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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
I knew that when I first read
WHEN the final bell sounded at Bryce Hamilton, Xavier and I gathered our things and headed out onto the south lawn. The weather forecast had predicted a clear afternoon, but the sun was fighting an uphill battle and the sky remained a cheerless, gunmetal gray. Occasionally the watery sunlight broke through and fingers of light danced across the grounds, warming the back of my neck.
Hades would exceed all expectations.
When I got this book it was all nice looking and just looked all fresh, but then I had it by my bed one night and it was the victim of a glass full of water falling over my bedside and creating a pool around the book for me to be oblivious of until the morning when I woke. Now, half the pages are hard and crinkly as I blow dried the pages to an acceptable state. Yeah, I was just like, "well life goes on" and I put it on my bookshelf to keep it safe, but really what I had did was prolong the inevitable at how enraged I would later feel at myself for letting something so stupid happen to such a wonderful book. It's like when someone close to you gives you something and then your sibling just throws it in a pool and because that sentimental feeling toward that object are now tainted, you feel so enraged, enough, that you push your sister into the same pool after collecting your beloved item.
:I
ANYWAYS:
This was how I felt after I finished reading this book. This book that, even though I got it through Amazon, and Amazon isn't necessarily my biffle for lyfe, it was the book; the books lovely and heartbreaking characters, the books sheer painful and beautiful plot, that attached me to then later have feelings of anger and sadness towards myself that I'm the reason why pages sixty-three and under are so crisp that they stick to their neighboring pages.
Bethany Church and Xavier Woods:
Oh god. Or Oh God.
I've never been more in love with a story's love interest since
Patch and Nora in [bc:Hush, Hush|6339664|Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)|Becca Fitzpatrick|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358261334s/6339664.jpg|6525609]
Finn and Wendy in [bc:Switched|11457525|Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1)|Amanda Hocking|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1317794316s/11457525.jpg|13433455]
Derek and Chloe in [bc:The Awakening|5391115|The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2)|Kelley Armstrong|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1355081752s/5391115.jpg|4115339]
and
Lily and Nick in [bc:A Hundred Summers|16158535|A Hundred Summers|Beatriz Williams|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366561825s/16158535.jpg|21998951].
There's more, of course, but I think we're done seeing how all over the place my reading pattern is.
I think I fell in love with all of these fictionalized relationships so quick and so hard was because throughout their tale- something happened to them to result in their relationship to be so profusely and irrevocably heartbreaking.
Honestly, yes, most of the time throughout Hades AND Halo, I wanted to punch Bethany in the face because she's that girl that expresses her extreme love countless of times to the point of mild obsession
and she isn't that girl to cry into her ice cream and move on, but she's that girl that crawls into bed and slowly morphs into a self-depriving block of wood.
But also because of who she is and who Xavier isn't, it was understanding how Bethany, the epitome of hope and virtue, found those things in a person that represented greed, lust, envy, pride, and deceit; she found those things in a person that she created to be her home and her sanctuary. Bethany doesn't understand much so when the moment arises that an angel away from heaven has enlightened her, she falls quick and hard.
And then there's Xavier.
This boy. Is. Freaking. Perfect.
First of all, when he learns about how Bethany is an angel along with her two siblings that have dropped down into his small ass town, Venus Cove, he doesn't freak out and he doesn't leave her because she's now like a "monster" but instead he embraces her and opens himself up to her lifestyle.
Then this crazy kid comes to town and starts spraying his demon powers all over the place and he places Bethany in danger, and Xavier actually goes after him. Xavier the human boy goes after Jake Thorn, who's actually some Demon Prince with powers to possess people and make them kill themselves. But he gets his butt kicked for Bethany.
THEN. When Jake's gone, after six months have passed, Xavier spends that time to get hella ripped (not like, scary- hulk ripped, but wow, please- let- me- have- your- babies ripped) just so he can stand a better chance against demons like Jake, FOR BETHANY, meanwhile maintaining a perfect social and academic (he's flipping valedictorian and president of erthang) status.
And then, to the ultimate test, Xavier's already accepted Bethany for who she is and all the perks and troubles that come with her, but when she's taken to Hell. Ya know, that fiery pit of despair. He's all like "when are we going to get her back?"
Now I'm pretty sure, any of my past boyfriends, if I had been taken to Hell, they would have been like
Before saying "Uhm, has anyone read Dantes Inferno? I don't think so. She would have wanted me to move on anyways!"
Soo yeah. Applause to Xavier and his perfection.
Bethany Church and Jake Thorn:
I'm not really into love triangles. But what I am into, are love triangles that are written well and developed well. All that stuff that's like "who should I choose, so and so is great but I can't imagine living without so and so number two" uhmm... ha... no... But love triangles like Ian, Jared, and Melanie, or Dimitri, Adrian, and Rose, (these are just off the top of my head) that are actually well thought out and entertain, not annoy, the readers; are the love triangles that I think are worth sticking to until the end.
