Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2015

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

This is a spin-off to the vampire academy books. In the last few Sydney Sage is introduced. An alchemist, a group of humans that cover up vampire knowledge from other humans (with a lily tattood to each of their cheeks). The group also hates the creatures and find them disgusting. She was dragged into Rose Hathaway's (A dhampir. That's a half vampire, half human creation that has to protect the moroi) mess purely because she owed someone. Anyway she ends up sort of liking Rose. This ends up with her in serious trouble obviously. This is where this book starts. She's been in bad graces with her people since. In the middle of the night her father makes her get up for an important meeting (I hate this man) . At this meeting she finds out that the moroi (the alright vampires who can use magic) queen's sister needs hiding. Half of the moroi want her dead *shocked face*

Monday, 27 April 2015

Dangerous Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

All I have to say is what the hell happened to Ridley Duchannes? Badass caster with a lolly pop! She was the best thing about Beautiful Creatures (okay maybe not the best thing, but one of them.)

Link done my head in all the way through. These two were my favourites (my guilty pleasures) and right now I say give me Lennox Gates any day at least he might liven rid up again! Link spent the whole time trying to change who he fell in love with *boreoff*

The new additional characters were fun, some of the time. I was left not really knowing who they are so looking forward to finding out.

Even after all this I still kept reading it. I love the caster world. I also kept praying for a bit of mean rid! Hopefully the next brings it out in her. I do not want to read about crying again!

The end though left me ripping my hair out and wanting the next book in my hands. FIRE cliffhanger!

If you love casters you know you have to read this because you just can't help yourself! If you don't know what they are read beautiful creatures first....

The Raven Boy's by Maggie Stiefvater

I was in for it from the moment I read the first line....'Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love.' Maggie Stiefvater is a sucker for these lines, I knew from the start I would not put this book down. God damn it I was meant to go out with friends, oh well (kinda thing) and as books go it only gets better as you read! 
I want Blue's family as my own. My mum reads tarots amazingly, but a full family under one roof WOW. I love her house, I love the way they are together, basically I love it all.
St Mark's Eve, Church yard, ghosts of the not yet dead. OMG! YES! Blue can see a boy's spirit though she can't see the others.... She asked, "will you tell me your name?"................. "Gansey", he said....... "Is that all?" she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is."
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St Mark's Eve, Blue. Either you're his true love," Neeve said, "or you kill him." ..... Maggie you are trying to kill me!! She is going to kill her true love. Death by kiss. What! 
Then the boys are introduced. Gansey, Adam, Ronan and Noah. They remind me of stand by me. That kind of innocence but not innocence at the same time. They know what they are doing and nothing is going to stop them. I love the wildness of it all. Boys being boys plain and simple. So cool when someone gets it so spot on.
I know from half way what I want Gansey to be to Blue. Adam with Blue just annoys me. I love Adam but just as who he is.
You find yourself wanting more Ronan and I feel you need more Noah to really love him.
The group love each other and that is brilliant to be a part of, even if you are just reading. GO AND BUY THESE BOOKS RIGHT AWAY!!
None of my friends read. Which makes me depressed, I've been dying to tell someone to read The Raven Boy's for agesss.....