Stephy's Ramble

Tittle: Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Vampires. Pages: 420 Publisher: Penguin group Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 1 day Language: English Rating: 5/5 “Fiery Heart” is the fourth book in the “Bloodlines” series written by Richelle Mead. This is a spin-off series of her previous one “Vampire Academy”. Now our main character is Sydney, alchemist. Alchemists are secret society which protecting the humankind from evil, vampires. The alchemists have common enemy with Moroi and Damphir, and although they are not human and they will never see them as human they tolerate them. Their common enemy are Strigoi, the kind of vampire that kills for food and entertaining. Despite Sydney’s efforts to stay away from her feelings for Adrian, they become undeniable. So, when Adrian and she think they will be able to pull it off since there is no one watching over their shoulders, Zoe comes to the picture. Zoe is S

Tittle: The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Vampires. Pages: 401 Publisher: Penguin group Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 2 days Language: English Rating: 5/5 “The Indigo Spell” is the third book in the “Bloodlines” series written by Richelle Mead. This is a spin-off series of her previous work “Vampire Academy”. This time we follow Sydney, an alchemist, secret society which works on making the vampire world “invisible” to the human kind, protecting the humankind from evil, vampires. The alchemists tolerate Moroi and Damphir, however they do not engage with them more than what is strictly necessary, they are still evil. Nonetheless, they have a worse evil as common enemy Strigoi. However not many will be able to live among Moroi all day. After discovering about the Warriors of Light, Sydney cannot stay put and needs to know more, specially about that rogue alchemist, Marcus, ever since that group menti

Tittle: The Golden Lilly (Bloodlines #2) Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Vampires. Pages: 418 Publisher: Penguin group Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 6 days Language: English Rating: 5/5 “The Golden Lily” is the second book in the “Bloodlines” series written by Richelle Mead. This is a spin-off series of her previous work “Vampire Academy”. This time the plot centers around Sydney, which we met on the previous series as an alchemist, an “agency” that works on making the vampire world “invisible” to the human kind, and that way they protect humans from evil, vampires. The alchemists tolerate Moroi and Damphir, however they do not engage with them more than what is strictly necessary, they are still evil. Nonetheless, they have a worse evil as common enemy Strigoi. After what happened to Sydney and Adrian, Dimitry and Sonya, former Strigoi turned back into Damphir and Moroi by spirit, came to Palm Springs in order to investigate

Wow it has been a long time since I posted something, and I know I keep repeating myself but life happens and too many things too little time. Therefore, I will be catching up on March and April. March was a good reading month, but April a disaster. I finished eight books in March, all thanks to Richelle Mead and her captivating spin-off series “Bloodlines”. I did not meet my TBR but once I finished “The Golden Lily”, which was the book in my TBR, I couldn’t stop myself for reaching to the next one in the series, and then the next, and so on until I was done with the series. That means I read: “The golden Lily”, “The Indigo Spell”, “The fiery heart”, “Silver Shadows” and “Ruby Circle”. Luckily even if I felt kind of in no mood to keep going with another book, which we all know happens after series finish. I picked up “Gemina” the second book in the “Iluminae” series by Amy Kauffman and Jay Kristoff and there was no slump. I read the book, which has over six hundred p

Tittle: Bloodlines Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Vampires. Pages: 421 Publisher: Penguin group Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 6 days Language: English Rating: 4/5 “Bloodlines” is the first book in the “Bloodlines” series by Richelle Mead, a spin-off series from his famous series “Vampire Academy”. The series will follow some of the characters that were introduced to us in the previous series. Sydney’s reputation as alchemist has been tamed the moment she crossed paths with Rose. Now, in order to clean her image, she must cooperate with vampires again. She has to take care of Jill, new Dragomir princess, since there was an attempt murder on her person. So now it is Sydney and ------, as alchemists to take care of her, her guardian, Eric, and for some reason Adrian Ivanosk. However, things could not stay put and be normal, because weird things are happening in the zone, Moroi killed and tatoos that give special abilities

