Have Courage And Be Kind🌻

Alrighty, this one goes out to legit the one person that read my review of the mortal instrument series! So sit bak and buckle up bud cause were jumping back to 1813. That’s right, we’re talking about Pride and Prejudice. I would like to say that I was a sophisticated child and read it a million times, unfortunately I just finished it a few weeks ago. First of all, the slow burn romance between Eliza and Darcy is everything us YA readers are looking for. I love that in 1813 Jane Austen was writing women who could care less about a man’s money, but more about his level of bitchery and wit. I mean the boy literally proposes to her and she’s just like “Nah, you rude”, like come on that’s gold. Lets talk comparisons real quick, the fact that our girl Jane A. offset Eliza’s standoffish and could care less attitude with other Jane’s kind and gentle persona, was interesting. I mean thinking about it, Jane Bennett is how women in that time were expected to act, docile and quiet. Where as Eliza was almost everything they weren’t, she was combative and snarky and proud. Eliza is just  “Ugh, these people suck” then here came sweet Jane to be like “Hold up, maybe they don’t tho”. Another thing is their relationships. While Jane and Bingley seemed to click as soon as they met, Darcy legit called Eliza ugly. Well not in those words, but honestly nothing in this book is in regular words. Anyways, I liked that even though both of these relationships were so utterly different, they weren’t constantly compared to each other. It’s nice to see (even in 1813) people portraying that every relationship is different, what one couple does might not work for another, but that doesn’t mean that either is less than the other. Now their mother, lydia, and Miss.Bingley, they really did suck. I know that their mother only wanted her daughters to be married well, but come on she totally encouraged Lydia’s insane behavior, heck she acted just like her. For a while you kinda think Darcy sucks too, but even Eliza can’t stop thinking about that rude and pretty man. And then the letter?? I mean come on that was cute! He’s bitter and sad cause he just got his butt shot down, and he still wants her to know the truth about him! While it could be said that Eliza pulled a whole 180 after reading it, I really think she was already liking him before then. But in the end I think that everything pretty much worked out the way that it should have. That Wickham dude ended up married to immature Lydia, Miss.Bingley did not get to come between Jane or Eliza’s relationships, Charlotte and Collins got what they wanted a marriage, and everyone lived happily ever after. I am not going to sit here and pretend this book is such an easy read or something, cause it’s not. I mean it takes a whole paragraph just to convey that someone is “pretty” and I don’t think there was a word with less than 6 letters in the whole book! In the end it is a classic with a great historical story and I am really glad I experienced it. On top of that, Elizabeth is my kind of women, she stood up for herself and never took anyones crap all while being a sassy bitch, I aspire to be an Elizabeth. 8/10 I would recommend to a friend. 

For my first ever book review, lets start with one of my old favorites. Cassandra Clare’s “The mortal instruments” series, my personal favorite is book 3, City of Glass, but I digress. These books follow a group of shadowhunters, which is basically an organization of magical beings whose soul purpose is to protect the human race from all things supernatural. The first book, City of Bones, begins with a young girl named Clary, she is an artist living with her single mother. One night while she is out with her best friend Simon, she sees something that she shouldn’t, and everything in her life begins to unravel. She gets swept up into a world filled with vampires, demons, and hot shadowhunter’s with attitude problems. Speaking of hot shadowhunter’s, this is where Jase comes in. Now Clary’s mother goes missing under some rather unusual circumstances, ones that leave a demon behind to attack Clary. Our blonde haired beauty arrives just in time to save dear Clary, and he brings her back to the shadowhunter’s headquarter. There she meets Alec and Izzy, Jase’s adopted brother and sister and is introduced to their life. The group sets off into New York accompanied by simon, a rather sassy warlock names Magnus, and a whole mess of trouble. These books are filled with twists and turns, but by the end of it I promise you’ll be happy you put yourself through it! Jase’s witty sense of humor and Magnus’ sass really add a lot of comedy to these books, and have given me some of my favorite comebacks. While I wish we could have seen some more depth in Alec from the beginning, I had a lot of fun watching as he grew and began to accept himself. In the end I am a sucker for romance, in any form, and loved that aspect of this series more than anything. Over all it is an amazing book series that throws you into a world within our own. There are 6 books in this series, I know that seems daunting but when I read them I was so engrossed that even that didn’t seem like enough. Cassandra clare also has two other series based on shadowhuners, which helped with my book hangover. The infernal devices, which is set in London in the late 1800′s this one not only scratches your YA itch, but is also for all the historical romance lovers out there. The second series is the Dark Artifacts, which is currently a still ongoing series. You by no means have to read these different series in any order, but some of the characters do overlap which I thought was really neat! I liked seeing a few characters from the Infernal devices and dark artifacts making an appearance in the mortal instruments and vice versa. Overall I am a fan of the characters Cassandra Clare has made and really cherish all of the times in my life that they kept me company. So, thank you to the London, New York, and Los Angeles institutes for making me feel not so alone. 

• Kindness always, without it this world wouldn’t be bearable.