Sunday, June 21, 2015

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas - Spoiler free entry

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a new book in a new triology by Sarah J. Maas. Also, Sarah herself shortens it to "Acotar" when she speaks about the book, so I'm going to do that aswell in this entry, since "A court of Thorns and Roses" takes forever to say/type. 

Here is what it says in the description of the book:

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

This entry is going to be spoiler free (as it says in the title) so I'm just going to tell you what I thought of the book in general, about the writing, character development, etcetera. Without spoiling what happens in the book. 

First of all I have to say that I loved this book very very much. And if you've read the Thrones of Glass series you're probably thinking that Sarah could not possibly have made a better book/series than that. But the thing is that you cannot really compare the different series. So far I love them equally much. Both of them are High fantasy, of course, so maybe you could compare the genres of high fantasy; which one you love the most Ad if you cannot choose between the worlds you could choose in which of the books you love the characters the most, etcetera. 

Acotar is in a world where there are humans and there are faeries. Those are the two ruling kinds. Then of course there are monsters and other scary creatures lurking in the forests. In Throne of Glass there are people and monsters and witches and lots of other speecies. And here you could choose which one you love the most. But the reason I don't know which book/series is better is because I can't choose between these to worlds. They are both so freaking awesome in their own way. 

Many authors, when they write different book series, have a tendency to make the characters similar to each other. For example Cassandra Clare. Clary Fray (or whatever you want to call her) from TMI and Tessa Gray from TID are very alike in many ways, an also Will Herondale from TID and Jace (whatever last name you prefer) from TMI are very very much alike. But in acotar and Throne of Glass i have to say that the characters are entirely their own. Of course their could be some similarities between some characters, but no one is a rip off of anyone and if you compare them you cant really say that that person from acotar is like that person from Throne of Glass. If you compare them you are more likely to say "that person from acotar is a little like that person from Throne of Glass when it comes to this, but also a little like this person when it comes to that". So yeah, I think you get it; the characters are original and nobody is perfect. Everyone has flaws, as in reality. And that is another thing I love about Sarah J. Maas's writing. That all the character's have flaws, character development and a real personality. 

As for the plot of the book I really enjoyed it! just the whole idea of it; the world; the people; everyone's purposes in the book; the magic; the back stories; everything! And also the romance was borderline new adult and not YA, so it's a bit more erotic than the Throne of Glass series. And it's just fantastic, I don't know what else to say. 

I'd give the book 9/10 points. I don't actually know why I didn't give it a 10/10 but I just have this feeling that I only could give it a 9. Maybe because I'll need the 10 for the next two books in the series, I don't really know. But anyways, I highly recommend the book to any book lover, or fantasy lover or Throne of Glass lover. Just anyone who has ever given it a thought to start reading the book or heard about. You just have to read it!

~ Filippa ~






Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa - A short book review

Hi guys it's Filippa. This morning I finished The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa; the sequel to The Immortal Rules.I suggest that you do NOT read this entry if you haven't read the first book, although there won't be spoilers so if you haven't read The Eternity Cure yet you're cool to go. 

So the book is basically about when Allison is searching for her old master Kanin, who has been captured and tortured by a vampire called Sarren. Since Allison is Kanin's daughter she can feel where he is because of the blood bond between them. Also as Kanin gets more tortured he gets weaker, which means that the bond is getting weaker. 

On her search for Kanin she meets an old enemy, Jackal, who is also her blood brother, and surprisingly, he is willing to help her search for Kanin. 

So yeah, that is the plot of the book. And Oh My Freaking God I think I'm in love. For real though, the book was amazing. It's so good I freaking cried when I finished it this morning because I do not have the third part (I need it now!). The writing is really good and the character's are amazing. Everyone has their own flaws, nobody's perfect, and there are character development that you can see if you compare the character's to how they were in the beginning of the first book. 
     Does the book have any flaws? Many actually. But I think that the story is so good that I just kind of look past the flaws. And I've read the book in Swedish so the translation may have something to do with many of the flaws of the book. But as I mentioned; I don't really care about those flaws because I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the storyline and where it's heading. I am kind of obsessed with vampires so that could also be a factor to my love for the book. 

Anyways, I think the second book was better that the first one, so if you've read the first one but not this one I highly recommend that you read it. There are a few plottwists (which are amazing) and it's really dramatic at some points. But the best of all; The ending. The End of the books seriously made me scream and cry and jump up and down. I'm still not able to start reading Paper Towns because I'm hyping over the ending of this book. 

I would give the book 8/10 points in rating, and i recommend it to anyone who has only read the first book. Because I promise you; The Eternity Cure is better than The Immortal Rules. So if you liked the first book you are going to love the second one! 

~ Filippa ~




Sunday, May 3, 2015

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas - Book Review (Spoiler warning!)

This entry is going to be about my opinions of Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas. It's the third book in the throne of Glass series, and if you have not read the book I first of all reccomend you to do that, and second of all I suggest that you don't read this entry since there are going to be spoilers from the entire book in it. So here we go I guess: The second book ended with that Celaena was shipped of to Wendlyn, on a mission from the King of Adarlan, as his champion. Before she boarded the ship she whispered a date to Chaol. He later checked it up and realized that it was the day the king and queen of Terassen had been assassinated, and when the princess, Aelin, had disappeared. So he figured out that Celaena was the lost princess. 
Heir of Fire is all about when Celaena, or Aelin, is in Wendlyn, trying to get into Doranelle in order to get answers from the Fae queen Maeve about the Wyrdkeys, that the king of Adarlan is using in order to control his kingdom. She meets some new characters in Wendlyn, among them a fae man called Rowan who will be a pretty important character in the book, and also a guy called Luca and an old man called Emrys. 

