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Bah... So I have really been MIA lately. Well I got a new job. Better pay, more hours, no serving food!!!! It's been good. A lot of info fast, but good. It is a nice change of pace. But I haven't. Been reading as much. So if anyone has a suggestion on something let me know. Of go to my bn.con library under kimdhopper and let me know if there is something you want to know about!!
City of Fallen Angels
I finally finished this last night..well this morning about 3 in the AM. It was a fantastic read and I really can not wait for the nest installment in the series.
So much has happened to the characters and I can't help but be connected to them. I am totally rooting for the following matches: Clary/Jace, Isabelle/Simon, Magnus/Alec, Luke/Joclyn, and Maia/Jordan. It just seems that all of these people complement each other so well and I love me a good love match.
So this book takes place in a bout a week, maybe less. There is a new foe in town and she has everyone all mixed up. And to make things even worse, she isn't the only bad guy this time around. There is someone else pulling the strings that may be even worse. Also, someone is sending people after Simon and his mark of Cain is turning them into salt... Totally cool protection, but it is kinda messing with Simon, he feels terrible. Along with the kidnappers, a very old Downworlder has decided that she wants Simon on her team, but can he trust someone he has only heard of??
Jace, after all the crazy in his life, is having bad dreams about hurting Clary. They are so in love and he is scared to hurt her so he keeps avoiding her which makes her upset and in turn hurts her. But I mean really, he grew up thinking he was a Wayland, then found out that the guy who raised him was actually a psycho, and to top it all off he was actually some other guys son in the end. Not to mention the whole dying and being brought back to life thing. Jace has had it rough and things just don't seem to be getting better. The dreams that he has been having may be the work of external forces. And I want so bad to tell you what happens at the end of the book and who else besides Jace it involves, but I just can't ruin that....
Poor Clary is worried about Jace and Simon, but she has to keep helping out with her mom and Luke's wedding plans. The wedding doesn't happen in this book, but it is getting close, I hope... Along with that, the Seelie Queen has seemed to take an interest in her life, which can only be troublesome. Though the Fair Folk do not lie, they will twist and manipulate the truth and it just causes trouble. Also, you don't want to owe them favors. For some reason the Queen thinks that Clary will need her in some way and so she has sent a way to summon a knight to take Clary to the court. The last time Clary went to the court she has almost been trapped there by manipulation and tricks.. She doesn't want the Queen's help or interest at all, but how can she really say no to just accepting a way to contact her.
Oh Simon, Simon, Simon... he has decided to try and date 2 girls without really meaning too. Bigger problem: they are kinda friends, well they know each other. Poor Simon. And then he gets kicked out of his house, kinda, and the guy he ends up living with is the werewolf who happened to be the one who changed one of Simons "girlfriends" into a wolf herself. Oh, and Jordan is still in love with Maia and is pissed that Simon is 2 timing her, but he can't really do anything about it.
So I am going to wrap this up. This book is a mess, but soooo good. There is love, betrayal, secrets, and things relieved that are very interesting. Friends are hiding things from one another and it seems like even families are not communicating well. If they had been things may have ended a lot differently and maybe even better than they did. There is a darkness that is trying to creep into people and it is strong, something that these guys have never seen before. Hopefully love will beat it, but is love stronger than the forces that they are fighting??
So far so great!!!
So between my 2 job situation and the hubby there has been little time to read City is Fallen Angels. But I have snuck in a few chapters and it is amazing thus far. So right now I'm sitting in my car outside work with my nook and I'm gunna read more. Have a wonderful day!!
Oh and I love the face that this lady totally just door dinged me while in sitting in my car completely visible. I mean really...
GO GET YOUR COPY!!
City of Fallen Angels is out NOW at your local bookstores and online!! Go get your copy now and enter into a beautiful world!
City of Glass
3rd book!!! The next on is ALMOST HERE!!!!!
Again, this book picks up right after the previous amazingly. It is so seamless and that is one of the things that makes it so enjoyable.
Clary and Jace had to face off with their father again at the end of the last one and Clary has some pretty amazing drawing powers. They did manage to keep him from converting the most powerful good sword to evil though. Also, Simon, our friendly neighborhood vampire can now walk in the sunlight. Jace's blood obviously did some magic there, but if all it takes is blood of a Shadowhunter you think someone would have figured that out already and totally made a business out of it.
So now Clary knows who to find in order to save her mother and he is in the City of Glass. Jace doesn't want her to step foot there in fear that the Clave will take advantage of her mad rune skills. Jace sets it up to look like she is backing out by telling her the wrong time, but when something goes terrible wrong at the portal and Clary finds out she was left behind she goes all mega rune and makes her own door, which should not be possible considering it took the warlock a VERY long time and A LOT of energy to do something that it took her a couple of minutes to do.
Clary starts to reveal more about her past and makes an unlikely friend. But Valentine is still a threat and now he has the power to destroy every Shadowhunter and something is terribly wrong in the city. Clary doesn't know who to trust anymore and she needs to get everyone, Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike, to work together to defeat her loony power hungry father before her whole world and everything she cares about it gone.
So we leave off after a major battle, again.... And the next book, City of Fallen Angels is out like TOMORROW!!!!!! I get my copy at midnight on my nook, but too bad I have to open at my new job the next morning....
City of Ashes
Book 2 in the Mortal Instruments series picks up right where the first left off. Clary now has her mother back, but she is unconscious for no apparent reason. Valentine got away, but there has been no sign of him even though everyone is looking for him. Clary is in love with Jace, but he is apparently her brother.
