Book Review: Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armsrong

Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armstrong
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I haven't read an anthology in so long that when I picked this book up I actually had a good time reading it. So I'm going to break this anthology up by the stories so I can fully review this book.

1) Life After Theft (Hope x Karl) – This one I read through quickly. Someone set up Karl, a werewolf and a thief, about stealing something when he wanted to retire and work part time for his children. So he and his wife investigates who set him up while also stealing a very priceless grimiore. I loved this one and their kid as well.

2) Forbidden (Elena x Clay) – Morgan Walsh comes from Alaska to see if he wants to join The Pack, but then is accused of killing someone. Elena and Clay comes down from Stonehaven to investigate and to clear Morgan's name. Honestly I loved this one as well, mostly because of Elena and Clay from Bitten.

3) Angelic (Eve x Kristoff) – Have no memory of what happened in this one. It was alright to me, nothing to run home to tell mama about.

4) Zen and the Art of Vampirism (Zoe) – Basically Zoe just scared off some potential new vamps in town.

5) The Ungrateful Dead (Jamie) – A dead guy wanted Jamie to investigate his and his cousin's murder, turns out the guys were zombies and she and Savannah gives them to someone named Molly.

6) Counterfeit Magic (Paige x Lucas) – Underground fight club for supernatural but one of the brothers is getting blackmailed. A demon tricks Paige to make her think that Lucas is cheating on her, but it turns out it was someone that was part of the Cabal that wants to take Lucas's place, but that didn't work at all.

So all in all, this is a really good anthology but some I just didn't care to remember, which is a shame really.

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Up from the Grave, A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost

Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy crap this book...things happened in this book that makes me go wow each time...even though it was terrible that the ass that did what he did died, the ending was kinda sweet and adorable and I loved it.

Everything was hunky-dory in Cat and Bones land. It was cooler than the other side of the pillow. But sadly, everything changed that when her uncle Don tried to talk to Cat about Madigan, but he would't reveal the secret. So they went to visit Tyler the Medium again to contact Don and get him to spill his secret on Madigan. Don didn't talk, so they decided to go to New Orleans to visit the voodoo queen herself, Marie Laveau. Marie summoned Don and held him down with the Remmants, and finally Don told him what Madigan was planning to do: create a perfect weapon-of vampire and ghoul, just like Cat. That's why he wanted Cat so much-to possibly force her to breed a child that was just like her or use her blood. So she came up with a plan to stop Madigan for even doing that, along with saving her

But..but it didn't mention the fact that BONES FAKED HIS DEATH LIKE A MOFO and then Cat getting caught and being brought in like a test subject, but it did. It hurt so much to read what they did to her, but I’m glad that she escaped with Tate and Juan and Cooper...but also with Madigan (which I hated most of all) but at least he turned into a stupid-ass ghoul and didn’t remember much, just bits and pieces of his small life before he killed himself...

But the kicker was when they found out that Cat-and Tate-had a daughter. A DAUGHTER, mind you, named Katie. And Katie dosen’t know how to communicate properly, and also they found the backer. And the backer for this sick and twisted experiment was a demon named Trove, who wanted to ignite the war between vampires and ghouls, starting with the death of Katie.

That wasn’t about to happen, so Cat, Bones, and Trove got into a fight, and Bones drank some of Trove’s blood, which got him high as a kite and Cat killed him with the demon bone knife. Then they excuted (by they I mean the Leauge Guardians, Mencheres, Marie and a couple others) killed Katie, but instead they killed Denise. I thought that we’ll never see Denise again before she came back to life.

So in the end, Cat, Bones, and Katie left the states and that was the end of the book...which killed me because now I’m goin’ “what am I gonna read now?” (even though when you read this, I’m already reading something else).

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One Grave at a Time: A Night Huntress novel by Jeaniene Frost

One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book almost broke me...almost broke me. But it also excited me, because it's about a very old ghost who wrote the Malleus Maleficarium (not the title of a Supernatural episode) a long time ago, and Cat and her husband, Bones, have to stop a ghost before it can do harm to any other woman when Halloween, or Samhain, comes around.

Cat and Bones also have to deal with Madigan, a man with so many secrets that even Cat's dead uncle Don couldn't get close to him. And each time they tried to get close to Heinrich Kramer, he always disappears. He also went after three women-Francine, Sarah, and Lisa-though it turned out the Sarah worked for Kramer and tried to kill Helsing, but that didn't work at all once they found out that Kramer was after Cat now.

They tried to trap him twice, but Madigan interrupted once and they got him again with tasers the second time so now Kramer is bye bye and everything is good...for now.

It was good to meet Spade, Diana and Ian, though I found Ian funny and a bit of a prick and I'm glad I met them and I love Cat and Bones together they are so good together.

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ken Kaneki was once a human college student until he went on his date with Riza, a ghoul. Now that he's a hybrid-part human, part ghoul, and is working at Anteiku now, and learning how to be a ghoul that's living in Tokyo by friendly ghouls. He's scared of Touka (get to that later), got his cool mask by Uta (which freaks him out) and is learning how to eat dead people and not humans.

But the one storyline that freaked me out and nearly made me cry was the mother/daughter one, and how the mother died. It was brutal, honestly, and I was close to crying. But it was cute that Kaneki taught the daughter how to read and new words that she wrote down.

Since my brain is about to go poop, this was a really good book and I wanna read more of the series before I read Tokyo Ghoul: re.

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Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Imagine yourself getting on a train, a beautiful train by the way, and while you're on your way to wherever you're going, a murder happens. Now the thing is: you don't know who did it. Who was the one who killed this man who was involved in a murder case a long time ago? Why was he stabbed 12 times?

That is was Hercule Poirot was faced with when M. Rachett (first of all, can we talk about the name? Rachett...like it was funny to me because it sounded like rachet) is found dead in his compartment, and was stabbed 12 times. Each passenger-The Wagon Lit Conductor, Secretary, Valet, American Lady, Swedish Lady, Russian Princess, Count and Countess Andrenyi, Colonel Arbuthnot, Mr. Hardman, the Italian, Miss Debenham, and the German Lady's Maid.

Of course, the Wagon Lit Conductor, Secretary and the Valet was off the suspect list. Mr. Hardman was off it too-he was part of a Private Investigation group. So that left the American and Swedish Ladies, the Russian Princess, Count and Countess Andrenyi, Colonel Arbuthnot, the Italian, Miss Debenham, and the German Lady's Maid...

Which one of them did it?

Well this is the part that shook me: ALL OF THEM DID IT.

It was planned out and I was honestly pointing fingers at the Russian Princess, thinking she was the one who did it, then Miss Debenham which I thought was a total liar all together, but when Poirot came up with that whole conclusion that everyone did it, I was shooketh-TOTALLY SHOOKETH. But I loved this book and all the twist and turns and my wild theories...I love them.

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