Teaser Tuesday: City of Heavenly Fire

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays! This is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read, open to a random page', share two (2) "teaser" sentences form somewhere on the page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My Teaser Tuesday is for the following..

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
Series: Mortal Instruments #6
Publication Date: May 27th 2014
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance
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Teaser form page # 143

"I hope they catch him alive," said Emma, her eyes on Julian's. "I hope they kill him in Angel Square so we can all watch him die, and I hope its slow."

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Series: Throne of Glass # 0.1 - 0.5
Publication Date: March 4th 2014
Genre: YA, Fantasy
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Synopsis: Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin's Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery. Will Celaena ever be truly free? Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine to find out

My Rating: 5/5 stars

My Review: If you've read Throne of Glass and loved it, you have to read Assassin's Blade. And if you haven't read Throne of Glass.. what are you still doing here? Go read it!

The Assassin's Blade was the best book of short stories I have ever read. In the past I've stept away from books like this, but after reading The Assassin and the Pirate Lord,I knew I had to have this book and continue reading the rest.

I wont go over every single short story because they were all fantastic and I was so very impressed with all of them. I must say that The Assassin and the Desert was my favorite by far!! And my least favorite would have been The Assassin and the Underworld. But it's still absolutely amazing to read.

In reading these short stories you get to learn the reason behind some of the things Celaena does in the series, I wont spoil them for you, but you definitely get the sense of "OH so that's why she does this," and things like that.

You also get to meet Sam! And even though he's not Chaol, I was really impressed with him. And since I know what happens with him in the future, I was cheering him and Celaena on!!

If you haven't started the series. I would recommend reading Throne of Glass first, then this book of novellas and then continuing on with the rest of the books.

Thanks for reading,
Aneta

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Book Three in Divergent Series
Published on October 22nd 2013

Goodreads Review : The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. 

But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. 

Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

My Rating : 4/5 stars

My Review : Wow! What an incredible ending to the perfect dystopian trilogy! Filled with action, love and bravery! The third book in the Divergent series did not disappoint!

After the Factionless and their leader Evelyn (Four's mom) took over and stopped the factions, a group called the Allegiant is made in secret. There people value what was said in the video that Tris released of her ancestor. A brand new war is brewing between the Factionless and the Allegiant. Tris and Four decide to do as the video said, and travel outside the boundaries to see exactly what is out there. What they really find outside, changes everything, including Tris and Four.

Just like the other books, I could not put it down.There was action, after action, and even more action on top of that! I must say that the book never got boring, and made me want to keep reading.
I loved how we finally got to venture outside of the boundaries, and see whats out there.
I would have given this book 5/5 stars, except for two things.
I actually started hating Tris and Four's relationship, I know that not all relationships are perfect, and yes people do fight. But this couple just continuously fight, and argue. They don't trust each other either. They keep going behind each other's backs, and lying to each other. I adored their relationship in the first book, and now its just kind of annoying. 
Secondly, I don't understand why so many characters died. I expected deaths, but not this many. Especially so many characters that were really interesting and just great to read about. 

Nevertheless, I definitely enjoyed this book a lot! And I am sad to see another series go! I highly recommend this series and this book to all the Dystopia and Action lovers out there.

Happy Reading <3

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Book Two in Divergent Series

Goodreads Review : One choice can transform you, or destroy you.

Every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves, and herself, while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

My Rating : 4/5 stars.

My Review : I definitely had mixed emotions about this book. It was really good, but definitely not as good as Divergent.

Erudite has taken control over all the factions and the factionless. Abnegation has fallen, and Dauntless is just a mess. The main characters travel to a lot of different places in short amounts of time, which leads this book to be all over the place and jump from scene to scene. It was lovely getting to know the other factions that weren't really described in the previous books, but I felt like the characters were there too short for me to completely understand the faction. 
Tris and Four's relationship made me kind of angry. I know based on personal experiences that no relationship is perfect, there will always be fights and drama. But there was definitely too much of it in this book. I started hating every single moment they were fighting, which was a lot, and the scenes where they made up just didn't feel real enough. They were working against each other most of the time, instead of working together to solve their problems.
This book definitely had a lot of twists and turns, and it was pretty exciting. I would still recommend reading this book, but don't expect it to be as good as Divergent, you will get your hopes up. 
I'm hoping the next book is really amazing and blows my socks off. Fingers crossed.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Book One in Divergent Series

Goodreads Review : In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

My Rating : 5/5 stars.

My Review : One of the best Dystopian novels i have ever read.

The society in this book is divided into five factions or groups, there is Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). 
We follow the main character, her name is Beatrice, later on called Tris. She was brought up as an Abnegation alongside her brother and parents. When Tris takes the test to find out which faction she truly belongs in, her results come out strange. Everyone is only supposed to be categorized into one faction, but Tris is different, she was categorized into more than one, which makes her Divergent. Being Divergent puts he into a great danger, the government does not want Divergent people who they cannot control.
At the decision ceremony, Tris chooses to leave her family, and join the Dauntless faction. What she didn't know was that joining wasn't that easy, if she really wants to be dauntless, she has to go though initiation, and make it out alive.
This book definitely had a lot of action, and was always interesting. There were no boring parts to this book. The only thing that was hard to understand at first was the difference between the different factions and what it meant to be divergent at first, but in the end it got explained way more.
The author did a really good job with adding romance, and mystery to this book. The ending was just amazing and mind blowing. Great read to all the Dystopia lovers.