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March 7, 2015 by Bianca Leave a Comment

Cover Reveal: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy + The Lost Herondale

**I apologise for the lateness of this post, it was in my queue and I completely forgot about it.**

This post is for all of us Mortal Instruments fanatics that are dying of Shadowhunter deprivation after closing City of Heavenly Fire in May, 2014.

Boy, do I have some exciting news for you. Cassandra Clare has just released two of her covers for the e-book series, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy!

So, we all know (or should know) that Cassandra Clare has teamed up with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman to create a series of ten novellas, taking place after the events in City of Heavenly Fire.
Each of these books will be released on a monthly basis, beginning with “Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy” in February, 2015.

The titles of the books, to date, are:

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
The Lost Herondale
The Whitechapel Fiend
Nothing But Shadows
Evil We Love
Pale Kings and Princes
Bitter of Tongue
The Fiery Trial
Born to Endless Night
Angels Twice Descending

They sound interesting, don’t they?

Right, so, now to the big, exciting and extremely fantabulous cover reveals of the first two books.

Now, if you put them next to each other, they form a part of a picture (of someone about to let an arrow fly).

Ahhhh oh my Gosh, I cannot wait for this series to be released in hardcopy.

And, of course, this will work just like The Bane Chronicles; in which ten eBook novellas were released (once a month) and then a hardcopy was released afterwards.

I cannot wait any longer for more Shadowhunters! Can you? What are you most/least looking forward to in the upcoming Shadowhunter Chronicles?

February 23, 2015 by Bianca 3 Comments

Review: The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

Title: The Iron Trial

Series: Magisterium
Book Number: #1
Author/s: Cassandra Clare & Holly Black

Publication Date: September the 9th, 2014
Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 299

Purchase: Amazon | The Book Depository | Booktopia | iTunes

Synopsis

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.

Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.

All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.

So he tries his best to do his worst – and fails at failing.

Now the Magisterium awaits him. It’s a place that’s both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.

The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . .

Prior to reading The Iron Trial, I’d heard rumours that it was ‘yet another rip-off of Harry Potter’.
5 days ago, when I finished the book, I could finally say, from the bottom of my heart, that it was not Harry Potter. When readers start comparing two books from the same genre (in this case, it’s fantasy), they’re going to find a lot of similarities, but if all books were completely unique, genres would not be an acceptable way of sorting text.

I originally picked up this book because I was on a book-hangover (no thanks to City of Heavenly Fire) and decided that Cassandra Clare’s writing may have the ability to rescue me from the pit of sadness, just as well as it put me there.

I was wrong.

Cassandra Clare and Holly Black may have threw me a rope and pulled me up, but only to drop me back into the pit. I cannot wait another seven months to find out what happens with Call.
Plus, the cover of The Copper Gauntlet (book number 2 in the Magisterium series) was just released… AND JASPER WAS ON THE COVER?!?!?!

I need an explanation… now!

Despite the fact that I am completely obsessed with the story, I found a few faults within the text – mostly just places where decent descriptions were lacked – but I can forget about them, thanks to the MASSIVE PLOT TWIST!?

Cassandra and Holly have a way of weaving small hints into the text, that seemingly mean nothing, but make heaps of sense once the time comes around.

Overall, I adored this book and if I had my time again, I wouldn’t hesitate picking it up again.

What did you think of The Iron Trial? If you haven’t read the book, are you considering it?

February 14, 2015 by Bianca 3 Comments

Valentine’s Day 2015

Whilst I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day myself, I take great joy in watching my social media feeds flood with those hilariously punny Valentine’s ‘Cards’, which is exactly why I’ve created four more to fill you up with happiness, and your surroundings with laughter (even if you’re single/in relationships with fictional characters).

And we all know how much Effie likes her mahogany.

Because who doesn’t need Sterek in their lives?

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February 10, 2015 by Bianca Leave a Comment

Book-to-Movie Trailer Review: Insurgent

Hello! Despite being a book-obsessed fangirl, I do enjoy watch a lot of movies – especially those based off of said books. Divergent was one of the first Dystopian-future-styled books that I read, and now that its sequel is becoming a movie, you can imagine how excited I am.

To celebrate my happiness, I’ve written a ‘review’ (of sorts) of the trailer, containing my initial thoughts on the movie.

Here it goes…

Hmm… It’s a bit harsh on my behalf to be judging a movie (that’s not yet been released) via it’s trailer and book. Besides, the first book-to-movie adaptation was brilliant, in my opinion!

A few people have watched the Insurgent film trailers (Official & Superbowl) and commented saying things along the lines of, “I honestly believe that I read the wrong book.” Personally, I only partially agree with this statement. Despite the fact that the two trailers feature this amazing ‘box’, of which no one has ever heard of, I think that it was necessary to change the execution of Insurgent, just so that the trilogy’s movie adaptations kept the movies’ plot headed in the right direction.

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