Series Review: The Bonners Fairy Series

I received digital copies of this series in exchange for honest reviews, with thanks to the author, Elizabeth Patterson. 

The Bonner Fairy series follows twins, Haley and Henry, as they move to the town of Bonners Ferry and get more than they bargained for when they discover that the town has a rich history of magic. Through five adventures, we see the twins develop and grow in different ways, through magic, through love and through experience. 

Book One; Bonners Fairy 

 This book tells us about the history of the town that our two main characters are moving too, and how this town came to be, the tragedy that brought about the story behind those cries coming from the woods...When the town first founded, the founder's wife and children died, and he disappeared looking for them. Many think that the ghost of the founder, Zeb, is looking revenge for what happened to him and his family. 

Now, Haley and Henry have moved into Zeb's old house, and they have an itch for adventure. They soon discover that the wails are closer than they think, but so is the world of fairy's and this story is a lot more complex than they originally thought as they travel to the fairy world to reunite Zeb and his family, even though they got separated two centuries ago. 

I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of fae books is pretty limited. I haven't really got a lot of knowledge when it comes to them, but I do enjoy them a lot. I thought that the story of this book was so interesting, it was unique and the writing style was pretty much straight to the point. It was a good introductory book to this five part series. 

My overall rating of book one is four stars. 

Book Two; A New Kind of Battle

This book gets started a while after book one. Henry and Haley have been away from Roan for quite a while, but when Sersha gets hurt, they have to return to help Prince Valian who was also pretty hurt. Haley, who is completely in love with the prince, jumps at this opportunity but his nurse seems to be in the way quite a bit so she's all "He doesn't love me" Then he calls her bluff by proposing and even though it should be all happy it's not because the fae world is chaotic and they must all band together to face the issues being faced in the community. 

Sersha for me, was the shining star in this book, she showed so much character development and she really blossomed into a likable character. My main issue with this book was the proposal. I'm all for romance. Give me a cheesy romantic contemporary and I'm the happiest person in the world. However, I don't like when it's a character's main focus. And it became Haley's main focus which made her grate a little. 

My overall rating of book two is four stars. 

Book Three; Mischief and Mayhem

As much as I liked the first two book, this one is when we started to get answers, a lot of situations were left unanswered in the last two books and we finally get the sense of things coming together with this one. These answers helped me feel a lot more connected to the world of this book and I really enjoyed the characters a lot more in this one. 

With evil on the rampage, the twins again must help defend Roan. But I think that Henry may be my favourite twin, just because he was the one that we get to see the least. He wasn't really focused on in Book Two because of Haley and Valian, and I'm glad we got to know him more in this book. 

There was a lot more action in this book which I enjoyed a lot, it was so fast paced and it really helped to hold my attention. 

My overall rating of book three is four stars. 

Book Four; Sailing Toward Destiny

This one takes place partly on a ship, and I love ships, I love books based on boats, I love books at sea. I just love boats. So this one really captivated me as a sailor at heart. We follow the twins and the fairy crew as they head towards Medusa's Head in an attempt to find out what's happening in the world around them, and also finding out more about themselves. The twins are definitely older souls than their physical age of 17. 

But the whole age thing with Haley being engaged still bothers me slightly, I just struggle with the fact she's 17 and she's getting married to a supernatural being...I don't know, when I was 17, I was far too immature for all that. I still am if I'm honest. 

My overall rating of Book Four is four stars. 

Book Five; Secrets and Spies

I loved this book, it was definitely the best one for me. 

We see a lot of growth from Haley in this book, her and Valian get married, which I'm still not a fan of because of her age, but it led to them not being as lovey-dovey all the time, in a sickening way. It didn't take a higher priority than the storyline. 

The action in this book was ready-set-go. It was so fast paced that I was loving it immediately. The fairies and the twins were faced with an evil entity who wanted to essentially kill all the fae, and they had to deal with this as a team to protect their world. 

Another relationship posed as the only issue in this book...Henry and Sersha...I mean, come on. Introduce me to someone new. Not his sister in law. 

My overall rating of Book Five is four and a half stars. 

I would definitely recommend this series to younger teen readers, it's a really great gateway to fae books, and as someone pretty new to fae books, I really enjoyed this series!

QOTD: What fae books would you recommend? 

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Series Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver

This is my second time reviewing Lauren Oliver on this blog, and the reason would be that I genuinely love her writing. I loved Panic (to a certain extent) and I loved Before I Fall. But until last week I hadn't read probably her most popular series, Delirium. 

The Delirium series is set in a world where love is a disease. And to be immune to the disease, you have to get cured. The story follows Lena whose mother caught the disease when she was a child, and it's how she navigates her way through this dystopian world. 

Here's what I thought. 

Delirium 

95 days to go until Lena gets cured, but obviously things don't go to plan, or else we wouldn't have a book. 

This book is a four out of five, I liked this one quite a lot. At first, I wasn't too sure about Lena, I thought she was a bit too distant for us to become connected to her, but I was quickly proved wrong by how much she really grew throughout this book, she was unique and likable by the end. 

