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!

   

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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