Review: Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Hi mammals,

Ari, Tessa and I all love this series (Covenant) and this is the fourth book so SPOILERS FOR SERIES.
I also hope the other two don't kill me for writing this because we fought about who could it for ages, they may end up posting a review too! Look forward to it!!

Name: Deity
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series No.: Covenant #3
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Released: 2012
Rating: 5 stars, would have given it ten million.
Cover:


Blurb:
"History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time. "


Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner... and so is Aiden. 

If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"--which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time--she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome. 

But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she's caught between love and Fate. One will do anything to protect her. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed... and destroyed. 

Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate...




Deity left me with no words. Literally. The beginning I was just thinking "Tell me what happened after the end of Pure (Book 2)!!" And it did. But it was barely a ninth or less into the book then. 
*****WARNING! I tried very hard not to make this at all spoilery but if you read it too closely then it will be spoilery so proceed with caution!!*********

I was pleasantly surprised (and not so pleasantly surprised at some developments...). That Jennifer somehow managed to make this book even better than the second and, shockingly, even better than the first! I squealed several several times as the plot line unfolded and that is quite an accomplishment. This book just kept on coming with more and more coming at you so fast you couldn't recover from the previous blow!

Alex was very much herself in this book. She was the same as usual but then after I finished the book I thought, "Hang on a sec! Alex wouldn't have done that!!" Jennifer managed to develop Alex as a character as she matured but still Alex seemed like Alex, so much so that I barely noticed (but in a good way!). 

Aiden, for me, in this book was amazing. I loved him so much and felt that he was a required character, that without him everything would feel a little bit too simple. Considering how complicated the book got, Jennifer simply couldn't have a simple book :) I'm not complaining though!!

I want to talk about Seth but I have no idea what to think about him anymore. He's still the exact same as he was at the end of Pure but it's like Jennifer has taken a fine tooth comb to him in this book and gone "Look! See this little thing here?" I see. I haven't quite comprehended how long that little thing was there..... I can't believe I never noticed these little things and I can't believe how well Jennifer hid them from us and then how well she was able to make me feel like an idiot.

 One thing's for sure, Jennifer L. Armentrout is a genius and you have to read the entire Covenant series and anything else she has written!! Can't wait to download Elixir and I can't wait for Apollyon!! I recommend it to all!

Thank Naminé

Just a note

Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in a while- it is the summer and I've been very busy.
I should be posting a review on a new book I got last Saturday (Throne of Glass, which is amazing and WOW WHAT IS HAPPENING?!)
I'm sorry, I was also on a short holiday(I nearly got brunt! THIS DOESN'T HAPPENING TO ME)

Laters my angels,

~Ari

Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout


Title: Obsidian
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pages: 361
Released: 2012
Next Book: Oynx
Rating: 5 stars




Wow. Just wow. This is really a brilliant book. The author really planned out the history of Daemon and Dees' race. She explained the fact that they were aliens very well and put her own twist on alien myth, no more giant, man-eating insects from outer space any more!! This definitely earned a place on my favourites shelf. 

I really liked Katy. She was unlike most heroines I know. She probably couldn't throw a successful punch but, damn, did she have a mouth on her. She could easily respond to anyone taunt, jibe, remark or any thing said to her in a matter of seconds. Daemon being an ass (as he tends to be)? Sends him an insult right back and makes sure it stings but, unfortunately for her, it never really seems to bother him all that much, at least from what we see. 

Jennifer also really succeeding in letting all of us bookish, nerdy girls relate to her. Katy has a book blog and does all of the regular blog things like "Waiting on Wednesday" and "In My Mailbox". I will be the tiniest bit spoilery here (but not all that much it's just a quick thing and not really important).

 ******* I think it's really cute when Daemon sees one of Katy's "In My Mailbox" videos!!************ 


Anyway I found Katy to be a brilliant heroine who relates really well to anyone who actually reads. Katy is in awe of authors and says that she remembers asking for an interview with an author who she would give her firstborn to them just to have lunch with them. 

What I really loved was the banter between Daemon and Dee and the especially the banter between Katy and Daemon. I also think that daemon now tops the list of my "Oh why aren't you real so I could go out with you instead of what's-her-face from the book???" Not that I don't love Katy but I just love Daemon. Did you see the cover?? That's him!!!! Isn't he gorgeous??? 

Jennifer's writing was enticing. It pulled right into the book and whenever I needed to get out to, well, eat or shower she would pull me back in with the mysterious writing like it was saying "This next bit is important, you can't leave now, don't you want to know what happens next??" Yeah I read it every spare moment I had and loved it to pieces. You know when you see the hero's name on the page of a book when he's first come into the scene? Like with Jace in TMI or just the guy you want the heroine to end up with? You giggle and smile and get asked by anyone around you "Good book?" or "What are you laughing at?" and to the first question you reply "OF COURSE" and to the second you quickly say "Nothing!". Yeah that. 


Buy this book. Get from a library. Whatever, just read it!! 5/5 Brilliant book Jennifer! Or Ms. or Mrs. Armentrout, whatever you want to be called!

Thank Naminé

Review: Secret Lives by Gabriella Poole

Review: Secret Lives by Gabriella Poole



Title: Secret Lives (Darke Academy #1)
Author: Gabriella Poole
Released: 2009
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Rating: 3.5 to 4 stars
Pages: 288


I quite liked this book. Probably a 3.5 or possibly a 4 star. It actually surprised me, which for many avid readers it is quite a feat to be achieved by a book, ever since I found this book I was thinking, it's vampires and it was and it wasn't. I'm not quite sure yet, it gives me incentive to read the next book. 

