November Reads

I'm late! I'm late! For a very important day. No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!
The end of the semester is coming up. *cues hysteria* Can you feel my stress through the screen because I feel like you should be able to. Oh and I got bangs on Monday, just a little life update.

This month I reviewed: Blue Lily Lily Blue, and A Thousand Pieces of You.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

Overall rating: 85%

As always I really did enjoy this addition to the series. The characters are fun and eccentric, the plot is fascinating and look at that cover art. There were many new characters introduced in this book and I grew quite attached to them. And a good few problems were resolved (and even more were created). I still don't understand the meaning behind the title. I see where it came from but why? Adam still annoys me. Bleh.

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

Overall rating: 100%

Just look at my rating and trust my judgement. Just this once. I've never given 100% to a book before, especially not the first book. So go.

Full review here

And that is all... I know it's bad but my math grades are improving and I'm at season 3 of Gilmore Girls!!! I also nearly finished (70 pages away) Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers. So that is almost 3 books!

P.S. Don't expect anything from me until February, My French teacher gave us 2 days to write a 5 page essay not double spaced. And my history teacher told us about a test one day in advance. And you really don't want to hear about math class. That's just scary for everyone.

P.P.S Maybe you shouldn't expect anything until summer actually... I have English next semester with the really hard teacher and I am determined to ace that class even if it takes up every piece of my soul.

Comments

Heir of Fire review and discussion

All of the stars because Celaena rattles the stars. Spoiler free review Celaena returns bent and broken but damn she made a speedy recovery. We are introduced to new characters and new plots in this installment of the series. It was formidable. All of it. The writing was amazing, the character development was better than ever and the story is beyond words. I highly highly recommend every book in this series. Novellas and everything. I think it's safe to say that this is my favourite series of all time. I love it even more than The Infernal Devices trilogy. I'm so sorry Will but it's the truth. If I go into any detail at all it will spoil you so I'm just going to leave this hoping that you all get the message.

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater Review+Discussion

Loved the book, hated the ending, iffy on Stiefvater's writing style of suggesting things but never explaining or confirming. If she actually writes another trilogy about Ronan anytime soon maybe I'll pick it up. I can't really give an in depth review without spoiling anything as it's the fourth book so you'll just have to take my word on it. Four out of five stars? Spoilers under the cut!

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Review+Discussion

This book takes place in a very Hunger Games like society. The rich get richer by basically enslaving the poor. The twist is that the rich are only rich because they have abilities and the poor are only poor because they don't. If your blood is silver, you have abilities and if your blood is red, then you're normal. Except for our main character, Mare. Because of this anomaly, she is kept at the castle and forced into an engagement with the younger prince. The king and queen tell the people that Mare actually has silver blood but she was raised as a red. Thus making her an aspiration to all the red blooded people, in hopes that this ends the red blooded rebellion. You can see where things, probably go askew. Don't lie, kids. In the end I gave this book 2.5 stars. It's not that the book was bad or anything. It was simply overhyped. I personally found the main character to be naive, and the plot to be predictable. Spoilers under the cut!

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