REVIEW: The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black

Title: The Iron Trial

Authors: Cassandra Clare & Holly Black

Pages: 347

Summary: Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.

Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.

All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.

So he tries his best to do his worst – and fails at failing.

Now the Magisterium awaits him. It’s a place that’s both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.

The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . .

REVIEW: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass

Title: Throne of Glass

Author: Sarah J. Mass

Pages: 404

Summary: Meet Celaena Sardothien.
Beautiful. Deadly.
Destined for greatness.

In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake: she got caught.

Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament—fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin’s heart be melted?

REVIEW: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Title: Insurgent

Author: Veronica Roth

Pages: 390

Summary: One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

REVIEW: Clarity by Kim Harrington

Title: Clarity

Author: Kim Harrington

Pages: 200

Summary: When you can see things others can’t, where do you look for the truth?This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats.Clarity “Clare” Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It’s a gift.And a curse.When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare’s ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case–but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare’s brother–who has supernatural gifts of his own–becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away. Teaming up with Gabriel, the smoldering son of the new detective, Clare must venture into the depths of fear, revenge, and lust in order to track the killer. But will her sight fail her just when she needs it most?

20 Interesting & Bizarre Reasons Books Were Banned

So bizarre that it make me choke on my own spit.

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars) by Rob Thomas

So it took me forever to read this not because I didn’t like it, but because there’s always that period in a year where I just kind of stop reading. Not on purpose, but I guess something in me seeks a break from reading so it just happens. I’m glad I finally did finish this, though, because I enjoyed Veronica Mars as much as I (still) enjoy a TV show as well as the movie. I can’t wait to read the next one. Keep being awesome and everything will be sunshine and rainbows. 😀

Writing and CampNaNoWriMo and all the other shit that has no connection to the reviews

Hello, fellow readers, writers, friends and fellas, or whoever the hell decided to read this!

As a fellow half-professional reviewer and book reader and a part-time amateur writer, I’d be very grateful if some of you would be so kind to check my story out on Wattpad. Yes, yes, you read it right, I’m writing this just for my own self-promotion because, you know, I’m a selfish piece of shit that only writes here anything other than reviews when she needs some promotion….. Okay, I’m not really that bad. Just a little. But aren’t all of us, in some way? So yeah, I’m sorry if I seem like a prick right now, but as someone who craves feedback – positive or negative, it doesn’t matter, just that it’s constructive – I can’t find any other way to post this and sound less selfish. I swear that I really, really appreciate anyone who finds their time to read my reviews, and like them and follow me on here (seriously, thank you guys a bunch!!!), and I really wish I was writing some normal blog posts but I just haven’t done that since I was 12, so I don’t know how? And my life’s not that interesting anyway, mostly because I’m a teenager that spends most of her time stuck in her room, reading, writing or baking (seriously, you wouldn’t believe) or playing in Photoshop or some other nerdy stuff like that. So yeah, I’m nowhere near interesting, that’s why no blog posts.

The thing is, I like writing. And I like getting better in my writing. And I like critics and everything that comes with it. So if you have a bit of time, I’d be more than happy if you’d read the prologue of my book/story or whatever it is that it is. I love you all, honestly. 😀

http://www.wattpad.com/58612406-till-tomorrow-comes?d=ud

REVIEW: Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Title: Faking Normal

Author: Courtney C. Stevens

Pages: 336

Summary: Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer. Ashamed and embarrassed, she hides in her closet and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.

When Bodee Lennox, the quiet and awkward boy next door, comes to live with the Littrells, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in “the Kool-Aid Kid,” who has secrets of his own. As they lean on each other for support, Alexi gives him the strength to deal with his past, and Bodee helps her find the courage to finally face the truth.

REVIEW: Easy by Tammara Webber

Title: Easy

Author: Tammara Webber

Pages: 321

Summary: The New York Times Bestseller by Tammara Webber

Rescued by a stranger.
Haunted by a secret
Sometimes, love isn’t easy…

He watched her, but never knew her. Until thanks to a chance encounter, he became her savior…

The attraction between them was undeniable. Yet the past he’d worked so hard to overcome, and the future she’d put so much faith in, threatened to tear them apart.

Only together could they fight the pain and guilt, face the truth – and find the unexpected power of love.

A groundbreaking novel in the New Adult genre, Easy faces one girl’s struggle to regain the trust she’s lost, find the inner strength to fight back against an attacker, and accept the peace she finds in the arms of a secretive boy.

REVIEW: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Title: Beautiful Disaster

Author: Jamie McGuire

Pages: 329

Summary: INTENSE. DANGEROUS. ADDICTIVE.

Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.