Good night,
This midterms’ week was tiring, hurtful and filled with drama. I mean I just realised I passed all my tests and I could be a potential sociopath since I have a strange greed for chaos and I kinda always see others as pawns to get what I want, I’m serious it’s pretty scary: i totally need to get an appointment with my ex psychologist that I haven’t seen in two years, like now. And in other matters, I managed to read just two books which is sad cuz that means I wasn’t able to listen to my Deezer playlists since I had no time for anything but studying and pitying myself. Next week, I promise I’ll read more.
First book I read was named El Libro de Jade (The Book of Jade) by Spanish author Lena Valenti, the first book in the Vanir saga.
Aileen is about to finally open her wings and fly away from her 
controlled coffin/family life with her estranged distant father and his millionaire company. She’ll graduate and she’ll fly to London to start a new life with her best friends and a raging career as a teacher. However, her journey gets cancelled when her home is shattered, her father is murdered and she is abused by dark violent vampire like creatures that keep insisting she is guilty of killing one of their friends. Nobody seems to believe her and it is too late when the truth is unveiled, and her life is altered forever by a peculiar book found in a bridge which unlocks memories and more troubles.
OK. SO WHERE DO I START? (LAUGHS AWKWARDLY)
As a hopelessly romantic I liked it but there were many aspects that my feminist human heart couldn’t deal with, like Aileen’s first encounter with Caleb. If one only let oneself be guided by first impressions, that would be an issue cuz a regular person would have stopped reading and declare it the new shitty sex book the literary world has to offer filled with patriarchal thoughts. but as I don’t consider myself that, I went through that and actually started to get into the story and then there were the almost non existent stuff like power struggles between the main couple that I just wasn’t taking anymore but then it was interesting again, so here I am totally confused and horned between my feminist morals and my child bubbly heart. In the end, I believe that some of the scenes weren’t needed and were such clichés looking to be innovative and rough in the edges however it didn’t achieve this goal cuz of its reasoning and though it try to give a “Girl Power” message, it didn’t manage to follow that path, which was a disgrace but I guess that when a book goes down that it can never reach civilization again.
The following and final book was The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Percy’s life has never been easy. He’s twelve, he’s always been labelled as a bad kid, he has dyslexia, he has been expelled from numerous
schools and is about to be kicked out of the new private school he’s attending. His life seems ordinary with his stinky stepfather and his dedicated mother, but that’s about to change when he discovers he’s a demigod: the offspring of a human and a Greek god, and yeah they do exist. But that’s not all, now another dark god wants him dead as he understands he must make a stand to survive.
NOW I GET WHY FANS WERE SO UPSET ABOUT THE MOVIE.
The studio practically Disneyed it up and then MTV it up to make it better for teens, and finally they Hollywood it up for “crowd acceptance”; with this I say the book was so much better even with them being kids and stuff. I wasn’t bored as I had presumed I would be, I got driven into the story right up, the characters started to grow on me and the situations weren’t ridiculous by the only exception of the Medusa background which for me was an insult to Greek mythology and I know the kid audience would be pretty fucked up after reading the real story but I still feel ashamed of that part. Leaving that aside, I’d like to mention how glad I was to se gods not feeling shit for their kids cuz I’m not a fan of Poseidon for the Medusa or Demeter or any other walking vagina he couldn’t keep his gross hands from issue; though I feel Zeus and Athena might be good humane parents after all, I mean he surely loved Thalia to grow a three in her dead place and Athena surely loves Anabeth if she writes to her. So I’m strangely happy about that, who would have thought that Zeus had a beating heart for his kids.
driving themselves nuts with the possibilities of what could Zeus be doing to the young goddess. The only person who seems to still share a connection to both the predatory captor and the kidnapped girl is the one Hades and Demeter will never trust: the ever so horned Aphrodite. She informs them of Zeus insane requests in return for the girl and none of them is willing to give up. Until they get a taste of her constant torture, and hurt; the clock is ticking and someone’s got to make a decision : the goddess or the human race.
moved to a new town with her grandparents and is desperate to move on and forget, all until she meets and shares a peculiar encounter with the dangerous Cole. There’s where everything started to turn the turn to the insanity : Now her dreams are most likely memories, the rabbit cloud she fears could mean that death is near and her little sister could be a friendly ghost. But above all, in her look for answer she’ll find that the dead might not be so dead after all.
