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Winger by Andrew Smith
5.0
This has become one of my favorite books of all time. The characters are...annoying at times but are amazing and so realistic. I recommend this book to anyone everyone. As long as you don't mind cursing...
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I cried so hard when they found Joey in the woods, he was for a really long time the only character I actually liked. I knew he was going to die and there was all this foreshadowing for it and ugh, I'll miss him in the squeal.
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I cried so hard when they found Joey in the woods, he was for a really long time the only character I actually liked. I knew he was going to die and there was all this foreshadowing for it and ugh, I'll miss him in the squeal.
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
Okay, so wow this book was intense so much Chaol x Celaena. It should be renamed from Crown of Midnight to giant bag of nope. Like everything that happened was just so awesome! My favorite seen had to be Chaol’s birthday date. It was the last cute moment before everything truly went to hell. I was so mad when Nehemia died and then Celaena just blamed Chaol and their relationship went down the toilet. They better get back together in the next book or else…I will cry.
I also really liked that Dorian got magic, though it does take away from Chaol, so Chaol needs some relevance to plot. Maybe him going back to his “home” will help out. Maybe he’s magical too. Speaking of magic, holy shit when Chaol went into that portal to save Fleetfoot, I died because I thought he was going to be trapped in there and like go crazy or die. But then when Celeana went in and then basically turned into her Fae form. It was…interesting. I found it a little funny because she was like, “I can smell Chaol’s awe and terror”. Which was just a hilarious line. Chaol sending her to Wendlyn was also interesting, I was a little miffed because now the trio is going to separated. I mean Celaena will be away from the king who always terrifies me, especially when has a pov. It’s always have this horrible vibe to it.
Also, it’s kind of ironic the way that Celaena is basically fighting for Nehemia’s idea of not having a dictator but Elena is pretty bossy.
That’s all I can really say about this, oh and gore. Like Celaena was just murdering everyone left in right like first we get that flashback to where she “snapped”. Then she snaps again and slaughter’s fucking Archer’s group (glad he’s dead, the prick) and then she tries to kill Chaol. Then she brutally kills Grave. I’m kind of having trouble buying that Archer tricked Grave into thinking it was the councilman, that just seems kinda…wrong. Archer was an asshole, glad he’s dead.
I also really liked that Dorian got magic, though it does take away from Chaol, so Chaol needs some relevance to plot. Maybe him going back to his “home” will help out. Maybe he’s magical too. Speaking of magic, holy shit when Chaol went into that portal to save Fleetfoot, I died because I thought he was going to be trapped in there and like go crazy or die. But then when Celeana went in and then basically turned into her Fae form. It was…interesting. I found it a little funny because she was like, “I can smell Chaol’s awe and terror”. Which was just a hilarious line. Chaol sending her to Wendlyn was also interesting, I was a little miffed because now the trio is going to separated. I mean Celaena will be away from the king who always terrifies me, especially when has a pov. It’s always have this horrible vibe to it.
Also, it’s kind of ironic the way that Celaena is basically fighting for Nehemia’s idea of not having a dictator but Elena is pretty bossy.
That’s all I can really say about this, oh and gore. Like Celaena was just murdering everyone left in right like first we get that flashback to where she “snapped”. Then she snaps again and slaughter’s fucking Archer’s group (glad he’s dead, the prick) and then she tries to kill Chaol. Then she brutally kills Grave. I’m kind of having trouble buying that Archer tricked Grave into thinking it was the councilman, that just seems kinda…wrong. Archer was an asshole, glad he’s dead.
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History by Eric Foner
4.0
First of all this is obviously a book for school so I’m not really doing this for fun.
“Resolved, that the practical question for an American Fourth of July is not between freedom and slavery, but between wealth and poverty. For if it is true laborers ought to have as little as possible of the wealth the produce, South Carolina slaveholders were right and the Massachusetts abolitionists were wrong.”—pages 36-37
That’s a really good line.