The chapters in this beautifully, amazingly perfect book are divided between Celaena and the things happening in Wendlyn, Dorian and Chaol back in Adarlan, but also a whole new character. Her name is Manon Blackbeak and she's the heir of the blackbeak witch clan. She and all the other witches in her clan and two other clans (yellowlegs and blueblood) are going to train wyverns (a dragon specie) on the King's order. To be honest, I didn't really understand that part of the book. I think it was because the king wanted some sort of army of dragons, so in exchange of working for him they got their very own wyverns. 

Anyways, this book was so freaking great that I haven't finished this book review until now (about three weeks after I finished it) because I've had the worst book slump after that. It was so good that I just wanted more of the series, but knowing that the forth book won't be released until september put me in a state where I couldn't read any other book or write this review. So for these three weeks I've been trying really hard to start reading again but i've only accomplished to read about 150 pages in Cress and about 20 pages in The Immortal Rules (yes I'm reading two books at the same time, although I don't usually do that). 

But back to this stunningly beautiful book! If you haven't started to read the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas you have to! It's one of the best series ever! YOU HAVE TO READ IT! 

I know that I've been hyping a bit over the first two books so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm hyping over this book as well. I mean; the character's are amazing, nobody's perfect and everyone has a story, and the world and the whole idea of the book series is super duper mega great, and the relationships between everyone are special from person to person, from one relation to another. And especially the whole idea around how Celaena is the lost princess. I did not see that coming until I accidently read the ending of Crown of Midnight when I had about 200 pages left of it... But still. I wouldn't have suspected it until the ending otherwise. 
     The character developments through the books are fantastic too. No one is becoming a flawless person in one second, everyone is developing in their own way in their own pace. 

Another reason for my love to these books is the plottwists and surprises and unexpected scenarios. Like for example Dorian's magic. I did not see that coming, why does he have magic? And as I've mentioned before the huge plottwist where Celaena is the lost princess of Terassen. 
     But not only the bigger things, also the little details that I wasn't expecting. Like when Sorsha was beheaded; I literally screamed and cried, because I really shipped her and Dorian, but then she just died... Just like that... And even though this was a horrible thing I still love when I get little unexpected surprises like that. 

This book was sooooo sooooo soooo good that I cannot give it anything lower than 9.5/10. I would give it a 10/10, but the reason I'm not doing that is because I had a hard time getting into the book. Not becasue it was slow or anything, but becaseu I had so much to do in school so it just felt as if it was slow when I could only read about two pages at a time and then I had to do something else. But after about 100 pages I really got into it and read constantly for a few days (I'm a pretty slow reader so yes; it took a few days). 

I recommend this book to anyone who is into high fantasy, or if you like urban fantasy or some other kind of fantasy and want to try high fantasy. The Throne of Glass series is seriously the best high fantasy series that I know of! 

~ Filippa ~



Monday, April 13, 2015

Book Haul ~Emma~


I'm sorry for being extremely awkward in this, and for the fact that I filmed this like a month ago and I still haven't uploaded it... Therefore some things are different, such as the fact that I've read Shatter Me now etc. Anyway despite all of this, I hope you enjoy it!
PS. That's my morning face, and for some reason I chose not to wear any eye makeup... I regret that a lot now. So yeah, I usually look better ;)






~ Emma ~


Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Filippa's TBR list

Hello peepz! Today I'm going to put my TBR list of 2015 out on the blog, just like Emma did yesterday. Although, I'm going to write down the books I have read so far this year, too, but I'll mark them as strikethrough. I'm re-reading some books and there will be a "(R)" at them. 
     So here we go:

  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone by J.K Rowling (R)
  3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling (R) 
  4. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling (R)
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling (R) 
  6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling (R)
  7. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K Rowling (R)
  8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling (R)
  9. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
  10. The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
  11. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
  12. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
  13. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
  14. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
  15. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
  16. Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick
  17. Cress by Marissa Meyer
  18. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  19. Paper Towns by John Green
  20. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  21. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
  22. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 
  23. Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  24. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
  25. The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
  26. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
  27. Silent Echo by Elisa Freilich
  28. Det Är Så Logiskt Alla Fattar Utom Du by Lisa Bjärbo (it's a swedish book, and the title basically means It's So Logical Everyone Gets It Except For You)
  29. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
  30. Frostbite by Richelle Mead
  31. Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
  32. Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
  33. Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
  34. Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
  35. The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa (R) 
  36. The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
  37. The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings 
  38. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
  39. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
  40. The Kill Order by James Dashner
  41. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
  42. Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
  43. With Hitler to the End by Heinz Linge
  44. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
  45. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
  46. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas 
  47. The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
  48. Emma by Jane Austen
  49. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner 
  50. This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Yeah... It's a long list since I'm a pretty slow reader, but whatever. If there are some books that I don't read this year I'll just read them in 2016. I hope you recognize most of the books. If not, then you should google them or go to a library or book store to see if it's something for you. 

~ Filippa ~



Monday, March 30, 2015

Shatter Me Book Review- Spoiler warning!

Emma here! I finished Shatter me a couple of days ago, and now it's time for a review of it! Shatter me was by far one of the best books I have ever read. and I mean seriously. It was so well written, composed and unique in it's way. There were beautiful metaphors and sentences worth to quote on every single page. So let's get into the story.

Shatter me is a about a girl named Juliette. She's 17 years old, and has suffered from a curse since the day she was born. Her touch is lethal. 264 days she's been held captive in a dark cell, all alone. Until one day, when she gets a new cellmate. Adam is gorgeous, and he treats her like she's human, and not a monster. But is he really who he claims to be? All her life Juliette has longed for someone to love her, but can someone love a person they cannot touch? The world that Juliette lives in is destroyed. There's not much food left, and people die on the streets everyday. The climate is unstable, and the government has been taken over by The Reestablishment. They came with promises to provide everyone with homes and food, but it runs out that the new government is corrupt. So Juliette is constantly torn between wanting to get out of her cell, and afraid of what she might find outside. Does she really want to see the world out there? Or is it finally better in her cell? 

