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 :(((