January Wrap Up: Because I read a lot of books this month and got lazy to review them all!

I am in shock. I read a sh*t ton of books this month, which kind of scared myself a little because I was tempted not to read any of my medical books for exams and just binge read every book in my tbr. ( I did what was best….for my grades)

I am in shock. Because I have read a lot of books, I just skimmed through my notes and medical textbooks which pissed my dad when he saw my exam scores and grades. What can I say, the skeletal figure in my textbook is not as hot as any of the male protagonist or antagonist in the books.

1. You by Caroline Kepnes
2. A Reaper of Stone by Mark Geluneau & Joe King
3. The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
4. The Jewel by Amy Ewing
5. Poison Study by Maria V. Synder
6. Magic Study by Maria V. Synder
7. Fire Study by Maria V. Synder

 

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Book Review: You by Caroline Kepnes (SPOILERS!)

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.

There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

Wohh, I didn’t see that coming. And I can’t still stop thinking about it, even if I read the book last last week and I just now decided that it was good that it needs to have it’s own review rather than be on my wrap-up for January.

You is written in second person, it sounds more like a letter for the girl and not merely thoughts of a guy.

You have been a thrilling ride both in a good way and not.

If Joe wasn’t to extreme on being a stalker, I would say that he is an ideal book boyfriend but then again there is this factor that he could not be because he may have the tendency *spoilers* to kill my best friend or all my non-existent ex-boyfriends. I  must say that there is a lot of character development on Joe it may not seem it, but it was there. He got more and more creep as the novel progress and I must say I didn’t expect the twist in the end.

The plot was awesome, it was just at the right pace for me, thrilling and tantalizing and it was full of twist.

Oh, Beck who I don’t give a damn about. Yes, I don’t like Beck. And heck yes, I don’t feel sorry for what happened to her. Even to the people around her. She put that to herself. She leads people on. In the end I was happy on her demise.

The whole time she does a single thing in the whole novel, all I can just say is:

HODOR RATES!

The Liebster Award

The Liebster Award is an award for bloggers. It helps to discover new blogs and to build a sense of community in the blogging world!

Thanking Clemence @Booksxorxmisery for nominating me!

These are the rules: (Haven’t we fought for a free country what happenn? jk.)

• Thank the blogger(s) who nominated you
• Answer the 11 questions the blogger gives you
• Nominate 11 bloggers that you think are deserving of the award
• Let the bloggers know you nominated them
• Give them 11 questions of your own

The Questions:

1. What is the longest book you have ever read?

I wish I could list my medical books here because I would be definitely be doing that, but I won’t (I am at vet school anyways). The longest book I have ever read is my Parasitology and Helminthology book which is not a medicine book. (so much brilliant, so much wise)

    2. Do you judge books by their cover?

I do, now I am asking you not to judge me.

 3.  How many books are in your TBR list right now?

Including the once that I have order and the ones at my house back in my hometown a merger number of 22. (This excludes the ones I have in ebook format)

4.  Who is your favorite author?

I have a fave author every year, so by last 2015 my fave author was Susan Ee and Marissa Meyer.

5. Which of their books made you realise they were your favorite author?

Their books and writing style.

6. What is your favorite genre?

As of now, I am devouring everything that is Fantasy.

 7. Name a book that you weren’t expecting to like as much as you actually did.

That will be The Jewel by Amy Ewing. God, the twist in the end!

 8. Is there any book you wished had ended differently? If so, which one?

I can’t list every single book in which I thought the ending was kind of a meehh for me, but to name a few it will End of Days by Susan Ee, Paper Towns by John Green and The Selection by Kierra Cass.

 9. What is your favorite books series of all time?

That would be The Narnia Chronicles and the Harry Potter Series.

10. What is your favorite childhood book?

Anne of Green Gables

11. At what age did you discover the joy of reading?

8 months old. Yup, truth.

Now I am bestowing the power of thanking-me-answering-my-questions-and-of-course-spending-15-minutes-or-more-thinking-of-what-could-be-the-possible-questions-you-can-ask-these-people-you-have-nominated to these lovely bloggers that I stalk once in a while (shhh don’t tell them) 

Becca @Beccaandbooks

Kate @Ohkatereads

The muggle who runs Mugglebooks

Sarah @Behindonbooks

(Nominating 11 is too much for me because I am a bad-ass, nah I am just lazy af)

Me questions for you:

1. A book that made you Kim-Kardashian-cry
2. A book you hated you almost or actually threw it to the trash
3. A book you would traded your soul (to Blue’s Clues in it)
4. A book with your ideal book-boyfriend in it (Because I need to know to see if I have any competition with me bae Jem)
5. A book you would hardcore recommend
6. A series you wish you haven’t started at all
7. A series you wish you have discovered earlier.
8. An author you can’t appreciate any book she/he wrote
9. Describe a perfect plot in one word.
10. Have you hated your favorite author?
11. Would you or would you not try to finish a book you dnf?

 

Book Review: A Reaper of Stone

A Lady is dead. Her noble line ended. And the King’s Reaper has come to reclaim her land and her home. In the marches of Aedaron, only one thing is for certain. All keeps of the old world must fall.

Elinor struggles to find her place in the new world. She once dreamed of great things. Of becoming a hero in the ways of the old world. But now she is a Reaper. And her duty is clear. Destroy the old. Herald the new.

Let me thank you NetGalley and the publisher from giving me a free copy of the book.

It was exhausting, not because of reading but because of the lack of pages and the chance of the author to prove something from the premise of the book. Such a waste of potential honestly.

I can’t write as much as I want in this segment. As much as I love to love this book, like those others that reviewed it, but I can’t. I am justing putting up this Yaass point segment out of respect.

I feel like Brit-brit. Other reviewers who read this would probably stone me to death right now, but I have to be honest.

1. Lack of depth. There is literally nothing that wants me to jump in and be inside the book or be anyone in the book. Again, there is a lot of potential in the premise, but it was too fast-faced like for me it just happened in a span of 2 days. (Or did it?)
2. Character development. Meeh I was expecting a really really cool female herion, instead I got a one-dimensional character. I was expecting more of her bad-assness after her great introduction, but along the way she was just a plain old bread at the pantry.
3. I don’t know how you can pull off a high fantasy book with a merger page of 77 on kindle. Because I can not get inside the world after reading 77 pages.

I feel like this was written on a whim and it resulted poorly. It such a waste of potential and money if you actually both this book. I hope it’ll make it up for the second book in the series.

After all this time. Always.

Alan Rickman, who plays Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise, dies at the age of 69 after battling cancer.

 

“After all this time?”

“Always”

Monthly Recommendations: Fantasy

Heh, another Goodreads group I’ve joined to help fill my blog with content. You can click the link (I will be placing it at the end of this post) to join.

I will be starting by saying, this is purely base from the books that I have read. I know they are a lot better Fantasy books out there, so if you know a series or book better than what I will be posting here or you want to recommend me something to amped my taste in fantasy feel free to comment down below.

*This is in no particular order.

** I am not including the Harry Potter series because it is already given.

Study Series by Maria V. Synder

I recently finish the second book of the series and boy it was awesome.  This is about a girl name Yelena, at the first book she was introduce as a prisoner being offered a second chance, as a food taster for the commander. Being a food taster is a risky job since you will be tasting the foodfor poison before the commander eats it . I don’t wanna spoil you too much but she realizes that she has magical abilities and there is a hot…cocky…male…assassin. Oh Valek.

But that is not all. If you love a quick and great fantasy reads which doesn’t focus entirely on the romance aspect then this book is your next baby.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

This book is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast but with Fey or fairies. How do I even describe this. It’s -it’s -awesome and awesome and steamy and good I just love this book.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

 Oh Percy, we could go on a picnic eating blue cake and drinking blue pepsi or coke . I was planning on putting the Heroes of Olympus Series instead, but to me it would be a huge disrespect to Percy to not put him.

 

The Goodreads group:  Monthly Recommendations

Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Fandoms

I have posted this earlier, without knowing the fact that I deleted the content, so once again here is my Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Fandoms (TV, Books, Movie)

Anyhoo, T5W is created by booktube Lainey @Gingerreadslainey and if you want to join us here’s the Goodreads link to our group.

1. I am a Witch. (The Harry Potter Series)

2. I am a Jedi. (Star Wars Franchise)

3. I am a Demigod. (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

4. I am a Bastard. (A Song of Ice and Fire: The Game of Thrones)

5. I am a Tribute. (The Hunger Games Trilogy)

All the Bright Places: Drowning in a Blue Hole of Tears

Bookish Chores to be done this 2016

Bookish chores basically the books I need to read for the year 2016. Disclaimer this excludes the books that I have mention on my Most Anticipated Reads of 2016. Some of this books are not on my current TBR pile at home.

1. The Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J Maas. I have purchase the first 2 books in different editions (Because that is how dumb I am) last January and March, purchase the 3rd one recently and I am planning to buy the Queen of Shadows by the middle of January. And I am planning to marathon them this summer, when I will be having a 4 month long break from vet school.
2. Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness. I bought the third book last November, because it was available at the use bookstore I usually purchase and it is on hardback. But the problem is I still don’t own the first and second. So I will still be buying them, once I have money on my debit card or wallet perhaps.
3. The Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead. I had these books for 6 months now and only finishing 2 books. I am lazy! I know!
4. The Falling Kingdoms Series by Morgan Rhodes The fourth book recently came out, and I just purchase the first two books. I will be reading them, during my 4 month break.
5. Miss Mayhem by Rachelle Hawkins. Finally not an entire series. I need to catch up since the third book is coming out this year
6. Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin. It has gotten a lot of great reviews from friends and Booktube

These are the list of the books I need to read this 2016!

Happy New Year guys and may our TBR Piles hold great reads and may reading slumps be vanquish!