Friday, May 12, 2017

Violet Grenade Review








Hey!!! fellow book lovers, welcome back to my latest blog about the Book Violet Grenade. I first would like to say thank you to entangled teen for sending me this book in order to review it. I always appreciate the chance to read new books especially by authors I have never read before. The author of this book is Mrs Victoria Scott and this book is label as a Psychological thriller, which is very much true. This book reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock movies.Now on to the best part of the blog, the reviewing part. 


So here is the summary of the story. The story involves four main characters but I would say there is more then four.The main four listed in the original book summary are as follows, Cain, Madam Karina, Wilson and of Course Domino the main lead female. But I would also like to add Poppet who is a girl that enters the story half way through the book. But lets go back to the beginning of the story. See Domino ends up in trouble at the beginning of the book which is when we also meet Wilson. Hell breaks loose and then enters Madam Karina who claims to offer young girls honest work and a safe home. Domino decides to take Madam Karina up on her offer. She ends up in Texas working for Madam Karina at a entertainers house of sorts. But after she arrives she meets Cain and Poppet. Poppet immediately befriends Domino and tries to help her out. Cain slowly warms up to Domino and begins to reveal who he truly is and why he is there. But the other girls not so much, they give Domino a lot of trouble which causes Wilson to return and so begins the story. Now onto my thoughts of the book. 


Lets start with Madam Karina, I knew she was trouble the moment she started talking. I knew she would bring more pain to the story. Wilson is just a creepy character all around, along with Cain as you learn more of their life and past . As for Poppet well I just felt sorry for her and what she had to face. All of these people end up at Madam Karina’s for different reasons, and its almost like the Bates hotel, once you check in, you can’t just check out. These characters are really dark and twisted which creeps up on you slowly as you read the book. I would say more but then that would be spoilers of the book.  


As for the book, I rated it 3 stars out of 5. The reason for Three stars is because Victoria writing is really amazing. The way she uses words to tell the story is so beautiful and so deep. She can really paint the image for you. But this book is really dark and gritty as it is describe and it was not my cup tea. I don’t actually remember what attracted me to this book but that is just my opinion. I also would like to add that I will read other Victoria Scott books. This one book is not going to change my thoughts on how wonderful this Author writing is. But back to the book, if you love the show Bates motel or Dexter, you will love this book. This book is for people who like the Dresden files books. It really does twist your mind and help you to imagine the most dark and twisted world possible. Sometimes you can totally see how Victoria uses the real world to influence Domino's world in the book. So if you don’t mind dark twist gritty mystery novels, then this is totally the book for you. If you want to read this book it will be available on May 16th, 2017.  Once again I would like to thank Entangled teens for giving me the chance to review this book. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate getting a chance to review any book.  Also all the links for the book, the author and my social media are listed below like always. Thanks everyone for reading my latest blog. 



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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Stalking Jack the Ripper Review





Hello, You wonderful book lovers and welcome back to my beautiful awesome book blog. I hope you have been enjoying this blog so far. So now let's get to my latest book that I have read this week, It’s Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. This book was bought by me from Amazon, back in February when I originally found out about it through Booktube. Then a couple of weeks ago I received in the mail, much to my surprise the Arc of Hunting Prince Dracula which is the Second book in this mystery series by Kerri. So, of course, I take reviews very seriously and immediately started Read Stalking Jack the Ripper so I can read Hunting Prince Dracula soon and boy am I glad I did. Now let's get to the review for Stalking Jack, because that's all you guys really want to know right. 



Stalking Jack the Ripper the book is a fiction tale, semi using the details from the case of the real Jack the Ripper. The two main characters in this book is one Audrey Rose Wadsworth,(btw Kerri, if your reading this, I love her Name.) and the other is Mr Thomas Cresswell. Audrey is a female, who lives in a time of restriction towards females, and as we all know educated females never let restrictions stop them. AudreyRose is very much a Feminist in the grande Victorian Age of London. So it should come as to no surprise that she decides to do something, most would consider below her status in society. That something turns out to be a medical examiner or Forensic scientist of sorts. She decides to study the science of dead bodies like her Uncle because she lost her Mum very young. So during her studies, she learns that her Uncle and his intern Mr Thomas Cresswell, is helping Scotland Yard investigate the murders performed by Jack the Ripper. After Audrey is invited to help, all hell pretty much breaks lose. All of the clues point to a family member being the murder. She is also slowly starting to like Thomas's banter, clever wit and the way he makes her think for herself, which doesn’t help matters either. Why? because lets be real who wants to fall in love or semi-love while investigating possible family members for being a famous murder. As time goes on, Audrey Rose is closer to the murder then she thinks as well as being closer to Mr Cresswell. But of course for you to find out who the murder is, you need to buy the book. No seriously you need this book in your life, you will not regret it. Now Lets get to more book details below.