Anyway, one day Juliette and Adam gets company. Guards invade their cell, and they get taken somewhere. Juliette then wakes up in a big mansion, which is owned by a guy named Warner. He is only 19, so quite young, but he has so much power that he seems older. But despite Warner's handsome appearance and striking blue eyes, there's something about him that's... off. Juliette soon finds out that he's a cold blooded murderer, and he wants her to be his torturing devise against the opposers to The Reestablishment. But the worst part is that Adam works for him. Adam, who Juliette fell in love with the second she saw him. While Warner tries to convince Juliette in the most cruel ways that she too is a murderer and a weapon, Adam is appointed the task of watching over her. It turns out that he's only there for her, and Juliette also finds out that he can touch her. Someone in the world can finally touch her. 
One slight problem is that Warner seems to have formed an obsession with Juliette. He's with her at all times, constantly being to be seductive and claiming her as his own. Since there are cameras in Juliette's Room, she and Adam have to keep their relationship secret. 

Now, I don't want to spoil everything for you. I thought that this books was exciting all the time, except for in the beginning, when it was quite slow to get into. I don't have many things to complain about, but there are a few. Firstly, everything was quite obvious. I mean I knew right from the start that Juliette and Adam would fall in love with each other. I also knew that he must've been a traitor, because it seemed to good to be true that he was there with her in her cell. Then, it was obvious that Warner would get obsessed with Juliette by the way he was acting from the first time he met her. These things that were meant as cliffhangers weren't very surprising. But that is just a minor fault. 
The other one was that it was quite difficultly written as some times. I love that it's written from Juliette's perspective, and it's not surprising that she's on the brink of madness in the beginning of the book. But there are sentences that she thinks in her mind, but it's not that obvious that she's thinking them, and some sentences are crossed over or end without a punctuation. This could be considered as a uniqueness and beauty of the book, which I thought too in the beginning. However, after a while it only got irritating as I was reading. 


But these negative things are nothing compared to the good things about the book. There was so much feeling in it that I had to put down the book occasionally to breathe, almost as if Tahereh poured her soul into it. I don't know if the author herself has experienced the kind of loneliness that Juliette does, but it certainly seems like it. I got so incredibly sad at times when Juliette was lonely and doubted herself, but oh so happy when she and Adam had cute moments. Oh by the way, there were reaaaaaalllllyyy hot moments in this book, I can tell you ;) I was like whhhoooaaa calm down peeps. While were talking about this; OH MY DEAR GOD ADAM. Adam, Adam, Adam. He's just perfect in such an imperfect way, you know? He's got faults, but also amazing traits and he is described as completely gorgeous too. I need to read the rest of the trilogy now, but I haven't bought the two books remaining yet. They're called Unravel Me and Ignite Me, and then there's a sequel series called Destroy Me (Written from Warner's point of view) and Fracture Me (From Adam's point of view) which I need to read to. 

I highly recommend this books, and I'd give it a 9/10, because of the same reason as Filippa. I'm saving my ten for something amazing, even more amazing than this book. But seriously, READ IT! Especially you Filippa, 'cause I need someone to fangirl with. Now. 

~ Emma ~




Emma's TBR List!


Hi, Emma here. I'm currently writing a review for Shatter Me, and I'm sorry it's taking such a long time. It's just that I'm trying to be active on Quotev so I write fanfiction whenever I can these days. But anyway to keep you satisfied while I keep writing on my book review, I thought I'd post my TBR (To be read) list for 2015! I'm already on my eleventh book, so even though I don't post here as often as I should, I still read. Don't you worry ;) By the way, the books aren't written in order, so I'm just randomly picking books I feel like reading whenever I'm done with one. 

Anyway here it is: 

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
  • The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
  • The Death Cure by James Dashner
  • The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis 
  • Paper Towns by John Green
  • The Young World by Chris Weitz
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Currently reading!) 
  • The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
  • What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones 
  • Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
  • A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin 
  • A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin 
  • A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin 
  • LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • LOTR: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • LOTR: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • Branded by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki 
  • Wallflower by Stephen Chbotsky 
  • Anne Frank's Diary by Anne Frank 
  • Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt 
  • Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 
  • The Circle by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Mats Strandberg 
  • Fire by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Mats Strandberg 
  • Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Chosen by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Untamed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
  • Tempted by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Burned by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Awakened by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Destined by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Hidden by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Revealed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Redeemed by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast 
  • Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi 
  • Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi 
  • Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
  • Fracture Me by Tahereh Mafi  
Yes, I do realize that this will be difficult to obtain. I'm a fast reader, but these are many books. But hey, it won't hurt if I'll just have to finish them next year, right? So, here's at least a little look into what books I want to read, and I've heard great things about these books. I'm the kind of person who likes to know what books are really good before I buy them, so I don't waste time on a bad book. If one of you has the time and willpower to count these, let me know! ;) 
~ Emma ~

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare book review - Spoilers alert!

Hi guys, it's Filippa. Last week I ordered Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess, but they haven't come home yet, which really pisses me off. Clockwork Angel ended with a cliffhanger - it wasn't really the worst cliffhanger, but it made me want to read more. But I don't have the rest of the books so instead I've decided to continue the Throne of Glass series and read the third book now (Heir of Fire). 

In this review I won't be describing everything that happens, because I think that you should only read this entry if you have read the book yourself. So if I mention something in the entry and start talking about it you will know what I'm talking about and I won't have to describe it in detail. 

