Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass 

by Sarah J. Maas

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothein is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show an interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall that seems to understand her best.
Then, one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. 

 Can Celaena figure out who's the killer before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

 I only read about half of this book, but I loved it even when I stopped! I'm going to start reading it back up again soon. What do you guys think about this book? Have you read it? Or does it sound even a tiny bit interesting to you?

When It Rains | Lisa De Jong

When It Rains

Lisa De Jong

One night changed my life forever.

Beau Bennett has been my best friend since I can remember. He was my first crush before everything came crashing down, and now he wants more, but it's more than I can give him. Things are different now. I wish I could tell him why, but I can't. 

I haven’t told anyone.

I never knew how much I really needed him until the day he left for college, and I was completely alone.

Then one day, Asher Hunt rides into town with his dark, captivating eyes and cocky grin. He doesn't care who I used to be, he's simply breathing life into what’s left. People warn me to stay away from him, but he helps me forget the pain that has held me hostage for so long; something I thought was impossible before he walked into my life.

I’ve been hurt. 

I’ve been saved. 

And I’ve found hope. 

I thought my story was written that night, but now I know it was only a new beginning. Until one secret turns my world upside down…

Again.

I've been wanting to read this book for a few weeks. It seems like a good book with a good plot. I'm actually pretty excited to read this one. What do you guys think about it?

Always You Review

Always You

Kirsty Moseley

Title: Always You

Author: Kirsty Moseley

Published: October 31st, 2012

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Pages: 329 

Rating: 1/5 stars

Summary:

Riley Tanner has a best friend, the best friend a girl could ask for. He’s supportive, loyal, honest, trustworthy, kind, and thoughtful. He’s also the biggest player in school.

Their relationship has always been easy and affectionate, but after Riley’s month long vacation, things become a little strange. She starts to look at him in ways that go way beyond the ‘friend zone’. Add in her best friend’s rival, and things become a whole lot more complicated.

Review:

Okay. No. Just no.

I stopped reading this book 31 pages into it because it just annoyed me so, so much. I really started to get the vibe of a twelve-year old girl writing this whole story when the characters talked, but it had good punctuation and spelling. And trust me. I know what a twelve-year old girl writes like, since I've seen that writing too much on Wattpad. I couldn't really place any different personalities for the characters, either. To me, it was just completely unrealistic. I mean, what kind of best friend acts that way with their male best friend? 

The only thing that I did like was the plot, and that was the major reason why I read this book. The other reason was that I saw so many positive ratings for it on Goodreads. I love the whole plot of childhood best friends turning into lovers, but I couldn't really do that with this book. This is probably the first book that a lot of people have liked, and I'm rather in a different boat than them. 

Please don't read this and get discouraged to read this because I would hate for that to happen. 

*** This review is also available on Goodreads ***

Breathe, Annie, Breathe Review

Breathe, Annie, Breathe (Hundred Oaks, #5)

Miranda Kenneally

Summary: 
Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can’t escape the guilt that if she hadn’t broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honor his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race.

But the training is even more grueling than Annie could have imagined. Despite her coaching, she’s at war with her body, her mind—and her heart. With every mile that athletic Jeremiah cheers her on, she grows more conflicted. She wants to run into his arms…and sprint in the opposite direction. For Annie, opening up to love again may be even more of a challenge than crossing the finish line.

"Breathe, Annie, Breathe is an emotional, heartfelt, and beautiful story about finding yourself after loss and learning to love. It gave me so many feels. Her best book yet." — Jennifer Armentrout, New York Times bestselling author of Wait for You 


 Rating: 5/5 stunning stars

Initial Reaction After Reading:
OH. MY. GOD. THERE'S A CLIFFHANGER? Whhyyyyy!!!

 Review:

Now that I've calmed down the slightest bit...

No, for the record, there is no cliffhanger. Sorry 'bout that. :x

I'm so glad that I got a chance to read this and found this one online. I've been reading Miranda Kenneally's Hundred Oak series for a bit and loved every single second of it. I loved Jordan and Sam Henry, Will and Parker, Matt and Kate, Jack and Savannah (though I did have to keep myself from mixing up Savannah's and Vanessa's names), and now with Annie and Jeremiah. 

In Breathe, Annie, Breathe, the readers get to see Annie and Jeremiah, Matt's younger brother, the 'man-whore' that was briefly in Things I Can't Forget and the adrenaline junkie. We also have a lot of Matt in the book, with him being Annie's coach of sorts for the marathon that she has to go into. We also get to see some of the characters in the previous Hundred Oaks books: Matt, of course, but Kate, Jordan, Henry, Savannah, Vanessa, a little bit of Jack, Rory, JJ, Carter, and a bunch others. 

Annie is training for a marathon that her deceased boyfriend was training for, for a final goodbye to him and to honor his death. Annie's the type of girl that wasn't very athletic and hated running-- couldn't even run a mile before she had this training. One day when she's running, she comes across Jeremiah. As the book goes on, they have a couple of accidents  (I won't go into detail for spoilers). Annie keeps on running every week, conversing with the other runners. Jeremiah and Annie start talking more, and Annie starts to worry about him because of his adrenaline addiction, which is also the reason why she's reluctant to really go more beyond than their 'just friends' position. 

This book did just want me to go out and start running, but I'm not the runner either. Just a minute to two minutes I would be winded. I still do want to go out and run, even after a week after reading this book. 

I absolutely loved the whole Hundred Oaks series, and this book in particular was one of my favorites out of every book that I've read. 

More love to the relationship between Jeremiah and Annie. I could feel myself blushing a lot when I read the thing. 


Can't wait for the next one when it comes out. (:

This review is also available at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/896724217

Hello!

Hey, guys!

So I've been wanting to start a book blog for a while now since I've been reading a lot, and I figured that I should start. It's summer, I've graduated from high school, and I have a lot of spare time on my hands now.

I'm going to start off this post with telling you guys about myself before I get into much detail about what type of novels that I've read. Sorry about this possibly shitty post. I'm not too good with 'About Me's or starting posts. :x

My name is Karissa, and I live in the United States-- Colorado, to be exact. I'm seventeen years old, but I'm going to be turning eighteen next month. I've been reading for years and years, and it's a part of who I am. I have a sister and a brother (I'm the middle child, oh joy!) and a pet gerbil that my sister got for her birthday a couple of years ago. My parents are churchgoers and they've been involved with the church, doing music and giving some sermons sometimes. But personally, I'm not very much like them in that way.

What do I like to read? A lot of stuff. As long as it as a tiny bit of romance in it, I will read it. I'm pretty girly in that way. But other than that, I LOVE fantasy, contemporary, science fiction, horror, and paranormal. I read young and new adult books mostly, but there have been a few adult books sprinkled in there. If you guys have any suggestions on any novels like that, then I would love you if you gave me some. I'm always looking to read some books. I still have a lot of books that I would like to read on my list.

Other than that, comment and tell me what you think about the blog, or if you have some suggestions that I should read, I would love to hear it. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer!