Book Review: The Darkest Torment (Lords of the Underworld) by Gena Showalter

The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Y'all...this book right here...

THIS BOOK GOT ME THIRSTY AF.

A book never had gotten me thirsty-never. As I sit here and think about it, nearly all the books I've read either made me want to rage or get me excited, but never, not in a million years, have a book made me thirsty until now. It's a modern day beauty and the beast, but with hellhounds, Hades being a total dick and love-sans the dancing part that I was looking for, and throw in the asshole half-immortal husband and you got yourself a book.

So this book is about Baden (who is NOT Jamie Fraser. Sadly. He dosen't talk in that sexy accent...dammit) BUT anywho Baden has the demon of Destruction inside him, along with the bands around his arms that forces him to do everything Hades does, earning him the title "Hades Bitch" (in which I don't like because he's not a bitch). First thing Hades tasks him with-get his coin. So he flashes to a church, where a wedding was taken place between Katarina Joelle and an asshole that I will not name (okay, it's Alekander...dammit).

A huge fight ensuses, and Baden demands that Alekander gives him the coin. Aleksander's stupid-ass said no, so Baden decided to take Katarina as his bride. Soon the two fall in love, and honestly it's so cute that she was secretly training him like one of her dogs and saying that she failed before she took her dogs-

SPEAKING OF DOGS...

Katarina adopted two dogs named Biscuit and Gravy-THAT ARE HELLHOUNDS MIND YOU, and now I want some hellhounds...*Waluigi's Wah insert here*-and they bit her, and she is now part of the Hellhound pack and also calls Baden and Distruction Baduction (which is a cute name).

BUT BY GOLLY THE SEX SCENES IN THIS BOOK. Normally I don't read books for the steamy sex scenes-sure I get a party in my pants but then it fades. THIS BOOK'S SCENES THOUGH...OH SWEET MERCIFUL BABY JESUS I CAN'T. The thirst I can't even....

But in the end, they live happily ever after..while another girl marries a goat and Cameo starts looking for Lazarus. Okay then...

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Book Review: Dark Blood, A Carpathian Novel by Christine Feehan

Dark Blood by Christine Feehan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So...book three of THIS BOOK BROKE ME AS WELL...

This was a really good book-it honestly surprised me, mostly because of the spells they used (I got jealous because I can't write spells as well as Christine can) and how Zev had Branislava choose to be with him, and had a fear of caging her if they mated (which they did). That was honestly the thing that made me give this book more stars.

The banter between him, Dimitri, and Fen was funny, including their lifemates were pretty funny. But when you add demons and hellhounds...well, now you got me intrigued. *Insert Jason Momoa chair gif here* But the thing that broke me was Branislava and Tatijana's horrible past, locked up as dragons behind ice and saw everything their father and his twins brothers done and knew every spell they did and I almost cried and felt sorry for them because they saw every horrible thing their father had ever done, and then I got proud when Branka got stronger each time she unraveled his dark magic, his shadow, before he actually did anything bad.

And the scene that made me cry was the couples dancing in the forest clearing..THAT BROKE ME (the final fight broke me too). I mean, the couples and the children, they were so cute dancing around, that small moment before all hell broke loose (and I mean, all hell broke loose).

But the ending, when those three High Mages summoned Hemming, Zev's grandfather...OW MY HEART. That hurt so much. And he was wrapped in silver chains? Owwwie ow ow ow. And he didn't have long, so Branka took off the chains and he talked till he died...but ow that hurt so much. I think now when senior characters die, it makes me think of my grandmother that passed away. I mean, she's been gone for a couple year now, but it still hurts though...

Other than that, I loved it and the feels and PEOPLE BREAKING ME but I'm okay now..till the next book that may or may not break me.

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Book Review: City of Glass, a Shadowhunter Novel by Cassandra Clare

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ah yes, book three of the Mortal Instruments.......

THIS BOOK BROKE ME AS WELL.

Like it shouldn't, but the more I read this book, THIS BOOK BROKE ME AND MY SON JACE. Why don't we name this book How Many Rages Can Brittany and Jace Go Through Before They Are Officially Broken?. Because I raged so much at this book, and it broke me to the core-I was SHOOKETH. SHOOKETH I TELL YA, SHOOKETH TO THE CORES. It didn't do well for my rage because I kept raging each time something bad happens. Like for example, Valentine's stupid-ass kept an angel in the Wayland manor, and it showed both Clary and Jace what happened while he was chained up and used by Valentine for his damned experiments, then Simon being locked up by the Gard when the new Inquisitor, Inquisitor Aldertree, not believing him when he explained how he was turned into a vampire (turned into a rat thanks to one of the drinks at Magnus's party), then on the boat drank Jace's blood to be a Daywalker.

