Stacy Claflin: Deception (The Transformed #1)

Sometimes I like to start reading a book without even reading the back.. It can be so confusing and frustrating having no clue what's going on for about half the story but it's refreshing to know as much or even less than the main character. For me, it makes the book feel like much more of a surprise.

This book started out really well. This could be partially because I felt as confused as Alexis because I really didnt have a clue what the book was about. The idea behind the book is great. There are some minor annoyances I have here and there by the way things were implied into the book, but I feel like this is partially because it's the first book in the series.
I don't know how many books the SC has written but everytime I start a serie I feel like the writting isn't fully there yet. For me, this resolves throughout the series and I hope that it was the same case here. I remember reading Harry Potter when I was young and thinking the books got better and better every time around.

I would have like there to be a bit more depth to some of the characters. Emma, Amanda, Brooke, Cleff,... They are there but we don't really get to know them as much as I would like.

All in all I found this a good book. I didn't manage to put it down until I had finished it and I'm glad I managed to at a decent time, not having to pull an allnighter again because my imagination was running wild.
Besides the little 'faults' I found with the book I thought it was a lovely book and I would recomend it to more people. Mostly the younger crowd (16-21ish).. I think the love triangle is something more for that age as to where 'older' people might expect it to be more of a mature relationship.

I'm going to raid this book 4 stars. It's a good read and I think you'll enjoy it.

P.S. I can't decide who to ship! I feel like T. was there for here when she truly needed someone and C. can't just expect A. to be totally into him after not KNOWING him... And he missed out on some serious brownie points for not being there when she needed him.

P.P.S. I think this cover is awesome but I can't seem to find the link to the story..

Read More

Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 1)

I found this book through Kerrelyn Sparks' Facebook page. There was an article about the "10 must read Romance Series"...

This list looked pretty solid. Kerrelyn Sparks, Charlaine Harris, Richelle Mead, Lara Adrian, Jeaniene Frost and J.R. Ward. All of my favourite authors. What could go wrong? I decided to buy the first book of each series I didn't know yet.
Lynsay Sands (Argenau Vampire), Victoria Knight (veiled), Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake), Bella Forrest (a Shade of Vampire)...

Having read through all these series I know in this list and having loved all of them to the last page, I was anxious to start the others.
So here goes Anita Blake. As a person I don't like her.. She seems like the kind of person I would meet and be nice to because that's just the polite thing to do. The kind of person I wouldn't talk to anymore after the first meeting because the person worked my last nerve.

Other than that, I think the author ruined the book for me. LKH's writing style is not for me. WHAT THE HELL DOES "NAW" EVEN MEAN? If I read that damned word one more time I'm going to burn the book. Okay, maybe not... It's on my Kindle. You get what I mean!
I dont want to flame the book too much (haha word jokes). It's just that certain words LKH uses and her way of saying things isn't something I would say or do. I would make different choices there and I think my annoyance of her writting style made me hate the story.

Other than that I have to say, it's an easy and quick read. It's not the kind of book you would sit still for on the edge of your seat until it's finished. You can put it down, do something else and pick it up the following evening. That's nice and relaxing.

But seriously what does NAW even mean?!? I feel like every time she gets dressed or gets an outfit ready or is about to go somewhere dangerous there is waaaay to much 'I was wearing this with that there and this gone hidden in my this because of this reason and I'm gong to that place because of this reason (which i have mentioned about 3 times before)'. Like I said, I just don't appreciate her style.

I love how there is such a thing as an Animator, Zombies, Ghouls, Vampires, Shifters (SERIOUSLY ALL KINDS). She created a very lovely world that goes very deep and has a lot of thought put into it.
This book might not make my list of the top 10 Vampire Romance Novels... But it's a nice book and I'd like to read more of Anita Blake, get to know her a bit more. Who knows, maybe i'll even end up liking her.

I think i'd give this book about 3 stars.

P.S. I have no clue what guns she keeps talking about..

Read More

Jane Stain: Kilts (Rennaisance Fair 1)

I love the idea of travelling through time. I love the idea that it would be possible for ordinary 21st century women to be part of such adventures.
This book was good, I liked reading it and I got through it so fast! When I reached the end I was like "What, it's done already? But I've only been sitting here for... Oh.. 3 hours...".

