Kat's books

Restore Me
Ignite Me
Convergent Lines
Unravel Me
Geekerella
Frozen Tides
Gathering Darkness
Rebel Spring
The Cruel Prince
The Winner's Crime
The Winner's Curse
A World Without Princes
Batman: Nightwalker
Just Because of You
Out of the Shadows
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Nearly Found
Nearly Gone
A Strange Hymn
Wonder Woman: Warbringer


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Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle book One) By: Maggie Stiefvater

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

(Goodreads) 

Well I really loved this book!! But it took me forever to finish it. Which never happens... I usually, when I really like the book, finish it in one or two days. This one took me almost an entire week.  But it was really good, it was super interesting, it was new and it was odd. It had many different point of views, Blue, Gansey, Adam, Whelk, and Neeve. And it would randomly change, so at times it was very confusing. What bugged me was Blues mom and semi-aunts. They knew what was going on, but wouldn't tell anyone what it was, making it harder and they could have avoided some things from happening. But it was so awesome. And unique, all the characters had flaws, in one way or another and that made them human. Whereas, most books have near perfect characters, that then at one point will become perfect. Boring. But this, this was amazing, I really came to love the characters, and they all had there own demons to fight against, some worse then others, but it was amazing. Now the ending made me scream, it was such a cliffy, I love and hate cliffys, they make the wait for the next book agonizing, but also it makes the wait worth it (sometimes). And the mystery of the book kept me on edge the entire time. I absolutely did not expect some (most) of the things that happened!! Like Noah being dead, I should have realized some of the hints of him being dead, but I didn't and it was such a big shock. It was slow at times, but the story had a lot of things to explain which made it understandable. 
Absolutely loved this book!! :D

Sword Play (The Seer series book 4) By: Linda Joy Singleton

So in this one Sabine has moved back to San Jose to live with her family again. You'd think everything would be all right, and everyone would be like a family... Wrong, everyone is divided and Sabine feels like the outcast. But, as usual, things start getting weird, and Sabine is visited by the spirit of Kip, THE football player that she predicted his death. All in all, just a normal week for Sabine.

Well, this one was good, it kept it interesting. And they are also closer to finding the cure, which is awesome. BUT!!! Sabine!! Gosh dang it, Sabine was even more annoying than the rest of the other books combined. Josh didn't visit her so she was all like... "Oh my gosh Josh doesn't love me anymore because he hasn't come to see me" absolutely annoying!! So Sabine, with that in mind finally decided that she loved Dominic, all because Josh didn't visit her... Dumb. But I am happy that she finally realized that Dominic is better... Never liked Josh.. Anyways, the story is getting better and more interesting, I mean how are they going to find a lost cure for Nonna...?

Monday, June 17, 2013

Endure By: Carrie Jones

Zara is at the center of an impending apocalypse. True, she’s successfully rescued Nick from Valhalla, but it simply isn’t enough. Evil pixies are ravaging Bedford, and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army. Zara isn’t sure what her role is anymore. She’s not just fighting for her friends; she’s also a pixie queen. And to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves will be one of her greatest battles yet. Especially since she can’t even reconcile her growing feelings for her pixie king . . .
 
So this is the final book to the Need series, and I really didn't like it, the first three were amazing, but  I don't know, this one was sort of disappointing. Nick was a jerk the entire book, all because Zara turned pixie to SAVE him!! And then he goes all jerk on her... Meh. Now Zara, she was just awesome, she wasn't like other female leads, that have others do everything for them. Even when Zara was depixied she was still kick-a and tried to do things. She lead an army, went to Hel and back, freed Loki, then sacrificed herself to save the world from the apocalypse. Overall the book wasn't bad, it just took me forever to read. And I found myself skipping pages, and paragraphs. I just expected more from this book.

Witch Ball (The Seer series book 3) By: Linda Joy Singleton

"Someone who loves you will cause your death. In five days, you will die."
Strange things are happening to Sabine again, and this time it's not her predictions that are coming true. In the last book Sabine was given the Witch Ball, and in this one you find out it is haunted by  vengeful spirit. And the three predictions before Sabine has happened, now it's  time for Sabine to save herself from her death.

