Book Review: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

THIS BOOK, THO. THE ENDING...I CAN'T.

This is a retelling of Cinderella, but in the future and I honestly enjoyed it. From the beginning to the end I loved every single moment of it-when she found out she was a Lunar, then when she went to the ball to face Queen Levana....I honestly enjoying it one hundred percent.

My Favorite Characters: Cinder, Prince Kai, Peony (R.I.P), Iko, Dr. Earlnd

Least Favorite Characters: Queen Levana-okay, trick. I DON'T LIKE YOU. You make me so mad, and after reading what you did to your own neice, then you're trying to get Kai to like you...what's worse, you got mad over a bloody mirror and you wanted to kill the servant for that? Really, bro? Really? And what's BLOODY WORSE, you wanted to get rid of Cinder and thought she was lying. BUT SHE SAW RIGHT THROUGH THE GLAMOUR, YOU UGLY WOMAN.

Adri and Pearl-of course I'm going to hate them-they're the wicked stepmother and stepsister. But at least Peony loved her sister instead of being just like your mama. I HATE THE BOTH OF YOU-but not as much as I hate Queen Levana.

Now I honestly can't wait to read Scarlet.

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Book Review: Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3) by Lisa Kleypas

Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

HOLY CRAP. THIS BOOK THO. This book....had me crying and gasping till the end. And....I am in love with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent....DANG NABBIT. I swore it wasn't supposed to happen, but as the book progressed and that he started to change...I fell for him. Badly. Dang it.

BUT before we can get into many reasons why I like Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, let's get into the book review.

The book began with Evie coming to him with a proposition: marry her. Sebastian looked at her like she was crazy at first, but then he decided to do it. But there is a second proposition: they can't make love after the wedding night. At first, he didn't like the idea, but the more he hung around her, even when he took over her father's club, he slowly but surely fell in love with her. After the (tiring) wedding they had at Gretna Green and they made love the day after, they went back to England, Evie wanted to go see her father, who was on his deathbed, at a club named Jenners. Sebastian agreed, and while Evie took care of her father till he passed, she did see her family members again-well, her uncle Peregrine, who pretended to be her friend Annabelle Hunt, thanks to the stupid Joss Bullard, and Sebastian saved her.

The one scene that had me crying all night was when Sebastian was telling Evie about her father's condition, and she didn't believe him one bit, and he yelled at her while moving his hands. Evie thought he was gonna hit her and he noticed....and he swore to her, ya'll-swore to her that he'll never lay a hand on her. Then he asked about who hit her in the past. Evie told him that it was her family that used to hit her, and automatically he said he'll tear him from limb from limb. I have never cried that night when I read that part-and the kiss after it tho....

Then my darling St. Vincent got shot (got dammit) and he was in bed, close to dying, but Marcus (yay!) and Cam Rohan saved him by using four o'clock plant and other things they used I can't remember, and his fever broke. And after that, he became a horrible little patient who rang that little sliver bell for everything (I would've broken it), but it did make Evie break their little bet-for three months he couldn't make love to her, but he can kiss her whenever and where ever he wanted.

At the end, Joss Bullard came back and tried to kill Evie, but Cam shot him dead when he was SUPPOSED to be dead, but in the end, Sebastian and Evie got together, and he became my bae....but now in a good way.

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Book Review: It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2) by Lisa Kleypas

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book didn't take me long-it was a quick read for me (which is oddly weird) but I digress, let's get one to the review....

Like the first novel, I didn't ship Lillian and Marcus, Lord Westcliff. I really didn't-Lillian's american, stubborn, and fiery-won't let a man control her one bit. And Marcus is a calm gentleman who's the same a little bit-stubborn, full of pride, and don't smile at all because of his father making sure he didn't smile or care for anyone...until he met Lillian.

At first, Lillian didn't like him one bit (if you read the first book, you know why) but then as they got closer (and the aphrodisiac she got from the aproctoary...which I believe it's perfume...or the Regency Era's version of Chanel No. 5), even though she didn't listen to him when she took that one jump on the Jumping course that could've broken her neck, and he forbade her to ride any horses while she was there at his home, then the little lessons by Marcus's mother, the Countess of Westcliff, whom I was reminded of by a certain Dowager Countess of a certain show called Downton Abbey...

But after Lillian got drunk in Marcus's library, they made love and Marcus asked her to marry her. She refused at first, but then as she thought about it...she loved him more than ever, and even though Lord St. Vincent was a good friend to her, she wanted to marry him first, just to make Marcus jealous, but then she didn't want to marry Lord St. Vincent at all.