However, Clockwork Angel started off with a prologue that first was about Will and Jem, and how they found a dead girl in an alley, and then about Tessa when she came to the harbor and was expecting Nathaniel, but instead was greeted by the Dark sisters. I think the prologue was really exciting, and I got this very mysterious and feeling when I read it. I knew there was something up with the Dark sisters, and I instantly fell in love with Jem (even though he only said a few words). I know that there are lots of girls who are very into Will, but I just found him a rip-off of Jace from The Mortal Instruments. I don't have any problems with him, I really like him (he's funny and stuff). It's just that he ain't my type.
     Although, Jem is almost exactly my type. I really LOVE him. I don't think that he is very much alike anyone in The Mortal Instruments, he's just himself. The whole idea about his illness/addiction is very exciting, even though it breaks my heart that he is dying. 
     Tessa is a character that also felt like a rip-off, but of Clary from TMI. I didn't particularly like Clary in The Mortal Instruments, and I didn't really like Tessa either. For example when Jem and Will were going to the Dark sisters to see if Mrs Black was alive again Tessa kept nagging about how she felt obligated to come with them. You don't have to play hero all the time like every other main character in every other book in the world; it's annoying. She had some moments where I thought of her as a reasonable girl, but as soon as something happened she just had to be a part of it, even though she's not skilled or trained or anything. She should have understood that she would only be a burden if she joined them when they were going to fight. 
     In those cases I liked Jessamine more. Because she didn't want to fight, and if they really would have needed her they would have asked for her help. Like when those clockwork things attacked the institute she helped them, since she was the only shadowhunter there and she knew that they needed her. She was a bit annoying with everything about not liking the Nephilim, but I have a feeling that her character will develop and she will become as awesome as Isabelle from TMI. I just think that she will feel obligated to help the Nephilim at some point, and when she fights she will realize that she belongs with them. 

As I've said before (in my City of Heavenly Fire book review) I love Cassandra Clare's writing, her ideas, and just her books in general. But however there are a couple of things that annoys me; just little details. As for an example, the kissing seen in the attic with Will and Tessa. They are just sitting there on the floor, having a moment. I would have enjoyed the book more if Cassandra had made me wait even longer for their kiss, if she would have prolonged it I would have been even more excited and jumpy when I read it. And since the book is supposed to be in the 1800's I think it felt a bit too rushed that they kissed as early as in that scene. The fact that it apparently went a bit fierce when they kissed also made me question Cassandra Clare once more. 
     Since I'm already on the subject of things I didn't like about the book I have another thing to say. In the entire book, it felt like Cassandra Clare couldn't really find a way to write it as if it took place in the 1800's. It felt as if she had made a great idea for a book series and then thought that it would be fun to write it in the 1800's. So every now and then in the book there were things that explained that it obviously was in 1878. Sometimes there were thoughts from Tessa that went a little like this: "Ladies shouldn't do that, they are only supposed to be home and take care of the house and the children, what an unladylike thing to do" or "He shouldn't do that, it's not supposed to be like that" etcetera. It's as if Cassandra Clare was trying to much to make it seem like 1878. If someone pics up a book that takes place in 1878 it's expected that the character's may act differently, so you don't have to be like "oops, don't forget this is 1878" because I already know it!

Now that I've finished hating on the things I didn't like, here comes the things I really liked: 
JEM! But you already know that, so moving on. Just in general I really liked the whole plot line. The idea of these clockwork things and the Magister, and how Tessa's a shape-changer, Jem's background story of the demon who killed his parents and made him addicted to that poison, just everything. 
     I love love love plot twists, so I almost screamed when I read and realized that it was Mortmain who was the Magister, and not de Quincey. And Nathaniel... Oh my God Nathaniel, I did not see that coming. I seriously thought that he was a good guy and just was a fool who happened to get tangled into a big mess along with the Magister. I would never have guessed that he was a traitor and worked for Mortmain. It was one of the best plot twists ever, in history. Cassandra Clare, your books are my life! 
     I also loved all the little details in the story that didn't have to be there for the story to go on, but that made it easier to understand some thing and still made sense. Like when Tessa and Jessamine were in the park and Jessamine defended them with her parasol.That was when her parasol was introduced for the first time and it also made it clear that Jessamine still could fight if she had to. Just all those little details made me like the book even more. 

I would give this book a 7/10. If it wasn't for how she tried to make everything seem as if it was the 1800's with all her little explanations that annoyed me, I'd probably have given it 8/10 instead, but it is as it is. And of course I recommend the book to all TMI lovers out there, or just if your into urban fantasy. 

~ Filippa ~ 




Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Crown of Midnight Book Review

Hello to all of you book lovers out there! I am glad to inform you that I finally finished Crown of Midnight, the second book in the Throne of Glass series (in case you somehow didn't know). The fact that it is my sister who owns the book series makes me really sad, because I just want to take them and put them in my own bookshelf. Sometime in the future I guess I will buy them on my own. 

Crown of Midnight basically starts off a little while after Throne of Glass ended. It starts with Celaena sneaking around somewhere, you don't really know. She sneaks inside a bedroom and is about to kill a person when he wakes up and she lifts her blade. I don't have the book anywhere near me right now so I can't double check, but I think that that was the prologue, and it ended when she raised her blade and was about to kill him. I think this prologue was really well written in a mysterious way. You didn't really know where she was, but you understood that she was on a mission from the king - since she became his Champion in the end of the first book. The title Champion was just another name for the King's Assassin. So she was  on a mission to kill somebody, on the King's order. 

Even though Celaena's an assassin I really liked it how Sarah J. Maas still made Celaena a girl with a conscious. Because out of all the people the King had ordered her to kill she hadn't murdered a single one of them. When she had found the person she was supposed to kill she had given them a choice; either she would kill them, or they would fake their own deaths, leave this city, travel far away and never use their true name ever again. In order to save their own lives all of them had faked their own deaths and escaped the cities they lived in and travelled far away from there - as Celaena had commanded. 

But no one knew about this; she couldn't tell anyone. If the King found out that she wasn't doing her job he would kill Chaol, then Nehemia, and then Nehemia's entire family. So instead Celaena collected body parts from outside a place where they threw corpses (from some healing place I think it was) and took heads from people that looked as similar as possible to the people she was supposed to kill. Then she brought them with her to show the king so he would believe that she had killed them. 

Also there was a group of rebels who the King suspected were going to try to make an uprising. So he ordered Celaena to kill them and gave her a month to do so. But Celaena happened to know one of the persons she was supposed to kill, so she gave him the month to fake his own death and leave, but also to give her information about the group of rebels, so she would know what she was dealing with - and if the King was right about the group, or if it was just some rumor. 

