Falling For Alice book review!

About a month ago, I received this book from one of the authors, Kitty Keswick, in exchange for my honest review. This book was sooo fabulous and different. It's an anthology of 5 short stories about Alice, the girl from wonderland, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", one of my favorite fairy tales of all time. Each story depicts something completely different, kinda like American Horror Story.

1. Drunk - Dawn Dalton

Alice is a teenage girl who, every time someone touches her, she feeds off of their emotions and drains the person touching her, causing her to get "drunk". After one of her more difficult experiences, she finds herself in an alley by a restaurant where she meets a guy that works there and her hunger to drain seems to subside when she's with him. This story is probably the darkest out of the bunch, but it was really intriguing. I loved how the emphasis on how she felt "drunk" was shown with all-caps words. "Her stomach clenches as familiar GUILT tiptoes across her chest.

2. Alice at Woodstock - Shari Green

In this story, Alice is in a band and longs to be a great musician. Once she gets kicked out of her own band, her dreams are crushed and she no longer wants anything to do with being a musician. That is, until she's transported back in time to Woodstock. "Let no one steal your song."

3. White Rabbit Rx - Denise Jaden

Alice is a plus-sized, self-concious girl who wants nothing more than to be like the girls who are thin and look like twigs. She goes to the Hatter High dealer and gets a concoction called white rabbit, which after drinking it, causes her to get the slim figure she's dreamed of. Eventually, she realizes this is not who she is and she finds out who she's really meant to be.

4. Wormhole to Wonderland- Kitty Keswick

Alice is on the spaceship Jabberwocky. 12 males and 12 females (including Alice) go to another world and each are programmed to serve a certain function. Alice has the function of learning about and creating literature, but Alice has her own creative ideas, which leads her to trouble with the Originators, who are pretty much the big wigs of the ship. A man named Hacker tries to help her escape so she can be who she truly is.

5. Wonder in the Stars - Cady Vance

Lastly, this story is also a sci-fi short. It follows Alice who applies to NASA's teen mission aboard the spaceship Wonder. Her father died during a space mission. Once her boyfriend is convinced he doesn't need her anymore, she's forced to go through the mission alone, where she realizes she also loves space as much as her father did, and becomes the "girl who saved Wonder."

"I think it's the other way around, actually. Wonder saved me."

I give this anthology 5/5 stars. It was incredibly different and so much fun to read. I devoured it in one sitting. It was completely and utterly unique. I highly recommend this book!

Edgewood book review!

About a month ago, I received Edgewood by Karen McQuestion, and it was sent to me as a gift from her from Amazon. I want to apologize in advance of this review for taking so long to read it, but with school and other books to review, I was trying to get all of them finished at once. Again, sorry Karen!

Anyway, let's get started.

So Edgewood is about a 15-year-old guy named Russ Becker who has had sleeping problems for a while and takes walks at night to make him tired so he'll go to sleep. During one of his late-night walks, he walks around the abandoned train station in his neighborhood and witnesses lights falling from the sky. A day or 2 later, a girl named Mallory asks him to join her group of kids that have also seen this astronomical event. The group consists of Russ, Mallory, Jameson, and Nadia. He finds out once joining the group that everyone who's seen the lights have developed different abilities, like mind control and telekenisis. He also finds out that there are people hunting kids like them, known as the Associates, and they will stop at nothing until they've recruited these supernatural kids to join them.

Reading this book, I actually thought it was pretty good. At first, I didn't really like it. The writing style wasn't good, it was just sloppy like a teen writing a book for the most part. But after I actually got into it a bit more, I found it to be really cool and wanted to read more. Edgewood is a wild ride, not gonna lie. I don't even read science fiction that much, but I think this book has changed that for me. Overall 4/5 stars. I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy and other books by Karen McQuestion!

Infernal Devices feels

So I just finished the last book in the Infernal Devices trilogy, Clockwork Princess, last night. I stayed up until 1 a.m. very determined to finish it. I've decided to talk about my feelings on this series. 

First things first. Will Herondale. Hmm, Jessica Herondale... That has an interesting ring to it, don't you think? Will was such an adorable character, okay. I know he's like everyone's favorite character but really, it's so hard not to like him. I'll admit, he pissed me off a lot in the first two books. Remember what he told Tessa on the roof toward the end of Clockwork Angel? I wanted to punch him everywhere for what he said. It was awful. So throughout the first two books, I knew he loved Tessa, but at the same time you didn't exactly know his problem or why he was constantly so rude so I just assumed it was in his nature. But he managed to make me sooo mad all the time. After we find out what his real problem is, you start to feel for him and understand why he acts that way so you hate him a little less, even though he still pisses you off sometimes. After he found out the curse wasn't real, he becomes a better person and his rudeness and basically all the things you don't like about him fade away, and the wall he's built up over the years is finally crumbling down. I just love Will so much. His sarcasm was pretty funny and he's such a lovable character. 

And then there's Jem. He's also very adorable, and where Will has an air of ignorance, Jem is always so kind and is never rude to anyone whatsoever. He does have sarcasm, but he's a lot nicer with it, and even then it's still hilarious. I loved seeing the relationship he had with Will and learning what it meant to be someone's parabatai. It was interesting to learn about their childhood together and you always feel for Jem because of his drug addiction. He has to take more and more of it or else he will die, and I almost cried when they were saying he'd died in Clockwork Princess. I felt better knowing that he had become a Silent Brother, so that he could live and still be there for everyone, though not all the time. When I found out he was Brother Zachariah, I kinda squealed, because I remembered him from the Mortal Instruments and how he was one of the Silent Brothers that helped the characters throughout the books.

That epilogue, though... I was bawling my eyes out when I was reading it. Cassandra Clare wrote Tessa's thoughts on Will's death, how he died and what had gone on over the years since then so well. It was such a beautiful ending, but thinking about Will's death and the fact that Tessa couldn't grow old with him because of her immortality was so sad. I wouldn't want that to happen to anyone. I mean, who wouldn't cry over Will's death? It was one of the saddest things. But the ending where she finally gets back with Jem again was so cute and beautiful. I was happy that the story ended that way, even though I wished that Will could've lived longer and stayed with her forever. They were like the perfect couple.

Also, Magnus Bane. There's no words to describe how much I love his character in the Infernal Devices and in the Mortal Instruments. He's so much fun to read about.

Anyway, that's all I wanted to talk about. I definitely have a lot more feels to discuss but I don't want to make this a super long blog post. Feel free to leave a  comment about your feelings and we can have a discussion about how you felt about this trilogy, or just the shadowhunter world in general!