Rating: 3/5

Read: Aug 23rd, 2017

Another series finished this year!! Reading is becoming so exciting to me again after such a long reading slump (literally longer than a year). 

I really enjoyed this series, I definitely didn’t love it, but it was a really fun ride.

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The best part about this entire series to me was Armentrout’s humour, her writing is seamlessly funny, and worked so well with the story.

There were so many moments where I really loved the characters and felt for them, but I never really completely connected with them as I have in other series’.

This particular instalment, the finale(!) was underwhelming to me, but I didn’t expect much if I’m being honest. I think because I loved its predecessor, Origin, so much that this one just couldn’t compete.

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Order of fav to least fav in series:

Origin, book #4
Opal, book #3
Obsidian, book #1
Opposition, book #5
Onyx, book #2 

Rating: 4/5

Read: Aug 18th, 2017

Finally!!!! I finally really, really enjoyed a LUX book!!

Ahh, this was such a breathe of fresh air. Origin was fantastic, and most definitely my fav in the series so far.

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I found myself liking the characters a lot more in this one! I mean, I always liked them, but the relationship between Katy and Daemon never really sucked me in. I was so glad that I enjoyed them a lot more throughout this book, and became even more attached to the characters.

Armentrout really has a way of writing hilarious dialogue, even when, you know, theres an alien apocalypse or something. She still manages to knock it out of the park.

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The story took on quite a different approach, and had a different feel to it than the last 3 books, which I think is what made me like it a lot more than the others. This was less cutesy-romanic stuff, and more survival, action stuff, which I really liked.

This book was so intense at certain points, and the whole second half was really, really impressive. The first half was still good, but just not as crazy as the next.

Really excited to read the fifth and final book, Opposition!

Rating: 3/5

Read: Aug 14th, 2017

So I was pleasantly surprised by this book! I thought the first book was okay, and found the second really boring, but this one was a bit of a step up! (hallelujah)

I did however read the other two books 3 years ago(!) so I did have to reintroduce myself to the characters and story, which could’ve played a role in my enjoyment level.

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I’ve never been the biggest fan of Katy and Daemon’s relationship (I know! Unpopular opinion alert!), and that still hasn’t really changed.

Again, the plot was very slow and I once again feel like not a lot happened, but maybe that’s just how these books are.

I didn’t hate this, didn’t love it, but it was quite entertaining. One thing Armentrout knows how to do is write some seriously funny content. (Pretty sure I LOL’d multiple times)

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This review is super short because I honestly don’t have too much to say (oops)

I am definitely looking forward to reading the final two books, seeing where the story is going to go, and tick off another series finished for the year! 

Rating: 4.5/5

Read: Aug 10th, 2017

I’ve said it 100 times before, and I’ll say it again… Colleen Queen Hoover can do no wrong!!!

I have yet to read a book by her that I didn’t like, sure I’ve liked some more than others, but I truly don’t think she could write a book that I blatantly don’t like.

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This book was heartbreaking, beautiful, funny and gave me allll the feels on the feels scale, literally from complete opposite ends of it.

The characters in this book were brilliant, I love every single one of Colleen’s characters, that and her plot twists are what make her book so incredible. 

Sky and Holder were once again, an amazing couple to add to my list of favourite Hoover couples. I seriously need to reread all her books to determine my favourite/make a list!

The characters were raw, real and so fun to read about, as I always do with her books, I really felt what our protagonist was feeling. You really do fall into this story and world.

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I’ve read so many Colleen books that I did manage to guess various parts of the major plot twists this time around, but there were still some that managed to shock me. Yet, the fact that I figured it out didn’t make the impact any less crazy or heartbreaking.

I don’t want to say too much about this book, because I truly think you should go into it knowing nothing.

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Once again, a brilliant novel from Colleen Hoover! It was so exciting be able to add this one to my never ending collection of her books, and I cannot wait to add Without Merit when it comes out in a few months time. 

Rating: 3/5

Read: Aug 7th, 2017

So, I have never read this before, it isn’t a reread (I know, shocker), but I have of course seen all the movies about 1000 times.

Bella is the most annoying, tragic, whiney character I have ever read about in my life. Now I actually thank Kristen Stewart for toughening Bella up a little, geez.

Majority of the book was Bella talking about all the ways she’d rather die than be without Edward, and how horrible her life is without him, blah blah blah.

Then it was all about her leading Jacob on, and then coming back to say “wait no jake! I can’t go on without you, because I’m selfish and filling my Edward shaped hole with you, even though I’ll never love you like that!”
At the start I for sure thought this was going to be a 2 star read, but it did get better and more interesting (Bella’s whiney-ness never went away though).

I really enjoyed reading the little extra parts that weren’t in the movie, and I loved reading more about book-Jacob. I am looking forward to reading Eclipse, and especially Breaking Dawn! 

Rating: 4/5

Read: ? August, 2017

Wow, what a powerful, amazing, wonderful book.

