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Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Blue and the Raven Boys and More Adventures

Posted July 6, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Blue and the Raven Boys and More AdventuresBlue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #3
Publisher: Scholastic (2014)
Hardcover (391 pages)
Via: Library
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Also by this author: Shiver, The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys
Also in this series: The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, The Raven King
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.
The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.

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Review: City of Ashes – More Drama and Demons

Posted July 1, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: City of Ashes – More Drama and DemonsCity of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #2
Publisher: McElderry Books (2008)
Paperback (453 pages)
Via: Library
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Also by this author: City of Bones, City of Glass, The Bane Chronicles
Also in this series: City of Bones, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? Clary would love to spend more time with her best friend, Simon. But the Shadowhunters won’t let her go–especially her handsome, infuriating newfound brother, Jace. And Clary’s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil–and also her father. When the second of the Mortal Instruments os stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor suspects Jace. Could Jace really be willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?

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Review: The Dream Thieves – Secrets and Dreams

Posted June 29, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Dream Thieves – Secrets and DreamsThe Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #2
Publisher: Scholastic (2013)
Paperback (437 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Shiver, The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys
Also in this series: The Raven Boys, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?
Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.
One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.
And sometimes he’s not the only one who wants those things.
Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan’s secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.

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Review: The Titan’s Curse – Another Book, Another Quest

Posted June 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Titan’s Curse – Another Book, Another QuestThe Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3
Publisher: Scholastic (2007)
Paperback (312 pages)
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Also by this author: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Sword of Summer
Also in this series: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Battle of the Labyrinth
Reading Challenges: 2015 Mythology, Read 2015

Synopsis

When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he’ll need his powerful demigod allies at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and . . . a ride from his mom.
The demigods race to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods, whose parentage is unknown. But that’s not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up a devious trap, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.
Hilarious and action-packed, this third adventure in the series finds Percy faced with his most dangerous challenge yet—the chilling prophecy of the Titan’s curse.

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Review: Mortal Heart – The Wonderful End of a Wonderful Trilogy

Posted June 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Mortal Heart – The Wonderful End of a Wonderful TrilogyMortal Heart by Robin LaFevers
Series: His Fair Assassin #3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014)
Hardcover (444 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Grave Mercy, Dark Triumph
Also in this series: Grave Mercy, Dark Triumph
Reading Challenges: 2015 Finishing the Series, Read 2015

Synopsis

Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.
She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn’t mean she has.

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