I liked Cassie enough but she seemed a bit too I'm-great-and-solve-this-all-on-my-own. I liked her more towards the end of the book. 

I really liked Isabella, she wasn't afraid of any of the Few or anyone else for that matter but still was fun and just there and like the little heiress I'd expected. 

The Few creeped me out for a while, especially Richard. Couldn't tell what the hell he was like. I overall enjoyed this book. 

I recommend it to Vampire Academy fans especially because it has the same feel as St. Vladimir's did but was still very different. Also to Half-Blood/Covenant-Series fans, ditto. I will definitely be reading Blood Ties.

Thank Naminé

Review: Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman

Review: Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman

Title: City of Masks
Author: Mary Hoffman
Series: Stravaganza
Position in series: 1st
Released: 2002
Source: Library

Thoughts: This was a brilliant book. The plot was fantastic, it was gripping but slow. That was my one problem with this book. It was great but I couldn't get into it, it wasn't the type of book that had me by the throat and made me read it all in one night. It took me a long time to read it. It took a week.

The descriptions in this book were so vivid, I felt like I really was in Bellezza and I loved the way (MINI SPOILER ALERT) that the author twisted one bit of history and everything changed. No Church of England so no Anglicans and (SPOILER IS OVER)Venice was known as Bellezza and it was great. It was still in the same world in the sense that it wasn't supernatural creatures or it wasn't on another planet but it has a different feel to it. It makes you feel like you're in a completely different world. It makes you feel as though you are in Bellezza.

Thank Naminé

Review: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Review: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins



Title: Hex Hall
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Cover: UK Version (ugh)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster 
Rating: 3 stars



At first when this book came into my hands I thought, "What is wrong with the cover?! Oh, stupid UK version!" I set out to read it with a bad attitude towards it and it surprised me. The beginning of this book was very "Now, what's going on here?" This book was not good in the beginning, I didn't like it. Sophie was a pain in the neck and I could almost hear her snarky voice and it gave me a headache! Archer I liked at first because I was thinking "Finally! Someone who can probably shut her up!! He's gotta be the villain!" Then things got better, the history of the Prodigium was interesting enough and had me a bit interested. 

Then it got worse and it was named Elodie and Archer. Oh God, not another "less beautiful girl but who secretly might be the savior or have superpowers steals the hot boyfriend of bitchy beautiful girl!!" minus the savior/superpower part but seriously?!? My headache was back. I liked Jenna, a pink-loving vampire? Now that's original!! (Hint: There actually wasn't any sarcasm in that sentence!!) She was funny but wasn't Sophie's sidekick or anything either. It was different. She was the only vampire, thank God! Sorry but I'm a little sick of vampires at the moment! 

The last 'bout 70 pages were great though! Up until now it was 1.5 or 2 stars. Now it was 3 or possibly 3.5!! Since it is the ending of the novel I can't reveal much without spoiling the ending but just it went up a star and a half! That tells you how much better it gets!! Sophie is no longer quite so annoying and the other characters, weeelllllll let's just say there are some interesting developments..... 

Thank Naminé

Review: Strange Angels by Lili St.Crow

Hi to all of you people I don't know,



Title: Strange Angels

Author: Lili St.Crow

Link to Promo Trailer(for book): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQPXGh7YYaw

Blurb (from Goodreads):

Dru Anderson is a teenage girl who moves from town to town hunting things that go bump in the night. Dru is completely comfortable with an AK-47 but not with people her age. She clears out spirit nests and gets rid of poltergeists. Even though she's never asked for help she crumbles when a rotting corpse comes knocking at her back door. She must ask the local baby-faced Goth Boy for help but anyone she gets close to ends up involved with the Real World. She must fight because whatever made the rotting corpse is coming for her next....


Strange Angels is a chilling thriller that any supernatural fan would love. It has blood, love and betrayal. Which brings me to the names of the other books. The second book is Betrayals, the third book is Jealously, the fourth book is Defiance and the fifth book is Reckoning.

Dru, I liked her quite a bit. She read like one of those brooding yet sarcastic people who are all either brilliant or annoying or a bit of both. Dru was a bit of both. She was mostly brilliant thankfully. I liked all of her reference to guns and fighting. I enjoy learning new things from the books I read, especially things like fighting and whatnot which I wouldn't encounter in my everyday life (I'm an exercise challenged person.)

Graves or Goth Boy, I really loved Graves. I feel like Graves a lot of the time. Not grown into my own body yet, waiting for something supernatural to happen to me. Luckily Graves gets what he wants. Something supernatural does happen, Dru happens.

Christophe, oh Christophe. I feel he came into the book too late, the whole book seemed a little cut off, like too much beginning, alright middle and not enough end. Christophe came along and well... I can't say too much about him without spoiling some stuff...

The whole history of the supernatural stuff in the book was interesting and reminded me of the show "Supernatural". I really hate the phrase "things that go bump in the night" though! Dru's relationship with her dad was a good backbone for this book, I wished it was shown a little bit more. All in all, it's a good book. It's a good series, I've read all five books. In all honesty, it's not the best book, it won't change your life, but it's good. I recommend it.

Thank Naminé