All The Bright Places

so first of funny story turns out I had my comments off.... so if you were trying and it wasn't letting you...now we know why... please if you have ever wanted to comment do so! i would love to talk too yall and hear opinions book requests etc. and secondly i have major tests so the next two weeks will probably not see a review because i wont have time to read and it turn wont have time to write. now lets begin with all the bright places by jennifer niven. upfront warning there are themes of teen suicide through out the book if that triggers or upsets you don't read this. so our book starts out with finch and violet, they meet on the top of a bell tower and are both about to jump. its not really clear who saves who. sam is a pretty depressed kid who spends long stretches of time "asleep" and thinks about death ever day (the how, when, and why of it all) and violet is a girl who crawled into a shell after her sisters death and is determined to avoid the world at all costs. but oddly enough when they meet sam wakes up and violet wants to live again. theres is a heart breaking story of finding strength in yourself when forces unknown make you want to end it all. i absolutely loved this book it is beautifully tragic and one of those coming of age stories i recommend (for everyone) but specifically young adults who are around the same age of our characters. you will cry. there will be tears. you will want to jump into the book and hold them and make it all ok. but you cant. fair warning. this is a wonderful coming of age story and there are so many quotable profound scenes i cant pick out my favorite. niven writes so many lines that speak volumes in truth, one being “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.” another being “Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.” this novel teaches us that time is precious and to make the most of what we are given, we can be anyone we choose to be, sometimes people are hurting in ways you can't see, and that life can be lovely if you make it. if you enjoyed paper towns or most john green works you will probably be a fan of this. i ultimately walked away from this book feeling smarter, maybe not school smarts but life smarts. there isn't much else to say because this book kind of speaks for itself. please read it. i bet a quarter you will enjoy it. let me know if you have or did and comment your opinion.
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THE BEST DAY EVER

let. me. just.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
alright had to get that out of my system i think im done screaming. maybe. now i know i haven't done this before but i had the best day today and since it was relevant to books i thought i would share. so this awesome day started with soccer tryouts and i feel like i played pretty good so that was fun. that was followed by some super productive classes and lunch with my awesome dad who brought me a hotdog (i love hotdogs) then after school i got to spend the evening watching a simpsons marathon which is crazy because i haven't watched tv since august. when i got home i knocked out my homework and ordered four books for SUPER CHEAP off amazon (they were used but does it matter). i got a great nights sleep after that. oh wait did something else happen? i seem to remember something else happening. OH RIGHT. FREAKING SHELLY CRANE EMAILED ME!!!!! that's right people of the web shelly crane author of significance and the oxygen series responded to an email i sent her and we talked. i talked to flipping shelly crane. when i got the email i screamed like i shit you not i screamed.....i was in class....oh well. so i emailed asking her if there would be a sequel to the oxygen series and she said yes! i am going to review the first book in the series when i have time because i thoroughly enjoyed it. then she said happy holidays like you emailed me THE HOLIDAYS ARE SURE AS HECK GONNA BE HAPPY NOW! i think that's about all for this unnecessary post hope yall are having a nice december someone touch some snow for me :)
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Never Always Sometimes

okay. i almost titled this post "books that made me give up on romance altogether" but then when you google the book name this wouldn't come up. so. its been awhile since my last review i have been crazy busy trying not to fail school and listening to the hamilton soundtrack (THIS BOOK GOT ME HELPLESSSSSSS DOWN FOR THE COUNT AND IM DROWNIN IN HIM) so i read this book about a week ago and honestly i was too salty to write about it right away. that would have been a cannibalistic review. blood, carnage, and verbal beatings. so i let it simmer and now here i am. slightly less tiffed and willing to see the lesson behind the ending. still not happy but that's life. without further delay lets crush some dreams. Never Always Sometimes by adi alsaid starts of with dave and julia who are seniors in high school and have been friends since lower school. they made this list to avoid being clichés things like don't go to parties or don't go on "montagey" road trips and learn valuable life lessons. one day senior year they decide to break every single rule they set for themselves and they find they have been missing out on all these amazing things. now this is going to be the most difficult review i have ever written because everything i want to rant about and completely trash is a huge ass spoiler and i am not a book spoilin hussie so i am going to refrain. now the characters in this book are slightly annoying to me. the main character julia avoids clichés but the truth is she is one, shes "the girl who tries so hard to be different and special" cliche. i will give credit where credit is due, in a fight dave actually points out all of julias character flaws so we know this annoying need to be an individual was part of the plan and not completely worthless. it lends to the overall lesson of the book. but even then it was sooooooooooo annoying i mean gosh. also a big bothersome (i guess i would call it an "idea") is that you can cheat on someone, think you know what you want, and when it doesn't work out you can go back to that first relationship and everythings peachy. that's a dick move. dave is sweet but honestly he kind of played some girls with the "i don't know how i feel" thing. if you don't know how you feel take a beat and figure it out don't drag MULTIPLE hearts through the mud along the way. the over all idea of the novel is supposed to be something along the lines of *im being vague to avoid spoilers* "just because you could have a relationship with someone doesn't mean its going to work out" OR "romance is a lie and it will hurt you like no bodies business" OR "an equation could have two answers but one could be the better answer" OR "just because you can doesn't mean you should". the ending while extremely true to the shattyness of life *no sugar coated happily ever after* is not how i would have done things had i been in the characters shoes. you are kind of left off thinking oh... well... i mean ...i would have yeeted out but this works too. but the honest to God most bothersome thing was that this book just made me sad. not fault in the stars sad where the beauty of it makes it worth while to be sad but soul crushing why did i read this sad. and while there was some lesson to be learned in all honesty i wouldn't have minded not getting to learn it. i get it. romance sucks and life doesn't work out the way you plan. THATS WHY I READ. like life has enough suckage. some of yall may enjoy this type of thing but it wasn't something i liked while it did have a good lesson, it made me cry ugly tears and it was bothersome. feel free to give it a try don't let me stop you, comment if you have a different opinion.
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Tone Deaf

