Born Wicked The Cahill Witch Chronicles #1 (Farlig Förmåga) REVIEW

By Jessica Spotswood
Pages: 330
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.

Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.

If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other

Well, this one sure took me a while to finish. Give or take one month. 
In the beginning I had a very hard time grasping what era we were in. No explanation on that until 50 pages, and that is frustrating. I like knowing which era I'm in thank you very much. 

Cate is a strong protagonist, she questions everything things other people don't which will get her into great danger, but it does serve her good too. She doesn't let a man control her like the other women in town do. 


But at times she can be a real pain in the bum. She seems to think she needs to share everything  with her sisters, and she feels like a bad sister if she does not. I did not get that. Why would you have to tell them everything? 

This is a book about witches, and if you ask me it have some dystopian elements, and I think that made it a bit more boring. No real colors in this book that made my reality a tad bit more colorful. I mean, Sweden looks like a white mess at this moment. 

I think this book is the first book in a trilogy. I did't like this one so much but I might check out the second book. They just translated it to Swedish. 

xoxo Lihini

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) REVIEW

By J.K. Rowling
Pages: 341
Publisher: Levine Books
So much better than the first one I must say!
What a journey! This is the magic I've heard so much about, and wanting to take apart of, YES, AMAZING!
I feel like so much more made sense to me now, the movie doesn't bring all the aspects to light and that leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions, and books are just in general more detailed than movies.
I can totally see the chemistry between Ron and Hermione, it's so obvious!

A character that I did not quite like was actually Ginny Weasly. She is so weird, I always imagined her looking like this

every time Hary came around. I guess she will mature up when she gets older. Or at least I hope....






xoxo Lihini

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) REVIEW

The day you have all been waiting for is finally here. I've been bullied to no ends by my friends because of this. I've been laughed at and people have said " and you call yourself a book-blogger? HAHAHAHA"

All because I hadn't read Harry Potter.
All because of THAT Potter.
Well cry no more readers because I finished HP yesterday and here is my review.

By J.K. Rowling
Pages: 310
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in ten years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

3/5

I don't really know what to say about this book, what is there left to say really? 
I knew reading this book would be much like Percy Jackson but in it's own way, I knew I wouldn't hate the book and I did not, I enjoyed it quite a lot actually. There was so much adventure, and I was amazed by the friendship the kids at Hogwarts had, and how loyal they were to their friends. 
My favorite character's much be Hermione and Neville. They were both loyal to their friends and they were both very brave characters in their own way. 
I am truly sad over the fact that I didn't read this book sooner, and by sooner I mean around the age of 13 because the book was more or less EXACTLY like the movie, and I think I would have liked it in a different way If I read it at a younger age.

I will definitely be reading the other books in the series, because I've that they are supposed to be better.

 ~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Kretsen / The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) REVIEW

My Gansey

My vision Adam

My Blue!

Av Maggie Stiefvater
Förlag: B| Wahlströms (tack)
Sidor: 318

Fyra pojkar på en prestigefylld internatskola har bildat ett hemligt sällskap i syfte att finna en historisk, mytomspunnen kungagrav. En flicka med övernaturliga förmågor har nyligen mött en av pojkarna - fast som död. Snart kommer deras vägar att korsas igen, med förödande konsekvenser.

Enligt en uråldrig legend ligger en walesisk kung begravd någonstans i Amerika. Gansey, elev på en privatskola för pojkar, har blivit besatt av att finna kungagraven. Enligt myten ska man leta längs särskilda energilinjer, s.k. "leylinjer" som sägs sammanlänka besjälade platser, och att "den sovande kungen" kan uppfylla ens önskningar.

Blue är sexton år och dotter till en spåkvinna. Hennes egna synska förmågor är begränsade, men för inte så länge sedan förutsåg hon en ung mans färd mot dödsriket. Dessutom bär hon på vetskapen om ett annat förebud: om hon någonsin kysser sin sanna kärlek så kommer han att dö. Så möts Blue och Gansey, och hon förstår vem han är.

Ungdomarna slår följe i en tyst övertygelse om att de på något sätt behöver hjälpa varandra i jakten på kungagraven. Kärlek spirar, men en fiende närmar sig också.

Beroendeframkallande. Efter första sidan är man fast, och jag skojar verkligen inte. Jag vart tvungen att lägga ifrån mig boken efter två sidor och trodde att jag skulle gå sönder.

Maggie har skrivit den kände boken Frost som är med i en serie, ni vet den om varulvar. 
Grejen med den bokserien var att ingenting riktigt hände försen under de sista tio sidorna. Jag förlorad nästan hoppet om henne på grund av att alla hennes tre böcker var så. 

Jag älskade hela häxvärlden med medium, för det är så nära vår verklighet men ändå inte. 

Man får ta del av Blues liv bland medium och även Aglionby - internat pojkarnas liv. Där har vi Gansey, Noah, Adam och Ronan.

Det som skiljde dessa pojkar mest åt var att alla utom Adam var rik. Och det skulle alltid NÄMNAS. Det störde jag mig något grovt på. 

8/10




By Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher:  Scholastic Press
Pages: 409

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

Addicting. after the first page you are hooked. And I'm not even kidding. I had to put the book down after two pages and I thought I was going to break. 

Maggie have written the famous Shiver book that's in a series, you know the one with werewolves. 
The thing with that book-series is that nothing really happened until the last ten pages. I almost lost hope in her because of that. 

I loved the whole witchworld with medium's, because it's so much like our reality but at the same time it's not.

You get to take part in Blue's life among the medium's and also the Aglionby boys life. Also known as Gansey, Noah, Adam and Ronan.

The thing that set the boys more apart was that they were all rich except for Adam. And they ALWAYS had to mention that, which made me crazy.

8/10

~ Stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini