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Hey guys I'm really sorry I haven't been on lately. I've just gone through a reading slump and actually haven't been able to read anything. I'll be posting a really bad review on a short story from The Assassin's Blade in a while (and by that I mean I haven't started writing it yet but I plan to)

City of Heavenly Fire Review

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

*Really short quick review*
So I finished this a few days ago and decided to take some time to actually write a proper review, not let the fact that the series is over to waver my opinion.

Personally, I did like the book. It was a little dragged out in places but it was a good ending to the series. What needed to be addressed was in this book. It concluded the series in a way that left me not only wanting to keep reading, but left me knowing the characters that lived have a journey to carry on, that their excitement and adventures aren't over now that everything is finished.

What I didn't like was the jumpiness. It went from one place to another very quickly and there was so many characters POV. It was lacking details in certain areas and there was an overload of details in others.

Overall a good book, good read and a great conclusion to the series

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*Another post coming soon on here about the book. Just give me time okay?*

Stuff and Stuffen Stuff

Hello there inhabitants of the 3rd rock from the Sun,

(Don't even ask about the title, I don't know, I just wrote it and now I'm not bothered to change it.)

I am so so so sorry. I have had so much shi- stuff and stuffen stuff to deal with. But it is almost over now, I am off on Friday! Sure I have exams before that but let's forget about that....

I will be writing more over the summer, I have a few college courses and I am continuing my science project so yeah, that was a bad plan, but I will post more until September. In September I will be in 6th Year, the year of the biggest exams of my life, so yeah, not much posting going on then.

I will (hopefully) be in college then after next summer and I want to start youtube videos (not book ones, well, maybe some). I just have to convince Ari :P

This summer there will be:

• Morganville Series Review (Ari? Wanna join me on this?)
• TFIOS Movie Review (I'm not a crier so yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh, don't expect a sappy review)
• Perks of Being a Wallflower Book + Movie Review
• Maybe some music stuff (Ari, thoughts?)
• Some contemporary and classics reviews (maybe)
• Hitch hiker's Guide to the Universe Reviews
• I WILL FINISH THE HOBBIT
• The Eye of the World Reviews (Fantasy books, kinda like Lord of the Rings, look'em up)
• Vampire Academy Movie Review (Ari? Willst thou joineth me?) 
• Complaining about whatever weather Ireland gets (too hot, too cold, too much rain, you get the gist)
• I met Derek Landy, so yeah will tell all about that!
• I think that's enough for now, any Q's in the comments!! (Like that's gonna happen Naminé)

I again apologise profusely for my absence, but hey that's life! It might important though that I am often absent from life too... Too many things to do, see and enjoy!

Thank Naminé

Throne of Glass

Because I've recently just bought the paper back version  of The Assassin's Blade (below left) [here's the GR page and what not] I thought I'd recommend Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series!

   

           (#0.1-0.5)                                  (#1)                                   (#2)                                   (#3)

Book number three 'Heir of Fire' is being released in September of this year AND I CAN'T WAIT OMG INTERNALLY SCREECHING and I think it'll be heartbreaking good.

Throne of Glass is the first book in the series, followed by Crown of Midnight. The paper back version of The Assassin's Blade was released earlier this year (from what I know that's when I knew it was coming out).

I haven't started TAB yet but I know it's meant to be wonderfully amazing. The next two books (centre) are really f@*$%!& great and you should all read them.

I feel like these are hidden treasures. Not a lot of people have read them but the people who do usually always fall in love with them.

Enough ranting you want to actually hear about the story of the book? BLURB TIME!
(ToG blurb cause we can't have you reading the back of any other book first now can we?)

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. 

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. 

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. 

Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

This book is LONG

GoT is a long ass book and I have exams so that sucks. But the story is still basically the same so far and I like it!

We have good reasons

Naminé and I are entering a science competition (not together but the same one) so we've been hella busy for the past few weeks. Like no-lunch-times-and-all-free-time-spent-on-this-one-thing busy. 

Science is hard and this competition wasn't easy. But everything is finished and we only have tomorrow left and then WE ARE DONE WITH IT. 

Personally, I can't wait. I'll be sad 'cause it's actually a lot of fun but stress levels were way too high.

ANYWAY, books. I'm currently reading Game of Thrones (as in I'm like 100 pages in but I've been busy) and I really love it. It is a little hard to read but I was expecting worse the way people were going on about it. So I think, if they're the kind of books you're into, you should read it. It isn't for everyone and there is sexual content and mature themes. The show is a good depiction of the book.

Basically not for the young or people who don't like these certain mature themes. (They can be triggering and that isn't something that be skimmed over. They do contain sexual assault and violence)

But good books. I like it and I love the TV show so I kinda knew what to expect. 

As I read, I'll try to keep you updated!

Later angels,

For Tessa

Hello human life forms!

