Book Review: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J,. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book review...right here...will possibly be the shortest one that i'll ever write (or will be in gif form). And with me shouting.

Because I honestly have no words.

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD THAT I JUST



FEYRE'S PTSD. THE FUCKING SHIT TAMILIN DID TO HER. MY LORD I HATED HIM WITH A PASSION.



AND THEN MY HUSBAND RHYSAND APPEARS AND TAKES HER AWAY, PURRING "Hello, Feyre Darling" AND I JUST



THE NIGHT COURT. VELARIS. MY GOD IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. I ALREADY LOVE MOR, ARMEN, CASSIAN AND AZRIEL AND ALL OF THEM ARE MY BABIES. BUT THEN WHEN FEYRE FINDS OUT THAT RHYSAND IS HER MATE, I WAS LIKE



AND CHAPTER 55 HOLY SHIT BALLS AND COCK MY FRIENDS IT WAS GLORIOUS. BUT OH NO WE'RE GOING TO GET THE CAULDRON AND SHIT HAPPENS AND FEYRE'S SISTERS ARE TURNED INTO FAE THANKS TO THE KING OF HYBERN AND THEN LUCIEN AND TAMLIN WALK IN



AND THEN SHE WENT BACK TO THE SPRING COURT TO SPY ON TAMILIN, WHILE ALSO SECRETLY HIDING THAT SHE'S THE HIGH LADY OF THE NIGHT COURT AND STILL RHYSAND'S MATE I'M SO PROUD OF MY BABY SHE GREW SO MUCH AND NOW I'M GOING TO READ THE THIRD BOOK AND CRY SO YEAH ENJOY ME SCREAMING ABOUT THIS BOOK.


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Book Review: An Affair Before Christmas

An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When you thought you did a book review on this book, but in reality you really didn't, and so you're about to do a book review now...

Soo hi, here's a book review about eight years too late when I first started reading this book, thinking 'Oh, I've read this book and it turns out...you fucking didn't. So this book was a fast read for me, mostly because I needed something to help me get over my Matthew Clairmont addiction, but in fact...it made it a tiny bit worse because of the fact that they went to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and I cried a little because it made me think of Matthew...BUT ENOUGH ABOUT MATTHEW CLAIRMONT....

This book was honestly a trip for me. It started off with Poppy and Fletch having a sexless marriage because of Poppy's overbearing mother...and yet once again, my problem with overbearing mamas telling their daughters what to do reared up big time and then Poppy falling out of love with the Duke of Fletcher because of her mama. So she moved out of her own home to live with Jemma (and honestly, lemme say this real quick: Jemma, Duchess of Beaumont, is giving me hella Lady Rosalie vibes and inspiration for her for my own Christmaswip-more on that on my blog later) and slowly she starts to turn into a Naturalist and finding her own self, letting go of everything her mama told her to do and just...be Perdita. Not a puppet her mother wanted her to be.

Fletch and Poppy kept thinking that they didn't love each other, they will forever be in a sexless marriage and will never have children. Fletch though Poppy hated sex, but it turns out that she listened to her damned mama about sex that she didn't even enjoy it...until that nigh at the Beaumont house, where Poppy started feeling those urges for him again, and decided to tell her friends that she wanted to seduce Fletch into bed like a Frenchwoman..well, after her mother went into a nunnery because someone thought that she was in love with a young man, then she felt those feeling for Fletch, and she seduced her husband like she was a Frenchwoman.

But the one odd thing in the story was the Duke of Villiers and his wound he got from the Earl of Gryffon, and how Miss Charlotte Tatlock pretty much brought him back to life, snapping at him and thinking he was dead and all...but all in all it was a really good book, even when Poppy and Fletch made love in a little bunny cave outside, I think? But it was really good and it gave me a lot of inspiration for my Christmaswip.

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Book Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book....this book, this book, this book. I thought when I first opened it and started to read it that it'll bore me to death, and I put it down. So when I brought it last year and this year decided to read it after watching the show...and I'm so glad I did. I couldn't put it down, even though I'm reading about three other books at once. But no one didn't tell me that I'd fall for Matthew Clairmont. No one told me that I'd cry over this book, over Bishmont and cheering for them. No one also didn't tell me that I was going to hunger for the next two books that I'm getting for Christmas.

But can we talk about Diana and her magic? Like good lord, woman-witchwater, witchfire, can knock people out of your mind-whoo girl. I wouldn't use it too if it'll attract a lot of attention from nearly everyone. And the book-the Ashmole 782...and how her dad enchanted it so she could get it...that was honestly brilliant.

And Matthew...god I can go on and on about my new husband (yes...yes I could. Because I wasn't supposed to fall for him, but I did...and now I love him and want to read more of him dammit). At first when Matthew appeared, I went "oh great, another Edward...yeah I hate you now." but the more I read the book to the point that I realize that yeah Matthew has some Edward Cullen-like tendencies, but then the more you know him, the more you realize that he's half (actually, he's better) than Edward Cullen will ever be. Sure he *tries* to boss Diana around, but I like the fact that Diana put her foot down and don't like sit back like Bella did in the Twilight novels.

(If it sounds like I'm bashing Twilight, I'm not...it's a comparison and honestly, I think I'm doing a good job comparing them).

I loved this book so much that I felt like I should just go ahead and get books two and three since I already have the fourth book (thanks, school). But before I do, we gotta talk about the bad guys-Peter Knox, who I hate so much, Satu...I hope she dies in a ditch somewhere, Dominico and Gellert or Javier or whatever his name is can go away...dammit.

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Book Review: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've read this book before, but then I didn't finish it and I put it right on back, thinking that it was boring, but now that I picked it up again and read the whole entire thing, I actually loved it. Librarians going to different alternative universes to get books and bring them to the Library, a place where books are housed and stuff. Now this book introduces Irene, a Librarian who is looking for Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers, and is set to work with Kai, a newbie to the Librarians.

The alternative they're sent to is London, but not the London that you know and love. This London has zeppelins made in Liechtenstein (and also Liechtenstein is also a country in this book), Fae, vampires, werewolves, even alligators and stuff like that. When they get to this new alternative, they met a detective named Vale, a fae named Silver, and a group called the Iron Brotherhood. Does this sound like a D&D story to you? It does to me, and I enjoyed every single moment of it. It had mystery, adventure, and also it had a dragon in it (in which I sat up and said, 'well hello there, dolly!' (not in those terms though) But I'm glad that they got the book...

That had to deal with Alberich's story?!

WTF?!

But first, Alberich...he's scary af. Like he skinned a librarian alive just to walk around in in skin, and then took another woman's skin and nearly killed Vale, and when Irene used the Language to take the skin off...what was under it almost scared the living hell out of me, but then I was glad because Irene (and Bradamat, whom I thought betreayed the library and I was wrong and I started to actually like) and Kai helped stopped Alberich and now wherever he is, I hope he stays there (tis a lie, but a girl can dream) But I loved this story and I want to read more of the books, I really do.

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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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