All of this happening just made me want to read more and more. Because there wasn't only the problems with killing people. At the same time Elena had given Celaena missions in the castle, other things were happening; a riddle had to be solved in order to find out how the King had conquered so many parts of Erilea in such short time, and why all the magic had disappeared as that happened. 

And also, in Throne of Glass, Dorian and Celaena ended things romantically, and in this book there is also a lot of drama around that. Things like "Do they still love each other" and "Will Celaena fall for someone else" or "Will they both move on", and it's just really fun to read. 

I seriously cannot describe my feelings for this book. I won't tell anything more about the plot line, because this is a review WITHOUT SPOILERS from this book. Although you kind of have to have read the first book to understand anything in this entry... The things above are only a little more detailed than what the description on the book tells, so the few things I've "spoiled" aren't exactly real spoilers. 

But however, this book was so amazing, better than the first one. And from what I've heard from my sister, the third book is going to be even better! Was there anything I didn't like about the book? No, actually not. I loved everything, there was nothing that disturbed me or made me not want to read the book. The character's weren't perfect either, and that I loved. 
     Everything in this book was filled with mystery. There was always more to know, to find out. Both about the characters, and about the plot. Like for example; If you found out one thing, that could lead to another thing that would give the story even more meaning, and then that thing could lead into something even more interesting that would make even more sense. So yeah, this book was pretty amazing, one of the best books I've ever read so far in my life. 

I would give it a 9/10 (I'm saving the 9.5 and the 10 for the next books, since there will be six books in total). But seriously, if you haven't started to read the Throne of Glass series you have to. It's one of the few series that I'm telling you guys that you really have to read. It's just so freaking fantastic! 

~ Filippa ~ 



Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green - Book review (Spoilers alert!)

The Fault In Our Stars. There's so much to say about that book. The plot, the character's, the book cover even. I don't really know where to start, so I'm just going to make a summary of the book. 

It's about a sixteen years old girl called Hazel. She's got cancer in her lungs, and she knows she is going to die from it. The only thing that doctor's can do is help extending her life, and it has worked so far. Hazel usually just sits in her room, reads book, watches movies and TV shows, so her mom just decided that she was depressed, and sent her to a support group for kids with cancer. There she makes a friend, Isaac, who has cancer in the only eye he has left. And one day at support group Isaac brought his friend, Augustus Waters. Hazel and Augustus immediately becomes friends, and they both know that they probably will become more than friends. But Hazel don't want to hurt Augustus, knowing she might die soon, so she calls i off and tells him that they cannot be more than friends. 
     But as friends, they recommend books to each other, and Augustus starts reading An Imperial Affliction, by Peter Van Houten, by Hazel's recommendation. It's a book about a girl with cancer, and the book ends in the middle of a sentence, because she either dies or becomes to sick to continue telling the story. So Hazel and Gus finds Peter Van Houten's assistants e-mail and asks if Peter could by any chance answer their questions. He replies by saying that he cannot write anything down that someone could make into a sequel, but if they ever happen to walk by his house in Amsterdam they are more than welcomed to his home. 
     So after that Augustus decides to use his cancer-wish on a trip to Amsterdam, taking Hazel and her mother with him. When they are in Amsterdam they are having a good time, but when they decide to visit Peter Van Houten he's the rudest man they've ever met and they immediately get out of there, without the answers to their questions. Then they decides to go to Anne Frank's house instead. Although, there's no elevator in Anne Frank's house to they have to take the stairs. However, Hazel manages to take it to the top of Anne Frank's house with some help from Augustus and Van Houten's assistant, who payed for the visit. When they reached the top they kissed, and all the old people around them applauded. 
     On their last day in Amsterdam Augustus tells Hazel that his cancer, which was gone for fourteen months, has come back, and that there is nothing they can do about it except extending his life a little more. But he is going to die, very soon. 

So as they got home Hazel and Isaac (who now is completely blind) holds a pre-funeral for Augustus so that he can attend his own funeral. 
     But then when he really died, at his real funeral, Peter Van Houten is there to tell Hazel something, but she doesn't want to listen to him. She hates him. Although they later find out that Augustus sent a letter to Peter in his last days, which Peter's former assistant sent back to Hazel, so she could see what he wrote his last days. 

And that it basically the whole book. There are many details that I didn't write down in this little summary, but this was the most important parts for the story. 

First of all, I LOVED the book, of all of my heart. I made me laugh and cry and everything in between. I especially loved when they egged Monica's house (not mentioned in the summary) and all of those funny little details. And the circle of virgins, God I loved that part. It was so simple, yet so creative of John Green. 
     The whole book is written from Hazel's perspective and John Green really nailed it when it comes to her thoughts and everything. It just really seemed like I was inside of her head the whole book, and I didn't even notice that it was a guy who had written the book. 
The character's too, were fantastic and so real. Especially Augustus, he was just so funny and was the best romantic ever. 

John Green, I love you!

There wasn't anything I didn't like, actually. Only one thing that maybe was a little weird, and that was that Hazel's mother so quickly agreed on letting her go to Amsterdam. And there also were some other stuff that felt a little rushed, but otherwise there was nothing wrong with the book. 
     And the ending, oh the ending was perfect. I do, Augustus. I do. I died a little on the inside. Or actually, I died A LOT on he inside. I cried for so long after finishing the book. And then I for some reason the decided to watch the movie only about half an hour after I finished it (p.s, I have seen the movie before) and then I cried even more. 

I would give the book a 9/10. And I guess I'm giving it a nine out of ten only because I'm saving my ten for something else (you see what I did there? Hazel saved her 10 for something worse when they asked her in how much pain she was on a scale from one to ten). I recommend the book to anyone who likes realistic book and/or romantic books. Just please read it if you haven't. 

I don't really know what else to say about the book, it was so freaking amazing. So I guess that's it. Okay?
Okay.

