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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Expected pub. date:</b> April 5th, 2016</span><br />
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The light in her life is her sweetheart boyfriend Ethan, but it turns out Ethan has a secret too: a soulless doppelganger created by dark magic, who has to conceal the face identical to Ethan’s with a hood fastened by a collar nobody but a Light magician with magical rings can take off… and who introduces himself to both of them by, for reasons nobody can understand, saving Ethan’s life…</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Title: </b>The Forbidden Wish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Author:</b> Jessica Khoury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Expected pub. date:</b> February 23rd, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Title:</b> Reign of Shadows</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Expected pub. date:</b> February 9th, 2016</span><br />
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Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-52408173727906159692015-11-23T00:49:00.002-03:002015-11-23T00:49:21.454-03:00[Review] The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh<div style="text-align: justify;">
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This book was a hype-monster! Everyone and their mother had read it and loved it by the time I picked it up, so my expectations going into it were pretty high. </div>
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Perhaps it was precisely for that reason that I felt a little disappointed going into it. I found the beginning to be quite slow and I had a hard time trying to connect with the characters. To be completely honest I think I didn't get the world at first... the cultural ambience was new for me and I felt overwhelmed by it at the start; the names drove me insane because I couldn't remember them and then there were too many names and roles starting with K and J for me to actually keep track of who was who or what. </div>
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So I actually had to stop and go read something else before I started hating on the book just because I wasn't getting it. Thankfully, when I came back to it, things started to pick up and after two or three chapters I went from not caring to being unable to put the book down. </div>
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The story is about a girl named Shahrzad whose best friend, Shiva, had to marry and then was killed by the king of Khorasan. But Shiva is only one of many brides that the king has taken and killed merely a night after the wedding, so Shahrzad takes it upon herself to end this cycle of death and find out why the king is killing his wives and hopefully, find a way to make him pay for all the pained he's caused. But in order to do that, she has to volunteer as the next bride and do whatever it takes to stay alive every dawn. </div>
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I loved Shahrzad strategy for staying alive: telling the king a never ending story so he would let her live each night in order to finish it. I've never read the original A Thousand and One Nights, but I more or less know what it's about and I really enjoyed Ahdieh's take on it. At first I thought it was going to be like the center of the story as if it were a retelling, but it wasn't the case. The plot had a mind of its own and it moved forward without the help of the stories after a while. </div>
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Once I got past the initial confusion, it was quite clear for me that the characters were complex, especially Khalid and Shazi. Both of them were multidimensional and had light and shadow within them, which made it hard for me to make up my mind about them. Mot of the time I was reading, I didn't know if I actually liked them or not, or if I wanted them to fall in love and be together or if I would rather for Shazi to stick to her original plan, but in the end I was rooting for them.</div>
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The secondary characters were interesting too. I loved Jalal, with his lightheartedness and ready sarcasm at every occasion, no matter if he was talking to an inferior or to the Caliph himself. I didn't care for Tariq all that much, but I liked his friend, Rahim. </div>
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The one thing I never quite got in the story was the way magic worked. Who had the magic? Was it something you inherited? Was it something you could learn? Was its existence common knowledge or only people from certain circles knew about it? I would've liked to learn more about it since it seemed to matter a great deal to the story.</div>
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Overall, I liked it and I would like to read the next one, but it was a tough one to get into. I wish the amazingness that went down near the end could've lasted more. I felt like when I was finally coming to terms with the way of things and I thought that everything was right with the world, the whole thing just exploded on my face, and truly, the ending kind of broke my heart. I'm really hoping that in the next book we'll get back somehow, to that perfect place where we were before everything went to hell. Fingers crossed!</div>
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Renee Ahdieh lives in North Carolina (Go Heels!) with her husband Victor and their dog Mushu. Her YA fantasy novel, THE WRATH AND THE DAWN, is available wherever books are sold. In her spare time, she likes to cook, dance salsa, and wreak havoc on the lives of her characters.</div>
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She's also a member of the <a href="http://www.scbwi.org/">Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators</a>, as well as an active member of the <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/">Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America</a>.</div>
