The Enlighten Series

*universal intro theme music plays* welcome children, elderly, teens, and extra terrestrials to this a most epic review of the enlighten series. its been a pretty good week a cute boy asked me on a date so that's freaking cool. i tried to be smooth like all the kick ass heroines in my books but i just turned bright red and smiled like a chubby nub. oh well. so in other awesome news i have been in contact with kristin van resseghem about when she will be writing the third book in the series (there are two books so far and a third on the way) and anyhow i just feel like i need to make it clear I DO NOT GET PAID FOR THIS. trust me i wish i did. and kristin van resseghem did not contact me asking me to do this.... i stalked her like a crazy fangirl and i feel like its only fair to repay her kind emails with a review. so here we go. swords and stilettos or the enlighten series as it is also known is a pretty great series about a girl named zoe jabril. zoe is just an average run in the mill teen until out of literally no where her best friends reveals hes her guardian angel and she is fated to bring together fairies, werewolves, nephilim, and angels together to fight evil. did i mention there is nephilim who is super cute and when they touch she gets a lil shock. 0 to 100 REAL FREAKING QUICK. join zoe as she makes new friends and keeps the old one is silllvverr and the others golllddddd. sorry. but like not really. come join zoe as she figures out that there are so many mystical and magical things in her life that she never knew about, watch as she touches an electric cattle fence every time she bumps into a cute boy, and come listen to words. it's a book so theres bound to be words. okay i feel like the first thing i need to say is the first few pages you meet zoe and the slightly girly title coupled with the fact that she says something along the lines of i looked into the window of a store and made sure not one hair on my head was out of place and then starts talking about her coffee order and all i could think was "oh great shes gonna be one of those annoying girls who is worried about a chipped nail while running from demons". but trust me when i say this is the only vain thing she says a page or so later you see the real her who honestly doesnt care about what people think and starts to kick ass which is just awesome. honestly i loved the story it was fairly simple but not borning and pretty easy to keep up with. the characters are all well written and none of them annoy or vex me so thats great. AND OH. THE CLIFFHANGER. lets just say the end of the second book in the series is one of the most intense cliffhangers i have read next to the marked series or the oxygen series. i am a big fan of the stories with the main characters who basically pull a hannah montana, like one day they are average and the next they are fighting monsters and evil. BUT. and i mean this is a kardashian sized but. there are some stories where the main character has this life switch and they suck at fighting evil or they have a crap attitude about the whole thing and then there are the main characters that take to these completely new worlds or battles like a duck to water. this book is the latter. zoe isnt a damsel in distress and she kind of slays the whole situation, im the savior of the world?? *panics for a few hours* okay im ready lets do this. overall it was a solid read i do recommend it for anyone who is into paranormal romance. comment for suggestions
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The Iron Fey Series

WELCOME TO 2017 PEOPLE OF EARTH!!! so far these 18 days of the new year have sucked considerably less than 2016 and for that i am grateful. now all i need to do is avoid the impending doom we call valentines day. schools been a touch busy so expect more sporadic posts. with out further delay lets chit chat bout one of my favorite ya folklore books! the Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa is a three book series based on faerie lore from william shakespears midsummer nights dream. if you have read any faerie books before its the same general lore with the summer and winter fey who have this rivalry over the seasons (iron kills them both) so they live in nature and compete with each other. enter meghan chase the...completely normal teen? ya not so much. meghan is thrust into the world of the fey where she goes on many an adventure with her best friend puck from the summer kingdom and the mysterious prince of the winter kingdom who she catches some feels for. they travel and fight together for faeries summer and winter alike are threatened by a new enemy..one that could end the faerie world as they know it.. DUN DUN DUN. so basically i love this series. it comes close to the lux and selection series and i have no problem re reading and re reading it because it is just so damn good. first of all meghan is a kick ass female lead, girl power, fight for your right, i mean this chick actually literally in all seriousness smashes through a glass ceiling. puck her side kick partner in crime is hilarious and i 100% want a puck in my life, like where is my quirky best friend who casually throws around one liners.. oh wait trevors probably asleep. and who doesn't love a tall dark and mysterious boy hmm well kagawa gave us one! so the story is super well written and kagawa clearly knew shakespears midsummer nights dream very well and tied in the lore seamlessly with the story. i really could rave about how much ass this book kicks for quite some time. its one of those books that you day dream about how its gonna end up until the literal moment you finish it and trust me when i tell you the ending is oh so satisfying. i love every direction this book went in from taking an old story and shinning it up again while not copying shakespear. lets be real how many cinderella movies are there? like at least ten with the same plot and just a little difference, selena gomez and the dancing cinderella story, demi lavoto with the singing version, and even one with the chick from pretty little liars. its not like that. sheakspears story is basically the world the completely original story takes place in. it is in no way like every cinderella story ever written where they just take the same story and through a new chick in a glass slipper. the only critique i have for this would be the first three books are from meghans pov while the conclusion to the story are a few books written in ash's pov (dark mysterious handsome prince) and while i love ash i enjoyed meghans pov more. other than that it was 10/10. fans of defy or see me will love this addictive series. stay tuned ill be back in a jiffy with more!
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