The Fault In Our Stars Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

Emotionally damaged.

I have been I have been utterly and irreversibly damaged emotionally by John Green 

and the characters of this absolutely wonderful novel.

but seriously

I do not care what you think you know about love or

 if you think that Bella and Edward had an amazing love story or

 even if you think that the story of Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy

because if you do then you are a fool.

Sorry but that is the truth. 

Hazel Grace is a sixteen year old girl who just happens to have cancer 

and although she's been given this miracle - the miracle being that the test drug that has been 

given to her has hardly worked on anyone, yet for some reason worked on her 

now extending her life by ... oohhh I don't know, but still longer than it would have been while she was lying on her death bed drowning from the liquid filling her lungs- she is still what she calls herself a grenade. 

Any day could be her last and thus she distance herself from others in hopes of lessening the damage 

she will create when her time comes. She keeps to herself, mostly, and her best friend is An Imperial Affliction - her favorite book.

That is until she meets Augustus Waters, a seventeen year old cancer survivor,

 at one of her support group meetings. 

Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters develop this beautiful relationship and together they 

embark on an amazing journey through this fantastic roller-coaster ride called life along with all of it's 

side affects.

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk 

Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

This third book in the Vampire Academy series is much more darker than the first two.

  Our characters relive the horrible events of what happened with Victor Dashkov

 when they find out about his trial hearing, and the possibility of him being set free.

Rose and Eddie deal with the death of a friend
and struggle to come to terms with all that they have been through
when they were kidnapped and held by the strigoi.
Lissa is practicing magic again

trying to understand and strengthen her control over her gift

and we all know what happens when she use magic.

Rose might be losing her mind,
unless you count seeing ghosts as something completely normal,
but even among the moroi and dhampir seeing things that aren't there
is not a good sign.

Moroi are being beat up around the academy,

Secrets are being kept,

The queen is making plans for Vasilisa's future,

and the safety of the academy is tested.

There's a storm coming 

One that the guardians may not be ready for.
People will die and
Rose will have to chose between the two most import people
to her in the world.

*sigh*
So much stress and Rose still has to worry about graduating
talk about a totally bummer!

Romitri shippers will have a feel trip in this book.
Things are heating up between these two
but it may be only a matter of time before
the truth about their forbidden love comes out.

Xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

The Nightlife : New York Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

[17+]

[Excuse me while I do my best Kenzi (lost girl) Impression]

Lap dances, strippers, escorts, oh my!

Vampires, blood, sex, oooh my...

Masters, blood slaves, corruption,  ooh crap balls!

***

The Nightlife: New York by Travis Luedke is exciting, violent and sexy!

This violently sexy story introduces us to Aaron Pilan, a young man who has been emotionally neglected by both his estranged mother and ex-girlfriend.
His only friends are Delia , a bratty and selfish ex, and his roommate Kyle.
Aaron lives his life day to day and has depressingly fallen into a routine of work, buying beer for his friends,  pining over his ex.

His life sort of resembles that of Wesley Gibson from the movie Wanted.
If you saw the movie then you know that

Wesley had a depressing life of:
lousy job
 bitchy girlfriend
 shitty friend
 eat, sleep, shit
 and if he was lucky things got really exciting
 when his body decides to give him a good ol panic attack.  

So, yeah... basically he was a flat out loser. 

Until fate put him in the path of the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
For Wesley it was a smoking hot female named Fox.
For Aaron it was the beautiful Michelle.

Turns out Michelle is a vampire.

Aaron's first encounter with Michelle leads to him getting shot
after she is forced to defend herself against two disgusting and corrupt cops.
She briefly considers leaving him to die but his attempt to
save her from the other two men made her feel a bit
responsible for him being injured.
Guilt gets the better of her
and she decides to do what she promised herself
she would never do.

She saves his life, although by doing so
 she has not only turned him into what she is,
 but has also bound him to her for eternity
 - a lifetime of servitude.   

She may be his master and he her servant,
 but to Aaron being bound to his savior is the best thing that could ever happen to him.
Even if that does mean leaving everything he knows behind
Or that she is probably a bit psychotic.

