and with a week love triangle with an easy solution which was a no brainer: [SPOILER] Let's keep both, momma! [SPOILER OVER]
I just loved the first one, wasn't sure about the second one but I still enjoyed it, but this one... destroyed the trilogy for me.
Sorry, I don't want to offend anyone. Maybe it wasn't the moment to read this one or maybe this one is just bat-shit crazy... :s

If you want to see a longer one were I talk about the three books on the series, please head over to my youtube video about it 

Thank you!!! ^.^

REVIEW - Frozen (Disney)

Qué decir. Me ha encantado. Es una película amena, divertida, y muy del estilo de Tangled, con princesas en apuros pero q se valen ellas mismas para abrirse camino. La historia nos presenta a dos hermanas, Elsa y Anna, q de pequeñas son muy amigas pero que a raíz de un trágico accidente (no hago spoilers), se van separando la una de la otra a la par que del resto del mundo.

Elsa

Cuando Elsa alcanza la mayoría de edad y ha de ser coronada como reina, el palacio abre sus puertas al público, y en medio de la celebración, Elsa pierde el control de sus poderes y todos pueden ver que domina el hielo y el frío, a lo que empiezan a corearse gritos de "bruja", haciendo que la reina huya.

Elsa nos deleita en este momento con esta maravillosa canción, Let it go , en la q expresa q está harta de tener q esconderse de todo el mundo, de mantenerse al margen, de no sentir, y crea a su alrededor un palacio de hielo en el que vivir.

Anna, sabiendo que ella tiene parte de la culpa de que su hermana perdiese el control en la fiesta, decide ir a buscarla para pedirle que vuelva con ella a casa y que termine con el invierno perpetuo al que ha sometido a su Reino. Para ello, cuenta con la ayuda de dos personas: Hans, el principe del que se enamora a primera vista (el motivo de la pelea entre las dos hermanas, pq Elsa no quiere bendecir el compromiso de los tortolitos argumentando que se acaban de conocer); y Kristoff, el chico que la acompañará en su aventura.

 

A mi, personalmente, ME HA ENCANTADO. Llevaba mucho tiempo encandilada por la figura de Elsa, y tras ver la película, sigo encandilada con ella.  Me gusta mucho su diseño y su carácter, pienso que es un gran personaje con un montón de profundidad y con peso tras sus motivos.

Anna es una alocada, la hermana pequeña, a la que le hace falta madurar, cosa que hace a lo largo de su aventura.

También me ha gustado mucho la caracterización de los dos chicos, Hans, el príncipe; y Kristoff, el comerciante. Por no hablar de Sven y Olaf, el ciervo y el muñeco de nieve, unos secundarios de lujo :)

Durante un momento, al ver la cancioncita de Anna y Hans al principio de la peli da como repelús, en plan de "¡No! ¿Volvemos a las princesas q se enamoran al momento, cantan cancioncita y se enamoran del galán de turno?", pero está muy bien la vuleta de tuerca de Elsa diciendo que no alaba el compromiso puesto q se acaban de conocer, y de ahí la evolución, y ese momento de acción heróica, de amor verdadero de mitad a final de película (de lo cual no revelo nada pq es uno de los mejores detalles de la película).

La animación es impecable, el 3D es increíble, los diseños son geniales, las canciones increíbles, y el argumento alucinante. La verdad es que recomiendo la película al 100%.

Os dejo con el tráiler de la película para que vayais abriendo boca (si es q no lo habéis visto ya ;) ).