“But then, ignorance is like a disease that is contagious, bigotry, prejudice, and intolerance all down through the centuries have tried to crush intelligence with cruelty, reason with brutality, and spirituality with madness.”—page 202
I really loved this line.
So overall I would say this is a good book, if you want a good collection of things that happened in history with civil rights for a lot of minority groups. It’s a really interesting piece, even though I wasn’t able to read all of it.
“Resolved, that the practical question for an American Fourth of July is not between freedom and slavery, but between wealth and poverty. For if it is true laborers ought to have as little as possible of the wealth the produce, South Carolina slaveholders were right and the Massachusetts abolitionists were wrong.”—pages 36-37
That’s a really good line.
“But then, ignorance is like a disease that is contagious, bigotry, prejudice, and intolerance all down through the centuries have tried to crush intelligence with cruelty, reason with brutality, and spirituality with madness.”—page 202
I really loved this line.
So overall I would say this is a good book, if you want a good collection of things that happened in history with civil rights for a lot of minority groups. It’s a really interesting piece, even though I wasn’t able to read all of it.
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History by Yunte Huang
3.0
This is another book I have to read for my history class, I’m not reading the entire book just sections of it. We’ve been learning about the prejudices towards people and the civil rights movements. Instead of looking at the typical racism that blacks suffered we’re looking at what the Chinese went through.
“The winter of 1865-66 was particularly brutal, with a record forty-four snowstorms that piled snowdrifts more than sixty feet high. Avalanches, a constant threat on the job, buried camps and crews. Not until the following spring would the thawing corpses be found, standing upright, ‘their cold hands griping shoves and picks and their mouths twisted in frozen terror.’”—page 123
Jesus. That’s a horrible image.
All this racism is really uncomfortable.
The problem with this book is, when it’s not talking about the outrageous racism, it gets pretty boring. All the stuff about the actors past is beyond dull.
“The winter of 1865-66 was particularly brutal, with a record forty-four snowstorms that piled snowdrifts more than sixty feet high. Avalanches, a constant threat on the job, buried camps and crews. Not until the following spring would the thawing corpses be found, standing upright, ‘their cold hands griping shoves and picks and their mouths twisted in frozen terror.’”—page 123
Jesus. That’s a horrible image.
All this racism is really uncomfortable.
The problem with this book is, when it’s not talking about the outrageous racism, it gets pretty boring. All the stuff about the actors past is beyond dull.
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
5.0
While this is a very good book, it did have a lot of elements I didn’t like, the incest plot line, the instalove, the villain characters aren’t very sympathetic or complex and sometimes the main characters annoyed me. I feel like this is the type of series that’ll get better when the author works out the kinks and fleshes out the world. It did have a lot of really good parts, the world was the most interesting.
I also love see all the characters react to certain situations like at the beginning when Tomas dies. Everyone has a reaction to it depending on where you come from. Rhodes is very good at making the three kingdoms very different and unique but not painting one as the soul bad guy or good guy. There are people in there.
**spoilers**
What a hell of a prolog.
Theon is really cute.
I agree with Theon, Cleo, if you’re a princess you shouldn’t just drink anything from any random stranger.
Aron is a dick. Oh and he actually is a bastard.
Whelp Tomas is dead, this book could be renamed “Escalating Quickly: A Novel”.
There’s a Magnus in this book!
Limeros sounds boring as fuck.
First a character named Magnus, now a character named Tobias. Weird.
I know that Lucia is adopted but…Magnus being in love with his sister is still so wrong.
I noticed that each kingdom have a little symbol that looks like first letter of their name. Auranos has a bird that looks like an A. Limeros has a snake that looks like a L. Then Paelsia has a P that looks like a sword.
Cleo is totally friendzoning Nic…They’re really cute together. They need to stop being mean to Theon, though. I love him. Please don’t make a love triangle out of Nic, Theon and Cleo.
I like Brion.
*sighs* I thought Aron was going to be complex but he just seems to be an asshole.
So Aron and Cleo had sex and that’s the big secret.
