Book Review: The Crown (the Selection, #5) by Kiera Cass

The Crown by Kiera Cass
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Just like the last book I read, I've never read the Selection series, so I picked this book up....and honestly it was the most boring book I've ever read in my life. Here's the points of the book:

-It was hella boring.

-The Selection feels like either the Bachlorette or any 2000's love competition shows, like Flavor of Love or I Love New York

-I feel like the main character rushed through the Selection, not spending time with the boys, even though she became the Queen and has to deal with a bully.

-It took the end of the book to fall in love with the translator, or to realize that she was in love with the translator for Henri.

It was an okay book, though I need to read the last four books to understand it.

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Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book...this book, this book, this book...the first time I read this book, is when my grandmama passed away, and I didn't want to touch this book at all. Now that I checked this book out nearly a couple months later, let's just say that this book basically blew my mind. I loved every single moment of this book, even cried a little at some parts, and my mouth dropped at the end. I couldn't remember everything, but I thought I break this book review down by points I wrote in my journal so I won't forget.

-I like Tamlin, even though he lied to Feyre. I know he did it to protect her from Amanthra, but to keep doing it throughout the book urked me a bit, but then I got over it at the end.

-Dislike Rhysand because he's annoying, even though he is the High Lord of the Night Court. Yeah he's cute and have wings and can break your mind without a second thought. But good lord, Rhysand annoys me so much, even when he made Feyre drink that faerie wine and made her dance till she puked.

-Don't know how people ship Feyre x Rhysand-I don't see it. Sorry, I just don't.

-Lucien is a okay petunia. That is all.

-I hated Nesta in the beginning, then I grew to like her. Yes she used to live in a big-ass house, was rich and brought whatever she wanted, but to be hateful towards your sisters and hate your father for giving it all up (I think, I don't remember the reason why she hates her father) but then when Tamlin sent Feyre back, and Feyre saw how Tamlin took care of her family, Nesta knew everything, and she told Feyre that she knew what was going on, and that there wasn't no Great Aunt whatchimacallit.

-Feyre got on my nerves about finding a way out of the "Treaty" but couldn't. I understand that you want to go back home, Feyre, but good lord girl, if you can't leave, you can't leave-everyone told you that-the Suriel, Tamlin, everyone.

-Amarantha is scary AF and I'm glad Tamlin killed her.

I really do recommend this book a lot and I enjoyed it a lot!!!

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Book Review: Awakened, a House of Night Novel by P.C. and Kristen Cast

Awakened by P.C. Cast
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My god...this book, this book, this book...hell, this world basically....I missed it so much when I picked it up. This book made me have so many feels, from the death of someone to Neferet being a bitch, and the Kalona and Rephaim plan to betray Neferet because they realize that Neferet never had any control over him at all....

But let's talk about Jack's death-the death that just...just hurts so much. The boy was innocent, waiting on Zoey to come home that he made a whole bunch of origamis for her, and he wanted to sing the Glee version of Defying Gravity, but now he can't since Neferet used him as a bloody sacrifice to Darkness. And Damien...I felt sorry for Damien when he found the body, and Stevie Rae knew that Neferet did it, but didn't know how. Thus the reason why Zoey came back from the Isle of Skye, though she didn't want to because of her conscience (I believe) along with her Warrior and Guardian Stark (in which I ship them 110%).

And the relationship between Rephaim and Stevie Rae, though how secret it can be, came out at Jack's funeral (thanks Neferet for coming in and pretending that she forgive her and all that jazz-which were *Kathy Bates voice* LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIESSSSSSSSSSSS) but then when Nyx showed up after she tried to out Zoey and told Damien that Jack was happy in her gardens and that he'll see her again, turning Rephaim into a raven by day and a boy by night, giving Dragon the choice to forgive Rephaim for the death of his love Anastasia, ant giving Neferet a chance to come back to the right path of the Goddess (but honestly, I wish she didn't do it because she didn't do it).