Including Jake Thorn to the mixture of Bethany and Xavier isn't really an "one person likes two people who like that one person" love triangle, but it's more like that love triangle where girl loves guy who loves girl but hates another guy who loves girl.
The relationship between Jake and Bethany is raw and exciting but also extremely depressing as Jake has these strong feelings for a girl who protests against every fiber of his being and literally has a programming that protests against ever fiber of his being, and through the shades of darkness that is Jake's existence, he finds foreign comfort in Bethany who is repulsed at his every breath.
Jake's all like
"Bethany, you're special to me"
And Bethany's like
The Plot:
I gave this book five stars because I really did think it was amazing and I liked it a lot. Once I started it last night at ten o'clock, I was just laying down for some light reading. But instead, what I got was me being consumed until three o'clock in the morning, a few chapters from the ending, until I finally had to use the bathroom... that I woke up in the next morning with my mom screaming "Zoe, what are you doing!??"
ANYWAYS--
When I finished this book I decided that it wasn't that book that yaknow, when you finish you're literally high and intoxicated off of what you just read and you don't think you can survive until everyone else has experienced the same book you have, no, when I finished this book, it was more like the book that when you finish you just lay there, not moving, for a little bit, you sigh, and you let the story that you've just read sink into you, you let it overwhelm your senses, exciting and engrossing you.
Then you get up eat something and smile to yourself because you're so satisfied with what you just read.
Yeah- that's the kind of book this is.
Just Everything c:
Along with the calamitous relationships and dialogue in Hades and the organic plot strewn from society's most famous religious fables- Hades delivers.
:'3
WHEN the final bell sounded at Bryce Hamilton, Xavier and I gathered our things and headed out onto the south lawn. The weather forecast had predicted a clear afternoon, but the sun was fighting an uphill battle and the sky remained a cheerless, gunmetal gray. Occasionally the watery sunlight broke through and fingers of light danced across the grounds, warming the back of my neck.
Hades would exceed all expectations.
When I got this book it was all nice looking and just looked all fresh, but then I had it by my bed one night and it was the victim of a glass full of water falling over my bedside and creating a pool around the book for me to be oblivious of until the morning when I woke. Now, half the pages are hard and crinkly as I blow dried the pages to an acceptable state. Yeah, I was just like, "well life goes on" and I put it on my bookshelf to keep it safe, but really what I had did was prolong the inevitable at how enraged I would later feel at myself for letting something so stupid happen to such a wonderful book. It's like when someone close to you gives you something and then your sibling just throws it in a pool and because that sentimental feeling toward that object are now tainted, you feel so enraged, enough, that you push your sister into the same pool after collecting your beloved item.
:I
ANYWAYS:
This was how I felt after I finished reading this book. This book that, even though I got it through Amazon, and Amazon isn't necessarily my biffle for lyfe, it was the book; the books lovely and heartbreaking characters, the books sheer painful and beautiful plot, that attached me to then later have feelings of anger and sadness towards myself that I'm the reason why pages sixty-three and under are so crisp that they stick to their neighboring pages.
Bethany Church and Xavier Woods:
Oh god. Or Oh God.
I've never been more in love with a story's love interest since
Patch and Nora in [bc:Hush, Hush|6339664|Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)|Becca Fitzpatrick|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358261334s/6339664.jpg|6525609]
Finn and Wendy in [bc:Switched|11457525|Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1)|Amanda Hocking|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1317794316s/11457525.jpg|13433455]
Derek and Chloe in [bc:The Awakening|5391115|The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2)|Kelley Armstrong|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1355081752s/5391115.jpg|4115339]
and
Lily and Nick in [bc:A Hundred Summers|16158535|A Hundred Summers|Beatriz Williams|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366561825s/16158535.jpg|21998951].
There's more, of course, but I think we're done seeing how all over the place my reading pattern is.
I think I fell in love with all of these fictionalized relationships so quick and so hard was because throughout their tale- something happened to them to result in their relationship to be so profusely and irrevocably heartbreaking.
Honestly, yes, most of the time throughout Hades AND Halo, I wanted to punch Bethany in the face because she's that girl that expresses her extreme love countless of times to the point of mild obsession
and she isn't that girl to cry into her ice cream and move on, but she's that girl that crawls into bed and slowly morphs into a self-depriving block of wood.
But also because of who she is and who Xavier isn't, it was understanding how Bethany, the epitome of hope and virtue, found those things in a person that represented greed, lust, envy, pride, and deceit; she found those things in a person that she created to be her home and her sanctuary. Bethany doesn't understand much so when the moment arises that an angel away from heaven has enlightened her, she falls quick and hard.
And then there's Xavier.
This boy. Is. Freaking. Perfect.
First of all, when he learns about how Bethany is an angel along with her two siblings that have dropped down into his small ass town, Venus Cove, he doesn't freak out and he doesn't leave her because she's now like a "monster" but instead he embraces her and opens himself up to her lifestyle.