Hello everyone, Another month has come to an end. We have consumed two months of the year, already and my beginning in the year has not been the greatest. I have had health issues during both month, that together with my work schedule, which sucks, has not allowed me to move forward in most of my goals. One of my goals is reading 60 books, which I am not so sure I will be able to fulfill; however, I am going to still try it. Last month I only completed two books. The first one I completed was “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks, a book that captured me and which I loved very much. I was not that lucky with “La Scelta” or “The choice” by the same author. I do not know if it is that my Italian is rusty, which might be, or that the plot was not able to capture me right away, but I was not able to finish it. The other book I finally finish was “Getting things done” by David Allen. I liked this book and the method he explains and proposes, I liked enough to start implementing

Tittle: Strife Author: Cate Tiernan Genre: Fiction, YA, Romance, fantasy, witches, magik, coming of age. Pages: 188 Publisher: Puffin Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 5 days Language: English Rating: 4/5 “Strife is the ninth book in the “Wicca/Sweep” series, a series that follows Morgan as she finds out about the existence of magik and her relationship with it. She discovers a new part of her life that threatens with run over everything else. Weird things start happening and the only one that can be blame is Morgan who is uninitiated, since now Ciaran is on the run, and Selene and Cal dead. Hunter brings someone to help her out but her solution to things kinds of goes to extreme. Also, Alisa leaves the coven, since all the things happening scared her off. “Strife” was a good book in the series but it got me lost a little bit. They introduced Alisa’s point of view which kinds of puts me off a little bit and all in all it was a little tedious

Hello again, It seems January was not the best month in mainly every area in my life, reading too. I was sick the majority of the month and that made me read really slow since every time I had the time to pick up a book I fell sleep. Therefore I was only able to complete two books, which were quite good and I really liked. With these two books I started two new spin off series that promise to be quite good and interesting. I finished "The lost hero" first book in the "Heroes of Olympus" series by Rick Riordan, as well as, "Bloodlines" the first in the "Bloodlines" series by Richelle Mead. Both were four stars for me. I hope this month of February goes much better and I can accomplish, not only my TBR but more things. I want to first complete the last book in the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan, which I started in December. Then I want to read a bunch of romance books because it is the month of love. I want to read three books by Nicho

Tittle: Always and forever, Lara Jean Series: To all the boy I’ve loved before… Author: Jenny Han Genre: Fiction, YA, Romance, coming of age. Pages: 320 Publisher: Simon & Schuster for Young Readers Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 20 days Language : English Rating: 3/5 “Always and forever, Lara Jean” is the third book in the “To all the boy I loved before…” series by Jenny Han. The series follows Lara Jean, a teenage girl who lost her mother years ago and has three sisters. Her older sister is going away for college and her younger sister sends some letters Lara Jean has been storing for years, letters to all the boys she has loved. Lara’s senior year seems like is going to be the best senior year ever, she and her boyfriend, Peter, have everything figured out about college; her father is marring their neighbor; and her sister is going to be back for the summer. However, mostly nothing will follow her plan and she will have to deal with ch

Tittle: Burn for Burn trilogy Author: Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian Genre: Fiction, YA, Romance, fantasy, coming of age. Pages: 1296 Publisher: Simon an Schuster Books for Young readers Format: Digital (Kindle) Time to read it: 3 months Language: English Rating: 3/5 In the perfect island of Jar Island three girls find each other as best friends since they share the same goal, revenge. To be able to complete their goal the best secret they must keep is their friendship. However, no one is perfect, everyone has something to hide even them. Mary gets back to Jar Island after leaving years ago, after changing her appearance and her self she is looking for revenge on the reason she and her parents had to leave the island, Reeve. Lillia is miss perfect and reigns high school next to her best friend Rennie, however one night in summer everything changes, she cannot trust Rennie as much anymore and her other best friend Alex Lind seems to be getting into somet

Last year did not went as I thought it would; My life changed a lot and with it my schedule, my habits and my time to blog and read. With all that being said, it is obvious that I did not completed my 2017 reading challenge, and that I still have reviews to post from books I did finished last year.  However, let’s not focus on how 2017 went wrong and focus on the month ahead; this year I want to again complete 60 books and finish up more series, since my series list to be completed seems endless. In January I want to start two series which are sequels from other series I have read previously and liked. First, I want to complete “The lost hero” by Rick Riordan, the first book in the “Heroes of Olympus” series, which follows Percy Jackson and some new friends into more adventures. Then I will continue with “Bloodlines” the first book in the series with the same name by Richelle Mead, a series that follows Sydney from “Vampire Academy”.      After these two new additions to