Book Review: Killer, a Pretty Little Liars novel by Sara Shepard

Killer by Sara Shepard
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book had some twists and turns, and I enjoyed every single last one of them. This time around, I thought I break it down by character....

Spencer: Spencer really hates it at home-her parents are acting like she's a ghost and punishing her in simple ways-taking away her car and taking it back to the dealer, blaming her for the KILLER and LIAR graffiti on the old barn and windmill, and doting on her sister, Melissa. So listening to Andrew, she signed up on a website that links people up to their real parents, and she goes to New York to meet up with a woman named Olivia. Spencer felt close to her, hating her family for good and wanted to go to New York to live with her. So what does Stupid Spencer do? Stupid Spencer called a retailer to look at a "fake" apartment, then Olivia never existed when she got to NYC later, and what's worse....Spencer's college fund account was wiped out completely.

Hanna: Hanna is forced to hang out with her step-sister, Kate, and her two friends...until she battles her for Mike, Aria's brother. Hanna and Mike goes on a couple dates, and she was the main one who didn't get one text from A, while the rest of the girls did. She did get in the car with Wilden (if you watch the show, YOU KNOW WHO HE IS) and he scared her by driving fast like Speedy Gonzalez, and it reminded her of the accident she got into with her now dead friend Mona. At the end of the novel, Hanna agrees to go to prom with Mike, while finding out his lacrosse player friends were making a bet between the two sisters. Uh...EW, brah. Also, Hanna had a piece of her Time Capsule flag and tried to match her design like Ali did.

Emily: Emily is in a perfect relationship with her new boyfriend, Isaac, and they're having sex (well, they had it twice), and surprise, surprise, Isaac's mama don't like her. She even warned her about not stepping back in the house anymore-with a side eye-at Applebee's. Then they got into a mini-fight when Emily told Isaac what his mama said, including the photo of her head cut off. She did have an encounter with Jason DiLaurentis, Ali's brother, but he just yelled at her about a little dent in his car. Okay then...at the Radley party (remember Radley? Yeah it turned into a hotel now), she found a visitor's book, which had Jason's name all over till the day he left for college. She was confused and wondered why he came to Radley...also...Maya was there...which was weird.

Aria: Aria. Aria, Aria, Aria. First you started talking and hanging out with Jason, then goes to his apartment when he yelled at you to get out, then you move with your dad and his pregnant girlfriend/mistress. And what's worse...you see Jenna, and automatically, you think she's A. How can a blind girl text those things to the girls? And you also have Ali's Time Capsule flag all this time, scared to even give it back to her when they became friends. So when she was about to head back to Spencer's barn, she saw someone setting it on fire and held them....and the girls gasped when they found out...that it was Ali.

DUN DUN DUN.

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Book Review: Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) by Lisa Kleypas

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So...this book made me have feels. Feels I didn't expect while reading this book.

To start off this review, I honestly didn't ship Annabelle and Simon. The way she kept rejecting him from his offers of dancing, to trying to get Lord Kendall, and how the sass was very real every time they're together, I kept saying up and down, "I do not ship, I do not ship, I do not ship....." But then as I read on....I WENT DOWN WITH THIS SHIP.

I went down with this ship the moment Annabelle felt sick and Simon told her (after a round of Rounders-in-Knickers with the other Wallflowers) that she had an Adders bite from a snake (well, he told her once he took off her shoes and her stockings from the hem of her dress and she wanted to kill him, but she was too weak to do it) from her walk with Lord Kendall and the others (Simon was there too...darn it). She was out of action for a while, in which Simon kept her company by teaching her how to play chess (no wonder why Ciel Phantomhive likes that game), and talked about trains with her-which was really, really cute! Then Lord Hodgeham came up to bother Annabelle, saying that he wanted her (in a really, DISGUSTING way, mind you) and almost had her...but Simon saved the day (awe!)

But as the book went on, I was happy when they finally got married (yay!) and then it went downwards because of the way people was talking about them-like "oh, they only got an invite to this party because of Lord Westcliff" and "I can't believe she married down." I went 'Bruh, really?' but then again, this was back in the day, not in this time period because if I was Annabelle, I would've gone Nene Leakes on them, but in all honesty I would've ignored them completely (in which she did).

