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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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It’s been a slow week for my blog. I apologize. But there was the little teeny-tiny book that was release on Sunday called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production(associate link). You may have heard of it. Well, possibly not that full titled, but the shorter one: Harry Potter 8. Well, after a crazy start to my week, I cracked open the golden tome of goodness, and just couldn’t stop reading. I finished the book very quickly, as it’s a play, it’s much quicker than any of J.K Rowling’s previous novels (with the exception of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Quiddich Through The Ages). Anyway, it’s quick. Like lightning. Which meant that after spending a few short hours with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, I went into heavy withdrawal.

Again.

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It’s been a long time since I first got over Harry Potter. And now here I am, feeling like I have to get over him all over again. Only it isn’t so much Harry this time, as Albus, and wasn’t Ron great, too? He’s always great. If you’ve read it, I’m sure you can commiserate with my misery. It was great, but too brief. I want more. I need more. When can I get more?

And these questions don’t seem to go away.

For Rowling, and HP, as always, 5/5 stars.

 

J. E. Hunter is the author of the Black Depths Series. Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch, and Broken Tide, the first two books of the series can be found on  Amazon,  Kobo,  iBooks,  Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The third book, Dark Shores, was released April 1, 2016. The fourth and last book of the Black Depths series, Twisted Currents, will be released in the fall of 2016, after Dead Water and Doomed Seas, two Novellas featuring Caesar.

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YA Book Review: The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

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The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong, is the third book of the Darkest Powers Trilogy. Like the other two books in this series, I read this back in 2012. This is what I wrote in my book journal:

Finally Chloe smartens up and makes some obvious decisions. Sometimes I think there’s nothing that irritates me as much as a novel that allows the reader to know something      L-O-N-G before the main character does. The entire way through the Darkest Powers Trilogy, I was amazed by the lacking of locations. This was definitely more of a character driven young-adult paranormal book, than a world driven book. I’m not sure it was my type. It was well written throughout, but not as heart-thumping as it could have been.

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I gave the book 3/5 stars.

 

J. E. Hunter is the author of the Black Depths Series. Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch, and Broken Tide, the first two books of the series can be found on  Amazon,  Kobo,  iBooks,  Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The third book, Dark Shores, was released April 1, 2016. The fourth and last book of the Black Depths series, Twisted Currents, will be released in the fall of 2016, after Dead Water and Doomed Seas, two Novellas featuring Caesar.

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YA Book Review: The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

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YA Book Review: The Summoning (Darkest Powers Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong

I read this book in 2011, so it’s been a while. But as part of my project to put as many book reviews up on my site as I can, I’m going back in time to review this one. Good thing I’ve kept a book journal for over six years now.

The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1)(associate link), by Kelley Armstrong, is the first book in a YA Paranormal Series about a girl named Chloe. Right from the start we know that Chloe is different, and she’s about to go through a whole world of hardship.

In my journal from a few years ago, this is what I wrote:

I’ve seen these books on the shelves for quite some time now, so I finally decided to buy them for my ereader since I’d be travelling, and I just got around to reading the first one. I was pleasantly surprised. A couple times the text seemed to jump from here to there, and I wondered if my ereader was skipping pages (it wasn’t). The story was rather engaging, but not quite as descriptive as I would have liked, but I definitely want to continue reading to discover what happens to Chloe.

As you can see in the picture from my journal, I gave The Summoning 4/5 stars. I’ll post my review of book 2 and 3 later this week.

J. E. Hunter is the author of the Black Depths Series. Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch, and Broken Tide, the first two books of the series can be found on  Amazon,  Kobo,  iBooks,  Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The third book, Dark Shores, was released April 1, 2016. The fourth and last book of the Black Depths series, Twisted Currents, will be released in the fall of 2016, after Dead Water and Doomed Seas, two Novellas featuring Caesar.

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What I’m Reading: Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

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YA Book Review: Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

If you haven’t read my review of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, then start there before reading my review of the amazing sequel.


While Hollow City had sat on my To-Read Bookshelf for a couple of years, ever since I finished reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children shortly after returning from Iceland, it took me no time at all to read Hollow City once I started. Follow this link to get yourself a copy of Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children. 

Riggs is great at pacing, and right from the start the children are running from the wights, and the reader runs right along. The pace is kept up through the entire novel, making it a fun and quick-moving read. The characters are all lovely and believable, the relationships grow, though maybe I could have gotten to know a few of the children better—but it’s a fairly large cast, so I can see where the trouble lies.

Like the first book, the pictures throughout Hollow City really bring the story to life. Each photograph is carefully chosen and inserted into just the right place. I love the time travel, I love the black and white, and really, I just loved this book.

With the moving for Miss Peregrine’s coming out in September, now is the time to begin reading this series if you haven’t started yet. I certainly know I look forward to reading Library of Souls sooner rather than later.

5/5 Stars.

 

J. E. Hunter is the author of the Black Depths Series. Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch, and Black Depths, the first two books of the series can be found on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The third book, Dark Shores, was released April 1, 2016. The fourth and last book of the Black Depths series, Twisted Currents, will be released in the fall of 2016.