its been a shatty day friends. shatty like i want to curl up with my shatty grades and escape my shatty life except i don't have any books to read at the moment because i finished them all because i am a shatty fast paced reader. and i loved this book so much it gave me some hope for the future. and then i realized no cute lead singer is going to smuggle me away in his RV. and then it was shat again. BUT MOVING ON FROM MY ISSUES. tone deaf by olivia rivers was my entertainment this weekend and it was fabulous. tone deaf follows ali collins who was a musical prodigy before she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which when upon removed rendered her deaf. so she uses ASL and reads lips and is abused by her asshole father. guy has deep issues. when she goes to a concert she meets jace beckett who is a dreamy singer for her best friends favorite band. when he sees the bruises on her he realizes whats going on and offers to help her escape. soon she becomes drawn back into the world of music and she falls in "the feels" with jace who may have a few more layers than she first assumed... so this is a fabulous book if you don't want to get invested in a series it's great for a car trip or a short period of time it took me about a day to finish. so my friend (you know who you are so shout out and i think i left my bathing suit at your house) and i are learning asl together so personally i found this book super interesting because i could picture the signs they were doing. now can i just say something about love. my favorite thing (besides sliding through the house with socks on) is losin my mind in a sweet story about finding love against the odds. HOWEVER books like these set girls expectations to high because no matter how sweet and perfect a boy is that poor boy will never be jace beckett and that poor girl will have to settle. so some people say don't read these books it sets the bar to high and makes real boys look crappy. my refute: i like this boy *he shall remain nameless because in the words of river song spoilerzzz* and he will never be jace beckett *tears* but at the same time jace beckett could never be that boy. that boy is special in a lot of ways these fictional characters aren't so shout out to you mystery boy. im going of on so many tangents its horrible and i apologize profusely. i loved this book because it was a sweet story (some themes of domestic violence through out if that makes you uncomfortable don't read this) ill leave yall with this: read this book and fall in love with its characters but remember there are real people who may not be as great those characters...they also may be better.
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Everything, Everything

sooooo its been a crazy week. fall holiday, skipped my first class like ever (but lets not tell anyone about that) and i got a crap tone of books. the other one im reviewing (tone deaf) will be up soon but the other series (significance) im gonna finish the whole series before reviewing. so this book was fabulous. love love love. so nicola yoon aka my new hero wrote this single book story that made me want to go live life. but im getting ahead of myself let me catch you up. so everything, everything is single book story about a girl named madeline who has SCID which is severe combine immune deficiency disease more commonly known as bubble baby syndrome. basically she is allergic to everything and has never left her house (which is air locked and perfectly clean) the only people who see her are her mom and her nurse carla. so shes perfectly chill with this lifestyle she reads, draws, takes online school, and entertains herself all day everyday UNTIL she gets a cute new neighbor who makes her want more from life than she can have. now i absolutely loved this book my only critique is that it ended so soon. i wish it was a series because i want to follow these characters to the end of the earth. so olly (cute new neighbor) is such an amazing character like if a boy like that knocked on my door and said come take a risk with me you already know what im doin. takin a freakin risk. she honestly throws caution to the wind and yells yolo and hopes for the best and it made me want to take risks or be in a video montage dancing around all tumblr like and living life. don't judge me please. the main message behind this story is literally carpe diem, yolo, and/or oh screw it. these characters grabbed the bull by the horns and that's what you will want to do post reading this. there are lots of pictures so this took me about three hours to finish she draws a lot of things like charts for her life or plans or just anything i mean the chick has TONES of free time. anyways her doodles are cute and its a nice touch. if you want to appreciate life this book will make you i swear. its a super quick read so id recommend it for road trips or just down times its not a difficult read with the doodles and short paragraphs. now when i picked up this book i was expecting a coming of age story nothing crazy got ear the end of it its cute its good and then probably the best part of the book occurs. THE PLOT TWIST. OH MY SWEET HOLY ALIEN BABIES EVERY WHERE THE PLOT TWIST IS SO BEAUTIFUL. i mean definitely one of the best plot twists i have ever read and you don't see it coming AT ALL. like holy poop. im still getting the after shocks every time i think about it. so in short i love this book like a small child and you NEED to read it. please. i beg you.
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The Black Key

OKAY GUYS EXCITING DAY EXCITING TIMES.


WARNING: f you haven't read the first three lone city books this may contain spoilers for them


i finally got the fourth lone city book. after months of waiting for it to be published. the countdown clock has hit zero. i may cry. now to recap the jewel series (which i reviewed earlier go check it out) takes place in a world where the royalty must use surrogates to have children and these surrogates have powers called auguries but really they are like avatar airbender powers when they unleash them fully. so the surrogates get treated like actual crap its not okay and the whole hierarchy social system in this world is pretty well for lack of better phrasing its shat. so these surrogates and companions and everyone who got the short end of the stick here decide its time for a rebellion because why the hell not they have nothing left to lose! the book follows the main character violet as she sneaks back into the hell she escaped to save her little sister who was taken in her place. so the duchess of the lake has the pretty effed up plan to take power and what not. basically in this book you see the uprising of the lower class people and how the surrogate embrace their true powers and use them to fight. so i over all enjoyed this book as yall know i read this series in the beginning of the summer and have been waiting for the final installment for SO LONG. so this was exciting. keep in mind i have been dreaming about how this series was going to end for MONTHS. MONTHS PEOPLE. i imagined the twisted ways our characters could make it through this (or not make it through this). and when i read this final book after all the build up i was kind of let down. the ending was a bit generic and predictable and to be honest i was kind of sad. but at the same time i realized i set the bar higher than the druggies at my school so. still it was very predictable no plot twists nothing surprising so there's that. all the characters are pretty much the same violet is protective of her family and makes a lot of split second screw it decisions that can be pretty reckless but also very brave. her boyfriend is mentioned like twice. what was his name again? idk they said it maybe two times. he pulls a "i want to be a hero" at the beginning of the book goes rogue runs of to save some people and we don't hear from him till the end of the book. so if you like him you wont like this. so the battle s subpar the whole book pretty much builds up to this fight scene and the tension is sooooo high and then the battle sucks. it doesn't make much sense and honestly the more i think about it the more pissed i get. so screw you battle. this book was a bit of a downer but it was nice to have closure it was a mediocre book so i wouldn't recommend it but at the same time if you like me HAVE to know how it ends sffr through and find out its not that bad. more reviews coming :))
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The Demon Trappers Daughter

