Book Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Crazy Rich Asians...what a book. It has everything in it-the soapy-filled drama of a soap, Gossip Girl and nosey, nagging mothers (at least, at my end)-and honestly? I enjoyed myself. I actually started wishing I was rich...without my curse of hating nosey mothers in almost every book I read (no, actually, I hate meddling mothers who don't want their children to be happy with the one they love). But the one part of Crazy Rich Asians I loved so much was (okay, yes it was the parties and the fashion and everything else) but it was Astrid's storyline.

Astrid Leong was married to a man (who I hate with a burning passion and wish he can die somewhere) named Michael Teo. They have a son named Cassian, and it seemed like a picture-perfect life. But it all came crashing down when Astrid realized that Michael has been seeing another woman behind her back (or so she thought), and cornered him about it, demanding him to tell her the truth (well, actually, she picked up his phone and saw the text message MISS U NSIDE ME, and thus, there was me screaming for her to go to Maury, or dig around and be a snoop) and it turns out, dammit, that Michael lied to her. He went to Hong Kong to see his sister and decided to fake everything so he and Astrid can get a divorce. That's why he made up everything for her to find. I hope to God in the next book that actually happens and Astrid can move on with Charlie Wu (the one I really want her to be with).

I also like the Nick/Colin Khoo storyline too, because the way they got away from Shanghai's answer to Spencer Pratt Benard Tai (with friends Mehmet, Alistair, and Lionel) was too funny and sneaky, and also I love their friendship. I was also glad that Colin and Araminta were worried for Rachel and actually treated her like family when she first came to Shanghai. Honestly, I love this friendship altogether.

The funniest one I liked has to be Oliver T'sien and Peik Lin. I LOVE them so much, especially Oliver's witty comments and I really, really love Peik Lin because she's a really good friend to Rachel.

What I didn't care about: the mom, Eleanor. I have this curse where if the fictional mother does something I don't like, I don't care about. I mean, she plotted to get rid of Rachel, even looking up to see who her birth father was. Then before Rachel went to see her father, Nick flew in her mother to explain everything to her and how she was another man's child and not the man who's in jail (thank god-and also the mom I liked in this book), thus stopping Eleanor to get rid of Rachel so she can set him up with someone else (ha ha).

So what's next? I don't know, but I gotta wait till I get my hands on China Rich Girlfriend (which is coming soon since I ordered it).

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Book Review: Heir of Fire, a Throne of Glass novel by Sarah J. Maas

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book...this book, this book, this book. Holy moly. I thought this book was fantastic and amazing and I loved every bit of it. The ending shocked the living hell out of me, to the point that I didn't pick up anything else for a whole entire day (and mostly because it was Golden Girls day and I just sat and binged-watched the Golden Girls all day without getting on the computer). And part one, reading about Celeana's struggles and grappling with Nehemia's death and everything else she went through in the first two books was heartbreaking and I wanted to hug her...but first, can we just stop for a moment and talk about the new characters I've met while reading this book:

Rowan Whitethorn: First off, when I first met him, I was literally shouting, 'Go the other way, please! Don't come near me...no...NO....goddammit Sarah J. Maas *falls into his lap, drags him to the church, marries him and becomes the new Mrs. Rowan Whitethorn*' and then, you know, my lovely obsession with silver-haired men goes on. And learning about his past, when he was mated to another woman and comes back home and found out that she died was heartbreaking that I wanted to hug my husband so bad. But the one thing that irritated me a bit with him was when he kept telling Celeana/Aelin to shift (I wanted to smack him silly for saying it). But I love my Fae hawk-turning man so much (and sad that I have to wait till the next book to see him again...which I don't have right now). Oh and I almost forgot he has a tattoo...and it's sexy af.

Aedion Ashryver: I was a bit skeptical about him the moment he walked in, but then when I kept on reading, I started to like him. Mostly because he's secretly plotting against the king to put Aelin on her rightful throne, and pretending to do all those battles for the King. He even through the ring the King gave him away because he knew something was weird with it. And I felt a bit sorry for Chaol when Aedion had to beat him up once he found out that he was following him.

Manon Blackbeak: Oh hello there. How are you? Out of all the female characters that Sarah J. Maas has written, Manon has to be my favorite one in this book. She's vicious, beautiful, smart, cunning, and I love her SO DAMNED MUCH. She's Wing Leader (at the end of the book), she steals from the Spiders for their spider silk for her wyvern (YEP THAT'S RIGHT WYVERNS. THERE'S WYVERNS IN THIS BOOK HELL YES) and also she knows what she wants as well. She even took the weakest dragon, named him Abraxos, replaced his teeth and tail with iron, and he flew and won the War Games.