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Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-42696669167869439342015-11-22T00:00:00.000-03:002015-11-22T00:00:00.235-03:00[Review] The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Author:</b> Mary E. Pearson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1414932049l/21569527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1414932049l/21569527.jpg" width="210" /></a>Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save Lia's life, her erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the sequel to The Kiss of Deception and I'm pleased to say that I enjoyed it more than the first book. This book picks up right where the previous one left off and it's set entirely on Venda, the enemy territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lia has been taken captive and now she's being held prisoner by the Komizar. Rafe, in an attempt to save her, makes up a story about being an emissary for the prince of Dalbrech looking for an alliance with Venda and gets himself taken into Venda too. Kaden is falling for Lia and having trouble deciding where his loyalties lie, with the girl of his dreams or with the man who saved his life. Essentially and put simply: everything is a big fat mess for our characters.<br />
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Venda is such a captivating place and here the writing was excellent at painting a picture for me. I could see it so clearly with all its colors and different kinds of people. It was really well done in my opinion. The funny thing is that I went into it expecting to hate it as much as Lia, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it to be such a mesmerizing location.<br />
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Against all odds, Lia starts making a few friends and allies in Venda and with their help plus a whole lot of determination on her part, she's becoming a force to be reckoned with. She's starting to grasp the meaning of her gift, which just adds to her resourcefulness. In this book, we see her make use of all her talents, especially the ones that help her make others believe she's playing by the rules, when in reality, she's making up a completely different game as she goes along.<br />
<br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The problem with Venda is that you have the good kind of people and the awful kind of people like in any place, but here, the bad are the ones that provide for all the rest, so that makes the good people do terrible things in order to survive. Enter here the whole political drama! There's a shit-ton of political intrigue in this book and I finally got to understand what the hell was going on with the war between Venda </span>and Morrighan, and Dalbrech by extension. Thankfully, in this book, we get a lot of backstories for the Komizar, Kaden, and Venda as a country of sorts, which helps round up the whole story as a whole a lot better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The so-called love triangle is more like a love square (?) now that the Komizar has taken a particular interest in Lia and wants her for himself, so he can add to his already considerable power. We knew from the first book that Lia's heart belongs to Rafe, but in this one, Lia's life depends on her being able to convince everyone that she loves Kaden and holds no interest for Rafe, because the assassin is the only one who can do anything big enough to help her situation. And in all that convincing she does, I actually started to doubt her, either she's very good at deceiving others or she's very good at deceiving herself. You'll have to judge for yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Genre:</b> YA Sci-Fi / Time travel</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week is one of my favorite Top Ten topics! I absolutely love quotes and I love highlighting them or marking them on my books. So, today </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'm listing some of my favorite quotes of book I've read this year. There are some really deep ones, some that I just thought were funny, the ones that </span><span style="font-size: large;">for some reason resonated with me and some of them were just too epic to pass out. Here we go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning".</span></div>
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From: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17134589-the-conspiracy-of-us)">The Conspiracy of Us</a> by Maggie Hall</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I don’t understand people. They smile when they are mad. They hug people they hate. They steal from people they genuinely love. And they are jealous of babies"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25944707-brighter-than-the-sun">Brighter Than the Sun</a> by Darynda Jones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18006496-queen-of-shadows">Queen of Shadows</a> by Sarah J. Maas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13262783-every-day">Every Day</a> by David Levithan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">'Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">'Quiet, Sage,' he said. 'I’ll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709524-silver-shadows">Silver Shadows</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: right;">by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: right;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Richelle Mead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"The thing is...what they don’t tell you about forgiveness is this—you don’t give it for the other person’s sake, but your own." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16150831-in-the-afterlight">In the Afterlight</a> by Alexandra Bracken </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space." Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11065441-attachments">Attachments</a> by Rainbow Rowell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants is super creepy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22561320-velvet" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Velvet</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Temple West</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15717943-hopeless" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hopeless</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Colleen Hoover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16068905-fangirl">Fangirl</a> by Rainbow Rowell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16096824-a-court-of-thorns-and-roses">A Court of Thorns and Roses</a> by Sarah J. Maas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460392-all-the-bright-places">All the Bright Places</a> by Jennifer Niven </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9462812-die-for-me">Die for Me</a> by Amy Plum </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Genre: </b><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;">Young</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Adult Historical Thriller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Samantha has recently graduated with honors from a special and selective group that educates young women. She has a special talent with languages and codes so she's been approached by a governmental organization, the MI6 trying to recruit her for a dangerous mission as a war spy for England, as a part of the LDB, a group of female spies that work mostly as undercover agents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miss Tickford is appointed as Sam's handler and she's the one who'll provide her training and first assignment. Sam has to go undercover as a governess and immerse herself in the German royal family no less. Her mission is to find another undercover agent whose code name is Velvet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the mission seems to get more and more difficult as the time goes by and Sam starts to doubt herself at every turn. She will have to choose very carefully who she trusts and will have to keep all her wits about her if she's going to make it out alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The whole premise is fascinating. I have only basic knowledge about World War I, so I didn't know much about MI6 and the whole espionage going on, so I don't know if what's going on in this story is historically accurate, but I enjoyed it immensely. There's so much at stake for the protagonist and every tiny bit of information she receives changes everything in her plans, which is definitely a great way to keep a reader on the edge of her seat, thank you very much...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I kept waiting for that dull moment that would make me put the book down and then never return to it again, as it happens often when I pick up historical fiction, but the truth is I couldn't let go of the goddamn book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The characters the protagonist meets are really interesting and most of them really mysterious too which makes you doubt everyone. I kept yelling at the book like "That's gotta be Velvet!" every time a new character popped up. </span></div>
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</span><br />Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-412351424174938882015-11-13T00:00:00.000-03:002015-11-13T21:06:43.486-03:00[Review] Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can’t even with this series… Darynda Jones freaking read my mind, I could swear it! Just when I finished the third book, I was saying: “It’s kind of suspicious that after going through so much, Charley’s mind is still in one piece. If I were her I wouldn’t step out of my house again, not even for a million dollars”. And it would be kind of annoying and unrealistic of her to just get back on her feet and keep going as if nothing had happened… So, she doesn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this installment, Charley is kind of depressed, suffering from PTS after Earl’s attack. She won’t go out of her house and has been hoarding boxes of mostly useless things she’s been impulsively buying. She’s almost broke and hasn’t taken on a case for two months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her family and friends planned an intervention and try to get her out of the house, but she’s not making much progress until she meets Harper, a young woman who’s been terrorized her whole life and whom everyone thinks is just trying to get her parents attention. When Charley decides to take on her case, we get some of the old Charley back, this badass heroine ready to save the day and cause some trouble, but there’s still some part of her that will never be the same. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I loved this book even more than the others. It just felt so real to me. Charley has so many layers as a character that I’m always amazed at every new glimpse of her </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I get.</span></div>
