Cecilie
THIS BOOK IS ALREADY FUCKING FIVE HUNDRED PAGES LONG AND I WANTED SO. MUCH. MORE. I WANTED MORE OF EVERYTHING. THE WORLD. THE CHARACTERS - OH MY GOD, THE CHARACTERS.
SIMON=AMAZING
PENNY=AMAZING
BAZ=THE MOST WONDROUS BEING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD/GALAXY/UNIVERSE/IDK.
I LOVED IT ALL. IT'S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE FOR ME TO WRITE DOWN MY FEELINGS BECAUSE I'M FEELING EVERYTHING AND IT'S 1:30AM BECAUSE I DO DUMB THINGS LIKE READING INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BUT IT WAS JUST SO GOOD.
THE SPELLS WERE FUCKING SONG LYRICS! FOR GOD'S SAKE THEY SANG QUEEN, IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT.
My feelings. Are everywhere.
All these amazing - amazing books that I've been reading lately. It's hard to deal with the love.
This book was wonderful. Just so wonderful. I couldn't help but just relate SO MUCH to the main character, his line of thought, his personality, his way of dealing with things and not doing things even when he wanted to because he thought it'd be better to not do it, basically his whole being.
I absolutely adored the family aspect. These parents are just amazing people and they make mistakes and don't always act like “adults”, and all of the characters are basically just so real and wow wow wow wow I really just loved every single thing about this book.
Probably my favorite in the series.
I loved noticing Percy grow up, like, getting older, it was so good to see! And he's confused and having girl problems, and it's cute and he blushes and I just can't, I love this book, and I love Percy so much.
Loved the thing - you know, the thing - that happened on Mt. Saint Helens (you know what thing I'm talking about!). It was great. It was like A+++++++
This whole book was just pure A++++++++
Holy mother of gods and lords and Aelin fucking Ashryver Galathynius (if that's even how you spell it).
There are no words
Not without spoiling.
It was fantastic.
Just- wow.
I was on the fence about my feeling on this book in the beginning, because people were acting not the way I wanted them to, and there were things going on that I didn't like, but then suddenly it turned. Well, not suddenly, but it turned around, and things got better, people started getting along, they stopped fighting, I found myself loving the biggest ship of all the ships, which I never would have thought, had you asked me after Heir of Fire. I don't know, man, there were just so many things, and it ended so epicly, and now there's not just one more villain to end, but two, Spoilereven though one was literally just killed and I could sit here reading and feel the pressure of the whole situation along with everyone else, and holy gods, it was truly amazing.
4.5 stars!
HOLY JESUS CHRIST
THIS WAS AMAZING
I can't even comprehend how much I loved these stories, it was just absolutely amazing to read about Celaena's past and what she went through and holy crap, I understand so much!
The only thing that knocked it off the five star rating was because in the end I wanted to be like this
I was really like this
And this time I actually know that it wasn't just my lack of emotional display, but because it was written in a way that it didn't really reach me, which I found odd considering that everything else SJM writes is amazing.
But I love, love, looooooooved it so much!
AND SAM CORTLAND IS BAE AND THE MOST AMAZING HUMAN ON EARTH I WANTED SO MUCH MORE OF HIM IN ALL OF THE STORIES, I NEEDED MORE
ANOTHER FANTASTIC BOOK, ERHMAGODSSSSSS!
Hehe, see what I did there?
Sorry, that joke was weak as hell.
I just loved the fact that Percy's growing up and suddenly Annabeth is like... more interesting than before to him. Hm, wonder how that turns out! (As if I don't already know lmao)
Missed Annabeth a whole dam (oh my gods, I'm sorry I can't help myself, these puns are too great) lot, but it was 80% made up for with Zoë and her old talk, and Zoë and her story ‘bout that one Hero, you know which one I'm talking about and basically, Zoë made up for a lot of things considering she's a fucking pain in the ass
2.5 stars
There was so much potential for this storyline, but it kind of fell flat for me. I didn't connect with the characters as much as I would have liked, and I think that was mainly because of the way it was written, which, to be frank, wasn't very well. I don't know if the version was just a sort of arc or something, but there were so many mistakes, missing words, etc. Another thing was that, while I actually did like the main character, I found that she made so many stupid decisions! And instead of talking about stuff she just ran, and I know that it was like a whole thing in the book, this “Fight or flight” thing, but she had promised him AND herself that she wouldn't leave and of course, she did and for the one chapter she was away from him, she did nothing but talk about how much she loved him. WHY. WHY. WHY. The epilogue was odd as well because it was suddenly from Remy's POV, and to be completely honest, I felt like the romance was very much lust and not love, that we were told they loved each other and not showed so much.
Just eh. Wished it was better.
Despite the very very short length of this book, there is so much information and so much action and I LOVED IT! Percy and Annabeth were fucking awesome and cute little 13-year-olds, and OH MY GOD, I LOVED IT SO. SO SO MUCH.
