29 Ağustos 2015 Cumartesi

Book Review: SWEET EVIL SERIES by Wendy Higgins



Hey,everyone! I'm here with not just a book review now; it's a book series review!! This is the first time I 'm doing this, so I'm a little excited :)) I assure you I picked one of my favorite series to review. I'm going to introduce the books and shortly review them. I hope you'll enjoy! :)



1- SWEET EVIL by Wendy Higgins


Embrace the Forbidden
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?
This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.
Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?



 I love Sweet Evil soo much. This is the first book in the series. Sweet Evil is a full of enjoyable adventure for me. This book is just want I want to read at the moment. Full of amazing characters, irresistible romance, Kaidan Rowe and other lots of things...

Kaidan and Anna's relationship is so realistic and interesting for me. I definitely enjoyed their relationship and want them to be together so bad!! But if the Dukes see their feelings for each other, bad things happened. So if they will together, they need to be careful.

I love the plot too. So interesting and doesn't sound like other angel-demon books. Nephs have to do their job because of their father; Dukes. There are 12 Dukes and they sembolize one of deadly sins. For example: Kaidan's father Pharzuph sembolize Lust. Interesting, isn't it? :)

Anyway, read this book. You will not disappoint :))

                                             
                                                        4 Sweet Owls to Sweet Evil



2- SWEET PERIL by Wendy Higgins

Anna Whitt, the daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she’d never do the work of her father—polluting souls. She’d been naive to make such a vow. She’d been naive about a lot of things. 
Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school’s party girl. Her life has never looked more bleak. And all the while there’s Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind.
When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life?
Sweet Peril is the second book of the series. I think Sweet Series gets much better and better in this book. More action, intrigue, romance... I fell in love with Kaidan much more... Anna is more mature in this book.

You should read Sweet Peril if you enjoyed the first book. :))





3- SWEET RECKONING by Wendy Higgins



It’s time. 
Evil is running rampant and sweet Anna Whitt is its target. Nobody knows when or how the Dukes will strike, but Anna and her Nephilim allies will do anything necessary to rid the earth of the demons and their oppressive ways.
The stakes are higher than ever, and Anna is determined that the love she feels will be her strength, not a liability. But trying to protect the ones she loves while running for her life and battling demonic forces proves to be perilous—especially as faces are changing and trust is fleeting. When the Duke of Lust sends Anna’s great love, Kaidan Rowe, to work against her, Anna must decide how much she’s prepared to risk.
In the most sensual and fast-paced installment yet, Sweet Reckoning brings all the beloved Neph together one last time to fight for their freedom.

 THIS. BOOK. Let me tell you how perfect it is.
Sweet Reckoning is one of the book you'll never forget. Unstopping action, amazing characters, perfect world-building and irresistible romance.. I love and adore this book. I finished it in 4 days and it stunned me so much. I don't want to see this ended but I just want to see what happened next and I realized I just finished this book. Full of perfection. Glad to read this series. Especially the final one though.. :)

5 Things shows you should read Sweet Trilogy:

1- A really different angel-demon book for YA lovers: For me, it's interesting so you can give a try :)
2- Enjoyable dialogs: Especially for Blake, Marna and all of the characters for sure :))
3- Amazing romance: We have a lot of couples to ship, do you want to learn? Just read it :))
4- Perfect world-building: I know I tell that before but.. it really is for me :D
5- Realistic time passings: This is because I don't like just one week time for fell in love or reunite, that needs time to have feelings. This book is great for that one too.

                                                       


                                                       5 Sweet Owls to Sweet Reckoning

25 Ağustos 2015 Salı

Book Review: ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins



Can Anna find love in the City of Light?
Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her coworker at the movie theater, who is just starting to return her affection. So she's less than thrilled when her father decides to send her to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year.
But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna meets some cool new people, including the handsome Étienne St. Clair, who quickly becomes her best friend. Unfortunately, he's taken —and Anna might be, too. Will a year of romantic near misses end with the French kiss she's waiting for?






