Book Review: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn

Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book....I honestly have no words for it. I enjoyed reading it a lot and I almost cried at a couple parts of the book. And I disliked the dowager very very much. I know she wants the best for Cavendish, but good bloody lord woman, don't hark and yell every time you don't get your way-this ain't Burger King!!! But all in all I enjoyed this book very much and I would read it again.

What I liked about the book: the characters and the love growing between Cavendish and Amelia. They are engaged to be married and they didn't know not one dang thing about each other, so they start to spend time with each other by pouring over maps and actually talking about things they like. They even went to a pub so Thomas can get a Gladdish Baddish to calm his hangover. Then the trip to Ireland when Cavendish found out he wasn't the Duke of Wyndham anymore once he found out his long lost cousin was the true Duke of Wyndham and married her friend Grace. And the friendship blossoming between Amelia and Grace was cute too.

What I disliked about the book: The dowager and when Cavendish kissed Grace. I was like, bruh really? You kissed her when you're engaged? And then when he asked her to marry him! But I'm glad Grace said no to Cavendish and said yes to Jack at the end. I also didn't like Amelia's daddy neither because he wanted her to marry whoever the Duke of Wyndham was so she can be a duchess-which to me was really, really stupid.

Favorite Characters: Amelia Willoughby, Thomas Cavendish, Grace Eversleigh and Jack Cavendish-Audley.

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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The last book of the Harry Potter series.....wow. I have so many words for it-awesome, amazing, feels all around-everything. Now if you already read the books and seen the movies (part one and two), then you know how awesome and amazing it was. From Bill and Fleur's wedding, to the Battle of Hogwarts, to the part Molly Weasley called Bellatrix Lestrange a bitch, and everything, this book had some twist and turns to the point that my heart broke into tiny pieces when I read the epilogue when they're all grown up and have kids going to Hogwarts-I honestly wanted to cry real hard because the people I grew up with had kids and they're going to Hogwarts too....

But the ending, of how Harry just left himself get killed by Voldemort, and then woke up in King's Cross with Dumbledore....ugh my heart and my feels when I read it. I honestly wanted to jump in the book and hug Dumbledore real hard, and I also wanted to hug Snape too-but not because he worked for Voldemort....

He was also a spy for Dumbledore too.

I was shocked when I read the conversations Dumbledore and Snape had through Snape's memories, and Snape's childhood, of how he met Lily and Petunia when they were playing on the swings and things like that.

Honestly...I loved this book so much that I wouldn't mind reading the series all over again.

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Book Review: Hollywood Wives: The New Generation by Jackie Collins

Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was my first Jackie Collins novel that I've ever read, and all I have to say is...GOOD LORD THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING. I enjoyed every single moment of it-like watching a TV-Reality show about Hollywood Wives living it up in LA with their husbands, along with the sex, scandal and did someone say kidnapping? I think YES, yes someone did.

So I decided to break it down by character, starting with....

Lissa Roman: She's a mega movie and singer star who's working on a show in Vegas, and her fourth husband, Gregg, had cheated on her. And to make it worse, once she left him and filed for divorce, he started going nuts, doing the Michael Lohan and run his mouth to the press, saying all these horrible things about her, even sleeping with one of the press! Crazy, isn't it? Then he got arested in Saks because one of his old flings assumed he raped her in the dressing room. Sucks, huh?

Lissa's daughter, Nicci Stone, is nineteen and wild, but she's getting married soon to Evan Richter, but she's having second thoughts about him when she's thinking about Brian, Evan's brother. Thanks to Brian, Nicci finds out that Evan was once engaged and never told her about it (hrm, sounds like another character from the UK.....) and then after spending time with Brian, she gets kidapped by a man named Eric Vernon, who puts her in a dirty room and tells Lissa how much he wants so he can leave the country as someone else. But sadly he didn't go out of the country-instead he went to jail. So sad...

Taylor Singer is married to Lawrence J. Singer, a producer. She wants to star in her own movie, but she couldn't get it off the ground. So she finds one in Oliver Rock, and they have an affair. Taylor really wants to go back into the acting business so bad that she decided to take the role in a lesbian-themed cable movie, in which she actually enjoyed. In the end, Larry asked for a divorce, and Taylor became another Hollywood Wife.

