The Infernal Devices (Booktober)

"Until such time as I die, I will be Nephilim."

Once again, I'm here with a full book series, because ... I can't pick one of these three. I loved the entire trilogy, and ironically enough, probably because I read it first, I finished it already, but have yet to finish Mortal Instruments. Go figure. BUT anyway! If you're up for some hunting, mundanes, and a certain Herondale, you've come to the right place. Cassandra Clare has certain topics to her name that make her rather notorious, but this trilogy is GOOD. And since it mostly happens in foggy Victorian era London, why not stroll down those streets yourselves?

In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever; in the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

(from Goodreads)

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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (Booktober)

Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Booktober)
Broken Sky (Booktober)

The Shadow of the Wind (Booktober)

Dracula (Booktober)

Life and Death (Booktober)

ACOTAR series (Booktober)

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Booktober)

Sepulchre (Booktober)

Pride and Prejudice (Booktober)

Tempting Autumn (Booktober)

Harry Potter (Booktober)

The Hobbit (Booktober)

Saturday Snippet: Shadowhunters

Ave atque vale 6/5/19

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Tome Thursday: The Infernal Devices

Hello everyone!

Tonight's blog post is another compilation, since I feel like it would be cheating if I just posted each book separately, and honestly it makes much more sense to me to bring them all together into one blog post and not three.

Although I WILL admit that I'm confused since I was fairly sure I'd reviewed the first one of the trilogy at some point ...

Apparently not.

Anyway, with Shadowhunters going in for the kill with their last two episodes of the season, I felt like I should honour them somehow, and then remembered that I'd read and finished The Infernal Devices series, also by Cassandra Clare, not too long ago.

See I actually started it earlier, but for some reason never got around to books two and three, but this time around what I did was just sit there until I finished it all.

You can't go wrong that way, really. So here we go, a blog post to review The Infernal Devices!

Tome Thursday: The Bane Chronicles

Hello everyone!

A good friend of mine, who is just as much a devout Shadowhunter fan, convinced me I need to go back and sit to the second trilogy in the Mortal Instruments series, which is how I remembered, because I'm like that, that I had never, in all actuality, finished reading the collection of short stories concerning Magnus Bane.

THAT kicked me into super high gear, because Magnus might just be one of my all-time favourite characters, and coupled with Alec Lightwood it's easy to figure out just why I like him so much.

But he's quite likeable of his own accord, too!

Anyway, I first got into Cassandra Clare's books on a whim after starting Shadowhunters, and deciding I wanted to know more about this world of hers.

Then I realized I'd already read some of her things, those hilarious short diary entries about Lord of the Rings characters, and I fell with gusto on her original writings. I have to say I've enjoyed the lot of them so far even though it shows they were written for YA.

Some of the teenage stuff that happens in the books is ... well.

But with Magnus, there's a whole OTHER set of problems!

Shadowhunters

This week is just all sorts of crazy for me, so unfortunately I'll have to skip Thursday's blog post too.

Never fear! Next week, I'm back to business after Easter holidays.

But I do have this little announcement that I've started reading The Mortal Instruments now. Just finished the first book, and well, I can't wait for next week's Shadowhunter's ep.

Malec <3

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Tome Thursday: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.

Hello everyone!

Today was spent on a lot of computer de-tox as I spend a whole lot of time behind the small screen and typing and stuff, and my arms sometimes don't agree with me about it at all. Sigh, sad panda over here.

But it turns out I can actually bake apple pie! Which, for a person who hasn't done any cooking at all in her life up until moving to the capital and starting university, is a big deal. I am at war with our oven here at home though because it almost charred it with being way too strong for the settings that were in the recipe, BUT. You win some, you lose some.

Anyway.

Back to blogging, I tweeted yesterday that I had SO MANY book reviews lined up, I actually had to double check I still have enough movies left! I've been reading books left, right and centre, although this particular one happened at the seaside while I was still on vacation, and I can cheerfully say that I read the major part of it sitting at the cafe right next to the sea, listening to the sea gulls, drinking latte and enjoying the salty breeze.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone, here we go!