4/30 PreWednesday Issue#2 Random Updates Dayy!

Issue #2. Makes it sounds like some kind of newpaper XD Oh and I Luurrrrvvee the banner, Bellzie!! Looks awesome *thumbs up* I dunno how to do those kind of things *pouts*

Anyhooo, quite a few things have happened this weekk!

• We have a Twitter account now! Ta daaa *flourishes arm*:  FM's Twitter :D It was supposed to be @Fangirlingmisses, but twitter apparently thinks its too long, so it's now fangirlingmisse, without the "S", which makes no sense at all, whatsoever. Rahh. And Twitter's character limit is so short, it's really hard to actually write anything useful XD 

• HEIR OF FIRE'S NEW COVER!!!! It got released a few days ago, remembah?? I shall show it to those who haven't seen it yet on their official FB page- *pauses dramatically*....*crowd waits*....*smirks* Wait till the end of the post. *cracks up* LETS TORTURE OUR READERS XDD *crowd throws tomatoes* ...okay okay..geez so violent.   

The lovely green one on the left hand side is the US cover version, and the left is the UK's. Which do you prefer? I kind of like the UK's betterr.. the ice green/blue colour in the background is soooo pwetty. and LOOK she has a BOW!! :D CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT *pulls hair* GIMME. NOW. *jumps around with Belle* AHHH!!!!! :DDD *dies*

• I'm currently rereading the Darkest Minds because it's so awesome, and if you haven't read it....*puts knife to throat* READ. IT. NOW. *smiles sweetly* I personally (and lot of you should be agreeing with this statement...*shoots a look around threateningly*) think it's THE best dystopian book ever written. And I've read a lot of dystopian books. It's fresh, new, suspenseful, and the romance is slow and real unlike mostt..*cough* Not naming names XD Just remember, MY LIAM. Or i'll hunt you down in your sleep. 
• If you haven't seen the other 5 Misses around, it's because they're slacking. Chop chop, dearies XD 
• I think that's pretty much it....I should keep notes of interesting things next time o.O Can't remember anything. Maybe you can add sumfin, Bellzie or Mazza xD

-MissOddball™ Over and Out. *salutes*


Yuuupp Belle 'ere!! I'll add some stuff that happened for me over the week noww ;D
P.s. Woowww! You're rweally getting the hang of this Cazzie! *gapes*
P.p.s. I'm gonna do numbers because the • thingys don't work with paragraphs and stuff......XD Annnyyyhooooooo:

1. Not only are we on Twitter *chirp*, we're also now on Google+ (just look to our profile lol --->) ......I was gonna do it earlier, pwomiseee......buut I was too lazy and Cass beat me to it *cracks up*

2.For those of youu who owns an Apple device and frequents the iTunes Store......(and what Apple person doesn't use iTunes....COME ON!!! XPP), I'm sure you all know about the “of the Week” bargains! :P If you haven't you deserve a good facepalm. Seriously. *readies facepalm machine factory* :P
I absolutely luuuvvvvv “of the Week” specialss! *FANGIRLS* I've gotten many a book, app and song free over the last year and a half aka how long I've had an Apple *winkss* E.g. some YA books: Grave Mercy, Angel, Touch of Power, The Immortal Rules, The Goddess Test etc. (and I still haven't read most of them! XD Talking about that, I really should read them! :D)
This lovely week I checked the “Book of the Week” (I believe they update every friday.....for us Aussies, at least), and guess what popped up?! *raises eyebrows* You guessed it!! Frozen Sing-A-Long-Storybook! XDD
*pauses*
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Me #1: .......noooooo........NOOOOO!!!!!!! *shakes head* Don't even think about it Belle!
Me #2: Yessssssssshhhhh! Yesssssssshhhhhh!!! You knoww you want toooo! *waggles eyebrowss*
Me #1: Shussshhhhh! NOT TRUE!!!!!!! I am a grownup! I will not rweadd a picture book........*huffs*
Me #2: But you want to.....and you will.......XD
Me #1: No.
Me #2: Yessss.
Me #1: Nooooo.
Me #2: Yessssssssssssssssssss.
Me #1: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Me #2: Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!
*silence*
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*crickets chirp*
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Me: *presses 'download book'* XDD

