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The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

read from may 30- june 18

Summary -Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.

Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she’s been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California–tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.

But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age–old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and the sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi—the fiercest vampires, the ones who don’t die. But it’s her fear of being just that—special, magical, powerful—that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Brayden, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else—someone forbidden to her.

When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney’s loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she’s supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she’s been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.

Should she trust the Alchemists—or her heart?

Review – the second book in the bloodlines series was amazing I think I liked this one better than the first one so this one is about Sydney of course and when we first see her she is with the alchemist talking about keith and after that she is shown a human who wants to be a strogi and was he crazy when she gets back to palm springs sonya demitri are still doing research oh and sonya was attacked with a sward and sydney was there to . Trey sets sydney up with his friend Braden who probably is the most doshest character i’ve ever read I’m screaming at sydney this guy is rude he thinks he is better than you my favorite part was the end with them I loved adrain’s encounter with Braden my favorite was the halloween scene so your saying my “sister ” looks like a Prostitute and he said yes wtf Branden is wrong with you I loved when Adrian got his car and sydney was just in aw of it she really loves her cars. Spirt is having a weird effect on Adrian and Jill feels it oh and Angeline oh my god she is litterly always groping eddie I do have to say I thought it was kind of funny when she punched that inspiration speaker . So we find out there are there hunters who want to kill strogi which is cool but they think sonya is still a strgoi and that she’s hiding it and we find out trey is involved like wtf and she’s been taken so sydney goes and trey and his cousin are fighting to see who gets to kill her litterly not kidding and as these people are speaking I’m thinking I’ve read parts with strogi and you would be dead it two seconds flat so these people are stupid so the gang gets to sydney and they get the hell out of there they put a tracking device in Sydney’s purse . So Braden dumps sydney he tells her that she is irresponsible what the hell is with this guy and then she burst out laughing I found it funny myself and then she goes sees adrian and he KISSES HER YESSS and then she gets mad oh sydney i loved this good can’t wait to see what happens in indigo spell I plan to catch on the this series before the newest one comes out .

favorite quotes –

You’re wearing that?”… “This is the kind of shirt that says, ‘You’re never getting in here.’”
“Well, why would he?” I demanded.
…”I think it’s more like a shirt that says, ‘I’m going to have to end this date early so I can go prepare by Power Point presentation.

“Okay. But I’m just going to be out there – having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind. You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I’ll get you out of here, no matter what.

You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.”

“Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline’s chest…was not so modest.”

Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
A real date. Not, like, doing homework together,” he added. “I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that’s not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring.”
“A real date.” I figured I wouldn’t give him the specifics on the Shakespheare play.
“What’s the lucky guy’s name?”
“Brayden.”
There was a pause. “Brayden? That his real name?”
“Why are you asking if everything’s real? You think I’d make any of this up?”
“No, no,” Adrian assured me. “That what’s so ynbelievable about it. Is he cute?”
I glanced at the clock. It was time for me to meet my study group. “Gee, maybe I should just send you a picture to review?”
“Yes, please. And a full background check and life history.”
“I have to go. Why do you care so much anyway?” I finally asked in exasperation.
His answer took a long time, which was uncharacteristic.

Historically inaccurate.’ Adrian gestured at me with his other hand, the one not on my shoulder. “Who the hell looks at you and says ‘historically inaccurate’?”

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

April 8- May 23

Summary -Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”, she speaks many languages – not all of them human – and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

This review Contains Spoilers you are warned

Review – Karou lives two lives she’s a teenager that lives in Prague and has sketchbooks filled with different creatures and the other life where those monsters are actually real she is the errand girl to the chimera a man monster named Brimstone and it involves teeth Brimstone has teeth Karou doesn’t know what is with the teeth and where the shop really is he says it is in Elsewhere . other characters that I loved are zuzana is karou’s best friend . then we meet Ackiva who is an angel with vengeance for the chimera he and the rest of the angels are putting black handprints on portals when Ackiva and Kauro meet he tries to kill her and then stops Karou gets away and gets back to the portal she sees the door that has always been closed open and goes in and brimstone is there and this other creatures he throws her out goes home and she tells zuzanna and she believes her when kishmish is flying dead into her hands and the portal is gone. ackiva wants to know who Karou is and when he finds her Karou bares her hamsas and hurts him they go to talking and then something happens she starts to feel for him and when he notices her wishbone necklace and he says he knows who she is then his angel family appears he tells her to run and ackiva tells them that he fell for a chimera and they left . before I get into something big that I was not expecting I want to talk about the wishes so the wishes comes from pain scuppies are not that bad but bigger it’s worse and Brimstone said hope is bigger than wishes . so when they break the wishbone it goes back to madrill I knew of her because she was akiva’s love and she died but this was like the biggest thing I liked hearing all the stuff but when Mad is sentenced to death for being an angel lover that’s when resurrection comes into play so apparently when you die you can take the soul and put it in another body and that’s what happened to hide Mad from thiago the white wolf Brimstone put her as Karou WHAT! I didn’t see that coming and the ending there all dead I loved this book so much I recommend it .

Favorite quotes Who are you ? he asked she almost didn’t recognize the language he spoke as chimera so soft on his tongue don’t you usually find that out before you kill someone.

Daughter of smoke and bone by lani Taylor

You haven’t come up here before ? He asked she turned to him oh yes I bring all the boys up here . And if they don’t meet your approval he said you can always push them off. Page 218

Fiala would so eat her words . You should bring him in to model on monday . Right said Karou I’m sure he wouldn’t mind stripping for a bunch of humans disrobing said zuzanna ,prim .For art page 236

It’s a wishbone , she told him , holding it out . you hook your finger around the spur , like this , and we each make a wish and pull. whoever gets the bigger piece gets their wish. Magic ? akiva had asked . what bird does this come from that it’s bones are magic . oh it’s not magic . The wishes don’t really come true then why do it ? she shrugged . Hope ? hope can be a powerful force . Maybe they’re no actual magic in it , but when you know what you hope for the most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen , almost like magic . Page 288

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