Review: Sweet Evil (The Sweet Trilogy, #1) by Wendy Higgins

Title: Sweet Evil
Series: The Sweet Trilogy, #1
Author: Wendy Higgins
Publication Year: 2012, by HarperTeen


Rating: 5/5

Embrace the Forbidden

What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.

Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

This book reminds me of the Lux series, which I love to death and I believe I read this sometime after I finished Opposition, which is the last book in the series. I read the books in The Sweet Trilogy back to back and loved them all, loved the connections between the characters, the action - it was well written and it had KAIDEN. What else could you possibly want?!

And Marna and Ginger! They were the most adorable things in the world - well, more Marna (the sweet one) than Ginger (the complete bitch), and in this series I want to say we confront a good-twin-evil-twin situation, though they were both born evil but aren't really evil... nice.

Anna, the main character, could tell, I think, that there was some big, cute, 'I'd die for him/her' romance coming for her and Kaiden and I'm not sure she even tried to hide it, and he was all like "Leave me alone, we're never gonna be together"... but we all knew they were. We knew before we started the damn book.

And she's a blond! I'm not sure how many book I've read with blond protagonists... that seemed important to point out, didn't it?

This book was great, full of love and action and everything you could ask for. It has a lot of cliches, but it is addictive. I really recommend it and I have no idea what you're doing with your life if you don't pick. it. up.

Song Saturday (1): Shake it Off, by Taylor Swift

This girl is awesome. She has been one of my favorite singers since 2012 and I don't regret it. In case you haven't checked out her new song and music video, they're great. Like GREAT GREAT GREAT. And she even explains it on her live stream.

She named her new album 1989 because she is born on December 13th 1989 and she feels like she went through rebirth. She said she simply shook off the critics, which inspired her new song, Shake it Off. For the music video, all they did was take a bunch of pros and put her in the middle of them. And what I like is that the song really gets to you - the fact that she falls and does dumb things during the video doesn't make you think 'She's really stupid'. It just makes you think she's not perfect and she's happy with it, especially when she says, 

"The players gonna play, play, play, play, play

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

Shake it off, shake it off

Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break

And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake

Baby I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

Shake it off, shake it off"

That's just like saying 'everybody does their own thing and I don't care'. Some say the video is part improper, but let's talk about Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus... For them stuff like that isn't improper? All she does is show a bunch of twerkers do their thing. THAT'S IT. She isn't naked, you guys.

Good job, Taylor!

August Random Reads (1): Uglies, Lolita and The Warrior Heir ^.^

Ok, so, I put a bit of a twist on my "Random Reads". Why? Because I know myself. And if I don't feel like it, I'm not gonna read it. I'm a very moody person, so to make sure I actually complete my august random reads, I randomized three books instead of one. Now, these are not the first three that came up, because my 'to-read' list is full of books that haven't been released yet. So I can't read something that appears in october for my august random reads, ok y'all?

So the three very lucky books aaare:

Uglies, by Scott Westefeld; Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; The Warrior Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima.

I'll read one of the three books chosen. Really, I might even read two of them. I'm really eager to read Uglies and The Warrior Heir. You can click on their titles to find out more.

Even though there are exciting new releases this month, I'm gonna take a break and read one of these. That means I'll postpone Isla and the Happily Ever After, by Stephanie Perkins and the end of Opposition, but let's hope it's worth it.

Review: The Godddess Test (Goddess Test, #1) by Aimee Carter

Title: The Goddess Test
Series: Goddess Test, #1
Author: Aimee Carter
Publication Year: 2011, by Harlequin Teen


Rating: 5/5

Become immortal or die trying

Every girl who had taken the test has died.

Now it's Kate's turn.

It's always been just Kate and her mom - and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.

Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld - and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.

Kate is sure he's crazy - until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.

If she fails...

The fact that I love history and I'm obssesed with greek gods probably didn't help, BUT I FOUND A NEW OBSSESION.

Like I didn't have enough of those.

This is good. Like real real real real real real really good. It has greek gods. Handsome greek gods. And a stubborn heroine.

What can you want more?

It's not the newest thing, I know and it doesn't have a bazillion fans, but it makes me feel so good when I think about it. In front of my eyes are belly-dancing foxes (currently reading Opposition, what can I do about it?) that are screaming AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.

It walks on my tail (who said I don't have one?) that there aren't more fans of this series. You have to be more patient with Henry/Hades but he was left by the girl he thought he was gonna spend his eternity with, ALRIGHT?! Damn Persephone all you want, but NOT MY HENRY.

It's not like Aimee Carter is the first one to come up with the idea of the seven tests, I've read a lot of books with this theme, some even with the entire bachelor's-family-choosing-future-queen (i. e. the Selection, by Kiera Cass), but I feel like this was one of the best written out of them all. And I loooved the characters, especially Ava, Kate's best friend. After I've read the novella from her perspective, I loved her even more - how she sees love in everything around her. Some might not fall for it, but I'm crappy like that and I'm gonna say it's sweet. GOT SOMETHING ABOUT THAT? A girl can dream.

READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS.

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