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  • The Last Mermaid

    The Last Mermaid

    Author: Shana Abe

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Mythology, Historical

    Happy Friday, dearies! Are you ready for the weekend? I am! 📕

    Today, I cannot really say how this one about The Last Mermaid will go, but I have some notes that I’ll share after reading each part of this book. I must confess that for a while, I seriously considered giving it 2-3 stars because I was confused and it took me a while to finish it, but then Shana did what she does best when I’m reading her books, she managed to catch my attention each freaking time that a book part would end, oh, sorry, this one is divided in three Books (Short stories) but as it turns out they’re all related. 

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  • HP and The Goblet of Fire

    HP and The Goblet of Fire

    This is going to be interesting, I’ll try to keep the movie and the book separated.

    Author: JK Rowling

    Genre: Fantasy, YA, Adventure, Magic

    Book 4 in the Harry Potter Saga

    “Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret…”

    Ron

    Hello, dearies! 🙂

    Hope is shiny where you are or not really cold as it gets here. 

    This one was the natural next step because we already have a review (sort of) about The Philosopher’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban, so The Goblet of Fire deserves its spot, however, if this were about the movies, it would not get more than a few lines because the fourth movie didn’t live up to all the expectations it should have. 

    When we first read The Goblet of Fire, it was that we’re-growing-up book, yes, PoA too, but this more so because Harry found a love interest, the first crush, and we met Cedric full-on, and that was the opening to the other houses, especially because now there would be a tournament with other magic schools. 

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  • The Last Star

    The Last Star

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    Trilogy: The 5th Wave

    Author: Rick Yancey

    Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Aliens

    Page count: 338 pages, Hardcover

    📖

    I gave it 4 stars out of consideration, and I didn’t want to put 3.

    I don’t enjoy writing bad reviews, or what some might count as bad or not perfect-I-loved-everything-about-it or even hey-you-should-read-this-is-a-must-read. I like recommending books that I enjoyed, but then the endings come, and they’re so, what the frack is this?

    That’s kind of how I felt all the way through the last chapters of The Last Star. Up until the last chapter, I had hopes, the hope that it would end differently, but it didn’t.

    Let’s get this party started. First, I have some commentary on some of the chapters, then it comes the final review, and if you haven’t read my previous reviews on these books, you can check them out before reading this one:

    The 5th Wave Review
    The Infinite Sea Review

    Though you might find them a little different from this one, and they were written a long time ago.

    Alright, so the warning, Spoilers ahead! Like there are Spoilers if you haven’t read The Last Star. You have been properly warned.

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  • About La Emperatriz de los Etereos

    About La Emperatriz de los Etereos

    Author: Laura Gallego

    Original Title: La Emperatriz de los Etéreos

    Book Translations

    Hello, dearies!

    I was going through my list of books I have read and found I haven’t told you about this one here in the blog. The Empress of the Ethereal is a Spanish book by my fav Spanish author, in fact, I think is the only Spanish author that I like, I love her books, specially The Idhún Chronicles, as you might know since I have multiple entries about it.

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  • HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Author: JK Rowling

    Genre: Fantasy, YA, Adventure, Classics

    Book 3 in the Harry Potter Saga

    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

    The one where everything started to make sense to me, and it got my attention to the point of moving me forward with the books, the story, everything about it. Mostly, thankful to Alfonso Cuarón for making it such a fun experience and making me watch the movie endless times, at this point in my life, I have lost count of how many times I have watched it. I had it on a VHS tape (suddenly felt old), anyway, I had it and re-watched it on my own many times, it made my teenage days better.

    But, as always, this is about the book, not the movie. It goes without saying, that there are Spoilers for those that have not watched the movies, read the books, or watched the movies and didn’t read the books, or vice versa, you’ve been warned. 📖👈

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  • Confessions of a Shopaholic [Book Review]

    Confessions of a Shopaholic [Book Review]

    Author: Sophie Kinsella

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    Genre: Women’s Fiction, Chick Lit, Humor, Romance

    That was not what I was expecting one bit. This is what happens when you read a book after you have watched the movie so many times that you almost now the dialogues of it. 

    But this does not mean I didn’t enjoy Confessions of a Shopaholic. I quite liked this book if not loved it. It made me laugh and seeing how Rebecca Bloomwood made excuses after excuses to buy anything was unbelievable. I suppose that is really how a shopaholic would be. 

    Some spoilers might be ahead, be wary.

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  • A Lion’s Pride – First Three

    A Lion’s Pride – First Three

    Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance

    Hello, dearies! How is December going? Mine is a bit cold and expecting it to be colder as the 24th approaches. 

    This one will be short as the previous, sorry if I have been a little absent from social media and given quick reviews but work has been full-time, and sleep not so constant, yet, here we are again with another set of books.

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  • A Rose in Winter

    A Rose in Winter

    Author: Shana Abe

    Genres: Historical, Romance, European Literature, Fiction, Adult

    The great thing about Shana Abe’s books, is that in the end, you end up liking them, in some way or another. Of course, nothing compares to The Drakon Series, which I still believe to be greatest ones I’ve read by her, next to The Sweetest Dark books, but A Rose in Winter had me from ugh to ooh to aww to wow, I did not give it 5 stars because there was not that total awesome and abandonment into it that had drawn me to other books, but I enjoyed it enough, and if you brave it out through the middle of it, then you’re good at the end, it was a nice ending and there a plot twist here and there that I didn’t expect.

    Oh, the main character’s name is Damon, so, of course, I had to go on reading until I knew how it all ended.

    This one is quite short since I just thought to share with you guys this rather quick read I had, I mean according to my ebook reader, it took me about 9 hours to finish the book, and that divided in several days, which mean I could have finished the book in a day if I had had the time to do as much.That’s it for now. I hope you found a new book to read. You can read the description here.

  • Idhun’s Memories 3: Panteón

    Idhun’s Memories 3: Panteón

    Trilogy: The Idhun Chronicles (Memorias de Idhún)

    Pantheon – Book #3

    Author: Laura Gallego

    🌟⭐🌠🌠🌟

    I’m doing this one on Pantheon because it felt in some parts like I was reading it for the first time.

    And I completely blocked out 2 facts in this book, or so it seems. It was so real to me that A died, at first I was perplexed that that fact had been out of my mind for so long.

    So, let’s do this once more, and I apologise beforehand because I know these books are in Spanish, and some of you might not be able to read them yet, still, I wanted to share.

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  • HP and The Chamber of Secrets

    HP and The Chamber of Secrets

    Saga: Harry Potter

    Author: JK Rowling

    Genre: Fantasy, Magic, Wizards

    Listen to the Podcast

    Continuing our journey through the magical world of Harry Potter, now, one of my favs, The Chamber of Secrets, not my all-time favourite but pretty close. For part one of this, you can read my ramblings on HP and the Philosopher’s Stone.

    The Chamber of Secrets is one of the books I appreciate being a second good book, not many manage that, sometimes the second statements are either boring or slow or plain crazy, and other times like with Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles 2) or The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings), you, just get a winner or Where She Went, none of these books has absolutely anything to do with each other, but they are all seconds and good ones, The Subtle Knife too from His Dark Materials. To the point, I know.

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