another hunter. Now her heart is bleeding and madness is taking over her, the pictures in the mirror may mean that an epic fight is about to begin cuz this time Alice is no longer the only resident in her body but a dark spirit is ready to remove her from her mind. Must Alice give in and enjoy her last days? Or battle to the end for her life? All this while the crew starts to realize that their troubles are far from gone when the crazy principal went away.
she could have done to save her, right? The new kid, Galen thinks she could’ve done more since he believes she belongs to an ancient race of merfolk named Syrenas. He is one of them and she appears to belong to an special branch of these creatures, she could be the new hope or threat to his kind and their future. But there are more problems coming because she truly believes herself to be a regular human, but what’s normal about talking to fish? He should kill her but there’s something about her bubbly personality that makes him happier and horned between duty and love.
hell when Nallia runs away with her and forges an animity with the Tritons because of her desperation to protect Emma (she kicked the crap out of Rayna) and her belief that her long lost love is dead. It becomes a persecution, while some civilian traitors try to dethrone the monarchy with lies and secret alliances.
new order in the Syrena society and their own waiting future, so when her Poseidon grandfather offers them to travel to a secret town named Neptune they can’t refuse. However, much more than a town of hybrids awaits for them, because intrigues are a global thing and kidnappings are not far from it. Besides this, misunderstandings are ahead of their seemly perfect relationship.
unwanted attention because of her beauty and jealousy from the girls. But the ultimate strange detail about her is revealed when she’s almost kidnapped by a creaper: she’s a Greek goddess, daughter of Demeter and Zeus; and the God of Winter wants her for himself.
it hurts her. Thanatos’ forced promise hurts her as well. Melissa’s desire to be free and away from her hurts her too. And her mother’s omissions of the truth gets her breaking point. She’s stressed, she sees no way out of her pain and when she meets Aphrodite she immediately relies on her new sister’s care to rest for a while from all her responsibilities and duties.
shore of her island until the Vikings arrived and her sister in law gave her as bait to them so they wouldn’t tear the village down. She’s now under the orders and care of Eirik, a strong hearted and bravely stubborn warrior who refuses to let this Saxon girl get into his core and change his ways and what his people expect of him but there’s a difference between reason and love. And none of them will be able to fight it.
passion and revelations, he leaves and she’s forced to marry to guard her torned shame and the consequences of that night. But when they are reunited, she must think and rethink if she could trust him again since they aren’t both children anymore and have to stand up for their choices.
them for the human’ survival. But all the rules fade when she is attacked for a human like fae that resists to die of iron knives. And everything gets even more complicated when sarcastic and mysterious Ren who puts all the things she’s thought she knew into question including her reluctance to fall in love.
feeling unable to be touch by nobody. But that changes when she meets rock star Drew and his rock solid body that’s capable to tickle her instead of bringing back traumatic memories; and she’ll go through he’ll to stay with him, literally.
eternity, she realised the odds weren’t in her favour since all she ever wanted seems to crumble and vanish as Henry gets kidnapped by an old foe of the six original gods is brought back by an envious bitter goddess with a special hatred for Zeus and Kate. In order to get him back, she’ll have to ask some help from his ex: Persephone, her older sister. As her emotional health deteriorates as a dying flower.
Kate has been experiencing in the last months after she found out she was pregnant thanks to Ava who gave her up to psycho Calliope for her own advantage. She has been under Cronos’ constant watch, and this Titan will be the one who forces her to make the ultimate choice between her child and Henry; what will she choose? How will she live with it?
horrible state and he prevented Rose from being offered to Lilith, besides he runaway with her through some portals so… His biggest enemy is looking for his head and her freedom while Lucas and Sofia get more desperate by the second with no news from both their witch friends neither from their daughter. Will Rose and Caleb admit their feelings for each other, or become the prey of more dangerous beings than just some black witches.
expected. Now she, he and Annora are left with nothing more than their almost nonexistent survival skills in a deserted island that look nothing like the Shade, as Rise begins to question whether Caleb has gained his feelings for human Annora back. On the other hand, there’s the unexpected yet threatening visitors arriving to talk to Sofia and Derek with some dark inhuman purpose, trying to use their weaknesses against each other.