3. The YA book poll we had up of our fav books has ended.....yeaaahhh I knowww, it ended quite a whileeee ago, but I'm lazyyy, so I only just got around to it. *sticks out tongue*
But anyyhoooo the results aree: Lux Series, The Darkest Minds and The Infernal Devices are leading at 5 points apiece! Whooopp!! :D
Bloodlines and Divergent are tied for second on 4 points each ;D
Throne of Glass has 3 points and is sharing third place with itself..........p.s. howww dissaapointingggggg *insert Snape-like voice*..........this shows that we need to make more peeps read ToG!!! :P
Mara Dyer at 2 points.........well that's saaadd XD Mind you I've only read the very first book in the trilogy, but that first one was awesomesauceee.....:/ So idk....
And lastly, the haven't-read-any-of-them choice at 0 points......XDD *cocks head* I guess everyone has read the books then lol *rolls eyes*

That's all for now, folks! :P

—MissBloodsucker™ All Sucked Out!

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Allegiant (Divergent #3) - Veronica Roth

Hey all! Its Cassafrass here *waves* So I never actually posted a review on the blog yet, so I thought I should get around to it! Now I dont really know how to do that fancy HTML stuff Belle does... So Im going with good old Copy/Paste. XD If you want to read my review including spoilers (It looks a bit empty without them..) , check out Allegiant Review . Thanks for bearingg!! *sheepish grin* Ill learn all this tech stuff soon enough!


Allegiant-

3.5
So.
This is the much dreaded ending.
First of all, I want to say that I didn't cry, MUCH to my surprise.. but before going in depth on the ending, I would like to talk about the rest of the book.

*clears throat*

The disappointments of Allegiant. Here we go: (Dont worry, there aren't that many ;)

1. Allegiant, unlike the rest of the series, has dual PoVs - but they had the same voices! Maybe it's because it's Roth's first time writing dual PoVs, I dunno, but I couldn't tell them apart. This kinda ruined the book for me a bit... since I had to flip back every once in a while to check to was speaking. (I got them mixed up SO many times..e.g Me: This is Tobias, isn't it? Why is he looking at hi- ahhh. Tris. *shakes head* YOU FOOLED ME AGAIN, YA LITLE TWEAK XD)

2. Four/Tris' relationship lacked a bit here in my opinion. I can't really phrase how to say it, but it seemed to me that whenever she was with Four (I love calling him Four) was either trying to get his shirt off, or they weren't talking because disagreements/fights.

3. Triss...wasn't the same Tris I knew and loved Divergent. I mean yeah she was tougher and all that jazz, but she became a little too cocky after all those experiences, and that was a little sad for me to read. Plus the whole general storyline got so draggy and boring a few times in the middle, and I really wanted to put it down :-/

*counts off fingers* I think that's it.... I really cant talk about the ending without giving anything away, but overall, although I think it isn't the best book ever, the ending was phenomenal and definitely the best wrap up written for the series. (Not that I appreciate it. I've got my eye on you for the future, Roth. *narrows eyes* :P) Good job, though. I mean it.

Ohh btw, has everyone seen the film or is it just me that needs to watch it XD 

And personally, I think making Allegiant into two films is unneeded. 

-MissOddball™ Over and Out. *salutes*

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The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Source of pic: Wikipedia.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Current Rating on Goodreads: 4.49 of 5 stars
Pages: 318
Synopsis (via Goodreads):

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Hmm. So I'm not really sure how I feel about this book exactly. I mean, don't get me wrong, I liked it, but there's just.......idk, just let me write this all down:
Ookayy, firstly, if you're expecting a cancer book where the pretty girl with cancer falls in love with this handsome dude and then her cancer is miraculously cured and they live happily ever after to the end of their cancer-free days........Do. Not. Read. This. Book.......Seriously........This. Is. Not. A. Happily. Ever. After. I. Repeat. NOT. A. Happily. Ever. After. Book.
But this book DID have it's humor (quite a bit) and integrity. I loved Hazel and Augustus's wacky banter! :D *laughs* I seriously felt depressed at the end tho.......:'(

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.
I smiled. "Sure."
"Tomorrow?" he asked.
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said.
"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."
He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Hazel and Augustus)

The book as a whole: It had an impressive array of emotions all packed in; happiness, contentment, hilariousness, sadness, anticipation (not the action kind tho), trepidation, distress, heart-breaking sadness (yes it is it's own emotion), quirkiness, confuzzlement, awesomesauceness............yeahhh!

“Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"
Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."
Gus: "Nicely phrased."
Gus's father: "Our children are weird."
My dad: "Nicely phrased.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Now the writing: And here lies my problem. The writing was nicely structured and sophisticated, but there were all these riddling sentences and poetry that I felt were maybe imperative to the understanding of the story, and thus I felt like I wasn't seeing the whole thing, the whole picture. Sophistication is WONDERFUL but I felt that maybe the writing was maybe a little overdone and full of an overabundance of metaphors......which kinda wrung mah brain like a frilly dress shirt soaked with cold, dirty water. XP *pointed look* You get the idea. But heyy, that's just me.

The ending: It felt right, albeit short. (view spoiler)
Some of the story wasn't really my kind of thing (aka the depressing stuff), but I will state that it was well done.
Thus, 3.5 stars.

See yaa peeps! XD
—MissBloodsucker™ All Sucked Out!

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Random Update (Pre?)Wednesday Issue #1 + Random Updates Day Events Announcement

Well. You lot should know by now that I like writing random nonsense, sooooo introducing the Random Update (Pre?)Wednesdays! *cracks up*
Facts You Need To Know:

1. It's basically a bunch of random updates of varying importance :P
2. (Pre?)Wednesday because it's Wednesday for ME.......but since a lot of youuu peeps live in different time zones......I'm willing to bet it's Tuesday aka PreWednesdayy *winkss* for quite a few of youu......
3. It's only Wednesday because today's Wednesday......aandddd that makes it random! ;D
4. I may post weekly or fortnightly *shrugs* Heyy even monthly XD Rememberrr randommmmmmm!
5. If you didn't catch the theme........it's totally random. XD

*grabs scissors* I, MissBloodsucker™, solemnly and jovially declare Random Updates Day Events to be officially official XD *professional nod* . . . *cuts thick purple ribbon* . . . *silence ensues* Sooooooo there y'all have it! *imaginary crowd jumps up and fangirls*

And here is it's meme banner......made by moi, soooo. Hopefully it's not toooo bad heheeh XD *elegant flourish*

Whatcha think of da bannerrr? *expectant look*


Let us begin! Today is Random Update (Pre?)Wednesday, soooo let us do a recap on things of importance (generally bookish-lated) that have happened of recent daysss! Anything you wanna share can be posted in comments........since you rweallyy can't write it in the post XD That's my domain sozzzzzz *sticks out tongue*
Things of Importance (don't mind me if I forget sumfin.......it's pretty, you guessed it, randdommmmm):

• I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier yesternight!! <3 It was friggin' awesomesauce! I tots recommend you peeps watch it! P.s. I know dis issa moviee.......but 'teeechnicallyyy' *smirks*, it's based off comic 'booksss', soooo I'm allowed to spam about it here. My orders. And duude, I gotta admit, the Capt'n is lookin' goooodd *waggles eyebrows* The graphics were rockin', as usual–Marvel never fails in that department XP My Muddled Thoughts At The End: Hydra you....aarrghhhh!! *shakes fists in face* What's gonna happen to da next Marvel movies nowww with Shield......? *head implodes* Anddd poooorr Barnsiesss and Capt'n :( I'm seriously feeling the injustice! >>:OO!!!!! And......Black Widow and da Captain.......did they just get friend-zoned? XD Of course it's Marvel tradition to add a little extra punch after the first line of credits, so yess I sat with absolutely everyone else in the cinema (since everyone knew there would be an extra scene) to watch the after-clip.......My Thoughts: *horrified look* OMG! :O Why won't Hydra just DIEEE alreadyyyy gaaaahhh! ........And then half of the cinema's occupants left. Now you might be thinking, why didn't everyone leave already? o.O But if you're movie savvvyy (like meeee XD ) the chances are (you're like me!! :P and) you already knew about the second–that's right–second, clip! My Thoughts: (1. Pooorr guyy! :/ That must be terrifyingly confuzzling, and (2. Whaaaa breaking Marvel tradition anyone?! o.O But yesss, as weird as it may be, there was indeed a second clip. Tho I feel the first after-clip was the usual linking-to-another-Marvel-movie-clip, while da second was more of an extra-slash-linking-to-Cpt-America-number-three-???-clip XD But yeaaahh, for anyone who luvvsss Marvel moviesss, this is a cool punch of awesomesauceee!! <33
• HEELLOOOOOO AM I DA ONLY ONE WITH THIS NEWS?!?!?!? I SHOULD HOPE NOT!!!!!!!! ACCORDING TO ZEE THRONE OF GLASS FB PAGE, THRONE OF GLASS 3 AKA HEIR OF FIRE COVER REVEAL IS ON THE 24TH APR!!!!! YOU HEARD ME!!!!!! :OOOO OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! *SQUEALS AND RUNS IN CIRCLES* I'M GONNA DIEEEEE!!!!!! EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!! *everyone leaves me to dying of hyperventilation* ;-/
• We shall have our Liebster Award post up soon......thanks forevahhh Spiffy Books , it'll just take a while for us to organise who's answering what lol. Since there's a whole bunch of usss o.O

