Why I Am Angry About Goodreads Shelves

Time for another rant because I've had a very stressful day where I couldn't actually fight anyone because that would mean I would get arrested or something. So I have to settle for just being angry about book related stuff. So let's start shall we.

Does anyone else here hate Goodreads Shelves spoilers?

Don’t know what I’m talking about?

I’m talking about whenever I go onto Goodreads and I’m interested in a book, I scroll down a bit to look at some people none spoiler thoughts. If they do have spoilers I scroll passed unless I really do feel like reading a spoiler review. But it’s incredibly hard to prevent spoilers when you look at some of the shelves people put these books on. 

I know what you’re thinking, “But Jessie, you could just not look at the shelves”, well not everyone does this. I think sometimes the shelves can tell a lot about the persons enjoyment, then I don’t have to read the whole review, I get a bit of a snapshot.

This is completely ruined when I come across shelves like “Secret baby” or “cheating”. Like, I didn’t need to know that. Sometimes people just don’t think about it and shelve it as something that will give away a huge plot point that may seem insignificant to them now that they’ve read it, but it’s huge to those who haven’t yet read the book.

Now normally I don’t mind spoilers too much, but that’s usually only if I want to read them or have someone tell me. I don’t appreciate having spoilers forced upon me like that. It makes me want to send a very angry text message with my caps locks on to anyone who does it.

So what do you guys think? Should people be more careful about what they shelve books as?

Top 5 Summer Reads

Well, most of these are contemporary books. I don't know what it is about contemporary, but they just scream summer to me. Today, these are in no particular order, they all bring out the summery feeling in my bones. I hope you guys enjoy!

1. Death by Bikini Mysteries

It's set on a private island where the characters are out in the sun all day. It would be hard not to associate this series with summer.

2. The Summer I Turned Pretty

It's in the title. It's a story about a group of characters and their summers at a beach house. Pretty self explanatory one.

3. The Secret of Ella and Micha

I read this book in the middle of summer a few years ago. The book also takes place during the characters's summer break.

4. I'll Give You the Sun

Honestly, I have no clue why I associate this one with summer. Maybe because it has sun in the name. Maybe it's because the book brightens up my emotions just as the summer does.

5. Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater

This one just reminds me of summer because I specifically remember nursing a really bad sunburn while reading it because I had spent the day lying on the beach without a care in the world.  Still an amazing book though, good for the summertime.


What books remind you guys of summer?

Waiting On Wednesday

Meet Cute
by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Katharine McGee, Kass Morgan, Julie Murphy, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi 

This looks like something I wouldn't normally read, but some of my favourite authors are writing in it, so I'm ready to dive into it. I have no doubts it will be cute.

For more information go here.

Follower Appreciation Giveaway

It's been a long journey of blogging. There have been times where I wanted to just stop all together, but then I realized that I really enjoyed it. There was even that time where I started my blog and decided I didn't like doing it and shut it down, but then I realized I actually loved doing it and so I started it back up again and now I'm here. What's encouraged me this entire time is knowing that people actually enjoy reading what I write, so I owe that to you guys, so I decided to share my gratitude by hosting a giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card.

(Note: The gift card is in Canadian Dollars and is for Amazon.ca, so if you are from the States then you have to use Amazon.ca, trust me, I tried to use an Amazon.com Giftcard for Amazon.ca and it wouldn't work.)

Originally I was going to give away a book, but I realized that a gift card to get any book you want would be way more flexible, so here you are!

Rules:

• Sadly, this give away will only be for the U.S. and Canada.
• You must be over 18 or have parental consent to give out mailing address.
• Please don't follow just to unfollow, that isn't very fun for anyone.
• The Giveaway is from May 13th, 2017 to June 13th, 2017 at 12:00 AM Pacific Time

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Thank you all so much for being a part of this!

Frozen Tides Review

Frozen Tides
by Morgan Rhodes

Spoilers

Synopsis:

Rebels, royals, and monsters wage war over the Mytican throne in the shocking fourth book of the Falling Kingdoms series, from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes.

CLEO: Reeling after a bloody showdown in Limeros ending with Amara’s abduction of the water crystal, and a vacancy in the Mytican throne, Princess Cleo must cast aside her feelings and look toward her kingdom with the eyes of a Queen.