Then this crazy kid comes to town and starts spraying his demon powers all over the place and he places Bethany in danger, and Xavier actually goes after him. Xavier the human boy goes after Jake Thorn, who's actually some Demon Prince with powers to possess people and make them kill themselves. But he gets his butt kicked for Bethany.
THEN. When Jake's gone, after six months have passed, Xavier spends that time to get hella ripped (not like, scary- hulk ripped, but wow, please- let- me- have- your- babies ripped) just so he can stand a better chance against demons like Jake, FOR BETHANY, meanwhile maintaining a perfect social and academic (he's flipping valedictorian and president of erthang) status.
And then, to the ultimate test, Xavier's already accepted Bethany for who she is and all the perks and troubles that come with her, but when she's taken to Hell. Ya know, that fiery pit of despair. He's all like "when are we going to get her back?"
Now I'm pretty sure, any of my past boyfriends, if I had been taken to Hell, they would have been like
Before saying "Uhm, has anyone read Dantes Inferno? I don't think so. She would have wanted me to move on anyways!"
Soo yeah. Applause to Xavier and his perfection.
Bethany Church and Jake Thorn:
I'm not really into love triangles. But what I am into, are love triangles that are written well and developed well. All that stuff that's like "who should I choose, so and so is great but I can't imagine living without so and so number two" uhmm... ha... no... But love triangles like Ian, Jared, and Melanie, or Dimitri, Adrian, and Rose, (these are just off the top of my head) that are actually well thought out and entertain, not annoy, the readers; are the love triangles that I think are worth sticking to until the end.
Including Jake Thorn to the mixture of Bethany and Xavier isn't really an "one person likes two people who like that one person" love triangle, but it's more like that love triangle where girl loves guy who loves girl but hates another guy who loves girl.
The relationship between Jake and Bethany is raw and exciting but also extremely depressing as Jake has these strong feelings for a girl who protests against every fiber of his being and literally has a programming that protests against ever fiber of his being, and through the shades of darkness that is Jake's existence, he finds foreign comfort in Bethany who is repulsed at his every breath.
Jake's all like
"Bethany, you're special to me"
And Bethany's like
The Plot:
I gave this book five stars because I really did think it was amazing and I liked it a lot. Once I started it last night at ten o'clock, I was just laying down for some light reading. But instead, what I got was me being consumed until three o'clock in the morning, a few chapters from the ending, until I finally had to use the bathroom... that I woke up in the next morning with my mom screaming "Zoe, what are you doing!??"
ANYWAYS--
When I finished this book I decided that it wasn't that book that yaknow, when you finish you're literally high and intoxicated off of what you just read and you don't think you can survive until everyone else has experienced the same book you have, no, when I finished this book, it was more like the book that when you finish you just lay there, not moving, for a little bit, you sigh, and you let the story that you've just read sink into you, you let it overwhelm your senses, exciting and engrossing you.
Then you get up eat something and smile to yourself because you're so satisfied with what you just read.
Yeah- that's the kind of book this is.
Just Everything c:
Along with the calamitous relationships and dialogue in Hades and the organic plot strewn from society's most famous religious fables- Hades delivers.
:'3
It took me a long time to finish this book because it was a little bit slower than halo but it was a good book.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Beth is stolen by Jake, one of the Fallen, and taken into the pits of Hell. I actually liked this book better than the first. It was less this is right/this is wrong and let you as the reader make your own mind up. I was wondering with Beth in hell whether we might get a Xavier POV but this was handled with allowing Bethany to travel spiritually to the Mortal Realm at pivotal moments.
This book was A-MA-ZING. unbelievable.i can't wait for the third one. major cliff hanger, i screamed. to anyone who said this book was terrible were you dropped on your head as a baby?
adventurous
challenging
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wowwwww, I loved it. Okay lies in the beginning I was mad like hell fr!!? Why did she have to get stuck there . Really sent me . Then I decided fuck let's just read it and I continued. End result loved jt wasn't too bad. Jakes dead thankfully
And gab ik your a lying shank. Guys like him are so difficult.
And gab ik your a lying shank. Guys like him are so difficult.
If you are a hopeless romantic, then read this.
I love/hate the ending at the same time!!!
Grrr!!
I was expecting a nice happy ending not another cliff hanger!!! D:
This is going to big me for ages.
Good book though!!
Grrr!!
I was expecting a nice happy ending not another cliff hanger!!! D:
This is going to big me for ages.
Good book though!!
This book was beyond amazing!!! It was freaking amazing!!! The love between Xavier and Beth is mind boggling. I ended up hating certain characters by the end of the book. I was so mad I wanted to pull my hair out. At the end of the book I actually threw it at the wall and ran around my house screaming. (Of course my mom got mad...) I am just sad that I have to wait 11 months to read the next one.
To read the rest of the review, please visit my blog:
http://owleyesreviews.tumblr.com/post/19484688196/hades-by-alexandra-adornetto
To read the rest of the review, please visit my blog:
http://owleyesreviews.tumblr.com/post/19484688196/hades-by-alexandra-adornetto
