Black City {Review + No Spoilers}

 Black City, written by Elizabeth Richards, takes place in a corrupt world. There are two races divided by a wall, the Darklings and Humans. They can't quite seem to get along, and to make matters worse, drugs are thrown into the mix along with a deadly disease that's spreading throughout the Darkling community.

The story revolves around Natalie Buchanan and Ash Fisher along with their friends and family. Now the story is about a girl who's family is a very big deal and a boy who's an outcast and not well-liked. Can you guess what happens next?

Yep, they fall in love. The unthinkable in their world. Considering that Ash is a Darkling. If caught, they'd be called race traitors and killed. Now I won't say if they do ever get caught or not. I'll let you read it to find out. But I will say that their love is the kind of love...

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Black City involves romance, mixed with some mystery and political corruption.

I just finished this book last night. It gave me so many mixed feelings towards the end. Everything is fine and good starting out, but as I got further and further in, it just got more complex. In a good way, and I say that because it really kept me going. Although I don't think I felt totally crazy about the book as I have with other series. I still enjoyed reading it and I do plan on to keep reading the other books in this series.

Red Queen {Review + No Spoilers}

I read this book not too long ago and it is by far one of my favorites!

Summary:

'Red Queen' is written by Victoria Aveyard. It's about a world in which there are two classes of people. Red bloods and silver bloods. Silver bloods are thought of like royalty with god-like powers. And the red bloods are your common lower class citizens. The main characters name is Mare and she's the main focus. Mare one day is working in the palace, watching some silver blooded girls battle for the hand of the prince. All of a sudden something happens and Mare releases some pretty awesome powers. But how can that be? She's not a silver blood.

Well, after the show Mare puts on, the royal family decides she was the missing daughter of some lost silver blood family who's finally been discovered. They want to hide the fact she's a red blood. They decide to keep a close watch on her by having her get engaged to the younger of the two princes. Who seems nice in the beginning.....but you're in for a HUGE plot twist.

Mare has to navigate her way amongst silver bloods, not ever bleed in public, and not fall in love with the once prince she can't have, and stop an upcoming war between the two social class.

Thoughts:

This book literally grabs me and it's just so good. I love how Aveyard wrote the book. Mare's character is different. different from Bella from the twilight series and different from Lucinda from the fallen series. I didn't want to just shake her and tell her she's being stupid. I highly recommend this book to any young adult reader who likes romance, fantasy, and major plot twists.

I had borrowed this book from the public library, and I actually plan on buying it sometime in the future. Again, great, great book.