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

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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.
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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.