Everyone has fucking secrets.
I really like going back and forth between the kingdoms, to see their different takes on Tomas’s death and their reactions. Their different cultures and ideals. They’re pretty complex.
I was just thinking about how annoying Tobias was but then the Chief of Paelsia said King had to make a blood sacrifice. I knew he was dead man.
The best way to survive a Morgan Rhodes book is to wear protection on your neck.
Magnus’s dad, reminds me of the King in Throne of Glass.
EMILIA WAS IN LOVE WITH THEON’S FATHER. MY GOD.
Why in most fantasy books, doctors are called “healers”.
“She let out the breath she hadn’t realize she’d been holding as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs.”—page 148
Goddammit Rhodes.
All this talk of wine and grapes, makes me really want some grapes.
I like Nic…but Theon and Cleo are cuter.
Magnus is exactly like City of Ashes Jace. He’s a broody, kind of a dick, is in love with his sister and has a crazy, evil father. He also thinks he’s a monster.
“The king would kill him if he failed. And if something happened to Cleo…he’d want to die. The thought of her bright eyes extinguished, her light-hearted laugh silenced…he broke into a cold sweat and had to lean his forehead against the marble wall of the hallway.
I’m falling in love with her.”—page 186
That was pretty quick Theon.
I’m gonna guess that Alexius’s sister is the banished watcher.
Finally Magnus finds out the truth.
Shit is continuing to get real, Lucia just killed Sabina.
I’m so conflicted on who I’m rooting for between Jonas and Cleo.
“Unconscious, she didn’t seem nearly the cold, manipulative, rich bitch he’d fully decided she was.”—page 258
Oooooo.
While I’m glad Theon and Cleo are getting together, I love guard characters, but…it all seems a little too fast.
Magnus, Cleo and Theon meeting!
MAGNUS KILLED THEON! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!
Oy Magnus and Lucia…
MAGNUS STANDING UP TO HIS DAD! FUCK YEAH! But now Magnus is going to be a dick.
For some reason I really like Queen Althea.
No shit Jonas, of course the king of Limeros is going to backstab you.
A battle already? Damn. This book doesn’t feel like a first book in the series.
That poor 11 year old boy named Leo. RIP.
SO YOU’RE FUCKING TELL ME THAT CLEO COULD HAVE SAVE THEON AND EMILIA BUT THE WATCHER DIDN’T TELL CLEO TO OPEN THE ENEVLOPE AS SON AS FUCKING POSSIBLE. THIS IS BULLSHIT! I’M SO ANGRY! Morgan Rhodes is Satan.
Oh no! Magnus! Glad Lucia healed them, I hope they stopped fighting, soon.
Goddammit Aron. You’re a pathetic asshole.
“She ignored him and forced herself to keep her expression neutral. ‘Prince Magnus…’
‘Yes, Princess Cleiona?’
‘I want you to give your father a message from me.’
‘You can certainly deliver it yourself, but all right. What is it?’
‘Tell him that his song failed again.’”—page 383
BAM!
NO NOT THE KING! GODDAMMIT RHODES! God, poor Cleo.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Alexius you can’t kill Lucia.
Wow, I’m so shocked a guy who’s called the “King of Blood” is evil and was going to kill the Chief.
Time for Jonas and Cleo to team up!
GODDAMMIT MAGNUS! I need the next book.
I also love see all the characters react to certain situations like at the beginning when Tomas dies. Everyone has a reaction to it depending on where you come from. Rhodes is very good at making the three kingdoms very different and unique but not painting one as the soul bad guy or good guy. There are people in there.
**spoilers**
What a hell of a prolog.
Theon is really cute.
I agree with Theon, Cleo, if you’re a princess you shouldn’t just drink anything from any random stranger.
Aron is a dick. Oh and he actually is a bastard.
Whelp Tomas is dead, this book could be renamed “Escalating Quickly: A Novel”.
There’s a Magnus in this book!
Limeros sounds boring as fuck.