~ Filippa ~



Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Book review - Spoilers alert

Throne of Glass is about a girl named Celaena Sardothien, who is an assassin. The most feared in whole Erilea, actually. But she made a fatal mistake; she got caught. As punishment she got put to work in the salt mines, where people rarely survive more than a month. But she did. She survived long enough for the crown prince to find her. And why was he looking for her, you might ask? Because he needed a champion to represent him, in his father's competition. A competition where the winner would serve the kingdom for a couple of years before they earned their freedom.

And as the contest starts, one by one people are eliminated. But also, one by one the contestants are mysteriously and brutally murdered, and Celaena finds out from a long dead ancestor to the royal family, that there is a greater darkness lurking within the castles walls that she must stop, before it kills her. 
Determined to win the contest, and to win her freedom, Celaena fights until the very end, for herself, and the ones she loves. That is, she's growing feelings for the crown prince, and he is getting feeling for her. Although they know that they cannot be together; she's the most famous assassin and he's the crown prince. 
At one point of the book she finds a secret path from her chamber; a door that leads down to many different halls and room and tombs, and even an escape way unguarded, that leads out of the castle. Down there she also finds one of the contestants fetching some sort of demon that's responsible for all the murders that's been. But she doesn't tell anyone, because then they would find out about her secret escape way from her bedroom, which she may need for some other time. 
So instead she just continues to keep a low profile and make it through the competition. When she had finally gotten to the final test, where she was supposed to fight in a combat against Cain (the contestant that had raised the demon) she got poisoned right before the test. The poison made her dizzy and hallucinating and she was about to lose, when suddenly the same spirit that had told her that there was a greater darkness lurking in the castle, removed the poison from her body, and finally she won. 
After the gain, she and prince ends things before it becomes to serious. The whole book ends with her becoming the king's very own champion, and she will serve the kingdom for four years before she's free. 

So that was a summary I made of the book. God that took some time...

What I really liked about this book was all the things that I understood even though it wasn't said directly. Like for example in the beginning when Chaol brought Celaena to the prince you could tell that she was very observant and smart when he was trying to confuse her, since she instead only got to memorize the hallways better. You also found out how sassy and bold she was, and that she always thought one step ahead. 

I also really liked how the triangle drama in the book was. It wasn't like every other drama, because here you barely noticed it. You always knew that the prince and the assassin fancied each other, but what I almost missed was it kind of seemed as if Chaol also fancied Celaena, although he kind of never expressed his feelings in front of anyone. 

I also just in general loved the whole Idea of this world and this story. I love where the storyline is going and how the characters developed through the book. I can pretty much imagine how they will continue to develop in the other books. 

Was there anything I didn't like? No, not really. The whole thing about the book's just amazing, the plot's amazing, the characters were amazingly well thought through and everyone had a purpose. I've never read a book about assassin's before, but I think I will start to read more of that from now on. 
I would give this book a 8.5/10. I know it's kind of low since I've described this book as incredibly fantastic, but my sister told me that the second book is better, and the third even better than that one, so I have to be able to give higher scores for the sequels. And of course I'm really looking forward to read the sequels, but I took a little break to read the Fault in our Stars (I know, I haven't read that book yet, I'm a terrible person, I even watched the movie without reading the book). But after TFIOS I will read the second book in this series. 
I would totally recommend this book to anyone who likes fantasy. If you're not into the least bit of fantasy, then don't read it, because the whole world is made up, and the names and country's may have some weird names, etc. But if you like fantasy I don't think it really matters how old you are. It is a YA book, but really, I believe you could read it as long as you're at least twelve or something. 

~ Filippa ~  


To Kill A Mockingbird Book Review- Spoiler Warning

Hi guys, It's Emma. Finally, it feels like it's been forever since I posted here! You see I've only been reading books for school, and other books that I didn't think you all would enjoy reviews of. I finished HP and The Prisoner of Azkaban but I assumed that most of you must've already read it or seen the movie. I also read City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare, but Filippa had already posted a review of that so... Here I am again at least!

The book I'm going to review this time is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. You might have heard of it, it's an American classic. Students read it in School, but I thought I'd give it a try. My grandmother actually gave it to me as a birthday gift. Should I film a haul of all the books I got? Haha I'll probably do it anyways, but it would be nice to know what y'all think.
Anyway, here we go. To Kill A Mockingbird was published 1960, and takes place in Southern Alabama, in a little town called Maycomb during the 1930's. The main character is a girl called Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and in the beginning she is only six years old. Her life revolves around her brother and father, Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Atticus Finch.
If I should use modern language I would say that Scout is a tomboy, who hates the idea of being a little girl. Personally I think that's because she has grown up with only males, except their cook who's a woman. In the beginning of the book, Jem always tells Scout that she should stop being a "little girl" when she's scared. Because of this it's not surprising that she's a tomboy.

The book starts with the summer when Scout and Jem meet Dill. He's a boy from Mississippi who happens to stumble upon them one day. They start playing together as children do, and become great friends. Dill is particularly interested in one thing; The Radleys. The Radleys are Jem and Scout's neighbors, but they are an odd family. The only family member who is ever sighted is Mr. Nathan Radley, who passes by their house every day when he goes to work. The funny thing about the Radleys is their son. Arthur "Boo" Radley. It's rumored that Boo is crazy, and that he once stabbed his mother in the leg with a pair of scissors. His father refused to put him in an asylum, and so he keeps him locked up in the house. At least that's what people think. Nevertheless, no one has ever seen him in many years, except for Miss Stephanie Crawford. But she is the town gossip and will make up anything to get attention, according to Scout.
Dill, Jem and Scout make it their lives' purpose to get a look at Boo Radley, but it takes years before they're even close to that. 
After about half of the book, the storyline changes. Atticus is the most popular lawyer in town, and he gets quite a peculiar case one day. 
Before I start explaining this, there's one thing I should explain. Since this book takes place in the southern US during the 1930's, there's a lot of racism in this book. The servants and cooks are all black, and people look down on them. I just had to explain this so that you don't think I'm a racist. 
So, this case is about a black man who has been accused of raping a white woman. Mayella Ewell, the victim, is the daughter of the not-so-popular Bob Ewell. So Atticus has to defend the black man, Tom Robinson, and becomes exposed to the anger of the citizens of Maycomb. This also puts his children in danger of the people who think that defending a black man is a sin. 