Tessa has been begging me for this, so here it is her song, in my opinion!!

....Except I couldn't think of one..... (DON'T HURT ME)

I randomly thought of Ari's so.... Just wait until I stumble upon one...

So, instead, is simply a message for Tessa in the form of a song:

Thank Naminé

Re: Broken Skies

I (luckily) received an ARC from Theresa Kay for her novel Broken Skies (for an honest review) and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
This is the GoodReads page of the bookand here is how you can buy it online. (b/c you should buy it and leave an honest review of the book. It helps everyone {and more people will fall in love with it that way})
 {What I just posted was my GoodReads review. This, if you have read any of my previous reviews, will be more babble-y and strange. Hey I must keep up my rep, okay?}
As always, anything like this contains (slight)spoilers.

Anyway, the blurb;
Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived.
Ten years ago, the aliens arrived…and stayed.
One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy.
Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back.

In seventeen-year-old Jax Mitchell's world, humans are nearly extinct and alien settlers have arrived.

Until recently, the E’rikon have remained segregated in their city and ignored the few humans who have tried to engage them… but now they have taken Jax’s brother. To rescue him, she forms an uneasy alliance with a teenage E’rikon left stranded in the woods. She agrees to guide him to the city if he sneaks her past the human-proof barrier. Too bad it’s not that simple.

Jax, who cannot stand to be touched, finds that’s she’s drawn to the alien boy with bright green hair and jewel-like scales down his back. And he’s equally affected by her, the courageous redhead with haunted eyes. But she doesn’t know the alien’s true motives and he has no idea that she is much more than she seems.

In this world where alien and human are at odds, the connection forming between the two has consequences. What started off as a rescue mission sets a chain of events in motion which threatens not only the remaining humans and the growing alien society, but Earth itself.

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My rating out of 5;  4.75
           My reason for it not being 5/5, you ask? I think Jax could have gone deeper into Lir and Jace's minds. Seen the truth...  

Random sentences explaining my emotions

Prepare yourself for the biggest book hangover of you life.

I can't think of things to say in a proper way after finishing this book. My mind is melted, in a good way. 

Utterly brilliant and unbelievably amazing, this book will make itself a new home on your favourite shelf. 
I can't think in coherent sentences anymore.  Brain=mush
The twists that happen in this book are not only surprising and unusual, but they leave you wanting more and in all honesty they hurt. 

Jax herself is so broken, yet strong and willful. She's not to be messed with and she falls apart. She isn't a 'three dimensional' character, she's an enigma of reality. She shows that people can break under simple things (her case when touched) but she shows that people can fix themselves with a little help. She needs other people to help her no matter how hostile she is to people in general. Jax embodies the broken mind of someone fighting to be whole again. She's a badass without meaning to be, and lives in extremes. Jax is a real character with real and confusing emotions.

 Lir 

Jax's (the books narrator) views on people gave me the impression of how people seem in real life. They way that every character is written is simply beautiful.

Personally, I would have liked if Jax had been angrier at Jace towards the end. I think it would have been a bit more realistic. I know she wasn't acting how she was before with him, but I felt like more anger would have been appropriate. 

Ari

Also if you ever wanted to know what I think of Ari then here it is:

Rule no.1: She is awesome.

This is what I think her theme song for life is... (at least when she's being herself this is what I think of)

A message to Ari now:

See you guys soon, if I'm not dead!
Thank Naminé

Schedule and Life

People of Earth and the Internets,

I apologise for my absence. Although in future I will not be apologising because I was busy due to life and I will not apologise for that. I will try to post a review this weekend, I just finished a book so I will start writing it soon!

You guys should know also that all three of the crew here will be going on holiday on the 21st of April so we won't be posting that week. I will do my best to post a review at least once a week with maybe a few fun things dotted here and there. I also need to tell you guys that I will hopefully be working over the summer on placements and stuff so there won't be too much from me then. I have a portfolio to prepare for college for December too.

I am currently reading Tempest by Julie Cross and I will then be reading Lost Worlds by Andrew Lane. The review this week will be of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell! I will tell you now, ah-mazing!

Thank Naminé

Review: Broken Skies

Broken Skies by Theresa Kay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

**Received ARC from the author for an honest review**
I warn you I'm bad at reviews, but here goes nothing.

Beware of the book hangover that will last a lifetime. No words can describe my feelings for this book. Everything about this book will make you fall in love and fall into a pit of hate at once. I can't think of anything to say about this book without screeching 'IT'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING' every few (coherent) words. I NEED the next book like I need food.

The book is about Jax,and her quest to find her twin brother Jace after he was kidnapped by the aliens that settled on Earth 10 years ago. She is determined to find and save her twin, even it it means teaming up with the unknown and beautiful alien. The story (mainly) follows Jax and Lir
as they travel back to the unknown city that holds her brother.
The pair begin an uneasy truce, which leads to friendship, and then flows into something more. Though the love story is an under current within the novel, not the reason for the story. The trust is built slowly and when their relationship is on the rocks, they seem to work it out (mostly).