I think this one was great. Slowly but surely Sabine is becoming more open with her seer ability, and I like that she is becoming more confident. The main high school problem for Sabine in this one, is the threat of Evan telling Josh about her past, and I was hoping he would, and that Josh would be horrified and then Sabine would realize her love for Dominic!! But, alas, it did not happen so. But it was close enough. Dominic told Sabine how he felt about her when she was pretty much, almost, dead. Causing Sabine to realize her love for Dominic. Which made me super happy!! :D But then there's Josh, who, just so happens to not believe Evan in his stories of Sabine's past, believing it to be lies. Idiot. Anyways, the series is slowly getting better and more interesting, as the story progresses and Sabine slowly realizes her powers are not bad. And as Nona gets worse, the stakes are higher and Dominic and Sabine are more desperate to find the cure.
Now the ending.. Oh my flipping gosh!! I absolutely can not believe that her mom wants her to move back to San Jose, after all her "anti-seer stuff/anti-daughter" actions!!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Croak By: Gina Damico

Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape.

But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business.

She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. But Lex can't stop her desire for justice - or is it vengeance? - whenever she encounters a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again.

Will she ditch Croak and go rogue with her reaper skills?

 (Goodreads)
It truly was good. But... It lacked details in the characters. I didn't know what any of them looked like, except Lex and uncle Mort. And it sucked !!! For everyone else I just sort of imagined blurs of people. The story line was good and I loved the mystery was amazing. I truthfully never guessed who was the bad guy... It just REALLY lacked detail, and it left you in the dark at many moments. Also it was annoying how they never told Lex anything, they just evaded the question. If they has told her everything she needed to know. NONE of this would have happened -__-" It NEEDED DETAIL!!! It lacked detail in everything but the story, the story was absolutely perfect and hilarious, my favorite part in the book: 
"...What happened next was an odd conglormeration of each of them moving in to give each other a hug, each thinking  that the other was moving in to do something more, a subsequent dual retreat in the form of an awkward, octious-like limb flailing, and a grand finale of something that could only be described as a clumsy, platonic chest bump.                            It wasn't pretty." 
This part was absolutely perfect, that I laughed for 5 minutes straight, then read it to my mom to laugh with me. :) Another thing I didn't really liked how it switched point of views so randomly, then went to the random narrator thing...  It was confusing when it would randomly change. Also I ABSOLUTELY LOVED that Lex was sort of evil. I love evil, semi-evil, or dark lead characters. The ending was a shock (as I already said) but it was an awesome shock, I never expected her to be the bad guy, though I should have.

Chain Reaction By: Simone Elkeles

The final book to the Perfect Chemistry novels... It was perfect. This one is about the last son Luis, the final Fuentes... Anyways, the book starts off with the wedding of Alex to Brittany (I died from happiness) and Luis is 15. The love interest is Nikki Cruz, a Latina girl that denies her Mexican heritage (this made me sad... I mean come on. Embrace your heritage). They hit it of... By Nikki kneeing Luis in the balls. Perfect... It then flashes two years in the future, Luis is now 17 and is living in Chicago again. Luis Fuentes is the good boy in the family, not expected to do anything stupid, he has hopes and dreams, everything is good for the youngest Fuentes. Now Nikki is very bitter, she at 15 got pregnant with your boyfriends child, whom broke up with her making her bitter, then to top it all off, looses the baby. So she's bitter and really mean... And she is Luis's love interest. Now that Luis is back very thing is going smoothly, the Latino Blood is gone because the  main guy, Chuy is in jail because of Alex. But Luis being an idiot, ends up joining the Blood stuff happens, and turns out his REAL dad was Hector Martinez!! That was a huge shock... Anyways, everything turns out ok in the end.  :3
I loved this book!! It was the perfect ending to all the Perfect Chemistry novels, and this one was a bit of a shock at the end, but absolutely perfect. Why must the Fuentes boys be so sexy !!! :'(   So this one was just amazing, Luis was just so loveable and cute, as it said in the books with was the more "innocent" one... Not really... ;)  Nikki on the other hand really REALLY annoyed me. I understand that she got pregnant at 15, lost the baby and her boyfriend on the same day, but she took her bitterness way too far. I mean she was waiting for her friend to break up with her boyfriend saying "All boys are the same... Boo hoo for me my first and ONLY boyfriend left me pregnant... Then dumped me..." She really truly annoyed me. And how she judged Luis right away, for him being Mexican, living on the poorer side of town, and being friends with some of the gang bangers, sucky... Other than that I loved the series, and this one was the best. It had more background on the Fuentes family, and showed Alex and Brittany as parents, Carlos as a military man getting ready to propose to Kiara. And the epilogue was just perfect, it showed all of them together when they were older, with their own kids. It was just adorable.

