Evertrue by Brodi Ashton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 3.60
Goodreads Summary:
Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself... which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon — or die.
Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally — but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him — and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Will Nikki be forced to spend eternity in the Underworld, or does she have what it takes to bring down the Everneath once and for all?
In this stunning conclusion to the Everneath trilogy, Brodi Ashton evokes the resiliency of the human spirit and the indomitable power of true love.
Actual Rating: 5.0
Fantastic! Amazing! Absolutely wonderful!
I honestly don't know why this series isn't that popular in the YA world.. This book was the PERFECT ending to the series.. It's definitely a page turner, once I started I just couldn't stop. I wanted to savor it and make it last but once I got about 5 chapters in I HAD to know what happened..
[ I always rooted for Cole & Nik to have a happily ever after but it was clear right away that this wasn't gonna happen. I wasn't mad about it though, not even a little. Jack and Becks are perfect for each other, they're soul mates, they would literally go through "hell" (aka the Everneath) for each other. The strength of their love shows through completely throughout this book and really who can fight that?? NO ONE! The way Brodi Ashton tied Cole into this story was absolutely heart warming.. When he re-appeared as a child-like amnesiac my heart melted..
I absolutely love the way Cole got tied in to the story and I love the last chapter where Cole and Nik are the only ones left in the Everneath and everything comes together.. I love that the author made a solid decision and picked Jack for Nikki but didn't completely exile Cole from the relationship.. It was absolutely perfect. (hide spoiler)]
***SPOILER***
I always rooted for Cole & Nik to have a happily ever after but it was clear right away that this wasn't gonna happen. I wasn't mad about it though, not even a little. Jack and Becks are perfect for each other, they're soul mates, they would literally go through "hell" (aka the Everneath) for each other. The strength of their love shows through completely throughout this book and really who can fight that?? NO ONE! The way Brodi Ashton tied Cole into this story was absolutely heart warming.. When he re-appeared as a child-like amnesiac my heart melted..
I absolutely love the way Cole got tied in to the story and I love the last chapter where Cole and Nik are the only ones left in the Everneath and everything comes together.. I love that the author made a solid decision and picked Jack for Nikki but didn't completely exile Cole from the relationship.. It was absolutely perfect.
Honestly, I can't imagine this series ending any other way. THANK YOU BRODI ASHTON <3
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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.17
Goodreads Summary:
Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.
Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.
Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.
Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Actual Rating: 4.8
Fan-frickin-tastic.
What an adorable little love story! I'm sad that it took me so long to discover this author! She is pure genius! She comes up with these characters that are so multi-dimensional and I get completely lost in them.
I didn't relate with any of the characters in this book but I still connected with them on a probably unhealthy fangirl level.. I commit to read every book this author ever rights and I am begging for a "part II" or even movie rights to both this book and
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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.20
Goodreads Summary:
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park.
A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...
But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
"Touching and utterly real." — Publisher's Weekly
Actual Rating: 5.0
Absolutely fantastic!! It takes real talent to write a book about a girl writing a book about a book that doesn't even exist. She had to make up aspects to stories from all different directions. Immediately connected with the characters and had emotional outbreaks right along side of them.
I love books that make you feel emotions. Really hope there's a followup to this book or a movie!
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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.52
Goodreads Summary:
"A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.
It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend."
From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.
Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.
Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie...and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.
Actual Rating: 5.0
Okay I might have possibly shed a tear during the last scene of this book... I absolutely love reading about Celaena and her journeys.. I especially like Chaol & Dorian so I hope they stay parts of the book (they have to right)
Usually I tend to lean towards characters I can related to which is not the case here but I couldn't care less. Celaena is bad ass and hard core. I love her snarky wits and one liners.. I love how in touch with herself she is.
I love Chaol and his undue loyalty to his people. I love Dorian and his gentle kind heart and perceptiveness between right and wrong. I love seeing them all come together in a mission to change the way things are.
I literally CAN NOT wait to read the rest of this series.. I'm a fan for life
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Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.58
Goodreads Summary:
Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.
Tessa Gray should be happy - aren't all brides happy?
Yet as she prepares for her wedding, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.
A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to Mortmain, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Mortmain needs only one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. And Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa's heart, will do anything to save her.
Actual Rating: 5.0
SO MANY FEELS.
At first I gave this book 4 stars because it took me forever to get through. But after I finished and had a few days to reflect I decided to change it to 5 stars. I realized that the reason it took me so long to finish is because I didn't want to end. Cassandra Clare does not know how to write a bad book. So many quoteable lines in this book!
This quote from the book describes my feelings of the book:
"You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside."
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Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.48
Goodreads Summary:
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.
With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.
Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?
As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.
Actual Rating: 4.5
Oh Jem... "The fever pounded in him like blood, and he no longer knew what was the desire and what was the drug, or if the one simply enhanced the other, and it did not matter, it did not matter because he wanted her, he had wanted her for so long."
**SPOILER**
WHAT EVEN JUST HAPPENED?!
Tessa & Jem? I can't deal with that. They are so wrong for eachother. Don't get me wrong I love Jem and his kind heart of gold but Tessa does not love him like she could love Will.
My heart is breaking for Will who just found out his curse has been a lie all these years and two seconds too late. Would you let your parabatai marry the girl you love just to make them happy? I wouldn't.
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The Elite by Kiera Cass
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Avg rating: 4.01
Goodreads Summary:
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now, with the group narrowed down to the Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever--and America is still struggling to decide where her own heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen, who she always thought was the one?
America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want--and America's chance to choose is about to slip away.
Actual Rating: 5.0
I'm really bad at writing reviews because by the time I finish the book I forget about all the amazing parts in it. My review could either look like "aldskfhalksdhflas OMG SO GOOD!" or it could look like a buncha quotes of my fave parts.. So I choose that one:
"That was so typical of him, always trying to be my hero" (oh Aspen)
"It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you. You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it" (Maid, Lucy, on Love)
"I've been looking for a suitable alternative, but the truth is... there's only you" (Maxon on America)
"How did I, America Singer- a Five, a nobody- fall for Maxon Schreave- a One, THE One?" (Kiera Cass being sneaky and the first insight into the third book titled The One)
"You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it" (America's father.. This sums up everything I feel about America. I am so proud of who she has become and I couldn't be more attached to a main character as I am to her)
"Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger"
Okay that's all for now... But I can't forget Marlee.. I love Marlee so much and I KNEW there was something going on with someone else in the palace for a long time and I'm so sad about the consequences they had to endure BUT! The compassion Maxon showed them was the sweetest thing. I can't even express how much TEAM MAXON I am.
I love America and I love Maxon and I can't wait for them to be together.. Sorry Aspen.
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