That being said, there were a couple of things that near ruined this book for me. I can't look at this book as a nice, stand alone book.
This feels more as a rushed prequel to another book. Is this a bad thing? Well no, not really. As I said, for the most part I liked this book. It was a very mushy romance kind of book and I kind find myself in that.
It's not filled with steamy scenes.. But I'm glad it was this way. It shows that a good romance doesn't need to be covered page to page with steamy scenes that make your ears go red to actually be a good novel.

Other than that, I had a few issues. She goes to this Rennaisance Fair with her best friend. Ok, no problem there. She meets a guy and is attracted to him. Again, no problem there. After 8 hours of knowing eachother she is about willing to give up her entire life for him. What.
I get how novels like to bring everything to true love, soul mates. Knowing you love the other person just by looking in his or her eyes.. But you don't KNOW someone that fast... Even Disney movies have stepped away from this idea..
'You can't marry someone you just met that day'. Thank you Christoff and Elsa for pointing this small, yet important detail, out.
I just think that there could have been a stronger built up to their beautiful relationship.

The second thing that kind of made me go haywire was how Emily seems to know that Dall is from the past just from hearing his accent. Since when are all scottish men from a time past? Okay, his accent and his "ways". I want to believe this but I would never think someone is from the past just because they talk or act weird. Let's not forget that they're at a RENNAISANCE FAIR. He's supposed to act and talk weird. He doesn't drop the act like the others do but still, I mean where does she get this! Am I lacking the imagination genes? I've always been told I had too many, maybe the problem has always been that I have too little.

All in all loving this book, I feel like so many things were rushed and it sadens me because it could have had such a stronge built. I also feel like a lot of the story line didn't het explained or answered near the end. I had about as many questions in the first half of the book as I had in the second half. However, this could be ignored if you look at how it's a series. Maybe this really was a prequel

I'm sure going to read the second book, 'Highlander', because I want the answers to all my questions and I just want to know where this relationship between Dall and Emily is going. I feel like a lot of their chemestry was lost to us.
I feel that if this book would have been longer, more elaborated, it would have worked. If Jane Stain would rewrite this book, make it more elaborate, give Emily and Dall a proper chance to meet, fall in love all a bit slower, I would totaly go with it. Give the story line a bit more of a chance as well... I would buy it and read it all over.
I feel the emotional connection in this book would suggest it to be for a more mature audiance, but at the same time I feel like I would be able to suggest this to YA's just the same.

As for the cover I have to admit that I'm just kind of past having hunky half naked guys on there.. It's like yeah, we know it's one of "those" books..

P.S: I just noticed that all the stories from this series can be bough as one book for 8$ on Amazon. I have the feeling readin it as one book could make it better. We shall see! Up to book two!

Price: 2/2
Cover 1/2
Characters: 1.5/2
Story: 1/2
Overall: 1/2

Leaving this book at a 6.5.. I feel like this is a fair scoring as this book wasn't amazing. But the most important thing is, this book didn't let me down. I was satisfied after reading it.

Read More

Series VS Standalone...

I do not like Standalones at all. One book does just not give me any satisfaction at all. I need to know there's more to the story..
However.. I get bored really fast of series that go on and on and on about the same people. I prefer series where it's about the same group of people but always has someone else in the spotlight. A great example of this is "Love at Stake" by Kerrelyn Sparks. I loved these books to death and I so wish that it's not over yet. (She has announced the last book to be the last book FOR NOW, so who knows).

When it keeps going on about the same two people in the spotlight, I often feel like the author does some weird things with the storyline and just keeps inventing things to keep it going even if those things would not be considered very high standing or good for that matter. Just to keep it going because it sells. I think we all know a couple of examples.

Series I loved to death:

Love at Stake
Stookie Stackhouse
Desperate Debutantes
Harry Potter (I mean come on, who didn't love this)
Black Daggar Brotherhood
Warriors of Posseidon

I would recommend these books to anyone, they filled endless moments with joy and they kept me interested every time a new book came out. They made me wanting more and more!

Series I started out loving but ended up hating:
We all have it, we start reading books and eventually we just can't help but getting tired of the books, finding the plot twists all too far fetched, wondering how the story ever came the way it did...

