The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

Hey Guys,

I’m ready to get back into posting, it’s almost summer time which means six weeks of posting, I hope. Anyway, I was creating a new page up top along my tab bar, when I realized how badly my reviews have become. I mean with amounts and frequency, I'm quite happy with how my reviews read. But, I was creating this tab, and I realized how much I've missed regular reviews and getting to express my feelings for books where real people can read it.

The point of that essay was to say; I'll be reviewing a lot more soon, hopefully, because I miss doing it.

I'll start the actual review now...

So, I picked this up because I was in the mood for something a bit more fun and light hearted, but still fantasy. So, what else did I pick up? A Percy Jackson.

Overall I thought this book was brilliant, I really liked reading from Apollo’s POV, and it was genuinely hilarious. The fact that all the chapter names were Haikus was just the icing on the pretty much perfect cake. I liked seeing Apollo's humility and his thoughts towards that. I loved meeting some characters as well as meeting some new ones.

The book mainly centre's around the god Apollo, who has been sent down to earth by Zeus. That's all I can really say, as I would think you should read the other Percy Jackson books first. I'm sorry if you just wanted to read this one, but it throws you into the story and expects you to know the world and characters. Plus it references the other books regularly.

I would highly recommend you pick up any Rick Riordan book (especially Percy Jackson). I would also like to mention that you might be getting the AIP end of month review a bit late, because all three of us haven't read the book yet. Sorry, I did start it though!

I have mentioned this before, but in July I'm going YALC with Maud and Emile from An Infinite Bookshelf. I'm so excited to go and I hope some of you are going, comment below if you are.

Let's get into the spoilers...

Favourite Authors // must buy authors

Hey Guys,

I am so sorry for how little I've been posting recently but lucky me, I have hit exam season at my school. In the last week alone I have had five different tests. Talk about stress. Anyway between revision and general other busyness I have had no real time to post. I think some of it is just down to pure laziness.

I haven't had much time to review recently either so I'll quickly update you on where I stand with my reading. So, I've read Scarlet and Cress by Marissa Meyer. I then started the AIP book of the month; Beautiful Music for Ugly Children but I wasn't in the mood for it, so instead I picked up Trials of Apollo which I will definitely be reviewing soon. Finally, I'm about to pick up The Crown by Keira Cass.

Anyway, today I'm going to be talking you through my favourite authors. To narrow this down I only picked authors which I have dubbed 'must buy' authors, they are basically the authors where if they release a book I will buy it and read it. I also tried to pick authors where I've read all their books or at least mostly all. Let's finally get on with it...

Ransom Riggs -
I don't think I've expressed my love for the Peculiar Children series that much on here, but I did read them a while back. But, I will read anything Ransom writes because I like his story telling and I love the way he writes. However he has only released one series so I don't know how I would feel about a different series.

Rainbow Rowell -
Although I have not read all of her books, I do own every single one, including world book day short stories. As far as contemporary goes she is an awesome writer, all the stories I've read have been adorable and so awesome. I love them as pick me ups and just in general they are awesome. Also every book she writes is different so I know it's not just me loving certain characters.

Colleen Hoover -
Once again I haven't read everything yet, but I'm working on it. All I haven't read is the 'hopeless' series. I can’t wait for 'It Ends with Us' I don't think I've even fully comprehended how soon it's being published. Once again I love all her contemporaries. She's a fairly new author to my arsenal, but I already love everything she writes.

Cassandra Clare -
I'd like to say I've read everything, but I haven't read Shadow hunter Academy. Still, I've read every main book she's written. I think I love all her characters a bit too much, I really love reading about the shadow hunter world. I really enjoying the Dark Artifices, plus I am super on top of everything coming out soon; like the Last Hours.

Rick Riordan -
This one's a bit special as it really only applies to anything with Percy Jackson in it. I'm on top of all the Percy's but I have no real interest in reading anything else by him. I guess this doesn't really qualify but I wanted to briefly mention it anyway.

JK Rowling -
This one's a little bit interesting again, obviously I would buy anything written by the mastermind behind Harry Potter, but I didn't enjoy the Casual Vacancy. So I guess I would buy anything written by her but I'm not too sure how I would enjoy it. Either way she is an absolutely awesome writer with an awesome ability to create an awesome world.

Sarah J. Maas -
Now this one is a full qualifier as I have read everything by her, I've pre-ordered anything I can; you guys have seen my extreme excitement towards anything she does. And, It's not just one series I love it's both that she's written. I love anything she touches; her worlds are really cool and very in depth. Also her characters are all beautiful; I would just love to live with all of them.

I hope you enjoyed that post. It was definitely one I enjoyed planning and writing. I'm sorry that I kind of got a bit excited towards the end but Sarah is like my spirit animal. That's a bit weird. Also just in the news of me, umm, I'm going to YALC with my friends over at An Infinite Bookshelf in the summer. I'm really excited about that. I'll see you soon.

-A

An Infinite Philosophy May review // collab

Hey Guys,

So it is time again for our end of month review. This month's book was A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarh J. Maas. I have already done my own personal review if you want to check that out to hear my more in depth thoughts.

Without further ado I bring you next month's book Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristen Cronn-Mills!

*confetti*

Also we are missing Maud from today review as she didn't have enough time to finish the book, though she may add her paragraph later on
On with the chat...

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Hey Guys,

I'm back. I feel like after being gone for so long it's quite hard to back into the swing of things but I'll give it a shot.
So, it is half term here in the U.K so I'm taking advantage of the free time to get some reading done, today I'll be reviewing Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I've literally had this book on my shelf for a year, exactly a year. But, I finally have the others in the series so I can read them all back to back which so far I'm really enjoying. Anyway, enough small talk, let's get down to the review.

This book was so gripping from the very start, it always had me on the edge of my seat and I enjoyed it immensely. I'm already in love with all the characters and have become way to attached to them. I really like the dystopian world that this is set in because it is so far in the future it feels more like a fantasy book. And, in general I think the whole premise is very clever and was pulled off exceptionally.

So it is basically a fairy tail retelling of Cinderella but set way in the future where there a people with cybernetic parts. Our main character, Cinder, had cybernetic parts and is looked down because of it, and other than that it follows the main plot of Cinderella, if a bit loosely.

Ok so, this is were I leave all the people who haven't read this yet, if you have feel free to roam ahead into the spoiler section.
Also, don't forget to look out for the AIP end of month review, it should be going up soon. To be a bit cheeky 'll tell you that next month's book is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills.
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