A Book Lover's Bookish Thoughts

Defy by L.J. Shen My rating: 3 of 5 stars Instagram: TheMaskedWritress Twitter: BondJavelyn Facebook: A Book Lover's Hideout Blogger: JavBondWrites Youtube: JavBond “In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: Big mistake. Big. Huge.” You said it, Melody. Would you believe I've never actually read or better yet even tried to finish a teacher-student romance novel? Well I've done the deed. And it's not the one which Melody did with Jamie. Moving on. We start with the main heroine of this novel Melody Greene, her unfortunate day of having to teach at the Hot Heads's school (cannot remember the name of the school at the top of my head right now as I write this) and having to crash straight into another car. But that's not where the unfortunate event really starts. The unfortunate event starts when she crashes into the school's principal's privileged, cocky jerk, spoiled brat son Jamie's car after having to handle ...

Wildcard by Marie Lu My rating: 4 of 5 stars "When the world is murky, guide yourself with your own steady light." And that is completely and absolutely true as you should never give up, no matter what happens in the world. Sigh I will definitely miss Hideo and Emika after this.... But continuing on, this book was no better than the last one, I must say. Usually sequels suck and don't have as much energy neither the same enthusiasm that was running in the first book, but this book nailed it if I do say so myself. So again we have our heroine Emika now discovering exactly who is behind the hack in the game itself and tries to save the world again this time with the help of her new and former Phoenix Rider team. Getting into this was already hard what with the gaming world at the most vulnerable from the consequences of being saved or not before, but now it threatens more than just the gamers, it threatens the world and the conscious mind...

Warcross by Marie Lu My rating: 4 of 5 stars "Every locked door has a key and every problem has a solution." And that's what I get, from the first time I open my library copy of Warcross. Mystery, romance, sci-fi almost fantasy-like worlds and diverse characters come into play as I try to summarize my feelings in regards to this novel, first in the duo-logy. First of all, whew what a high I've ridden from this novel, it's literally everything yet everything unexpected and keeping me on my feet at all times, but we'll get into that a bit later. We first get a glimpse of Emika Chen, our main heroine, in a rough and tight spot as a bounty hunter struggling to pay bills for basic necessities to survive on. The one thing that keeps her going are her dad's words to her about every problem having a solution, and you know to be honest, most of us would probably relate to Emika's situation at one time or another as we grow or...