alright kiddies gather round im gonna tell you a story of the time i went to half price books and left in tears. twas a lovely summer morning when i rolled up to the second hand book store and ask them if they had the lux series (i have the kindle version but i wanted the paperback) when they told me they did not have it i figured might as well look for the other twenty bazillion books on my "too read asap" list. now i browsed the store only to realize thirty minutes later THEY HAD NONE OF THE BOOKS I WANTED TO READ. grrrrrrr. so i angrily began to take my leave until i saw a book that was in the corner on a stool, the demon trappers daughter by jane oliver. now it was pretty far down on my list but hey something too read is better than nothing. so that's how i got this book. fun story right? now for the summary: the demon trappers daughter is set in 2018 in Atlanta Georgia where the city is run amuck by demons (i think the best way to describe them would be angry pokemon...the trappers try to catchem all and the demons level up as they take more souls) so the demon trappers are a league of men trained to catch the demons its a dangerous job and riley blackthorne wants to follow in her dads footsteps only problem.... shes a girl. and if she can succeed she would be the first girl trapper in Atlanta however with sexiest leaders and angry demons after her rileys journey will be anything but easy. so this book earned some solid thumbs up from me because as yall know i love books with female characters who break gender roles and this book definitely did that. i also liked this book because the romance wasn't that far of from accurate, the first relationship is super rushed like the conversation literally goes "are you dating anyone"-"yea you"-"oh cool". i shit you not that's how they got together. but riley acknowledges that there relationship is super eighth grade lets hold hands under the lunch table and she learns from it through out the book, her character shows obvious growth and its cool to watch her change over the course of the series. now this is a pretty cool story because she still has to go to school, do homework, pay bills, and worry about life so shes pretty relatable even though shes running through a wasted city catching pokemon. so i think i have a bit of a southern twang in my voice and when i read this book i read becks characters voice as deep south Georgia as i could. and i had a lot of fun with it. that's my life for yall... i get my kicks from reading in accents. there are also angels in this book if i didn't mention before and some freakishly religious people who through holy water on innocent bar goers who actually happen to be demons. colorful cast of characters jane oliver, i applaud you. im listening to old songs and dynamite and taio cruz just came on so throw back to taio. sorry yall im a lil add abcdefg today BUT GUESS WHAT!!!! wait ill tell yall my news after i trash this book real quick. there are some dull points that i skimmed through because i wanted to get to the exciting parts (which were mostly at the end) that would be the only thing i didn't like about this book. i would read this if your into series like maximum ride or darkest powers (i say that because the romance was sweet but its not the main point its like a nice side bar amidst the demon fighting) OKAY NOW MY NEWS so i ordered like four books on amazon (eve, the black key, significance, and tone deaf) im super duper excited because if youll look back into my previous reviews youll see i read the first three jewel series books over the summer and the fourth one (the black key) just came out and im so excited!!!! the anticipation has been building for months. so be on the look out for that review ill post it when i finished the book which will probably be very soon....i have nothing else to do. yall have a fabulous day, read the demon trappers daughter hmmm what else oh yes SHAKIRA SHKAIRA. can someone please contact me and mail me a chill pill. please and thanks. read the book. love the book. sniff the book. trap the pokemons.
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Defy

SOOOOO i am in government and it would probably be in my best interest to do homework but i just finished defy by sara b larson and i wanted to write about it while it was fresh on the old thinker. also im not advertising (trust me i wish i got paid for this) but whatshouldireadnext.com is this epic website i found where you enter an author or book or series and it generates a bunch of similar books you may like, its actually how i heard about defy. speaking of which shall we talk about this lil book? okay if you insist. mulan err umm i mean alex(a) and her twin brother marcel live in a mid-evil world with sorcery and sword fights, all the woman are sent to "breeding houses" to have mas bebitas who will become soldiers for the king and all the boys become soldiers for the kind, can you decide not to fight for the king? sure of course they aren't that unreasonable allow us to escort you to the execution chamber where we can discuss other job options. anyways alexa is a girl and her twin brother marcel doesn't want to loose her so they learn to fight, cut her hair, and join the army together. alexa learns to cross dress like a champ and eventually ends up on the princes personal elite guard and shes the best fighter there is. mulan er um *wheezes* i mean alex begins to get closer to the prince and kind of likes him but she dressin as a dude and no one can know so feelings for cute boys will just have to wait. now even though she is the best of the best she cant stop sorcerers from kidnapping her, rylan (a fellow guard), and the prince. the further they get into the journey the more she realizes she isn't the only one with secrets DUN DUN DUHHHH. so overall i thought this was a pretty great book (i only read the first one but it is a three book series) the romance was a bit overwhelming like one moment you are pretending to be a boy and for that reason you cant show affection to other boys in this world and the next moment she is smack dab in the middle of a love triangle. 0 to 100 real quick. like her relationships move so fast i think i have whip lash. mulan *chokes on life* i mean alex is a pretty cool character she fights better than all the boys and there is definitely a ton of feminine empowerment and gender role fighting in the book. the supporting characters were pretty generic a salty entitled prince who is secretly super kind and the lovable best friend who has liked liked her since the beginning. gennnneeeeerrrrriiiiiccccc but enjoyable non the less. the only thing that kind of made me sad (and this was a matter of taste) is that i love humor in books, i don't think it has to be a comedy but i appreciate one liners and funny banter. their is no humor in this book like zipo zero zilch. there were soooo many scenes i wanted alexa to drop a funny one liner on all her haters but they are all pretty proper and don't crack any jokes. so i would recommend reading mulan the book *dies* i mean defy by sara b larson its pretty good leaves a bit to be desired and will slap you upside the head with intense romantic feelings but its still entertaining and fun to watch a girl kick ass.
im gonna go fail a vocab test. thanks for reading.
P.S.
DISHONOR ON YOU DISHONOR ON YOUR COW-mushu

The Covenant Series

so i just wrote an essay in about an hour that probably should've taken me three hours however red bull and encouraging pintrest posts allowed me to push through the horror that is history and pull it out. now here i am waiting at the diner table considering starting this big booty new book i bought however i thought it best to start writing about the one i just read while its fresh on my mind, bare with me im delirious and hyper. the covenant series (written by jennifer l armentrout aka the love of my life) is a series based off of mythology with a few twists, i think the fabulous thing about being a writer is you can screw the system and throw in a twist in there because who is gonna stop you!! i digress. in the book the hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers and are up on their high horses like you wouldn't believe. children of hematoi and mortals--well, not so much. half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. they definitely got the short end of the stick on that one. so our story follows alex(andria) a half blood who is one smart ass comment away from being sent into servitude asnd she would rather die than scrub toilets so she trains to become a guard. now the most serious rule in this hierarchal society is pures and halves cant hookup. now enter aiden. a pure who alex just cant for the love of the lord keep her eyes off of. mix that forbidden love in with some extremely dangerous and deadly daimon fights and you have the covenant series. i was over all a fan of this series, it was pretty much based on alex's problems and love life but they also focused a lot on the political workings of this secret society. they fight through the prejudices placed on half bloods and alex breaks every damn glass ceiling ever. girl power. however im fairly certain she has a death wish. throughout the book she is so self sacrificing its like she doesn't even care if she lives, she basically offers herself in place of others every chance she gets. im all for some heroic sacrifice but its like every fight she says "no if it means yall are safe ill just die" but in most cases there are so many other ways out of it and she doesn't even fight it! ive decided to rename this book dial m for martyr heheheheheheheh please please appreciate that joke before i cry. other than the fact that she is a suicidal energizer bunny alex is a pretty cool character. so jennifer l armentrout the love of my life my literary hero and author of my favorite series (the lux series *swoons*) now i hadn't read any of her other work besides the lux series until i read the covenant series and i have to tell yall she writes the wittiest and funniest dialogue ever! from reading both series you can definitely recognize her style of writing because its freakin hilarious. oh the one liners they give me hope for the future. she creates the best smart ass characters like every one of them, especially alex, have mouths like firecrackers and THE BANTER IS ENDLESS. i would recommend this book if you can get over alex's annoying martyr tendencies then its a great read and the fight scenes are so damn good it feels like your watching a wwe fight and you want to get up and root and yell for the heros but you cant because your mom will worry about your mental stability. don't act like yall don't relate. anyhoot i must away and learn things. if you liked the lux series, the strange angels series, or the mortal instruments series this is your thang right here. if not give it a try it may surprise you! thanks for reading

