Divergent Movie Review

Hi, everyone! It's Alex and Lizzy! Yes, we are together and we decided to change our blog's design and write a post to celebrate it! Hope you like our new design.

So, about two or three weeks ago, we and some friends went to see the Divergent movie premiere. We were hoping that they had done a good job since we were about to see the book-to-movie adaptation of one of our favourite books of all time, and let us tell, it was phenomenal! It wasn't perfect, obviously, because that's quite impossible, there were some issues, but it was pretty good. It's right below Catching Fire, and that is the second movie so we cannot hope to see what they'll do with Insurgent. If you haven't seen it, go see it now! We mean, right now! Just grab your keys and wallet and phone and go to a theatre and watch it! Now!

And then, of course, come back and read the rest of the post (we don't want to spoil anything) and tell us what you thought!

If  You Haven't Seen Divergent, Come Back Later!

So, bad things first, there were some incoherencies  in the end. The serum they take at the end is not explored very well, and it is not like the one from the book. In this new serum, people are very open to suggestions, however when Tris calls Will and asks him to stop or else she'll shoot, he doesn't stop because he has orders to kill her. But then, when she injects Jeanine with the serum, Tris is able to control her by telling her what to do. The serum that Jeanine is injected with is the same as Will's, so why is their behaviour any different? 

There were some scenes that everyone wanted to see, like the butter knife scene when Peter stabs Edward in the eye, or when Peter pulls Tris' towel, or even the scene where Tris beats up Molly. And then, there were also a few characters that weren't developed very much, like Peter, Al, Molly and Will. Peter and Molly weren't as aggressive as they are in the book, and Al and Will are not a big presence in the movie. In the scene where Peter, Al and Drew try to push Tris off the Chasm, the only person that we see is Al, so we don't get that tension that grows between Tris and Peter.

Ant then, we have tons of characters that are not in the movie! Like Uriah, Lynn, Marlene, Drew, Edward, Maya, Zeke, Shauna, and so on. Some of them are mentioned but don't exactly appear and we kind of missed them.

But now, onto the good things.

This movie had a really good world development, we were with some friends that haven't read the book and they understood it all. The scenarios, the outfits and the tattoos were fantastic and the scenes were overall really good.

The actors were fantastic. We weren't too keen on Theo James nor on Shailene Woodley, but as soon as we saw them, they were Tris and Four. Kate Winslet was obviously amazing and all of the other actors and actresses were fantastic too. Maggie Q, the main actress in Nikita (one of our favourite TV shows) was in the movie as Tori. The first time we saw her, we were like: "Michael and Alex are going to show up and blow everything up, and Nikita will have to do something to complete the mission!" (By the  way, if you're not into Nikita, Michael and Alex and the co-protagonists). But then, she stopped being Nikita and became Tori, and it was perfect.

We appreciated that Neil Burger didn't change the main plot and tried to stick true to the book, and we were also ok with the alternative ending, which wasn't perfect as we've said before, but was also very good.

Overall, it was a really good movie and we dare to say it actually made us feel Dauntless, wanting to jump out of moving trains, go zip-lining and play Capture the Flag. We felt like we were inside of the story, watching everything through Tris' eyes. And that's a really important point to think about when producing a movie.

So, we hope you've liked the movie, please tell us your thoughts on it (and if you like our new design :) and don't forget to share it and subscribe!

Till next time, goodbye!

Alex and Lizzy

Camp NaNoWriMo

Hi, guys! It's Alex and I just figured I should write a small post about Camp NaNoWriMo.
For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is in November. During the month, you'll have to try to write 50.000 words, which also means you'll have to try to write an Entire novel in a month! Well, to me this sounded really cool since I love writing and I am tired of starting projects but never getting to finish them because I just get bored. So I decided to give it a try! But exactly in November as you may have noticed.. I can't participate in NaNoWrimo in November so I'm participating in Camp NaNoWriMo that is basically the same thing but in two different moths: April and July. In Camp you can also set your own word count goal and you don't need to write a novel, you can write  whatever you want as soon as you reach your goal. So, my word count goal will be only 25.000 words because I will lose 5 days of writing since for the next week I'll be on holidays with my school and I won't be able to write.
Anyway, this is my first year participating so if you want to join me feel free to tell me! here is my profile if you'd like to go check it out to know a little bit more about the story I am writing :) Feel free to leave your comments and send me any messages through Camp's inbox and don't forget to follow!!
Bye!
Alex (& Lizzy)

Ps- I will probably post some NaNo updates during April so stay tuned :)

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Hey there! It's Lizzy here, and I know it's been a while, but today I have a book review for you! The book I'm reviewing is "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater. I have a controversial opinion about it, because I liked and didn't like it at the same time. Weird, right? Well, the thing is, I like the general idea of the book, but I don't like the way it was developed that much.

"Shiver" tells us the story of a young girl named Grace, and also the story of her boyfriend, Sam, who happens to be a werewolf. However, he's not the kind of werewolf that can change between human and wolf form whenever he wants to. During the colder months, he has to be the wolf he's destined to be (we'll get on the why later on...) and through Spring and Summer he can stay human. Nevertheless, wanting to be with Grace for as long as possible, they try to delay his transformation for the longest period of time they're able to. And while doing that, they also have to stop a recently transformed werewolf from causing chaos among humans. This new wolf thinks that there's a cure for the "disease" which causes their transformation, and the reason he thinks that brings us back to one of our main characters, Grace. Grace was bitten by a wolf when she was only 5 years old or so, and this wolf was trying to kill her when Sam saves her from imminent death. As she didn't die, she would eventually change into a werewolf, which actually never happened, and no one knows why.

This is what happens with the plot along the book, and now I think I'm left to say why I didn't like the way the story is built:

As I already said, I like the whole werewolf thing, and I also think that the complementary ideas the author had were good, but I didn't like that the story kind of led to nowhere... Please notice this is only my opinion, you might have a totally different one and that's perfectly fine. But I think that if the story was built differently, maybe with a little bit more of action through it, I would have enjoyed it a lot better. 

Alex's opinion on the book:
I've read this book a long time ago and I didn't like it at all. I can't really remember the plot, I just remember thinking it was really weird, but in a bad way. The whole disease thing was very confusing to me and the characters were very boring and difficult to relate to. The book moved at a rather slow pace for me, like Lizzy said, there wasn't a lot of action. The main characters, Sam and Grace, were very annoying to me and I just hated to read their POV's. For me, this just wasn't the right book.
But, as Lizzy also pointed out, this is just my opinion and feel free to read the book and have a different one! Also, don't forget to comment and follow and share your thoughts on this book or on the blog in general!

Bye-Bye see you next time!!!

Alex & Lizzy