Michael Scorsinni, the former NYC cop, runs a private detective agency with a friend, in which Lissa Roman needed his assistance to uncover Gregg's affair and at the same time, fall in love with her. Though he had a girlfriend, Carol, he wasn't in love with her and he wanted to break up with her, but then she tells him she's pregnant-which, at the end turned out to be a pregnancy scare. But Michael did help catch Eric Vernon and put him in jail.

In conclusion, this book was amazing and I loved it a whole lot-and I wanna read more from Jackie Collins one day.

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Book Review: Clockwork Angel (the Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OH. MY. GOD. THIS BOOK THO. I've read it once before and fell in love with it-I fell in love with the world building, the characters (Will Herondale) and honestly, this book was very very beautiful and I loved it-loved it enough to get the second book.

Tessa Gray comes to Victorian England to find her brother Nathaniel, but instead she meets the Dark Sisters who keeps her in their house and trains her to use her power, which is shape-changing. She hates it there until the Sisters tell her that she's going to marry a man called the Magister. She refuses until that one night when the Shadowhunters Jem and Will came in and saved her, killing one of the Sisters.

She then goes to the Institute where she meets Charlotte, Henry, Sophie, Thomas and Jessamine, where she feels safe for once until a vampire named Camille appeared, telling them about de Quincey and how he was breaking a Law. So changing into Camille, she and Will went to the party and met up with Magnus Bane (in which I would like to say....I WANT TO CLIMB THE MAN LIKE A TREE...I love you Will, but MAGNUS THO.) and then went to one of the secret parties, where de Quincey was about to munch on Tessa's brother Nathaniel.

Shocked, they saved Nathaniel and killed some of the vampires in the room, de Quincey swearing to kill Camille/Tessa. Grabbing Nathaniel, they took him back to the Institute, where they brought him back to health and waited for just a while until he showed his true colors once the clockwork automation attacked both Jem and Tessa on their trip to the Blackfrair Bridge.

And how did they get in, you ask?

Outside of the Insitute, one of the automations wounded Jem, using his blood to get in and kill Agatha and Thomas, thus forcing Sophie, Jessamine and Tessa to hide in the Sanctuary, but Nate was there, telling her the real truth before Jessamine bashed him in the head using a lamp.

Then the Magister tricked Tessa, using Will's voice so that Jessamine could open the door, and the Magister ordered the two automations to hold Sophie and Jessamine while he talked to Tessa, almost forcing her to change into someone by the initials J.T.S., but she didn't do it. He also revealed that she might not be Tessa Gray-her face, that is-and before he took another step, she changed to the woman who died before and wounded the Magister. But once it was all over and the Magister disappeared, Charlotte offered Tessa to stay at the Insitute, and she does.

I do recommend this book a whole lot because it's really, really good!!!

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Book Review: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Okay, picture it: after a night of fun with your girlfriends (drunk, might I add) and the next day, you realized that you lost your engagement ring. And this engagement ring was special to your fiancée's family, whom don't even like you. And what's worse? You lost your phone. So what do you do desperately? Get a phone...from a bin, mind you-and use it, not knowing that it belonged to someone else-an a business. So what do you do? Become a businessman's PR for a while, forwarding messages and emails and whatnot.

But then you started going through his emails, his personal life, and you even help stop a fraud that could destroy his business. And on top of that, you realize that your fiancée has been cheating on you with your wedding planner, you help get rid of a ex-girlfriend and then you realize that before you even get married to your fiancée, the guy you got to know is in love with you.

I know, sounds weird, right?

Well it's not. Because that's what happened in this book, and it was awesome. I laughed, called one of the characters a rat, and cried at the end. This was an amazing novel and honestly became one of my favorite Sophie Kinsella novel, right next to the Shopaholic books.

Poppy Wyatt was funny, a fun girl to hang out with, and don't even deserve her fiancée, Magnus (no matter how hot/cute/commitment phobe he is). She deserve Sam Roxton, the guy she worked for a bit who isn't a commitment phobe and who would treat her right. So I do recommend this book a lot.

