BLOG TOUR-Book Review + Excerpt: The Blood Race (The Blood Race: Book 1)

Hello my friends! I apologize for not being around here very much lately. BUT I AM HERE NOW. And that has to count for something, am I right?

Twenty Øne Piløts Bøøk Tag

I found this tag by Vivalabooklife ages ago. I saw it and immediately wanted to do it, but only now have I finally gotten around to it. It was Twenty Øne Piløts after all. And you must know how much I love their music.

Book Review: Morning Star (The Red Rising Trilogy: Book 3)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

OH MY. OH MY WORD. What I have just read? It was absolutely, positively amazing. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more invested in a book than I was with this one. IT BLEW MY MIND. Oh, I loved it.

Book Review: Gemina (The Illuminae Files_02)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Wow. WOW. Just wow. This beautiful, science fiction, files, weirdness was absolutely mind-blowing. Quite literally. I just can not get over how spectacular this is.

Book Review: Golden Son (The Red Rising Trilogy: Book 2)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

I can’t recover from this. I am in so much shock right now. I had expected this book to end bad, very bad even. BUT NOT THAT BAD. That was absolutely horrible. It may just be the worst ending ever. It has devastated me.

Book Review: Red Rising (The Red Rising Trilogy: Book 1)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

I AM DESTROYED. Someone send some help this way. I am in shock. I don’t even know how to describe this kind of book. There were so many epic parts of it. It is definitely one of the best science fiction books out there.

Book Review: Avalon (Avalon: Book 1)

Rating: 4/5 stars.

So…this was really cool. I just wasn’t as into it at the beginning, because it took awhile to really get going. Also, some things were just too simple and easy.

Guest Post: The Most Impactful Books

 

Today I am proud to present my first guest post that is actually not for a blog tour. Funny, how I actually haven’t done a guest post like this before. So I’m really happy to give you Madelyn and Joshua from Literary Cafe (Go check out their site, it is really cool.)!!!

Book Review: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files_01)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

First off, let me just say that this was the most unique and most different written fiction book that I have ever read. It was beautiful and I fell in love from the start.

Book Review: Winter (The Lunar Chronicles: Book 4)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Oh my word! This was a great conclusion to The Lunar Chronicles! I loved it!!! I want more by this author.

Cinder, Wolfe, Thorne, and Cress have a plan to get on Luna, but things go wrong when they land. Soon they’re split up all over Luna and they must find a way to get to people of Luna to side with Cinder if they’re ever going to have any chance of defeating Levana. Meanwhile Winter, the stepdaughter of Levana, has depised Levana for years. She is in love with Jacin, a palace guard who has been her friend all her life. If she gets the chance, she wants to help Cinder overthrow Levana, but Levana might kill her first.

Winter and Jacin are now like my top favorite characters (just behind Cinder and Kai). Winter was kind, sweet, in love, and had this quiet funniness to her. She was also going crazy and it was so sad and messed up. I just wanted to comfort her. Thank goodness Jacin was there for her. He was so willing to do anything for Winter. I mean anything, even turn against friends to keep Winter safe. He worried about her so much. Cinder kind of stole the spotlight in this book. She developed very much in this one. Kai, oh my, he went through some hard stuff. He had so many burdens to carry and worry about. Scarlet and Wolfe were together for such a small amount of time. Cress and Throne’s relationship developed pretty quickly towards the end. I love each of them and there personalities! Oh, and don’t forget about Iko! She brings so much fun to the book.

This was amazing and a little complex. I loved every moment. It jumped between many points of view, but it never got confusing. It was intense, frightening at times (Oh the worry I go through for fictional characters.), and shocking. The violence was very high at the battle scenes. It got quite bloody and gory in those scenes, but it was beautiful in its own way. The romance got a little intense towards the end but there were only kisses.

Everyone who loves dystopian and science fiction and fantasy needs to read this series! It was amazing and I hope to read everything by this author!

-G. Paige