Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas Pages : 418 Genre : YA, Fantasy Series : Throne of Glass, book 2 My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Keeping up...

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Pages : 404 Genre : YA, Fantasy Series : Throne of Glass, book 1 My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling Pages : 256 Genre :  YA and Children, Magic! Series : Harry Potter, book 2 My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Harry can’t wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts School. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling Pages : 223 Genre :  YA and Children, Magic! Series : Harry Potter, book 1 My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow...

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The Raft by S.A. Bodeen Pages : 231 Genre : Contemporary Fiction, Survival Stand alone My Rating : 2,5/5 From the back of the book : Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the...

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The Midnight Spell by Rhiannon Frater and Kody Boye Pages : 288 Genre : YA, Paranormal Stand Alone My Rating : 4/5 From the back of the book : Best friends since kindergarten, Adam and Christy have always been the perpetual outsiders in their small town in Texas. The other kids call Adam gay and Christy a witch. On both counts the bullies are right. Their junior year in high school seems destined to be the same old same old until...

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The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson Pages : 572 Genre : Fantasy Series : Mistborn, book 3 My Rating : 5/5 My thoughts : I feel there is very little I could say to explain how much I loved that book – the whole series, in fact. I am not sure I can translate all these feelings in words, but I am willing to at least give it a try. I came from The Well of Ascension with a lot of expectations. It had been, if possible, even better than...

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The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson Pages : 796 Genre : Fantasy Series : Mistborn, book 2 My Rating : 5/5 My thoughts : Reading the second book in the Mistborn series was long overdue; I had read the first one over two years ago, and even though I absolutely loved it, I kept pushing the moment I would read The Well of Ascension. I finally did, and oh my, it was purely AWESOME! I used to read a lot of fantasy as a teenager/young...

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