Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The Shadow Queen by C.J. RedwineMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a honest review, so I’m being honest right now.
I think it was well-written. The concept was good, it was actually brilliant.
It just it doesn’t have that extra oomph I am looking for. If there’s a sequel I probably would not read it.
*MC’s Corner*
Note: Spoilers.
• Let’s talk about the good thing first, I love, really love love love the heart thingy. Human heart, plants, water and etc. Then binding them with someone else’s heart. Really brilliant and magical.
• Another good thing is that I still remember some scenes. Bad thing I don’t remember how they looked liked in my head.
• I think the one that threw me off was the story itself, because concept-wise I loved it. The story, not so much. I mean it was the most predictable thing. Sometimes I like predictable, sometimes I don’t. So yeah.
• Well, I finished it, that’s a good thing. I did not stop and not finish it.
ARC provided by Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins Publishers) & Edelweiss in exchange of honest review. Thank you!
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The Best Goodbye by Abbi GlinesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Grrr!!! That was so short!
But it was still lovely!!!
I love everything about this book except one. THE COVER, I don’t know, I just don’t feel it.
*MC’s Corner*
• WAAAH! ITS CAPTAIN! River Kipling. NAKAKALOKA!
LOVE HIM!
• You have to admit, this story has been told multiple times. The thing is is Abbi Glines also has this ability/undeniably awesome talent on making/writing these cliché stories (you have to admit they are) and making them fresh, cool and beautiful all over again. *thumbs up* I just love reading every seconds I spent reading this book.
• I have three gripes. First, Captain’s daughter is so annoying. She makes my head want to explode.
• Second, the cover. Uh-oh I am not feeling it at all. Sorry.
• Last, the last part. I just want to erase that in my mind. GRRRR.
• Still no plan on writing Jimmy’s story? *me sending daggers with my eyes*
• Gosh! I kinda miss Rush, maybe I’m going read their stories again.
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Wick by Matt DoyleMy rating: 0 of 5 stars
Thank you so much to Mr. Matt Doyle for trusting me with his book! I do appreciate it a lot.
Wick is fun, cool andddd reminded me so much of animes.
Years ago I was a big anime fan and there’s no day I don’t watch. LOVE THEM.
Wick reminded me of those times. *thumbs up*
At first I thought of YuGi-Oh!, (which is actually, still one of my fave and also still own hundreds of trading cards, stored on a shoebox near my magazines and books *grin*) with the cards and battle arena thingies… and yeah the announcers. As the story goes, I thought of one anime –which title I forgot, sorry– but the story I did not. The story of it, if I remember it correctly, revolves around a boy with this device (like WICK, on this book) and they insert cards in them. And they have this characters, I think the name of the boy’s character is Rockman, and then they battle other characters (like RPG) on a actual virtual world. The cards are for powerups or something blah blah blahs.
So I guess what I am saying is if you loved animes especially those with trading cards you’ll appreciate this book even more, and yeah, understand it pretty quick.
*MC’s Corner*
Note: Spoilers.
• I kinda like the age gaps between the characters. And their names! They are so cool.
• Best parts were those on the Battle Zone. The fights were awesome, written really good. The announcers did a really good job describing them.
I wonder, though, can they converse/shout to their opponent while fighting?
There are some maneuvers, techniques of some kind of kick or punch that I don’t really understand but it’s still okay for me. I really did feel like I was watching the actual fight.
• I think it will work better if it there’s some illustrations; it was kinda hard to picture the Spark Forms inside my head. Then they are two, and fighting, sometimes I kinda forget what kind of species are they.
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The Mirror King by Jodi MeadowsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
*REVIEW FOR BOOK 1 & 2*
Honestly, I read the first book because I have the ARC for the second one. *grin*
I had the ARC for the first, but its only has a couple of chapters, so I never read it. *grin* blah blah blah…
Surprisingly, it was pretty good. I liked it a lot. And when I finished it, I got excited to read the next one. *thumbs up*
Now… if I compare it to Jodi Meadows’ previous Series, New Soul, I prefer that.
*MC’s Corner*
Note: Spoilers.
• (BOOK 1) I want to know more about the ‘magic’, I wanna know where it came from and maybe the origin of it.
• It seems those wraiths were so easily killed, I wonder why other people or maybe some guards (in there) can’t kill them. Why wait for the Black Mask to do the job?
• Also, I felt like everything Wilhelmina does is so easy even the circumstances are not. It’s hard to believe, for me. I get the she’s kickass and everything… still, tone it down a bit.
• The story is really good and memorable. I think of this book and instantly I get series of scenes inside my head. Kudos for that.
• The cover (book 1), I really don’t get it.
• Finished second book.
I’m pretty sure there’s no third book coming, no?
• I’m not sure, I felt like there are some missing parts (book 2), maybe it was really like that or just my ARC. Hmmm…
• I did not use the map. EVER. I don’t get the purpose of it.
• Black Knife and Wil… I wish they had more moments here on Mirror King. You know?
This is the time I want to put a pinch of romance, it lacks a bit. But you nailed their chemistry, I felt it.
• TWISTS- hmmm… there are more than a couple of them. Good and fun ones… wahaha!
I love (SPOILER ALERT) the one about James. I did not see that coming. OOOh!
• I still don’t understand why these wraiths are killing people. Doesn’t make sense to me.
(Answering my own question)
Why does someone commits murder? *raise left eyebrow*
• Both books are good; forget my blah blahs up there. I did enjoy them, no kidding. My gripes are mostly technicalities. Don’t mind them.
• MARKET – perfect for Young-Adult books readers. I approve! *thumbs up*
ARCs provided by Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins Publishers) & Edelweiss in exchange of honest review. Thank you!
OCT 2014 & SEPT 2015
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Unforgiven by Lauren KateMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
*MC’s Corner*
• It’s a lil bit weird for me.
You know that I love that this book is Cam’s but his girl’s name is Lillith.
It threw me off, truthfully. It just that it’s hard for me to love that character when her names denotes to demon. (No offense for those who actually has this name, but it true.)
I’ve read a couple of Nephilim books and they mostly have an evil character named Lillith.
• The whole vibe that this book gave me while reading it is so heavy. So sad and depressing. (A good thing for the author, because you succeeded with that.)
• I think the concept was good. The challenges Cam faced are really challenging, not only he has to make her (not saying her name again) fall in love with him, again, in fifteen days, he’s also has to survive school and the changes that is happening to his physical form. It was s good that, when I think of that, it was so clear inside my head. I’m grinning right now… I don’t know why. I must be mad.
• Let’s talk about Luce and Daniel… really?! OhMyGosh! That so so sad and… beautiful.
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