That Night: Amy Glines

One night in March, a terrible tragedy shakes the Queens neighborhood where Jessica Nolan and Lucas Rossi live.

The year since the shooting has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar, and deeply personal, ways. Lucas has taken up boxing and lives under the ever-watchful eye of his overprotective parents, while trying to put good into the world through random acts of kindness — to pay back a debt he feels he owes the universe for taking the wrong brother.

Jess struggles to take care of her depressed mother, with the help of her elderly next-door neighbor, and tries to make ends meet. Without her best friend, who’s across the country at a special post-trauma boarding school, and her brother, who died that night, Jess feels totally alone in the world.

When Jess and Lucas's paths cross at their shared after-school job, they start to become friends… and then more.

Their community — and their families — were irrevocably changed by a senseless act of violence. But as Jess and Lucas fall in love, they'll learn to help each other heal and move forward — together.
(Goodreads)

So I got the first five chapters though, EpicReads... And holy crap this seems so interesting and slightly relatable as someone who's mourned the death of a friend he was practically my brother   
The story is about a club shooting, where teens frequent and the survivors guilt of two specific characters. 
Jess and Lucas are both survivors of the shooting and it has drastically changed their way of life in different ways, but also very similar ways. They both lost their brothers and neither of them know how to cope.
Jess is having to deal with her depressed mother, and she has no support.
Lucas is smothered in care. And all he wants to move on. But neither of them know how. 

Honestly, the story was very simple and sweet. They meet, they fall in love, and they start helping each other through the trauma of what happened at the shooting. And it was a very fast read. I fully admit, I cried because there where moments that reminded me of when my friend passed in a car accident. And it took my brother and I months years to fully come to terms with what happened. 

Until next time readers <3

Love Kat 

Princess of Ash: Laura Sebastian

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia's family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess--a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner.

For ten years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. She's endured the relentless abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his court. She is powerless, surviving in her new world only by burying the girl she was deep inside.

Then, one night, the Kaiser forces her to do the unthinkable. With blood on her hands and all hope of reclaiming her throne lost, she realizes that surviving is no longer enough. But she does have a weapon: her mind is sharper than any sword. And power isn't always won on the battlefield.

For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.
(Goodreads)

Where to start.... Well, I read a review on Goodreads regarding this book... and it had some good points. Honestly this book is very familiar in the sense that I've read this story hundreds of times.
But that does not mean it isn't a good book
Even though this story idea is overused, the book itself was great. And I honestly loved this book, I liked the way Sebastian wrote Theo, how she was struggling with her identity. I loved that she wrote about the moral dilemma of Theo having to kill her only friend. How she was kind of struggling with both her cultures, and I know this can be argued over..... But she kinda was raised in two cultures, even if one was under oppression. I really resonated with the struggles of two cultures because hey.. ya girls a Latina in America
Anyway, I honestly really liked the book. It was interesting with a perfect plot twist that kinda maybe a lot scream because it was absolutely brilliant!.... And evil

Until next time readers <3

Love Kat 

Update

Hello, yes, hi, it's me Kat
It's been a hot minute since I last really updated this blog excluding the two books I reviewed today
And that's mainly becasue life sucks, schools hard, and I have no time to do anything except cry, study, and work. I still very much love this blog, and intend to keep updating it slowly.
My goal this year is to put up my reviews a couple days after I finish the books so that my feelings and thoughts are more accurate.
It's not like anyone reads these anyway, but I still like to review books and get my thoughts out into the world.
To the people who have actually read some of my review/rants, thank you
To those passing by, thank you for the visit and I hope you like the reviews
2019 is going to be a better year and an incredible year for books
Thank you
Kat <3

Crimson Bound: Rosamund Hodge

When Rachelle was fifteen she was good—apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. But she was also reckless— straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. After an illicit meeting goes dreadfully wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible choice that binds her to the very evil she had hoped to defeat.

Three years later, Rachelle has given her life to serving the realm, fighting deadly creatures in an effort to atone. When the king orders her to guard his son Armand—the man she hates most—Rachelle forces Armand to help her find the legendary sword that might save their world. As the two become unexpected allies, they uncover far-reaching conspiracies, hidden magic, and a love that may be their undoing. In a palace built on unbelievable wealth and dangerous secrets, can Rachelle discover the truth and stop the fall of endless night?

Inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, Crimson Bound is an exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption.
(Goodreads) 

So I got this book for free from EpicReads for doing a survey and I was kind of skeptical about reading it, considering I didn't like her other book, Cruel Beauty.<---hover here But since I got the book for free I decided to give a go.... Boy was that a mistake.
So lets begin, this is supposed to be a inspired by Little Red Riding Hood... And I don't see how because it was just nonsense. The story starts with Rachelle as a child who lives in the woods with her grandmother. They're the local witches and Rachelle is training to be the next witch. Little Rachelle wants to do more in life, she want's to fight the bad guys, she wants to actively do something and make her mark on the world. honestly same She has the chance when she meets one of these evil dudes I promise I read the book and she's intruigued by him obviously and she keeps coming back to him and she's trying to act all tough and be like "You don't scare me." When one day her adventure goes wrong and he attacks her, and marks her. Which now means she has to either kill someone or die. She ends of killing her grandmother and thus begins the real story. This beginning was so interesting that I just had to continue.... But that's when the disappointment began.
Honestly from here it's just one mindfuck after another. The story was not well thought out and it was extremely confusing. Everything that happened in the second part was so utterly confusing that it just ruined the somewhat good plot.  It started going back and forth in points of view about some random ass character, who you later find out is the one who started this whole thing way back when. And we find out we have to find this sword to kill the demon king dude and find the portal to the other world classic.
We find out her one demon friend was the one who turned her evil and that he's actually in love with her. She fights him off and wins and continues on her quest to kill the demon king. And then she finds out that the magic her grandmother taught her was how to defeat the king and the needle that was actually the sword the whole time! great She sacrifices herself and wins and through that sacrifice becomes human again. cool 
Throughout this quest she fell in love with her hand-less charge and so they end up together, happily ever after. 
Great. I just did not like this book at all, it was boring and uninspiring. The characters were all pretty mediocre and the whole part where we were jumping back and forth was just so confusing I had to reread it multiple times to understand what was going on.
Honestly this is an aquired taste, if you like it awesome! If you don't, join the club 
Anyway 
Until next time readers <3

Love Kat 

Cruel Beauty: Rosamund Hodge

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle—a shifting maze of magical rooms—enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.
(Goodreads)

 So after reading and loving A Court of Thorns and Roses Cruel Beauty was recommended to me because of how amazing the story is. How strong the female character is, and the wonderful spin to the classic Beauty and the Beast.
Honestly? I was incredibly disappointed. The story in itself was incredibly interesting, it was rich and complex. It was dark and mysterious. The plot definitely had moments that it would drag on for pages and pages fully admit to skimming over these parts. And there were parts that were so intriguing I wish we could have learned more about it cough everything involving the world inside of a world plot and the labyrinth castle. Overall I'd give the plot a solid 3 since it was a pretty slow book that was super boring at times. But what really ruined the book for me was the character of Nyx, there was just something about her that I truly could not stand. She was kind of boring, and extremely self righteous. She was annoying, and her sister was equally annoying to. But the sister at least had the redeeming quality of actually loving Nyx and actually trying to save her even after all the hurtful things she said. 
But the real kicker was the ending. After Nyx fell in love with the beast and figured out that the shadow man is also part of him (I fully admit to loving the shadow man in the beginning, but once she saved the beast and he became nice I totally switched sides.) which took me forever to figure out too. He set her free, the world went back to how it was supposed to was when the plot took a turn for the weird. Obviously no one remembers because book logic's, but Nyx vaguely remembers something. More like she remembers missing someone. And now the castle is just an old myth about a cowardly king and she goes to find him because she knows there's more to the castle. Well she finds the king and the old ruler people things and bargains for the kings life. blah blah blah they argue it's weird...
And then...... the book ends..... Like that's it. There's really no closure and the book just had a weird ending.
Overall, not my favorite book. It was just weird and not the good kind of weird 
Anyway 
Until next time reader <3

Love Kat 

A Court of Frost and Starlight: Sarah J. Maas

The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we'd have a High Priestess do some odious ceremony, as lanthe had done the year before. A year. Gods, nearly a year since Rhys had called in his bargain, desperate to get me away from the poison of the Spring Court to save me from my despair. Had he been only a minute later, the Mother knew what would have happened. Where I'd now be. Snow swirled and eddied in the garden, catching in the brown fibers of the burlap covering the shrubs My mate who had worked so hard and so selflessly, all without hope that I would ever be with him We had both fought for that love, bled for it. Rhys had died for it.
(Goodreads)

So I finished at midnight, and I absolutely loved it. And apparently there has been some backlash about this book not being amazing, or the characters being out of character... And well.... I personally don't see it. I personally loved the book so flipping much....
SPOILERS.... SPOILERS AHEAD.... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
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Alright! So this book was perfect for me. It was exactly what I needed. It was the perfect bridge for the spinoffs. This to me was the actual goodbye to Feyre and Rhys's story. This was their actual happily ever after. And honestly I could not get enough actually I can, because I don't need anymore of Feyre and Rhys unless they are in the background or side characters *cough*
Anyway, this book was mostly fluff, with the occasional bit of angst. We finally got to see things from not just Feyre, but also RHYSAND, CASSIAN AND MOR!!! I am shooketh theres also the one time we get Nesta's point of view.... And like whatever... I really didn't care for it because I hate Nesta with all my heart
Anyway... Feyre is struggling to do everything she can to help the people of Velaris (Defender of the Rainbow and the desk), she's slowly starting to wear red RED I'M TELLING YOU!!!  *cries*
She's struggling to paint, and to bone her beloved husband ;)

