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Review: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #1) by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Series: Tales From The Shadowhunter Academy #1
Published by Simon & Schuster on February 17th 2015
ISBN: 1481443143
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy & Magic, School & Education, Short Stories
Pages: 40
Format: Kindle
Source: Purchased
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Simon Lewis never thought he’d become a Shadowhunter…and now he has the chance. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

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Having read and enjoyed The Mortal Instruments series, I was excited to read this short and get to see what happened after. I enjoyed getting to see some of the characters again and what was going on in their lives.

I had a few moments where I wanted to slap a couple of the characters, wondering what they could have been thinking.

Overall this was a very quick, short, fun read and I look forward to reading more of these.


About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices trilogy, and coauthor of the Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson. She also wrote The Shadowhunter’s Codex with her husband, Joshua Lewis. Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts.

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Review: B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton

"B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
Series: Kinsey Millhone #2
Published by Macmillan on April 1st 2010
ISBN: 9781429922258
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Private Investigators
Pages: 230
Format: Kindle
Source: Library
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Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.

Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.

Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.

It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.

A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.

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I waited quite a while for this one from the public library because I had thoroughly enjoyed the first one and couldn’t wait to dive into this one. I managed to read it in just two sittings over about a 30 hour period. Let me tell you, this series has effectively dragged me out of an awful several month long reading slump.

So we come upon our friend, Kinsey Millhone once again. And once again she finds herself in a situation that somewhat makes the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. I love the fact that these are action packed and intense novels that get your blood pumping and your adrenaline level rising.

Those who have followed my reviews will note that this is outside the realm of the usual genres that I read, but I am so glad for the distraction as I was apparently getting burned out a bit on my usual fare and had not been able to really enjoy a book in a while.

This particular novel is fairly well edited (I only found maybe 3 small errors with an extra word or a missing word in the whole thing!). The author has a way of crafting a novel such that the reader feels as though they are a part of the action and experiencing the events along with the characters and that is an incredible feat with some of today’s authors.

While this is an older novel and not something just newly available on the market, it is definitely 100% worth the read. If you love a good mystery or suspense novel, then you definitely want to give this series a go.



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Review: A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

"A" is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Series: Kinsey Millhone #1
Published by Macmillan on April 1st 2010
ISBN: 9781429901345
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Private Investigators
Pages: 288
Format: Kindle
Source: Library
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When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had a reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access, and opportunity, Nikki was their number-one suspect. The jury thought so, too.

Eight years later and out on parole, Niki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her late husband.

A trail that is eight years cold. A trail that reaches out to enfold a bitter, wealthy, and foul-mouthed old woman and a young boy, born deaf, whose memory cannot be trusted. A trail that leads to a lawyer defensively loyal to a dead partner--and disarmingly attractive to Millhone; to an ex-wife, brave, lucid, lovely--and still angry over Fife's betrayal of her; to a not-so-young secretary with too high a salary for too few skills--and too many debts left owing: The trail twists to include them all, with Millhone following every turn until it finally twists back on itself and she finds herself face-to-face with a killer cunning enough to get away with murder.

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I have been meaning to read these for years, and I just never got around to it. So when I needed something different this week, I picked it up fromm the library and chugged on.

It starts out a bit slow but once you hit about the 70% mark, the rest of the book seems to fly by in heart pounding action. I have read largely young adult novels for the last couple of years, so a good mystery seems to be just what I had needed right now.

Kinsey Millhone is the type of character that any woman can relate to. She could be any one of us. No special powers, no hidden abilities, just raw nerves of steel and the refusal to let a question go unanswered.

The characters in this novel are complex and while part of me saw the ending coming, feeling like it had been choreographed a bit, I was still surprised at the ending and how it played out.

If you want a good heart pounding, intense mystery, this is definitely the book to read. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.



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Review: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
Series: Throne of Glass #4
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 1st 2015
ISBN: 9781619636057
Genres: Young Adult, Action & Adventure, General, Love & Romance, Fantasy & Magic
Pages: 576
Format: Kindle
Source: Library
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Sarah J. Maas's New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series reaches new heights in this sweeping fourth volume.

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past...

She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.

She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen's triumphant return.

Celaena's epic journey has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions across the globe. This fourth volume will hold readers rapt as Celaena's story builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.

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Ok, give me a moment to gather myself here because I can’t even… I really have no words …

Deep breaths in and out…. Okay.

I swore a long time ago I would not be one of THOSE reviewers. We all know the type, right? Grown women who get all flustered and hot and bothered over a YA novel, and then go into teen girl fan ravings.

And then I read this book and blew that all straight to hell in about a minute flat.

