Book Review: Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard

Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of little infamy, is a detective in this one after he escaped from the Mirkarvia-well, after he stole a book from the library *mini-heart attack*, was forced to bring back the leader of the Mirkarvian people, but he turned into a cannibal (really, Cabal, did you think? Nope), and then ran off after defeated Count Marechal in a duel. Cabal then scared a man named Herr Meissner, stole his idenity and got on a ship named the Princess Hortense...

WHERE MY OTP MEETS AGAIN *throws confetti everywhere*

That's right-Leonie Barrow, daughter of Frank Barrow, studying to be a criminologist, was on the Princess Hortense, and they sat at the captian's table, having a lovely dinner, until it all ended the moment M. DeGarre was killed, and Cabal was nearly thrown off the aeroship. Thus the mystery began to find out who killed M. DeGarre and who wanted to throw him to his death.

My favorite part of the book was when Leonie saw Cabal do some necromancy when they were following Cacon and found him dead. Though she was shocked, the answer Cacon told them were shocking in a way-he was killed by a woman with a venomous dagger. But at the end of that conversation, when they finally left the poor man to die:

Cabal: I am unsure whether to thank you or demand n explanation.
Leonie: The former, I hope. As I’m not so sure why I didn’t just grass you up like the scum you are.
Cabal: That’s uncanny. Are you channeling your father right now?
Lenoie: Please, Cabal. Please don’t mention my dad, or I’ll full guilty that I didn’t just do the right thing and stitch you up like a kipper. Even my dad doesn't talk like that. He would have understood not giving you up to the Mirkavians. He’s not a great fan of Capital Punishment. But he’d never understand why I didn’t just hand you over to Constable Don Juan back there. Go then Cabal. Just shoo. I’m done with you.

Like...I couldn't even. But at the end the both of them survived, Leonie in the hospital trying to remember before she finally does and told the police the whole tale....and that is where our story ends, if you wanted to know about that weird short story I didn't get, the Tomb of Umtak Ktharl, though I only got the part that some old giant or sorcerer came back to life and somehow Cabal knocked him out? But I really loved this book like the first one and I already put the other two on hold so I can get them and read more of this series because I love it so much already.

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Book Review: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was recommended this novel by a friend and all it took was three pages for me to be hooked. So when Johannes Cabal, a necromancer or scientist, goes down to hell like a fly MFer and makes Satan a deal: he can get one hundred souls in exchange for his. But he had to do it before the next Walpurgisnacht, or Satan will kill him.

Oh, and did I mention he had to do it by a traveling carnival?

So with his brother Horst Cabal, the Cabal Brothers are out on the road with their devilish carnival, collecting ninety-nine souls, getting rid of a necromancer named Rufus Maleficarus (what kind of name is that anyway?), Johannes getting stuck in the pocket time universe made me giggle a bit, Ratuth Slabuth nearly destroying the carnival because he was bored, then....then they came to Penlow on Thurse on April 29....

A day where I ship Cabal x Leonie because they met and I got happy....

Till the end...when sweet Leonie signed her life away to save her father. But thank god Cabal burned her and another woman's forms so they wouldn't be in Hell when they die. But when Horst burned to death and died because he wanted to save his brother and I was so mad at Johannes...but I got over it when he saved Leonie and Lea (I think that's her name).

So I really do recommend this book because IT'S SO GOOD AND FUN AND YOU'LL HAVE FUN READING IT!!!

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Book Haul-5/10/2017

Hey y'all!

Today...today was a good day-did a little shopping and picked up a couple books at Ollie's Bargain Outlet (ya know, that store with the commercial and the line 'Good Stuff Cheap'?) and this is where I found these four books, which was good for me since I really wanted them so badly, even though I only the books from different book series. 

City of Ashes, book two of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

This is book two of the Mortal Instruments, and after I got done reading City of Bones, I swore I wouldn't read the whole series. But then seeing them and the new Shadowhunter novels coming out, makes me wanna read them right now. Also, I am thinking of watching the show as well, even though I've only seen one episode of the show on Freeform, and I might wanna watch the whole entire thing...if I can find it on Netflix or watch it on demand. 