First a character named Magnus, now a character named Tobias. Weird.
I know that Lucia is adopted but…Magnus being in love with his sister is still so wrong.
I noticed that each kingdom have a little symbol that looks like first letter of their name. Auranos has a bird that looks like an A. Limeros has a snake that looks like a L. Then Paelsia has a P that looks like a sword.
Cleo is totally friendzoning Nic…They’re really cute together. They need to stop being mean to Theon, though. I love him. Please don’t make a love triangle out of Nic, Theon and Cleo.
I like Brion.
*sighs* I thought Aron was going to be complex but he just seems to be an asshole.
So Aron and Cleo had sex and that’s the big secret.
Everyone has fucking secrets.
I really like going back and forth between the kingdoms, to see their different takes on Tomas’s death and their reactions. Their different cultures and ideals. They’re pretty complex.
I was just thinking about how annoying Tobias was but then the Chief of Paelsia said King had to make a blood sacrifice. I knew he was dead man.
The best way to survive a Morgan Rhodes book is to wear protection on your neck.
Magnus’s dad, reminds me of the King in Throne of Glass.
EMILIA WAS IN LOVE WITH THEON’S FATHER. MY GOD.
Why in most fantasy books, doctors are called “healers”.
“She let out the breath she hadn’t realize she’d been holding as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs.”—page 148
Goddammit Rhodes.
All this talk of wine and grapes, makes me really want some grapes.
I like Nic…but Theon and Cleo are cuter.
Magnus is exactly like City of Ashes Jace. He’s a broody, kind of a dick, is in love with his sister and has a crazy, evil father. He also thinks he’s a monster.
“The king would kill him if he failed. And if something happened to Cleo…he’d want to die. The thought of her bright eyes extinguished, her light-hearted laugh silenced…he broke into a cold sweat and had to lean his forehead against the marble wall of the hallway.
I’m falling in love with her.”—page 186
That was pretty quick Theon.
I’m gonna guess that Alexius’s sister is the banished watcher.
Finally Magnus finds out the truth.
Shit is continuing to get real, Lucia just killed Sabina.
I’m so conflicted on who I’m rooting for between Jonas and Cleo.
“Unconscious, she didn’t seem nearly the cold, manipulative, rich bitch he’d fully decided she was.”—page 258
Oooooo.
While I’m glad Theon and Cleo are getting together, I love guard characters, but…it all seems a little too fast.
Magnus, Cleo and Theon meeting!
MAGNUS KILLED THEON! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!
Oy Magnus and Lucia…
MAGNUS STANDING UP TO HIS DAD! FUCK YEAH! But now Magnus is going to be a dick.
For some reason I really like Queen Althea.
No shit Jonas, of course the king of Limeros is going to backstab you.
A battle already? Damn. This book doesn’t feel like a first book in the series.
That poor 11 year old boy named Leo. RIP.
SO YOU’RE FUCKING TELL ME THAT CLEO COULD HAVE SAVE THEON AND EMILIA BUT THE WATCHER DIDN’T TELL CLEO TO OPEN THE ENEVLOPE AS SON AS FUCKING POSSIBLE. THIS IS BULLSHIT! I’M SO ANGRY! Morgan Rhodes is Satan.
Oh no! Magnus! Glad Lucia healed them, I hope they stopped fighting, soon.
Goddammit Aron. You’re a pathetic asshole.
“She ignored him and forced herself to keep her expression neutral. ‘Prince Magnus…’
‘Yes, Princess Cleiona?’
‘I want you to give your father a message from me.’
‘You can certainly deliver it yourself, but all right. What is it?’
‘Tell him that his song failed again.’”—page 383
BAM!
NO NOT THE KING! GODDAMMIT RHODES! God, poor Cleo.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Alexius you can’t kill Lucia.
Wow, I’m so shocked a guy who’s called the “King of Blood” is evil and was going to kill the Chief.
Time for Jonas and Cleo to team up!
GODDAMMIT MAGNUS! I need the next book.