[Double Review] Charley Davidson, by: Darynda Jones

Charley Davidson #12

THE TROUBLE WITH TWELFTH GRAVE

by: Darynda Jones
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Mystery
Publication Date: October 5th, 2017
Read Date: February 20th, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 288

 

Ever since Reyes escaped from a hell dimension in which Charley accidently trapped him, the son of Satan has been brimstone-bent on destroying the world his heavenly Brother created. His volatile tendencies have put Charley in a bit of a pickle. But that’s not the only briny vegetable on her plate. While trying to domesticate the feral being that used to be her husband, she also has to deal with her everyday life of annoying all manner of beings—some corporeal, some not so much—as she struggles to right the wrongs of society. Only this time she’s not uncovering a murder. This time she’s covering one up.

Add to that her new occupation of keeping a startup PI venture—the indomitable mystery-solving team of Amber Kowalski and Quentin Rutherford—out of trouble and dealing with the Vatican’s inquiries into her beloved daughter, and Charley is on the brink of throwing in the towel and becoming a professional shopper. Or possibly a live mannequin. But when someone starts attacking humans who are sensitive to the supernatural world, Charley knows it’s time to let loose her razor sharp claws. Then again, her number one suspect is the dark entity she’s loved for centuries. So the question becomes, can she tame the unruly beast before it destroys everything she’s worked so hard to protect?

Charley Davidson #13

SUMMONED TO THIRTEENTH GRAVE

by: Darynda Jones
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Mystery
Publication Date: January 15th, 2019
Read Date: February 20, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
Pages: 303

 

It's lucky number thirteen . . . this is the epic finale for our favourite Grim Reaper and her sinfully sexy son-of-the-devil husband, Reyes.

Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She's been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity - which is exactly the amount of time it takes to make a person stark, raving mad. But someone's looking out for her, and she's allowed to return after a mere hundred years in exile. Is it too much to hope for that not much has changed? Apparently it is. Bummer.

She's missed her daughter. She's missed Reyes. She's missed Cookie and Garrett and Uncle Bob. But now that she's back on earth, it's time to put to rest burning questions that need answers. What happened to her mother? How did she really die? Who killed her? And are cupcakes or coffee the best medicine for a broken heart? It all comes to a head in an epic showdown between good and evil in this final smart and hilarious novel.

my rate

I finish this series and I dunno if I'm sad or happy. I'm kind of disappointed how it ended, but that's for you to find out when you read the actual end. Last time I read a book in this series was just one book that recently came out and I had to wait a year for book #12 and then it was announced that book #13 was going to be out a year after that and it would be the last one... so let's say that I waited a LOT until both books were out so I could read them and not be left hanging, sadly the hanging part still happened.

Reading Charley was like a breath of fresh air. I missed reading her thoughts and how the couldn't stop thinking of everything and nothing at all. I missed the gang and how everyone comes together to solve whatever shit is going down no matter who made the problem happened. I hated that the author always left me out of the secret until everything came out. It happened too many things to count. I loved that no matter that the world was actually ending, everyone had hope and really knew that Charley was going to make everything okay again. That no matter that everything said that Reyes was bad, Charley knew he was inside the monster in front of her.

What I most loved of the whole series was the jokes. The series is hilarious and I cannot recommend this series enough. It is everything in a whole package. Is fantasy, paranormal, romance, crime investigation, but a humorous series. There is not a moment that I can say that I was bored or that I wanted to take a breather from reading the series. I took moments because I had to, not because I wanted to.

I know, for a fact, that there is more to come and I will be behind the author to take any crumbs she wants to give the fans, but the waiting will be painful. I know, for a fact, that Beep will the protagonist this time around and I can't wait for it to happen. I know, for a fact, that I will fall in love with Osh more than I already am and I cannot wait. To end all of this, I cannot wait for more and you shouldn't wait any longer to read this whole series and wait for more with me.

[Review] Lady Midnight, by: Cassandra Clare

The Dark Artifices #1

LADY MIDNIGHT

by: Cassandra Clare
Publication Date: March 28th, 2016
Read Date: April 22, 2018
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 698

 

In a kingdom by the sea…

In a secret world where half-angel warriors are sworn to fight demons, parabatai is a sacred word.

