Days of Blood and Starlight

Reading books this month has been a little challenging but I have to say, this book is one you can't put down once you start. Even though the next book of this series wasn't on my May TBR, I still rushed through it and it was amazing.

Back to this story. As usual I will only discuss things that really stuck with me even after all this time.

Firstly, Karou the resurrectionist! I loved that she was the continuing Brimstone's legacy. I have to say, I'm still not over him dying.
I'm also not over Hazael dying. I really took a liking to him. His openness and big heart really made me respect him.

Through out the story, we see this other side to Karou, she's constantly feeling guilty for loving Akiva and at same time she has to deal with her world turning upside down.

I personally loved all the scenes with Zuzana and Mik. They were like the tiny bit of normal in this crazy amazing world.

I love that she was worried about Karou, that's true friendship. Also, kudos to her for figuring Karou's non-message message out.

I love Ziri. That poor boy gave up his life for her! I love him so much! He's such a great character!

The scenes with Akiva and Karou were so heart wrenching. It really tore me apart. A part of me hated him and the other half loved him.

He did the wrong thing but he was hurt!

This book reeled me in from the first page and spit me out wanting more. I would recommend it to all the readers out there. It is definitely a must read!

Reviews for rest of the series:
Daughter of Smoke and Bones
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Days of Blood and Starlight

Daughter of Smoke and Bones

After putting this book off for so long, I finally experienced the greatness of DoSaB.

I didn't quite expect to love it quite as much as I do. There are things about this book that bother me but it makes such a great plot line.

I loved reading about the scenes between Akiva and Madrigal in the past, it was so sweet and showed the goodness of people. I wish Akiva honored Madrigal's memory by trying to unite the two races but I also understand his side, those people took the life of the person he loved, one of them.

I am kind of hoping that now that she knows who she is, she kind of becomes Madrigal, but not completely forget Karou. I would like to see her as an embodiment of both Karou and Madrigal.

I'm curious about Karou's aging, will she age like a human or like a Chimera cause she isn't really human, she's just wearing human skin.

I really hate her sister, Chiro. How could she betray her sister like that? I get being jealous but how can you be that jealous of your own sister? And I hate how everyone keeps pushing her to be with Thiago. It's her free will. She would have lost herself if she had been with him.

I love that scene where she and Akiva dance and their stolen kisses. Their whole relationship was cute up until he killed Brimstone. I'm really going to miss Brimstone.

I love Zuzana, she was such a great friend, unlike Chiro. And lover her thing with Mik.
While Karou and Akiva's relationship is complicated theirs is simple and sweet. I love whole puppeteer thing, the art project. It was such a great idea and I keep trying to picture it.

I loved the scenes where Akiva and Karou were getting to know each other and them building a sort of friendship and the undeniable attraction between them. It was cute as perfect.

The ending with the whole back and forth between the past and present made a lot of things clear and it was insightful but I wanted to know what would happen with Karou and Akiva, which in the end turned out broke my heart.

I love the wish thing and love how her memories were stored in the wishbone, something that meant so much to the two of them.

I hope that in the end, things end up all right.

Reviews for rest of the series:
Daughter of Smoke and Bones
Dreams of Gods and Monsters

Days of Blood and Starlight

Ugly Love

Ugly Love. Well. It tore me apart and made me feel so many emotions. I can't even get my thoughts to turn into words. When I started the book, I was so scared. We were reading about two love stories with the same guy and it was clear who he would've ended up with from page one.

But I was scared that since we read about Rachel from his POV and didn't really get much about Tate from him until the very end thus not really knowing how he really felt. I was scared that I'd like Rachel more, didn't happen. I ship Miles and Tate.

What bothered me a little was how fast Tate fell, I mean knowing there was no future, she didn't even try not to fall. She was deluding herself into believing he'd fall for her, I know he did and I love the story but I wish she was a little harder to get, especially in the end.

Should've have made him work for it. He said the wrong name. Should've made him grovel first.

I felt so sad when we learn about Miles' son dying. I expected it when we found out about the kid, I was kind of expecting a car crash too but never did I expect it to happen at the same time. I was thinking it would've been a miscarriage.

