The Queen’s Army (The Lunar Chronicles 1.5) By Marissa Meyer

Ooooh, a look at something only briefly mentioned in Cinder. 😮 Interesting, Interesting!

The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder By Marissa Meyer

Wasn’t sure I’d like this story when I picked it up, seeing as I never read the original fairy-tales and grew up on Disney Versions, but it turned out pretty awesome!

I got some ideas of how the rest of the series might be linked, from the hints dropped here, but I’ll have to wait and find out won’t I? Time for the next book!

The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass By Jim Butcher

Book Two can’t come soon enough! Nnngh!! X.x Butcher, whyyyyyyyyy x.x;;

Following the ‘multiple Characters’ type of thing from his other series ‘Codex Alera’, There’s no lack of people to follow, from all sides of the story.

This is one of the biggest ‘First Books’ I’ve read in a while, so it was a bit intimidating to pick up, but ooh, so good to read. I flew threw the pages relatively quickly for this size of a book, and that’s counting lapses where I didn’t read at all for a few days or read very little. 😮

I need book two now. Please, Butcher, PLEASE send book two, I beg you. T-T

On the Bridge (The Infernal Devices 0.5) By Cassandra Clare

Too short! Will and Jem have always seemed to have an interesting relationship in the books, and the subject of their chat was intriguing! i wish I knew the answer. 😮

The Little Android (The Lunar Chronicles 0.6) by Marissa Meyer

Oh man. D: The feels. T-T

This one starts off with a little Mechanic Robot, and quickly tugs at the heartstrings. I just… The feels, man. D: so many.

Glitches (The Lunar Chronicles 0.5) By Marissa Meyer

Having never read Cinder, I can’t say I have much understanding of the world this short story gives a glimpse of. It fills in the usual beginnings for a retelling pretty well. All the key elements were there. I’ll just have to see where it goes from here!

MockingJay By Suzanne Collins

Oh… My…Gods…

If Catching Fire heated things up, MockingJay just… Fire broke out, big time.

Between the Rebels, the Capitol, the ‘Games’ being played on all sides… I just… there are no words for how amazing this book is. No words.

Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins

Oh my Gods o.o

Catching Fire’s certainly heated up things by a landslide! Katiss, Peeta, Haymitch! I can’t believe what’s going on o.o it’s just all so unexpected. (or maybe I just completely failed at catching the hints XD )

Again a wonderful balance between Action and ‘Romance’, the bit of it there is. but I could never have guessed what happened to District 12! Oooh, the trouble of avoiding spoilers with this one!

I need to go read MockingJay, right now. I gotta know what happens! :o!

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Oooooh my Gods.

This book was amazing! I don’t like a lot of love stories or Romances due to the characters getting all love-stupid, or completely changing their core, or too much information on what the lovers do together (Waaay too much info more often then not x.x ) but Hunger Games had NONE OF IT! HAHA!

I don’t mind Love stories as long as the Love Story is the SIDE PLOT and doesn’t derail the main plot or the characters personality, and Hunger Games hit the nail on the head with the perfect blend of side-story romance, Main-plot action and keeping the characters (Mainly Katness) true to their core while allowing them to grow or struggle with the whole romance thing. Thank You, Suzanne Collins!

It’s a bit eerie to think this takes place in some futuristic Ruins of North America. A lot of the time it passed off as not that far in the future, until the Hunger Games begin at least. Still an awesome story and I can’t wait to read the next book. 😀

The Scribe By Antonio Garrido

I got this book from a Goodreads Firstreads giveaway some time ago.

I really wish I could give this book more then 2 stars, but sadly, I can’t.

The overall plot was good, some parts of the action were good, most of the time I was completely absorbed into the story!

But then I’d get jarred out of it again.

The Latin adds to the setting, but if you can’t read it or understand it (like I can’t), then it’s hard to understand what’s being said, especially if there’s no hint of what the translation is. This would have been fine if there had been a little translation cliff-note, or a section in the back with the sentences written out in English. Instead, I had to leave the story, open google translate, and try to make sense of it. Hard to do when the translation site couldn’t translate one word out of the lot, leaving it in Latin.

Another thing that pulled me out of the story was how, sometimes, the Main Female character could be SO Mary-Sue like. If your not familiar with this Term, it means the Character could be replaced with anyone else, fitting the setting or not, and no one would know the difference. Mary-Sues are the Perfect Character without flaw. Sometimes the Main Female Character in this story came off very much like a Mary-Sue type. Other times, she came off as just an idiot. Not wanting to add spoilers, it’s hard to give a solid example of such parts of the story. She also sometimes completely changed her core personality at random, making her very hard to connect to.

There were also redundancies, where a character would do something, take a moment to speak or do something else a few feet away, and then run and do the exact same action again, as if the first time never happened. Or things would be mentioned Suddenly and without explanation.

In the case of things being suddenly brought up with out explanation, I understand wanting the reader to learn as they go along with the Main character, but there was at least one instance where this sort of thing just didn’t work, and it made me stop reading to look back at the previous few chapters searching to see if I had missed a previous mention of the issue that had been mentioned.

Another thing adding to the low score was situations presented in the book. There’s a reason I don’t read some kinds of books, and when I read the blurb for this one and entered the contest, there was no mention that these situations would go INTO DETAIL as they happened. I can forgive a book when they skim over things when they happen, but when the whole plot is sent sideways because of it, then I lose serious interest in even continuing the story.

Due to all of that, despite the actually PURE GOLD of the other parts of the book (the parts I wish the ENTIRE story was written with), I can’t validate even giving this story a better score. In this case, the bad far outweighs the good.