Strange Angels

warning: this is not a kind review. note my frequent use of capitalization and angry exclamation marks. proceed with caution


dear people of the internet, i am having a shitty day. not just a shitty day, nay a day that belongs in the toilet. courtesy flush required. in order to perk up my mood im going to trash a book that blinded me with what felt like enjoyment and shoved it all where the sun don't shine in the last chapter. that's right friends lili st. crow's strange angels. yall know how i roll by now so lets start of with a brief summary. the series follows dru (they ask her what its short for but either i skimmed the bit where they told us or they never actually tell us her full name) who was raised as a supernatural hunter of all things that go bump in the night (shes also the fifth ghostbuster) she meets graves a lowley kind of homeless goth boy. when her father is killed and turned into a zombie shes pretty much screwed and alone, graves offers her helped and she accidentally drags him into the world of the supernatural (not many people know of the supernatural world in this book btw) he gets bit by wulfen and turns into a kind of human with wolf abilities. anyhoot they go on the run from this crazy vampire who wants dru because shes special *i cant say anymore bc spoilerssss* and get aid from this extremely cute djamphir named cristophe who manages to answer every question with a question. hes "mysterious" which makes me want to "shoot him". now the rag tag bunch along with some other characters must help dru embrace her destiny, live happily ever after, and try not to die in the mean time. so this book had me absolutely captivated for some time and i wont deny it. BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH FILLER WRITING! one word. unnecessary. i skimmed a lot in this book only because so much of it felt unnecessary or useless. which got me bored. which got me sad. which got me pissy. which lead me here. i love the general idea of this story if you were to tell me this book and leave out the extra stuffing id be a happy little peach however that aint happenin. i liked all the creative terms and them randomly speaking some european language every now and then and i actually googled it afterwards so i guess that's positive. now for this book i kept telling myself just get past this boringness and itll get good but surprise surprise it did not. let the shit show continue. the courtesy flush is now a demand. the ending is anitclimatic to say the least, dru could has two great love intrests and after fighting her feelings and crap this whole book, she has some split second epiphany and decides she doesn't want anything with anyone. because that's fun. so many more things i hate about the ending but none i can disclose without spoiling. another thing that bothered me about this book was how repetitive it got i mean, i get how over a series some points need to be repeated but this book assures that you could jump in on book three and youll get what happened in the first two books because they reiterate so much. the funny thing is they sound pretty much like the same sentences, i dare you to count how many times dru says some form of "i lived below the Mason-Dixon" i. dare. you. i mean saying it once of twice sure but i counted more than 15 times that same phrase was used i mean for petes sake WE GET IT YOUR SOUTHERN. probably the most annoying part of this book was dru, she had a bit of either an "i can do it myself" attitude or a martyr complex at most times, she literally throws her self in dangerous situations to prove that she can do anything and everything because shes dru! solid logic my friends. and the worst is that she isn't even good at saving people and puts them in more danger by trying to save them too many times to count. WHICH IS ANNOYING AF. if your gonna put in a headstrong heroine who don't need no help from no body at least let her give her some kick butt scenes in which she really needs no help from nobody. now i thought hating on this book would make me feel better but it just made me sad. i had such high hopes for this book and i turned a blind eye at every flaw but i just cant deal with anticlimactic endings, repetitive sentences, and pathetic heroines. i just cant. i read this book online and im glad because if i had the paper copy things would've gotten violent. i would say don't read this, unless you really want too. keep looking because their is much material to read than this. im exhausted and i have a bio test so i must away to study. comment please i really want to hear yalls feedback. thanks for reading


if anyone knows what dru is short for TELL ME! even google doesn't know :(((

Darkest Powers

OOOOOOOkay so school has officially started back up and since it wants to see me suffer ive already had to start cutting back on my reading time which is no bueno. that being said i may not post my next review for awhile depending on when a finish the book and how much homework i have too tackle.

            side note: my sweet dad decided to surprise me and order a book online for me to read so that will probably be my next review. now my dad did give me the darkest powers series for which i am forever grateful (he saw it on a book list and said YOLO and got it) however i am slightly worried he will pick a goofy book... oh well thatll make for a fun filled review. also the only hint he would give me was that it was about vampires and im praying twilight doesn't show up on my porch in six business days.

so lets get starts with darkest powers by kelley armstrong. the book kicks off with chloe, an itty bity frail strawberry blonde, who has this breakdown in the middle of school when she sees this disfigured janitor, she figures out that he is a ghost because no one else can see him. now, when a small girl starts screaming about a man trying to get her when no one is there it seems logically to send them to a group home. however chloe soon learns that lyle house is no ordinary group home and the other teens aren't ordinary either. follow a bunch of pubescent rug-rats on the run as they use their powers to evade the police, fight of attackers, and sneak up on each other. meet derek the moody boy in the mist of a puberty smack down with some dark secrets and simon his perky foster brother who will never not be perky. never. like the world could explode and he would be perky. now i absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this serious, its funny and honestly relatable. i mean derek has acne like no other and i can just relate to that on a spiritual level and his mood swings just speak to my soul. #dereksouzaismyspiritanimal first off i am a huge fan of stories about teens doing epic things and kicking adult butt because it just feels so right. like reading about a fifteen year old girl knocking out a grown man is like watching WWE for book nerds. like how can you not root for a good rag tag group of teens! so character wise its pretty simple like there are no extremely complex love triangles or lies that i have to keep track of which is so nice. if you want some deep romance this isn't your thang because the romance is super simple (geared more towards younger readers) and definitely not the main point of the series and nothing really happens romantically till the end. another thing i admired about armstongs writing is the fact that all three books (which are around 400 pages each) take place over like two weeks. that's right book one(the reckoning), 400ish pages, soans of around four days worth of activities. and ya know the crazy thing is it didn't feel cramped together or anything like some books that have so many unnecessary chapters just to take up some space but this fair sized book that only covers four days isn't cramped at all and there are no unnecessary chapters BLESS THE LORD FOR THAT. i think the one thing that erked me is (spoilers be damned im gonna have to be vague for yall) chloe learns shes pretty powerful and she has at her disposal powers to create a "force" (because i cant tell yall what she can create *-*) and theoretically this force could do some serious damage however chloe doesn't really tap into that crazy bad ass side of herself that totally could have come out at any point. like if she could put on her big girl panties and do some damage on these bad guys that be fabulous. well apart from that i was a big fan of this series and i totally suggest this for an easy and fun read.  anyhoot hope yall read this, comment below if you want to chat or plan my marriage with a fictional character. that's the problem with all my crushes.... their all fictional... *cough cough jace couch daemon cough cough maxon* welllll im gonna go do precal homework

