Book Review: The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So...stupid me forgot that I didn't do a book review for this book. So I guess after reading this the second time, I decided to *finally* do a book review of The Assassin's Blade, a Throne of Glass novellas by Miss Sarah J. Maas...aka Yet Another Book That Wrecked Me At The End.

Shall we begin?

Like most books like this, I'll break this up by the short stories:

1.) The Assassin and the Pirate Lord-The first time I read this, I hated the pirate lord. I wanted to kill him for so many things. But to find out the Aborynn sent Sam and Celaena to get slaves from him, I was both shocked and appalled that he did that. I'm glad that Celaena came up with a plan to stop him from doing that because I couldn't believe that the King of Assassins would do that. But he did, but his plan was foiled, even though Sam didn't want to do it in the first place, calling it foolish. But he helped, and now all the slaves she saved were free and will never be slaves ever.

2.) The Assassin and the Healer-This is after when Aborynn beat Celaena and told her to go to the Red Desert. This was a really cute story about how she met this girl who worked at this tavern and saved her from drunks. She even taught her how to defend herself, then gave her some money and her brooch so she could leave that horrible place and go to be a Healer.

3.) The Assassin and the Desert-I *almost* shipped Celaena and Illas so hard, but Ansel was such a bitch for doing what she did. All because of something that happened to her a long time ago. And she and Celaena were such good friends, stealing Asterion horses and helping stop a local lord. But NOOOOO, Ansel made a damned deal with the lord and Celaena nearly killed her, but told her to get out and ride before she shot her arrow at her. That good she waited another minute before she shot her arrow. And I'm also glad that she learned some things from the Mute Master.

4.) The Assassin and the Underworld-This is the least one I liked from this group of stories, mostly because Aborynn screwed her over, but he showered her with gifts though. And Lysandra...hate her so much. I hope to god that she doesn't show up in the other books, because I want Celaena to mess her face right on up. And I felt sorry for Sam for even dealing with poor Lysandra during and after her Bidding, but glad that Celaena paid off his and her debts before moving out and leaving Abroynn for good.

5.)The Assassin and the Empire-THIS STORY BROKE THE HELL OUT OF ME. The way Sam died, and how Celaena had to go to the Salt Mines of Endovier. She was fucking set up by Aborynn-for what I don't know, but fucking hell, man. I hated Aborynn throughout the whole entire book, and to fucking set her up the way he did...I wished for the love god that he would die for what he did. That pissed me off to the HIGHEST pissofity. Also I hate the King of Ardarlan. So damned much.

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Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hello there, and welcome to my TED talk about how much this book completely broke me. *screams about this book for 12 hours straight*

Holy crap, I'm ready for book two.

So this book is about Jude Duarte who was kidnapped by a faerie named Madoc when she was seven years old, after he killed her parents. She lived in Elfhame since then, and she had to deal with the curelness of the Faerie and including Prince Cardan, and...homegirl is a badass. She's good with the knife and sword, and she became my favorite character.

BUT PRINCE CARDAN.

*takes inhaling breath* BOIIIIII.

At first, I hated Cardan-in fact, I wanted to hang him upside down and leave him there. But then as I got to know him more and more...I started to like him. I started to like him so much that I honestly wanted to hug him for what his brother Balekin did to half of the family...and then when Jude and Cardan kissed, I was like, 'that's my ship'

Now I'm ready for book two and the third book, which I don't have but it's on my TBR and I just want more of these characters, dammit it-I NEED MORE OF THEM.

But back to the book review, in which I am all over the place with this...

Jude became a spy for Prince Dain's court, and she was a terrible spy, but it did hurt to read that she got stabbed in the hand really hard because Prince Dain told her too. Then the short romance between Locke and Jude (which I shipped for a little bit) before Balekin killed everyone, thus making everything go to hell before Jude came up with a plan...which was to put her young brother Oak on the throne. But Oak was too young, so Madoc would do it. Butttt then at the end, Cardan got the crown so he could rule, and honestly it looks good on him, really, it does.

And now I'm ready for Wicked King and the last book so I can die of happiness.

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Book Review: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I brought this book at my school's bookstore because it was interesting, and also the furiously happy raccoon on the cover. I didn't read this book for a semester until now, and I'm glad that I read this funny book. I laughed at a lot of parts of the book, even started my own little pen pal notes that my mind goes through because I found that part very funny. For example:

"Matthew Mercer is a huge teddy bear that I would like to hug one day."

"Every time I see a crepe, I think of Malec."

“Why am I imaging Vergil holding a baby, but not in a good way?”

There were some parts of the book that I connected with-like how her husband would sit up at night, saying that the cat don’t own pants and that the nurse had the wrong house, or the cutest arguments ever that made me laugh so much. At the end of the book I felt happy and glad that I read this book. I mean, it pulled me in with a raccoon on the cover, and I’m glad that there’s someone out there in the world that gets me. Like, truly gets me.

When I grow up, I want to be just like Jenny Lawson.


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Book Review: The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson

The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Magnus Bane...the High Warlock of Brooklyn, three hundred years ago, and have quite some tales to be told. From Peru (I'm still trying to figure out what really happened in Peru), to the rise and fall of the Hotel Dumort, to first dates with a Shadowhunter (Alec Lightwood needs to be protected at all cost) but these eleven stories about Magnus made me love and stan him even more. I mean, he had adventures with his friends Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss, he watched Raphael Santiago (in which he wanted to have a drink, stat), fought in the Last Stand of the New York Insitute, and also met two Herondales. Magnus also had a relationship with Camille Belcourt, though I honestly didn't care one bit about her...