I'm here with a lot of reviews today!! I know I haven't updated so much reviews in these days but I read lots of amazing books and I can't wait to share my own opinions to you!! :)

At first, I decided to review Anna and The French Kiss -which looks a cute romance and definitely it is-. I read this book after I finished Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken.( I will post my Never Fade's review too. ) I usually want to read a sweet contemporary read after dystopian books so when I looked at my shelf, I saw this book and started to read it. I really loved it and I finished in 3 days. If you want to read a really enjoyable and realistic contemporary read, I will recommend this book to you.

Besides I sometimes don't like contemporary books, I generally read fantasy books but this book and Fangirl is my favorite contemporary reads so far.


Let's talk about the characters and events...

I love Anna so much. She knows what she wants and she shows what she feels. She's kind, understandable and sweet. Anna and St. Clair's relationship and friendship are my favorite thing in this book. They're so realistic and I have to admit that sometimes seeing them apart makes me annoyed and the major element for this situation is St. Clair. But then we understood him and accept his reasons and started to love him again :D

Anyway, so much things happened through the end and the last 100 pages are makes me swoon and interest more for the book. I actually plan to give 4.5 stars for this book but the last 100 pages makes me give full stars for this amazing adventure!! :))



I can't wait to read more books by Stephanie Perkins because her writing style is amazing and addicting. I don't want to finish this amazing book but at the same time I just want to learn what happens next.

By the way, this book makes me want to visit Paris soo much!! I just want to go to Paris and see Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Point Zero.., I just want to feel their emotions..



“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” 

Etienne St. Clair...
He is one of the boy you can't resist to falling in love with him. Anna tried to deny but it's so late for everything. He is cute, funny, have a great sense of humor, intelligent... He is to die for. He is American also British and also French. (I don't know how it's even possible but yeah anyway that's cool :D) He has irresistibly amazing British accent. CUTE ALL THE WAY!!!
 “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

AMAZING BOOK!!!

MIND-BLOWING!!!

If you love to read  contemporary books with cute romance, wonderful characters and amazing book boyfriend all sets in Paris, you should definitely have to read 'Anna and The French Kiss' :))))




 “Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.” 

 “I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.” 


“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?” 
 “I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!” 
                                                     
                                   
                                                 5 Sweet Owls to 'Anna and The French Kiss'

13 Temmuz 2015 Pazartesi

Book Review: THE WINNER'S CRIME by Marie Rutkoski



Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love.
The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.
As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them.



 THIS BOOK. I mean The Winner's Crime is one of the most anticipated read in 2015 for me. I'm dying to read this book because at the end of The Winner's Curse, the story left with a cliff-hanger and all I just want is continue to read series.

I don't know how I'm going to start to explain my feelings. This book makes me mad, sad, angry, satisgfied but mostly impatient. I don't know how I can wait until March. I mean March 2016!!! The Winner's Trilogy will end in March with the most anticipated book for me in 2016: The Winner's Kiss...

I just want to warn you guys because if you don't read The Winner's Curse, you can see some spoilers about the first book.


I just can't decide to give 4 or 5 stars but the right rating for me is 4.5 stars. I really loved the first one and gave 5 stars but this book is all amazing too especially through the ending. No, this book makes me crazy about the ending. We're going to talk about it later.

The Winner's Crime is a high fantasy book filled with political issues, betrayal, forbidden romance and lots of more.. At the beginning the political issues seems a little complicated but later I figured it out. That was all amazing. Marie Ritkoski did a really great job. I don't know what to say about my feelings. This book is an enjoyable and also painful ride for me. 