House of Night.. I can't help it. I know there are a lot of fangirls and boys out there and I loved the start of it, but after what book 7 or 8 I just couldn't be bothered with it any more?

Gemma Doyle books by Libba Bray. I loved the first one, I don't remember how I felt about the second one but I know it took me forever to get out of the third book. I always get sad when I end up hating a book I've been looking forward to for so long because I don't want to hate these characters I've been spending so much time with (be it in my mind). It's like ending a friendship that's taken you to your highest and lowest points.

The Vampire Diaries. I think this is one of the only times I can say I actually loved the ts show more than the books. I enjoyed the first couple but then it just felt like the books weren't doing it for me.. Shortly after hating the books the tv show came out and I ended up falling in love again.. Just to get my dreams and feelings crushed again when I lost interest in the tv show.

Another one here could be the Divergent books. I read number one and two but lost all interest for number three. Got some more interest back when Four came out but lost it rather quickly again.

It's such a thin line between not going far enough as an author and going that one step to far causing your readers to lose interest. I like to think this is wrong, but sometimes I feel like certain series keep getting more books published just because they sell. Like now, even if I don't like House of Night as much as I used to, I would still buy the books and read them to see if maybe I would start liking them again.
Maybe this isn't just the Authors fault. Maybe it has something to do with me, as a reader, getting older and outgrowing certain books. Which brings me to a whole new level of depressed but that's for another time...
If you want to have a series to read, I reccomend all of the above because once, I did love them. I think the real trick to not hating them after a while is trying to read these books with a couple of other books in between. For example you could read Love at Stake One (How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire - the title alone made me buy this) and then you read one or two books that have nothing to do with Love at Stake, or maybe even more depending on how long it takes you to read a book. After you've read a couple of other books go back to Love at Stake two.
This might be hard because a lot of the books are sold in Box sets now and it can be just oh so tempting to keep reading when they're in reach... It's easier to do when you're actually with the Author. You read a book, love it, look at when the next one is a available only to realize you have to wait a year! This is frustrating but it makes sure that you don't overindulge yourself and get a series overdose!

Read More

Taylor Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

The cover is nothing great but it isn't bad either. It's just.. Ok. But in this case it was good enough to persuade me (plus a recommendation from Goodreads).
I'm happy with the price, it's not expensive and it's not cheap. Sometimes when I see a really cheap book I will just buy it because it's cheap but I never really expect much from it.

Now to the story.. I loved the first half. I loved how she is different, I loved the art part, I loved the confusion (there was a lot of confusion). This confusion was good because Karou feels the same. I loved her blue hair.
However, I hated the second half. Soon after the Revelation, the story just collapses. filled with Flashbacks that in my opinion should have been more devided, not all thrown at once. I felt like the story just didn't go anywhere after that. There is so much that should happen, so much they work towards but none of it happens. Because you're stuck in the past and all the explenations are thrown at your face page after page.. I feel this could have been done somewhat more subtle.
When I got to the final page, I was dissapointed that not more had happened. That they didn't get any further.

I liked Akiva.. I get what he stands for and I get how he feels. The one thing I don't get is how their love works. I feel like there is a lack of chemestry between Akiva and Karou. They are soulmates, ment for eachother but I just don't feel it. Which makes me sad because I really want them to be all lovey dovey.
I feel like all in all the chracters lack a little bit of personality.. A bit of depth.
This book started out with great potential and for that potential alone I would reccomend this book. Maybe if I read the next one in the series (Days of Blood and Starlight) I will feel more satisfied and the book will go where I'd like to see it go.

Cover: 1
Price: 2
Characters: 1
Story: 1.5
Overall: 1.5

The rating for this book is doing my head in. I liked the start and I liked the concept but the second half of the book just makes me want to trash it a bit.. With an open mind I think this books deserves a 7 for the way it made me get into it at the start and in the end, I still really want to read the second one so yeah... I guess I didn't hate it as much as I think I did..

Read More

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Opal (Lux 3)

So I totally fell in love with Daemon. I can't help it. He's like the perfection of secret fantasy crushes. He really just goes full out for Katy and I swear I turned green numerous times!