When Marcus told his mother that he was going to marry Lillian, all hell broke loose. The Countess devised a little plan that made Lillian get kidnapped-by Lord St. Vincent, then lie that Lillian told her that she and St. Vincent were eloping. Marcus didn't believe her one damned bit once he got the truth out of her, and raced to the Inn where Lord St. Vincent had her, and beat his sorry ass all over the tavern (after Simon Hunt let him do it before he was killed.)

But in the end, Marcus and Lillian got married at Gertna Green, and Lillian was now the Countess of Westcliff....and then Evie visited the Lord St. Vincent just to see him....to make a deal?!

Say wha??

But that will come in another book review another time....

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Book Review: Killer, a Pretty Little Liars novel by Sara Shepard

Killer by Sara Shepard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book had some twists and turns, and I enjoyed every single last one of them. This time around, I thought I break it down by character....

Spencer: Spencer really hates it at home-her parents are acting like she's a ghost and punishing her in simple ways-taking away her car and taking it back to the dealer, blaming her for the KILLER and LIAR graffiti on the old barn and windmill, and doting on her sister, Melissa. So listening to Andrew, she signed up on a website that links people up to their real parents, and she goes to New York to meet up with a woman named Olivia. Spencer felt close to her, hating her family for good and wanted to go to New York to live with her. So what does Stupid Spencer do? Stupid Spencer called a retailer to look at a "fake" apartment, then Olivia never existed when she got to NYC later, and what's worse....Spencer's college fund account was wiped out completely.

Hanna: Hanna is forced to hang out with her step-sister, Kate, and her two friends...until she battles her for Mike, Aria's brother. Hanna and Mike goes on a couple dates, and she was the main one who didn't get one text from A, while the rest of the girls did. She did get in the car with Wilden (if you watch the show, YOU KNOW WHO HE IS) and he scared her by driving fast like Speedy Gonzalez, and it reminded her of the accident she got into with her now dead friend Mona. At the end of the novel, Hanna agrees to go to prom with Mike, while finding out his lacrosse player friends were making a bet between the two sisters. Uh...EW, brah. Also, Hanna had a piece of her Time Capsule flag and tried to match her design like Ali did.

Emily: Emily is in a perfect relationship with her new boyfriend, Isaac, and they're having sex (well, they had it twice), and surprise, surprise, Isaac's mama don't like her. She even warned her about not stepping back in the house anymore-with a side eye-at Applebee's. Then they got into a mini-fight when Emily told Isaac what his mama said, including the photo of her head cut off. She did have an encounter with Jason DiLaurentis, Ali's brother, but he just yelled at her about a little dent in his car. Okay then...at the Radley party (remember Radley? Yeah it turned into a hotel now), she found a visitor's book, which had Jason's name all over till the day he left for college. She was confused and wondered why he came to Radley...also...Maya was there...which was weird.

Aria: Aria. Aria, Aria, Aria. First you started talking and hanging out with Jason, then goes to his apartment when he yelled at you to get out, then you move with your dad and his pregnant girlfriend/mistress. And what's worse...you see Jenna, and automatically, you think she's A. How can a blind girl text those things to the girls? And you also have Ali's Time Capsule flag all this time, scared to even give it back to her when they became friends. So when she was about to head back to Spencer's barn, she saw someone setting it on fire and held them....and the girls gasped when they found out...that it was Ali.

DUN DUN DUN.

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Book Review: Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) by Lisa Kleypas

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So...this book made me have feels. Feels I didn't expect while reading this book.

To start off this review, I honestly didn't ship Annabelle and Simon. The way she kept rejecting him from his offers of dancing, to trying to get Lord Kendall, and how the sass was very real every time they're together, I kept saying up and down, "I do not ship, I do not ship, I do not ship....." But then as I read on....I WENT DOWN WITH THIS SHIP.

I went down with this ship the moment Annabelle felt sick and Simon told her (after a round of Rounders-in-Knickers with the other Wallflowers) that she had an Adders bite from a snake (well, he told her once he took off her shoes and her stockings from the hem of her dress and she wanted to kill him, but she was too weak to do it) from her walk with Lord Kendall and the others (Simon was there too...darn it). She was out of action for a while, in which Simon kept her company by teaching her how to play chess (no wonder why Ciel Phantomhive likes that game), and talked about trains with her-which was really, really cute! Then Lord Hodgeham came up to bother Annabelle, saying that he wanted her (in a really, DISGUSTING way, mind you) and almost had her...but Simon saved the day (awe!)