thanks for reading

Shadow Falls

alright so i just got my wisdom teeth out today and because i am unable to do literally anything else be expecting a few more posts in the next day or two. furthermore, i will address this point in my critiques below, i read this series in two days. there are five books. each are about 300 pages. now given the fact that i read this in a hot second, summarizing will be a bit difficult because it all kind of blends together at this point. that being said if this summary bit is confusing go ahead and google it. so our series begins with kylie whose parents have just been divorced and in an act of rebellion she attends a rowdy party which is busted by the police. her mom then sends her to a camp for trouble teens even though kylie didnt drink or do drugs at this party and she is overall a good kid. as she gets to this camp she realizes these teens may be troubled but they definitely arent human and they all believe she isnt either. through out the series they try to figure out what species kylie is, two gorgeous boys fight for her attention, and a creepy man tries to kill her multiple times. i enjoyed this series a bunch, it didnt beat out my current favorites, but it was still pretty awesome. i really liked the variety of paranormal creatures cc hunter used, i have read plenty of paranormal books but none had this kind of variety. it makes it so interesting not havin just your generic paranormal creatures. i also LOVED the fight scenes. i have mentioned before in other posts how crazy it makes me for people with epic powers to have subpar fight scenes and let me promise you the fights in shadow falls do not disappoints. kylie kicks ass, her friends kick ass, EVERYONE KICKS ASS. its just fabulous. i loved that the characters were very modern day and relatable while still being paranormal. also i love all these characters so so much like i would love to go hang out with these people. now you are probably wondering "kayleigh if you liked this book so freaking much why did it not surpass your current favorites." well its none of your damn business. just kidding. please dont exit out. well curious reader if you must know there were a few parts of this book i didnt care for to terribly much. nothing that would prevent me from loving it as much as i do but just enough to keep it from becoming my favorite. allow me to elaborate. i did not like that this series (which was made into five books) probably could have been four or three books if they had cut some of the unnecessary bits out. something that i guess kind of goes with that point is that all five books blended together, if you wanted any closure from this story you had to finish the whole series unlike many other series where each book in them offers a specific amount of closure. uh uh no sire not this series. if you want to know what she is, who she picks, if she defeats her enemies, or literally anything else you have to get to book five. basically dont expect to read one and not feel like you have to read all five. you will want to. like it or not. (this is why i read all five in two nights not because i had too or was rushed i just HAD TO KNOW THE END) i may need therapy i think i have a book addiction. i think the only other thing i didnt care for was that there were a few parts that were unnecessary too the book. like this one scene that just had me asking, why? kylie is standing around doing lord knows what when a decapitated head (ghost head) falls to her feet and she screams and kicks it away like a soccer ball. and they never mention it again. they just continue on the next chapter like it never happened. i dont know where cc hunter was headed with that one. please go back and reread that sentence if you didnt get the joke. if yall dont notice it i will cry myself to sleep tonight. i think thats about all i have to say on shadow falls. in my opinion its a good read and 100% my type of book. i suggest you read it. comment below if you want to fight me. or talk about books. sorry the post surgery meds are messing with my feelings.
thanks for reading

The Revenants

ATTN if you google the revenants more than likely it will show you stuff about the leo dicaprio movie so IF you go to google this book look up "until i die" (which is the first book) that is all carry on

alright so amy plum's revenant series, before i completely cry about my problems in a rant that will probably make you want to cut my tongue off, ill give you a lil summary. so this book takes place in modern day paris where main character kate and her sister georgia have moved to live with their grandparents after their parents were killed in an accident. kate starts seeing weird stuff and odd goings on and realizes eventuallllyyyy that their is this whole race of undead people called revenants living across the world their job is to save humans even if it costs them their lives (i wouldve said name this book "the suicide squad" but that names already taken) its okay though because revenants just come back to life a few days later if they die (unless you burn them in a fire) so kate falls in love with this revenant named vincent and she becomes apart of this whole world. now obviously you see the issue of an undead guy fallin for a living girl so thats a constant problem not to mention there are bad guys called numa who basically serve the opposite purpose of the revenants (to get people too die however they have too). i cant really give much else away for fear of spoilin so if yall want more just google it. refer to ATTN above before googling. so i was not a fan of this book. i eagerly waited six business days to get these books and im not feelin them anymore. remember even though im about to trash this book you may enjoy reading it, this may be your thang. dont let me stop you from doing your thang. where do i even start with this series, let me pull a compliment out of before the bloodbath begins. i liked the frequent use of the word baguette. that is all. okay i guess i enjoyed that there were so many historical references with the history, art, and the characters being from different decades plum obviously put a lot of work into making it historically accurate. what i didnt like about this book was that first off the relationship was shat. it wasnt believable at all for me and i couldnt get into it. and kate pissed me off too many times too count, this hoe was always runnin around sayin i can help i can help but she makes the situation so much worse and sure it works out a few times but its almost not even worth it. she acts like this is her world and she owns the damn place i mean she literally tells vincent at one point he doesnt understand the pain shes in with the death of her parents....the first time he died in the 1920's he saw his parents and future wife shot and killed and he has been dying for people for about 80 years so ya he has no idea how much pain youre in. that bothers me when regular characters almost push their way into these other worlds and kind of force everyone to accept them. believe me when i say i could rant for hours on everything about kate that made me want to push her off a bridge. however one major point i would like too rant on is a huge spoiler and im not gonna do that to y'all. lets just say kate is given a new role and while she doesnt fail she doesnt really do much to help, they all cheer her name at the end but she kind of just showed up.... also the fight scenes were crap. i kind of knew mid series plum didnt have the balls to kill off any major characters that anyone liked so i didnt really fear for their safety. and when dying is THAT hard for someone it didnt make me excited or nervous when a fight broke out in the book. FURTHERMORRREEE plum tried but in my opinion failed to pull off some kind of love triangle to shake up the book. the problem with this is that as shatty as their relationship is its obvious they are not going to run off with someone else. so when plum made this character (who shall remain nameless spoilerzz)  admit feelings for kate she kind of just said um sorry but no. then he got all salty and moved to new york....over a love triangle...that wasnt a triangle....it was all very unnecessary. LIKE THE WHOLE FIRST BOOK. AND MOST OF THE SECOND. THEY WERE SUCH FILLER BOOKS. honestly with zero character development in any emotional department whatsoever i could have wikipediaed the first and second books, read quick summaries, and then read the third book. it probably wouldve had the same effect. over all this book made me want to cry sad sad tears because i set the bar fairly high and this book was no where close to my expectations. this may be your thing but sure as hell was not mine. comment below if you felt differently or you want to join my rant. thanks for reading. 

