Rating: 4/5 Summary: Hermione is in her final year of high school and starts it off by attending her final cheer camp session. However, it ends with her being drugged, left in a lake and raped. Hermione doesn’t know how to feel afterward, though she knows she feels different. Matters are only complicated when she discovers she’s pregnant. I really enjoyed this book. It was a nice break from all the fantasy and magic I’ve been reading. I just needed something grounded in reality […]
See that thing on the floor over there? Yeah that’s my heart. It was torn out by this freaking Book!
Rating: 5/5 Summary: It’s been five years since the Dark War wrecked the Shadowhunter world. Since then Emma Carstairs has been training and plotting her revenge for her parents’ murders. When bodies start turning up with similar markings as her parents, Emma is determined to find answers. A faerie convoy comes and begs the Shadowhunters of the LA Institute to solve them since faeries are being murdered and in exchange they offer the Blackthorns their brother Mark. If they can solve the murders, Mark can […]
How to Be Perfect
Rating: 5/5 Summary: How can you be perfect? Grades, looks, image, career? For Cara, it’s perfect grades and perfect credentials, all to get into Stanford to appease her parents, especially after her brother Conner went over the deep end from the pressure. For Kendra, it’s looks. She knows she doesn’t have the same academic prowess as some of her peers so she must keep a perfect face. To reach her dreams of modeling she’ll do anything, including dieting, intense exercising and taking pills. Sean […]
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy (As I die from all these puns I’m making)
Rating: 5/5 Summary: The story begins with Kote, a lowly though kind innkeeper in a small town off the beaten path. No one really knows his past, but he is a part of the town anyway. When a strange creature attacks one of his regular customers, Kote takes things into his own hands. While hunting the creatures, he meets Chronicler who knows about his past. After defeating said creatures, Kote rescues and takes Chronicler back to his inn. When Chronicler awakes, he tells Kote why […]
Choose: A quick death or a slow poison…
Rating: 5/5 Summary: Yelena is about to executed for murder. In Ixia when you commit a crime, your punishment is essentially the crime itself, kind of like an eye for an eye. There are no excuses. When the guards come to retrieve her, she is taken to Valek’s office, the Commander’s assassin and spymaster. He gives her a choice: be executed now or serve as the Commander’s food taster. As the food taster, Yelena could be poisoned at any meal and die anyway. Yelena is […]
All the Sudden People Were Dying Everywhere
Rating: 3.5/5 Summary: The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season. However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an […]
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