The world for this book was so interesting too, it was very different from any other dystopian book I had read. It was overall a really good read that made me excited for continuing the series. 

Pandemonium 

This book for me was conflicting, in some ways it was such a step up from book one. It gave us more development, more action and more drama. The ending literally left me speechless and I couldn't make any cohesive thoughts for a few minutes other than OH MY GOD. I really loved some aspects about this book, but there were also sections where this book fell flat. 

I felt that although the ending was incredible, there was something missing, the book was building and building for something that didn't arrive and it left me feeling a bit disappointed. 

I really liked Lena's character development and the introduction of Julian in this book. He was actually a character that I loved. 

Four out of five stars. 

Requiem 

It's always the last book in a trilogy that disappoints me. 

I felt cheated by this book. I was so into it until the last 20% and then it just died. It faltered and I couldn't get back into it. The whole thing with her mum in this book kind of messed me up because I wanted more. I feel like we were promised more from the beginning books in this series than this book gave us. 

I liked some parts about it, I liked getting to know Hana. I liked the little touches on relationship throughout this book but by the end of it I was just so cheated and disappointed that I found the ending anti-climatic and too vague for my liking. 

Three out of five stars. 

Overall Review: 

I wanted to love this so badly. 

But with hyped books, you always have to be careful and with this series I just gave it my heart for it to not live up to my expectations and the last book kind of just ruined it all. 

Overall series review: 3.5 stars. 

QOTD: Have you read this series, did you like it? If not, can you imagine a world without love? 

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Friday Favourites: Horror Books

Friday Favourites is going to be a monthly post that talks about my favourite books in certain genres; most likely they'll be catered around seasonal holidays/events. It is essentially five or more mini reviews of some books I really enjoy! 

October Friday Favourites: Horror in honour of our favourite spooky month!

1) The Lost Girl by R.L. Stine (Fear Street Relaunch #3)

The Lost Girl is definitely one of the best Stine books I've ever read and as a massive fan of his work, that's a big statement from me! Thanks to the publisher for allowing me to read this book before it's release via Netgalley. 

The book starts the same way any of Stine's work does, with a lot of suspense! A young girl named Beth witnesses her father's brutal death at the hands of Martin Dooley, and suddenly we're into the future, and Michael Dooley, his grandson, and his girlfriend; Pepper, befriend the new girl Lizzy. On a dramatic snowmobile ride, themselves, their friends and Lizzy kill a man...And one by one Martin's friend's begin to die. 

Does Lizzy have something to do with it?

Halloween is never complete without a Stine book!


2) The Ghost Next Door by R.L. Stine (Goosebumps #10)

Everybody has that one spooky book they read as a child that stays with them, and for me, it was this. The Ghost Next Door. Reading this even now, as a legal adult, I still get shivers. For me, this is the best book in the Goosebumps series. 

Hannah has a horrible dream, fire killing her whole family but when she wakes up everything is fine again...except things have changed. There's people living in the house next door, despite it being empty the day before. Her best friend hasn't wrote from camp. And the boy next door seems to just appear...

The logical conclusion: He's a ghost.

But as people who've read the Goosebumps series know, nothing is as it seems. 



3) It by Stephen King

A horror category just wouldn't be complete without the king of horror himself. 

As this book is the reason why a lot of people are afraid of clowns and some people find it triggering to that fear, I won't go into a lot of depth, but you may be thinking, it it really worth it? The answer is YES. 

I was apprehensive going into this, it's a very long and very daunting book but the story line is just absolutely genius and although I was scared out of my wits for the most part, I really loved reading this book. I've bought 4 more King books because of it. 









4) The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (The Girl from the Well #1)

I read this book as part of the YA Buddy Reader Corner's group Mega Month Challenge on Goodreads as it was one of their Group Buddy Reads. And I wasn't expecting to enjoy it. 

But immediately I was obsessed. It was like reading the Ring mixed with an anime, but that was solely due to it's japanese mythological background, with a touch of Dexter with the whole killing bad people thing as that's what the girl from the well does. She takes down the bad people of society, the child molesters etc, and she makes sure they'll never do it again.

It creeped me out to no extent and I was absolutely blown away by the mystery of it, it kind of was like the Ring, so if you like the whole Samara storyline, you'll enjoy this novel!




5) The Fear Street Saga Trilogy Books 1-3 by R.L. Stine 

Okay I know that I'm kind of cheating by putting into a trilogy, but hey, this is my blog!

This trilogy is again by R.L. Stine, if you hadn't have guessed by now, he's one of my favourite authors. This was the first trilogy, or first books, I think I ever read that related to the Fear Street series in anyway. Of course I knew of it, but I never really took the chance to read them, and I was so scared reading these books that I stopped reading them at night and had to limit my reading to daytime reading. 

They aren't very long, a max of 200 pages per book, and I flew through them. I definitely recommend these for the spookiest time of year!

QOTD: What's your favourite spooky reads/are you planning on reading anything this halloween? 

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