Good afternoon! I’m sorry for the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks, but I have been on vacation. It was a very relaxing vacation spent visiting family and I got to read a whole bunch, which was excellent. With being on holiday, I added so much to my library. I was really in the mood for a quirky contemporary romance, so I added Rainbow Rowell’s Landline to my collection and read and finished it straight away. It was an excellent choice and I devoured it straight up. I loved the main character, Georgie McCool – what an awesome name! – and adored how her relationship with her husband was explored in both past and present. Definitely worth picking up. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard has been promoted very heavily recently, and I gave in and bought it. I ended up really enjoying it and will write a full review soon. Despite not being blown over by Bloodlines by Richelle Mead, I was really in the mood for that kind of book and after leafing through Golden Lily in a bookstore I picked it up in Kindle format. I did enjoy it more than the first book in…
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead is the first in the Bloodlines series, the spinoff from Vampire Academy. It follows the story of young Alchemist Sydney Sage whom we met in the Vampire Academy series. In it, Sydney is tasked with protecting Jill Mastrano in Palm Springs and in order to do so attends an elite boarding school with her. We learn more about the Alchemists and also some secrets about Vampire Academy characters are revealed. To be honest, Bloodlines didn’t grab me nearly as much as Vampire Academy did. With VA we were introduced to interesting characters and they drew us into their fascinating world. While reading VA I had been interested to learn more about the Alchemists, but other than Sydney the Alchemists we meet in Bloodlines are very unsympathetic characters which killed any interest I had in learning about their organisation. What I liked Sydney. I did like Sydney in Bloodlines, and I feel her character has great scope for development. I would love to see her develop from a competent if anxious and insecure operative to the kick ass Alchemist we know she can be. I would also enjoy seeing her deal with the prejudices she’s carrying around…