Rant's ended, show's over. XDD Now shoooo!

—MissBloodsucker™ All Sucked Out!

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LUX: Beginnings and LUX: Consequences Official Cover Reveal

Lux: Beginnings (Obsidian & Onyx) and Lux: Consequences (Opal & Origin) will both be releasing on June 3, 2014.

Now, you're probably wondering, WTH am I doing? XDD And it's trueee, I hardly know myself........tho I do know that I 'technically' already posted this.......sorrwie for twisting you in circles.......buutt, bear with me, pleaasee ;D I've never, everrrrrr, done a cover reveal, and yeaahh I was a little coocoo and confuzzleddd......I actually didn't realize how the process runs......tho the good news is that I do NOW :P So helloooo new and improved blogger me! *grins* Thus.........onto the the cover reveals:

The LUX: Beginnings cover! Love it!! <3 Tho I don't know what's up with the upside down guy.....o.O *cracks up*


Lux: Beginnings (Obsidian & Onyx)  official Blurb:

Obsidian:
There's an alien next door. And with his looming height and eerie green eyes, he's hot...until he opens his mouth. He's infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, he lights me up with a big fat bulls-eye. Turns out he has a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal his abilities and the only way I’m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to him until my alien mojo fades. If I don’t kill him first, that is.

Onyx:
Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro alien connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems. I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?


LUX: BEGINNING (Obsidian & Onyx)Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19081403-beginnings
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lux-Beginnings-Obsidian-Jennifer-Armentrout/dp/1622664809/
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lux-jennifer-l-armentrout/1117748506

What do you think of it? Objectively, I don't like it that much.....*sadface*, however I did like the cover for  LUX: Beginnings. Idk......I just don't like the face shot of the girl in this one......:/

Lux: Consequences (Opal & Origin) official blurb:

Opal:
After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing alien hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.

Origin:
Daemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? And will they even be together? 


LUX: CONSEQUENCES (Opal & Origin) Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19081402-consequences
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lux-Consequences-Jennifer-L-Armentrout/dp/1622664817/
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lux-jennifer-l-armentrout/1117748505

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer Armentrout lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki.

Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen.

She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

Additional links to Jennifer’s pages:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jlarmentrout
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLArmentrout
Website: http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/


We will also be raffling off two fan inspired artwork from fans of the Lux series sent from the author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, herself.

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LUX: Consequences

Like I promised, here is the cover for LUX:Consequences, which is the bind-up of Opal and Origin aka LUX #3 and #4, if you're not as versed with everything Luxen :P

What do you think of it? Objectively, I don't like it that much.....*sadface*, however I did like the cover for  LUX: Beginnings. Idk......I just don't like the face shot of the girl in this one......:/

Anyhoooo, I still feel obliged to let you make your own choice on da matterrrr! Sooooo heree you areee:

And as alwayss...........CAN'T WAIT FOR OPPOSITION!!!!!! *MAD SQUEAL*

—MissBloodsucker™ All Sucked Out!

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