This book was very different from the books I usually read. It wasn't sci-fi or dystopian, nor was it a romance novel. However, I actually really liked it. I love the main character, Scout, because she stands for who she is and doesn't let anyone mock her ever. She is only six, yet she seems so much older. 
The book had a very interesting storyline, but I must admit that it was difficult to get into in the beginning. However, it got way better towards one quarter of the book.
Over all, I really liked the book. It have me quite a large view of what the 1930's in the US looked like, and the characters were very developed. I still probably wouldn't have picked it up myself if it hadn't been a gift, but I'm happily surprised.
I would recommend this to older readers, since it takes a lot of reading in between the lines to really understand the book. Harper Lee doesn't always describe what people are thinking, sometimes you have to figure that out yourself. Also, there were some difficult words that I had to look up. Otherwise I think it's a book that could suit many people. I mean, there's a reason it's an award-winning book ;)
~ Emma ~

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Finale Book Talk! - Spoilers alert

Hi there, it's Filippa! And finally I've finished Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick.

First of all I just have to say how amazingly beautiful the cover of the book is. Nora's dress and hair is perfect, and the fact that Patch is shirtless once again makes everything even better. 

However, before I start talking about the book I want to say that both me and Emma have been on a one week trip with church, so we're both very sorry that there hasn't been any updates lately. And my computer has been on repairing and I got it back only a few days ago. 

But back to the book! It was actually about one and a half week ago I finished the book but for already mentioned reasons I haven't made a "book talk" until now. 
The book is the fourth and last in the Hush, Hush series, and to be honest, I got a little disappointed of it. I loved the book in the beginning, with the same old Hush, Hush atmosphere and all the drama, love, lies, everything. I loved how Nora and Dante were training together and how Scott and Vee's romance grew bigger, and just in general how the story expanded into something really great and thought through, and I was thinking that the ending was going to be something epic and amazing. 

But as I got closer and closer to the end I felt more and more as if the ending wasn't going to be as great as I hoped. And I was right. The last battle, or whatever you want to call it, felt rushed and not well made at all. It was as if the author wanted to make it epic, but it just felt lame. Don't get me wrong, I loved the series as a whole, but the last hundred or fifty pages felt lame and speeded up. 
And when Scott died I barely understood what was happening, I thought that he was hurt or something, but a few lines later he was apparently dead. And everything with Vee moving to the UK also felt wrong somehow. As if Becca Fitzpatrick just threw something together at the ending and didn't put much time into it, because she didn't know how to make all the pieces fit together.  
But don't get me wrong here either, I love Becca Fitzpatrick's writing otherwise, it was just the ending of the series that ruined a lot for me. 

Well, I don't really have much to say otherwise about the book. I'm really sorry for this short book talk but there wasn't very much for me to say about this book. 
I hope you still enjoy this blog though, and soon there may be a surprise post on our blog, as Emma mentioned in an earlier entry. 
Bye!

~ Filippa ~ 


Sunday, February 22, 2015

Slumdog Millionaire Book Review

Hello there people, it's Filippa. Today I will be doing a book review of "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup. We read this book in school so that's why it hasn't been on "Filippa's Currently Reading", and that's also why it has taken me longer time to finish Finale: because I had to read a really boring book of 360 pages in three weeks at the same time as I read Finale. Which I still haven't finished by the way. 
 
But anyways, the book is about a 16-year-old boy in India, from the slum. He participates in a quiz where he wins a billion rupees. But the makers of the quiz show starts to wonder how a boy frpm the slum could know the answers to all the 13 questions. So they arrest him, believing that he has cheated. But a girl comes to this boy (Ram Mohammed Thomas is his name) and says that she is his lawyer. And since no one has proven that he cheated on the quiz he is free to go with this girl. So then he tells her about how he found out all the answers, at what point in his life he got to know them, so there are 13 chapters in the book and in each one of them he tells a story about one of the answers. And all the chapters are at different times of his life. Some when he was only 6, some when he was 14. 

What I liked about this book was that the idea behind it was amazing. That a "slumdog" would participate in a quiz and win a billion rupees. And then that every chapter was a new question was also a really cool idea. 
However, I did not enjoy the book very much. It was pretty boring to read, too many descriptions for everything so my brain got really confused and I didn't remember much of the things I read. And then there was also the fact that all the chapters and the stories Ram told weren't in chronological order, so that got me even more confused. And the book wasn't really my genre either, so of course I didn't enjoy it as much because of that, too. 
I've heard some people say that the book was really good and that they really enjoyed reading it, but that I don't understand. But then again, one of those people was my english teacher, and she doesn't have any taste when it comes to books...
Another reason to why I don't understand the people that said they enjoyed the book, is that I didn't get to know the characters very well. I did find out that the main character was a nice, honest and brave person, but there was nothing deeper than that. I didn't find him interesting in any way and there was nothing extraordinary or funny about him either. There was one thing though that I liked about him, and that was his life story. Even though it was a slow book and I burned some extra callories trying to concentrate on it, the story of his life was pretty interesting and extraordinary, unlike the character himself. 

But yeah, I don't really have anything more to say about the book. There's a film too, which I haven't watched but we will watch it soon in school, since everyone should've finished it by now. 
I would give the book a 3/10 for reasons that I have already mentioned. I hope you enjoyed this entry even though it wasn't about any fantasy, sci-fi or dystopian book.

~ Filippa ~ 


Sunday, February 1, 2015

Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick Book review - SPOILERS FROM THE ENTIRE BOOK!

