Harry Potter Moment (20)

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Ship that you wish had sailed but didn't?


Luna and Neville

This is such an easy one for me because almost all of my ships sailed. Tonks and Lupin, Harry and

Ginny, Hermione and Ron. So I only have one ship that never sailed which was Luna and Neville. They just seemed perfect for each other! It was only alluded at in the books and movies, but I shipped it so hard! 

Who was your ship?
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Review: Rogue by Julie Kagawa

Grade: 3 Butterflies

Series: Talon #2

Author: Julie Kagawa

Publisher: Harleuin Teen

Goodreads Summary

Deserter. Traitor. Rogue.

Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can’t forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed her—Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he’d signed his own death warrant. 

Determined to save Garret from execution, Ember must convince Cobalt to help her break into the Order’s headquarters. With assassins after them and Ember’s own brother helping Talon with the hunt, the rogues find an unexpected ally in Garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between Talon and St. George. 

A reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly. Soon Ember must decide: Should she retreat to fight another day…or start an all-out war?

This series has been very up and down for me. There are so many aspects of not only this book, but this whole series that I love. The dragons and the lore in this book were freaking fantstic to read! The world and the action scenes are so exciting to read! However, there are so many other aspects that I didn't like.

Plot wise, this was a very solid sequel! The plot was very exciting to read! It was so fast-paced and action packed and I loved it! The pacing was also very good! The story advanced in the perfect paced! It was neither to fast nor slow, I was never whiplashed by the pace and I never got bored.

I love this world so much! I love the fact that there are dragons! I especially loved all the political intruige that we show inside Talon! It was a cool added aspect that added so much more to the world! It made it more real and it was so interesting! It also added a lot more suspense because Talon wants Ember and we don't know why. The question of what is so special about Ember was waeved throughout the story and it added thi sense of mystery.

Now the aspects that I didn't much like. The characters felt very distant and character development seemed very nonexistant. I really wanted to feel for Ember and everyone because when you care for the characters it makes the book so much better. However, I just couldn't. I don't know why but I didn't care. I didn't care about Ember and Garret or either of the love stories. I knew if someone died I really wouldn't care. This might be tied to my next point, which is none of the characters really grew or developed. The Ember at the end of the book was the same one from the beginning and the same goes for every single character. There was no growth of the characters and that might have helped the distance between me and the characters.

The next thing that I really didn't like was the sense of intitlement that every dragon had, even Ember. Throughout the whole book whichever dragon's POV we were reading from they would comment or think about how much better they were than humans. To clarify, I was not bothered by their attitude I was bothered by the waste of potential. You would think that this would be the perfect oppurtunity to grow the characters and help them down from their high horse. This did not happen. There were so many oppurtunites throughout this book to highlight humanity and how you don't need to be powerful to be bad-ass, but the author never took them! So many scenes I expected this happened but it never did and it angered me so much because now I had to deal with the dragon's attitude without any hope of them changing their minds.

Even with all its faults and the frusteration I felt I will continue this series. The world and plot has my heart! I loved the world and setting and I can't wait to read more of the interworkings of Talon!


This book got....

3 Butterflies

Basic, nothing special, meh

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Review: See Me by Wendy Higgins

Grade: 2 Butterflies
Name: See Me
Series: See Me #1
Author: Wendy Higgins
Publisher: Wendy Higgins


Goodreads Summary

While most seventeen-year-old American girls would refuse to let their parents marry them off to a stranger, Robyn Mason dreams of the mysterious McKale in Ireland, wondering how he’ll look and imagining his cute Irish accent. Prearranged bindings are common for magical families like her own, however when she travels to the whimsical Emerald Isle she discovers there’s more to her betrothal and McKale’s clan than she was led to believe. 

What starts as an obligatory pairing between Robyn and McKale morphs over time into something they both need. But one giant obstacle stands in the way of their budding romance: a seductive and deadly Fae princess accustomed to getting what she wants—and what she wants is McKale as her plaything. Love, desire, and jealousies collide as Robyn’s family and McKale’s clan must work together to outsmart the powerful Faeries and preserve the only hope left for their people.

Wendy Higgins has written one of my favorite series, the Sweet series. I love those books so much but I had yet to read any of her other books. So, of course, I just had to read this book! I went into this book with pretty high expectations and I think that contributed to the final rating of this book. I liked this book, it was enjoyable and I really enjoyed reading about the world and Ireland and the system of the Faeries. There were a few things that weren't as great as I was expecting them to be. Also, I feel the need to say that as time passes I liked this book less and less. The bad things keep sticking in my mind and I'm forgetting the things I liked.

First off, I enjoyed the plot and the story. I liked the storyline that the main character needs to marry this man for her family's safety. I did enjoy the romance, even though it was slightly confusing. It started off as a very cliche insta-love story but then it did an 180 and they refused to talk to one another. It was off-putting. And then they fell back in love with one another in less than a month.

I didn't really like the characters. They were okay and were kind of enjoyable to read at times. It just felt like a lot of potential was wasted. The characters weren't focused on enough. Also, I found the main character very shallow at times. She had a panic attack and freaked out when she learned that the clan she was marrying into were leprechauns. I get that she was self-conscious about her height, but damn her priorities were all screwed up. I wouldn't be surprised or even put off if she freaked out about getting married but she didn't. She was all right marrying the guy, but when she learned that he might be short that's when she couldn't handle it. I was put off my her shallowness and it was never developed throughout the story. It wasn't part of her character arc at all, it was just there. Actually, no one really went through any sort of character development.

Also, whats the point of making a book about leprechauns when the main love interest is magically the only one that's tall. It was redundant and took away from the setting of the world. One last thing, I didn't like how the clan was so sexist and everyone just accepted it. They didn't like women in the shoe workshop and women only worked as cooks, maids, etc. And everyone just accepted this! They were mad and all, but they never addressed it. It was more like "Yah, it's there and we're not happy about it, but since it's their tradition and way of thinking it's all right". I didn't like this.

All in all, this book was an okay read. The romance was fun to read about and I really liked the two characters together. However, the plot wasn't really there, it was just about the romance, which is fine but there was a lot of potential there that wasn't really used. The same thing can be said for the characters. They were nice and not to bad, but they weren't really fleshed out.

This book got....

2 Butterflies

Boring, not really my kind of book.

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