Eternal Eden Review

2.5/5 ☆☆

WARNING: THE WORD TWILIGHT WILL BE MENTIONED MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGH THIS POST!

How very Twilight of the book to have a centuries old immortal 

fall in love with a mortal only to the have his enemies tear them apart by trying to destroy one or both of them.

We have the loving and supportive siblings of immortals 

and may I just say that Nathaniel and Abigail are so Rosalie in this story.

 Too bad daddy isn't Carlisle he's so mean.

Honestly though I felt like all four twilight books were jammed into this.

minus the whole baby thing.

I didn't hate the book, but Gahhh I felt like I was reading a quick and very vague version of Twilight.

Twilight.Twilight.Twilight.

I mean I absolutely love Twilight, but geez

   Cora = Alice

                    Joseph = less intense Jasper

  Patrick = Emmit

Nathaniel = Rosalie

                                        Abigail = Rosalie diet with a hint of Esme

And our main lovers here William and Bryn are so the Edward and Bella of this story.

I fell their relationship is way more emotional then our vampire lovers from Twilight. 

(yay!)

Unlike Edward in New Moon William is less willing to leave his love

 behind "in order to protect her"

Sorry Edward, but I would rather have William by my side instead of you.

Bryn, like Bella, can not understand why someone as amazing as William

 (in Bella's case Edward) would love her. Talk about insecurities! 

 Although, Bryn is a bit more feistier than Bella

 they're both magnets for trouble and completely accident prone.

What I like about Bryn is that she is clever and almost everything that comes out of her mouth is laced with sarcasm and I love it.

But like I said

Twilight minus the whole vampire thing.

 I am pretty sure that these immortals are some form of angels,

 but so far they just call themselves Immortals.

 I know right! Very original.

Well I gave this story a two and a half stars, because it somewhat intrigued me 

(maybe because I am a Twi-hard)

but it was a way to simple and very unoriginal except for the whole making an immortal thing

that seemed pretty original

(I think)

Well so far I am interested enough to read the next book so let's see how it turns out

I doubt it can get anymore Twilight-Zone

 (Haha! Get it? I know, I know corny, but whatevs)

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

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

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

Shiver Review

4/5 ☆☆☆☆

by Maggie Stiefvater

Grace has always been fascinated by wolves. 

Despite being pulled of her tire swing and being attacked by a pack of wolves she can't help her obsession with them, especially for the yellow eyed wolf who saved her life.

Sam is a boy with a troubled past, a complicated life and an even worrisome future. When Sam was just a kid he was bitten by a wolf which in time turned him into one. Through out the summer and warm temperated seasons he is  allowed to live his life a human, but when winter comes and the air is cold the wolf comes out. 

He can't control it and there is no cure and worse of all this may be his last year turning into a human.

    Like all shifters Sam is running out of time. 

Every shifter has an expiration date- when they stop going back and forth between human and wolf. It's a curse he cant escape but at least as a wolf he can watch over her.

     From the edge of the woods in her back yard he is there, watching her. He's there during the winter days watching, but so is she. She knows he's out there. her wolf. The wolf that saved her six years ago. He is always there

.

     When a local boy dies and the wolves are threatened Sam ends up on Grace's back door wounded with a bullet hole in his neck. Grace should be scared of this stranger in her backyard, but one look into his eyes and she knows it's him. Her wolf, only he isn't a wolf any more.

     Together they fight against unbeatable odds, a jealous wolf and the possible exposure of what Sam is. Can their love get them through the chaos of Sam's world and even more importantly can they hold of winter to keep Sam from changing back into a wolf permanently? 

***

I have no idea what to say other then READ THE FREAKIN BOOK!

This book was pretty interesting. 

A whole new side to this werewolf-thing-a-ma-jig.

Here is a story where the curse of the wolf is actually a curse.

xoxoxo

Natasha Blaxk