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