This was just amazingly hilarious and amazing and funny and great and I loved it and
I'm totally repeating myself.
Percy Jackson is just wonderful. And hilarious. And awesome. And brave. And amazing. And yes, I'm totally crushing on a twelve year old fictional kid, buT HE WON'T BE TWELVE FOREVER!
And, so, yeah, you can't tell me what I can't do!
This reread of the book wasn't as good as my first read, because I wasn't actually that much in the mood to read it, but I'm pretty sure that's because I've gotten a bit tired of the movie version because it's always on TV, but reading this again was lovely. It made me realize once again how much better the book i than the movie. Like so much. Like A LOT a lot. You know?
Just read fucking Percy Jackson.
4.5 stars!
Absolutely adored this! It was so cute and romantic, and I loved seeing the way they handle the baby and just awww! I love how Christina Lauren makes these novellas about the characters instead of a whole sequal. A sequal would have to have drama and a real storyline, but these novellas are just there for the readers to get a glimpse into what happens after the book ends and it. is. wonderful.
OH MY GOD, WHAT
DID I JUST READ THE MOST EPIC RETELLING OF CINDERELLA EVER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD HISTORY OF CINDERELLA RETELLINGS?
Yes.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY, I JUST LOVED IT SO MUCH
IT CAN'T END LIKE THAT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYTHING WILL BE FIGURED OUT IF THE NEXT HAS A NEW PROTAGONIST
WILL WE SEE MORE OF KAI AND CINDER, BECAUSE I NEED MORE KAI AND CINDER, I NEED MORE OF CINDER PERIOD. AND KAI.
I DON'T KNOW, MAN, I JUST REALLY FUCKING LOVED IT, LIKE, FUCK, HELP ME, I DON'T OWN SCARLET OR ANY OF THE OTHER BOOKS HOW WILL I SURVIVE????
And, ohmyfuckinggod, Queen Levana, I can't even comprehend the evil that lives inside of that woman, like what even.
Honestly, I feel like reading it again, literally, right now. And I just finished it.
Very mixed feelings with this book.
Overall I really enjoyed it, but it started out slow and took a while for something to happen, but as soon as it did things were just flying left and right, going 200mph like some insanity, and then I didn't like the end all that much either. BUT THE MIDDLE WAS SO GOOD AND IT WAS THE LARGEST PART OF THE BOOK
I'm excited for the movie, oh yeah.
I was scared shitless that this book would end badly, like those endings where 20% is good and 80% is bad, and with about 20 pages left I was severely concerned. But, thankfully I got what I wanted. It was a good ending albeit not 100% good (one person's death left me severely scarred) but otherwise it made me happy. And while there were an uncountable amount of times where I wanted to scream and kill the protagonist, there was an explanation for my wanting to rip her head off, and yeah, idk, man, it was pretty well flushed out tbh and I enjoyed it!
God, I don't know what to say about this book.
It was great, it really was, but somehow it just lacked something, but I can't even figure out what. It just didn't have what the other books had (yet I don't even know exactly what that is).
All I know is that I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the others, I think it could have been a shorter book, and I don't know, maybe it just didn't go in the direction I wanted to.
I've read this book once before, but I constantly found myself being like “I don't remember this AT ALL”. Most often when the scene happened I'd remember it, but I couldn't pinpoint what would happen next. Seems like maybe I didn't want to remember it all?
Gosh, I don't know.
It was great, I really did enjoy it! Just not as much as the other two.
I was not expecting to feel that way.
I had such strong reservations going into this book, because I just remember being really annoyed with it the last time I read it, but I was super surprised by how much I enjoyed it!
There was of course the annoying and frustrating, but “inevitable” relationship drama which really was the only thing that made me mad about this book. Considering the short period of time in which this book is set, SO MUCH STUFF HAPPENS and it's AWESOME! I loved all the things that was not the relationship. It could have been a close five had there been a good relationship in it, but then I guess all the things that happened couldn't have happened but, like, still.
Very much enjoyed it this third time around! Even more so than the last two, I think. I wasn't as confused about what happened and I thought it was a great storyline, really, I don't see why people don't like it aside from the typical YA stereotypes. But that just it, you know, they're there or they're not there, either way people complain.
I don't know what I'm saying, it's two am.
I really loved it though.
First read: This book is fantastic.
Reread 2015:
I've been in a reading slump for about a month, so when I picked this book up, I had a hard time reading it. And it's not that it was bad or anything like that at all, but this was reread for me, which I did because the movie is coming out soon, and because I was in a reading slump it was just hard to read. I didn't want to, which was and odd feeling. But I could just tell that I was craving a new story, something that wasn't a reread and so I decided to just “get it over with”. I'm so happy that I did because it was amazing once again. I didn't love it as much as the first time, but it was still amazing. I still love Quentin Jacobsen. I am still in love with Ben Starling. I still absolutely adore this story.