To write this review without spoilers is very difficult, so if I slip up, I apologize in advance. If you haven’t read the prior books in this series, you will probably want to stop reading this review right now because I will totally ruin the earlier books for you.

The first thought that comes to mind for me right now is: Emotional roller coaster. I mean, not for nothing but holy crap.

While generally I tend to dislike a large amount of swearing in YA fiction, in this particular book I don’t think the story would have been as good without it. Be warned that in this one there is a fair amount of sexual innuendo as well.

I both loved and hated it all at the same time.

The main character calls to mind the mythical creature the phoenix, because all I kept thinking as I got further and further into the depths of the pages was “out of the ashes,” and from those ashes what is reborn is absolutely incredible.

I do have to say though that quite frankly the ending thoroughly pissed me off. There is no polite way for me to say it. It is only the inkling of an indication from the author’s own Goodreads page that this is not the way the series ends and another book is somewhere on the horizon that kept me from blasting on Twitter and every other bit of social media about my disappointment that…. Well, the end just left me with too many unanswered questions… Hmm, that seems to be a bit of a pattern with me lately.

So, Ms. Maas, you have thrown down the gauntlet, and I have no idea how you are going to top this one, but I say, Bring it on!



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My Piece of the Puzzle (3) Handling Conflict

Each day and each experience when living with a child with autism is different.  Each child with autism is different.

For those who don’t know what autism is:

Autism is a developmental disability, which is defined as a syndrome. A syndrome is simply a mix of signs or characteristics that can be used to show a particular condition. Autism is a lifelong condition that combine both developmental and behavioural features.

Translation: Autism is a series of developmental issues in socialization and communication that affect each person differently.

It has been report card week in our house.  My older two children (ages 12 and 9) have been bragging about their A’s.  My youngest’s report card comes in and we look at it and see satisfactory progress all the way down the line, and then we get to “will use words to solve conflicts with peers” and the words minimal progress.

This is one of her biggest areas of difficulty.  This has been one of her IEP goals for over 2 years and still it says minimal progress.  The school has worked with her on this.  Her therapists have worked with her on this.  Her father and I have worked with her on this.  And she still struggles with it.

We are at a loss as to how to help her with this one.  Maybe in part because even my own conflict resolution skills are not spectacular.  I am a “tell it like I see it” kind of woman myself.  I tend to tell people not to ask for my opinion if they don’t want it.  But I do try to teach my children that if they have to start a sentence with “no offense, but” they should probably keep it to themselves because what is about to follow is going to be rude.

Some of the lessons come easily, and others come at great expense.  To teach Lauren how to handle conflict, there has to be a conflict to use as an example.  Quite frankly, we try to limit the things that are going to send her into meltdown mode.  And honestly she really doesn’t have many peer interactions outside of school.  She has her brother and sister, and that is really about it.  She doesn’t have any little boys and girls that she plays with outside of school.  She’s never been invited to play at another kid’s house on weekends.  So how do you teach conflict resolution in that kind of situation?

How do you help your child without trying to shelter them?  It really feels like such a very fine line to walk.  It’s about finding the balance.  Learning to let go a little bit each day and letting them learn to help themselves a little bit at a time in a controlled environment.  This mom is learning, too, right along with her.

Hamming it up for the camera!

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Book Blogger Hop (3 ): Other Interests

About the Book Blogger Hop
The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended December 31, 2012.
 
I didn’t want the hop to come to end, and with Jennifer’s permission, I’ll relaunch the Book Blogger Hop on Friday, February 15th, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt just like before. The hop’s purpose will remain the same as it will give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

 This week’s topic:  What other interests do you have besides reading and blogging?

Besides reading and blogging?  Do work and sleep count? Haha! I barely have time for those.

But in all seriousness, I do actually have interests outside of reading and blogging and working.  I don’t always have enough hours in the day to pursue those interests, but they do actually exist.  I am actually a writer as well.  I have not been able to dedicate as much time to this lately as I would like, and have many, many, many unfinished works in progress that will one day become finished projects that will hopefully grace your e-readers.

I also crochet, though I still think of myself as a novice at that, even though I have been at it two years.  I have had to slow down with this as my wrists tire out quite a bit faster than they used to due to arthritis that I didn’t expect I would have to deal with as badly as I do at 34.

I play guitar, although, again, this is something that the aforementioned arthritis has forced me to give up completely.  My fingers just will not move in the way they need to to be able to play the way I used to.  Though I have toyed with the idea of picking it up again.  Or learning a different instrument.  I have one kid playing the violin and one playing the viola.  So who knows.