It's scary to think about what he felt for six years. He held his child in his arms and lost him the same night. And Rachel. How could she just up and leave? It wasn't his fault, and yes, she said she knew and she was just scared and confused but she shouldn't have left like that.

I don't like the "I'm liquid and Miles is solid" thing. To me, both partners should be solid. Again didn't make me love the story any less.

I love Ian. I love Corbin. I like that Corbin was such a protective big brother, I really like reading about those kinds of brothers for some reason. And the scene with Ian and Miles in the end when Ian is trying to get Miles to open his eyes was pretty great.

I also love Cap, I love how both Miles and Tate felt like they could confide in him. He was such a sweet old man.
I think Miles and Rachel both really needed that closure, in the end, to move on from happened and it made feel better to know he wasn't really hung up on Rachel, he was feeling guilty. Am I sick that I feel better about someone being in pain rather that in love with an ex?

It's just that I didn't want Miles to reject Tate because he loved Rachel. Knowing he thought he didn't have the right to be happy and that Tate did make him happy made me feel better.

This story was phenomenal and there were times it made my heart melt and times when I wanted to rip my hair off. Well overall, my heart is still healing with all the crazy thing the words did to me. And on top of that, I picked up November 9 soon after that and well. Same damn effect on me. Love the book but I hurt so much!

The beautiful moments do make up for the ugly love.

Throne of Glass

Throne of Glass shook my world. The characters were all so strong and brave.

Even though I'm not the biggest fan of the third person, but I liked it here. We got to see things from many characters' POV's and they were all quite amazing.

When the story began, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it but as I continued to read it, I fell in love with Celaena. She was just such a strong woman even in the kind of world she lived in.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a strong female lead who needs no one's help to be awesome!

I loved Dorian. Even though he was raised by a tyrant like his father he still became this amazing person. He is a genuinely good person and I admire his strength.

And even though I liked Chaol I didn't really admire him as a person. He wasn't someone I could look up to like I could with Celaena.

I also loved Nehemia. She wasn't a prissy princess, she had the heart of a warrior!

I'll be discussing this in more details now. Spoiler Alert!

“Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” 

Initial Thoughts:

Celaena: She is definitely one of my favorite female leads. She has all the qualities of heroes.

Dorian: Even though he was raised by a man so cruel he still became such a kind man.

Chaol: Well, I didn't hate him but I was actually disgusted by him blindly following the King, I know he becomes in the end and finally shows that he has a heart.

Nehemia: She's such a strong character. I was sure there was more going on with her since our first meeting!

The King: I hate him. I hate him so much.

The competition was so interesting. I loved the different tasks. It was interesting to see Celaena try to not be excellent.

I loved how Celaena's spirit never broke. If I endured what she did, I'd honestly be a wreck by the end of the week. One year. That girl is tough.

I loved that she could still be playful and strong.

I liked the dynamics between Celaena and Dorian. They seemed like real friends who would genuinely give their lives for the other and for some reason even though there was the raw passion between Chaol and Celaena, there was no unconditional trust.

Celaena and Dorian are basically enemies by nature and yet they find it in themselves to care about each other, to trust each other. That is true friendship. Even if they're not endgame they would always remain friends and that is obvious.

I love the training between Chaol and Celaena. It was nice to see her slowly become stronger, that was realistic.

I loved that all three of them were avid readers. I love when characters are readers, it just makes me feel like I'm closer to them.

“We all bear scars... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”

When she first goes into the tunnel I was genuinely afraid for her life. I was so scared that she'd die down there even though I knew it wasn't going to happen.

That scene at the ball when she danced with Dorian. In that moment I saw a future for them, I saw their future when they played pool.

But I also knew it wasn't going to happen because they got over each other too easily. But come on he gave her a dog. Fleetfoot. It's basically theirs.

Anyways.

Duke Perrington. Now that was a man I hated. How could someone be so cruel? He was as bad as the king.

In the end, I felt bad for Kaltain too. I mean she did bad things but no one deserves that.