 I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars because it is written so well. The best way to describe the story is that it is a puzzle, such as Agatha Christie murder novels or even Charlene Harris "Aurora Teagarden Series". Where the story is not really about how the victim was murder but more about who, when, where and finally why. This book wants you to look at the murders as being a puzzle for a crime-solving like Aurora does in the Aurora Teagarden series.I hope all of that makes sense but before I continue I also would like to point out that this book discusses in some detail Forensic science.  It is the process of a Doctor or Scientist receiving a dead body to study its organs. But back in Victorian days, it was also a way to study what cause a person death and to provide organs to medical science. While this is discuss in the book, it is not extremely detailed to point of making someone feel sick. I am a sensitive person to these types of things and this detailed did not bother me. Now on to more details about the story itself.

 This story is not your standard Murder mystery in the sense that it's all about the murder. This book is also about Audrey Rose becoming her own person and standing for what it means to be herself.  I also honestly couldn’t believe how funny this book was, mainly from Thomas’s view point. Thomas tends to be the one who keeps Audrey Rose on her toes and really helps to get her to think about everything, even him as a possible suitor.He loves the fact that she is so well educated compared to most girls of her position. He tends to use humorous flirty banter to keep her on her toes. I can’t say enough about how much I love Thomas in this book, he is so funny and modern compare to the Victorian age. I also loved the cover on this book. This cover which is shown above of a woman holding a knife while wearing Steampunk victorian clothing is bloody beautiful, intriguing and inviting.I honestly can’t wait to start the next book in the series which is Hunting Prince Dracula, and it comes out in September 2017 for hardcover sell. As always all links are below for the book and Author. Plus you will find all of my social media links. Thank you for your time and a special thank you to Little Brown and Jimmy Patterson books for the Arc of Hunting Prince Dracula. 

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Sunday, April 30, 2017

She's So Boss




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Hey Everybody, Welcome back to my latest book blog and today I have for you this wonderful awesome business Guide for young females. I would like to graciously Thank Quercus USA for allowing me the chance to read and review this awesome book. Now the Guide is called She’s So Boss by Stacy Kravetz. First off can we please talk about that awesome title, “She’s So boss”. It is such an amazing, balls grabbing title for a book. This title clearly shows you that this book is ready to get down to business, so you don’t have to wait. Now that I’ve express my views on the amazing title lets get to the rest of the review.


“She’s So Boss” is a book about business tips for young women who are entrepreneurs. This books is really geared towards helping young women learn more about how to start a business. It also discuss the in’s and out’s of creating a business, how to handle business social media and where to start when discussing business. One of the tips I learn from this book, is to talk to everyone about business, even just friends and family. When you get together with someone and they ask, hey how is it going. That is your moment to say well I am doing this type of business, for example I always share my latest book blog with my family whenever I can. This type of example helps you to learn how to sell yourself aka your business to people. It helps you to defined the important points of business. Another favorite tip of mine is the “How not to be annoying Marketer”, because lets face it we all hate annoying marketing, I know I do. I will also admit when I work in the fast food industry, we always had to up sell drinks, which means we would try to sell them the largest drink and I hate doing that to people. So this annoying marketer guide page really showed me how to change that. It gives tips on how to be nice when facing rejection and on how to post marketing on social media among other things. I honestly wish I had, had this book back when I started my Youtube videos five years ago or even when I was going to college for web design. This book hands you everything, you would learn in a business class, except it defines things in much simpler terms. This book literally provides step by step tips for how you should sell yourself and your business. It shows you how to take something you love and turn it into an everyday business. It gives you ideas on how to share that business proposal in a friendly way without over sharing. But it also provides you with examples from other Successful women in the business market. Overall I can’t tell you  how much I love and will continue to use this book for my business ideas. I am just going to say it, you need to buy, buy, buy this book on May 16th. This book is a life changer when your pursuing business, especially for a young female.





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As for the book, itself, I love the cover. Its bright yellow with blue, which means it welcomes you to read it but it will also be bold and kick ass when it comes to the business tips. I rated this book a 5 out of 5 stars because I believe everyone can benefit from this book, even though it geared for Women. In my honest opinion, a college teacher could use this as a text book or an extra book for teaching a business course. I could see this book providing a lot of Simpler faster method of understanding a business text book. This is also a great guide for those who want to learn business course methods but cannot afford college or retaking a business class. This book is honestly giving you a refresher course in easy to do tips without spending to much time on it. This is a great book for moms who have home business such as those new makeup commercial companies. This book in my opinion is great for everyone, even guys because of the sample, yet great business tips it provides. I also wanted to add if you are a young female starting a new business, this book is more then just a book, the author really did provide you with an education for less then 20 dollars in Us money. I know for a fact most of my text books cost more then that. Like I said before I wish I had this kind of education book when I was in college and just starting Youtube.  But hey don’t take my word for it, go buy it, it release in May and see how helpful it is to your own business. As always links are provided below for the book. 