Mortal Instruments-City Of Bones (the first one)

quick vocab lesson
mundane=a human
shadowhunter=someone who hunts demons
downworlder= hybrids half human half demon (warlocks, faeries, werewolves, vampires, etc.)
the friend zone= a cold and sad place

hello people of earth. i need to rant real quick because i mean i dont need to explain myself im just gonna rant. so its a saturday night my friends are out dancing or at lollapalooza or partyin it up and im here at home. blogging. yall see how its hard to get into this when i want to be dancing right now? also i met this cute boy and he makes it real hard to focus on things like blogging about a book i didnt much care for. now i may be a bit angry at this book because when i went to get a different book from the library it was out of stock so basically i grabbed this because i knew if i didnt have anything to read i would be bored ALL weekend. so i just snagged this one and i kind of forced myself to read it. now if school books and this book have taught me anything its that if you read a book you dont 100% want too read for yourself you wont like it no matter how good it is. im so mad at this book i could light it on fire and throw it off a bridge however it is not cassandra clares fault that the book i wanted to read was out off stock, mrs clare didnt not force me to read this book, i did this to myself. now im gonna review this damn book try not to think about this damn cute boy and all my friends having so much damn fun. damn. *deep calming breathes* sit back relax and enjoy. i mean if you want too. no pressure. so the mortal instruments follows fifteen year old clary fray as she heads to a night club and witnesses a murder committed by a group of teens covered in ink, however when she calls security they disappear to everyone but her. soon after her mother disappears and in a desperate attempt to get her back she is thrust into a world she was made to forget. read along as clary discovers all the secrets of her life that were hidden deep on her mind. meet jace, a cute shadowhunter with nice hair and a shatty attitude. meet adorkable simon who you will want to hug because he kind of gets friendzoned so hard it hurts to watch. and finally meet church, the smart cat who can take you anywhere you want to go in the institute. where do i begin. well this book is not that bad let me start with that, i read it under bad circumstances and im salty so i feel the need to trash this book but it wasnt that bad. i also saw the movie first WHICH IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOK so i had a different idea of what the book would be like and while it definitely wasnt what i thought it would be BUT it wasnt necessarily bad. now the main thing i found to be good about this book was that clare made this whole world and it felt so real. many times books focus on the story and keeps it in a little bubble but not this one ohhhhhhh no clare made sure the readers knew everything about this secret supernatural world, like i could have an hour long discussion on the politics of the shadowhunters and not even mention the characters and their issues. i think its safe to say when you know an imaginary society's political system as well as your own then the author has done their job. claps for cassandra. now i didnt really care for how high and mighty the shadowhunters were the whole book, i mean i wanted more than anything for clary to have some kick ass oh look a mundane just saved your sorry butt moment but she never really got that...i mean i was ready too rep for the human race, jump into the book, and fight some vampires but since thats not gonna happen ill just sit back and watch as we are poorly represented by a girl who runs around aimlessly a lot. finally ill tell you what kind of had me laughing this whole book. this chick is fifteen. she is getting into night clubs, killing demons, running wild through the city. and shes fifteen. how is she even getting into a night club at fifteen?! i mean sure there are fake ids but youd think the bouncer would say hmmmm maybe i shouldnt let you in you look a little too prepubescent for this. im looking at my pictures from when i was fifteen and i looked like a goober for goodness sakes alive youd have to be blind or dumb to have let mini me into a night club. i guess thats about all i have to say about this book. its good enough but if you arent feelin it dont force yourself to finish because you will end up salty like me. comment below if you dont have anything better too do. thanks for reading

Sweet Evil

OKAY FIRST OF ALL I JUST ORDERED A NEW SERIES OFF AMAZON AND IT WILL BE HERE IN SIX BUSINESS DAYS AND IM SO EXCITED ALSO IVE BEEN DRINKING WAY TO MUCH COFFEE AND GLEE RADIO IS ON AND IM JUST FEELING THIS DAY. i need to do some yoga or something lord. okay so for some reason i have just happened to read three series in a row that all end up being about angels and nephilim and the devil... idk why it ended up that way i mean i was aware sweet evil was about angels and demons etc but the other two were a surprise (hush, hush and fallen) NOW i have made it clear in my review of hush, hush that i liked the was sweet evil portrayed these creatures much better than the other two. sweet evil is a pretty great book written by wendy higgins about the secret world of angels and demons the only thing is this secret world is going on all around us. anna whitt is a small town good girl who keeps too herself, apart from her adoptive mom and her best friend. anna is pretty much perfect she doesnt lie, drink, do drugs, curse, or do anything bad really "practically sinless" however she does start to experience a pull towards danger. anna is different from everyone else not only because she is morally perfect but because she can see other peoples emotions and feel them for herself. she meets kaidan rowe "the boy daddy warned you about....if only someone had warned anna". im trying so hard not to spoil this. basically she learns her heritage and must embrace it too survive, but will she embrace her halo or her horns DUN DUN DUN. im sorry yall but its really hard to give a snippet of this book... its like i know too much about it to give a casual summary. IM EMOTIONALLY INVESTED. anyways if that didnt really do it for you feel free to google it or just read the back cover. so sweet evil. where do i begin. first of all i need to say there are some sexy fun time scenes in this book along with teens drinking and using drugs, i would definitely say this book is pg13. id feel bad telling you to go read this book if that stuff makes you uncomfortable. moving on. i know ive been over this before so ill just touch on it briefly, i liked the way this book portrayed the creatures listed in the beginning much more than i have in other books that used them. its a much more modern take on all the creatures and their activities *sorry to be vague spoilers be damned* the second book in the series gets a touch annoying when they forcefully keep themselves apart and its kind of like.. umm why tho? you clearly are torturing each other staying apart so just get over it and be a thing already. i felt like bustin a little mermaid *youve got to kisssssss the girl before i throw this freaking book across the room shalalaa* hmm what else did i enjoy about this book. oh i am a fan of supernatural books that are set present day with the assumption humans have no idea these supernatural things are happening, its easier for me to imagine the book that way i suppose. i would say definitely read this book because i enjoyed it, however if you dont think your mature enough for some sexy fun times scenes (im not talking disgusting pornographic material here the way its written is not nasty or graphic but some people may still have a problem with reading it) anyhoot hope yall liked this review comment below if youve read sweet evil, have a different opinion, or have any good book suggestions for me. thanks for reading

