#sky key

Disclaimer: I live in the Southern Hemisphere

Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Guys, I feel this is THE BOOK in all of my short shadowhunter’s chronicles fan life. I was kinda lost in the first book, mainly because I was used to the mortal instuments character and setting, BUT! THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE! YES! I loved it! I loved everything about it!

Sky Key, by James Frey ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A reread, to be honest. I knew what was going to happen but still I got myself surprised because I didn’t remember thsi book very well, so once it reached a point I was like “oooh waaait this happened??”

Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes, by Maurice Leblanc ⭐️⭐️

I don’t know about it. I feel there was not enough of Arsène Lupin charms’ in this second volume as it had in the first one...

Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

OMG I NEEDED A ROMANTIC COMEDIE BOOK THAT HAD KOREAN DRAMAS VIBES AND THIS IS IT!!! I had so much fun reading Crazy Rich Asians that I’m kinda glad I haven’t watched the movie adaptation yet (and I now believe I will never watch it).

Meu quase irmão: Laura, by Mônica Meirelles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It was fun and nice and a got a bit more into it than I expected, even though I had to keep telling me the main couplee WERE NOT SIBLINGS AT ALL.

Lore Olympus (Season 2), by Rachel Smythe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aaaah perfection itself???

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, by Stephenie Meyer ⭐️⭐️

It was a great way to remember everything from the original Twilight book before reading Midnight Sun, but I gotta say the end of this one is like A HUNDRED TIMES MORE REALISTIC to the original one and if you still have doubts about reading it, read it for the end!

Encontrada, by Carina Rissi ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I liked this one because I could feel that the main couple’s relationship has matured beautifully, even though in the end it’s more about the maturation of the protagonist and her understanding that she’s not living at the 21st century anymore.

Before The Pirate Balthasar, by Dedasaur ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Putting the whole thing together just to say how nice was to read about all of the guys meeting The Pirate Balthasar, since the main series is about the sister’s meeting him and his friends hahahah

The Pirate Balthasar #1-4, by Dedasaur ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aaaah just the pirate romance I was needing to read! It has a great level of fluffiness as well of smutty 💕💕💕

City of Lost Souls, by Cassandra Clare ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m a big Sci-Fi and dystopian book fan, so I have a lot of favourites, but these 5 are my clear top Sci-fi authors. – don’t worry, this post is spoiler free.

1. Pierce Brown – Red Rising Trilogy

I read a review once that said this series was like ‘ 1984 meets star wars… on acid’, which is actually the perfect description. These books are amazing, and I don’t say that lightly, but right now, they are my favourite trilogy of all time. ALL TIME. It has romance, gore, war, spaceships, swear words, plus a game of ‘thrones’ style of killing off your favourite characters. The books are based on a society on the planet Mars that classify people by their colours. Red’s at the bottom, gold at the top. It follows the story of Darrow, a Red mine worker who decides to break the societies barriers and become a gold, to crush the system once and for all. It is very hard to find original and unique stories like this now a days, but this one is both. Its completely unpredictable, there are so many twists and surprises you can’t even count, which is what makes it so great. (plus, check out pierce brown on google images or Instagram – he’s super yummy.)

2. Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness’s ‘Chaos Walking’ triology is one of the first books of this genre that I ever read. The first book, ‘The knife of never letting go’ will always be one of those old favourites of mine that opened my eyes to world of reading. It’s one of those books that will get you from the very first page (I mean it has a talking dog, what else could you want). The dog is hands down my favourite character, simply because it talks exactly how you would expect a dog to talk (mostly about its own poo). The trilogy is set in a world where females have become extinct, and every man can read each other’s minds (in the form of ‘noise’). The main character Todd, and his dog, stumble upon a patch in the woods where there is no noise, only silence, which is where he finds a girl. It is a very unique story, and Patrick Ness writing is funny, clever, emotional, and gripping.

His other books I have read include ‘More than this’, ‘The rest of us just live here’. Ness has an extraordinary ability to think of stories that are completely out of the box. Have you ever wondered what the rest of civilisation does in those novels and movies where one hero has to save the world? ‘The rest of us just life here’ explores this very idea, following a group of kids living in a town, trying not to die as the other ‘indie kids’ try to save the world from whatever disaster is taking place. Instead, they battle more relatable topics such as romance and sexuality and graduation. This book really had me laughing out loud.

Now, of course I can’t talk about Patrick Ness without talking about his most famous, movie turned novel ‘A Monster Calls.” I could go on and on about this book, and how much it effected me on a personal level, but I feel like that would deserve its own post one day. Maybe. If I don’t dissolve into tears first. 

3. James Frey (and Nils Johnson-Shelton) – Endgame

I don’t usually like books written in 3rd person, I much prefer 1st person, but this book is an exception. It follows several different characters, all different and equally important.

The story is set in a world where basically the apocalypse has come, and these ‘players’ all have to fight for the survival of their line, by winning endgame, something set up by the mysterious aliens who created humans in the first place.

If you like quests and kick ass fight scenes you’d like these books. Each chapter switches to a different character, some who you’ll love and some who you’ll hate, each very different.