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Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-78549248883506044972015-11-09T00:00:00.000-03:002015-11-09T00:00:01.221-03:00[Mini-Review] The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is Maggie Hall's debut novel and the first installment in a series and I thought it was pretty great overall. It's marketed as a mixture between Dan Brown and Ally Carter, both of them authors that I love so kind of big shoes to fill in. I could see some elements of both authors, sure, but the plot wasn't as thick as Dan Brown's books and the main character is not as bad-ass as Ally Carter's characters usually are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">But even if it wasn't absolutely perfect, it was a really fun read and it kept me on the edge of my seat with anticipation throughout. The plot is well-done and the clues and revelations move it forward flawlessly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The main character, Avery, was not my favorite, she was a little too erratic for my taste, and the love interest wasn't my cup of tea either, but they make kind of nice pairing. What made the characters department, at least for me, were the interesting secondary characters, like Stellan and Luc. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">I'm really looking forward to seeing more of Stellan in the next book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maggie Hall is a traveling, decorating, champagne-drinking, USC-football-watching YA author. She is currently traveling the world for an indefinite amount of time with her husband, which means right at this moment, she might be on a beach in Thailand, drinking wine in Paris, or anywhere in between.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her debut novel, a YA international thriller, was released from Putnam/Penguin in 2015.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She is represented by Claudia Ballard at William Morris Endeavor.</span></blockquote>
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Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-90793881108090218152015-11-08T00:30:00.000-03:002015-11-08T00:30:00.412-03:00[Review] Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones<div style="text-align: justify;">
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In this installment, Charley is trying to find a missing wife and helping Reyes with his current situation. She hasn’t had any sleep for two weeks; she’s carjacked and kidnapped; she gets beaten up at least three times; betrayed by someone she loves at least two times; someone slashes her tires; someone breaks into her apartment; and the list goes on and on. And somehow those haven’t been the worst couple of weeks of her life… You gotta love her spirit.</div>
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Reyes is being a complete asshole during this whole book and I don’t care how hot he is, right now he's not making it to anyone's favorite lists. Especially not Charley's and certainly not mine. </div>
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I have to admit, I’m always a little afraid of what’s coming next, afraid for Charley, that is… Everything seems to be aligning for absolute chaos, but that just builds up the excitement for the next book on the series. </div>
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Darynda Jones did not disappoint in the third installment of the Charley Davidson series, her characters are beautifully developed and the plot never lets up. </div>
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I went straight for the next one after finishing this book, and if you haven’t read this series yet, I strongly recommend it to you, you won’t regret picking it up!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whenever there's a new Colleen Hoover book coming out, it goes straight to my TBR pile from the moment I learn about its "future" existence. I just absolutely love her writing style and she's the kind of author that keeps getting better and better with each new book. I can't recommend her books enough to you, if you haven't read anything by her yet, you are totally missing out. This particular book sounds mysterious and I love reading novels about writers, so this one should be an easy win for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's says something about an author or his/her series when you haven't even caught up with it, but you're still dying to get your hands on the finale. I read Cinder a few months ago and I plan on reading Scarlet this month and possible Cress and Winter in December. I've been waiting for the last book to be out to continue the series, because this universe is really captivating and I just want to immerse myself in it for a while, so I'll be sort of marathoning my way through this series. I can't wait!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This week I'm listing debut novels I've read and loved and whose authors I'm looking forward to reading again. Of course, I could have listed J. K. Rowling or Cassandra Clare and such, but I thought they were too obvious so I'm listing slightly less known books/authors. Some of them are well known within the book-blogging community but aren't quite so popular outside of it or I think they should get more credit. So here we go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a thrilling debut novel from Darynda Jones, an exciting newcomer to the world of paranormal romantic suspense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was a great debut novel for the author. The main character, Charley, is as dynamic as it gets, the world is well thought out and the multiple plot lines are intertwined perfectly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'd never read a book about the Grim Reaper before, but this one put it near the top of my most fascinating supernatural creatures list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The idea that the Grim Reaper is this unbelievably funny and sarcastic chick who barely knows what she's doing most of the time, works as a PI and has supernatural sex with a powerful, dark entity is just so out of the box that you wouldn't think it would work. But it does, amazingly. And there's a great balance between Charley's personal life, her Grim Reaper work, and her PI work, even when it all seems to come together rather abruptly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The secondary characters are interesting and full of quirks too, which makes this whole universe much more appealing and captivating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Overall, I think this a fantastic first installment for a promising series. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier. As a born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man and beast alike. She currently has two series with St. Martin's Press, the Charley Davidson Series and the Darklight Trilogy. Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband of more than 25 years and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. She can be found at <a href="http://www.daryndajones.com/">www.daryndajones.com</a>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm starting this post with an update on the changes of the blog so you can see what I've been doing so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said in my <a href="http://pause-time.blogspot.cl/2015/10/october-hiatus.html">Hiatus post</a> that I wanted to work on the blog design and structure and guess what... The design is still in progress, because surprise! There's a lot more to do when redesigning a blog than just making graphics in Photoshop, although there's a crap-ton of that too as I've painfully discovered. I can handle Photoshop, but web design and coding are certainly not my forte, so I've been having a hard time making everything work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So far, I've changed the color scheme and the banner and I've messed around with the template a bit, but the background is still fighting me and I'm still not sure if I should just let it be white as it is right now or keep trying to do something more. Let me know what you think about in the comments, I'd really appreciate some feedback on the design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Structure-wise I've developed a schedule that works for me. I've added a couple of features and modified some of the old ones as you'll see through the week. Here are the basics:</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've kept the <b>Plans & TBR</b> and the <b>Wrap-up</b> posts at the beginning and end of the month respectively. I think the Plans & TBR post is great because it lets you know what to expect from the blog in the coming weeks and it also serves me as a guide so I can stick to my resolutions. The Wrap-up posts, also serve a purpose since it's a dependable way for readers to see what went down during certain month here in Pause Time, it's an easy way to find a review or a post without having to go looking for entry by entry. And also, it's a great way for me to see how I'm doing monthly, if I'm posting everything I planned on posting, if the predefined TBR is working for me or if I end up reading whatever else that's not on the list. Overall, I'm really happy with this kind of posts because they make blogging much more simple for me.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've kept my <b>Rating System</b> pretty much the same. I will still rate book from 1-5 clocks and add a reaction, which is a one-line impression of the book. I've only added a couple of standard reactions so I can have more variety, but overall it all stayed the same.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've modified the<b> New Releases</b> monthly post. The first Thursday of each month I would list every single YA or NA release I could find that was coming out that particular month. But I found that I was always dreading that post... It took so long to be done! There were always more than 50 books to cover and each one with images and links and then I couldn't find the genres... It was just a nightmare and most of the books I listed I wasn't even interested in. So, I've moved it to the first Saturday of each month and I'm only featuring a few books coming out that month that I'm eagerly anticipating, but I'm linking you to a Goodreads list where you can find a long list of books that are being released that month. Works for everyone, I think...</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've eliminated my <b>Review Policy</b> page and I'm no longer accepting books for review by email request. Maybe I'll join some blog tours if I'm really interested in a certain book, but that's it. Now that I've had time to reflect I discovered that I don't enjoy reading just so I can write a review... The whole point of me having this blog is to share my thoughts on books that I read when I have something to say. But there were times when I would read a book that was okay for me but I didn't have much to say about it and it would cause me great anxiety the thought of having to write a review for that book because I've committed myself to do so and not because I have something I'm dying to share or an opinion worth reading, really. So from now on, I'm only reviewing books when it feels right for me because I think those reviews are the one that I'm most proud of and the ones that you guys will enjoy more than me just telling you about a book that I'm not even that excited about.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In line with the previous point, I'm adding a new type of review. Currently, I have two variations of reviews: the full-length, normal review and the series review. And now I'm introducing the <b>"Mini-review"</b>, which is just a shorter review because sometimes I just don't have that much to say about a book. This kind of review is about 150 words long, just so I can add my two cents to the discussion. I'm hoping this will also encourage me to write at least a short opinion on the books I've been reading, so even if I'm not going into full depth, you can get a sense of what I thought of something I read.