The characters that Kay has written are not only entertaining and engaging, but real. The characters have flaws that make them human and all the more real. They don't have these 'half-flaws' (like arrogance hiding pain and the other overused, cliched flaws that are normally written about). The characters have flaws that only make them better.
Jax herself is so broken, yet strong and willful. She's not to be messed with and she falls apart. She isn't a 'three dimensional' character, she's an enigma of reality. She shows that people can break under simple things (her case when touched) but she shows that people can fix themselves with a little help. She needs other people to help her no matter how hostile she is to people in general. Jax embodies the broken mind of someone fighting to be whole again. She's a badass without meaning to be, and lives in extremes. Jax is a real character with real and confusing emotions.
All the other characters are well developed and thought through, from Emily to Stellan. I love how they were all written, and the relationships between different characters made the book even more enjoyable.
Lir is... Well he made me sad. He's so perfectly imperfect and him through Jax's eyes shows his, well his humanity. He may be an alien, but he has some very human characteristics. I can't wait for Fractured Suns so I can see how they handle everything.

All in all; a fantastic read, great story line, well written characters, and something that just leaves you wanting more

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DYING

I finished the book. I'm dying. But in a good way. Nothing beats this series. It's literally my all time fave. I have sold my soul to these books and characters and I couldn't even begin to think what would have happened if I hadn't read Half-Blood. (Thank you Naminé for recommending it to me I owe you big time).

I actually don't have words. The ending... It was perfect. It was the only way the book could have ended without it being crap. I loved it. So much.

I can't think right.. The book took all my emotions away and drained me. But I would never change a thing

Book suggestions

I might as well do it now...

OKIES! So I'm having HUGE James Dashner feels lately so I think you should all go read

• The Maze Runner series

1. The Maze Runner
2. The Scorch Trials
3. The Death Cure
4. The Kill order 

• The Eye of Minds

Because I'm silently dying because of these books lately. And yes he's my author crush atm.... Can't help it.. He writes really well

So you should all go read ANYTHING by him and enjoy it.
        What I will say (and one of the biggest reasons I love his books so much) is that both books have a male protagonist and don't really focus on the love story (from what I've read so far anyway I haven't finished TMR yet but I like that about both; romance isn't as important as surviving. I think that reflects who I am though... OH WELL!

My other ALL TIME AUTHOR CRUSH is Jennifer L. Armentrout (or J. Lynn) because she is amazing and writes girls in such a way that shows them needing to be strong alone without other people as well as needing people to survive; she shows that people need both to really live. And I think that's real; it makes them seem more real, more human. She does have romance as a major theme in her books but it's done the right way (meaning that it isn't "OMG I LOVE YOU I CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT YOU HELP MMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE" it's more like "I'm so in love with you that you make me forget my thoughts and make me want to be better and stronger and everything else but I don't want you to be protecting me 24/7 I want to be able to do that myself "{do I even make sense...})

        Anyway, I really love her books and enjoy reading what she writes 'cause she's a very real author to me; she isn't just writing what she thinks should happen or be said, she writes what a person would do and I can't even explain it... Her work just makes me happy and want to stop time just to read everything she's ever written.

        As you can tell, my author crush on her is a little deeper and weirder than Dashner's... Oh well she's kinda amazing. But books by her I think you'd all enjoy are:

• The Covenant series

1. (0.5) Daimon 
2. (1) Half-Blood
3. (2) Pure
4. (3)Deity 
5. (3.5) Elixir
6. (4) Apollyon 
7. (5) Sentinel

• The Lux series 

1. (0.5) Shadows
2. (1) Obsidian
3. (2) Onyx
4. (3) Opal
5. (4) Origin
6. (5) Opposition [Coming soon meaning it isn't written/released yet]

• Wait for You
• Trust in Me

They're the same story in different point of views listed in order of how they came out.

   Oh and if you really fall for Armentrout like me, her newest book (Be With Me) is coming out on the 4th of this month (exCITEMENT LEVELS A R E GIONG CRAYZ AHHHHHHHHHHAGVAHSBDGAH) 

   She has another series (The Dark Elements) but I haven't read them so I can't really recommend I've never read but if you feel like it, check them out too. I'm sure they're just as amazing as the others.

I think that's enough books for you all now. I hope that if you do read any of them, you enjoy just as much as I did and currently do. 

LATER ANGELS 

I APOLOGISE FOR BEING SUCKY

I am so very sorry for being such a crappy person and abandoning this but I will be back ranting about books and whatever (idk maybe review...most likely just start screaming)
Please accept these pretty people as a form of apology

yes they're mine I will hunt you down if you steal with no credit