And he also smuggled Marie Antoinette out of Paris, though the way I saw it, he yeeted Marie Antionette out of Versailles in a hot-air balloon.

I read when he didn't know what to get his boyfriend Alec for his birthday and I found it really adorable because I would be freaking out too if I didn't know what to get my shadowhunter boyfriend on his birthday. But the first date story made me awe and want to protect my son Alec because he was so nervous and actually helped Magnus deal with a werewolf-and I honestly teared up at some parts.

But the voice mails...yes it did spoil a couple of things for me, but I got curious and worried that something happened to my Malec ship and I don't want anything to happen to my Malec ship-just thinking about it makes me worry about it even more. But I just need to read the last four books in the Mortal Instruments series so I can understand what happened to them and pray to god that they can get back together.

I loved this book so much and I'm glad that I read all of them and want to finish up the Shadowhunter novels because I love this world so much.

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Book Review: Storm Front, a Harry Dresden files novel by Jim Butcher

Storm Front by Jim Butcher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My second Harry Dresden novel, which turned out to be the first book in the series...and all I have to say is wow...holy moly.

So this book introduced Harry Dresden as a Wizard, who got hired to work on a case with Karrin Murphy about a murder, along with a woman named Monica Sells who needed help with her husband. But who would've thought that these two cases were connected to each other? Especially when the White Council is also after Harry and wanted to catch him in the act when they thought he cast the spell to kill those folks. But Harry didn't, even though he was tired to the bone. He figured out who was casting the spell and wanted to stop him.

Shockingly enough, it was Monica Sells's husband, Victor, who was using a drug called ThreeEye, using...erm, how can I say this...sexual energy to fuel his and call up a storm to kill these people, and even tried to do it to Harry. But Harry turned it around, even though it caused him to lie to Karrin and nearly got arrested, get blamed for something he really didn't do this time, and narrowly escaped death by a scorpion attack.

All in all, a normal day for Mr. Dresden, huh?

Oh and also he got beaten up by the mob too, thinking that it was Johnny Marcone, but it wasn't. Also, they way he summoned Took was pretty damned neat (though I don't recommend doing that to the poor fairy) and also Bob was funny with his love potions and stuff.

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Book Review: Blood Rites, a Harry Dresden novel by Jim Butcher

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.

The first line of my first Harry Dresden novel sucked me in and it took me a while to read this book, but I enjoyed it. I've never read a Harry Dresden novel ever, not once, not even when a friend of mine recommended me the book series years ago. And it took me till now to read it and I'm glad that I did. And honestly, I loved hanging out with Harry, Murphy, Thomas...

But before I get ahead of myself, lemme start this book review...

Harry was hired by Arturo Genosa to go undercover to figure out who's been killing off females on his movie after Thomas went to him and asked him to help. So Harry went to the site, only to find out that the entropy curse is going after women that the producer hired for the movie. He tries to stop it, only to get hurt and is taken to Thomas's home. There, he finds out a couple of things-one, that he and Thomas are brothers-half-brothers, to be exact. Two, freakin' Marva and her Black Court vamps are out to get him, and three...three is that Thomas's father, Lord Raith, is a horrible person. He tried to get his youngest daughter, Inari, to sleep and kill Harry, to have her first feeding, but her lips started to burn.

It turns out that if the White Court Vampires kisses someone that's in love, their lips would burn. So while dealing with the entropy curse, he also had to deal with Marva and her Black Court vampires, hiring Kincaid to help him do it. They went to the poor side of Chigaco and fought her Renfields, only for Harry to nearly burning his hand off, which sucked.

He learned about his teacher's past with his mother and the White Court, and the only thing Harry wanted to do was kill Lord Raith for what he did to her, which was sickening, by the way, using the curse to kill her. Even though Ebenezer told him that he couldn't do it, darn it, Harry tried, with the help of Murphy again. He also found out that Lord Raith kidnapped Thomas and wanted to use him for the curse...

And oh boy, did he use them...

To bring back the thing Harry destroyed a long time ago.

He Who Walks Behind.

And I have to say, THAT THING IS SCARY AFFFF MAN.

I actually enjoyed this book so much that I actually checked out another Harry Dresden novel (after I get done reading another book, actually) but all in all, I loved it and I would honestly read this whole entire book series.

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Book Review: Forsaken by Kelley Armstrong

Forsaken by Kelley Armstrong
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book...this book, this book, this book...holy moly....

This book made me shake, nearly have a panic attack, and also made me worry about both Elena and Clay and their kids...

And no, no, no this book didn't make me have ideas of writing my own werewolf AU (it totally did).

But anyway...

Elena is all the way up in England, at a Alpha meeting and she hates the Alpha of the UK pack and wants to go home to her kids and husband on their family trip. She does, but not before her daughter walks out of the house and gets lost. Worried, she starts looking for her, only to catch the scent of another werewolf that should've been in Belguim, Malcolm Danvers, but it totally wasn't him as she finally found her daughter, scared, shaking and alone, but this time she saw the muscles moving and started having fears of her daughter changing into a werewolf.

So the Danvers family moved to a hotel and that's when everything came ahead. Turns out the UK pack wanted to show that Elena was a weak, hysterical mother (and they didn't), and both Kate and Logan successfully Changed into werewolves (that part makes me cringe when Kate changed) and also they didn't want to give Malcolm a chance, but they're thinking about it. And it was nice to see Hope and Karl again (sans her pregnancy from Otherworld Secrets).

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