Let's talk about the characters. As I kept saying over and over, Kestrel is one of my favorite female character because she is so intelligent, she is strong, she can hide her emotions easily to be pretending. But actually, she just cares people she love. Especially Arin. I just felt sorry for her to forced to lie to him. Arin and Kestrel's relationship is well-developed in The Winner's Crime. But I just have to say, I expect to read more scene about them. Together I mean. My favorite couple in seperate?? No. NO. I know their love is forbidden but in the first book, we usually see them together. But I hoped in the third and the final book -did I mentioned that the third book's name is The Winner's KISS'? YES, I WANT TO SEE THEM TOGETHER. WITH A LOT OF KISSES. PLEEEEAASSEEEE......






Let's talk about Arin. I know he is Herrani's governor and he wants to protect Herran's but I pissed off because of his misunderstanding. I know she kept telling lies to him but I koped he will figure it out that she is the Moth and she just tries to help him and Herran's. Anyway, I hope we can see the kissing and forgiving scene in The Winner's Kiss. I really want to see Kestrel and Arin are get these things up and finally be together. If someone will die in the third book, I couldn't handle it I think. Just want them to be happy!! TOGETHER!!!!





One of the most beautiful thing in series is brilliant covers! I've got hardback covers for The Winner's Trilogy but the paperback covers looks so impressive too!! I just can't decide which edition to buy the third book. I think both of them looks so amazing!! I love the green cover and red cover of The Winner's Kiss. Which edition did you prefer? Please comment below.. :)


“She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.” 



SPOILERS!!
 Lets talk about the ending. Through the ending, Arin and Kestrel's talk in piano room effected me to depth so much. She just want to say the truth but her dad watched him.. Arin is hopeless to learn the truth and when Kestrel told the lies-she has to- he started to believe lies too. He doesn't want to but he did.. It's so torturing to see her dad's betrayal to her daughter. I hate General...


I love Kestrel so much and at the end of the book, I just saw how deeply in love with Arin. She write a letter and gave Tensen but he didn't give him. It makes me so sad too. She wants to explain everything, why?? She's going to work camp and now Arin thinks she's going to marry with Verex. It's so complicated. I just want them to be reunited again because they love each other so much. I don't care the other characters; Marie Rutkoski, please end this series with a happy ending. Don't they deserve it?? And please stop the misunderstandings... I want to tell Arin all the truths and wait for Kestrel to explain everything and now everything is complicated and war is coming.


“If you won’t be my friend, you’ll regret being my enemy.” 


“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.“Don’t wake up,” he said.” 



The third book is going to be amazing I believe that and can't wait to finish this amazing series :))


                                               4.5 Sweet Owls to The Winner's Crime





9 Temmuz 2015 Perşembe

The Most Anticipated Books Published in 2016

If you are a member of Goodreads- which is a must have social site for book lovers-, you have already seem these books because we also see our favorite author's new series or new debut novels too. But I just can't wait to read them they look all good. I loved the covers, plots and started to think that 2016 is going to be also hard year and good year for me. I just can't read many books until June because of university exam but after that I am digging into books and plan to forget myself in books :D Anyway, you should look at them because they look so good!! COME SOON 2016!!
(By the way, I pick the cover releases books we also have the other highly anticipated books too so that I'm going to share with you when cover will reveal For example: A Court of Thorns And Roses' sequel one -I know lots of people loved it definitely one of the most anticipated books in 2016 :))

1- THE WINNER'S KISS BY MARIE RUTKOSKI



I'm currently reading The Winner's Crime and the third and the final one is definitely one of the most anticipated book for me. An look at that cover!!! It's so stunningly beautiful, isn't it?? Anyway, the series will end in 2016 and I don't know my feelings through the end of the final book. Marie Rutkoski is a really talented writer and I really hoped to see all of them especially Arin and Kestrel to be happy. 








2- PASSENGERS BY ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through time
Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in their web. 
Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to light -- threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home... forever.