Queen Maeve: I HATE HER. Just like the King, I HATE HER WITH ALL MY HEART. CAN'T FUCKING STAND THIS BITCH. I DON'T KNOW WHY I CAN'T STAND THIS BITCH, AND I HOPE SHE DIES IN A FIREY PIT AND NEVER COME OUT EVER AGAIN. I JUST DO I DON'T KNOW WHY. I'M ALSO GLAD THAT ROWAN IS NO LONGER TIED TO YOUR DUMBASS.

Sorscha: This bean I loved her so much...till the end...when her head got cut off...WHAT THE FUCK... But she helped my son Dorian control his magic by researching everything, and also she fell in love with him, which sucked at the end. It did, seriously. I hated it when I read it. I hated it that it happened to her. She was honestly one of my other favorite characters.

And the memories of Aelin and how she survived was horrible, and it was spun by the King?? FUCK THE KING. FUCK HIM. Fuck him for what he did to Aelin, fuck him for everything. And what he did to Dorian?? Like why??? Why would you do that??? The ending sucks SO MUCH and I want to read the next book and the others because THE ENDING IS FUCKED UP SO MUCH.

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Book Review: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Milk and Honey is the second poetry book I read this year, and I enjoyed it. I loved the poetry along with the drawings, and the words just...spoke to me. I wanted to weep, to cry, worry, be happy, wanting to hug the writer and wanted to cheer for them as they talked about what they went through. My favorite ones would have to be...

we began
with honesty
let us end
in it too

-us

i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away

you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close

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Book Review: Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) by Sarah J, Maas

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

HO-LY CRAP.

THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE.

I thought Throne of Glass was gonna be the death of me. But as soon as I opened up this book, I was wrong. I mean, I didn't know who thine hell is Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, and looked deranged while trying to figure it out, but when Chaol found out for me....HO-LY CRAP. I didn't know it was her. I swear to God, I didn't know.

But lemme talk about the one thing that killed me more than the Red Wedding: Nehemia's death. That broke the unholy hell out of me, and the last conversation Celeana had with her...the last one before she died...good lord, man. That sucked. And I'm glad Celeana got her revenge for her by killing Archer and delivering his head to the King (though I don't like the King. I truly don't. He can go fuck himself to the other side of the world. Just fuck right on off.) Then when Kaltain appeared again, I wanted to rage because I don't like her.

BUT DORIAN. Lemme talk about my precious boi, the Crown Prince. Because at first when he saw Chaol and Celeana together, he was like 'I'm going to forget her' and then after a meeting with his father BOOM magic powers appears and holy shit my son has magic, but he has to hide it from his father, but then when the carnival came and Baba Yellowlegs came in the picture, and had to ask questions about it, she scared him (I think she did) a bit and he ran off, but when Celeana came to see her...whooboy that fight though...

Holy crap the fight. I was worried for Celeana and thought that she was gonna die, but she killed the Ironteeth witch before she can tell him what Dorian told her.

Then the kidnapping of Chaol and the murder of all those people...hadn't seen that much rage in Celeana and it was fantastic. But the fight with the creature she summoned because she wanted to see Nehemia again...and Archer showing the eff up (that pissed me off) and Celeana tricking him to tell the truth before the ceature attacked...

And Celeana turned into a fae and used magic and killed the creature, that shocked me even more, and I'm glad it's dead, because if ANYTHING happened to Fleetfoot or my son, I was gonna kill someone...BADLY.

But the ending...when Chaol sent Celeana to Wendlyn to be safe, and when he found out about who she truly was...Aelin Ashryver Galathynius....holy crap.

I need to read the next book now.

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Book Review: the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was the first poetry book I've ever read and I liked it. I've never read poetry like this before, but I enjoyed it, and it took me half a night to finish it. I'm going to keep this book review short, because I don't know how to book review a poetry book. But I will list the poems I like:

-Women Are Libraries About to Burst
-We tried to Warn You
-We Can't Lose Our Empathy
-Necromancers
-Witch Girl Gang
-Women Are Some Kind of Magic II
-Throw Flames like a Girl

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Book Review: Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas

Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh lord, this book...this book make me have so many feels...I even cried at the end, that's how good it was. BUT once again, my husband and loml Sebastian was in it and thus, my feels were all over the place. But once again, before I go on about the love of my life and favorite heroes of all time, let's get through the book review first...

