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FLAWED- CECELIA AHERN

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Blurb:  Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found  flawed . My friend bought this novel for me as a birthday gift and I wa s really excited to read it, since it was Cecelia Ahern's first dystopian novel. But it did not work. For me the characters have to have something different, something that stands out. I didn't connect with the protagonist at all and found the story line pretty bland. The first half was really hard for me to read but like after 200 pages it gets better. I liked Carrick  in this and his story as well. I wanted to see his character more in this book but he made only small appearances in this one.

A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

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A Court of Thorns and roses Blurb-  When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.   As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow over the faerie lands is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever. I read this book a while ago and I really loved it. I decided to review it as soon as possible but I was caught up in work real bad and didn’t get any chance to do it. I was also thinking to get out of this reading slump which definitely sucks. With all these w