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Book Review: French Kissmas by Cathy Hapka

French Kissmas by Catherine Hapka
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book made me wanna go book a trip to Paris to go there for Christmas. It was beautiful, had some romance in it, along with some drama as well-and of course, the torn between two guys thing that I wish I had but I dont...

But this book is about Nicole Larson who came to Paris to spend Christmas and New Years with her friend Annike, and to also film a promotional video for S.A.S.S. When she gets there, Nicole meets up with her old flame Luc, and automatically their relationship reignites. But on a rainy day, Nicole meets Mike, a cute American boy and she feels relaxed, but then she dosn't when she kissed Luc. And boy was it a kiss.

So while Nicole was boy-confused, she met new people during the trip-Quinn, a loud British girl who wanted to throw herself at Luc, and Nicole got jealous, then snapped at her during a dinner with friends. I forgot the rest of them (my mind goes bad quick, don't it?) but all in all this was a good book, I'm glad Nicole and Luc kissed at the end and honestly I would like to read more from this series.

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Book Review: A Clash of Kings, a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh good lord this book. I had this book since last year and it took me THIS LONG to read it. And honestly....IT WAS PERFECT. Even though this is the book the inspired the second season of GoT, I thought I break it down by house like I did the first book.

House Baratheon: This book introduced Stannis Baratheon, Robert's and Renly's brother, who lives at Dragonstone with his wife and daughter. He teamed up with Melisandre of Asshai, the Red Woman, and he also became the champion of the Lord of Light (or R'hllor. Like....IT'S REALLY HARD TO SAY). Then in Highgarden, Renly is king and he married Margaery Tyrell, but he died by a shadow, and people thought that Brienne of Tarth, one of his Kingsguard, had killed him, or even Catelyn did it. But they didn't. Also, in the Battle for Kings Landing, Stannis lost to the Lannisters. Also....Stannis isn't a ham. Darn it.

House Greyjoy: Honestly....I didn't care one bit for Theon's chapters. Really, I didn't. He whined throughout all of his chapters, from returning to the Pike to taking over Winterfell, even styling himself Prince Theon-his chapters just...got on my nerve that I honestly wanted to skip his chapters.

House Lannister: Okay...honestly, though I don't care about Cersei, I was all the way #TeamTyrion. Tyrion did everything as the acting Hand of the King to make sure everyone was okay, even though the peasants hated him. Even in the Battle he did splendidly till he got cut. Also...I squealed when I read Jaime's part in Catelyn's chapter. But at the end of the battle, Tywin became hand of the king, and Tyrion was laid up in a room above the Queen's Ballroom.

House Stark: So Ned Stark is dead. Robb Stark is the Young King of the North, winning battles. Catelyn visits Renly to see if he can ally himself with Robb, then went back to Riverrun to be with her late father. Sansa's stuck in King's Landing with Joffrey and Cersei, who keeps calling her 'stupid' and 'idiot'. Tyrion's nice to her, and Ser Dontos keeps promising her that 'oh, I'm taking you home, I'm taking you home' but THIS LIAR didn't even do it. Then The Hound scared her, but she did sang to her during the battle for Kings Landing. And Arya went through so many phases-from being a boy named Arry, then at Harrenhal she was Weasel and Nan, and also Jaqen H'Gar was in her chapters too (in which I also squealed). She was Nan for Roose Bolton, but at night she, Hot Pie and Gendry left, but before that Jaqen gave her the sliver coin, and taught her valar morghulis.

House Targaryen: So Dany's in Qarth, living with Xho Xhos-that guy-and Pyat Pree from the House of the Undying-WHICH, might I add, IS HORRIBLE AND DISGUSTING. I wouldn't go in there, even if I had a million dragons. But then she left because Xho just wanted to marry her and wanted her to stay, but she said no ONE MILLION TIMES and left with her Dothraki. And I'm also glad that the House of the Undying fell to the ground. Dammit.

I loved this book so much that I wanna read the next book!

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