And then the death of Zoey's mother, Linda...I shed some tears when I read that death, because once again, it was uncalled for, Neferet wanted to kill Zoey's grandmother after she basically took over House of Night again, and all because she wanted a vessel....which had Heath's soul in it, making him reincarnated in the vessel now called Aurox (which is the most stupidest name I've ever heard).

I really enjoyed this book and I want to get the rest of the books and read more because I honestly missed this world so much.

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Books I'm #CurrentlyReading

Awakened: A House of Night novel by P.C. and Kristin Cast

A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire Book Three by George R.R. Martin

Book Review: Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #1) by Melissa de la Cruz

The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this book on a trip to Florida and I finished it while on the road coming back home-and OMG I love it. This book is the prequel to the movie Descendants on Disney Channel and the show Wicked World, and I honestly fell in love with it. The children of famous Disney Villians-Maleficent, Jafar, Evil Queen, and Cruella de Vil-are looking for the Dragon's Eye, Maleficent's magic staff, that is at the Forbidden Fortress, in the middle of nowhere at the Isle of the Lost. Mal wants to find the Dragon's Eye so she can make Evie, the new girl in school, fall asleep for a thousand years, even though at her Howling party at Carlos's house when she locked her in the closet....the problem is, it didn't work since Mal touched it and was knocked out for a moment, but then she woke up from it.

Jay, Jafar's son, wants to steal the Dragon's Eye from Mal because....because...oh good lord, I forgot why he wanted to steal the Dragon's Eye from Mal....maybe to make his father happy or something like that???

Evie went along with her new friend Carlos because of his machine that made a hole in the dome, and Carlos went along because of his machine. But at the end of their adventures, all of the villans were disappointed in them because none of them got the Dragon's Eye, including Maleficent when Mal can back and she had the staff in her hand.

How did she get it back, you ask?

That evil, evil raven pet of hers, Diablo, grabbed it (oh, did I mention that Diablo came back to life???) and brought it to her.

This book also share a little bit of Aurdon (I cannot spell that place), especially Prince Ben, the son of Beast and Belle, and his little problem with some of the characters on his island, his girlfriend Princess Audrey, and his weird dream of Mal and frolicking in a garden with her. Then at the end of the book, he has an idea after feeling sorry for the kids of the Isle of the Lost....

I loved it and now I'm planning to get the second book real soon and maybe try and catch the movie.

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Mini Book Haul

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel by Melissa de la Cruz

#CurrentlyReading

Shadow Spell: Book Two of the Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy by Nora Roberts

Book Review: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It took me....twenty five years...to finally read this book. I've loved Alice in Wonderland since god knows when, being jealous when she followed the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, going to Wonderland and meeting all of these strange and beautiful creatures, even having a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, and even meeting Cheshire Cat. I've seen only two adaptations of the book-Disney's animated version of Alice in Wonderland and Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland-but to finally sit and read the book and fall in love with the nonsense world that is Wonderland, made me wanna stay there forever and never leave.

My favorite characters has to be Alice, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the Blue Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, the Tweedles and the White Queen. But there were so many characters and so many things to see-the Rocking-Horse fly and the Bread and Butterfly...I would live in that world forever and never leave.

When you read this book you feel like a kid again the moment you open it and you get transported into a world where you want to be seven again. That how it was for me and one day I will re-read this book, because it was so much fun and I loved every single moment of it!

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Carroll

Book Review: Cerulean Sins: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel by Laurell K. Hamilton

Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book review is gonna be short because....HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP this book, though!! I loved every single moment of it, though at some parts it gets boring, but in the end, I loved each and every moment of it, because FER ONCE IN JEAN-CLAUDE'S LIFE, he finally stood up to Belle Morte and claimed that he's the soudre de sang of his own line. GO JEAN-CLAUDE!!!!