I will admit, although I was definitely hooked right from the start, I was a little confused about where the story was going. But once I realised, I was totally into it.

The characters were fantastic, which I think I must give props to the reader of the audiobook. I honestly don’t think it would’ve been the same if I didn’t read the audiobook, it was brilliantly read!

Connor was such a real character, with raw emotions that really showed. I could feel what he was feeling.

There were soooo many different emotions that this book both entailed, and evoked.

It was a powerful story showing how anger, sadness, grief, bullying and heartache is dealt with, and how different people can react in various ways.

I wish I had more to say, but just read this. And if you can, listen to the audiobook, that really added to the experience in my opinion.

I would definitely recommend going into this book without knowing anything, like I did.

Rating: 2/5

Read: July 29th, 2017

Oh my. I have no idea what happened to this series. Book one was so fantastic, book two was just completely boring and pointless because nothing happened, and this one.. idk.

I’m confused as to whether it’s my fault that I fell out of love with this series, considering I read the first book 3-4 years ago. But looking at some other peoples reviews and opinions, maybe it really did just go downhill.

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I ended up completely losing interest in the storyline, or lack of, as well as the characters.
This really disappoints me as I really did loveee the first book!

I honestly don’t think I could’ve got through the rest of this book if I didn’t use a free audible trial and listen to the audiobook!

I feel as if I only read it to satisfy my internal *must finish all the things I’ve started* voice that drives me nuts, hahaha.

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Anyway, it’s not all hard feelings with this book, I did enjoy certain parts of it, however I still didn’t really pay attention fully, it just didn’t hold my interest.

I think I may reread all 3 books back-to-back in the future to determine if I still think the same about it when I read the sequels with a refresher of the first book.

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Sorry this is such a downer of a review, but hey, I’d rather be honest than lie and say I loved it when I didn’t.

Rating: 4/5

Read: July 28th, 2017

This was one of my most anticipated releases of this year, and I really enjoyed it!

It look about 40ish pages to really get what was going on in the book, and to connect with the characters (because it was a little overwhelming at first with the amount of characters, and how different each one was).

This was really great, nothing hugely incredible, but definitely not a disappointment! 



After I got over my initial omg there are so many characters! feels, I really really loved them! I greatly connected to them, and was able to truly be in each characters head space, depending on whose chapter/part it was.

The plot was less intense than I expected, probably because Sara Shepard books have just set the intensity bar so high for me with these types of books.
Anyway, I found myself not minding that though, because I really enjoyed seeing into the different characters lives, as well as how they all interacted with each other.
I had my one person I suspected to be the murderer, and I was right to a point, which made the reveal not as shocking to me as I would’ve liked. *curse my detective skills*



This was a fantastic read! I definitely recommend it if you don’t mind something that isn’t tooooo fast paced murder related for a murder mystery, and greatly character driven! 

Rating: 5/5

Read: July 26th, 2017

I am soooo sad to have finished this incredible trilogy!

This is honestly one of my favourite series’ of all time now. I loved it so much.

I could read these books over and over again and never get sick of them, because they’re just that amazing. Omg, okay if you’ve read this far and you haven’t picked up these books yet, please do it!

Okay, this series just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy. Every time I pick up the book, I get completely consumed in the story and with the characters.

It’s one of those books where you just forget where you are, forget about time, forget about everything on your mind and just read.

The characters, ahhh, these are possibly my favourite group of characters I have ever read about. Every single one of them is unique and the relationships between everyone, whether that be romantic, friendship or family, are just so beautifully done.

I’m so sad to say goodbye to Lara Jean, aka. a Korean beauty version of me. She was the perfect protagonist, one whose mind I will seriously miss reading from. 😦

Peter Kavinsky is literally the epitome of book boyfriends. Swoooon, I love that guy.

Throughout the entire series, the family dynamic has been my favourite part of these books. That never changed, in fact my love for the Song family only grew more with each instalment. (especially this last book)

Jenny Han is such a brilliant writer, I cannot fault her, and I am so excited to read her other trilogy!

Read. These. Books… Now.

Rating: 3.75/5

Read: July 17th, 2017

This was a collection of novellas, making it a little difficult to properly review it, so I’m just going to ramble about my thoughts until I have none left. Totally in-cohesively, sorry!

After binge reading the ToG series, and then reading other books, it was great to be back in Celaena’s head!

It was so interesting to finally be able to read about Sam! Considering how much he was mentioned in the ToG series, it was so exciting to actually see what he was like as a character, and how his and Celeana’s relationship came about.

Although a little laggy/boring-ish at times, I really enjoyed these stories!

This book is definitely worth reading if you’ve enjoyed/thinking of reading the ToG series. It gives fantastic depth and insight into what happened in Celeana’s past, and why she is the way she is in the actual series.

This review is so short, I’m sorry but this is all I really have to say!