Cursed Review

3.5/5☆☆☆

If I haven't made myself clear, before now, 

in an earlier post or on my instagram or twitter page

 please allow me to do so now.

 Jennifer L. Armentrout is my favorite author!

Her words are a gift from GOD!

She is the Queen of  health hazardous cliff hangers 

creator of drool worthy book-boyfriends

and amazeball story lines!

I've been meaning to read cursed for a while now

and I finally got around to doing so. 

Last week I walked into my local library

(( I totally forgot we had one of those around here. 

I've been so obsessed with buying books 

that I forgot I can actually read some for free!

**gasp**))

...

Anyways I walked into my local library and this

was literally the fist book I saw
and I thought
"The gods have decided it was time."

I could not put the book down to save my own life

...or sleep. 

I have read many books where the main character has this horrible and uncontrollable ability

that prevented him/her from ever touching someone

but so far Ember win first place in the

I-totally-got-screwed-over-in-the-not-so-super-power-ability-department

considering she can't even touch animals or even plants without killing them. 

Can you imagine not being able to:
 Pick up a pretty flower 

or pet an animal?

To not be able to touch your little sister

or anyone else?
To never be able to kiss someone you like without killing them?

Well Rogue can.

It must really suck!

What make all of this so much worse is that Ember wasn't always like that.

She had a normal life once.

She was a cheerleader,
 had friends, and even dated the captain of the football team.

She use to be a normal girl with normal problems, but that was before...

Before she was in a car accident that killed both her and her dad.

Two years ago Ember had died in a horrible accident, but thanks to 

her little sister, Olivia, she was brought back to life.
Now, some people would be glad that they were brought back from the dead,
 but we all know better.

When you bring someone back from the dead they never return the same.
And when Ember came back
she came back cursed.

Now any living thing that she touches dies.

The once popular and out going girl distances herself from others
in order to keep everyone, including herself and her sister, safe.

Two years of Solitude, taking care of her sister and sick mother
has made her a social outcast with only one true friend.

The kids at school call her a freak, because she wears long sleeves and gloves to hide her scars.
If only they knew she wore them to protect all of them as well.


And just when things couldn't get any worse
it does.
 Ember McWilliams life gets turned upside down when she meets
Hayden Cromwell.
Smart, Sexy,funny, wonderful Hayden tells her that she isn't cursed,
but gifted like him.
 He tells her that she can control her gift
and to Ember that means the world to her.
She'd be able to hug her sister, touch other people and animals even kiss Hayden,
but first he needs her to do the one thing she may never be able to do
and that's trust his adoptive father.
A man who seems to be fond of collecting special children
like her self and Olivia and forcing them all to live
practically in the middle of nowhere!
Total Creeper!

But with nowhere else to go Ember tries her best
and works along with Hayden to get her ability under control.
But when Ember finds out the horrible truth about what really happened
the night of  the car accident that killed her and her dad
it's becomes difficult to trust anyone in her new home... even Hayden.
And with another threat on her life hanging over her head she might actually end up dead... permanently

***
I wish the book was longer and I kind of wish the romance was a bit more intense
but I guess not every guy can be Deamon Black right.
I just have to say that I absolutely love how it keeps you guessing all the way til the end.
Another wonderful book by Jennifer L. Armentrout
she should be awarded with a crown!
But until then
in honor of JLA
I will add a gif of Theo James
because he is Bae!
And we need more Theo-James-kind-of-handsome in this world
*sigh*

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Survival Review

 2/5 ☆☆

 There were many times where I wanted to smack my head against my nook. 

 Yes there were times when I was like "oh this isn't that bad."
 But no way Can I give this book a full three stars. 

It' made my head hurt through most of it. 

I was completely annoyed and multiple times thought about giving up on the book

But I won't lie I am interested in what happened Next.

Maybe I am Just doing some useless hoping here
 but I feel that the next book will be better that this one.
I hope.

About Maddie Pearce 

I get that she is clumsy, but God if her clumsy behavior is nothing more that just that
and not some horrible effect from some magic or paranormal (plot) twist or whatever
 I am going to blow my own brains out.
Yes it is funny sometimes, like when she almost burned the house down,
but I think her clumsiness was over played.
 It got old and annoying real quick.