And I felt sorry for Asher. Poor Asher. All because of Belle Morte and his fear of his face, his scars, that he thought Anita was lying when she said that she thought he was beautiful. Then when she, him and Jean-Claude had that menage a trois and Asher bit her because either Anita asked her too or because the ardeur asked him too, but he did. And then that whole stupid fight happened and he's like, 'I'm leaving, I'm not Jean Claude's second in command or something like that, blah blah blah." and he was about to go back to France, to Belle Morte's court, but THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN because somehow someway Belle Morte killed him by only touching him, and Anita brought him back to life.

BUT can we talk about Belle Morte? I HATE HER SO MUCH. She's such a bitch. Sure, she wants to be desirable to every man, but then Anita came in the photo and then the Mother of all Darkness...waking her up....THE EFF is wrong with you, hon? THE EFF, man. And choosing Musette as a vessel of some sort...GOOD BLOODY NIGHT, WOMAN.

And the cases Anita had to solve...they were bloody AF. But thank god she executed the murder. And Dolph's breakdown in the room....Dolph needs a hug.

BUT all and all I loved it and it was amazing and I really do reconmend it a lot.

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Cerulean Sins, An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel by Laurell K. Hamilton

Book Review: Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffery Overstreet

Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Good night this book...this book took me so long to read (because of school, testing, then me graduating and up till now, I thought I'll never finish this book at all) but I gave it 3.4 out of 5 stars, mainly because of the ending and because of the slow, action-packed read that I was ready to give it up. Like...set the book down, I can't do this anymore, this book is bloody boring, when the heck can I finish this book so I can read something else....but then after finding a playlist on Spotify, I finished it...and my god this book was really good.

Cyndere's Midnight is all about Cyndere and Jordam, an heiress and a beastman, trying to find some way to bring peace between the Cent Regus and the humans, though after Cyndere's husband's death, she thought it was all over. Everyone kept telling her to forget her husband's dreams of taming the Cent Regus and morn for him, but she wouldn't do it. Jordam is torn to be with his three brothers, including that awful Mordafey, drink the Essence, and please the Skell Wra in some sick and twisted fashion that I can't remember. But as I sat here in my kitchen and finished reading this book, I cried close to the ending....but I KNEW something was up with Ryllion and the Seer...until I read how the Seer, Pretor Xa (I know, weird name n' all) planned on the death of Cyndere's husband without her even knowing.

Da eff?

But I liked it, though it was slow in the beginning and picked up in the middle, along with Auralia's Colors and her caves where she shows her colors-and the ale boy (in which I want to know his name...like bro, WHAT IS YOUR NAME????) who is a descendant of Tammos Rak-who can walk through fire. Shocking, I know. BUT HE CAN WALK THROUGH FIRE AND ALSO NOT GET BURNED.

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Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffery Overstreet.

Book Review: Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 by Laurence Yep.

Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 by Laurence Yep
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When I pick up this book, I have never heard of the Lady of Ch'iao Kuo. Never heard of her, though I picked it up because I'm a huge history lover/nerd and I wanted to learn about this time in A.D. 531, a time where Confucius and wars and everything else that happened during this period. But I've never heard of Lady of Ch'iao Kuo until now.

So this book is her diary and the first part talks about her short time living at her school in China with Master Chen and his family, and how she's learning how to read and write, because in her village women and men cannot read or write, not even her family. Along with all that, the Dog Heads (another thing I've never heard of) are attacking villages left and right, taking the heads of the people they attacked, and they also killed her father. That's what happened in the first half of the book.

The second half of the book was actually pretty amazing. She comes up with a plan to stop the wild elephants the Dog Heads brought for war, and used it (if I can explain it, I could....) but it worked, and along with all of that, her brother Little Tiger became king of her village, but the problem in the first half he was actually a bit of a prick and didn't listen to anyone, then he got better and actually listened to his people and became a better king.

I enjoyed this book and I really do recommend it.

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Book Review: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson.

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ho-Lee-Crap this book is funny and very fun to read. I needed something awesome to read and when I picked this up, I wanted to read more after I was finish with it.