4. Ernest Cline

This guy has been getting some media attention ever since it was announced that ‘ready player one’ is being made into a film, directed by non other than Steven Spielberg.

This is a great little book, set in a dystopian world that could quite literally be our future. Humanity has become so reliant on technology, everybody lives in their own virtual headset world, ‘the oasis’, where you create and control your own avatar. Which sounds amazing, if it wasn’t such a scary reality. The creator of  the ‘oasis’ hid an easter egg in the virtual world, and the person who discovers it wins millions of pounds. The story follows Wade, a stereotypically geeky boy, and his journey to find this easter egg.

This book contains more 90’s pop and video game references than you can shake your head at, and even though I didn’t get most the references, I still loved the book. I highly recommend giving it a read before the movie comes out! His second book ‘Armada’ is also a great read!

(I think he also owns a real life replica of the deloreon from back to the future, just saying)

5. Samantha Shannon – The Bone Season Series

I don’t actually know if these books count as Sci-Fi to be honest, but I’m just going to skip past that. The story is based in a paranormal world where half of the human population have psychic abilities, who are shunned by the government for being ‘unnatural’. It follows Paige, a teenage girl who has one of the highest orders of psychic abilities. Paige is a very strong female character, full of courage and bravery and all that good stuff.

My only criticism is that I didn’t enjoy the second book as much as the first one, which I find a lot with trilogies. That’s not to say its wasn’t good though, and I am definitely going to read the third book when it comes out. The books are full of action and interesting characters, and Samantha Shannon is definitely a writer to look out for in the future.

its done!!! this is the story anon requested on, i quote: “Could you please write a short fic about how Alicia reacts when she saw Jago in TV as a player and how she reacts to his death? P.S. You're writing skills are amazing.”

it literally took me ten minutes to write, thats why its so short, and also the reason behind all the grammatical mistakes and typos and whatnot. im sorry

hope you guys enjoy it!!

With the loss of her legs, Alicia’s days dragged on and on.  The hours of what used to be spent dancing now lugged on monotonously, the afternoons she used to spend along the Thames River now trickled into a boring five hours doing literally nothing.

YouTube was her only saviour.

She started her own channel, browsed through other people's, even occasionally made friends through the website.  Now, it was her life, her being, her livelihood.  Under normal circumstances, she would have talk to her parents, but every gaze was met with a look of disappointment, every word met with one of disapproval.  In their eyes, it was she who had thrown her future out the window, she who had ruined her own life.

In their eyes, this was what she wanted.

But really, it wasn’t.

Sometimes, on good days, she would think about Peru.  Peru had changed his life, Peru had transformed her life into something brilliant, and then Peru had shattered it into a million pieces.  No, not Peru; Jago had.  Jago Tlaloc, the boy she had loved and hated –– no, she still loved, still hated.

Sighing, Alicia pushes herself to her computer; her arms had, almost as though in compensation, grown stronger than any of her peers, through pushing her wheelchair.  She logs onto YouTube just like she does every other day, but this time, she freezes.  A newsflash has popped up in front of her:  ENDGAME IS HERE.  KILL THE PLAYERS.  SAVE THE WORLD.  For some reason, Jago has once again resurfaced in her mind.  Frowning, she clicks on the tab.  An Asian boy is talking, but in her mind, the words are slurred.  Only one name stands out, clear above the rest:

Jago Tlaloc.

A picture of him appears, evidently from a surveillance picture yet still quite clear, with a younger girl she presumes is his sister, laughing without facing the camera.  Tears are in her eyes; somehow even without hearing the words properly her mind has still managed to process them: Jago is a Player.  Jago is one of the who are fighting for the destruction of the world.  So many secrets he never told her, so many thoughts hidden behind guarded doors.  Had she really even known him?  Oh god…

Alicia, without noticing, has dropped her mug.  It shatters on the ground loudly.

It’s as though she can hear her heart shattering all over again, just like it did that day in Peru.

again, cheesy title.  but what can i do? *shrugs*

heyyyy there guys, i completed the request lmao. the ask by anon was, i quote, “Could you please write a fan fiction about how Jago felt when Alicia left him?”

and OMG I KEPT IT UNDER TWO HUNDRED WORDS GUYS AREN’T YOU PROUD OF ME. (i am never gonna do it again. so many unwritten thoughts are killing me)

Hollow.

A few years ago, a few months ago, even a few days ago, Jago would have thought of a tree hollowed out, or maybe a clearing in the forest hearing this word.  Going into the darker parts of his mind, maybe one would find a gory bullet wound through a person's head, or perhaps a heart dug out of a victim's body.

Now, however, this word described faultlessly the feeling that clawed its way out of him, consuming his, like a rot eating away at old tree bark.

He had considered once, briefly, before he grew as attached as he was now, that maybe, if Alicia left him, he would feel sad, perhaps angry, maybe abandoned.  He didn’t think he would feel this.  No amount of training could have prepared him for loss like this.  And, to know that Alicia left Peru hating Jago, in her wake she left claw wounds so deep no amount of time, no amount of lovers, would be able to heal.  Alicia taught Jago how to love, and so Alicia claimed his heart before anyone else had a chance.

Said heart had travelled alongside Alicia back to England.

Leaving Jago hollow.