So I have decided that I want to start up a new thing on my blog, and that is Book Hauls. I just love sharing all the new books I get months. So at the start of each month I will post what i brought throughout the previous month. For example at the start of September, I am posting what books I brought or received through August. I would Also like to here what books you also brought throughout the month as well.
So in the Month of August I brought alot of books. I didn’t mean to, but when i start to buy books I just cannot seem to stop. (these are in no particular order as i don’t remember which books I brought first.)
First I brought a fair few Cassandra Clare books, I do have most of them on my Kobo but I wanted Physical copies. I just love them to bits.
– City of Bones (The Moral Instruments)
– City of Ashes (The Moral Instruments)
– City of Glass (The Moral Instruments)
– City of Fallen Angels (The Moral Instruments)
– City of Lost Souls (The Moral Instruments)
– Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices)
I also brought the 2nd and 3rd books into the Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead. Another one of my buys was Angelfall by Susan Ee
– The Golden Lily (Bloodlines)
– The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines)
– Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days)
The last 2 books I brought were written my the amazing John Green
– The Fault in Our Stars
– An Abundance of Katherines
If you follow my blog or follow me on twitter, you might have read that I went to Penguin Teens Live in Melbourne. I received 2 books by 2 Australia Authors while I was there.
– The Cinderella Moment by Jennifer Kloster
– The First Third by Will Kostakis
I think it can be said that I got alot of Books in the month of August. What did you buy this month?
Synopsis:
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school… again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’ master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’ stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
My Review
So this was a re-read for me. I read The Lightning Thief a fews years ago and just never got around the reading the rest of the series, and I was in the mood to start reading the series again. So I decide that I would re-read The Lightning Thief before I started Sea of Monsters. And it was just as amazing as the first time I read it, the writing style that Rick Riordan has is marvellous he knows how to pull someone into the story and not let them go to the very last page, then make then want more and more. The one thing i liked about this book was that it is not bases around love, even if there was a little hit of a crush *talking to you here Percy* I love how we are brought into this world. I also like that it is from Percy Perspective getting into a 12 year old’s is not something you do everyday. I loved loved loved camp half blood, wish I was the daughter of a God. I love Mythology, and Greek Mythology with a passion, so this book was just my cup of tea. I love hearing about all the Gods and Myths and just everything. The Characterisation for a first book in a series was really good. Percy development so much from the first couple of chapters to the last few of the book. Annabeth, I just love her, she has her defences up yet she has this little bit of vulnerability to her. Grover is the person everyone wants as her best friend. I loved all the little ‘battle’ scenes. I just loved pretty much everything about it. I like the idea that Rick Riordan to mix Ancient Greek ways of living in honouring the Gods into the modern world. That these Gods are real and they have children in the modern world, that have to be kept in hiding to keep safe, and to train, to be great hero. Well of this is not a great idea, don’t know what is. I just love the God especially Athena. I have always been a fan of Athena, I just think she is pretty amazing Goddess. So being able to read about her in the way Rich Riordan wrote her was pretty epic. I also like how the other Gods were presented. I liked how all different Mythological
Creatures were mentioned. I loved the story line and the concepts that the Lightning Thief came with.
Overall I would give it a 5 stars out of 5.
Synopsis:
The Drakes and friends will be tested when an infestation of deadly vampires threatens Violet Hill.Lucy’s cousin Christabel has come to live in Violet Hill, and adjusting to the difference between life in a small mountain town and her home in the city is difficult enough. The strict curfew that Lucy’s parents enforce is the worst part. Something really dangerous couldn’t possibly happen in this tiny town.
But Christabel has noticed some mysterious happenings, and it seems like Lucy, her boyfriend Nicholas and his brother Connor are all in on a secret that Christabel doesn’t understand—one that seems deadly serious. Although she won’t admit it, Christabel would love to be in on any secret with Connor Drake. But when she is kidnapped by the ruthless Hel-Blar vampires, Christabel must cause more and more trouble in Violet Hill, Lucy and Connor finally fill Christabel in on all the undead drama. Together, they must find a way to stamp out the Hel-Blar for good.
My Review
First i liked to say the cover of Bleeding Hearts looks amazing but then again i do love all the covers of the Drake Chronicles, they are all simply beautiful. Now to the Story. The one thing I like about the Drake Chronicles novels is that each book has different POV in them, and I was very happy that i was getting more Lucy POV as I adore her to the bone. I also like that we get another of the Drake Brothers as one of the perspective as well, in this book it’s Conner of the twins. and the last perspective that we get is Christabel, Lucy’s cousin whom is new to Violet Hill . I love the way Alyxandra is able to capture all these different roles and characteristic and is able to write from their mind. I loved the Nick and Lucky moments, they are by far my favourite 2 since the first book, even if there was not as many as i wished. Conner, Conner, Conner, I just love him. I loved the interaction between him and Christable, just cute. The twist and turns though the whole book, made me not want to put the book down, it just made me want to keep on reading. I would be lying if i said I did not finish this book in a few hours, as I did. I loved how the characters build and build throughout the books and we get to see changes. I also liked Christable, she is a very interesting character, she is weak yet very strong. She is not the usual girl, I think that is why I liked her so much. I loved the action scenes, it would not be a Drake Chronicle Novel without some action and Lucy is badass and I love it. All I have is one problem… Solange, that is not Alyxandra’s fault, she just pissed me off pretty much the whole book, and it made me want to punch her, maybe that is why Alyxandra Harvey wanted us to feel, if she did, well then it worked for me. I love the way Alyxandra writes it is pretty captivating. overall I really liked. The ending wow! The ending did not expect that.
So I give this book a 4 stars out of 5.