But as the book went on, I was happy when they finally got married (yay!) and then it went downwards because of the way people was talking about them-like "oh, they only got an invite to this party because of Lord Westcliff" and "I can't believe she married down." I went 'Bruh, really?' but then again, this was back in the day, not in this time period because if I was Annabelle, I would've gone Nene Leakes on them, but in all honesty I would've ignored them completely (in which she did).

This book had me going through so many feels from one scene to the next, and I cannot wait to read this book.

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Book Review: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

HOLY CRAP this book though!!!! I've read this book till the end and right now...I CAN'T with this book. Sydney Sage wake up one night by her father, scared that she was going to go to a re-education place because of what happened in the last book of the Vampire Academy series (have not read that one yet-it's on the list!!!), but instead she was re-inked to go back to school on a mission to watch over and protect Jill Dragomir, Lissa Dragomir's sister. Along with Eddie Castile and somehow Adrian, she goes to Amberwood Prep.

Along with the normal high school things-being picked on by the most popular girl at school (and get their revenge on her slowly, because part one was funny-Jill freezing Laurel's shower water), dealing with boys-but then there was a thing with the tattoos from a place called Nevermore, with Sydney getting interested to the point that she and Adrian broke in the place and finding out about what was in the tattoos-inluding the vampire blood.

Going back to the tattoo shop, the tattoo guy thought that Sydney was the dealer who provided the vampire blood-and it turned out that it was none other than Keith Darnell (I really didn't like him at all) and she had to get Adrian to help her bust him. And it worked-until Chapter 24, when Lee pulled out a knife on Sydney and it turned out....

DUN DUN DUN....

Lee was the one who killed those girls, and he was the one who was a Strigoi before he was turned back by a spirit user and wanted to "awake" himself again. So he tried to take Syndey's blood...nope that didn't work at all because something was wrong with her blood-and then he took Adrian's blood (in which I wanted to chuck this book TO THE WALL, FOLKS. TO THE BLOODY WALL.) but that didn't work neither.

So Lee called his Strigoi friends and literally begged them to turn him again...but he didn't, and he died. Then Eddie and Jill came (all of this went down after the fashion show and the blow-up between Adrian and Sydney) and Eddie destroyed the Strigoi (with a little bit of Jill's help) and in the end everything was fine-Adrian got the apartment he wanted, Keith went away, Sydney is back in school watching Jill, and everything is cool....before the end of the book, when Sonya Karp came in the room and Angelina came into the room as well (she's gonna be Sydney's new roommate)...DIMITRI BELIKOV COMES IN THE ROOM.

HOLY CRAP, PEOPLE. HOLY CRAP.

But I loved this book a lot, and I can't wait to read the second book.

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Book Review: Entwined by Heather Dixon

Entwined by Heather Dixon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is a beautiful retelling of the story The Twelve Dancing Princesses, a story I heard of, but never read before. In the beginning of the book, the Mother dies while giving birth to the 12th princess, Lily, and the girls has been into morning, but then they found a magical portal, where it lead to a ballroom...with a very handsome Keeper.

The girls go to that place every single night, keeping it away from their father the King, who locks them away in a room so they can morn. The girls hate it so much that they honestly loved going to their speical place to dance. But then one day, they realized that a watch was missing. So the oldest one, Azelea, goes back to ask the Keeper if he seen it...and he does...in fact, he kept it. Azelea got mad and swore that she and her sisters will never return. But there was something...how can I put it...odd...he said something about the girls not coming back he'll do something that rubbed me the wrong way.

Outside the magical portal, gentlemen left and right are trying to win some of the girls' hands, but Bramble don't care at all about marriage, Clover's in love with the Prime Minister, and Azelea fell for Mr. Brandford-slowly, though.

Close to the end (the part that ticked me off to no end), the Keeper came out of the magical portal and wanted to kill the King..and he didn't (ha ha) and trapped the girls in magical mirrors. The King and Azelea broke the mirrors and freed the girls and fought the Keeper, who used his magic to be Azelea, But that didn't work and the Keeper went away, never to be seen again.

But I liked the ending of the book, the girls got their happy ending and are building the relationship back with their father the King.

This book had some twists and turns, including the promise Azelea made on her Mother's deathbed, promising that she'll watch over the girls and the King, which was awesome. And the dances in the book were beuatiful-made me cry in the inside.

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