This book had me going through so many feels from one scene to the next, and I cannot wait to read this book.

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Book Review: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

HOLY CRAP this book though!!!! I've read this book till the end and right now...I CAN'T with this book. Sydney Sage wake up one night by her father, scared that she was going to go to a re-education place because of what happened in the last book of the Vampire Academy series (have not read that one yet-it's on the list!!!), but instead she was re-inked to go back to school on a mission to watch over and protect Jill Dragomir, Lissa Dragomir's sister. Along with Eddie Castile and somehow Adrian, she goes to Amberwood Prep.

Along with the normal high school things-being picked on by the most popular girl at school (and get their revenge on her slowly, because part one was funny-Jill freezing Laurel's shower water), dealing with boys-but then there was a thing with the tattoos from a place called Nevermore, with Sydney getting interested to the point that she and Adrian broke in the place and finding out about what was in the tattoos-inluding the vampire blood.

Going back to the tattoo shop, the tattoo guy thought that Sydney was the dealer who provided the vampire blood-and it turned out that it was none other than Keith Darnell (I really didn't like him at all) and she had to get Adrian to help her bust him. And it worked-until Chapter 24, when Lee pulled out a knife on Sydney and it turned out....

DUN DUN DUN....

Lee was the one who killed those girls, and he was the one who was a Strigoi before he was turned back by a spirit user and wanted to "awake" himself again. So he tried to take Syndey's blood...nope that didn't work at all because something was wrong with her blood-and then he took Adrian's blood (in which I wanted to chuck this book TO THE WALL, FOLKS. TO THE BLOODY WALL.) but that didn't work neither.

So Lee called his Strigoi friends and literally begged them to turn him again...but he didn't, and he died. Then Eddie and Jill came (all of this went down after the fashion show and the blow-up between Adrian and Sydney) and Eddie destroyed the Strigoi (with a little bit of Jill's help) and in the end everything was fine-Adrian got the apartment he wanted, Keith went away, Sydney is back in school watching Jill, and everything is cool....before the end of the book, when Sonya Karp came in the room and Angelina came into the room as well (she's gonna be Sydney's new roommate)...DIMITRI BELIKOV COMES IN THE ROOM.

HOLY CRAP, PEOPLE. HOLY CRAP.

But I loved this book a lot, and I can't wait to read the second book.

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Book Review: Entwined by Heather Dixon

Entwined by Heather Dixon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is a beautiful retelling of the story The Twelve Dancing Princesses, a story I heard of, but never read before. In the beginning of the book, the Mother dies while giving birth to the 12th princess, Lily, and the girls has been into morning, but then they found a magical portal, where it lead to a ballroom...with a very handsome Keeper.

The girls go to that place every single night, keeping it away from their father the King, who locks them away in a room so they can morn. The girls hate it so much that they honestly loved going to their speical place to dance. But then one day, they realized that a watch was missing. So the oldest one, Azelea, goes back to ask the Keeper if he seen it...and he does...in fact, he kept it. Azelea got mad and swore that she and her sisters will never return. But there was something...how can I put it...odd...he said something about the girls not coming back he'll do something that rubbed me the wrong way.

Outside the magical portal, gentlemen left and right are trying to win some of the girls' hands, but Bramble don't care at all about marriage, Clover's in love with the Prime Minister, and Azelea fell for Mr. Brandford-slowly, though.

Close to the end (the part that ticked me off to no end), the Keeper came out of the magical portal and wanted to kill the King..and he didn't (ha ha) and trapped the girls in magical mirrors. The King and Azelea broke the mirrors and freed the girls and fought the Keeper, who used his magic to be Azelea, But that didn't work and the Keeper went away, never to be seen again.

But I liked the ending of the book, the girls got their happy ending and are building the relationship back with their father the King.

This book had some twists and turns, including the promise Azelea made on her Mother's deathbed, promising that she'll watch over the girls and the King, which was awesome. And the dances in the book were beuatiful-made me cry in the inside.

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Books I'm Currently Reading...Like Now. Seriously, Now.

Hey y'all!