And the battle. I was so scared. When she drank the potion. That was horrifying.

I was so scared. That scene had me on the edge of my bed eager to know how she would get through!

It was so intense, so amazing!

The ending left me wanting more. It left me eager for more.

I almost forgot Cain. I hate him. I hate him so much. But I did like Nox. I wish we saw Nox more. I loved Nox. I wish we see him again.

Definitely glad that this was my audiobook of the month.

“Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.” 

Reviews for rest of the series:
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
Queen of Shadows
Empire of Storms (Review Coming Soon)
Unnamed Book 6
The Assassin's Blade
Unnamed Novela

These Broken Stars

Among all the books in the Starbound trilogy I loved most of the first book, I loved it. Until that thing with Lilac. It just seemed a little weird to me. It wasn't explained and in the next book, we jumped to someone else never really understanding exactly what happened to Lilac.

I actually enjoyed the book up until that little tiny INSIGNIFICANT incident with Lilac dying. And how quickly Tarver decided it was okay to love the copy of the girl he loved. WTH.

To me, it's like loving their copy robot or something. I know she's like the incarnation of Lilac but somehow to me, she seems like Lilac 2.0. Not okay. They could have maybe resurrected original Lilac. I mean they went through such a stretch for Lilac 2.0 they could've just said something like the energy merged her life force with her body. That's annoying and I hated it!

Anyways, these books are really good, captivating. The characters are charismatic. It took me a while to warm up to Lilac, she was kind of a coward when it came to her father but eventually, I liked her. But Tarver was amazing!

Anyways... on to the spoilery discussions!

Let's all take a second to admire the wonderful cover without the obstructing words. It's beautiful. The cover was the sole reason the book actually caught my eye at first. It was just so bright and sitting on my recommendations shelf on Goodreads. It did take me a good six months to pick it up, though.

Now. Can someone please explain to me what the hell happened to Lilac. I keep imagining her being made up of stars. Like legit out of stars or dust or something like that.

In the third book, there was a moment after she came back to herself I thought maybe she was actually human again. That wasn't explained. Gideon kind of refers to that doesn't he? Or maybe I'm just desperate.

Back to this book.

So the book begins in space. They're on a spaceship called Icarus and we meet our leads there. Tarver is a decorated Military man that doesn't belong among the elite and Lilac is the intergalactic sweetheart.

So in this world, humans seemed to have colonized on multiple plants and seem to travel faster than light.

The attraction between our leads is instant and we see their connection immediately until Lilac turns into a jerk in order to protect Tarver from her overprotective father.

The spaceship crashes into a planet and they are the sole survivor.

I really love their dynamic while they're on this planet alone. We see them act like they hate the other person, try to hate each other but work together and face the possibility of never going home again.

I really liked how they slowly opened up to each other.

Those voices she heard. Man, that was something. And since I was audiobooking it, things were extremely intense.

We see Lilac be stubborn and try not to depend on Tarver, try to survive on her own and see them become closer.

I hated her father the moment we learned about Simon. What kind of man does that to another person? To his own daughter? To someone, he claims to love?

That man was despicable and my hatred for him only magnified throughout the series.

I liked the whispers in this book way more than the ones in the other books. These ones were nice. They actually tried to help Tarver and Lilac.

And then she died. Here's what it seemed like to me, it seemed like Tarver was in love with a robot with emotions and memories of the woman he loved.

I don't mind resurrection, I love resurrection. But this wasn't that. This was creating a whole new person. I kind of hoped that when they passed through the rift, her body merged with the resurrected part of her and they never found out because they never checked, but that's far fetched. I mean she seemed so human later, and even more human at the end of book three. Unless we get some explanation, I'm going to assume that the Whispers made her completely human because they had so much power in the hyperspace.

But I did like this book and the longer I ponder about it, the more I like it.

I like the world it's set in. I like the multiple planet systems. That's actually where I see humans in the next five hundred years. On another planet.

I would suggest that you read the entire series to get some kind of closure when you lose yourself in this amazing book.

Reviews for rest of the series:

These Broken Stars

This Shattered World

Their Fractured Lights