Happy Late New Year!

Happy Late New Year! Hope y'all had a great Christmas! I am going to be having a bookshelf tour coming up soon (Hopefully this week); but I'm not making any promises.

Life's been super busy lately, I've been working (FINALLY!) and I'm starting classes again on Monday, so it's been kinda crazy.

Just wanted y'all to know I didn't forget about you!

LOVE,
Nikki

Haven't forgot

I promise I haven't forgot about y'all. I'm STILL reading Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. I have about 100 pages left, so I should be done soon!

Side note - I now have 10 followers! I know it sounds ridiculous to be excited about that, but I am. ALSO, I'm almost at 200 subscribers on YouTube!! If you haven't go check it out YouTube, and I PROMISE there will be a new video up there Monday-ish.

City of Fallen Angels REVIEW!!

 "City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone’s killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary’s plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever.
Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels."

 from goodreads.com

3.5/5

ALRIGHT, so I wanted to start by saying that I LOVED City of Glass, HOWEVER; I wasn't a fan of City of Bones ( I don't think many people were) this one to me was more like City of Bones. I really could have done without it. I was happy to see that Cassandra Clare continued the series, I just wish it had the awesomeness that COG had. The relationship between Clary and Jace didn't seem to develop anymore from the last book, it actually seemed to take a step back. While reading this I felt that this book is just a filler for the rest of the story. The important stuff in this book took up MAYBE 50 pages, the rest was just filler. If you are looking for action in this book, there is definitely not much.

There were quite a few things that I did like bout this book. I liked that the villain was somebody different, I had a feeling that Valentine was gonna come back as a demon or something (thank goodness he didn't). Of course just simply because it's part of The Mortal Instruments series. There were a few plot twist that I didn't see coming, part of it being the things with Simon.

• There was WAY to much Simon in this book ( I know it was told before the book even came out that there was gonna be more Simon, but I didn't think it was gonna be that much). I honestly didn't care what happened with him, and how his life turned out. I did understand why he was in the book so much and why he was important to the story line. Simon as a character was..I don't even know how to explain him. He was a lying, cheating, no good SOB. He shoulda gotten it a lot worse then he did. I can't believe that Miss. Clare let him off the hook like he was.
• Now to the two characters I wanted to know the most about. Clary in this book seemed different then she did in the other three, she didn't seem as hard headed. She did seem a bit more whiny then normal (that seems to be my favorite word). She's training to be a shadow hunter, but doesn't seem to take it seriously.
• Jace was VERY bi-polar like in this one; but he did have kind of the same quality in the other one. One minute he would be so in love with Clary then the next he wouldn't want anything to do with her. You do find out later in the book why this is, but it is kind of annoying when you're reading. I wanted to scream at him at the end of the book, I know he didn't have a choice of what happened but !!!!!.
• In my opinion there was not enough Magnus, he added such a "flair" to the first three books but that wasn't in this one. Him and Alex finally show up about 200 pages in, and then don't have that much page time. There whole "page time" is pretty much taken up by Alex throwing a fit, like a two year old (or a teenage girl).

Of course if you've read the other three, you should read this one. If you are satisfied with the way COG ended you could just stop there.

Across the Universe Review

 "Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming."

from goodreads.com


Okay, so I read this in two days; but I did it for a read-a-thon I was part of. If it hadn't been for that then I probably wouldn't have even finished this book. I'm not gonna say it was boring, because it wasn't. There was just something about it that I didn't like.

 After the first chapter pretty much the only parts I enjoyed were the chapters with Amy. It took 100 pages, and LONG 100 pages, for her to be unfrozen and part of the "world" they were living in.

 As for the characters; I thought Harley and Elder were both annoying. Amy also got on my nerves, however not as bad as the other two did. I didn't think Elder would go along with Eldest as long as he did, and I didn't think Harley would be that whiny at the end.

 I just thought the book was gonna go a different way and I probably would have rather seen it gone a different way; but none the less it was an okay read.

2/5

Read-A-Thon Update #11

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 290
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 100
• Total time read: 6 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: Good, Wish I had actually gotten more reading done. Hope

Mini Challenge:

I would wanna live in the world of Abarat, simply because you can chose which hour you live in. There are islands for every hour of the day, and there are things going on in every island.

Read-A-Thon Update #8

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 182
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 50ish
• Total time read: 5 hrs
• How I'm currently feeling: Good!

Read-A-Thon Update #6

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 140
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 60 something
• Total time read: 3 hrs.
• Currently Reading: Across The Universe 
• How I'm currently feeling: Still kinda sleepy, but excited to get reading again!