Hi guys! How was your New year? Hopefully awesome like mine!!
To start the year, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about my favorite read of 2016!
In 2016 I read 92 books according to Goodreads. And according to my blog, 80. That’s because in some graphic novels I read them issue by issue and they are divided in Goodreads but not in my blog page.Read More »
Hey there book lovers!!
This is halloween, this is halloween
Halloween! halloween! halloween! halloween!
Happy Halloween you all!!
And it’s time for a October Wrap-up! I can’t believe it’s already the end of October…It’s passing so fast >.< But I can’t really complain because… next stop… CHRISTMAS!! ❤ Ah I love this time of the year with the exception of the cold… 😛
This month I read 10 books with one being a manga book and two of them being kind of a re-read. I say kind of because the first time I read those books they were in a different language! I also started one more but I couldn’t end it by the end of the month so it will move to November!
So for this month we have:
For October I read mainly some halloween-y type of books! I read 3 books by Neil Gaiman and I really liked them but I was expecting to like them more… Maybe it’s because they are middle grade books and it’s difficult for me to enter in that spirit 😛 Anyway from all the 3 I can say that I LOVED LOVED LOVED The Graveyard Book! It was beautiful and super creative! And that was also the one I had the higher hopes on!
I read one classic – Sense and Sensibility and I couldn’t have loved it more! I never expected enjoying it this much but now I am much more excited to read some more classics!
A Wizard’s Forge was a book I requested to read in my computer and it’s difficult to read it there because I hate the light but I was so hooked! I loved it so much! Much probably will be a favorite of this year! Next time I hope I will be able to read them in a kindle – so much easier 😛
And to end this months book I started re-reading the first books of Twilight, I remember really liking them but I never read the rest of them. So I thought Halloween was the perfect time!
This month is difficult to choose a favorite… I really loved The Graveyard Book, Sense and Sensibility and A Wizard’s Forge. But the one that made me more surprised was definitely A Wizard’s Forge!
– You can check my page: https://bookneeders.wordpress.com/my-2016-reads/ for more information about all the books I read through the year – I will update the list every week with the reviews of every book so make sure you check it out!
– and about the books themselves through the links to Goodreads!
For my November TBR, I already made a list of the books that I want to read because I think it’s the perfect month for some of them. I usually read a bit more “heavy” books in November, don’t really know why but I just enjoy them more…
I will pick up:
I started Breaking Dawn in October and I will end it this month and conclude the Twilight Saga!
This month I will also read two e-books that I got from NetGalley – The Story Traveler and maybe All that Remains and I think I will finally read the Millennium trilogy! I already saw the movie for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but I never read the book so I will read them all this month since I thought the movie was super “heavy” and the books probably too. And hopefully I will see the rest of the movies!
If I can still read Life and Death from Twilight this month I will but I won’t put i in my TBR for now because I don’t think I can since the Millennium Trilogy is quite big.
What was your favorite book in October?
What book are you most anxious to read in November?
A Wizard’s Forge by A.M. Justice
Series: The Woern Saga #1
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction
Pages: 326
Format: Ebook
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Scholar. Slave. Warrior. Wizard.
On a planet far from Earth, descendants of marooned space travelers fight a decades-long war. Shy scholar Victoria knows nothing of this conflict until pirates kidnap and sell her to the sadistic tyrant behind it. He keeps her naked and locked in a tower, subjecting her to months of psychological torture. After seizing an opportunity to escape, Vic joins the fight against her former captor and begins walking a bloody path toward revenge.
As the Blade, Vic gains glory raiding her enemy’s forces, but the ordeal in his tower haunts her. Bitter memories keep her from returning the love of the kindhearted Prince Ashel, whose family has fended off the tyrant’s invading army for a generation. When enemy soldiers capture Ashel, Vic embarks on a quest to rescue him and, on the journey, discovers a source of spectacular power. With wizardry, Vic can rescue the prince, end the war, and wreak the vengeance she craves, but she might also destroy her only chance for peace.
The book starts with Vic (Victoria) in her hometown – Ourtown – studying to be a Logkeeper. As a logkeeper she preserved and studied the Ancients’ writings, and made sure people remembered where they came from, so she had to travel to their villages to teach them.
On her first assignment – to Cairo -, the village got attacked by pirates – Caleisbahn people – and she got kidnapped to be a slave in Traine. When she got inspected, they saw her as feet to be a mistress for Remlord Lornk Korng.
After enduring months of psychological torture, forms of sexual abuse, and being forced to take the new name of “Kara”, she started hating and losing herself. When she saw an opportunity to escape she succeeded and ended up in Latha. After realizing the horror that Vic has been through the Royal Family of Latha has taken it upon themselves to care for and protect her. There she makes new friends and finds a new home but it’s not all rainbows.
Vic will discover herself as a warrior – the Blade – and later as a wizard. She will use everything she has to take revenge on Lornk!
I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH! When I read the synopsis I immediately felt interest and I was extremely happy to receive a free copy from NetGalley for me to review but I had no idea how much I was going to love it until I started and I just couldn’t stop reading it! It’s very difficult for me to read in my computer – and for that reason I am getting a Kindle – but I read it incredibly fast even tho my eyes were killing me!
“Don’t cry, darling. Your life will be an easy one.”
This is (probably) the first time I’ve ever read a book that deals with any kind of sexual abuse. I don’t think it’s an easy subject to board but this book really showed it well. How the main character deals with it seemed so realistic! All her journey trying to release herself from him, trying to understand who she really was and all the rough moments she passed made this book amazing!
– And it’s that amazing because all that Vic passes is real. It happens in our world. And although Vic may seem a weak person for some for not being able to compose herself, that doesn’t happen with a wink!
They said that she was going to have a easy life because she was not going to work as a slave but what she went through was in no way easier. It takes a long time and a lot of help and strength to get over that type of psychological torture (and sometimes people are still not able to do it). I loved how the writer shows that so well throughout the book!
The writing is fantastic and incredibly captivating! It’s the first book I read from A.M. Justice. Sometimes when I read a new author’s book I get a bit of a rough time to adjust in the first 50 pages or so. That didn’t happen with this book. I instantly got amazed by the writing and I just wanted to keep reading!
The book is filled with imagination and intrigue. It has amazing characters and some of them really surprised me while others remain a mystery!
The story presents us with a lot more interesting characters but these ones are the most important.
The book is set three thousand years ago, when a crew of mineral miners set out on a mission from Earth to the planet of Gomorrah but due to sabotage were not able to make it to their destination. With the mission a failure Captain Wong of the shuttle Elesendar was forced to stop in the orbit of what is now referred to – Knownearth.
The crew came down to the planet to search for metals so that they might be able to repair the ship. I suppose that they were unable to make it and settled on the planet, which is filled with amazing cities with different cultures and costumes and I thought although it’s pretty similar to Earth it was beyond amazing!
I couldn’t recommend this book more! I loved it to pieces! I haven’t read a book that made me this anxious and thrilled in a long time!
I can’t wait for the second one – A Wizard’s Sacrifice!!
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