So many things are wrong and different and Clary just wants things to be normal, but that isn't looking to happen anytime soon if at all. And now someone is killing Downworlder children and draining them of their blood. Because of these acts of violence the Inquisitor is in town and she is zeroing in on Jace as being the guilty party. She has a grudge and none of the kids know what is going on. And now the second of the Mortal Instruments is missing and all of the Silent brothers, the most terrifying of the Clave, are dead leaving only Valentine as a suspect. Clary is determined to find her evil father and figure out what is wrong with her mother as well as rescue the items that he has stolen. Along the way her best friend Simon is pulled further into the Shadow world when something terrible happens to him. Jace and Clary are drawn to each other as if their blood were calling out and they find that they have some interesting and unique powers that other Shadowhunters could only dream of having.
This book is just as good as the first if not better. There are a few new characters, but the whole cast from the first one stays together and has the same tone as before. It is so consistent it made me feel like I was reading a different volume of the same book! Love it!
City of Bones
This is the first book of the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare and I fell in love from the start. These books pull the reader into a world that is modern, yet there is so much mystery and magic hidden just below the surface. I love being drawn into this world and sometimes forget that it is just fiction as I am trying to look past the glamors in my life.
This story follows a young girl of 16, Clary, as she discovers that her life isn't as ordinary as she once believed. One minute her and her mother are having an argument that results in her storming out of the house and the next she is fighting a demon and wondering who abducted her mother and left no trace. She is pulled into this world of Shadowhunters and Downworlders that was right under her nose but unseen by most. But what is a mystery is why demons are interested in her. She was raised out of this world and her mother had been separated from it for almost 16 years.
We find out when her dead father turns out to be not so dead and looking for something that only Clary's mother knows that location of.
So can Clary find the object, protect it, find and rescue her mother, and keep her heart from breaking?
As I said, this book is beautiful and will pull the reader into a whole new world. You meet so many fun characters who come to life on paper. You can almost see them standing there with you as the story unravels.
Divergent
Ok so this is a new book by Veronica Roth and it doesn't come out until May. I got a chance to read it this last week and I must say that it is a great book. I don't think there is really ant indication of the time it takes place, but I see it as something slightly in the future. Also, it is based in Chicago an is considered something for teens since the main character is 16. But really I think this is another story that adults would enjoy as well.
The book is about a civilization that has separated into factions. These groups are everything to them and when they are16 they must choose to stay in he faction they were born into or go elsewhere. The factions don't really associate with each other, so once to leave that is it. There is no going back.
The factions were supposed to result in peace between the people, but like always, someone wants more power and will do anything to get it. In this story a small, 16 year old girl and her friends and family must overcome society, their rules, their rules, and a crazy scientist irks they want to save what they care about and live to see tomorrow.
I hope that everyone enjoys this book like I did and I encourage you all to give it a try in May!!
So excited that I got a new job!!! It's still in retail, but it is a management position, making more, and on the side of town where we want to move! So loving life!
My pretty tank. I really want a saltwater one though...
Got my hair cut. It was time for a change and I like it. I also spent $100 on a bubble system for my fish. They are so happy now!!
I am back!!'
So my vaca from tumblr world I done. I have one more funeral to go to tomorrow, but it is from old age. Though it is still a sad loss it is not near as upsetting as the tragic loss of someone so suddenly as my nest friends mother. So on my little break from here I read a really good book that comes out in May. I will post on it later. Also, coming up, I am going to talk about the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Claire. The newest installment comes out on April 5 so posts on the previous parts of the series will lead ip to it. Happy hump day!!
I will be back...
Eventually... I haven't had much time to get on here as of late. besides my normal schedule of work, my husband is sick. Oh an I just had to repair my pc.. it decided that the video card didn't need to work, that it wanted to memory dump, and it blue screened... bah, at least I am married to a techie!
And on an even more important note: one of my best friend's moms passed away yesterday, she was pulled out of a house fire last week. So, I am gunna try to be a good friend in real life and sign off for a bit. But I have some books to write about and if I have time I will write about them.
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Someone should sponsor me to go to japan. I have my passport, I'll take vacation from work, I just need the plane ticket and a place to sleep!!
Excited to be going to bob saget next weekend... Now just to find something to wear.
Listen
This is an amazing, thought inspiring book by Rene Gutteridge. It all happens in the small town of Marlo, where nothing exciting or bad ever happens. The cops have very little to do until now. Someone in the town of Marlo has decided to put peoples private conversations online. Even though the website does not tell who is having the conversations, it is quickly figured out due to timing and context. It seems that this perfect town has a lot of dirty little secrets that are not coming out and it is starting to cause people to snap. Friends are feuding, fights are starting in every corner of town, and no one knows how to stop the webmaster from posting.
This is a really great book that brings up a lot of thoughts. It makes you look at the things you say yourself and you begin to wonder if what you are saying in private would hurt someone if the words got out. Lessons that we learned as children not to talk ill about others are brought to the surface and shown in a new way. This story shows that words have power. Though you may say something in anger and not really mean it, what you said may hurt someone and that could mean the end of a friendship. People get paranoid when they know others may be discussing them and that can result in them believing things that didn't really happen.
We all need to look at ourselves and really reevaluate what we say. All it could take is accidentally dialing someone on the phone during a private conversation to stir up a storm. Words hold a lot of power, especially if people believe them, good or bad. Hopefully this social experiment gone bad in Listen isn't repeated in reality or we all may be in for some shockers.