I love adult coloring books.  This is a fairly recent hobby and I am still not very good at shading and all of that, but I still enjoy it.  It is relaxing and fun and it helps calm me and help me recenter and refocus.

And I love hearing about all of the things my kids are learning and doing.  Mostly because I miss going to school and learning.  I didn’t get the chance to go to college, largely for financial reasons, and I envy the opportunities available to them.  They are not yet of college age, but they have so much ahead of them.

So, those are some of my non-bookish, non-blogging interests!  What about you?  What else do you like to do when you aren’t reading or blogging?  Link me in the comments and I would love to come check out your post.

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Review: City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6) by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #6
Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on May 5th 2015
ISBN: 1442416904
Genres: Young Adult, Lifestyles, City & Town Life, Love & Romance, Fantasy & Magic, Social Issues, New Experience, Paranormal
Pages: 768
Format: Kindle
Source: Shared Library
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Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian—but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance…

Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world will change. Who will survive the explosive sixth and final installment of the Mortal Instruments series?

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Never before had I had the conclusion of a series leave me with more questions than answers!!! While a lot of loose ends were tied up in this thrilling conclusion to The Mortal Instruments, so much more gets added in at the very end to leave even more questions. And I am just not sure how I feel about that.

The imagery and character development was beautiful, though I wonder about introducing so many new characters when the series was ending. What exactly did the author have in mind? What more is in store for us in the future? I know there is a new series, a couple of them in fact, in the works, with a new book coming this fall as well in one of those series’. But right now I am sitting here reeling and wondering what in the world just happened.

I at once have a sense of satisfaction and a sense of loss. I am not even sure how to describe it.

I rated this at four stars instead of five because there were a few glaring editing missteps that made me fumble and falter a bit, and this book took me a fair bit longer to get into than any previously in the series. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading more by this author, however.

If you haven’t yet read this series and are a fan of young adult literature, then you really have to pick this up. If you are a fan of fantasy fiction, you have to read this series. You won’t be sorry.


About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices trilogy, and coauthor of the Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson. She also wrote The Shadowhunter’s Codex with her husband, Joshua Lewis. Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts.

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Review: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5) by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #5
Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on September 1st 2015
ISBN: 1481456008
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 592
Format: Kindle
Source: Shared Library
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When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

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It took me longer than I would like to finish this book, but that had more to do with my life circumstances than any failing of the book itself. Though this book did take a bit longer to get through than the others, I still really enjoyed the book.

There were moments where I started to actually like Sebastian, only to have that dashed with a cool and vilified hatred.

There were several twists in this book that I didn’t see coming, though I probably should have. I see where so many things are coming together, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series. So much is coming together and so much that one could not have expected, and some things that you could. I will be interested to see how the author pulls all of that into the sixth book.


About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices trilogy, and coauthor of the Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson. She also wrote The Shadowhunter’s Codex with her husband, Joshua Lewis. Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts.

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Release Day Blitz and Giveaway for The Glittering Court!!!!!!!

 

I am so excited that THE GLITTERING COURT by

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Author: Richelle Mead
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destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea.


After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as a

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she must hide her identity from her new friends, mysterious refugee Mira and

fiery former laundress Tamsin, and most importantly, from Cedric himself—even

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Review: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4) by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #4
Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on September 1st 2015
ISBN: 1481455990
Genres: Young Adult, Lifestyles, City & Town Life, Fantasy & Magic, Social Issues, New Experience
Pages: 480
Format: Kindle
Source: Shared Library
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The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

The stakes are higher than ever in the #1 New York Times bestselling fourth installment of the Mortal Instruments series.

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There were so many twists and turns in this book, I don’t even know where to begin.

I had moments where I wanted to scream at so many of the characters, to reach through my Kindle and grab them and shake them. There were moments I wanted to rejoice, and then other moments where I wanted to cry.

I am not sure why exactly, but every one of these books evokes a very visceral emotional response in me. I am now so thoroughly invested in the characters that I can feel every emotion that they feel, as if the experiences are happening to me as well.

Once again, the author has written a novel that grabs hold of the reader, sucking them in, dragging them through as if they were possessed by a demon of their own.

There were some typos or misspellings throughout this book that I had not found in previous installments, so I found that a little distracting.

The character of Kyle, I cannot decide if I love him or hate him, but there is something deep under the surface that just.. Gets your attention and I am not even sure how to explain it.

And then, the ending. Oh the ending. Yet again, I am left with a cliffhanger, with the feeling of “what the hell just happened.”

I am voraciously now onto the 5th book. Here’s hoping it does not disappoint.


About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices trilogy, and coauthor of the Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson. She also wrote The Shadowhunter’s Codex with her husband, Joshua Lewis. Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts.

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