Seriously I have no idea how to start blogging again. It seems like all my ideas just stuck in my head, couldn't come out into words. I didn't review for almost half of the year, thanks to my working life! and I'm damn sure that my writing is getting rusty. Well, it is rusty. But I am so happy to write again and hopefully I can do it more frequently from now onwards. Maybe, piling up my wish-list would be a brilliant start. Don't you think so? Well, I do.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Divergent Book 2
One choice can transform
you or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as
unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue
trying to save those she loves and herself while grappling with haunting
questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and
love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and
victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable
horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their
ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets
will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable and even more
powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief
and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris
must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she
may lose by doing so.
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated
second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating
thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance,
and powerful insights about human nature.
Note: I've reluctantly rated the first book, Divergent, with two stars. Mixed feeling. Though I like the premise and the setting of the story, but the characters development failed to impress me. The story also was a bit dragging in the beginning but towards the end of Divergent, the story started to catch my interest, the reason why I'm so looking forward for this second installment.
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments Book 5
The demon Lilith has
been destroyed and Jace has been freed from her captivity. But when the
Shadowhunters arrive to rescue him, they find only blood and broken
glass. Not only is the boy Clary loves missing–but so is the boy she
hates, Sebastian, the son of her father Valentine: a son determined to
succeed where their father failed, and bring the Shadowhunters to their
knees.
No magic the Clave can summon can locate either boy, but Jace cannot
stay away not from Clary. When they meet again Clary discovers the
horror Lilith’s dying magic has wrought Jace is no longer the boy she
loved. He and Sebastian are now bound to each other, and Jace has become
what he most feared: a true servant of Valentine’s evil. The Clave is
determined to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy
without destroying the other. Will the Shadowhunters hesitate to kill
one of their own?
Only a small band of Clary and Jace’s friends and family believe
that Jace can still be saved and that the fate of the Shadowhunters’
future may hinge on that salvation. They must defy the Clave and strike
out on their own. Alec, Magnus, Simon and Isabelle must work together to
save Jace: bargaining with the sinister Faerie Queen, contemplating
deals with demons, and turning at last to the Iron Sisters, the
reclusive and merciless weapons makers for the Shadowhunters, who tell
them that no weapon on this earth can sever the bond between Sebastian
and Jace. Their only chance of cutting Jace free is to challenge Heaven
and Hell a risk that could claim any, or all, of their lives.
And they must do it without Clary. For Clary has gone into the heart
of darkness, to play a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of
losing the game is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing
to do anything for Jace, but can she even still trust him? Or is he
truly lost? What price is too high to pay, even for love?
Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.
Note: First of all, the cover is so gorgeous. Second of all, I was so enchanted by City of Bones and currently absorbed with the City of Ashes. Third of all, I have all four books including City of Glass and City of Falling Angels. And fourth of all, I don't see any reason not to have this one as well.
