Book 6 of the Mortal Instruments Series
I tried reading it when it first came out about a year/year half ago??) but just couldn't finish it because I found it really dry and boring in the middle but I recently started re-reading the Mortal Instruments series and fell in love with it all over again so this time I'm determined to get through all 1000+ pages of this book! Fingers crossed, I'll be posting a review soon.
Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.
The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?
When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...
Not a YA Book I know, but everyone's been talking about this book lately so I thought I'd give it a try. It's really long though, there's 3 books in the series but each book are different months eg. Book 1 is June-August or something like that, so I think it's better if you read all 3 volumes together. I'm making my way slowly (and rather painfully) through the book - the plot of the book is very interesting but it's not the type of thing I'd read normally. It's definitely the type of book that you have to mentally prepare yourself to read and after you read it you just feel absolutely exhausted.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.
Admittedly I was kind of doubtful about this book in the begining because of the plot: there's this girl, and one day after a softball game she's arguing with her dad, and ends up walking out of the car, sees a bright white light, and BAM she's out. Next thing you know, 5 years later she wakes up, not aged a day and goes home to find that things have changed. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend is with her best friend, and she ends up falling in love with her boyfriend's younger brother who was 12 when she was 17. But of course, since 5 years has passed and she hasn't aged a day whereas he has, it's only logical to date him! Sense the sarcasm here. I haven't finished yet, but I have a feeling it's going to end up on my DNF shelf. Other than the bizzare romance though, it's not terrible so far.
A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.
When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day.
Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.
Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?
And that's it for my weekly reads! What have you been reading recently?