Hi guys, it's Filippa! Last time I posted an entry it was about my thoughts of Crescendo, the second book in the Hush, Hush series. This time I'm doing a book review of Silence, the third book in the series. I know that it's been more than a week since that, and Silence is only about 300 pages. 
I'm not the kind of person who wants to make excuses, but here's my excuse this time; we're reading a book in english class in school and we're supposed to read about 100 pages per week, and it's a really boring book. So I'm kind of struggling to work my way through that book. 

But back to the subject. 

Silence begins with a prologue about Hank Millar and Patch. Patch is making a deal with Hank, that if he lets Nora go he will let Hank rip of his wings. What I really liked about the prologue was that you kind of understood what was going on, but still there was a bit of a mystery going on there too. In the end of Crescendo there was kind of a cliffhanger when Hank suddenly appeared, and then Patch told Nora to run. But the prologue of Silence begins a while after, so you never really got to know what happened after Hank's men grabbed Patch and tried to get Nora too. 

After the prologue chapter one begins with Nora waking up on a graveyard and she doesn't remember anything since April. So when she finally sees someone on the graveyard and talks to him and he tells her it's September she, of course, thinks he is lying. 
After that the police (assistant Basso) finds her and takes her to the hospital. And since it was in June that Nora disappeared they think it's weird that her memory block goes all the way back to April, but the doctors blame it on the trauma she's been through (even though they don't know what exactly it is she's been through). 
When Nora gets out of the hospital (now she knows that it actually is September) her mother and Vee are trying to fill her in on what's happened during the summer break and what happened before she disappeared but that she doesn't remember either. But the thing is that she doesn't remember anything about Patch or fallen angels, nephilim or the archangels, so when she accidentally bumps into one she is very surprised when she hear them talking about nephilim. She thinks that the word sounds familiar but can't really put it in place.
What Vee and her mother doesn't tell her is that she had a boyfriend: Patch. Instead she gets to know about Patch through Marcie, who tells Nora that Patch was her summer flirt, and not Nora's. She doesn't say anything about Nora's and Patch's relationship, just that they were good friends. 
However, Nora meets Patch again, but he calls himself by his real name; Jev. Nora doesn't remember him and the name Jev is unfamiliar to her, but still she thinks there is something familiar about him as a person. 
Later on Nora meets Scott, who has to introduce himself again when she doesn't remember him. And he tells Nora about fallen angels and all of the things Nora told him before her memory vanished. What I liked about this part was that Nora got to know Scott all over again, and she gets a fresh start with him. Even though he tells Nora of all the bad things he has done, Nora can forgive him. 

Ever since Nora came back from the hospital she has had dreams and feelings of the colour black. She doesn't know what it is about the colour, but every now and then it pops up in her head and she sees a pair of black eyes in her mind. This part I found really interesting. Since Patch always dressed in black, had black eyes and black hair, she has feelings for the colour. And it isn't just that she sees the colour in her mind, but she can feel it, as if the colour was a person. 
I don't know if I remember this correctly but I think there was a time when nora met Patch again (as Jev) and he let her see his memories and then she found out that he was Patch. But if I don't remember correctly at least in some way Nora found out that Jev was Patch. 
And then Nora started to remember things from before she got kidnapped. Not entire events, but moments, images in her mind. 
This part, too, is very realistic, it isn't like other people may would have written it. I think that many people would have made it so that she fell in love with Patch instantly again, but instead Nora just lets her feeling start over. She thinks that if she had loved him once, and had forgiven him for being with Marcie, then she could do it again. So she forgives him for that, and then her feeling just naturally starts to feel for Patch what she had felt before, as if they never stopped. It was as if the colour black had replaced Patch when he disappeared from her memory, so her feelings never really stopped, they just replaced Patch with the colour of him. 

After Nora awoke at the hospital her mother told Nora that she is dating Hank Millar, the father of Nora's worst enemy at school, and Nora's biological father. And she always has this feeling around him that he is an evil man and that her mother should watch out. And of course that feeling comes from that it was Hank who kidnapped Nora. 
And later on she finds out from Patch that it actually was Hank who kidnapped her, so she got her mixed feelings around Hank explained through that. 

One time when Nora is at Patch's place, and her feelings for him has grown stronger than ever, he has to leave to go and spy on Hank talking to a captured archangel. And meanwhile Nora stays at his place but then gets a call from Scott. She immediately goes to his hiding place, but when she is finally there she and Scott gets captured by Hank's men. Then they drive Nora to Hank and he gets her to swear an oath that she will lead Hank's men and nephilim when he's dead, and then he turns her into a pure-blood nephilim (he does something where he exchanges her blood to nephilim blood). 
And if you've read the book then you already know how it ends; Nora shoots Hank when he is about to burn one of Patch's feathers, and since the archangels has made a deal about making Hank mortal again, he dies. 
I really liked the ending of the book, especially the part where they throw Hank's body into the ocean, and when Nora asks what will happen with him Patch says that his body will get eaten by sharks, instead of answering of what will happen to Hank's soul (No I'm not a psychopath, I just found that really funny since I hate Hank). 

So yeah, I think that Becca Fitzpatrick is a very good author and I really got to know the characters well, and more and more in every book. And although the books has pretty serious plots Becca always adds a little humor. Almost everything Vee says is funny, and there are those moments between Patch and Nora that are just so romantic and funny. Kind of like the shark joke I wrote about above. 
And now that Hank is dead Nora has to lead his "army" against the fallen angels, but Patch is a fallen angel so that's a problem, because she has to choose sides now; the nephilim or the fallen angels. 

I'm really excited about the last book, however I am not going to read it now. I am going to read a book call "With Hitler to the End" by Heinz Linge, who was a man who was almost as close as you could get to Hitler. So since we're currently working with World War Two in school I thought I would read that book. And I happen to be really interested in history, especially World War Two, so that's also a reason I'm reading that book right now. But after that I will start to read Finale. And once again; I'm really excited for that book. 

I hope you enjoyed this entry, Bye!

~ Filippa ~