The Jewel

now before we begin i would like to preface that this book kind of freaked me out and if you are sensitive to things like male prostitutes or women being forced to have other womens children i wouldnt read this book, dont get me wrong its pretty good but if your touchy about stuff like what i mentioned above proceed with caution or not at all. okay lets start this off. so to clear the air i did like this book, the above warning was something i just felt was necessary because it was a little creepy and i feel yall deserve to know what you are getting into. so the jewel is a dystopian book series written by amy ewing, the jewel follows the main character violet as she is forced into a life she would give almost anything to escape. this dystopian world is called the lone city and it is divided into sections such as the marsh, the bank, and the jewel. the royalty all live in the jewel and back in their citys history all the royalty had some illness that messed with them having children however girls from the marsh, the most impoverished section, had special abilities that allowed them to have children, now flash to current day in their dystopian world. when girls in the marsh hit puberty they have a blood test done and if they are found to have these special abilities that let them have children then they are taken to their homes and raised as ladies training with their powers. when they come to a certain age they are auctioned off as surrogates to the highest bidder and the better their powers are the more money the royal women pay to get them. violet is auctioned off to a cruel woman known as the duchess of the lake. basically she enters into this whole social war that is going on between the royalty and she is thrust into the center of it when she is expected to give the duchess an heir. violet ends up falling for someone she could never be aloud to love all while figuring out what the cruel truth behind becoming a surrogate. will she escape this life? can she ever really love someone without fear of punishment? are these powers really meant to give the royalty babies? READ AND FIND OUT DORK. let me preface that i have not read the third book because it comes out in october and its july.... so i have no qualms with this book. its not my favorite but i dont really have anything to roast it for. it moves at a pretty good pace and i like the direction they are going with it, i do hold hope for the third and final book. which is coming out in october. wait i already said that. hmm. i think the only reason im not all over this book is because some of the ideas in this society were a little disturbing like having a child against your will and having it taken away and the way the royals act it just gives me a sick to my stomach feeling. a lot of people are forced to do some stuff like prostitute or have other peoples children in this book and im just not a big fan of thinking about things like that. however. and im gonna make this a vague however to avoid spoilers. there is hope for our characters to escape this life. itll get better guys *cue they inspirational cat poster* overall if your okay with some disturbing stuff (they dont vividly describe the stuff if your mind went in that direction but they do mention it) then this is a good book and i suggest it. but if your not into those things or like me you find them unsettling i would say skip this one. thanks for reading

Dear John Green

so i made a list of little articles such as this that are not book reviews however i feel like they ned to be written. the first on that snuck into my head and found its way onto my notebook under "things to write" was a dear john green article. personal i dont fangirl over authors, i fangirl over their books. as much as i love and appreciate the authors for all the joy they brought into my life or the hours of my day they filled with their writing i wouldnt say i obsess over them so much as what they have written. i never found an author and just because i loved them so much did i decide to read all their work, sure ive enjoyed more than one series from the same author every now and again but in all truth ive never really book stalked an author. until john green. ive read the fault in our stars seven and a half times and each time i cry laugh and scream like its my first time reading that glorious book. now this was sometime freshman year before i really started to love reading. now skip forward to sophomore year where i sit bored as ever in my apwh history class until mrs maldonado assigns us a crash course to watch and take notes on. now these crash course are small history videos (they have other subjects but thats a mute point) that include cartoons and funny one liners explaining events in the worlds history and they are narrated by none other than john green. now as dumb as this may sound it took me a whole year to realize the same john green who wrote the book i swooned over for the seventh and a half times is the one helping me pass my ap test (which was a close call but thats yet another mute point) now i really love listening to him talk i mean this guy makes you feel smarter even if what he is saying isnt all that "knowledge filled". frankly i would read his grocery lists *cough cough get my reference cough cough* so things pretty much kicked off that day i realized i wanted to read anything that had been graced with his presence. so i started of with looking for alaska, which caught me in my feelings in a way that would take a whole other article to describe, i then hit paper towns and followed that up with an abundance of katherines. and each time i read one of his books id have to reevaluate my whole existence because his books tend to have that effect on you. i even had the pleasure of reading will grayson, will grayson (which i highly recommend) on a llllooooooonnnnnnggggggg flight this summer. in short i am obsessed with john green and i suggest you obsess over him a bit too. if you want a journey of self discovery read his books they wont disappoint. thanks for reading

Hush Hush

So i just finished reading the hush hush series by becca fitzpaterick last night at like two in morning and i don't know if it was because i was sleep deprived or what but the end of this series pissed me off. the first book was good enough but the other three honestly were in my opinion sub-pare. i guess ill start of with a quicky summary. hush hush is about nora grey, who is a responsible straight A student, who meets patch, a mysterious boy with a troubled past. turns out he is a fallen angel who wants nothing more than to become human again, nora is drawn to patch and because she likes the way his face looks she is drawn into an ancient battle between good and evil..oops so basically this series is a supernatural romance but in my opinion the supernatural stuff is not that exciting and the romance is extremely dull. ill start of by saying this is the second series ive read that makes use of creatures such a nephilim or angels (the first would be sweet evil) and i have to say between the two hush hush did an inferior job of using them, although it was not the same story i couldnt help but think while i was reading it that these werent the ass kicking enslaved nephs id read about in sweet evil but rather the victimized poor thangs that had much more ability than they ever put into use. i mean these guys could theoretically eff up your mind however when war breaks out they decided to fight like....normal people? YOU HAVE PHSYCH WARFARE UNDER YOUR BELT AND YOU DIDNT THINK TO PULL IT OUT?! i kept expecting some really cool fighting scenes and i didnt really get any that were too great. oh well. next i need to address the romance. the emotions in this book literally gave me a headache. some times its okay to be a little petty or to be jealous but i swear nora doesnt go five pages without thinking patch is cheating on her its like every other second is a do you even love me? prove you love me?! i thought you loved me?!?! like good lord woman calm down the crazys. the lord blessed patch with some patience if someone accused me of anything that often id be long gone. also they are constantly hot and cold back and forth you are almost begging them to go to couples therapy by the end of it all. finally Fitzpatrick and her twist endings. each one of these books ends in a twist however EACH BOOK HAS THE SAME TWIST. in book 1,2,&4 there is a character who you will think is just an ordinary minor character doin there thang and bam they end up being the bad guy. the first book i was okay with this twist, second book had me wondering if this twist was a tad familar and by the forth book i already knew who to be suspicious of and sure enough WHAM IM SECRETLY THE VILLIAN MWAHAH. didnt see that coming. at all. im tryin to say i liked how she made it a bit of a twist ending and surprised the readers however each book had pretty much the exact same twist so it wasnt that surprising by the end. overall i wouldn't recommend this book, the romance was more 8th grade empty i loves yous and one&offs than anything and the fighting and action dulled in comparision to other books. this maybe your thing but it wasnt really mine. comment below if you have a diff opinion id love to chat
thanks for reading