Was it really that necessary for her to be a walking disaster?!

I can't really think of anything else I want to add. 

It was funny and all, but I am just so disappointed. 

I feel this could have been much better than what it was

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Uglies Review

4/5☆☆☆☆

In a world where everyone gets to become pretty at the age of sixteen,

where everyone undergoes surgery to become the ideal image of beauty

and no one - except those who are underage - has to deal with 

the harshness of being ugly, 

how could anything possibly go wrong?

Tally Youngblood can not wait until her sixteenth birthday to finally have the operation
 so that she can be with her friend Perish in New Pretty Town
where all the new pretties live. 

Where everyone has big eyes, plump lips and high cheek bones and perfect skin. 

In New Pretty Town everyone's only job is to have fun.

It's been Tally's dream for as long as she can remember 

and in only a few weeks she'll be there partying with all her old friends
who have already gotten the operation.

All she has to do is keep out of trouble for a few more weeks
and she and Perish - her best friend - will be together again. 

Except Tally's new friend, Shay, doesn't want to become pretty.

She's convinced that the operation takes away more than just your ugly features.

Days before their birthday Shay decides to runaway

and take her chances outside the city to live
among other uglies who, like her, refuses to be made pretty.

When Tally is taken to New Pretty Town for her operation
she's exposed to a very ugly side of the pretties
working in special circumstances and  is given an ultimatum:
Find Shay and turn her and the other runaways in,
or stay ugly forever.

***

This book really shows how obsessed society is with looking a certain way.
It shows how cruel we can be to one another just because someone simply looks or acts different.
We give each other nicknames that point out our flaws just like the characters in the book
for example: Stick, Squint, Nose etc.
We make ourselves believe we are nothing because we are "ugly"
and most of us would risk our lives by going under the knife
and go through a massive surgery just to become "pretty",
to become accepted, without fully understanding
that we are just being brainwashed into thinking a certain way.
Being tricked into thinking that big eyes, a thin nose and full lips and a certain height
is what makes a person pretty.

I've read a few reviews before finally reading this book
and a few of the people who wrote them were upset because they
felt that this type of society is unbelievable, but I disagree.
 If you pay attention you can see how society judges people who look different
and they're telling people they have to look a certain way to be beautiful
and there are many people out there who would do anything
just to become "pretty".

Maybe if more of those people can read this book
or books similar to this they can see how wrong they are
and change some of their minds.

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) Review

4.5/5 ☆☆☆☆

Everyone knows that love is complicated. 

Love is never easy when you're trying to figure things out

even more so when you're a seventeen year old dhampir in love with your twenty-four year old mentor.

A mentor who may be moving on to an older woman who can give him everything you can not. 

But who cares about love triangle nowadays 

they're not nearly as complicated as 

a love ...square? ... rectangle?

or maybe it's a circle. 

ugh!

help me out here, please!

Rose is definitely in love Dimitri.

Dimitri might have the hots for Tasha Ozera
(she definitely has it for him)

Mason would die for Rose 

and there's this new royal moroi, Adrian Ivashkov
who's constantly flirting with her.

Yeaahh... Love's a mess 

and no matter which relationship you ship

you will still end up like

Josh Dallas in my next gif

And gawd I want to say more about that 

but David Tennant is telling me to

 

So let me just jump right into the real drama here.

In the last book we learned that Lissa has a very special,
very rare set of abilities that put her 

in danger of not only strigoi,
but her fellow moroi as well. 

A guardians job couldn't get anymore harder.

Except ... well, until they soon find out that

life as they all know it will never be the same. 

Strigoi are out right attacking moroi
and dhampir in large groups with outside help.

Now if you know anything about the strigoi in this book then
you know that between the blood thirst,
savage killings and complete lack of
morality that strigoi usually end up  attacking each other unless there's
a yummy "snack" near by.
The strigoi often work alone or in small groups of maybe
two or three, but now 

They're doing the impossible and are working together.

