books and nothing much else: April 2015

Poison Study

2:08 PM

Title: Poison Study by Maria V Snyder

Rating: 5/5

I'm not really good at telling what a book's synopsis is (really) but I'll try so here it goes:

Yelena, is a convicted criminal, on the day of her execution, she was offered a job instead, as the food taster for the Commander. The food taster basically, taste the food for approval--not for the taste--but if it is poison-free. So yeah it was not a fun job, but a rather deadly job. Like can you imagine eating something and then all of a sudden it has a poison in it! What a good way to die though because hey it's food! So of course, she accepted it, she does not have choice, she was poisoned from the start, and she's in need of her daily dose of antedote of the butterfly's dust. And also because she wants to be free and surpass her demons.

So before she becomes the official food taster for the Commander, she has to study poison (hence the title!) and train excruciatingly in the hands of her mentor, the ever moody, Valek.

But that's not the only thing the story revolves to since the first general/commander from the MD (Military District) where she was from was hunting her down for the sins she had done. So yes a lot of almost death scenes on this one.

So yes I would totally totally recommend this one! It was recommended to me by my boyfriend actually. I was kind of hesitant at first of course, because well we might have different taste of literary piece. But I was wrong. This is such an amazing read. Spoke to me in so many levels.

I loved Maria V Snyder's style! It was absolutely flawless and something new for me. A huge break from YA novels, I've been reading, perhaps maybe because it's not a YA book, Not sure.

She's an incredible writer. I didn't find it hard to read, when I expected it to be. It's a fantasy book, mature themes, complex setting and a very unique world she had created but how she delivered into words, is beyond me. It's incredible. It's so easy to read, yet the words she used were so accurate you can actually feel what's happening.

I'm utterly in awe.

The world she created, I really want to live in it. Because of this: in the Territory of Ixia they assigned people on jobs not based on their gender but based on their intellect and what they can really do. Which how should the world be, I think. And I liked that the place was took over by the military, because in that world, loyalty and integrity matters.

I liked that our protagonist, Yelena is a really strong character. And that it's kind of funny that she just actually felt something towards Valek on the half of the book. It's definitely a good thing for I want to focus on how Yelena will be honed to be a fighter. And that she herself, realized that she doesn't need anyone to protect her, she wants to be able to protect herself. (Yes preach it girl)

At first it's so cute that the author or Yelena tried to be subtle on sudden unexpected actions of Valek towards her. Because our knight in shining armor is always present to save our girl. He's always there I swear. And like How Valek? How?

Friendship, trust, loyalty, betrayal, strategy, survival, food, magic,violence and love sums this book. But not enough to describe I how feel towards this book, I have a bunch of feels after I read and maybe a possible book hangover.

Thoughts

Dilemma: to cover or not to cover (my books)

3:02 AM

Book Blurb

Evolution of Mara Dyer

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Book Blurb

Retribution of Mara Dyer Spoiler Alert

6:12 AM

This book blurb will contain spoilers. read at your own risk.
You have been warned turn away now.

You little rebel.

I was just done with reading the last installment of the Mara Dyer Trilogy and I have so many things/feels that is in need of expressing. I can't sleep on it. I have to let it out. It's like 5 am in the morning right now. I just spent an hour (world record I guess) devouring the last chapters of Mara Dyer I was this far:

and in all fairness looking back I have only a few chapters left, so an hour was sufficient. *Spoiler Alert* I stopped reading at Noah's first chapter POV. Because I just can't take it. I can't. I have so many theories, so many questions, totally confused, like is he a proxy all along? is he one of them?His dad turned out be so evil (I sort of seen that one coming) that he's the one funding the entire Horizons facility. I closed it and run all over the house screaming profanities, and whatever jargons I could think of at that moment, I had to take a break

*Before craziness starts blurb*

I loved the Stella-Jamie-Mara tandem. They are funny(and crazy) and what they've been through is just traumatizing, but they survived.

Things started really getting real in this third book. Mara starts killing people.

Using her bare hands, she's awake--aware of what's occurring and she wants it. She was not even guilty of the things she did.

The Jude video or cassette thing, I think there was something really wrong, like why is he coughing (which I still don't get, is he manifesting or something) so t means he might still be alive somewhere. aaaaaaaaaand wait for it: he said Noah's still alive.

The relief when they finally escaped the Horizon's was unexplainable. I'm so happy they are out! But without Noah

so at this point still guessing if he was dead or alive. Which, to be honest, what kept me through this book.

The pregnancy scare was a big surprise because new theories rise: how in the world did that happen,

is that a mind thing like she creates her own alien baby stuff like that, turned out: negative. Just another mind trick.

Fast forward, they found Daniel and he was not a villain (YES).

Mara-Jude-David Shaw!!!!!

at this point my feelings are pent up, I was hungry for details, truths, lies, violence maybe And then hold your horses , and then

Noah's there.

and that's when feels escalated.

After the feels break, I decided to finally end this one. I need answers so bad. And I just really

want to end this to be honest lol. Michelle Hodkin played with my mind in so many ways--freaking genius, but I had enough and I want to know if HEA or what.

That climax event, it was crazy but I don't think that should what had happened. I was expecting something else I guess. Just something else.

But at that event, I was at the peak of my seat(not really), almost crying,screaming "please don't be evil, don't kill Noah".

And he didn't. It was a relief again. There was these last pages that I was expecting something, just to live up to the first two books, and nothing's happening.

I just read through if they will all make it in the end. And they did.

There was Noah being so amazing and perfect. That's all I ever wanted.

The Mara Dyer Trilogy is MADNESS

*based on a sleep deprived fangirl trying to shake off her feels. unedited*