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Some Thoughts On: The Raven King

The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) Maggie Stiefvater April 26th 2016 Scholastic ******Will probably contain spoilers for this book and the whole series just as a heads up****** I'm not going to try and write a normal review for The Raven King, because quite frankly I don't even know if I'm capable of doing proper reviews any more, and this is not the book or the series where I want to figure that out. That, and my love for this series transcends that of something which I can properly review, as I am completely biased and I *will* fight people about these books. On that note, this is also won't even entirely be about The Raven King on its own. Rather, it's a chance for me to go on and on and on and on and on about how much I love these books and Blue and those darn boys. My biggest fear about The Raven King, as is always the case with final books in a beloved series, was that it wouldn't be a good or fitting ending. I did not need to be worried. Rather than reac...

The Secret

Geek Girl review

Geek Girl Holly Smale 28th February 2013 HarperCollins Children's Books Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.  She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves.  As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did.  And as her old life starts to fall apart, the question is: will Harr...

Letterbox Love #26

Letterbox Love is the UK's version of IMM, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at  Narratively Speaking  :) For review: Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake (Excuse me while I sit here and flail and die. Anna was one of my favourites last year, so very much looking forward to the sequel!) Dead Jealous by Sharon Jones (Not heard much about this, but I like a good mystery/thriller. Thanks to Hachette for both of these!) Bought: Touch of Power by Maria V Snyder (Maria V Snyder. What else do I really need to say?) Geek Girl by Holly Smale (I have a proof of this, but it's such a cute book and I loved it so much I thought I should buy it as well.) Soulless by Gail Carriger (Been wanting to read these books for ages, but was also too afraid too because they're 'adult'. Finally got over it and bought the first one!) Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger  From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer and Valerie Thomas (I kept on seeing people go on about how much they liked this book, ...

The Future (or Help I'm Kind of Freaking Out Over Here)

Sorry, I know that I haven't posted for nearly a week and that now when I'm actually posting something it isn't even about books, but every now and again I like to get a bit personal on here. So. I've been kind of worrying a bit lately about, well, The Future. And not some dystopic future where everything's in the toilet and evil rulers send children to fight to the death in an arena for sport, but my future (I did say this was a bit personal.) Society expects us to be able to know what we want to do from a fairly young age and then by about my age we're expected to know what we want to do and how we're going to do it and whether we want to go to uni or do an apprenticeship or whatever and I just don't. This has never worried me before because I'm a fairly laid back person. I've always been like 'yeah, I'll think about that later, I've got plenty of time' (about pretty much anything, really. I'm a n expert procrastinator.) but...

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