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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Hello and Please read










Hello Wonderful People of the World,

My Name is Meli and I have been blogging about Makeup for five years now on Youtube but recently I decide to use this blogging page as a way to blog about my other hobby which is books.  I have been an avid read since the age of 7. I actually use to spend all of my allowance as a teen on romance novels at the local thrift store. Seriously, if you had known me as a teenager, you would have known a very romance novel, book loving, shy teenager. But I think the thing that meant the most to me when searching for a new book, was that magical feeling I always got. That feeling of, this is an amazing story and how will I be able to stop reading it when its finish. Why? because I wanted to live in this book, kind of excitement . So maybe that's a little bit more information then you needed to know about me. But I think this information, will help you to know me better and why I love books so much. Great stories are why I also created this blog because I love sharing these things with my friends.


So now that you know a little bit about my love of books. I would like to ask one simple favor, that if you can, please just share my blog. But your probably asking yourself why? Well its simple for the love of a great new book. I want to share my book loves with more people and have them fall in love with the same books as me. So these are the reasons I am asking you to please kindly pass my blog along to others if you can.

I would like to also add that right now, I am only able to do book reviews on books that are currently out and available to the world and some of them might be extremely old books. You may be asking yourself, well why is she sharing this. Well for one, I notice that not all of my blogs, that are about older books are read. But another reason for this, is because it might be a book I love dearly  or it might be a book that I believe I have written an Unique review on. It also sometimes is because I believe certain great books go unnoticed when they need to be seen and so does the amazing author.

So if you have stuck with me this long in the blog. I want to thank you so much for your amazing support and please once again, please share my blog.  Also I would like to add if a Book PR manger is reading this, all of my Social media is always listed below and I really love reading hand printed books.


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Friday, April 28, 2017

A Court of Mist and Fury






A Court of Mist and Fury is the second novel in Sarah J Maas Series "A court of". If you have not read this series yet, then let me tell you what it is about. It is a Series about Magical High fae people kind of like Lord of the Rings mix with a little Narnia. As I said first, this blog is about the Second book which is 624 pages long in Hardcover and will be available in Soft cover on May 2nd of 2017. That is also the day that the third book comes out in this Series, which is title "A Court of Wings and Ruin". This book is available where ever books are sold and is so worth your time, which if you continue reading this review, you will see why? 





When I started to read this book, I did not think I would like it at all. Why did I feel this way? It is because of Rhysand, who is the Lord of the Court of Nightmares. Rhysand is basically the Lord of a night time, dream like world. He is consider the most dangerous High Fae Lord because he is also mix with another blood line called Illyrian. Illyrian seems to be a more old school barbaric bloodline then his High Fae magical blood. In the first book Rhysand has a habit of acting like, a complete alpha male fool. So when I found out he was the male lead in this book, I thought Oh heck no.. I felt like it would become a Jacob and Bella relationship, from twilight all over again. But, thankfully it turns out I was completely wrong. Rhysand is not only a great guy but he also ends up helping Feyre over and over again in this book. Which then leads to Feyre, finally believing that Rhysand is a great guy caught up in a big mess. So when Rhysand asks Feyre for her help, she does it without hesitation. But that doesn't mean that She doesn't question Rhysand the entire way. Eventually one thing leads to another which causes a more dangerous mess for Rhysand and Feyre.. Bet your wondering how they get out of the bigger more dangerous mess, ain't you? Well then what are you waiting for, go buy the book after you finish reading the rest of this blog. 
As for the Book, I absolutely love everything about it, so much so that I rated the book a 5 out of 5 stars.  The cover on this Book is stunning, actually all of the covers for this series are Stunning. I love how fast pace this entire series seems to be when reading it. This world, just seems to open so easily as you read more chapters in each of the books. You come to understand why certain people are the way they are and why they have done what they have done. A Court of Series, is the first Series I ever read by Sarah J Maas, and it is so easy to see why Sarah is a writer. This world of Fae and magic just comes out so clearly and easily, while reading the books. If I am being honest, you won't believe how fast you will read these books. This series will probably be one of the fastest series you ever read. I also want to say I take back the fact that I said I don't think I would ever love Rhysand, because I am team Rhysand all the way now. I can't tell you enough about how much I love this entire series. It is extremely well written, it reminds me so much of Lord of the Rings. I also want to say because of how amazing this story is, I had a book hangover from the second book. I haven't wanted to read anything, because I am dying for the third book already. I honestly hope the third book is the final book because I do not know how I will survive waiting for another book. This story is just that kinda of story, you will read it, over and over again. It is as special as Harry Potter, Twilight or Hunger games. If you haven't read this series yet, I am telling you go buy all three books right now and read it, you will not regret it. As always all of the links for the author are down below.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

A Court of Thorns and Roses Review







     I recently started to watch Booktube reviews because I was looking for new books to read. As I watch more reviews, I notice that every single person was talking about the series  A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. I decide the series looked to good to not buy it and that was months ago. Now that the third book is set to be release, So I decide it was the perfect time to read the series and share my thoughts about it. Now with that being said lets get to my first review of A Court of Thorns and Roses, which is the first book in this series. 


So here is my general summary of A Court of thorns and roses. This book is about a Young human girl name Feyre who by chance meets an immortal by the name of Tamlin, through usual circumstances. Due to these circumstances, Tamlin makes Feyre agree to come with him to his land or as it is known, the Spring Court land. Feyre agrees which leads to love for the two of them, but then it brings problems for Tamlin. After the problems begin to arise for Tamlin, then he has Feyre  sent away. But the question then becomes will Feyre stay away or will she return, and for that answer, you will just have to buy the book. 






I really did love this book and I felt like it was such an easy read. The story seem to moved at a very fast pace and never really slowed down. Many people claim that it is a retelling of beauty and the beast but I don’t see it. I felt like I was reading Lord of Rings meets Narnia. I, imagine the female Villain at the end of the story, as the White witch and Tamlin reminded me of Aslan from Narnia. The way I picture the lord of the rings vibe was through the descriptions of the fairies or Fae as they are title. Plus in my mind I saw Lucien as Legolas from Lord of the rings. I honestly didn’t feel any Beauty and the Beast vibe from this story. But over all I really love the story and cannot wait to read the next two books. 

Now for my final thoughts on the first book of the "Court Of" as I called the series. I rate this book a 3.5 out of 5 stars, simply because of the middle half to the end. The final battle was very predictable in my opinion. I felt like the female villain, is a common core type of thing now a days in fantasy. The reason I felt like this, is because the female villain does stereo typical things of a villain except she is female. She falls in love with a guy who doesn’t want her, so in return she tries to blackmail him. Now with all of that being said, I still really enjoy this story. I enjoy it, far more then I thought I would enjoy a fantasy fairy type of story. Normally I am not a fan of these type of books, but this Series so far is the exception. Even with the rating I gave this book, I would still recommend it to others. I would most assuredly recommend this series to everyone and anyone who loves Lord of the rings or Narnia. I honestly can’t wait to start the next book. As always all of the links for this series and the author are listed below as well as my Social media. 

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The Inconceivable Life of Quinn



The Inconceivable Life of Quinn is an ARC book I received from net galley in exchange for an Honest review. This book was release in Hard book format on April 4th, 2017 on Amazon. After my review is done please always look below, because I link the book from Amazon to purchase. I usually buy on Amazon, thats why I link it and I also link all the information for the author. I would like to apologize, for this review being up late.

This book is about a young girl name Quinn, who finds out she is mysterious pregnant one day. Quinn cannot figure out how she got pregnant. Mean while, Quinn father is a politician running  for Office again. Quinn goes to the doctor and finds out she is pregnant but She thinks it is a joke. In fact she thinks it such a joke, that she tells a lady at her father's Political campaign party, which leads to news reporters finding out. At the same time her parents find out which causes Quinn to go on a big search of how this impossible pregnancy came to be. Now if you wish to know how Quinn actually ends up pregnant, go buy the book right now and read it. There is a lot of heaviness to this book but a lot of beautiful surprises too. 

Now I would like to add I was mad with Quinn parents at the beginning of this book. I felt like as a parent, they should not have doubt their daughter and her story. Someone who was lying would not continue with the same story over and over again. As for how Quinn ends up pregnant, that was so - so for me. I went into this book, thinking it was about Teenage pregnancy and YA romance but it ends up being a magical story about a pregnancy. I was lost by the writing a few times,  and to be honest, if I had purchase this book, it would have taken me a while to finish it. I am going to try and reread again to understand it better, but right now it was not what I thought it was. I felt like it was a very heart heavy story line at the beginning with the pregnancy and then proceed to try to become more light by adding magical elements. I know some people will love this kind of story because it  different then what is on the market right now in the way it was written. So to be honest, I think you would have to buy the book or even borrow it from the library to read, to see how you really like it. 

I rate this book a 3.5 stars because I love and hated the pregnancy story line development in this book. The author did a great job in describing things of the book that where major points to the storyline. I feel like you need to be in the right mood to read this book though. Now with all of that being said, please do check out this book and see if you want to read it. I am going to re-read this book again just because of the premise of the story and how it is so different. As always all of the information on this author, book and me the blogger are link below. 



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