This book is about a girl named Nimona who can shape-shift into anything she wants and she works for Lord Ballister Blackheart...though Lord Ballister didn't want a sidekick-he's used to doing everything alone, like a villain does. But the more he's around Nimona, the more he sees her as a friend....until his nemesis and old pal....dear god his name is just...to me it's funny, but....Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin comes in, saying. "HALT, YOU VILLANS! UNHAND THAT SCIENCE!" and that line...right there....made me laugh so hard...

But the more I read Nimona, the more I honestly felt sorry for Sir Ambrosius and the joust that destroyed his and Ballister's friendship...all because of Central Intelligence (and I hate them so much) and when they caught Nimona and she snapped....I was like HELL YES and another part of me was worried about her because of the black dragon and how she didn't want to leave it because it was a part of her, even though Ambrosius kept telling Ballister to kill her, but he wouldn't do it because she's his friend.

Aweeeee.

I loved every moment of this book and I wish I can read more of Noelle Stevenson's works, because they're awesome.

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"Wherever You Go, Go With All Your Heart."-Confucius

Hey y'all and welcome back to my blog!

So I haven't posted ANYTHING lately because I've been busy with my last two classes and worrying about graduating....but as of now, 5/20/2016....I AM OFFICIALLY A GRADUATE. 

It took me three years to finish Georgia Military College...and now I'm offically finished with this school and now going to try and transfer to Kennesaw State University so I can start my BA in English and possibly minor in Mass Communications or French-and PRAY TO THE GODS I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MATH AGAIN. But I have a feeling I will (dammit) BUT that'll be fine with me! I'm also going up to Macon this weekend for two things-a graduation and a wedding dinner or reception (something like that) and while I'm at it I'm going to be posting two book reviews of the books I'm done reading and try to finish my first read of Little House of the Pairie, called "On the Shores of Sliver Lake" (in which I will try very hard not to rename this blog after that book...though it's gonna be hard because I really want to)

SO CHEERS TO ME GRADUATING NEXT SATURDAY!!!!!! BECAUSE I NEED IT-A LOT.

Book Review: Deeply Devoted (The Blue Willow Brides, #1) by Maggie Brendan

Deeply Devoted by Maggie Brendan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To tell you the truth I don't pick up books like this. I really really don't. But as soon as I opened it started to read it, that's when I just couldn't stop. I read this whole book in two weeks (blame school and that I have only one more week left of it before I graduate!!) and honestly this has to be one of my favorite books that I've ever read. I never thought I'd pick up a book about Cheyenne, Wyoming or about Mail-Order Brides, but I did.

Catharine Olsen left her beautiful Amsterdam for Wyoming as a mail-order bride, bringing her two sisters, Greta and Anna, along with her, along with her mother's set of Blue Willow china, along with a tragic and horrible past. She's going to meet and marry a man named Peter Andersen, who is a wheat farmer, and they did....but for some reason (apparently I'm cursed) Peter's mama, Miss Clara, decided to hire a private investigator to look into Catharine's past.

But at the same time, she didn't know she was going to fall for the private investigator till the end, when she found the documents about Catharine's divorce from her now ex-husband, and felt so terrible for what she did to Catharine and Peter, driving a wedge between them. But Peter forgave her, and now Anna is staying with her so she can start school.

Greta started a relationship with a local solider named Bryan, whom Catharine and Peter didn't like at first because of how he was courting her and how they were sneaking around. But at the end Bryan had to go to a different Army Base, making Greta miss him by writing letters like Catharine and Peter did in their six months writing to each other before she came to Cheyenne.

Other than that this book was cute and wonderful, with the sisters settling in Peter's farm and learning how to live in the farm and the faith of the Lord, along with the troubles of the farm with the wheat not growing this year and the locust keep swarming around. But in the end it was amazing book and I really do reconmend it a lot!!

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Deeply Devoted, Book One of the Blue Willow Brides series by Maggie Brendan

Book Review: Spun by Sorcery (Sugar Maple #3) by Barbara Bretton.