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second book I'm reading this month is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18798983-the-wrath-and-the-dawn?ac=1">The Wrath and the Dawn</a> by Renee Ahdieh. I've read so many good things about it and I'm at a point where it's killing me not knowing what everyone is so excited about, so I'm done pushing it away. I'm reading it this month come hell or high water. It's supposed to be inspired by A Thousand and One Nights which for some reason seems to be kind of trending right now. There's a couple of "retellings" of that collection of stories that came out this year a few more coming out next year, and although I know a little about the original version, I've never actually read them before, so I'm testing the waters here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The third book I'll be reading is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206760-scarlet?ac=1">Scarlet</a> by Marissa Meyer. I read <a href="http://pause-time.blogspot.com/2015/07/review-cinder-by-marissa-meyer.html">Cinder</a>, the first book in the Lunar Chronicles a few months ago and I really enjoyed it but I stopped with the series because I haven't felt in the mood for this kind of book yet. Now that <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206900-winter">Winter</a>, the series' finale is coming out, I felt like it was a great time to pick it back up, so I'm doing it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the last book I plan on reading during November is actually a new release that's coming out on November 3rd, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17234659-ten-thousand-skies-above-you?ac=1">Ten Thousand Skies Above You</a> by Claudia Gray. This is the second installment in the Firebird series. I read the first book in January and I really enjoyed it, so I've been waiting for this sequel for quite a while and I'm really happy it's finally here! I can't wait to get my hands on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First of all, I went back to college at the end of September, after four months of my school being in some kind of shutdown related to students' protests and political causes. So I had lots of catching up to do, tests to take, assignments and papers to write in order to finish the semester in a somewhat decent academic shape which in time was the cause of lots of sleepless nights and a complete disorganization of my regular schedule. And now I'm starting a new semester which will be shorter and weirder since all the dates and breaks are kind of all over the place after the shutdown and it's all kind of a mess. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, for that I need some time to adjust and get my crap together so I can go back to functioning like a normal human being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also, a second, less pressing but still important reason behind my hiatus, is that I've been wanting to re-design and re-structure my blog for quite a while, but I don't have the time to read and review, do my college stuff and also re-design the blog, it's just not possible for me if I want to go through life as something more than a zombie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, I'm taking this break so I can get my life in order and work on the design of the blog. Hopefully by the time I'm done with it, I will have turned Pause Time Reviews into something I'm proud of calling mine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really hope you can understand and that you'll still be here when I get back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With all of that being said, I'm officially announcing the hiatus of the blog:</span></div>
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Kar.-http://www.blogger.com/profile/01273400167127998221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2541483436283756622.post-29259223526586793462015-10-04T13:23:00.002-03:002015-10-04T13:23:26.786-03:00[Review] Goddess by Josephine Angelini<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Goddess by Josephine Angelini</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Published May 28th, 2013</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Premise:</span></u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After accidentally unleashing the gods from their captivity on Olympus, Helen must find a way to re-imprison them without starting a devastating war. But the gods are angry, and their thirst for blood already has a body count.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a diabolical Tyrant is lurking among them, which drives a wedge between the once-solid group of friends. As the gods use the Scions against one another, Lucas’s life hangs in the balance. Still unsure whether she loves him or Orion, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, for war is coming to her shores.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Josephine Angelini’s compelling conclusion to the masterfully woven Starcrossed trilogy, a goddess must rise above it all to change a destiny that’s been written in the stars. With worlds built just as fast as they crumble, love and war collide in an all-out battle that will leave no question unanswered and no heart untouched.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a decent conclusion to the amazing world of Starcrossed. And that is precisely what I always loved most about this series, the world and the mythology element surrounding the story which is predominant in this last book to my delight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This installment focuses primarily in figuring out the ancient prophecy that's been repeating itself for several Scion generations. So, our characters are trying to find out who the hell is the Tyrant and which of the other roles the rest of them have to play. The other roles available besides the Tyrant are: The Hero, the Lover, The Shield, and The Warrior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This series was always kind of different for me, because I think this is the first time that I really enjoy a trilogy where I find the main characters kind of unappealing and unintentionally funny. The thing is that every plot line surrounding the mythology and the prophecies was great, but every time the plot took a turn for the development of a character and such I found it absurd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For example, how in the world is it possible that no one in the whole Delos family is capable of doing math! Lucas and Helen could've been together at least since the middle of book 2, but oh no! They're all too busy to do math and figure out that it's impossible for them to be cousins. If you have time to brush your teeth, you have time to do simple math, no excuses! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, there's Jason, who used to be one of my favorite characters in book one, now he HAS to be bipolar, because I can't find any other explanation for his behavior. In book one, he was the nicest, in book two he wanted nothing to do with Helen for no apparent reason, and now he's pissed because other people are pulling apart from Helen and can't understand how they can call themselves their friends. REALLY? Make up your mind, goddammit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And what is it with Lucas and Helen that they absolutely love each other, but can't spare a freaking minute to actually talk about what they're going to do, and both have to rush to do something incredible stupid without listening to the other first. It's ridiculous! Half of their problems would've been solved in like book one if they just talked to each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But whatever, I didn't even care about the messed up dynamics between them, I only cared about the big battle and the fulfillment of the big prophecy. But even then it wasn't really that amazing. The solution was way too easy for my liking and Helen grew to be nearly invincible without her doing anything which didn't help her at all as a character, because she already had that "Mary Sue" quality to begin with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Published September 15th, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Premise</u>:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the author of <i>This Song Will Save Your Life</i> comes a funny and relatable book about the hazards of falling for a person you haven't met yet.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley is recklessly loyal. Taking care of her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose in her life and makes her feel like she matters. But she's tired of being loyal to people who don't appreciate her—including her needy best friend and her absent mom. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Arden finds comfort in a blog she stumbles upon called "Tonight the Streets Are Ours," the musings of a young New York City writer named Peter. When Peter is dumped by the girlfriend he blogs about, Arden decides to take a road trip to see him.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During one crazy night out in NYC filled with parties, dancing, and music—the type of night when anything can happen, and nearly everything does—Arden discovers that Peter isn't exactly who she thought he was. And maybe she isn't exactly who she thought she was, either.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story starts off really slow and at first it goes from present to past to "distant" past to present again, which was a little bit confusing but I was still following. Then there's a lot of nothingness. like a good 150 pages of nothingness. Then things starts happening (<i>finally</i>), and for a second it was all kind of okay and there everything went to hell and we end up pretty much where we started. <b>(Spoiler:<span style="color: white;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">plus a message about love, minus a boyfriend.</span></span> Select the text if you want to read it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The premise of this book sounds way better than it actually is and I completely fell for it. I'm going to make a comparison of my expectations going into the book (from the premise described in Goodreads) vs what the book actually was, so I can explain my disappointment to you. But beware, knowing what to actually expect from this story might be the biggest spoiler. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Published March 4th, 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bloomsbury Childrens</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin's Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery. Will Celaena ever be truly free? Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine to find out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you ever want to know more about Sam and the way his relationship with Celaena started, this is the book you'll want to pick up. There's five stories in chronological order, so it's seems like a whole prequel book and not just bits and pieces. In these stories we follow Celaena's adventures before she got captured and shipped to Endovier, we get to see her falling in love with Sam and making her first attempts at friendship while still being a bad-ass assassin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are following the Throne of Glass series but haven't read this book, I strongly recommend for you to do so before getting into Queen of Shadows, because there are a lot of references and characters that pop-up in both books and it'll give you a better understanding of Celaena's feelings and action in the fourth book of this series.</span></div>
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In this story we get to see the beginning of the relationship between Celaena and Sam. They had met long before this adventure took place, but they start to see each other in a different light during the events in this story. They are both sent by Arobynn to see the Pirate Lord, thinking they're trying to avenge a fellow assassin, but as always, Arobynn is playing games with them and turns out they're there for completely different reasons. </div>
