Review : Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand

“So often we only do what we think is expected of us. When we are capable of so much more.”

Damn! Just one word that can describe this book : UNEXPECTED. I mean, seriously I thought it was about some lame angel story that fall in love with human and bla bla bla. And I wasn’t sure with the rating that people gave for this book. Some people just gave it 2 stars and the others gave it 5 stars so yeah I got a little bit confused there. For the first 20 pages of ebook I was like ‘yeah sure, so far so good’ but after 70 page or something I just can’t stop, it got me hooked.

So this book started with Clara Gardner a teenage angel-blood girl that got her purpose so she and her family moved to a town in Wyoming called Jackson. In her purpose she saw that she had to save a boy around her age from a forestfire. That boy she had to save is Christian Prescott, a super hot, charming, smart, and rich student from Jackson High. Clara tried to get to know him and maybe had a little crush for him. So yeah we thought that at the end of book people expect Clara to fall in love with Christian or something like that BUT TAADAA there’s a nother character named Tucker Avery, Wendy’s twin – Wendy is a new bestfriend of Clara. Tucker is charming but not in the same way with Christian. He’s a little wild, cowboy type, and in the begining he always teased Clara because she’s from California and because of her orange hair that looked like a carrot. At the end of the book there’s a BIG PLOT TWIST and I bet it’ll surprise you. So yeah if you like fantasy angel type of book I’m seriously recomend this book for you.

Review : Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky #3) by Veronica Rossi

What a great way to end the Under the Never Sky trilogy. I love how this book is all about sacrifice, start from Perry to Cinder’s sacrifice. And the most I love from this trilogy is how all the caharacters growing up on their feels and their character.

First from Perry, in the first book we can see a boy that wanted to be a Blood Lord learn how to make an agreement with a Dweller girl. In this book Perry still just a naiive boy and he never expected himself to fall for the Dweller girl. Perry grown in the second book after he finally killed his brother and became Blood Lord in this second book he started to adapt to his new life we can see how he made a mistake by trusting Kirra and how he made a good decision to relocate the Tides to a cave because of the Aether Storm. And in the third book we can see all the sacrifices he had to made. How he had to survive when Sable tortured him and how he sacrified his life for his tribe so they got a chance to find the Still Blue.

Aria. Her life is seriously changed since the night she went to Ag 6 with Sorren. Yes in the first book sometimes she still act as a dumb Dweller girl but I can accept that because she’s all new into the outside. I mean all her life she spent it in Reverie, and suddenly she had to life in the outside with Aether Storm always threat her to death. Her ability as an Aud is amazing. She learn what, like 1 year and then BOOM she’s an awesome Aud. I just love how her character become mature since the first book till Into the Still Blue.

Roar. Damn! He’s my favorite character in this Under the Never Sky trilogy. Yes I said that my favorite character in the first book is Perry but in after read the second and third book I fall for Roar. He’s not perfect yes, He just a boy or a man or a manboy lol. I love how he came up after what happened to Liv. He didn’t let his broken heart lead his life. He had his grief for Liv but aftre that he started become himself again, he started to help Perry and Aria again.

After all I give this book 4 stars.

Review : Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky #2) by Veronica Rossi

“Days were darkened by clouds and the blue cast of Aether. Night were brightened by the same. They flowed together, the edges blurring into an endless day. An ever night.”

It’s been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don’t take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe’s precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.

Threatened by false friends, hidden enemies, and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night? (Goodreads)

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A good sequel from the first book, Under the Never Sky. From the cover that show us an image of a boy that we assume Perry, we can see that this book’s problem centered on Perry, after all he’s a Blood Lord now. We can see how he survive and adapt his new life as a new Blood Lord. How he have to think about his tribe and Aria in the same time. Poor Perry, people on his tribe not really trust her as the new Blood Lord, maybe because of his age, or his experience. Another problem is that the Tides don’t trust Aria, because she’s a Dweller.So yeah Perry have to face a lot of problems in this book. But there’s something that I hate from Perry in this book, like when he felt jealous of Aria’s relationship with Roar. I mean it’s pathetic to think that Aria and Roar were runaway and that they are together, that will never happen, but still Perry think the possibility of it.