I like how they used the same people for the cover, representing Daemon and Katy. Sometimes they bring out different models or drawings and it makes me sad. Like why would you change the face of the person I've been so emotionally attached to for hours?!

But it gives me the same weird feeling as before. They just look kinda too... Old. No teen looks like that. I get that it's Fiction... Just something that bothers me personally. But other than that, I feel like the over is actually a scene that happened in the book which makes me all giddy about it because I actually recognised something! 

As for the price, this one was more expensive than the previous books and I don't really understand why.. Still cheap but I don't know, I just don't get it. 

This book was a little bit different then the others. It's like... It wasn't boring, more that every time I wanted to shout 'can you get on with the story yet' JLA new exactly what I was thinking and threw a plots twist at my face that made my heart nearly explode. 

Reading this book you can be certain to expect LOADS of heartbreak and heartattack moments together with the further relationship work going on between Daemon and Katy. 

After the last book, a lot of things have changed and I feel like this book is more about dealing with those things and fixing them than anything else, ending with a major cliffhanger, opening up to the next book. Origin. 

If you liked the last two books, then you will love this one as well. Just don't read all of them straight one after the other when you've got a week of or something. Because that, I feel, would just be ruining if for yourself. There is something with putting the series down for a while, not thinking about them and then picking it back up again after having read a couple of other books and.. It's like a warm welcome when you get back to something like this. 

I feel like the boring moments were masked with the plot twists.. But somehow that just doesn't fully make up for it. Eventhough it shakes you up, wakes you up, hell nearly destroys you while reading it.. After reading it I still kinda remember the moments where I thought.. Why are you blabbing on! Just go for it! That was a little downer but in the end.. Trust me. It is so worth it. 

I think I might actually need some mental help to get through this! Can't wait to read the next book!!

All jokes put to rest now though.. This Cliffhanger might actually be the end of me. I feel like so much rage is surrounding me now. And not the good kind of rage that you let out and get over with but the kind of rage that will not end even when I read the 6th or 7th book, if they may ever come out. I'm so bad at dealing with these sort of endings. Damn. Need more books. 

Cover: 1

Price: 1.5

Story: 1.5

Characters: 2

Overall: 1.5

Leaving this book at a 7.5/10 I feel like it's been rated fairly and definately worth a read!

Read More

Marie Lu: Legend (Legend 1)

To start off, I bought this book in the wrong language. Honestly this annoyed me more than it should have but being the cheap bastard I am I decided to read it in the bought language anyway.

The Cover isn't anything too special, it's not bad but it didn't blow my mind. It was a bit the same as all those Divergent style stories. The whole Dystopian thing. They all seem to have the same covers, I don't know why but I don't think they're special.

I bought this book during some summer sale so the price was downgraded, leaving the book at around 8-ish.
It's more expensive than some of the other books/genres I read but it wasn't so expensive that it made me cringe.

 While reading this book you keep getting swapped between reading the book as Day and reading the book as June. I thought this was really nice because I always like to know what's going on in BOTH the hero and heroines head. The only thing I have to remark to this was that their personalities weren't always split up enough. Meaning, if you start a chapter and you didn't read who it was about (yes, I often skip the title of a chapter) you could get a little bit confused as to who is talking.
That being said though, I felt really connected to both of them and I did see them as two different people. Mostly I would read 3 sentences in a chapter thinking Day is talking and be like 'this isn't right' or the other way around. I'm sure this confusion can be blamed to my lazy reading techniques.
If you liked Divergent and The Hunger Games, I'm pretty sure you'll like this book. I feel like I would recommend this book more to the younger teenagers though and not to young adults/ adults. This doesn't make it a bad book it just means it's directed at a different audience. Like my cousin of 14. He would love this book.

Overall I enjoyed this book, it was such an easy read. I think it took me about 2hrs to finish this book. I was really into it and it was just so smooth!

Cover 1
Price 1.5
Characters 1
Story 1.5
Overall 2

Giving this book a total of 7/10! A total recommendation for the younger age and for the older age (if you're looking for a quick, fun read).

Read More

Kristen Ashley: Wildest Dreams (Fantasy Land 1)

Okay soooooo....
I don't really know what to think about this book.. Like sure it was a nice story and all. At first when I started reading I thought it would be a bit like the Divine series by P.C. Cast but soon I saw why exactly it wasn't going to be any bit like it.

