Hey guys!

Being that I've moved platforms (follow me here!), this blog is going to be transformed. That is why I changed my url. I'm going to focus this blog mostly on my writing, creative, poetry etc. So if you want to keep following me that would be awesome, but for more of usual post head over to my wordpress. Thanks guys!

Love Cielo

Update!

I've moved! I've changed my platform from blogger to wordpress and I have to say I don't regret it. I will still be posting the same type of post just over there. So please do me a favor and spread the word and follow me at Wordpress on any type of following platform you have. And don't worry, I will continue to follow those I was following before the change!

Thanks,
Cielo!

5 Fandom Friday: Things I've Bought But Have't Read/Watched/Played Yet

                                        

I should have used these things a while ago.

5 Fandom Friday is a meme (I guess) or a tagged post that you every Friday answering certain prompts that have already been agreed upon. I love this idea because it lets me show a bit of my geeky/fandom side that I usually reserve for the pits of tumblr. But it is nothing to be ashamed of and I will display it with pride. I run a studyblr for pete's sake! Any who, the prompt for this week was things that I've bought but haven't really touched yet. This was a bit difficult as I normally buy things and put them immediately to use. But I searched around my apartment and surprisingly I found some things!

• The FitBit
• Used DS ( I know, I know)
• Teen Magazines 
• My Drunk Kitchen by Hannah Hart ( I can feel your surprise from here)
• The Da Vinci Files 

Out of everything of this list, I am most upset about not using the FitBit and the DS as much as I should. I've had the FitBit since Thursday and I've only used it around 50ish times. There is also an app that comes along with the fitbit to track the calories you have burnt, taken in, and charts to track your fitness process. This is a good reminder to use this constantly.

Patrick represents the level of fitness I need to be on.

The DS is still relatively new. I bought it used from Game Stop for less than fifty bucks. I don't have any games, so leave me any recommendations! 

I love magazine and fashion, I feel a bit too old to be reading TeenVogue, so I might just switch over to Vogue soon. Due to going away to college I missed a few issues, so I need to get to reading them soon. I also need to catch up to Women's Health magazine.

Elise is my youth laughing as she runs away from me. Natasha is me as my grumpy old self lol.

And yes, we all know that I love Hannah Hart. If I could go and get married to her I would. But I refuse to be ashamed for not reading her book. I just don't want to be disappointed. I have such high expectations. She also signed this book so no one is going to be able to actually borrow it (I have another copy for that), but is so pretty and I should get to reading it soon. Are you guys interested in a review?

Hannah will slay me no matter what.

And finally, to show some more of my nerdy side. The Da Vinci Files is a multi-disk documentary series that I got when I was really into Art History. I just need some time on Saturday and a nice movie buddy to accompany me on my Da Vinci journey. 

  

So hopefully I did this prompt justice, if not please don't send any angry mobs to my apartment. Not only will I not let them in, but it is cold out (in the negatives) and I don't want anyone to get frost bite! Hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and feel free to tell me things you haven't used recently :).

Cielo

Divergent by Veronica Roth

With the public's want of YA dystopias stories,  I expected Divergent to be extremely similar to the Hunger Games. Maybe I have just lost faith in YA fiction as they all seem to blur into each other after a certain genre gets popular. They have the same target audience yet I was surprised to see that they do have  things that set them apart. To be clear, I haven't read the entire series yet. I have only read the first book, but expect a review on the series as a whole soon.

The book is very straight-forward (everything happens in chronological order) and the language is easy to understand. While most of my friends found it confusing, I found it an easy yet emotional read. It was hard for me to get into the book, as I am use to the background of the story being explained up front. You really go into the story with nothing, I can only compare it to "being born," everything is foreign and you learn things as it becomes relevant. This was extremely refreshing to me.

Yet, the interaction between characters never really boosted my emotions to a fan girl level. Don't get me wrong, I liked the book and once I got into it, I didn't put it down. But the fighting seemed to come out of the blue (and felt a little predictable). The romance of the novel was adorable but they never really made it to an "OTP" level in my mind. Which was good at some level because I wasn't obsessing with my want of the two characters to be together and I got to see the characters as their own person but I wasn't rooting for them to stay together either.

Also, some of the killings didn't seem justified. I felt that Tris could have felt the same motivation and anger without so many deaths. It got to the point that some of the deaths felt boring and didn't bring out any emotions in me (and yes I am aware that is an unpopular opinion).

Divergent divided the people into factions, based on personality traits. This didn't seem very realistic to me as people are more than just a couple of adjectives. It may seem like I miss the point and I know that Roth tried to fix this by ultimately making it a choice for Tris and all the other teenagers, and I know that characters struggle to fit into the faction of their choosing, but I knew the rules of the game and I couldn't make myself believe it. It was more plausible to me in Harry Potter,where you went to the sorting hat. If you have read the book, think of this...wasn't anyone who switched factions divergent? As they were taking new personality traits?

I'm conflicted on this book because I enjoyed it as I read it, yet sometimes I couldn't help but face palm or roll my eyes at the events occurring. I did feel some suspense and excitement but not as much as I did with the big 3. Maybe I am getting old and my over analytically mind won't let me see the wonders-and only the wonders that others have seen in Divergent, but maybe as I read the series my opinion will change. It wasn't a horrible book, I would recommend if you have some time on your hands but I won't be shoving this book in your face any time soon.

What are your opinions on Divergent? Do you have any book recommendations focused on Dystopian societies?