wordsofclover's Reviews (2.16k)

Ok...where to begin.

I started reading the House of Night novels a few years ago when I spotted Marked in my bookshop and was intrigued. I was still fresh and grasping for any type of Vampire lore after Twilight(c'mon, we've all read it!) and at first I sincerely enjoyed Marked and the next few House of Night novels that followed.

I think it was when I finished around the fifth or sixth book that the fatigue of reading these books happened. I had stopped buying them and was only reading them when I spotted the next title on the library shelf. Basically, I didn't think they were worth spending my money on.

I'll skip forward now and get to Hidden. Okay, so what is it about Zoey that every single guy has to have her? I mean, the only Vampyre that hasn't wanted to jump her bones is Darius and that's cause he is very firmly Aphrodite's property...and no-one messes with her.

Stark and Heath were enough and now she was happy with Stark and then boom, along comes Aurox who apparently contains Heath's soul.... *big sigh*

And I fail to understand how again and again and again, throughout the books, Neferet just gets away with all sorts of going on in the House of Night and noone believes her until now...it's crazy she hasn't been properly outed by people that weren't teenagers before.

The author is a good writer!I enjoy her novellas, and the one Goddess Summoning novel I read was really enjoyable and I'm going to start the Goddess of Partholon series. But the House of Night needs to close down!!

This series just makes me crazy and it's making me ramble like a fool but it just started with so much potential and failed so miserably. I'm only reading them now because I've come to far with them to stop and want to see how the story ends.....if it ever ends cause it feels like it's been going on forever!!

And if I hear the word 'bullpoopie' again...I will stab someone in the eye with a fork!

There's just something about the way Trudi Canavan writes that completely sucks me in.

I first read the Black Magician Trilogy around four years ago and I loved it. I eventually bought myself the trilogy so I could re-read it whenever I want and only the best of the best make it to my bookshelf.

Sonea is an incredibly strong female character. She rarely shows weakness and is quick on her feet in tricky situations. The way she held herself through all the bullying could be pretty inspiring for any younger readers going through the same thing.

Like the first time I read The High Lord,the blossoming relationship between Sonea and Akkarin worked on me like a spell. I became sucked into something that I had never expected, but I fell irrevocably in love and my heart broke with Sonea's at the end when she realised he had given all of his power.(/spoiler>

And Sonea remains the steadfast character she had been throughout the trilogy, picking herself up and focusing on what she had to do which was to help her people.

I love anything this author writes and I'm making my way towards The Traitor Spy Trilogy which I hope is just as good!

Re-read for third time : 25/2/14

Oh god, this book became my heart..

I just love those moments when a cover captures your eye and you pick it up, not expecting anything amazing and then you begin to read and it blows your mind away. This is what happened to me with Under The Never Sky.

I was at first a little bit confused about the world Aria lived in. Smarteyes, the Aether and the Pods were hard to take in at first but gradually everything bagan to slip into place as more explanations on everything are told by Aria.

Perry's introduction into the book was beautiful. He was like a warrior from the mist, rescuing a girl and then disappearing. There is a softness and a fragility in Perry that is so lovable, you just want to give him a hug.

Aria proved to be a strong character. At first, she appears as fragile as flower but gradually, as she adjusts to the outside, her strength and personality blossoms and you grow to love her as much as

Perry begins to

I would reccommend anyone who likes books such as The Hunger Games to read this book. It is beautiful in its relationships and its language, and I dare you to not fall in love with Roar and Perry.


Update: May I just say to all those people who think Perry's sense of smell is hilarious and stupid and go on about the way he can smell Aria's girly moments...it's not that that smells like violets. She smells like violets, it's her personal smell, something sweet and strong and wild all at the same time. And I think she starts smelling like that in the moment her body changes because she is changing and become less laboratory and unnatural and more woman, the girl she was always suppose to be. I'm not giving out to anyone, it just frustrates me when people don't seem to understand!!

I devoured Ashes..
Re-Read 07/08/13


It is written in a way that you almost don't realise how quickly you're making it through the book, the chapters are short and easy to read.

The plot is simple to understand and Alex's telling of it doesn't mix words around. She tells it as it is, blood and teeth scattered across the ground, entrails being sucked like spagetti, eyeballs being popped out and eaten...it's almost refreshing in a gruesome and 'thank god it's only a story way'.

I do agree with other reviews in that the book is separated into two different parts, there is the fast paced half with Alex travelling with Ellie and Tom and then the second half when she finds the Amish like town with strict rules and regulations and with people who are very unlikable.

The ending of the book, for me, was great. It made me gasp out loud and unfortunately for me, I had read Ashes shortly after its publication, meaning I was rocking back and forth in anticipation for a whole year before Shadows..

It is a good book...and besides how can you not like a book where dogs are the best things to have by your side!

Shadows for me, was not as good as Ashes.

Unfortunately, I began reading Shadows without re-reading Ashes as a friend had borrowed it. So I found myself saying, who is this? what happened here? I have no idea what it going on...

I did, eventually, begin to understand what was happening but by that time, things had gone from fast paced in Ashes to an almost death like trudge in Shadows..the pace of the book just wasn't what I expected and I found myself getting bored in parts with a book I had never expected to find dull.

The end though, was like Ashes and has me gripped for suspense for Monsters. I can't wait to find out what happens and maybe when I re-read Ashes and Shadows, Shadows won't be as slow for me with a refreshed memory.
Reread September 2013 and it was much better reading it having just finished reading Ashes!

There is also a part of me that believes Wolf might have saved Alex from the mines. My friend thinks she was smelling Tom that time but I don't think so. She smelled Wolf...there is some kind of disgusting yet not so disgusting attraction begin them...no?

1.5 stars.
Overall, I was incredibly disappointed by this book. I really enjoyed Beautiful Creatures and its range of strange and kooky characters. By the time I got to the second chapter of Darkness, I already had begun to hate Lena with a passion I did not know I possessed.

The whole book Ethan(a male protagonist I have never been able to really warm to), for me was just a whiny little boy who seemed to have lost his male parts. He allowed Lena to trample over him and his brooding and her moodiness just irritated me.

I also became confused around the time Ethan and Link entered the tunnels and went into more tunnels with Liv and then I just wasn't able to follow along with the story. I also found myself rooting for Liv and Ethan to get together and when they didn't, I was disappointed.

The only great thing about book was something I had guessed early on-

Macon being alive!I love Macon and he is a great character and especially for darkness, was a steady character that breathes a bit of a life into a jumbled up mess

I will still read the third book but I won't invest as much hope in it as I did with Darkness..