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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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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