A parabatai is your partner in battle. A parabatai is your best friend. Parabatai can be everything to each other—but they can never fall in love.

Emma Carstairs is a warrior, a Shadowhunter, and the best in her generation. She lives for battle. Shoulder to shoulder with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Los Angeles, where vampires party on the Sunset Strip, and faeries—the most powerful of supernatural creatures—teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. When the bodies of humans and faeries turn up murdered in the same way Emma’s parents were when she was a child, an uneasy alliance is formed. This is Emma’s chance for revenge—and Julian’s chance to get back his brother Mark, who is being held prisoner by the faerie Courts. All Emma, Mark, and Julian have to do is solve the murders within two weeks…and before the murderer targets them.

Their search takes Emma from sea caves full of sorcery to a dark lottery where death is dispensed. And each clue she unravels uncovers more secrets. What has Julian been hiding from her all these years? Why does Shadowhunter Law forbid parabatai to fall in love? Who really killed her parents—and can she bear to know the truth?

The darkly magical world of Shadowhunters has captured the imaginations of millions of readers across the globe. Join the adventure in Lady Midnight, the long-awaited first volume of a new trilogy from Cassandra Clare.

my rate

Have you ever been present where an accident is about to happen? Like you see all the pieces apart, and you know that when they get together a bomb will go off. That's what I felt when reading this book.

I started this book TWO YEARS ago because it took me this long to finish something that was hurting my heart. I was NOT looking forward to reading this series because I knew it was going to be bad, for the lack of words. I knew that my favorite OTP couldn't be together. I knew it was going to be tough to put my thoughts aside from what I was actually reading. And THAT was my problem with the whole book.

Look, the series is not bad. The story in this book is NOT bad, like the overall thing. The romance can be thrown to the trash (my feelings are talking here), but it was well written. The whole mystery to be resolved was good. The action scenes were packed. And the freaking plot twist at the end was not expected.

I'm telling you, this book ripped my heart out, but am I going to read the next two? YES! Am I hoping for a happy end? Yes. Do I think is going to screw my mind from here out? Yes.

Overall, I want more. I know Ms. Clare will keep stabbing my heart, but at the end, she will stick out for me (us, the readers).

#ReviewInFewWords [7]

Now, this is the type of post in where I type short reviews of books that I read a long time ago or books that I forgot to review once I was finished with them. I got a long list of books, so I will divide into different posts and post them once in a while. Anyways, I might not remember much of them, but how they made me feel will always stay within myself, right? I hope so because here goes nothing.

-I REVIEWED SOME OF YOU, BUT NOT YOU-

Story of My Life

  

The Mortal Instruments

#3 CITY OF GLASS
Publication Date: March 24th, 2009

#4 CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS
Publication Date: April 5th, 2011

#5 CITY OF LOST SOULS
Publication Date: May 8th, 2012
Read Date: between 2015 and 2016

by: Cassandra Clare
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult
Format: ebook
Total of Pages: 1,499

 

my overall rate

I have tried. I have really tried to actually make individual reviews for these books, but lines blur together and I don't actually remember what scene is from which book. ::sighs:: Story of My Life. But I do can talk about these books in an overall sense. I treasure this series as much as I treasure the Percy Jackson series, The Hunger Games and the Twilight Saga. I grew up, in a bookworm sense, with these books. They made me the bookworm I am now and that always will be. City of Bones will always have a special place in my heart and so will be the rest of the books in the series.

Back in the days when I read City of Glass (CoG), I didn't know what the orignal plan was to end it with that book, so I was having this feeling of conclusion in the book even though I knew there were two more after this and one more coming soon. Then I find out and everything made sense. So, let me tell you my truth back then, that end was way better than the one the author gave us in the actual last book. In both we are left with unsolved things, but I was happier with Simon's end in CoG than in City of Heavenly Fire (CoHF), for reals. But that aside, CoHF was the shit.

Now about City of Fallen Angels (CoFA) and City of Lost Souls (CoLS), everything is blur together in my mind. I cannot make head from tails in my memories and I have also the problem that some scenes... well, I don't even know if they actually happened. I read so many fanfics about these books that I don't even know what REALLY happened. Let's just say that I loved the book so much and the next one was too far away to come out that I read this bunch of fanfic and then I forgot everything that really happened. I regret nothing.