It's 2015....like holy crap, where have 2014 been?! Though I already did a post on my thoughts on the New Year, it's time for me to do a little book haul of the books I've gotten last night from Barnes and Nobles and also the books I'm reading right now.

Books I'm Reading Right now

1. The Great Hunt: A Wheel of Time novel by Robert Jordan
2. A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
4. Awakened: A House of Night Novel by P.C. and Kristin Cast
5. Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
6. Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
7. Entwined by Heather Dixon
8. Cinder: A Lunar Chronicles novel by Marissa Meyer

Happy New Year!

Hey y'all!

I wanted to do this post night but I got distracted by my new video game, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (in which I played for two bloody days and about to play some more afterword) but as I was saying, 2014 was the year of me being busy and reading all the time. From reading Game of Thrones to getting mad at a fallen angel who snapped a High Priestess' human consort neck, 2014 has been an amazing year.

Now that it's 2015, I want to look ahead, not forward. And since I'm currently on Barnes and Nobles (like...my bookstore for almost everything I read and want to read) I'm making a little 'to read' list in my head and I thought I'd share them all here with y'all...

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
2. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
3. the rest of the House of Night Series by P.C. and Kristin Cast
4. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
5. Claymore Series by Norihiro Yagi
6. Rise of the King by R.A. Salvatore (if you haven't read the first book of this series or any other, GO READ IT)
7. Alice in Zombieland series by Gena Showalter (I don't read about zombies that much, but...)
8. The rest of a Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
9. Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire series) by Mark Lawrence

So that is all the books on my list right now-and I might even write my own story too when I get a chance-I might even start tonight :) So happy new years y'all and I hope it's awesome and amazing like hopefully mine would be. 

Book Review: Burned, a House of Night Novel by P.C. and Kristin Cast

Burned by P.C. Cast
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Zoey's soul has shattered as soon as she saw Kalona kill her human consort, Heath Luck...in which I gasped and called him a jerk-off for doin' that, but as I digress, her soul has shattered and she's wondering around with Heath, who's trying to get her soul back. In the real world, tho...Neferet, being the TOTAL bitch from hell, tells Kalona to go to the Otherworld to make sure Zoey don't come back. (shall I laugh from this? Shall I? Yes, yes I shall).

So the rest of the gang that are there in Italy-Aphrodite, Darius, Stark, Shaunee, Erin, Jack and Damien, are trying to find a way to get Stark to the Otherworld to bring Zoey back-and the only way how is for Stark to die. So they go to this place where this totally awesome warrior queen and her Guardian told him that they can help him get to the Otherworld to bring Zoey back-and stop Kalona from carrying out Neferet's evil plan. (Once again, shall I laugh at this?) Even though Stark had to fight himself first to get through and find Zoey, it was worth it, even though the painful part of it was that he had to tell Heath to let go of Zoey.

In Tulsa, though...Stevie Rae, the current Red High Priestess, found Rephaim and saved him. Like..saved him, saved him. She kept him underground for a while, thinkin' that he'll be safe, but NOPE THAT DIDN'T WORK, NOW DID IT?! Reason why is because of the rouge red fledglings wanted to kill Stevie Rae, but somehow Rephaim saved her, making her break her Imprint with Aphrodite and imprinted with him. Then she hid him in an old house that was filled with spirits, and she herself summoned the wrong bull (gee, thanks Aphrodite for not tellin' her which bull was Darkness and which bull was Light) and Rephaim saved her from that by giving himself up for her, which I thought was really sweet. Then...then the thing happened with Dallas/Stevie Rae/Rephaim where Dallas went through the change and almost attacked the Raven Mocker. But thank god he didn't (though I would really wanna see that fight...)

So back in the Otherworld, once Stark told Heath to let go of Zoey and to move on, Kalona appeared and the two of them started to fight and Zoey finally put the pieces of her soul back, and she told Kalona to pay up. Kalona said no I won't do it, then Nyx appeared and forced him to do it, bringing Stark back to life. Then Stark fed from Zoey, and her tattoos and her elements came back to her, healing Stark and then they came back to the real world.

Honestly? This is an amazing book with a bunch of twists and turns and I really do recommend this a lot.

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