I felt like F. Scott Fitzgerald was just making this up us he went, and I'm all for itI felt like F. Scott Fitzgerald was just making this up us he went, and I'm all for it...more
Hi my name is(Ava)Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips thHi my name is(Ava)Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire (hunter) but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
“Hey Ebony!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Draco Malfoy!
“What’s up Draco?” I asked.
“Nothing.” he said shyly.
But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.
Disclaimer:This may or may not be a quote from the book. If you know, you know. But let me tell you, if you're looking for an old school vampire-packed trashy tropy Twilight-like YA fantasy like they used to write in the golden days, look no further than Cruel Illusions. What. A. Treat. <3...more
“My strength is not owed to the wounds you gave me, but my willingness to let them scar.”
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This was a solid YA fantasy, like I haven't read in a“My strength is not owed to the wounds you gave me, but my willingness to let them scar.”
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This was a solid YA fantasy, like I haven't read in a while. It wasn't great, but it's refreshing sometimes to read a newly published YA you don't end up hating lol....more
“Remember what you learned, years ago: You're never sorry you brought a book.”
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Reading this book, it really feels like the author wrote it for h“Remember what you learned, years ago: You're never sorry you brought a book.”
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Reading this book, it really feels like the author wrote it for himself, just because he felt like it. And if you don't like it, it's your problem. I mean that this was definitely not written with a public in mind, but just out of pure need to write from the author, and I love him for it. Plus, a book about books is always a treat....more
“Sometimes I want to kiss him and sometimes I want to ruin him, but most of the time, I want those actions to be one and the same.”
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This was a s“Sometimes I want to kiss him and sometimes I want to ruin him, but most of the time, I want those actions to be one and the same.”
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This was a solid YA fantasy read, loved the fantasy and I especially loved the main character. She's flawed and authentic, and she just felt unique and well-crafted compared to other YA heroines. Not perfect, but real....more
“If nightmares had music, they'd sound like the Storm.”
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This was such a surprise, a compelling fantasy with darker tones than I imagined, and I“If nightmares had music, they'd sound like the Storm.”
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This was such a surprise, a compelling fantasy with darker tones than I imagined, and I must admit I was actually spooked at some parts! Different than many YA fantasy published these days, it felt like a breath of fresh air. I'd love to read more from the author. Thanks, Fairyloot!:)...more
“And you keep saying you aren't the hero." "I'm not. You're the hero. I'm just asking a girl to hold my hand.”
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This was fun to read, fast-paced a“And you keep saying you aren't the hero." "I'm not. You're the hero. I'm just asking a girl to hold my hand.”
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This was fun to read, fast-paced and with the right amount of romance and spice. Also, the Italian in it was almost perfect. A solid YA fantasy, I'm glad this was in my Fairyloot this month!:)...more
“…one cannot know the outcome of a journey if one is not brave enough to take it.”
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It's very rare for me to rate a book one star, and that is be“…one cannot know the outcome of a journey if one is not brave enough to take it.”
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It's very rare for me to rate a book one star, and that is because usually, when I'm reading a book and I realise it's not for me, I just stop reading it because, again, I understand that it's just not for me and why would a do myself and the author a disservice by reading and rating it? However, in this case I actually own the book, as it was in a Fairyloot box, and I hate having such a beautiful book in my library and not being able to enjoy it. So I tried very hard to make myself like it, but to no avail.
I didn't like the writing style, many things in the book were just too cliché and outdated (I thought we were past the angsty ya protagonist who is "not like the other girls"?), and I just couldn't really get myself to care enough about the plot to actually understand what was going on. There wasn't one single character who I cared about (maybe the prince? I don't know), I enjoyed the setting and the tales, but even those were told in a way that made me less engaged in the content, instead of more. Overall, I guess I just don't like the author's style. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to go on with the series. On the plus side, the book looks gorgeous! I might sell it or give it away sometime in the future, I'm sure it can find a future owner who appreciates it, it's really wasted in my hands!:)...more
“Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.”
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Thishasto be one of my favourite instalme“Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.”
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Thishasto be one of my favourite instalments in the series, gosh I love Becky so much and every time I read one of these books I start thinking and writing in British English these novels are justsohilarious, I can't have enough of them!...more
“There will be no redemption. It is not me who is wrong. It's everyone else.”
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Okay, so, let me premise this review by saying that I am still sho“There will be no redemption. It is not me who is wrong. It's everyone else.”
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Okay, so, let me premise this review by saying that I am still shook by how much I loved this book and I might not be 100% objective right now because I am still in thatomg is this the best book I ever read omg I want to re-read it 20 times and base my whole personality on itphase. However, even if this book doesn't turn out to be one of my favourite books of all time, I can in all honesty say that it definitely is one of the best, most enjoyable and thought-provoking ya books I ever read.
From the first chapter, I knew this was going to be something different. For one thing, this book is so fast-paced that in the first 20 pages there's more stuff going on than in some 600 pages books. I had to stop a few times to wonder how was the author going to continue with the story when what I thought was the main event happened on like page 30. But boy was I wrong. The whole plot of this book is one crazy ride which has absolutelyzeroslow moments and spins you around in a rollercoaster of sheer craziness you'll never want to end.
The main character is so freaking over the top that you can't even call her dramatic. She's just a whole new level of ya heroine and I don't have words to describe how angsty, vengeful and incredibly ruthless she is. I mean, she isunhinged.Every word that comes out of her mouth could be put in a book on how to be a bad *itch. She is the most gray character I ever seen, I mean she straight upmurders and torturespeople, and yet you can't help but root for her because, I mean, they deserved it! She's my idol and I'd give my left foot to be her friend.
I don't know how else to describe my feelings about this book but to give you an idea of how much I drank every single word of it, I'll say that I read more than 550 book since I started my goodreads account, and this is the first time I felt the need to start annotating because I just didn't want to miss any of its content, and I wanted to give myself the opportunity to go back and re-read all those quotes. This is, hands down, one of the most over-the-top things I ever read and I justlovedit. I wish all books I read were this fun.
(some quotes because I feel like I cannot really explain how this book is if not with the words of the author)
“The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily.”
“Perks of refusing to play by the rules: you don’t have to choose between the boy who’d torture a man to death with you and the boy who welcomes you back with pastries.”
“I've been told endless lies since I was born. That I was not kind enough, considerate enough, humble enough, honorable enough, pretty enough, pleasing enough. And if I failed to meet the needs of those around me, I did not deserve to live. Propaganda. All of it. Propaganda to keep me chasing after the approval of others on my bound and broken feet, as if being a good servant is the only thing I should be proud of.”
“How do you take the fight out of half the population [women] and render them willing slaves? You tell them they're meant to do nothing but serve from the minute they're born. You tell them they're weak. You tell them they're prey. You tell them over and over, until it's the only truth they're capable of living.”
“This is my admittedly graceless strategy: annihilate every center of power, so everything will collapse into chaos and people will have no choice but to obey the new most powerful thing - me.”
“Wow, the horror! As if I wasn’t naked when I was born.”
“My murder boy, my sweet boy.”
“So many attempts to stop me from existing comfortably in my own skin, yet here I am, doing what I want with a boy nobody appointed to me. And it's not dirtying me. It will not ruin me. It is not obscene, filthy, or shameful.”
“Shame and humiliation are self-imposed emotions, and from here on out, I choose not to feel them.”
“But a mother who has failed me so thoroughly is no mother of mine.” ...more
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