3- THE GREAT HUNT BY WENDY HIGGINS
 Kill the beast. Win the girl.
A strange beast stirs fear in the kingdom of Lochlanach, terrorizing towns with its brutality and hunger. In an act of desperation, a proclamation is sent to all of Eurona—kill the creature and win the ultimate prize: the daughter of King Lochson’s hand in marriage.
Princess Aerity understands her duty to the kingdom though it pains her to imagine marrying a stranger. It would be foolish to set her sights on any particular man in the great hunt, but when a brooding local hunter, Paxton Seabolt, catches her attention, there’s no denying the unspoken lure between them…or his mysterious resentment.
Paxton is not keen on marriage. Nor does he care much for spoiled royals and their arcane laws. He’s determined to keep his focus on the task at hand—ridding the kingdom of the beast and protecting his family—yet Princess Aerity continues to challenge his notions with her unpredictability and charm. But as past secrets collide with present desires, dire choices threaten everything Paxton holds dear.
Inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ tale, “The Singing Bone,” New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins delivers a dark fantasy filled with rugged hunters, romantic tension, outlawed magic, and a princess willing to risk all to save her people.

 4- RIDERS BY VERONICA ROSSI
For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen—Conquest, Famine and Death—are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.They fail.Now—bound, bloodied, and drugged—Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he’s fallen for—not to mention all of humankind—he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.But will anyone believe him?

5-  GLASS SWORD BY VICTORIA AVEYARD


LOOK
AT
THIS
COVER
IT
IS
AMAZING!!!
I'm going to read Red Queen after The Winner's Crime and my expectations in high level after the good reviews :)) I can't wait to see how Red Queen is :))))






6- FEVERBORN BY KAREN MARIE MONING


I love Fever series so much!! I'm in the third book in series and can't wait to read how it's going after that!! By the way Karen Marie Moning is a very talented writer. She mixes Celtic mythology very well in her books and that makes me more curious for Fever series. I love Greek mythology but after reading Fever series, I'm into Celtic mythology to know something more. The cover is gorgeous by the way!! :)))








7- A GATHERING OF SHADOWS BY V.E. SCHWAB



I have never read a book by Victoia Schwab but I'm going to start with The Archived soon :)) I just heard how perfect she writes and all of the books she wrote doesn't disappoint the readers. So that I can't wait to be one of her book's fan :))










8- TRUTHWITCH BY SARAH DENNARD
On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others.
In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.
Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires.
Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her—but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast into one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to Safi’s hotheaded impulsiveness.
Safi and Iseult just want to be free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and ship’s captain) and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch. 
9- STARFLIGHT BY MELISSA LANDERS

NEW BOOK BY MELISSA LANDERS?? HELL YEAH I'M READY!!!!

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.
When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world--and each other--the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...

10- THE MIRROR KING BY JODI MEADOWS


Jodi Meadows is one of my favorite author so that after her Incarnate series I know I loved this high fantasy series. I haven't read The Orphan Queen for now but I hope I will read soon. The Mirror King is the second and maybe the last book of the series because I remembered that I see this series will be a duology. I loved the cover. It's so shiny and brightful so stunning as much as the first one!! :))








11- THE SHADOW QUEEN BY C.J. REDWINE

Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen.
In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his kingdom. To do that, Kol needs magic—and the only way to get it is to make a deal with the queen of Ravenspire, promise to become her personal huntsman…and bring her Lorelai’s heart.
But Lorelai is nothing like Kol expected—beautiful, fierce, and unstoppable—and despite dark magic, Lorelai is drawn in by the passionate and troubled king. Fighting to stay one step ahead of the dragon huntsman—who she likes far more than she should—Lorelai does everything in her power to ruin the wicked queen. But Irina isn’t going down without a fight, and her final move may cost the princess the one thing she still has left to lose.

These are all I've got for now. I'm going to post a new blog post abot anticipated books when the other one's cover revealed. I hope you like as much as I do for upcoming books. I think they all look wonderful. Please comment below about your thoughts about these books :)))