Queen of Shadows

"The wicked will tell us anything to haunt our thoughts long after, Nehemia had warned her." 

-Queen of Shadows, Sarah J. Maas

So Empire of Storms was just recently released in all its glory (the cover is on fiyaaah). I haven't read that yet, and don't worry I am going to read that soon (when school work permits lol) so for the mean time, here's what I thought about the fourth book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, Queen of Shadows.

Heir of Fire

"Perhaps that's your problem. Perhaps not picking a side is what costs you. Perhaps you need to tell your father you're breaking your promise." -Heir of Fire, Sarah J. Maas

God of book photography, please forgive me. 

Since I have already established from my past two Throne of Glass series book reviews how much of a ChaoLaena shipper I am, obviously, I came back to the series hoping so much for some kind of making up between Chaol and Celaena somewhere in the story.

But good lords, that's not what was in Sarah J. Maas's Heir of Fire. Nonetheless, even if I don't think it can compete to how well I loved Crown of Midnight, I had some fun reading this book.

Throne of Glass

I should've picked another book for a setup that's as dainty as this. 

I spent the half of my June doing a marathon of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. Yup, I couldn't believe I was able to finish that much content in the course of two and a half weeks. But I did, and I love it when I read that way. I feel productive. Next month, when summer break is done, I'd have to bid goodbye to this kind of productivity to make way for school work.

Anyway, I'm so happy for finally knowing why there was so much hype over this series. It's pretty justified.

First Summer read: The Sword of Summer

“My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.” - Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

Guess who finished reading The Sword of Summer as her first book of the summer? Me! 

I stayed away from reading recently released book series because I've always hated the one year agony of waiting for the next book (yup, I won't be reading Lady Midnight for a while I guess.) However, my sister decided to pick up the first installment of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard some time around November so it was sitting in our shelf for a couple of months. Then, it was calling for me while I was contemplating on which book to read after The Bane Chronicles. It was the first thing I picked up after TBC but I had to postpone reading it because school caught up with me. 

But here I am, back from my purposefully done reading slump just so I can make room for my mountain pile of school work. Yay me for finally finishing this book which came out last year! I've waited a long time to finally read and write this review so here it is. 

Some Bookish Facts

I wanted to shoot my shelves or something but I've been writing. So here are little cranes from way back then. 

So this blog is almost 3 months! I've been sucking at keeping up with this blog lately because all I can seem to do after school is just lie down and rest, and then, proceed to do school work. But since there's going to be a week-long break before the second half of the semester, I thought I'd share a few things about my relationship with books. Here are some bookish facts about me!

The Bane Chronicles

"Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too." -The Bane Chronicles, Saving Raphael Santiago

This month's book blurb is for a book I waited 2 years before gathering up the courage to pick it up from the bookstore because of boredom.

And hell yeah, every single peso was worth it.

Carry On

"Carry on, Simon."- Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

Today, I'm reviewing another book I read in 2015. And truth be told, this book is something I still love. So much.

I told myself I wasn't going to write about this book because I didn't want to gather my thoughts about it. It was hard to gather everything I felt while reading this book into words but I couldn't not talk about it. So here it is, another magnificent work by the one and only Rainbow Rowell: Carry On.

Unremarkey-able and "Finch-tastic"

“You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…”
-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

First book post for 2016! Let's start the year with notes about the books I read from the last few weeks of 2015.

I celebrated my birthday last November and waited till my long-awaited holiday break to start diving into the books I received from my 18th. One of which is this book which I received from a best friend.

Movie + book: Me + Earl + Dying Girl

"When you convert a good book to a film, stupid things happen." -Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews

YAS HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE

Just kiddin' I still have a play to read in class, and a short story to revise befoe I can legitimately bid goodbye to the first semester and join the hype of the Holiday season. But since I have a bunch of time to write extra today, I decided to publish one post with my string of thoughts about a book that I read eons ago and its movie adaptation that got released ages ago.

source: meadgmovie.tumblr.com

I'm talking about Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. Yes, that wonderful story.

Happy Conclusion: The Heroes of Olympus

I wouldn't want to discuss this whole series in a critical way because I have always loved the Olympians universe ever since Percy Jackson. Doing it would be way too biased.

It took me about two years since I finished the Mark of Athena, the third book of The Heroes of Olympus series before I got my hands on a copy of House of Hades, its fourth installment. I'm not usually the type to wait for two years before reading the next book after an eventful cliffhanger but I guess school work has distracted me from getting a copy of the book.

But I ended my 3 year journey with the Heroes of Olympus in two weeks, when I finally found the time to grab my sister's copy of House of  Hades. I plowed through the book in one week and then proceeded to Blood of Olympus a few hours after finishing the fourth book. I finished it in one week, because while my head was pounding with a headache thanks to colds, I wanted to know what was going to happen next sooooo badly.

I must say, Rick Riordan didn't forget to give his readers a pleasant, heartwarming conclusion to this Heroes of Olympians arc even after his ridiculously heart-breaking cliffhangers (I'm watching you, Mark of Athena.)

This might be late, but thank you Rick Riordan for creating such a wonderful universe. :)


-Mic

Fangirl

"What class?" he asked. 

"Fiction-Writing."

"You take Fiction-Writing? That's an actual class?"

"That's an actual question?" -Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell 

(or the time the whole world asked me why I'm taking up Creative Writing. I mean, hello?! This may not be the most quotable thing from this book but this totally describes my problem with the whole world when I try to explain creative writing)

Reasons I picked up Fangirl:

1. The title is the exact term for my life.
2. Pastel green, cute sketches of a girl and a boy on the cover (I judge books by cover sometimes too.)
3. The plot is nice—sisters, fangirling? Sounds familiar!

Every Day

"In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious."- Every Day, David Levithan

A is not a boy, not a girl, not even someone in-between. He just exists. He goes from one person's body and takes over for a day. One day, he took over Justin's body and fell in love with Rhiannon, Justin's girlfriend.