The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire #1) by C.J. Redwine → Start Date: March 3rd, 2016

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Clementine and me!
Join us if you can!

[Clementine]

I'm so excited for this one! I love all fairytale retellings ^_^

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

me too!! They are one of my favorite genres!

[Chelsea]

If I can get the book by then, I would love to join.

[Clementine]

Yeah! The more the merrier! If you can make it: Welcome, Chelsea ^_^

I just got my copy. I can't wait to start! :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I Just got my copy too! Welcome Chelsea!!

[Pang]

Hey Trisha and Clementine, you girls start this todays, right? :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yep! and it looks like there are 40 chapters

want to come back every 12?

[Clementine]

Are chapters short? It's difficult to evaluate on my e-reader. :P I should post every 10 or so chapters.

[Pang]

OKay maybe every 10 or 12, right? :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

yeah! either one :)
I'm starting now, I'll post soon

[Pang]

Do you find their names kinda hard to read? XD

[Clementine]

Their name sound Russian, but they aren't. :P I'm at chapter 9, so I will post in a short while. :)

[Pang]

Hahaha yeah kinda Russian indeed! :P I'm already chapter 12! :')

CHAPTER 10 (view spoiler)[Kol done the blood oath with that bitch Queen, swear by blood to bring Lorelai back to her GAHHHH I already sense the struggle and angst in the future!! O: (hide spoiler)]

Only read this if you reach! ;)

CHAPTER 12 (view spoiler)[Leo is dead!!! I can't believe this! I refuse to believe it!! Goshh I even think Leo gonna pair with Kol's younger sister, but what is this???? T_T (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

Chapter 10: (view spoiler)[I don't understand how it took her THIS long to actual steal from the queen or just do something. She has been gone for 9 years and she's just realized now that "her people need hope"? Really?

Also... I don't understand the magic system, lol.

Kol was a bad boy prince, but now he's all dandy-dally... I wish he was more like Prince Jalan (Prince of Fools). You know, struggling to come to terms with his new responsibilities because he's used to not having to care about others? Oh well. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 12: (view spoiler)[I thought his death was a cheap trick to "drive" Lorelai to finally do something... I'm not happy about it. -_-' (hide spoiler)]

I need to read on because this is for a challenge, but I'm kind of put off by the similarities between this book and (view spoiler)[Snow White and the Huntsman and the show Once upon a Time, and the Grisha. It reads extremely generic until now. (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

Ok, quick question:

Chapter 18: (view spoiler)[Why is it again that Kol can't set all the ogres in fire alongside his other dragon buddies? Because in my head, dragon > ogre, so there must be an explanation that I overlooked lol. :P (hide spoiler)]

[Chelsea]

I wasn't able to get the book, so I won't be able to join this BR.

[Clementine]

I'm sorry you're not liking, Chelsea, but I'm also glad I'm not the only one not enjoying the ride. :P

[Clementine]

Annd I misread your comment. My brain made up "into the book". Lool silly me. Sorry, Chelsea!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay, I'm 12 chapters too
I'm with you, Clementine
I don't think this one is standing out much at all! and almost nothing makes sense

and I completely agree Pang (view spoiler)[ I can already smell the angst getting ready to get all riled up. (hide spoiler)]

this is pretty awful so far...but I plan to finish it too! :) We can get through this! LOL

although(view spoiler)[ I was surprised Leo died...but that's assuming he's really going to stay dead (hide spoiler)]

the scene(view spoiler)[ with the mother murdering her kids.
that.was.awful (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

Oh thank God, Trisha. Don't leave me alone or I will finish in a year. LOL

That scene(view spoiler)[ was too melodramatic for my taste... o.O I get it, people are poor and desperate, but at the same time, Lorelai and Leo are well-fed and well-kept? Hoowwww? Runaway princes and princesses who are wanted rarely tend to be, but that's just my understanding of the universe talking. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Clementine wrote: "Ok, quick question:

Chapter 18: [spoilers removed]"

OMG YES! I was thinking the same thing(view spoiler)[ wait?! but they are DRAGONS! Dragons are like the ultimate trump card! They kick everything's butt..... (hide spoiler)]

this is so painfully awful (view spoiler)[ this part with the heart and the deer and all that. I'm just cringing, it is so awful
and Yeah, a lot like huntsman but .....I still don't understand point of the dragon twist on this story! it's not like the dragons can do anything cool/interesting so far.

