A little Explanation.

OK, so I have been gone for SUPER long, however there is kinda a good reason.

I think my last post was in January. WELL for all of January and most of February I was really sick; I'll spare y'all from the details but yes VERY sick. So after I got "better" I couldn't get back into reading, but I am now back into and I'm promise to try my hardest to make more blog post. I have already made a few videos (check out my channel here). So yes I'm back!


Love y'all
Nikki

Ruined by Paula Morris Review

"Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, where she comes to spend the year while her dad is traveling. She's staying in a creepy old house with her Aunt Claudia, who reads Tarot cards for a living. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable Anton Grey seems to give Rebecca the time of day, but she wonders if he's got a hidden agenda. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city.

There's just one catch.

Lisette is a ghost.

A ghost with a deep, dark secret, and a serious score to settle.

As Rebecca be able to right the wrongs of the past, or has everything been ruined beyond repair?"

from goodreads.com

 

I finished this book in a day and half, I woulda finished it in a day but I had to sleep or I was gonna pass out!

Some things could have been different but overall I enjoyed this book. The biggest problem I had was with the ending.

 

The story starts off with Rebecca from New York, who gets sent to live with her "aunt" and "cousin" in New Orleans; while her dad is in China on business.  Of course she is not accepted because the section that her aunt lives in is "old money". 

 

I felt like there was some missing out of this book, Rebecca never makes a friend other than the ghost.  She

gets pulled in way to easily to be in the parade. There were some flaws in the book; however it was a decent book. So for that it gets

***/5

Beautiful Darkness Review

"Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.Sometimes life-ending

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems"

from goodreads.com

Date Published: October 12, 2010

Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Pages: 512

This is the second installment of Ethan Wate and Lena Duchannes.  The book starts off where the first one left off, Lena is still unclaimed; but she knows she has to claim herself. However, there is this new guy in town that is hanging, John Breed, around and Ridley is back in town; and that always means TROUBLE.  Ethan soon learns what being with and "unclaimed" confused Caster means.  Lena has a major decision to make and it will affect everyone.

Obviously the second book in MOST series is not as good as the first.  This one follows that suit.  It's not that I didn't care for this one, it's just that I didn't feel like a lot was explained.  It seemed like there was some information that we could have been given that we weren't.  There were "action" scenes that did not have the right amount of action.  Especially one particular scene near the end (Gosh, I wanna rant about it SO bad; but I don't wanna spoil it for anybody!)

In Beautiful Darkness, Ethan seems to be the same boy that he was in the first one.  He grows and develops his own traits and characteristics in this book.  He also receives his own destiny! Lena got on my nerves in this book, she was also kind of annoying the last book to; but she was VERY annoying in this one.  I like that there was more of Link and Ridley; I didn't like how they handled things at the end! 

I thought the plot in this book flowed better than Beautiful Creatures. I did like that there was actually traveling. The "action" scene at the end was kind of annoying.  It was the one thing you were waiting for the WHOLE book and it was a let down.

The third book in the Caster Chronicle series will be released sometime next year and is currently Untitled.

***/5

A While

So I have finished reading 13 Reasons Why, I'll try to have a review up by tomorrow, but I can't promise anything.

I am now reading The Summoning, and I'm almost done with that...Then I am going to be reading A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray..

It seems like I shoulda been done with these books, but my college classes have been really tuff this semester, I'm actually kinda glad for my break next year...