Spun By Sorcery by Barbara Bretton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So let's say that you're a half-sorceress in training, you have an amazing, 100% human soulmate, a crazy cat that is your familiar of some sorts, and you own a shop calls Sticks and Strings....and you lose your town. Like, lose it, lose it. You've tried everything to get the town back, and almost like Storybrooke, you get kicked out of the town line like a boomerang.

Now what?

You and your human lover, along with your cat Penny and your Julia Roberts look-a-like friend goes to Salem to find a way to get Sugar Maple back. And you do...in the form of Samuel Bramford, who was Aerynn's lover. And he gives your lover 24-hour magic powers to help you fight the old magic and get the talisman back.

It was success.

Sugar Maple is back, and that everything's back to normal...until the old caretaker of Samuel Bramford, Elspeth, comes in your old Buick to tell you that Samuel's last wish was that she was to deliver your baby...that baby you didn't know your having. But you are. With your 100% human soulmate.....

And that is the whole entire book with Chloe, Luke and Janice, along with Penny and Samuel and Elspeth. I honestly enjoyed this book once again and it was a quick read for me. I loved it and once again I wanted to read the second and last book, because I'm not ready to leave Sugar Maple, and I really don't wanna say goodbye to Sugar Maple. I really do recommend this book (and this series) a whole lot, even if you don't knit (but you will learn too)

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A Very Large April Book Haul.

Hey y'all!

So in April I have in a book-like slump, but for some reason that didn't stop me from buying and checking out books from the library and the Giant Bookstore above Nordstrom Rack in Perimeter Mall (if you know where that is, then you know what I'm talking about). I wanted to do this separately, but then I decided against it since it's May already-a couple weeks to go before I graduate (hopefully) so if you wanna read or see the books I've gotten in April, carry on reading. 

1. Blood Lines by Tanya Huff (I really hate this cover. I really really do.)
2. Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffery Overstreet-never actually heard of him before, and I honestly fell in love with the cover-and the synopsis of the book sounds really good. 
3. The Wicked: A Vampire Huntress Novel by L.A. Banks-when I saw this book, I honestly squealed because I've read this author since high school and never got to finish her novels, and I gave away the ones I have (I think) so now I'm going to be on the hunt to buy all of L.A. Banks Vampire Huntress novels, like I'm doing the Laurell K. Hamilton novels. 

1. Spun by Sorcery (Sugar Maple, #3) by Barabra Bretton-done with it, doing a book review now
2. Deeply Devoted, a Blue Willow Brides novel by Maggie Brendan
3. Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: A Royal Diaries novels by Laurence Yep
4. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
5. John Constanine: Hellblazer
6. By the Shores of Sliver Lake by Laura Ingwalls Wilders

Book Review: Casting Spells (Sugar Maple, #1) by Barbara Bretton

Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Okay...this book right here was a quick read for me-one because I don't read books about knitting, and two, I honestly enjoyed this book a lot. The action, the Fae, and the love sparking between Chloe and Luke makes me wanna get the rest of this book series and marathon this book. Now I thought I wouldn't like this book because of the knitting thing, but if you take that out and fall in love with the town, the townsfolk (vampires, fae, witches, shapeshifters, warlocks, sprites) then you got one hell of a book.

But what is this amazing book about?

Chloe Hobbs is the owner of the knitting shop Sticks and Strings, and she's a half-human, half-sorcerer who was human, never gotten her powers at all....until the death of a woman named Suzanne died and then all of a sudden, the town of Montiplier (as soon as I saw that town's name, I ironically thought of Markiplier-if you know who I'm talking about, then you'll get it) decided that oh, Sugar Maple needs a police station.

Problem with that....

1.) Basically, there's no crime in Sugar Maple. None what so ever.

and Two...well, there is no two. All except the supernatural, Fae things, then that's it.

Enter Luke MacKenzie: a 100% human who's there to solve Suzanne's murder...but everytime he and Chloe touch....to quote Cascada, 'it feels like magic.' For reals. When they touch, fireworks goes off, and then that's when Chloe gets her magic.