One mistake could cause him to lose his life at the hands of this beautiful creature
yet he couldn't imagine a life without her.

Turns out Aaron is a natural at being a vampire
and soon learns to love his
new life with Michelle
but things go downhill pretty fast for our vampiric duo
when a couple of corrupt cops are out for revenge against Michelle
and Delia's jealously kicks in
but Michelle's quick and violent temper and trust issues might be the real threat.

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

The First days (as the world dies) Review

5/5  ☆☆☆☆☆

Another amazing Zombie Book !

The First Days is the first book in the As the world dies trilogy.

 Here we have Katie and Jenni - two women thrown together in this new world of death and mayhem.

Jenni watched her abusive husband eat her children 

and stood in horror as she watched them both die and came back to life.

 No, not life.

 Whatever they were they weren't living.

 They were vicious creatures with an intense hunger for human flesh and their main course was their own mother and wife. 

Katie was attacked on her way to work by a man who had his guts hanging out, but the real trauma for her was when she fled home only to witness that her beautiful wife had turned and was savagely attacking their mailman. 

Together these two completely different women develop a strong bond.

They do everything  they can to survive in this new world and soon find out that although they would do anything to have their old lives back, where everyone they love is still alive, they were

Made for this world.

 Jenni is pretty great with a rifle and a bit trigger happy. 

Katie too seems to have adapted to this new world doing all that she can to survive and protect her new home, and yea she's also handy with a gun. 

In this story you'll meet a bunch of characters each with different personalities and each struggling in their own way to over come the losses they have all suffered.

Together our survivors learn to accept new friendship, love, tragedy, and all the complications that comes along with the end of the world.

     

***

Yes! Slow clap it out for Rhiannon Frater pleeease. 

This book is fan-freaking-tabulous!

Seriously there is no way this book could disappoint you. 

I mean I waaassss hoping for a three way romance between - 

well you'll see when you read it .

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

          

Dorothy Must Die Review

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆

Dorothy Must Die 

is a book that everyone must read.

Danielle Paige is an incredible author. 

I could think of a million ways this story could have been 

ruined, but Danielle Paige did a remarkable job. 

This book has made it's way up the ladder and landed a spot as one of my favorite books.

I have read many books, but this is the one that I will be taking about to my friends 

and family a month from now.

Our heroine, Amy Gumm, starts off as a non-violent and lonely 

teenager with only sarcasm as her weapon against the schools biggest bully

but after being dropped in Oz 

and being trained by the revolutionary order of the wicked

she begins to show some major 

character development.

Amy Gumm is Oz's last hope against Dorothy 

and her vicious friends.

 Glinda "the good witch", The Tin Woodsman, The Scarecrow, and The Lion

are stealing the magic from Oz and are terrorizing it's citizens.

Amy has everything she needs to defeat Dorothy:

Brains

Courage

Skills

and

Magic

but in this new Oz is there really anyone 

that she can trust? 

The Order?

Nox?

 The Wizard?

Is killing Dorothy the only way to save Oz?

and most importantly,

in a world where the meaning of the words Good and Wicked

are not what they should be,  

what kind of witch is will Amy Gumm become?

Is she Good or is she Wicked?

Find out what happens to Dorothy 

in this retelling of Oz 

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Original Summary

I didn't ask for any of this.

I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.

But when your whole life gets by a tornado-taking you with it- you have no choice but to go along, you know?

Sure, I've read the books.

I've seen the movies.

I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds.

But I've never expected Oz to look like this. 

To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion.

There's still the yellow brick road, though-but even that's crumbling.

What happened?

Dorothy.

They say she found a way to come back to Oz.

They say she seized power and the power went to her head.

And now no one is safe.

My name is Amy Gumm- and I'm the other girl from Kansas.

I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.

I've been trained to fight.

And I have a mission:

Remove the Tin Woodsman's heart

Steal the Scarecrow's brain

Take the Lion's courage

Then and Only then- Dorothy must die!

xoxoxo

-Natasha Blaxk