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The Celaena we get in this stories, especially this one and the next is noticeably younger or at least more immature, but she still has that quality to her which won't let her turn a blind eye on the cruelty and awfulness of others. Still the same bad-ass with a heart of gold. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's a bit of the aftermath of what happened in the previous story. Celaena is on her way to the Red Dessert and she's royally pissed off when she stumbles upon a tavern in the middle of nowhere, where she stays while waiting for the ship that will take her to her final destination. You could tell she was just looking for an excuse to cause trouble and she gets it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this story we get Celaena's POV and also Yrene's POV. Yrene is kind of a maid (?) I don't know how to describe her but she works at this tavern and her boss is an asshole. She was supposed to be a healer before the King of Adarlan banished magic from the continent and her mother got caught when they were looking for magic wielders, leaving her an orphan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The brief relationship between Yrene and Celaena is unlike any other that I've seen in this whole series. The way Celaena tried to empower Yrene so she could finally do what she always wanted was pretty great to witness. It shows that even if she's cocky and bratty and an assassin she hasn't lost herself as much as she think she has. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think maybe Yrene is the healer that was mentioned at the end of Queen of Shadows, it would make sense that her story is mentioned here if she was going to appear later on the series... But we'll see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was me when finishing this story: "</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shut up, Sarah J. Maas. Just SHUT IT! Why do you have to break my heart in every one of your books, EVERY SINGLE ONE! You manage to toy with my emotions even in short stories. I should hate you... but you're so brilliant..." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this story Celaena is finally arriving to the Red Desert to train with the Silent Assassins and it's all really intimidating at first, but after a while it seems like everything was really different than what Celaena was expecting. She even meets a girl, Ansel, who she tries to befriend and it's actually kind of funny seeing Celaena trying to get along for a change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While being at the Red Desert, Celaena meets a couple of characters I would like to see again in the next books in this series. Like the master's son and the master himself, and maybe even that guy from the market with the spider silk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But then came the heartbreak and the pain and with that I got the answers to many questions I had about Celaena's past. For example, I always wondered how Celaena managed to pay her debt to Arobynn. I guess now I know... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My first thought: That's where the strange deadly suit is from! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Celaena is back in Rifthold and Arobynn is showering her with presents trying to get her to forgive him for some really messed up stuff he did to her before. And those presents include a high profile contract to assassinate two men and get some really important documents. But you know Arobynn... he doesn't do anything if it's not completely calculated and everything is part of his sick twisted game of power. I despise that worthless bastard! If I didn't get it before, I mean how deeply the evilness went with Arobynn, now I have no doubt that he could be the most awful character ever. Because... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Holy shit! My heart broke in so many little pieces for Celaena. This story makes it unbelievably hard to understand some of the decisions Celaena made on Queen of Shadows, although not in a bad way. Let me try to explain it: Arobynn is much worse than I'd ever imagined, he deserved far worse than what he got. If I were Celaena I think I wouldn't have been able to help myself. I would have killed him, slowly and in the most painful way possible and then I would have danced over his grave with unfathomable joy until I couldn't move my legs anymore. I don't know how Celaena managed to be kind of the "better person" after everything this man did to her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But... not everything was so terrible. Sam and Celaena are working together again and they're flirting and romance and it's really adorable and heartbreaking between those two, which only made me dread the last story more, because we all know what happens with Sam...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the story of how Celaena got thrown into Endovier. Knowing how it all ends doesn't help one bit. I could feel my heart shattering bit by bit through the horrors that Celaena and Sam had to endure. The dread at every step of the way was unreal... I was at odds with myself. Why in the hell am I dreading what I already know it's going to happen? But my heart kept beating harder and harder and I had to force myself to keep reading because clearly I was being irrational, but oh... the betrayal hurt as if I hadn't known about it beforehand and I was screaming: "No, Celaena, don't go! It's a fucking trap!" Even though it makes no sense, because if that hadn't happened there would be no Throne of Glass or any of the others books. But I just couldn't help it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sarah J. Maas is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series (Queen of Shadows, Book 4, will be out in September 2015), as well as the A Court of Thorns and Roses series (out 5/5/15).</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sarah lives in Bucks County, PA, and over the years, she has developed an unhealthy appreciation for Disney movies and bad pop music. She adores fairy tales and ballet, drinks too much tea, and watches an ungodly amount of TV. When she's not busy writing, she can be found exploring the historic and beautiful Pennsylvania countryside with her husband and canine companion.</span></div>
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