But of course, we have some stupid people who wants the Book of Spells and take it away from Chloe. AKA Isadora, the Fae who really hates Chloe-to me, FOR NO REASON-and the fight between her and Chloe, along with her son Dane (who I hated so much-I liked his twin Gunnar better) almost destroyed Sticks and Strings, just for the book. But Chloe banished her and she also thought that Luke was dead, but he was protected by the Book of Spells, which was actually a composition book.

After the fight between Chloe, Luke, and Isadora, Luke left, and our new sorceress was sad, knowing that she and Luke couldn't have a relationship at all. But he came back, and he's staying, so that's good and MY OTP GOT TOGETHER. AWE YISS.

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Book Review: All the Werys of Pern by Anne McCafferty

All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book...this book, this book, this book. I've been wanting to read this book, and every single time I don't get to it, I always have to turn it in. But not this time. Honestly, I enjoyed this book, even though some of the parts were a bit boring. Though I loved the dragon parts and the fighting Thread and the rest, the one thing that irritated me the most in this book was the relationship between Jaxom and the Aivas. It irritated me because Jaxom seemed so dependent on the Aivas instead of thinking for himself in the situations presented in the book.

The one thing that made me sad a bit was the ending. The ending made me go 'nope' when I read it-mostly because of the way Masterharper Robinton died-though he died peacefully in his sleep, including the Aivas-but honestly I wanted him to be alive for one more book, one more novel, then he can be put to rest. But when I read it I wanted to cry so bad for Masterharper Robinton-even his funeral was perfect and lovely. But honestly it was still perfect all the same and now I'm glad I've read the book and I enjoyed it-a lot.

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Top Ten Books I Really Really Wanna Read

Hey y'all! No time to blog, huh?

Well we can blame school....life.....Defiance (if you want, find me-Elizabeta Tepes...jus' sayin....) But today I just wanna show you the top ten books I really wanna read really really badly.

1. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

2. The Rest of the Throne of Glass series (including Empire of Storms)

 3. The Rest of the Lunar Chronicles

4. How to be Single by Liz Tuccillo

5. The Rest of the House of Night series

6. The Falling Kingdoms series by Morgan Rhodes

7. The Black Jewel Trilogy by Anne Bishop

8. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

9. The Name of the Wind and the Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

10. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Book Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh. My. Good. Lord. Now I've read fantasy novels, but nothing like this, and...IT WAS BLOODY PERFECT. The tests, the bad-assery that is Celeana Sandothrien and just...EVERYTHING. I loved this book so much, that I don't know if I can do a full book review on it. And the romance....when I first read this in the summer of last year, I loved it. A lot. And now that I read it twice (slowly because of school starting) I still loved it, even now I HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK, and can't wait to read the rest of this series.

(edit) When I first read this book last summer, at first I'd forgotten about Celeana because all I saw was Dorian and Chaol, but then I re-read it again and now I wanna punch Chaol in the throat (have no idea why I want to now, but last time I didn't) and I still have a thing for Dorian, but the one thing that made me mad was the fight scene between Cain and Celeana. Because honestly when I see Cain...I SEE THIS BEHEMOTH:



Yep....I see the Mountain as Cain. (Though I'm glad he's semi-knocked out at the moment) And that made me...so mad because he wanted to kill Celeana-FOR WHAT I DON'T KNOW. But I'm glad Celeana won, with the help of Princess Nehemia and Queen Elena and the Wyrdmarks. But then when Cain pulled out the knife to try and kill Celeana...I was honestly on the edge of my seat, but then Chaol came and killed him...so yay Chaol!!!

I still do recommend this book and I will read the next book in the series (hopefully real soon) along with others.

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Book Review: Envy: A Luxe Novel by Anna Godbersen

Envy by Anna Godbersen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It has been a very long time since I've read something from the Luxe series-and once again, I loved it-a lot. It's like Gossip Girl, but in the 1900s, where people just kept throwing shade after shade after shade about one another, gossiping about whoever they want when they want in the papers (here's to you, "Gamesome Gallant"...whoever you are....) and, of course, the drama. And when I say drama...my friends, THERE'S SOME DRAMA IN THIS BOOK.