First impression: KA has a thing for marking words in cursive. lots of them. On one page. This I felt was more at the start of the book and diminished as I was reading and in a way it gives certain tone to what they are saying..
Second impression: how do you pronounce all these names?!?

So this woman travels to another land, say another dimension, that has a twin copy of everyone. Some people are in one world and aren't in the other and stuff like that.
She marries The Dragon, Frey Drakkar..
I really want to like him! I'm honestly trying to but he is such a jerk. Right I think you get my flow. It's another one of those "super sweet nice girl meets jerk and they fall in love and she changes him" things. But the truth is, sure he can do nice things and it warms you up to him every time he does, but right when you start to like him, he turns right around and you want to strangle him again or hit some sense into Finnie.
Finnie doesn't take all of his crap but in the end she still always gives him exactly what he wants and it infuriates me at times.

I think it's important to look at the historical context to understand this book and not be appalled by what women call romance. It's some kind of medeival setting where emancipation hasn't happened yet. The guy thinks he can get away with anything and that it is his right to decide everything. But seriously everything.
Keeping in mind this context, seeing how they were an arranged match I feel that I'm willing to look past this and when I do I have to admit he does pretty sweet things.
It's just.. In other books guy are jerks at the start, I can deal with that because later on in the book it reveals why they acted this way. Here it's just the basic fact of 'I am the man, I have all the rights, you are the woman and you can be happy if I give you what you want and not happy if I do not'.

I think KA created an amazing world and I love the fact that it's all snow. I love snow! They also have multiple mythological creatures we all just have to love. Although this could have been milked a little bit more but I guess in the end it's a way you decide to get with the book as Author or not. And KA decided not to go there. Which is fine. The one giant downer though was that it just kept going on and on and on and on.. Every time you entered a new room, a new house, a new bar, a new city the descriptions kept being thrown at you and I'm ashamed to admit that somewhere 3/4th into the book I started skimming over the pages when I saw a description and stopped actually paying attention. There is something about books that allows my imagination to run wilde, imagining how the place would look etc.. But KA's need to describe everything down to the fiber of the carpets or the last bead hanging on a necklace drove me crazy! My imagination couldn't follow how specific it all was which made me sad because the place was honestly beautiful..

Another thing I loved in this book was how open sexuality is. As in the wife doesn't have to be a virgin when they get married, sexual relationships pre-marriage happens and it's all fine. No one things badly of it and it doesn't matter if people want guy on guy action, woman on woman action or whatever they feel like. Like I said. Open minded.

The cover of the book is simple and it's a nice step away from the usual hot guy on the cover and CHEAP! Again I bought it as an Ebook and it was 1.99... For that price, this book was more than worth! It was longer than most of the books I've been reading lately which was also a nice change, but I feel like a lot of that being longer didn't actually make the story.. More. It just made everything more detailed.

All in all for the price and considering the other elements this book was a nice opener for a series that, I already checked, continues. It's a nice introduction if you want to keep reading and a nice stand alone story if you don't.

On the scale of book I've been reading it goes something like Selection > Wildest Dreams > Lux...

Cover 2
Price 2
Story 1
Characters .5
Overall 1

Leaving this book at a 6.5, seeing I loved the cover and the price. Which i think is exactly right. It's average, but a lot better than what i had expected... And I have to admit.. In the end even I decided I liked Frey,.. (Although he never REALLY apologized for any of it..)

Note: One thing I did have a problem with, was that the Ebook version holds a lot of mistakes.. Meaning wrong punctiation and sometimes when it should have been "he said. it was "she said. And the other way around. I don't know if the actual book holds the same errors but I felt like this somehow annoyed me a little bit.

Read More

My upcomming Readinglist!

Okay so I've done a little research on the books I want to read the comming few weeks and these are some options I've come across. I'm still not sure about Goodreads, it seems to either get it right as right can be or completely wrong...

1) Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices 1)

2) Kristen Ashley's Wildest Dreams (Fantasy Land 1)

3) Julie Kawaga's The Iron King (Iron Fey 1)

4) Kresley Cole's The Warlord wants Forever (Immortals After Dark 1)

5) Richard A. Knaak's Well of Eternity (War of the Ancients 1)

6) Cassandra Clare's Bane Chronicles

7) Jennifer L. Armentrout's Opal (Lux 3)

8) Jennifer L. Armentrout's Half-Blood (Covenant 1)

9) J.R. Ward's Covet (Fallen Angels 1)

10) Richard A. Knaak's Demon Soul (War of the Ancients 2)

11) Sherrilyn Kenyon's Fantasy Lover

These are the book I've got lined up on my bookshelve just staring at me, waiting to be opened. This order may not be the exact reading order.

Anyway, looking at this list I've got a lot of work to do! Have a great time reading all of you and I'll be sure to tell you how I liked all these books. Don't be shy to leave you own opinion below!

Read More

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Onyx (Lux 2)

Okay so I have to be honest here. After putting down Obsidian I wanted to jump straight to this book but something inside me told me not to do so.
You know how sometimes you can just totally ruin good books by having to read the entire series in one week? Well I was about to do that. I had to stop myself, take a deep breath and decided to wait a little but to pick it back up.

I can't believe how much of an emotional rollercoaster this book was. It's like it doesn't really start of with a story line.. Katy and Daemon just... Well.. They are who they are which is amazing. I love how they piss eachother off so much because neither of them really want to admit to show any "weak" sides to the other.
God I just love the chemestry between them. At the first book I wasn't sure if I was going to completely and irrevocably fall in love with this serie but I did. I'm hopeless. Sometimes I think I'm just simply unable to not love a book.
I admit that it's very hard for me to read a book and hate it. Eventhough sometimes storylines and plots colide with other books. I can't help it.

In a way I feel like people who dislike this sort of book saying it's too much like this or that or too much the same story line all over again and just couldn't get through it should just start looking for a new genre. Obviously this isn't it for them, which isn't a problem at all for me! Everyone read what he or she likes to read but it makes me sad that they decide to dish it.

Anyway back to the book..
I can honestly say that this book is a must read.. I think you could even get away with skipping the first book but in a way that would mess up the chemestry and history Daemon and Kat have. The only thing that I could have done without is Kat's endless doubt. I think most people would've not given it a second thought after the first book!
But I get her doubt. She wants the love she reads in her novels. The romance all of us dream of.

The characters really seem to grow with the story and you get a lot more upclose to them and their history. I feel like this has been the best book so far I've read from JLA and I'll gladly move on to the next without doubt.

With this book, get ready for an emotional rollercoaster that takes you from a book with no real plot (which is fine) to a book with a plot that will blast you away every 10 pages or so.
The cover could be more special but it's nicely done (they look kind of too old and I remeber Kat complaining a lot about not being skinny skinny), it gives a little bit info on how Daemon and Kat feel but yet don't feel about eachother.
I payed about 5 for this book as an ebook which I think is a more than fair price. Obviously I can't say anything bad about the story today and I'm happy with the Character Development.

Cover: 1/2
Price: 2/2
Story: 2/2
Characters: 1.5/2
Overall: 1.5/2

Leaving me at an 8/10 for this book. Well deserved. Nice work Jennifer L. Armentrout!

Read More

Kiera Cass: The Selection (The Selection: 1)

Close to every review on this book states how horrible it is. Most people even saying they didn't finish it. So it's safe to say that I didn't have a very high opinion of the book to start with.

In all honesty, I might have bough it for the cover alone. It's beautiful and I think almost every woman wishes she could have an occasion to wear a dress like that (as well as the funds to actually buy it). 

I have to say the book made me feel sick at times.. The way the world is built and the rights these people have. I guess it's nothing better or worse than parts of this world but having to comfront it like that in my own mind, my own fantasy world... A place carefully built out of thousands of books and tv shows and movies.. Yuck. 

I guess we all read books to get away from our troubles in a way. It's a way to relax and let go.

But it wasn't the worst book I'd ever read. Sure it wasn't the best by far and I don't really see how it's become so popular. I think it's one of those things where so many people call it shit, that everyone just has to buy it to see exactly how shit it is. 

I'd say that the most of the book rage is just about how the women throw themselves at it. How little selfrespect they have. And part of the historian in me finds it comical how both the Chinese and the Russians invaded America due to their dept. 