But while he was in prison, Raphael visited him in prison using a projection to talk to him, and then the thing that broke me number one: SIMON WAS TALKING TO HODGE, WHO WAS IN THE NEXT CELL OMG. Then when he escaped he was killed by Sebastian Verlac, who I was going to adopt, but I changed my mind when me and Jace found out that his name was truly Jonathan Morgenstern-aka Sebastian Morgenstern. So Jace isn't truly a Morgenstern or a half-demon, he's just Jace Wayland (which silently killed him, by the way)

And the announcement Clary made in front of the Clave about what Valentine was planning and showed them the rune was brave-and also JOCELYN WOKE UP AWWEEE YISS.

Also, MY SHIP KISSED.

THAT'S RIGHT. MALEC KISSED IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AND I CLAPPED BECAUSE DAMMIT, MAGNUS AND ALEC DESERVES EVERYTHING FOR THEM.

But the battle was honestly stupid, because one, the demons was just following Valentine's orders, and secondly the *iconic* move that Isabelle did when she cut off Sebastian's hand off-SO ICONIC. I felt sorry for Clary when her own father kidnapped her and put a slient rune on her and some magical chains that kept her there as she watched him summon the angel Raziel and watch him kill him, then wished for Jace to come back after she learned that she and Jace are not brother and sister.

And the story Jocelyn told Clary about her relationship with Valentine, what happened to her and Sebastian/Jonathan and then Jace's real family...like ow. Seriously. just ow.

And then the ending with Jace's letter. I sobbed. Because he wrote to her, saying that he's going after Sebastian, and wanted to tell her that he loved her before he did.

And also, before I forget, R.I.P. Max Lightwood. Fuck you, Sebastian Morgenstern.

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Book Review: City of Ashes, A Shadowhunters Novel by Cassandra Clare

Oh gosh hi guys! I haven't been on here for a while-school (or college) had taken up my life last year since I started, and I couldn't get a time to sit down and write out a full-fledged book review till now...in the three weeks that we've been in 2019...but since I'm done with two books of the Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes.


City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book two of the Mortal Instruments...what can I say about it? All except THIS BOOK BROKE ME. Most books don't break me often, but after re-reading City of Bones and moving on to this book, it broke the hell out of me. For one, I'm glad that Jocelyn's out of Valentine's grasp and into a hospital, but still under a sleeping spell, Clary and Jace are brother and sister, but they don't love each other that way (which, to me, was disgusting as hell when they found out that they were siblings. Like you don't kiss your siblings like that) and then Simon...my sweet baby boy...he's slowly turning into vampire, and he and Clary are dating, but like an idiot (I'm sorry to all the Clary fans) she keeps going to Jace.

Also, the Inquisitor was scary as hell when the second Mortal Instruments were stolen-by Valentine himself, who went to the Silent City to get it, even visiting Jace when he was thrown in there. That scene made me think that he wanted to tell him something (and I think he did, I don't remember) and then Clary, Alec and Isabelle came to the Silent City when they got a warning signal to go check it out, and all of the Silent Brothers were dead, and Jace was still in his cell, telling them what happened.

Clary had a bright idea and took her stele and created a new rune that came from her mind, wanting to free Jace. And it did, burning the metal down so he could get out. But once they went outside, the Inquisitor and Maryse, the Lightwoods' mother, was there, and they took Jace away, I think they ignored Clary, and the Inquisitor put Jace in another box, thinking that she could trade him for the Mortal Instruments...

But can we take a little break and talk about Maia Roberts? I already love her already, even though her stupid-ass boyfriend turned her into a werewolf. She has the scars on her neck and she was a good friend to Simon, even though he turned into a vampire and wanted to kill him at first. But then when the both of them got captured by Valentine and the fear demon, that hurt me so damn much-mostly because I was worried about them and hoped that they could get saved.

Then Valentine killed my son..and I wanted to rage SO BAD at him. Like why must you kill Simon though? He's a innocent boy-vampire-and you just killed him. But thank god that in the end, Clary blew up the ship, Simon drank Jace's blood and started walking in the sun now, and also my ship, Malec, had their date.

Oh and also Magnus had to watch Jace for a while. It was hilarious. Makes me want to stay over Magnus's place to read and party. I stan a Magnus Bane, okay??

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