One thing I noticed, all the boys had a different thing to call their girl. Alex: mamacita. Carlos: chica. And Luis: Chava. It made me melt.. :D

Rules of Attraction By: Simone Elkeles

Now this one is about Carlos, the middle child. As a kid he always admired Alex, him being in a gang and protecting the family, being a kick-arse... All that awesomeness. So... At the end of Perfect Chemistry, Alex's family moves back to Mexico. And there Carlos gets involved with some gangs... Again!! WHY?!?! Anyways, him Mama found out and shipped him off to Boulder, Colorado, to live with Alex. Carlos is not happy, he gets in trouble and then starts living with a friend of Alex's who helped Alex when he needed the help. Dr. Richard Westford. Of course he has a daughter, Kiara, and they slowly but surely fall in love.
Again, I absolutely loved this book, I loved the Spanish they spoke, and since I speak Spanish it just made it that much hotter :3 Anyways, I really liked this book, it was very similar to Perfect Chemistry, except that Kiara wasn't uber rich... More normal, and that her parents approved of Carlos. The romance was steamy-er... If possible and I just loved it ;3 Story wise it was great, it was still very interesting with whole new twists and turns. Kiara was a more head strong girl, and was perfect for Carlos. The epilogue was absolutely PERFECT!!! It made me laugh at the irony, and I just love how Ms. Elkeles wrote about their life afterwards...

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Perfect Chemistry By: Simone Elkeles

I FREAKING LOVED THIS BOOK!!! There are no other words to describe how much I loved the book. :) The book is about a Mexican boy named Alejandro "Alex" Fuentes... Shexy :3 Anyways... He is sort of the classic Mexican boy, he is in a gang, is going to drop out of high school, lives on the wrong side of town, would do anything for his family. and all that stuff. He then makes a bet with his friends that he is going to get the rich "white" girl to sleep with him. This rich white girl is Brittany Greene. She has a "perfect life." Perfect grades, perfect boyfriend, rich, head cheerleader. Everything. But, in reality she has a hard home life. Her sister is mentally challenged and needs help. Her parents are always working, or when her mom is there all she does is criticize Brittany. In this bet, they start to fall for each other. Slowly but surely. Alex shows Brittany what he is like, his hopes and dreams. And Brittany opens up to Alex, and they fall in love.
I loved this book so much. I absolutely devoured it :) it was fast paced and detailed sort of, at times, lacked details. I sort of had to guess what the characters looked like. Also I loved that the characters were human and imperfect. I love imperfect characters, and this just made the story much more realistic. Another thing... I loved that is was in both their point of views, it told both sides of the stories and made it that much better.
"Mamacita I have already lost control..."
Alex just made me melt with happiness :3

What I found sort of annoying was how fast they moved. The book starts at the beginning of their senior year in August, and then the main event happens in October 31st. Just one month of getting to know each other and falling in love, it was very fast, but I still absolutely loved it. Also the epilogue almost killed me!! From happiness!! It was just so sweet and a perfect ending, reveling more of their future together. : )