The characters on it's own weren't too world changing, they lacked some depth and some personality I would've like to see and maybe some more consistency in who they are and what their place is in the story. 

I think if you just want an easy read, this could certainly be an option. I think this book was relaxing and in a way it was a nice suprise because like I said, I really did not expect much at all. 

Cover: 2/2
Price: 1/2

Story: 0.5/2 

Characters: 0.5/2 

Overall: 1/2

Leaving this book on a 5/10.. I don't know. I tried to read this with an open mind and i don't think the book is bad.. Just not Bestseller material. More like they sold so many copies due to the hate hype. 

Read More

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Obsidian (Lux 1)

First off I have to say. READ THIS BOOK FIRST!!! I made the mistake of reading "Shadows" first, as it was placed this way in the Author's reading order but I'm so disappointed!
This entire book is based on the mystery that you don't really know what's going on.. You don't know who or what anyone is and it leaves so much room for excitement and confusion. It's like the book slowly opens up to you.
You know as little as the protagonist Katy and it makes the book special in a way. Because now I just got a little bit annoyed at the fact that she just simply couldn't get it..

Reading order put aside, I love how Katy has a blog about book reviews. It somehow made me connect to her in a way no other book ever has. I could find myself in her character.
The book kept me hooked from page to page and I enjoyed the story.
Armentrout has this way of making a so obvious book become so suprising at times. There were moments I thought.. Do I really want to be reading another one of those books? You know the typical bad boy-nerdy gril relation.. He's a douche, she's way too nice.
But she made it so full of plot twists that this basic primal story line just pales in the light of further events. Plus the fact that she is strong enough to be a douche back to him and not just goes running like a sad, sad girl.

I think this book is certainly worth a read and I really did enjoy it.. But I have to be honest. This is a style you like, or you don't. I don't think there's a grey here. Black or white. After spending a long time considering reading this and reading a lot of bad reviews on "Goodreads". I had decided to read it anyway and I'm glad I did.

Price wise, again I went with the Ebook and I have to say it wasn't expensive for a 340page book (depending on which platform  you read it).

I would say 8/10 and a wicked appetite for more.

Read More

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Shadows (Lux 0.5)

A couple of days ago I was aimlessly roaming the internet when I suddenly realized how I hadn't read any books in a while. As soon as this realization struck me, I decided it had to change.

So I went on to search for some good books. I came across a couple of nice series and one really caught my eye. The Lux series. I had heared of these books before, hearing nothing but good reviews. I decided to give it a go.
I looked up a reading order and according to the Author herself, Shadows is the first book you should read.
Price wise it's really a good option, not very expensive at all in Ebook version. I have to say I'm a big fan of owning a book, knowing it's carefully placed on my bookshelf and nothing can happen to it.. But I make an exception from time to time.. For one of three reasons.
1) I just really can't wait for it to either be delivered or buy it myself.
2) I can't find any service that will deliver the book I want in the right size, language etc
3) I bought previous books of that particular serie as an ebook and don't want to have a collection split (I admit I might have an OCD when it comes to books).

This time, I just really couldn't wait. I bought the book, downloaded it and started reading.

I was sold straight away. The book switches POV between the two main characters and I always like this. Something about knowing what the guy is thinking makes me feel like I know more than the female protagonist.
At times I found the female character, Beth, a little bit annoying. I was like AARGH WHY CAN'T YOU SEE IT!!!
But throughout the book my love for both protagonists grows. The book is filled with intense plot twists combined to the usual forbidden love story made interesting again.

It was a quick read, about 180 pages as an ebook. I think I went through it in two to three hours (which was a huge suprise)!

The Lux series has certainly deserved a place on my 'Love this Series Fangirl'-bookshelf. Seeing this book is short and I don't want to give any unwanted spoilers, I'm going to leave it at this.

I would give this book an 8/10. It made me hold my breath throughout and I couldn't let it go until i had reached that final page.

AFTER HAVING READ OTHER BOOKS IN THE LUX SERIES I HAVE TO SAY DO NOT READ THIS BOOK FIRST, SAVE IT FOR LATER BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH HAS BEEN SPOILED HERE TO FULLY ENJOY THE FIRST BOOK IN THE LUX SERIES!

Read More