MAGNUS: With the kingdom in chaos, Princess Lucia still missing and quite possibly in danger, and a shocking realization about Cleo, the steely prince is once again torn between love and duty, leaving him wondering whether he’s strong enough to rule his people.

LUCIA: The young sorcercess has had her vengeance after the cruel death of her first and only love. Heartbroken and unable to trust anyone, she allies with the awoken Fire god, who also seeks revenge.

JONAS: After escaping death by the skin of his teeth, the defeated rebel—along with a mysterious stranger–leader reunites with Princess Cleo, only to find himself a mere pawn in a dangerous hunt for the elusive Kindred.

KING GAIUS: Abandoned by Melenia and betrayed by his own children, Gaius flees Mytica and sails to Kraeshia, where he attempts to ally with the famously brutal emperor across the Silver Sea.

My Thoughts:

I gave this book 5 stars. It was without a doubt a step up from the last book. I finally started to feel those bonds with the characters that I should have felt from the beginning. 

Cleo is still not my favourite character, but she's getting better. I still like her more than Jonas and Lucia. She still isn't quite there for me yet. I'm starting to understand the Cleo and Magnus ship, I myself am loving those two together. My one problem with it is that before they admitted their feelings I feel like I had no idea how Cleo felt about Magnus. There were little hints, but in all honesty it felt a bit sudden, for Cleo at least. I was well aware of Magnus's feelings.

Magnus is probably the one who's grown on me the most. He's definitely gone through some changes and he's finally decided to change his allegiances to people less evil. I'm a bit annoyed by the way he treated Cleo for a bit considering he claimed to be in love with her, but I guess that was more of a defence mechanism.

I still don't care much for Jonas. He made me angry several times. He claimed to love Lysandra who was in love with him, but the moment she's out of sight and he sees Cleo all he can think about is cheating on her. Lysandra deserves better, aka Felix who I totally love her with.

Now Amara, I felt bad for her quite a bit, but she would just take any pity I had away whenever she would do something cowardly and awful. She had Felix almost in love with her but then she decided he had to die because she started to have feelings for him. It pissed me off so badly. I did find it really satisfying when she killed her father and brothers. Honestly, they seemed like major douchebags who treated her like shit, so I can't be upset about that one. I however, am not over the Ashur thing.

Which is why I finished this book with a smile on my face when I found out that Ashur was still alive at the end of the book. My theory is that, it was mentioned to Amara from her grandmother that Ashur went to her physician to get a medicine, and in the past book Amara was told that she was brought back from the dead with a potion. So I'm thinking maybe Ashur had a potion of his own that brought him back. Either way I'm happy because Ashur is my favourite character and him and Nic are my OTP of the series.

Lucia is just so naive and annoying. I know Cleo is a bit naive and annoying, but not to the extent of Lucis. My favourite part of the entire book was probably when Timotheous had the dream conversation with her and just continuously roasted her. Most amazing thing that has ever happened. I haven't seen much of Timotheous, but he's a new favourite character.

What this series does is never disappointing me plot wise. The author always has something up her sleeve just to mess things up just a little bit more. This is what's going to make it all the more satisfying when they solve the conflicts. The author is also really good at writing slimy cowardly characters that I absolutely hate, and then promptly killing them. Like Arin, and hopefully Kurtis.

Overall, I understand why so many people love this series, honestly, I'm getting there myself. This book probably had the most satisfying ending yet. I'm pretty excited to get to the next instalment. 

Quotes:

“Because if you don't choose to fight against the wrong in the world, then you are the wrong in the world.” 

“She was his princess. No. She was his goddess. With her golden skin and golden hair. She was his light. His life. His everything.He loved her more than anything else in this world.” 

“But you should remember that charm opens far more doors than harsh words do.” “And a sharp ax will open every door.” 

“I love you, Cleo," he said, the words finally coming to him, with no effort at all because of how true they were. "I love you so much it hurts."Her eyes widened. "What did you just say?"Magnus almost laughed. "I think you heard me right.” 

“You broke it. Congratulations. You’ve just given me my sixth broken nose, and now I’m going to kill you.”