The Best Side of Daemon yet!

Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Have I mentioned that I heart the Lux series?  I cannot get over how much it warms my heart to read about Katy and Daemon.  This book has done it again.  I fell for Daemon in Obsidian, I got to know him a little better and start to see through his tough exterior in Onyx, but Opal is by far the best side of Daemon yet.  We get to see his sweet, romantic, loving side without losing his confident, cocky, arrogant side.  I loved this book. I could start reading it over again right now and not be upset.

I’m not sure that I could sum up this book in a paragraph without losing some readers so I’ll go straight into what I loved about this book and I probably won’t even try to say what I didn’t like (because the only things I didn’t like were characters that were supposed to get on my nerves, i.e. Blake-ugh, hate that guy and Dee’s falling out with Katy- sad that friendship was gone.  I hated Will-so glad he is out of the picture.  I hated what happened with Carissa).    But I loved so much, so let’s start there.

I loved Prom and the picnic by the lake.  So sweet and romantic.  I loved that there was a fire and food and it was in a special place for both Daemon and Katy.  I love that he still calls her Kitten.  Have I said that before in these blogs?  I love the nickname Kitten.  So glad he calls her that and not Kitty Cat, that nickname sends the bad chills down my back (and not in a good way).

I cannot wait for Origin.  Requested from the Library and I can’t wait!

Read this series!  It’s an excellent YA series and suddenly I am very interested in Aliens! Keep Reading my Friends!

Love...quadrangle?

Where You Are (Between the Lines #2) by Tammara Webber

Now that School Pride is finished taping we follow Emma to her new plans of going to college, she has one person in mind when she’s making those plans, Graham.  She doesn’t know if there is anything to what she felt with him, but she is still drawn to him like she has never experienced before.  Reid of course still wants what he can’t have.  He knows it’s not love, but what girl has ever told him no?  Only Emma, so that’s who he wants. Brooke also has a story to tell in this episode and she wants Graham, she has decided that she will do whatever it takes for her to get him even if it means lying, cheating, stealing, she doesn’t care as long as Graham is her prize in the end.  Well and of course Graham wants Emma, he actually thinks he loves her, so you’ll have to read it to find out how this big cluster of a story gets straightened out… or will it?

I of course loved Emma and her character is fun and easy to read.  She doesn’t have any annoying traits like some leading ladies can.  I felt her pain and wanted her to do well.  Maybe the only thing that I wanted to slap her around about is the fact that she listened to Reid.  That lying sack of crap was always doing stupid stuff and yet she automatically believed anything he had to say about Graham and Brooke.  Emma was very naïve about Graham and his true feelings for her. 

Speaking of Graham, he is of course our perfect book guy.  We find out a big secret that he’s keeping and we love him even more for it.  He always has great motives and even better lines.  He is the reason to read this book, every time we get to see a little into his mind it’s a good time. 

I am hoping we get to see more of Graham in the future, there’s only one way to find out, book #3 here I come!  Keep reading my friends!

The Beginning of a Rush Crush on Monday

Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines

After disaster upon disaster hits poor Blaire Wynn, she sells her family home in Alabama and moves to Rosemary Beach Florida to find her estranged father.  The same father who she hasn’t seen in five years since he left his wife and daughter after a tragic car accident that killed Blaire’s twin.  When she arrives she finds she has a step brother named Rush (who happens to be a rock star’s son) and her father is off with his new wife in Paris.  With nowhere to go Rush takes pity on her giving her a bed and little else so she can wait until her dad gets back and they can figure things out.  She feels how unwelcome she is from the first minute she’s there in the huge house with the extravagant parties and Rush doesn’t roll out any red carpets, but she also feels a strange attraction to him.  Knowing that she has to move out and start a life of her own, she quickly finds a job to save up for her own place and she finds that Rush isn’t the unkind jerk that he always pretends to be.  Of course there has to be a huge upset and it so happens to be a secret that will destroy Blaire, what will she do?  Has she fallen too far to be able to forgive the wrongs done?  So many questions that can only be answered if you read this book!

I loved this book and I cannot wait to continue with this series.  Blaire and Rush are well written and fun.  Maybe it’s not the characters, maybe I’m actually in love with Abbi Glines.  She has kept my attention on her characters all week.  I haven’t done a single dish or washed any dishes, my house is a wreck and I can’t stop reading.  I have requested every single one of her books from the library and when I can’t get them fast enough I’m buying them on my nook.  I’m ruined!

I can’t wait to read this entire series.  I liked Rush, he was a great character, he was so mysterious and never let Blaire in and therefore we didn’t know much about him.  He did things at the beginning that I would never have been able to forget.  It would have tainted the entire relationship for me, but Blaire was able to forgive and forget easily.  Guess I’m just a bitter female. 

With most New Adult books, I cannot recommend this book to anyone under the age of 18.  So, if you are a young reader, stay in the young adult genre.  

I hope you find books that you enjoy.  Keep Reading my friends!

35 Girls. 1 Crown. The Compitition of a Lifetime.

The Selection by Kiera Cass

I have never watched the Bachelor or the Bachelorette.  Knowing human nature and especially how females can be within competition with a man involved, I can only imagine the claws coming out and the crying eyes and all of the hardships that would come along with living with women you don’t know and all the while, trying to impress the man of your dreams and so are the other 34 women. 

This is where we find America Singer, our heroine she is a five in the caste system of the country that was formally the USA, that is now called Illea.  She is part of the Selected (sorry for the mild spoiler, but really, it would be a very short book if she wasn’t chosen.  It would be like Katniss not being chosen for the Hunger Games).  She now is going to stay in the palace and compete for the Princes’ heart and hand in marriage.  The only problem is that her heart already belongs to Aspen, the boy from the lower caste back home.  As she struggles with her feelings for Maxon the Prince as her friend and Aspen as her first love, the country is in danger of falling apart with rebel attacks. 

I loved this book.  It was suggest to me by one of the students in my small group at church.  She loved both of the first books (as the third has not been released yet) and she kept bringing it up.  I found a small window in my reading schedule and decided to go for it.  I just have to say, thank you Alex!  What a wonderful suggestion.

What I liked about the book mainly was Maxon.  I’m for Maxon all the way, what a sweet prince.  I love every interaction we see with him and America.  I hope that Kiera Cass doesn’t try and change my mind, because I am not an Aspen fan.  I am very worried that Maxon isn’t all that he says he is.  What is he saying to the other girls when he’s spending alone time with them?  Can we trust him?  I guess we’ll find out.  I hope he is everything we Maxon fans hope and dream. 

I loved the character development in this book.  I felt like I knew America and felt bad that the other girls assumed that she was trying something when she was actually just being herself.  I liked that this book made me question everyone’s motives, I even thought that maybe the palace was faking the rebel attacks to see how the girls would act or react.  I also thought that maybe Maxon was giving American insider information to see if she would repeat it or if she was truly trustworthy. 

Read this book, read it just to get to know Maxon, if for nothing else, he is a great book crush.

Keep Reading my Friends!