This book tag was created by the lovely Miss Ariel Bissett of Booktube. You can find her original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2UxYi8fOA and I hope you enjoy.

SCENARIO #1

Imagine this you are in a book shop when suddenly hell reigns down on earth and Zombies take over. The only thing is these Zombies can only be killed by an over hyped book...which one do you grab?

Me? I head straight for The Mortal Instruments section...

I do not see the appeal of theses books. The characters are bland and the plot is predictable and some of it even emotionally disturbing. Jace is the furthest thing from a dream boat I could ever possibly imagine, that is why I'd be using any of these book to beat a zombie to death. Maybe City of Heavenly Fire, that thing is skull crushing beast.

SCENARIO #2

You just got the greatest haircut ever! Like seriously you look so good, but then it starts to rain. Which sequel do you use to shield your stylish new do?

 This is honestly the most frustrating book in this series. America makes questionable decisions throughout but in the second book it's a doozy. Maxon spends so much time saying the competition is over and he will announce their engagement but as soon as she a little mean to him, he goes off and humps some other girl. This book is seriously a disaster and I would have no problem watching it's pages crinkle and break.

SCENARIO #3

You are in English Class and the Teacher is droning on and on about  ridiculous classic that you can't stand, what is that classic? Sorry Fee! It's got to be anything by Jane Austen.


 Fee is gonna absolutely hate me for this but I cannot see the appeal of this woman. I find her novels fluffy and very very "shallow" is probably the best word for it. Sure I agree with themes of familial and romantic love but she lacks the depth of Bronte' within these relationships. I think Austen is one of those classics that is no longer relevant. She can be as great as she was back then but people no longer need to learn the lessons in her books as those lessons were fully constructed by her society and status at the time, therefore diminishing the amount of people who relate to it year after year.

SCENARIO #4

You are in the library, everything is fine until BOOM! GLOBAL WARMING EXPLODED! or something! Suddenly you are freezing, you need to burn a book to stay alive, which series do you grab first.


I'm heading for anything written by Maria V Snyder. The way the woman writes drives me around the twist and I'm not partial to plots that favor coincidence and random unexplained talents. I literally got 100 pages into Poison Study before I wanted to beat my own brains out with it.

SCENARIO #5

Now, you're a big comedian about to go on stage...but dammit you have gum in your mouth! Luckily you carry your entire bookcase around with you. Which books last page would you stick your gum in?


Sadly it has to be Beta, this book was so good and interesting throughout until that last 50 pages when everything suddenly turned into "lets add as much stupid rubbish as possible" ending. Seriously this ending I was sure was a joke, I can't see how anyone would think this ending was a good idea. It ruined the entire book.

So those are my Book Sacrifices. Face it, we all know we have books we can't stand. So what are yours? Share your sacrifices or reccomend me a tag. Or just chime in!

Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

This week marks the release of the final book in the second trilogy of The Mortal Instruments series. (Is that a mouthful or what?)

City of Heavenly Fire is highly anticipated and fan girls everywhere are peeing their pants over a Jace and Clary sex scene. (I still feel weird about the whole incest thing) and it's not to say when I read the original trilogy I didn't enjoy it, I did, I really did. However I will not be reading City of Heavenly Fire and here's why.

The Mortal Instruments follows Bella Swan-esque protagonist Clary who learns she is a Shadowhunter (i.e Demon Killer) her mother keeps it a secret from her in order to protect her from Valentine (A cliche' evil dude who is also her father) Voldemort meets Darth Vader anyone?! Then we have "hearthrob" Jace , who is actually a total arse and generally treats Clary like crap. We are also led to believe that for the first three books they are siblings, which makes some of the "romantic" moments, creepy as hell. They are no Jaime and Cersei afterall. In the original series Clary defeats Valentine just by being nicer than him, gets a magic angel wish and saves Jace's life. But fuck all the people who died in the big battle leading up to that. Max! Anyone! And the villians are so bland, they are evil because they used demon blood, that's it?! So there is no moral choice between good or bad then, just demon blood and angel blood. Great!

Of course the series isn't all bad, Isabelle is delightful and awesome and badass and I loved her. Alec is primadonna bitch and it's very entertaining and generally the dialogue is amusing and well written.

But none of these are the reason I won't be reading City of Heavenly Fire. I enjoyed the first trilogy and began to read the new trilogy with City of Fallen Angels. The only problem was...Simon.

I hate Simon. I can't stand him or reading about him and I know from my friends who read the books
that the second trilogy is heavy on Simon. I was so excited when he died but then he had to come back as a vampire and make himself extraordinarily annoying. He's stupid, irrational, possessive but it all comes across as cute because he's "FRIENDZONED". I think he's self righteous and likes the play the victim, he barrels into situations and drag Clary (who gets less annoying as the series goes on) in them with him. He's a vampire for god sake, that can walk in the sunlight and has that mark on his head so can't be hurt. I'd love that, I'd be so badass and become like a crime fighting vigilante, but no Simon uses it to cheat on the only other two girls in the "group" good job Simon!

So that is why I won't be finishing The Mortal Instruments. Although admittedly I have heard excellent things about The Infernal Devices! What's the worst that could happen?