So Phoebe is the single mother of two boys after her husband died, and was promised marriage to a loser (to me he is) named Edward Larson, who's her late husband's cousin. But during Gabriel's and Phoebe's wedding, she runs into no other than West Ravenel, a man that has teased her husband when they were in boarding school. At first, she hated him because of what he did to Henry, but then she forgave him, and was actually shocked that her children liked being around him.

But that dinner scene between them was so cute and I loved it so much (including the recipe at the end of the book). Also, there was a scene where West saved Justin from the bull that nearly hurt him. I honestly gasped when it happened, because I started to worry about him, but was glad that he got better. Then came him coming to the house to help her and hot damn, that's when they're romance blossomed (actually, it blossomed when they kissed).

When West came to the house to help her with the ledgers, that's when it got really romantic. West was staying at the small cottage back in the house I believe, and holy moly the secret meetings at night (and they were passionate good lord) but my favorite scene was when she shaved his beard, thus giving me a kink I didn't even know I liked-I like it when men get shaved. I don't know why, but it was sexy as hell...

ANYWHOO...

West then had to leave for the both of them because of stupid ol' Edward coming back and also because he had a mistress behind Phoebe's back, and also he was taking money from Justin's inheritance to buy a house and all the luxurious things he needed for his mistress and his son. He even had the gall to ask Phoebe to marry him when she didn't feel not one damned thing for him anymore, and she said that she was going to remove him as trustee and put her father as the main trustee now.

Then West went back to drinking for a couple of days because he couldn't get Phoebe out of his head, and his friend Tom Severin took him to Jenner's, where he was nearly killed by Edward because he thought he could just try and convince my husband that he was the right one for Phoebe, and also because he thought he filled her mind with so many things about him, but Sebastian stopped him. Then the ending when Phoebe asks him to marry him and he said yes was just perfect.

BUT HOLD ON, WAIT A MINUTE, LET'S TALK ABOUT MY HUSBAND IN A COUPLE CHAPTERS, SHALL WE?

That one chapter with him in the tub when Evie went to go find him to talk to him was soo good. Even when he was counting down for her to take off her dress, only for her to be like, "go ahead"...and then the conversation they had afterward I CAN'T...I just CAN'T....and the train scene OMGGG was so cute...even when Evie played Patti-Cake with Stephen....

I loved this book so much and now I want to read more of her books.

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Book Review:Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

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

Devil in Spring...holy crap this book though...I had feels throughout this whole entire book and I loved every single minute of it. I loved how Pandora and Gabriel fell in love, and how Gabriel was very protective over Pandora because she was sheltered all her life, and also she's deaf in one ear. She wants to become a businesswoman and make her own games, and doesn't even want to marry.

BUT.

CAN. WE. TALK. ABOUT. THE. PROLOGUE. Y'ALL.

*pulls out a list of one thousand six hundred things I love about my husband Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent*

My favorite hero and loml (right next to Dante, of course) Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent and Evie appears in it and I CAN'T with it. I just can't with it. It was so cute and adorable and it makes me want to read the book over again because it was SO GOOD.

I'm going to debauch you for the ten thousandth time, Evie-and for once, I want you to pay attention."

Me: Hi yes, hello husband how are you OH PLEASE DEBAUCH ME ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT I DON'T CARE I LOVE YOU.

Buttt back to the book review and enough about my love for Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent-who's now a duke, y'all. HE'S A DUKE...

Now his son has the title of St. Vincent and at first, Pandora doesn't want to marry him. But in the week at Heron Point, they fell in love and got married, and it was really cute how when they went on their honeymoon and since she never went to a hotel she wanted to take a tour, but when Gabriel ended it and took her to their suite, they made love for the first time, and afterward Pandora told him that "Your lovemaking is a gift."

BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS JEALOUS MISTRESS THOUGH? Like she wanted to make Pandora cry at the show, but Pandora stood her ground..before she got stabbed by the warehouse owner I believe and had to be taken to a hospital, where she was taken care of by Dr. Griffth. Gabriel didn't want her to operate on her, but then relented and let her do it.

Close to the ending of the book made me cry because I got worried for Pandora for a moment, then I learned (before Pandora got hurt) that terr ah GABRIEL'S A FREAK IN THE BED. Like he tied her up and they made love and my mouth dropped and I couldn't even.

Then the doctor's note for the both of them was funny and it made me laugh, and the threat that Pandora would got up and down the stairs and sing a children's song if he didn't make love to her. And the bombs that was planted in the hall when the Prince of Wales came through...that part made me cry the most, but I'm glad that they survived, and also the ending, when she came into Winterborne's and saw that her game was sold out. And the kiss at the end OMG I couldn't.

I would give this book ten out of ten stars if I could because it was SO GOOD.

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