Honestly my favorite part of this book was the chance of seeing Rhys be a normal person (fae...). His interactions with Cassian and Azriel, his nicknames:
LITTLE RHYSIE!!!! I REPEAT CASSIAN CALLS HIM LITTLE RHYSIE!!! *screams into the abyss* Honestly that is my new favorite thing Cassian calling Rhys LITTLE RHYSIE.
I loved seeing Cassian and Feyre get drunk together and "decorating" the house. I loved how they all teased each other. I LOVED seeing Az laugh, full on laughing. I loved that the three boys have annual snowball fights and Az has won 199 games ONE HUNDRED NINTEY NINE FIGHTS PEOPLE. How do they keep score you ask? Whoever isn't frost bitten wins. Guys I am living for this.
Amren being a legit angry puff ball, Amren telling all her friends that she struggles with pooping and peeing, like I was laughing so hard I cried. (BLOOD TASTES BETTER)
Amren marinating in the smell of her sex, that's just gross... but so Amren.
Az, my sweet sweet boy, how he makes everyone wait for Elain. MY SHIP MIGHT BE FLOATING. THE TENSION BETWEEN AZ AND ELAIN IS GOING TO BE THE END OF ME *dies*
MOR GIVING THE WORST GIFTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH GAVE ME LIFE.
The information we get of Cassian still wanting to be apart of the Illyrians, even though they honestly don't like him was incredible. The information that Azriel likes to forget that he is an Illyrian was amazing too. I loved their difference. I loved that Rhys will bring Az to the camps to remind him that he is an Illyrian.
Now onto Nesta, looks like Nesta has been living in a dump... And sleeping around... Cool, not a good way to cope with everything that has happened but whatever. This book honestly solidified my hate for Nesta. The little sneak peak to the next book honestly has me hooked. I want to see the dynamic between Nesta and Cassian. I actually want to see them fight, and Cassian basically beat Nesta into shape.
The ending of this book, was just so stinking sweet. After the chapter full of wild sex even though it was nice.... I would have been fine without that explicit show of sex it ends with her saying she wants kids *cries because soon we'll have baby Rhysies* Feyre opens an art gallery therapy thing.. For children and I cried.
Then Rhys gave her a house... Well manor, by the lake and I am shooketh. This was so stinking cute I am just filled with happiness.

OH!! One last thing, the interaction of Rhys and Tamlin was actually heart breaking. I didn't think it would actually make me sad to see Tamlin like this. To see this man so broken, it honestly changed a few things in my head. He asked for forgiveness. And I am actually okay with seeing a SLOW redemption arc for him....

Mrs. Maas please give me more of the Az and Elain ship, I know they're going to end up together I can feel it in my shipping heart.
Anyway
Until next time reader <3

Love Kat 

The Heart Forger: Rin Chupeco

In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection―now she's after revenge...

No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. With the help of these terrifying beasts, she can finally enact revenge against the royals who wronged her―and took the life of her one true love.

But there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea's dark power for their own nefarious ends. Because you can't kill someone who can never die...

War is brewing among the kingdoms, and when dark magic is at play, no one is safe.
(Goodreads)

Y'all when I got this book in the mail, first I squealed, then danced around the house. Then sat down and started reading. And guys this book is just so good. So here we go:
So this book starts 2 years after the first book, so that was a little confusing but I managed. The writing is still amazing and I am finally understanding the "present" parts. This book honestly like reading two different stories since they happen at completely different parts of her life. And honestly it works so well. 
So in this book there was some romance. And I have been waiting for this!
Okay so the way the romance progressed with Kance and Tea was just super sweet.  It was slow and then all at once (did I just quote another book? Yes I did)
I just have a lot of feelings for this book, and I honestly don't know how to actually put it done on paper. I loved that this takes place a few years after the first one. I loved that Tea is beating up the dead king trying to find her teachers heart. I love how much Tea cares for others. I like that she still crushes on the prince. 
And I just, I love it. 
I love the back and forth between the past and present
And this ending seriously is killing me
Like Tea's heart has black flecks in it!!
IT HAS BLACK FLECKS IN IT 
I can't wait to see more of her "downfall" I want to know why the elders tried to take her heart. Because even though we found the teachers heart..... We never learned WHY/WHO STOLE HER HEART.
GUYS I'M DYING
I NEED TO KNOW WHY IT WAS STOLEN.
(I know it was because of her powers.... but WHY????)
Anyway honestly, read this book. It's amazing and so sweet too

Until next time readers <3

Love Kat