to quit being a teen to take care of her and spend as much time as she can with her before she’s gone. And now she’s spending her senior year in her mom’s little old hometown, where after an accident that involves a bitchy cheerleader and a river she meets Henry: an enigmatic and mysterious young man that claims to be Hades the ruler of the Underworld and the only one who can give her more time with her dying mother, so when he asks her six months for all her life to spend with him; her answer is already on the table.
to her but until now he only knows her name: Emilia. However, when she appears as a hostage in the Shade, Sofia knows this could go the worst way possible and things take a turn for the ugly when not only her identity is discovered but also her dark allies with an unsuspected motive that could finally tear our main couple apart.
moments that sending Sofia and Derek on their honeymoon was a huge mistake, after all the princess is still unstable and Aiden just discovered he holds no power over his former crew but they let them continue their happy time. Unfortunately, their paradise is interrupted when a foe comes for Sofia with surprising news about their future and how the Shade will fall sooner than they thought right in front of their crying eyes. While the Elders prepare to ruin all pure things the vampire islands have, and form their own hell on Earth.
twisted motives and heartless ways of getting what he wants so she has no power over her own body neither on what she’ll do to her loved ones. On the other hand, there’s Derek who has the weapon to kill those beastly vampires but needs a witch to succeed besides he’s desperate to get Sofia back without suspecting her sudden changes. One thing is certain: they’ll risk their own existence to have their child in their arms and form the family they we’re lucky enough to be rewarded with.
changed, like the vampire state of not only Derek and Sofia but also Aiden to be able to protect the Shade and all it’s new inhabitants (vamps, humans and witches) besides their own set of twins: Rose and Ben. But soon our older couple will have to learn that their children are no longer babies but rebellious teens with secrets and desires of their own. Like Rose who’ll prove that she not only inherited her mother’s piercing green eyes but her susceptibility for the forbidden and dangerous as well.
Caleb, so when everyone gets tricked to go to Annora’s castle to bring their precious friend back Rose is wiser than most or at least she thinks it so. She needs just a word of the guy she passionately kissed on the shore and she’ll believe in what she felt; but is she risking too much in what could be a lie or are those her insecurities speaking?. But she’s not the only one trying to find Anna, Ben was raised by the human for a short while however he’ll go through a risky path to recuperate her trusting in the most unlikely of allies.
from the pain of loosing her beloved parents but this young star crossed lovers will try to cheat their hearts to get a short break on their painful forbidden love: Caleb will try to find comfort in rescuing Annora’s soul and Rose is going to encounter adrenaline in a new resident werewolves of wild ways. The clock is ticking, and their infatuation could come to a disastrous demise.
for Gwen, until a person close to her heart fell as collateral damage and now is fighting to survive this murder attempt with all the help he friends can give. But she needs the only thing that could save him, the cure to his affliction that is located through a dangerous path that could serve her on a silver plate for her enemies or drive her to an important piece of her family tree. All she knows is that the clock is ticking, and she’s already late.
sentiments when Loki gets closer to attack the academy by the second and she remains ignorant to how could she end him once and for all. And if her position wasn’t complicated enough there’s still Loki’s Champion desperate to get her revenge on Gwen and drive her to be hated by her own friends and loved ones.
in an asylum when she was a kid, her dad refused to raise her when she was nine and left her with his friends with some economical help, she fell in love with those friends’ son but he only sees her as a back up friend and now she has just been captured by an abusive and unpredictable vampire to join his brother’s harem in a lost island. Sofia starts to recognize she might be gone through the same path as her mom since she is falling for this brother who’s not only an enchanting blood sucker but the reigning Prince of the strongest coven of vamps ever constructed.
happened in their hearts will never change, they can experiment with former loves or the darkness in one self until a reality check comes in the form of a seer vampire girl that wants these two to give themselves a second chance in love and leadership of this cold piece of land.
is family treasons. Lucas is now working with the most vile of the enemy covens, Gregory Novak is back and will do anything to separate the happy couple, Camilla Claremont is a crazy vampire with some sick secrets she’s keeping from her daughter and Aiden will never allow his Sofia to date a blood sucker. Sofia will have to walk through blood, deception, indecision and hurt to keep following the prophecy so Shade will find its vampire sanctuary once and for all.
to live without him until she can get her way out. Sofia has always known she’s different, she even thought she was going insane but that’s just a syndrome and now she’s just discovered she’s immune to vampire venom and she’ll never be able to be turn into a vampire which gives her hope about a possible cure to his beloved’s afflictions. However, Derek is also facing his own issues like a civil war right ahead and a human revolt besides a probable attack for no reason with the other covens and she’s still manages to think of her love without darkness.
a new position to ascend to, but Dorothy is still alive harboring power to get her kingdom and the fear of the rest of Oz. And the only key to returning to the magical dying land might be a special pair of shoes hidden in the last place she ever wanted to return next to the horrid people she swore wouldn’t trust nor be tamed by. Sometimes we have no choice but to get the craziest allies.
family in the hard working neighborhood but now all that is gone. Peace, tranquility, happiness nor trust is to be found in this raw land where only fear, judgement and secrets haunt everyone who sets a foot in this field. Until a vampire joins the imprisonment next to the rest of them, Graft realizes that once you’re in this town there’s no way out and that a terrifying guardian keeps everyone in, specially an appealing and mysterious young woman whom he will slowly develop an inevitable attachment.
just wanted to stay with her grandma and cry all day long for the injustice that had plagued her happiness, for the guilt she felt over that accident because if she hadn’t used her “abilities” perhaps her mother wouldn’t have gotten involved in all that mess. She never expected to be sent to the strangest of schools to learn how to use her “gifts” next to other “special” teenagers and young adults. She was sent to Mythos Academy where all myths and legends are true, and an impending war is getting closer to Gwen ’cause she’s more than just the poor weird Gypsy chick.
hottest of Spartans, Logan. However, that’s not on Daphne’s plans since now her new entitled best friends wants her to accompany her and her skilled boyfriend to a school trip in one of the most luxurious snowy resorts in the US to forget about her sadness and gain the confidence that as the Champion of Nike she should have. Soon Gwen will find out that all that liberty maybe more dangerous and risky than she ever thought.
the mind of one of her mother’s murderers every day after school, she’s slowly progressing in her own fighting skills, another Reaper is totally attending the academy, she has to find a lost dagger that could unlock Locky’s imprisonment and besides all that: Logan won’t define their relationship or at least inform her of their status. She’s under much pressure with a sword who won’t stop talking about murdering foes with its British accent and a long lost furry friend, but she’ll have to endure and just keep going because she’s still Nike’s Champion no matter the failure neither the pain nor the blood she’ll have to spill, everything is for the greater good.
knows that so much calmness can’t last, and that’s exactly what happens when a secret someone gives Gwen up to the highest of authorities of the Pantheon with lies about her behavior and murderous desires besides they now think she’s supporting Loki. She’s imprisoned and put into question, she thinks that another secret Reaper is on the run and wants her head for the weak Nordic God of Chaos but reality is way worse than just her death.
of the new Louisiana King’s wicked lackey, and his pompous majesty is looking for the killer; unfortunately for Sookie that’s not all that is to fear because someone is trying to frame Eric for the murder of a young stripper and on its way attempting to tear their relationship apart in their already precarious state. The answer might not be so obvious, after all, at least not for our dear blonde waitress.
aftermath of her new “resuscitater” status and new threat is setting her as his or her target. A former friend dies, Sookie is imprisoned, Eric is more distant than ever, Sookie looks for comfor somewhere else, life isn’t what used to be neither fair: or at least, that’s how things go in the new supernatural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
that was getting together with her brother’s best friend Finn but things haven’t progressed yet. He not only sees her as the little sister of his mate nor just as a student in the college he teaches in but as his annoying and stressful self-proclaimed stalker. However, she’s still trying to be in his mind but things get complicated when his older brother appears and his enormous ego claims her as his own. Sometimes, what you think you want is not what you need neither what you have.
irresponsible divorced mother and being the constant target of the most popular girl in school. She has never had a purpose more than getting the he’ll out of that sinkhole of a life, but when her wish comes true in the shape of a tornado that drives her to no other place than Oz; she’ll have to face a worst Bitch in Charge than the one she left in Kansas, and this one wears the most stylish red high heels ever. She’s so far away from home now.
known as farmer Dorothy, Amy has to fix her mistakes and follow the instructions of the Wizard to end the tyrant princess once and for all by taking away and destroying the gifts he gave to Dorothy’s partners himself a long time ago. In the way, Amy will discover ugly truths, lovely lies and devastating consequences that could ruin Oz and Amy’s life forever. They say there’s no place like home, but in her position, do you even know the answer?