I like the bird more than dragons right now (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

Trisha wrote: "Clementine wrote: "Ok, quick question:

Chapter 18: [spoilers removed]"

OMG YES! I was thinking the same thing[spoilers removed]

this is so painfully awful."

(view spoiler)["It's not like the dragons can do anything cool/interesting so far" PREACH! OMG! I'm entertained by the bird than by any of the characters right now.

I just don't understand the point of the queen's evilness. If you kill everyone, you have no more subjects. You have no more subjects. You're not queen anymore, you're just a pitiful woman who's going to die because of her heart. (hide spoiler)]

ANYWAY.

I just finished chapter 21: (view spoiler)[Well, now we know why the dragons aren't fighting the ogres. If a teen can fight one off, ogres are just going to snap two every second. lol

I was quite bored by the angst of the chapter. It was so repetitive! "She was the prey" "She was the prey!" "The pain would stop once he killed her". (hide spoiler)]

[Pang]

Yeah it's kinda Snow White and the Huntsman, indeed! :P

CHAPTER 19 (view spoiler)[Yeah I don't understand either! Dragon can be that powerful, if they just let Dragon instincts out ( over human heart ) they can kill any enemies! *just burn that Ogre with freakin fire!!!! Anyway, from this chapter... Alas Poor Kol, the strutggle and trouble gonna happen in the future for real! (hide spoiler)]

Haven't finish chapter 21, yet! xD

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

through chapter 31
and I feel like almost nothing happened between 21 and 31 :C

ugh(view spoiler)[ so is Irina planning to try to put the heart in herself? (hide spoiler)]

lorelei(view spoiler)[ I think it's super that she's the most powerful person ever (hide spoiler)]

kol(view spoiler)[ their conversations on their heads are boring (hide spoiler)]

Irina(view spoiler)[ I completely agree. I don't know why she thinks killing everyone so she can be the best is the best route to go to be queen
I understand her sister and her uncle hurt her but I mean - c'mon....how long will you torture everyone else? (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

and I'm done

I didn't like this one at all(view spoiler)[ the bird was the only redeeming interesting factor

I found the ending ridiculous - the save me I save you....
Interesting that Leo stayed dead...but other than that.... (hide spoiler)]

[Pang]

You already done! Gosh you'r a speed reader, Trisha! LOL I might take 2 days to finish this, I think. Which book you gonna buddy read next, Trisha? :)

[Clementine]

Chapter 28: (view spoiler)[Suddenly things have hearts?!?! This magic system... seriously. I don't understand it. (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

Chapter 31: Yes, Trisha nothing happened! And their conversation about (view spoiler)[their favourite food and other whatnot was the most boring flirting session I have ever read. (hide spoiler)]

Lorelai (view spoiler)[Don't you think her "extraordinary" powers grew too fast though? I the beginning of the book, she was described as rather weak and now 2 days later, she's beating Irina. (hide spoiler)]

Irina (view spoiler)[She is so boring that she makes me miss Levana lol (hide spoiler)]

The heart(view spoiler)[uhh. I didn't understand what Lorelai's mother did to her heart? Couldn't Lorelai have overpowered her sooner if she was so "powerful".

Can she really put Kol's heart in her chest? Why didn't she put allt the hearts she had taken then in her chest to become more powerful? This makes no sense. (hide spoiler)]

[Clementine]

I'm done.

Epilogue (view spoiler)[Am I the only one who thought that when it said "he said her a cheeky grin" it sounded like they were texting instead of communicating telepathically? :P (hide spoiler)]

This was the most boring book I have read this year. I agree, Trisha, (view spoiler)[the bird was the most entertainment I could get from these pages. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

OH NO! You didn't like it either?! I'm so sorry Clementine
but I completely agree - by far the most mind numbing boring book so far in 2016 for me!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Pang wrote: "You already done! Gosh you'r a speed reader, Trisha! LOL I might take 2 days to finish this, I think. Which book you gonna buddy read next, Trisha? :)"

ahahah!!! I have a bunch of buddy reads! Sorry I didn't see this sooner

let's see, I'm working (and hopefully finishing) on &

and today I'm starting
(all are buddy reads)

[Pang]

I'm so sad you girls dislike this book. )': I love the characters and romance, I think. I'm such a always sucker for King & Queen couple! LOL!

Hey girls, how can I make the new topic for buddy read? O: I want someone who buddy-read with me, but I don't know how to do the new topic for it. :)