Monday, June 3, 2013

The Fallen Star (Fallen Star series book one) By: Jessica Sorensen

I'm not even going to post the book summary.... I really didn't like this book
Well. Why can I say... I hated it. And the only reason I finished it was because I thought it would get better near the end.... It (for me) just got worse. It started out really slow, and went on like that for several chapters. It got good around 35% (on kindle) but then it sucked again. Alex with all his secrets just bugged me. 'Oh sorry that's classified' screw that !!! And at the end when they were wiping Gemma's memories he just say there like 'oh I'm sorry I'm just gonna look at you all guiltily because I love you, but I'm not supposed to, and because I can't tell you anything.' Absolutely annoying. I have read two other books by Jessica Sorensen and they were amazing!! So I expect this one to be the same, boy was I wrong!! I was so excited to read it because it sounded interesting but it was such a let down. :'(
All the characters... Sucked !! There was no depth to them no detail... DETAIL!!! D: It's supposed to be a romance and romance always has a lot of detail. The most romance was when Alex and Gemma where near each other and there electrical stuff started. But this, this was just sad. I expected more from this book because of the two other series I've read and they were AMAZING, so I expected this to be good. But, it didn't start out like this. At first, the book was very interesting, a little slow for my taste, but still very interesting. But once Alex and Ailis (something like) showed up the story just went down hill. It had great potential, and I think that is what put me off most, it had great potential to be a really great book series. But as a first book of the series it didn't start out good, first books set the story up and leave you with questions and all but nothing like this! As the story went along it just got more confusing. Over all... I really didn't like it, as you can see.... But meh -___-"

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Last Dance (The Seer series book 2) By: Linda Joy Singleton

Sabine can't wait to show off her new boyfriend at the upcoming school dance, but she's also worried about her grandmother, Nona, who's suffering from a fatal hereditary illness. The only cure lies within a remedy book, lost long ago. Determined to save Nona, Sabine goes to Pine City to visit a distant relative who may have clues. But there's someone else clamoring for Sabine's attention: a fifty-year-old ghost named Chloe who's been appearing in her dreams. Celebrated by Pine City every year on the anniversary of her tragic death, Chloe has become a town legend. Despite death threats and missing the school dance, Sabine must use her psychic skills to solve the mystery surrounding Chloe's untimely demise . . . and lay her soul to rest.
(From Goodreads) 
Well I really loved this one, it really continued the series perfectly. I really liked Sabine in this one because she finally started accepting her psychic powers, which she should have done EARLIER !!  GAH !! Well anyways.... I really liked this one, the sense of mystery was still there, if not more because Sabine has to find the cure for her grandmother to get better. But Dominic is here to help :3 the love triangle has started!! I hope Sabine goes for him, he is SO much better than Josh.... Meh
Well I absolutely can not wait for the next book, I need to go locate one... 
Later :3

Pyxis: The Discovery (Pyxis #1) By: K. C. Neal

"Corinne lives an average teenage life working at her dad’s cafe, hanging out with her best friend, and trying to forget a falling-out with her almost-boyfriend Mason. Things take a strange turn when she uses her late grandmother’s food dyes for a bake sale, and her customers suddenly find her irresistibly alluring. Then she discovers she and Mason are haunted by the same dreams of a dark force that consumes everything in its path.
Pursued by shadowy figures and a crazy woman with secrets from the past, Corinne must find out who her grandmother really was. In her quest to unravel her family’s history, she learns she is destined to protect this world--and the dark world of her dreams. She races to find the answers she seeks before her nightmares break free."

(Goodreads) 
Well I personally don't really like the Goodreads summary, but the book is freaking AMAZING!!! I actually had it on my kindle for a while but never read it because of the Goodreads summary, and well, deleted it off my kindle.... I later found it on my Goodreads To-read list and remembered it was on my kindle and so I read it. And lord did I love it !!! At one point it sort of reminded me of Poison Princess because of their roles they have to play as the pyramid project (thing). But it was very unique and very different. The characters were very loveable and human.
Characters:
  • Corinne: she is a good girl. Normal, great cook, busy family life, until she cooks some cakes with these colored bottles from a box her grandmother had given her. She was very loveable and sweet, I really like Corinne she was a really strong character that was willing to figure out what the pyxis does. 
  • Mason: Oh my gorsh !! He is so sweet and dreamy !! And a total sweetheart! He is a great guy and it made me happy that he is her shield :) 
  • Angeline: Ang is the hyper super great friend, that is there for Corinne at anytime. Ang was really nice and a great character. 
Well anyways, I really enjoyed the book I started and finished it the same day :) It was fast paced and set up a great story. It was interesting and didn't drag, the story flowed very well and kept me guessing for what would happen next. Can't wait to get the next one :)