City of Heavenly Fire, book six of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

So this is the last book of the Mortal Instruments (that's how stocked Ollie's are: they had the first two books and then the last book) and I like the original covers better than the other ones, though the new ones are alright. 

The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli

So to balance out the fantasy novels, I thought it's time for me to get a biography-and I'm a sucker for anything fashion-y, historical or facts about someone, so I brought The Hiltons. I've always wanted this book since it came out, and I waited so long to buy it till now. And the good thing is, it only costed 3.99 and it's in hardback, so it'll look perfect on my makeshift bookshelf.

Gathering Darkness: A Falling Kingdoms novel by Morgan Rhodes

Once again, I found a part of a book series that I really really want to read. I fell in love with the cover (as usual because covers make or break the book-well to me anyway) and the person on the cover looks like a rouge and ironically, I play a rouge in Storm King's Thunder (my sorceress died in the body of a rhemzhor...NOT GOOD.) and I just had to get it.

Book Review: Blood of Elves: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you have played the Witcher games or love dark fantasy, then this book is for you. Though it took me a long time to read it, I enjoyed every last bit of it-I was on the adventure with Geralt and Ciri when they was traveling with Triss and had to protect her when she got sick, then it broke off and I saw Dandelion again and seeing my wifey Yennefer of Venegerberg....*le sigh* but all in all I love this book so much and would read all of these books when I find them.

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Book Review: West to Comanche County by Doug Bowman

West To Comanche County by Doug Bowman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was my first western novel I've ever read and I honestly loved it. I'd never thought that I'd enjoy a book like this-I was prepared for the boring stuff, but the action parts and how Kirb got his revenge....

Hoooo-ly crapzola, where do I begin? Well let's start at the beginning, where Kirb and his wife Ellie left Tennessee to go to Texas. I swear these two are so cute, they became my OTP from the beginning. They traveled for days to Comanche County, meeting new people and eating the weirdest food combinations that I ever heard of before in my life, and when they did reach Comanche County and got settled down...that's when everything went straight to hell.

It all started in the wintertime, when Kirb and his friend Clay Summers walked in to find Ellie murdered-raped and killed by three men....and Kirb wanted revenge. So he did, after he buried her, and went to hunt down the three men. And all of them died quite painfully.

Stovall died with a bullet in his throat, and Pat Pollard and Lonny Tripp both died with a bullet in the mouth. I enjoyed it and I really do reconmend this book a lot.

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Currently Reading

Blood of Elves: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

I got Wild Hunt for Christmas, so what the hey, let's read the novels, even though I was supposed to get The Last Wish. Whoops. Also...

My Queen Yennefer of Vengerberg is in it :)

Book Review: The Mortal Insturments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

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

This was my first time reading the first book of the Mortal Instruments, and I enjoyed it, bu it also fustrated me-mostly because of the Jace/Valentine 'Jace, I am your father' crap, when they didn't get the Mortal Cup at the end-the hell, man, the hell. But honestly I enjoyed the book a lot.

So what's this book about?

Fifteen year old Clary Fray and her best friend Simon Lewis is waiting to get inside the all ages club Pandemonium, where Clary sees a group of weird people dressed in all black go upstairs and actually sees them kills the 'boy' or demon-and thus is how Clary's life changed when she found out the group is called the Shadowhunters, a group of Nephilim warriors who protects the humans-"mundanes"-from the Downworlders.

When a ex-shadowhunter, Valentine Morgenstern, fakes his own death and is looking for the Mortal Cup, Clary helps Jace, Alec, and Isabelle to find it, only to find out Jace and Clary are related (in comes in the Darth Vader: 'I am your father') and then Jace and Valentine fight for a bit, then Valentine left through a mirror into Idris, and it got shattered.

I also reunited with Magnus Bane (I was honestly happy to see him) and I giggled when Simon turned into a rat.

All and all, it was an okay book to me, just those parts about the 'I'm your father' and not getting the cup just irritated me.

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