Book Review: Hooky volume 3 by Miriam Bonastre Tur

Hooky Volume 3 by Míriam Bonastre Tur
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this whole book in a DAY and my heart was both full of bursting and also in pain. Seeing Dani as the Queen of Witches was heartbreaking to read. It was also heartbreaking when she thought that Dorian was dead and she cursed herself to do so. But the only thing I really liked about this book was that it showed that friends will fight for you, even though it pains them to see you deep in the darkness. But the way they did it was so funny that I couldn't help but laugh and gasp as I read on, and got really worried that they weren't going to free Dani from the darkness.

I was glad that they found Dorian sleeping for three years, but he looked like a skeleton after all this time he was sleeping, and he was being protected by a dragon. It was funny to see him trying to find out how long he was out, and when he did find out, he wanted to go and save his sister. They tried everything to get Dani back to normal, but it was getting hard. The friends-Nico, Damien, Will, and Monica, along with others (because I can't remember who else was there) went to go and find them and try to figure out how to snap Dani out of it, and when all it took was Monica speech about wanting everyone, human and witch, together, and Dorian changing the color of the hats to many colors, Dani broke free of her own curse, and after that she started to get better.

The relationship between Monica and Will wasn't gonna work. Even though they got married like their parents wanted, it turns out that Monica was in love with Dorian, and it also turns out that Will was in love with Damien, but he held it in all this time and didn't know if he would return his feelings. Even though he did, it was funny each time Damien blushed at the kiss and the moves Will put on him, but I loved it nonetheless.

My favorite part about this book was the ending and how all the characters, including the villains, got some kind of ending. For the characters, they got happy endings, like Monica and Dorian dating while Dorian is a professor at a magic school. Dani wanted to do something with her life, so she became Monica's messenger so she could spread Monica's word about humans and witches working and living together. Nico became a fortune teller, but he joined Dani on her adventure and it was so cute. As for Damien, he stayed at the castle with Monica and his boyfriend, Will, and they lived happily ever after, and I really loved that so much.

Just like the other book, I'm kinda sad that this series is over, but I'm glad that I read it and had so much fun reading it :)

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Book Reviews: Hooky Volume 2, Heartless, The Vanderbeeks on the Road & We Hunt the Flame

Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The art style was perfect and my heart kind of broke in the end. Also I still love Princess Monica and I'm now worried about Daimen and Dani. That means TIME TO READ BOOK THREE

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Heartless by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Heartless by Marissa Meyer felt like you're looking inside the mind of a famous literary character and how she turned completely evil. I liked reading about the humble beginnings of Catherine Pinkerton and how she wanted to open her bakery, because she could make the best pastries in Hearts. But thanks to her dear mother, who thinks that she shouldn't be doing that, is pressuring her to fall in love with the King of Hearts, marry him, and live happily ever after.

Yeah, right.

During the night of the King's Ball, she meets a man named Jest, and the two of them have some really cool adventures-going to Hatta's shop to have a real tea party, going out and seeing the real Hearts at night, I guess, and also trying to figure out how to keep their relationship a secret. When the Jabbawocky starts to attack, everyone in Hearts is scared and afraid and doesn't know what to do. So Catherine, along with Jest and her maid Mary Ann, figure out where the Jabbawocky is coming from and why it's attacking people.

Who would've thought that the attacks and the Jabberwocky is actually Sir Peter Peter's wife? I wasn't even expecting that outcome, but when it did, I was shocked, and was worried when Catherine finally got to fight the Jabberwock, but once it died and Jest was killed (QUITE VIOLENTLY, BY THE WAY) and that they wanted her heart because she was supposed to be the Queen of Hearts...well....that changed up Catherine's whole world completely.

Seeing her turn into the villian we know and love was very well-written and I loved every bit of it. Seeing the three sisters and how each of the characters turned out at the end was very good, though painful, and this might be my first book I like of a Alice in Wonderland retelling.

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The Vanderbeekers on the Road by Karina Yan Glaser
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the second Vanderbeekers book that I've read, and once again, I loved it. In this book, the Vanderbeekers are on the road to surprise Papa about the road trip his grandfather (or father, I think?) wanted to take with him before he passed. But like any Vanderbeeker book, this does come with funny hijinks and worry about a family splitting apart.

Laney tried to keep Jessie and Orlando from going to Berkley by doing everything she could possible to make them miss their interviews, and she did make Orlando miss his, but instead, with that turnaround, Jessie used her interview to talk about Orlando and he go it, and now Jessie isn't going to Berkley. Isa and the others were wondering what was going on, and why Jessie and Orlando were being secretive, all over their phones and whatnot. Even one time Oliver and Laney broke into their phones and wrote them a fake email changing the times so they wouldn't go to their interviews.

At the same time, everyone is stuck in this van, trying to go and see their Papa and also deliver two cats to their Auntie, who was speaking at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I believe, and for Mr. B to go up to Auntie Penny (I think that's her name) and they also stayed at a Dude Ranch when the van broke down. I really liked the pictures of the many states they went through--I thought that they were a really nice touch, and the miles the family went though to get to Monterey Bay was also fun as well.

I am planning on reading the rest of this series, because it is a fun time and I love it so much :)

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We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I AM UNWELL.

That ending. What-how-EXCUSE ME?!