the lux series

okay yall forewarning this is my favorite book series and because of this bias i may be more willing to overlook some flaws in the books, ill try to take a third party view point but i love this book so damn much i probably will just gush on and on. oh well. so the lux series by jennifer armentrout is an epic book series with aliens and romance and really funny one liners. so the books starts off with katy who just moved from florida to a small town in the middle of nowhere, their neighbor (Daemon) may possibly be the most gorgeous boy on Gods green earth- but theres a catch. hes kind of an arrogant ass hat. but when Daemon literally freezes time with his alien powers they are kind of forced to get to know each other. Katy brings out a different side of Daemon and he will do anything to save her. did i mention he is a sexy alien? because hes a sexy glowworm of an alien.

okay so im gonna stop their in order to avoid major spoilers all of the above is general information you would read on the back cover...im not a book spoilin hussie i swear. so one of the many amazing things in this book is how funny it is, all the hilarious combacks in the book keep you on your toes. for the most part none of the characters are dumb or unnecessary they are all witty and well rounded. the fight scenes in this are pretty cool too. if you like some suspence or some girl power scenes this is somethin youd like. everyone pretty much kicks ass in the book however that may be one thing im against with this book. it feels so wrong to point this out but in order to give a well rounded review im gonna bit my tongue and point out a negative. katy the main character is somewhat desperate to prove she isnt weak or a liability almost the whole series to the point where its annoying. i can count multiple instances where her trying to prove shes not a liability and can protect herself GETS HER IN TROUBLE SHE CANT GET OUT OF. its rather infuriating and i yelled out loud scaring my mom several times "SWEET LORD ALMIGHTY STOP TRYING TO BE A HERO" *deep calming breathes deep calming breathes* the second book is probably my least favorite of the series because their is a lot of back and forth do you love me i love you wait jk we cant do this wait we should wait i love you its kinda annoying they dont just make up their minds but eventually they figure their shit out. i think im gonna write an article on my top five book ships so yall will DEFINITELY hear more about kaemon. please please read this book i cant make you but if i could i would. please comment below id love to talk about the lux series more than life. any requests? thanks for reading!

The Selection

before i start anything let me just fangirl real quick and get this out of the way
*clears throat*
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okay now that the inevitable selection freakout is out of the way i shall begin. i could write a whole book just talking about this series, i have read it more than once because the relationships in it are so damn good! let me just tell yall something, there is nothing i hate more in a book than "instalove". when two characters all the sudden are just in love after two pages and it seems completely unrealistic, im all for love at first sight but do you even know his last name? what if he is an ax murderer rapist who lives in his moms basement collecting pokemon cards?? the selection is completely void of instalove, in fact it takes her the whole first book to even realize she might like him and it isnt really set in stone till book three. the author took such time to craft this relationship and the emotions it feels so real! but i guess im getting a tad ahead of myself, the selection is basically the bachelor except in a castle and chris harrison is no where to be found. 35 girls come in to vie for the heart of the prince, the story is from the pov of america singer who is a five (they use a caste system here to rank social importance and decide what job you would do 1 is the best 8 is the worst) she accidently entered the competstition she goes because the money will help feed her family and she has no intention of loving the prince. its one of those out of all the candidates he likes her but she couldnt be bothered, they become friends and their relationship blossoms and its super cute. but theirs more to the story than just romance, their is a lot of other emotional stuff, they get really into the politics of the dystopian world and she wants to make a difference, their are a few cool fighting suspense scenes and a lot of daddy drama. let me just warn you if you read this you will love maxon. no ifs ands or buts. i highly suggest yall read this you will enjoy it i know i did. please comment below i would LOVE to talk about this book!!! thanks for reading

Under the Never Sky

under the never sky (written by veronica rossi) is a dystopian series that follows Aria a dweller and Perry a savage as they become a unlikely partnership to stop the leaders of reverie and save perry's nephew. they may be complete opposites at first however after realizing they need each other to survive they grow closer and stronger. aria honestly starts off as a wimpy character you will probably want to give up on however when she is kicked out of her comfy home in reverie and banished to the death shop, the outside world that has been turned into a wasteland, she toughens up a lot and becomes more interesting. perrry is a strong independent guy with some pretty cool talents like his keen sense of smell *its a really cool talent until he sniffs the air and realizes aria got her first period....awkward* they should be enemies because the are from different kinds of people who hate each other however as aria learns she is more like perry than she imagined they become a kick butt duo and along with other characters who work to "save the day". so as my first written book review i decided to do an easier book. under the never sky is easy for me because while there were some parts i didnt agree with i thought this book was overall good. it didnt really do anything to piss me off and they had good character development through out. i think that was my favorite part of this book, the development emotionally in the characters from beginning to end. they all changed in some big way whether it was because of the death of a loved one or in order to survive and i admire veronica rossi's ability to show their growth. she really did a great job of creating their personalities and it was easier to follow their motives in the book because i felt like i had a deeper understanding of their actions because of who they were. rossi gives good closure to the end of the series which i appreciate, although it sadened me not all my favorite characters made it to the end i was satisfied with the outcome. this isnt one of those books i got so into i ended up throwing it across the room at some point but it was a solid good book. if youve read this series and liked it i recommend the selection series or the lux series they are similar and both super great. if you have anymore questions or comments on under the never sky feel free to comment, sorry i didnt get to into this one but my friends just trashed my kitchen making grilled cheese and im late for work. thanks for reading