They're organized, 

and it seems no matter how many trained guardians or wards the moroi put up

no one is safe anymore. 

Not even during the day.
They're breaking all the rules of typical strigoi behavior
and unless the moroi and dhampir can keep up
there is going to be a lot less of them
and a whole lot of strigoi to fight off.

"'This changes everything doesn't it?' I asked
'Yeah,' he said.'It does'" - FrostBite, Rose and Dimitri

xoxoxo
Natasha Blaxk

Vampire Academy Review

4/5  ☆☆☆☆

If you have been unlucky enough to have seen the movie before reading the book

 -as I have- then I want you to forget everything you saw and felt about the movie. 

Forget about the actors, the acting, the storyline...everything. 

Just shake it all out of that pretty little head of yours.

 If you loved it, hated it, somewhat liked it, I don't care.

 forget it! 

Forget it all and read Vampire Academy and then decide how you feel about it.  

The movie is good, I liked it, but I might be a little bias because one of my lady crush stars as the bad ass Rose Hathaway. 

This book is the perfect example of "The book is better than the movie" line you hear from every die hard bibliophile.

Rosemary Hathaway is a kick ass Dhampir who has dedicated her life to protecting the Moroi -  Most importantly her best friend Vasilisa- against the strigoi.

Strigoi are undead vampires whose purpose in life is pretty much to drain blood and life 

out of every moroi, dhampire and human they come across.

Vasilisa Dragomir is a Moroi Princess.

The Dragomir's are one of the twelve royal families and  Lissa is the last of her bloodline.

Some time after the accident that killed her entire family, Lissa began noticing some weird things happening to and around her. The usually sweet and caring Lissa would experience violent mood swings, depression and sometimes got the feeling that someone was watching her.

After what happened to their teacher Ms. Karp and her warning about Lissa 

Rose does not hesitate in deciding to take Lissa away from St.Vladimir Academy 

to hide and live among humans to protect her. 

Two years on the run and the girls are caught and dragged back to the academy.

St. Vladimir is supposed to be a safe environment for both moroi and dhampirs

 but when Lissa starts getting threats in the form of dead animals in her dorm room 

and attacks against her from a jealous, stuck up, royal wannabe 

Rose goes on high alert and steps up her game as guardian 

and if you read this book you'll know that Rose is the type to punch first and find out who she actually hit later.

*incoming Rosemary Hathaway gifs*

If you haven't read Vampire Academy yet you should

and if all of the action isn't enough to get you to read this then please for the love of Romitiri (Rose+Dimitri)

pick up the book!

Richelle Mead is killing my heart with the adorableness of these two

and just look what it's doing to Amy Pond!

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk

Devour Review

4/5☆☆☆☆

We all know what happens when an immortal being and a human fall in love.

All hell breaks lose!

Eli is a devour. 

His kind feeds off of the negative emotions that humans feel.

They force them in to a reverie and well mostly scare the living poo out of them

so that they can feed.

 They think highly of themselves and believe themselves to be the superior race over all species.

Although it is his nature to be -what he considers - evil, he fights it. 

For years he has fought his nature yearning to be human, 

refusing to force fear or lust (or any negative emotions) onto people, he feeds on  whatever emotion someone may be feeling as he passes by. 

Of course for someone of his kind that is an impossible way to live

and he suffers dearly for it. 

Until he meets Clara.

For some reason Clara is different to him. 

He can feel positive emotions from her, something that he has never felt before. 

He grow an attachment towards her,but as they grow closer and their bond grows stronger trouble finds it's way toward them.

The devourer counsel is after them now -thanks to a jealous and vindictive devourer named Angelina- Eli because he is a traitor to his kind and Clara... well, because she is simply human.

***

Shelly Crane is beyond amazing. 

She is one of my favorite authors and if you've read and enjoyed her Significance series you will definitely love this series as well. 

What is there not to love?

Perfect title

Gorgeous book cover 

Amazing book boyfriend

Incredible story

Talented author 

Danger

Action

Romance

*inhales*

I could go on  forever 

but you should really be reading the first page of this book  right now sooo

 chop,chop!

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk