Reading round up (19)

Reading round up is a weekly journal where I record my daily reading progress and my thoughts on each book as I read it. *anguished noises* I'm so far behind. Also behind with posting this oops??

17th March

Currently reading: Days of Blood & Starlight | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 235

# of pages/percentage read today: 72 pages

Thoughts: babies. all my babies.

18th March

Currently reading: Days of Blood & Starlight | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 306

# of pages/percentage read today: 71 pages

Thoughts: 

20th March

I lost what I read for the 19th of March oops?

Currently reading: Days of Blood & Starlight | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 492

# of pages/percentage read today: 186 pages

Thoughts: Why can't they just be together and BE HAPPY????

21st March

Finished Days of Blood and Starlight (26 pages) and how the heck do I wait three weeks for book three?? *wails* Also started Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea by April. G. Tucholke (5%) and wow is this irritating so far.

22nd March

Got to 24% of Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea and whoa no, I can't stand the characters/writing. So I started Graceling around mid evening (21 pages) and Sworn To Raise at night (8%), thus I began two books because of my antsy mood and may not carry on with either of them. Sigh.

23rd March

Got to 22% of Sworn To Raise. I can see where this is going, just wish it'd get there already.

Books finished this week: 1

Days of Blood and Starlight (One liner)

Daughter of Smoke & Bone: Days of Blood and Starlight | Laini Taylor

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton, November 8th 2012

Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, ENCHANTING MAGICALISM!

Pages: 518

Format: Hardback

Source: Purchased

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

And its snap split the world in two.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living – one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to take their turn in the killing and dying.

Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewel – a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.

This was not that world.

A wonderful sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight is mesmerising, engrossing, and everything I ever wanted.

Characters ★★★★★

Setting/world building ★★★★★

Writing Style ★★★★★

Reading round up (18)

Reading round up is a weekly journal where I record my daily reading progress and my thoughts on each book as I read it. IT'S MY WEEK OFF! HURRAH!

10th March

Currently reading: Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 134

# of pages/percentage read today: 75 pages

Thoughts: !!!!!!!!!!!! This is dark and wonderful!!

11th March

Currently reading: Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 244

# of pages/percentage read today: 110 pages

Thoughts: Akivaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I read forward so I'm already 99% sure Karou is Madrigal. Oops.

12th March

Currently reading: Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 244

# of pages/percentage read today: 110 pages

Thoughts: I'm in love.

13th March

Currently reading: Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 364

# of pages/percentage read today: 120 pages

Thoughts: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

14th March

Finished Daughter of Smoke & Bone (54 pages). It was SO GOOD.

15th March

Started Days of Blood & Starlight (53 pages) because I need more of this series right now.

16th March

Currently reading: Days of Blood & Starlight | Laini Taylor

Current page/percent: page 163

# of pages/percentage read today: 110 pages

Thoughts: This is awesome. I love the new characters already.

Books finished this week: 1

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (One line review)

Daughter of Smoke & Bone: Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton, September 29th 2011

Genre: YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, ENCHANTING MAGICALISM!

Pages: 418

Format: Hardback

Source: Purchased

"Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.

The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.
When Brimstone called, she always came."

In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.

Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.

This book was lovely and wondrous and dark and edgy and consuming and everything I have ever wanted. Those are all the words I have.

Characters ★★★★★

Setting/world building ★★★★★

Writing Style ★★★★★