It’s another story for Aria. In this book Aria is getting stronger, now after she realized that she is half Dweller and half Savage she learn to accept and learn how to live as an Outsidder. And her power as an Aud is getting stronger too. She become another Roar’s bestfriend after what they’ve been through since Delphi until the Horns tribe. When I read that she make an agreement with Sorren I thought that is a bad idea, I thought she will fall into another trap but yeah Sorren surprised me when he keep his words. I really love how Aria’s character have grown into a stronger character.

Roar. Poor Roar. He have to face Liv who will mary Sable then after he can talk Liv to go back to they home at the Tides he have to see how Liv sacrifice herself to dead to save him. It’s so sad, it’s like having a hopes up then poof suddenly it all went to down.

This book is so good, it makes me waiting and wanting to read the third book Into the Still Blue. The rating for this book is 4 stars.

Review : Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted”

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all (Goodreads).

DAMN. I’m speechless here. I don’t know what to say, it just …wow. This is the first time I read Colleen Hoover’s book and it’s definitely a good start to read her other books. I can’t really say anything except that this book is really good. I felt like I was reading a fanfic, tho. But no, it’s not a bad thing that I compare this book with fanfic it just that I was enjoy reading this book as much as reading a fanfic. I feel like I was being suck by this story, it drowned me. This book’s full with contradiction, I don’t know why but I just love it.

The difference between the ugly side of love and the beautiful side of love is that the beautiful side is much lighter. It makes you feel like you’re floating. It lifts you up. Carries you.

The beautiful parts of love hold you above the rest of the world. They hold you so high above all the bad stuff, and you just look down on everything else and think, Wow. I’m so glad I’m up here.

The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.

They bring you

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They hold you under.

Drown you.

You look up and think, I wish I was up there.

But you’re not.

Ugly love becomes you.

Consumes you.

Makes you hate it all.

Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren’t even worth it. Without the beautiful, you’ll never risk feeling this.

You’ll never risk feeling the ugly.

So you give it up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.

I’ll never let myself love anyone again, Rachel.

Ever.

I can say that those words are freaking deep. I’ve never been in love but hell, reading those words I could almost feel it as much as I could almost feel the ugly side of the love itself. Like I said earlier I’m speechless so I don’t even know how to review this book anymore. This book is one of books that make me hangover, but I want to make sure that I give it 4 stars.

Review : Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky #1) by Veronica Rossi

“A world of nevers under a never sky.”

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland–known as The Death Shop–are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild–a savage–and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile–everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky (Goodreads).

One of the great dystopia book I’ve read. If you’re dystopia book kinda girl like me you’re gonna love this book. In this book we can see 2 characters that live in different world, Aria the Dweller girl and Perry the Savage. They have an agreement to bring Aria’s smarteye to Perry’s friend, Marron so he can fix it. Aria’s smarteye is the one wich can help Aria to find her mother in Bliss and it can use as a barter for Perry to get his nephew back whose kidnap by Dwellers.

I just love how their differentce become fuse as their journey goes on. The hate they feels toward eachother slowly turn into something that make Perry rendered to Aria. Aria and Perry learn to respect eachother as a person, more than a Mole (what Perry used to call Aria in the begining) and a Savage.

Aria, one of the best female character I’ve read. She’s not strong but not weak either. She just perfectly fit as girl who lived inside virtual and Realms and suddenly have her world turn upside down and yeah she learn how to live in a world that real. She’s curious about the world and that make sense since she is a Halfy (what Roar called her).

Perry a.k.a. Peregrine, the best character in this book. People may think he’s wild but from what he did to Talon, Aria, and Cinder we can see that he have big heart. He’s a Scire (gifted with strong nose and could breathe and know despair or fear) and a Seer (gifted with uncomon sight) and because he marked by 2 senses people think that he’s cursed (His father was a Scire and his mother was a Seer). He’s a good leader a good uncle and a good friend. And his skill as a hunter is so damn cool, seriously, you don’t want to mess with him unless you want to die.

Roar, Perry’s bestfiend. I love his character sooooooo much. Roar and Perry is a good combination. If Perry is the wild one  Roar is the calm and easygoing one. His love for Perry’s sister, Liv is beautiful yet tragic. I mean he’s an Aud and Liv’s a Scire. People said that if you mix the blood from different Marked you’re cursed and that happened to Perry. And besides, Liv was send by Vale (Perry’s brother), Blood Lord from their tribe (Tide) to another tribe (Horn) to be marry the Blood Lord, and as a barter the Horns will give a lot of food for the Tides.

I give 4 stars to this book for a good setting, and interesting character.