For example, let's look at the lovely marriage that is the Schoonmakers-Henry and Penelope Hayes. Like, honestly, to tell you the truth, if I was playing a soap character on The Young and the Restless, I want my name to be Penelope Hayes. BECAUSE GOOD LORD GIRL YOU IS ONE SHADY BITCH. Penelope, our resident bitch, keeps threatening Henry to go to the papers about him and Diana Holland, the girl he loves SO MUCH instead of her just so they can be married. And on their trip to Palm Beach, FLA, you best believe that girl kept trying to get Henry to stay away from her. But did that stop him? NOPE NOT REALLY.

Because he went to see her twice-once to tell her that he wasn't in love with Penelope and two, that he'd divorce Penny and marry Di. Well, see, that didn't work.....MAINLY BECAUSE THE NEXT MORNING, DIANA SAW THE TWO OF YEHS TOGETHER AFTER THAT DRUNKEN NIGHT OF LOVEMAKING. Yes I'm yelling, but not at Diana, who was trying to move on by going to parties, and even though Miss Penelope sicked her brother Grayson on her, it turned out that he loved her. Oh but the worst (and stupid) part was in the book was the lie (I hope to god it is a lie-I've read the last book a long time ago and I don't remember) she told to the Elder William Schoonmaker, that she was pregnant. PREGNANT, Y'ALL. Henry kept swearing up and down that she's not, and the ending. The ending, when Henry told her that he's leaving to fight for his country, Penelope started calling his name, cryin', not wanting him to go. But he left....so honestly I felt like this was a big 'HA' to her.

Now the Holland Sisters....I've already done Diana, because honestly, just like Lady Edith from Downton Abbey, THIS GIRL NEEDS TO BE HAPPY-AND I DON'T CARE IF IT'S WITH HENRY OR GRAYSON. But Elizabeth-Elizabeth, the girl who ran off with a boy named Will to California, got married, and when he died (got shot), she went back home to No. 17 Gramercy Park to morn him for a bit, then went on the Palm Beach trip, where she and Penelope realized that *dramatic gasp* she's pregnant. Yep, that's right-Miss Elizabeth Holland is pregnant with Will's baby. And even though the Holland family is broke and Penelope shadin' and plottin' over Diana while becoming friends again with Elizabeth, Elizabeth....Elizabeth does something so stupid (to me, at least)....SHE MARRIED MR. SNOWDEN CARINS. LIKE, NO. I noped when I read it in school waiting for my class to start-she didn't love him, she just married him because he bloody proposed to her-AFTER Teddy Cutting proposed to her first. AGAIN. I wanted her with Teddy, not with Snowden-something about him rubbin' me the wrong way, and I don't like it.

And last, but not least, Mrs. Carolina Broad, who honestly needs to hear that Drake song: Started from the bottom now we're here/Started from the bottom now my whole team fuckin' here! Because her chapters in the book had me cheering for her. First, Carolina was hanging out with/the charge of a Mr. Longhorn, who died while she was on the Palm Beach trip. When she came back to New York, everything was taken from her-her jewelry, her clothes, everything. So she goes to Tristan Wrigley, a salesman at Lord & Taylor, to help her find a job...and she did....as Mrs. Tilt's something assistant, but she wasn't happy with that. So she left as soon as she saw Leland Bouchard, the man she's crushing on, and went to a dressmaker to try and get a job there, but she stuck herself with a needle, and so she rested in the cold for a while, until that fateful day when she went back to the New Netherland Hotel, where Mr. Longhorn's will was read, and he gave his home, businesses, real estate, stock and cash to her. And now she's finally able to live the life she wants now, and maybe....just maybe...she can get Leland Bouchard. Just maybe.

I really really loved this book and I really do recommend it!!!

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