Book Nerd Sue

An Ember in the Ashes  by Sabaa Tahir Pages: 446 Published Date: February 9th, 2016 Genre: YA Fantasy Series: Yes, book 1 of An Ember in the Ashes  Uff. Where can I start with this one. It was a hunk of a novel with 2 perspectives. One is of Laia - Who seems to be a very weak girl who doubts herself at any given second and the other is of Elias- who is a Mask. Masks are trained fighters for the Empire, who are ruthless. They do not care about other people in most cases and lets anything slide that involves cold-blooded murder. There is a lot of action, adventure, mild romance, and a feel of a dystopian land. I think this was one of the most well-written and exciting novel I have read in a really long time. I think it stands up there with Harry Potter in my heart. Laia is a character that is portrayed as super weak and I think  if I were in her shoes, I would possibly be much worse than her after losing all of my family. The torture and trouble that she had...

Winter by Marissa Meyer Pages: 823 Published Date: November 10th, 2015 Genre: YA, Sci-fi Fantasy Series: Book 4 of The Lunar Chronicles series I finally have my review up for this novel. I did finish reading it in about November of last year. But hey, better late than never eh? Winter is the final book in the series and it is one epic finale. All of our favorite characters who we have grown to love in the previous books have come together for this one. Princess Winter is loved by all the people on Luna and her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than Queen Levana itself. Obviously, this would irk the obnoxious woman. She has feelings for her childhood friend, Jacin and if he Queen knows of this she is going to be against it. Winter seems to be weak because she doesn't use her powers for anything. She never manipulates anyone as she has sworn she would never do so for reasons that you would have to read about. We see that all our favorite character...

Cress  by Marissa Meyer Pages: 550 Published Date: February 4th, 2014 Genre: YA, Sci-fi Fantasy Series: Book 3 of The Lunar Chronicles series By far this was my favorite book, probably of the year even. It was a beauty. the characters that were introduced in this installment was also just a treat to read. I ship Thorne with Cress so hard. When will he see her for the sweet person she really is? I think I am repeating myself by saying that Thorne is the absolute best in the world. But Cress, who lives in isolation from everybody else made my heart break. All the times she expected to be taken away from the place, she was still left locked. When she thought that she was moving to Earth, she was left in this horrid little spaceship. Marissa pokes fun at the idea of instalove in this book because Cress has all these expectations to what romance should be when it really is never supposed to be like that. When she finally gets out of the spaceship with Th...