Hop and Follow Friday

Blog hop is hosted by Crazy for books 

This weeks question: "Since Thanksgiving is coming up next week, let's use this week's Hop to share what we are most thankful for and what our holiday traditions are!"
My answer:
I am most thankful for the fact that all my family and friends are doing great right around now. No one is sick, no one is dying, we are all okay. Hmm as for traditions, we don't have much for thanksgiving. To be honest, this holiday is really boring to me. Every year it switches who hosts thanksgiving and what we do. Most of the time I just lock myself up in my room and read or do homework. 

Follow friday is hosted by Parajunkee's view

This weeks question: How long have you been book blogging?

My answer: It was a year in September. I didn't get really into it until January though.


It's the morning after the HP midnight showing. Hope everyone who went enjoyed it as much as I did and got enough sleep this morning!

If you decide to follow my blog, please leave a comment and let me know so I can follow you back!

Harry vs Voldemort rap off

AHHH!!!! Today is the Harry Potter midnight showing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited. I'm going to be decking out in harry potter gear and having my friend (who looks a lot like Harry Potter) dress up too. It's his first HP midnight showing so I think he should go all out.

Thought I'd spread the HP love around and share this hilarious harry vs voldemort rap off video. Enjoy!



Also, here are some of my favorite Harry Potter quotes from the books (sorry if they aren't word for word correct. I was too lazy to go look them up).

"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing around a wand!" --Prof. Flitwick, HBP

"Why worry about you-know-who when you should be worrying about you-no-poo! It's the constipation sinsation that's gripping the nation!" -- Fred and George, HBP

"Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love" --Albus Dumblore, Deathly Hallows

Waiting on Wednesday-- Last Sacrifice

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at breaking the spine.

Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

Published by Razor Bill

Genre: YA Paranormal

Release date: Dec 7, 2010

What it's about:

The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead's epic series!

Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.


Why?
AHHH!!!! The whole last book was a complete shock to me. I knew some of it was coming but never saw that ending. I'm dying to know how it ends. Will Lissa become the vampire queen? Who will Rose pick? Adrian or Demitri? And how is Rose going to get out of all of this???
Richelle Mead has been posting all the teaser trailers on her facebook. I refuse to look at them. I don't want any hints for this book. December 7th needs to hurry up and get here!

Review: Firelight

Firelight by Sophie Jordon

published by Harper Teen

Genre: YA paranormal

$16.99 (hardback)

323 pages

FTC: I will not be compensated for this review.

What it's about:

With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness leads her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is Will, whose family hunts her kind. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret.

My thoughts:

I had a lot of expectations going into this book. All the reviews I'd read for it (which were a lot of reviews) talked about how amazing it was. Then add in the fact that it sold movie rights a week after being published all said it was amazing. So this one didn't live all the way up to my expectations. To be fair about that, I did read it the day after I finished reading Paranormalcy and that's one of my all time favorite books now.

What I had a really hard time with for this book was that I couldn't picture the dragons. At all. They were this weird hairy bat like things from the way they were described, and I wanted to imagine them looking more like the dragon from Shrek. So this was all on me, but for some reason I took issue with it.

I really liked the relationship between Jacinda and Will. I felt the connection between them and was hoping they would have a chance to be together. The relationship that really annoyed me was the one between Jacinda and her mother. I absolutely couldn't stand the mother. She was horrible.

While this book didn't live up to my expectations (which were unrealistically high) it was still a good book. I finished it in one or two sittings. Is it going to go on my top 15 favorites of the year? No, probably not, but I still liked it.

My rating: 8.5/10

Hop and Follow Friday!

Book blogger hop is hosted by crazy for books.

This weeks question:
"If you find a book that looks interesting but is part of a series, do you always start with the first title?"

My answer:
Yes. Always. I refuse to read books out of order. I don't like not knowing what's going on or trying to figure out all the past histories with the characters. Too much work and it will ruin the book/series for me.
 
 


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Weekly question:
What is your usual monthly book budget?

My answer:
Oh man, I'm trying to not buy books at all for awhile cause I'm so broke, but I've been caving and buying books anyways. I won't really let myself spend more than $30-$50 a month on books. I've already reached that number so far this month.

And this is my week question:
WHAT BOOK SHOULD I READ NEXT?
1)Nightshade
2)I Am Number Four
3)Angelfire
4)Low Red Moon
5) Mad Love

I just can't decide what should come next!

Top Ten Tuesday

Top ten tuesday is a weekly thing hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish

This weeks is Top Ten most Unfortunate character names. Lol, I had fun with this one!

1) Master Bates aka Fagin from Oliver Twist:
Just read that name out loud. Yeah.... Dickens, you were a perv.

2) Mundungus from Harry Potter:
If your name has the word "dung" in it, I'm sorry.

3) Pooh from Winnie the Pooh:
He may be stuffed with fluff, but I'm sure even he knows his name is horrible.

4) Eugenie from Storm Born:
It's like Eugene and Genie put into one. That is not the name of a tough, kick ass kind of woman.

5) Cabel from Wake:
This one is just not good. Too many jokes can be made from it.

6) Graves from Strange Angels:
Who would want to be named after death?

7) Peeta from Hunger Games:
He's a bakers son and he's named after a type of bread. That's just baddddddd. Granted it's spelled different, but pronounced the same way.

8) Lend from Paranormalcy:
I may love this character to death, but Lend is a dumb name.

9) Tamani from Wings:
This one isn't actually all that bad, it's kind of fun to say even, I just needed a 9th name and this was all I could think of. haha.

4th Iron Fey book????????

I was blog hoppin over at Marie LOVES Books and she posted that Julie Kagawa is writing a 4th Iron Fey book!!!!!!!!!

This one is Ash's story and it's called The Iron Knight!!!!!!!!

Not only is there one more book, but it's Ash's story. I squeeeee'd so loud I freaked out my dog when I saw this.

Julie, you have just made my day!

Now here's the big question, is it going to be a short story thing like "Winter's Passage" was (aka Iron fey #1.5) or is it a full on book??? If anyone knows, please let me know!
I'm gonna guess full on book cause it starts with "Iron."

Here is the goodreads page: Iron Knight