So first off, before I go off a weird tangent on why this book surprised me, this is my second time reading Hafsah Faizal's books, and We Hunt the Flame might have to be the second book of hers that I like. This book felt like a weird combination of Assassin's Creed and Skyrim, with the names I peeped (Altair and Haytham) and how this book felt like a very long episode or movie of a really good fantasy show, and I really didn't want it to end.

My favorite characters would have to be Zafira, Nasair, and Altair, shockingly. I do like the other characters, like Yasmine, Lana and Deen, and the villain of the month goes to the Lion of the Night, because SHEESH brother. SHEESH. And that reveal about the Sliver Witch and Nasir and the Lion of the Night and Altair. Like, I NEED to know more, because ma'am, you can't just drop that and then end the book! You just...you just can't!

The atmosphere and the danger of it all was set up really nicely, and the fact that I wasn't even expect half of the things that happened in the book was so good that I almost screamed. I'm so glad that I got book two so I can read it and find out what happened next, because I GOTS TA KNOW, DARN IT.

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3 Book Reviews, 1 Post: A Venom Dark and Sweet, Hooky, and My Lady Jane

A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I. Lin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Once again, this had The Apothecary Diaries vibes, but with a LOT of those C-Drama vibes, and it was a really good ending to the duology. I enjoyed the duel POVs with Kang and Ning, and how during Kang's POV, he was struggling with the position of being the Crown Prince, and all he wanted was to be his dad's son and help him rule the country. But thanks to someone leaving messages in a very delicious cake, there is something wrong in the court. Kang tries to find out what's going on, but he can't until he is sent to get an orb that Chancellor Zhang wanted...or so he thought.

Instead, the one who wanted the artifact was none other than the serpent Gongyu himself, who was possessing his father. When it was revealed that it was Gongyu who wanted all of this, Kang was shocked and also knew that everything that happened to Ning was a lie, because he was there when everything went down in the first book.

While all of this is happening, Ning and her sister, Shu, travel with Princess Zhen and her bodyguard/lover, Runyi, along with Astronomer Wu, to stop the poisoning and to stop Gongyu, but after the events of the first book, when Ning saved her sister from the serpent's bite, only to get bitten by the serpent herself, Ning goes around and tries to help people affected by the poison tea bricks and the serpent. One she didn't save, another she did, and when she reunited with Kang, she hated him in the beginning, but then as she works with him to get what the both of them needed and to stop Gongyu from devouring a thousand souls so he can come back to life.

Even though she didn't have her magic, I'm glad that Ning tried her best with what she got, which was fine with what she borrowed, which was something I really liked. I truly enjoyed this book and I'm glad I read it, can't wait to read what else Judy L. Lin writes.

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Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG THIS BOOK WAS SO CUTE.

I really enjoyed the artwork, the colors, and the characters. All of them spoke to me in ways I'd never thought I would like, but I loved every bit of it.

Hooky was really funny and also very cozy. My favorite character in this whole comic was Princess Monica. She knew what she wanted, and even though she was scared and then got brave, she was the best character ever, and I wanted to hang out with her. My second favorite character was Dani, who was very protective of her brother, and she also tried something new, which I enjoyed and also I liked her brother, Dorian.

This comic cracked me up, made me smile when the siblings did something, and this also made me glad that the second one is coming soon because I truly enjoyed where the story was going, and it made me want to pick up book two right now. I do have book three, but I wanna wait for book two to see how all of this picks up and ends.

I really enjoyed this comic, might be one of my new favorite comics that I've ever read in my life, and I need to read more.

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My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My Lady Jane was a fascinating and quick read about Queen Jane Grey, who was queen for nine days. But this book's twist is that her husband, Gifford (call him G), can turn into a horse. That's right, a horse. And Jane? She can turn into a ferret, which I did crack up when I read it. I liked how they kept Edward Tudor in the story turned him into a kestrel, and gave him his happy ending, because yes, dear reader, I was worried that they weren't going to give him that happy ending, but when they did, I was so glad, because now he can live out his best life with Grace and also his dog, Pet, who is with Elizabeth I (who, it turns out, is a cat. That we don't see.)

I liked how Jane was such a bookworm and how she put those book facts to the test, she was slowly but surely falling in love with G, who was in love with her, but each time they had time to be alone or to talk about anything, he'd turn into a horse and have to be a horse until nightfall. The escape from the castle when Mary, Bess and Edward's sister, marched her army and took over the castle and usurped the throne from Queen Jane, she refused to denounce her husband and was locked up in the Tower of London, when she was trying to think about escape when she turned into a ferret and thanks to G and Peter Barrister, the both of them escaped and went to find help, so they can find Edward and take the throne back from Mary.

My favorite thing that the Lady Janies does with these books is make them funny, yes, but also they incorporate history into these books and make it really fun, exciting, and also, make history fun. I learn so many things about the people they're writing about, and it makes me want to learn more about the real people they are writing about, because it was so much fun reading this book. I also like the part when it turns out that Mary was a grey mule and she stayed liked that in the end. I also like that Edward gave up his throne and gave it to Bess, whom it turns out was a cat, but she didn't really show it.

I did love all of the characters, but I loved the grandmother. She cracked me up the most and reminded me more of my grandmother, and it made me miss her. I've read My Plain Jane from these ladies, and I cannot wait to read more of this series from them.

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