Anyways, I loved the series. That I do remember, is not something I can actually forget. I would reread them, but I don't think I could these days. I'm also TRYING to read Lady Midnight as much as I can because I don't really want to give up, but the story is killing me slowly. The point is that Cassandra Clare is a good damn author that makes me feel more than I should. That's my piece.

Delirium
#1 DELIRIUM
Publication Date: February 3rd, 2011
#2 PANDEMONIUM
Publication Date: February 28th, 2012
Read Date: December, 2015
by: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Dystopian, Young Adult
Format: ebook
Total of Pages: 816

 

my overall rate

I remember when I started reading Delirium, it was awesome. The whole idea of love being ilegal and forbidden to the point to actually go through a procedure to remove the feeling from your body was something that I was very curious about. Love is a powerful weapon, so if you take it away from the people then you can do anything and everything possible.

Lena was not a good narrator. I adored Alex. He was the best male character that I have read in that point of my life, not counting Percy, Jace nor Peeta. Alex did everything possible in his hands to make Lena safe, but stab in the back when Lena found someone else to be entertainted. I hated the whole Julian thing in the second book because I HATE love triangles. But this was just low. I don't care that Lena thought that Alex was dead, when you truly LOVE someone you don't do this as quick as she did.

I loved the whole thing of giving love back to the people, or so I think that was one of the goals. I hated the ends of these two books because it had me bound to read the next even though I wasn't enjoying the course that the author was driving me to.

Overall, I loved the first book more than I loved the others or that is the feeling that I remember. My favorite quote might be the one that Lena remembered from her mother: "I love you. Remember, they cannot take it." Is something that I still remember and have inside myself, maybe forever.

Matched
#2 CROSSED
Publication Date: November 1st, 2011
#3 REACHED
Publication Date: November 13th, 2012
Read Date: April 2016
by: Ally Condie
Genre: Dystopian, Young Adult
Format: ebook
Total of Pages: 879

 

my overall rate

I have some cables crossed with this series. It happens a lot when you read so many Dystopians in the same month or weeks straight. I used to eat this shit straight up, no pauses. I regret not reviewing all these back in the day because now I have no clue how to describe these books. Back then I was not as a reviewer as I am now, so I don't blame myself.

Now, I remember more the first book of this series that the actual end. Apparently I really loved the end of the third, and last, book because in Goodreads I wrote: "THE PERFECT LOVE STORY". I don't even remember that I wrote that. Let me think what I do remember.

I think that the main character flew from "civilization" in search of I don't know what. I remember she reach some kind of desert and found some clues in a cavern. I remember a fire, but I don't know if all those files burnt. I remember she travel by river, but not sure. I remember a final battle, but I don't know what they were fighting for. Maybe the government. All dystopians are against that, so that's a safe bet. I remember that I was team Ky through and through, and that I didn't like Xander much.

Look, I don't think I can recommend this series, but I rated it very well so you might want to try it and see for yourself. Overall, I think I had a good time, so can you.

SHATTER ME
by: Tahareh Mafi
Publication Date: October 2nd, 2012
Read Date: December 29th, 2015
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Pages: 338

 

my overall rate

How can I do this review without giving my opinions of what happens later? TOUGH JOB, that's how. But I'll try.

I remember while I was reading this book thinking how much this girl looked alike to that girl with a white strike in her hair in X-Men. Then somewhere I read that this series really looked alike to X-Men and I was so onboard that they wouldn't kick me out of the train. I swore that Juliette was the best heroine that I have read at that point and that I wanted to be like her soooo bad. The author has a way to write that makes me wanna weep loudly, laugh like a maniac and get so angry that I want to throw stuff, particulary the book.

I remember loving Adam with all my heart and falling in love with Kenji so hard that I wanted him for myself. I remember hating Aaron a lot, but somehow thinking that there was something he was hiding and I wanted to know more. I'll stop right here because if I continue I might talk about things that aren't from this book.

Really guys, just read this book and the others. The best news is that there are MORE BOOKS coming and I just cannot wait. That's my piece.

Thanks for reading my awful ramblings.