The return! Divergent Chapter 1 + News!

Hello, hello!

Well, my booktube is up and running and my videos are up and hopefully not completely terrible, so here’s my first review of Divergent!

The chapters in this novel are actually quite small (unlike some books I won’t name, coughTheMortalInstrumentscough) so I’m probably going to read a few chapters at a time. As well as, I have the physical hard copy of the book as opposed to an online one, so there will probably be a lot less quotations in this round of chapter-by-chapter blogging!

Are you guys ready? Yay!

actual photo of me writing these recaps

Chapter 2 of The City of Bones: The Sea Vegetable Conspiracy starts practising tomorrow at 9, everyone welcome.

I just wanna clarify to anyone reading this: I’m not a book snob. You can take a look at my Goodreads and see the last three books I read were all cheesy YA lit and I enjoyed the crap outta them. I read the first three books of Twilight and enjoyed them (for the most part), I read The Vampire Diaries, I’ve read all those books with pretty slim girls in big ball gowns on the cover and been totally unabashed about my love for the escape they present; however, I’ve never pretended they were perfect. I’m not reading TMI series because I’m seeking to make anyone who reads this series and enjoys it feel bad about themselves—you’re not lesser because you like a badly written book!—I’m reading it because it’s popular, and because I’m interested in cultural phenomenon. A book being poorly written isn’t your fault, so don’t take any of the things I’m saying here personally (unless you’re Cassandra Clare, in which case, girl I told you I’d be your editor), just enjoy it! It’s okay to poke fun at things!

We’ve just left the Bangin’ Ecstasy Party Club and here we are at Chapter Two: Secrets and Lies. Our hero, Fairy, is trying to draw something:

Célina Reads The Mortal Instruments: Chapter 1

Just downloaded the first three books of the Mortal Instruments series because I love YA literature but I know all about the whole kerfuffle with Cassandra Clare so... well basically I'm a bitch and I love to rip things apart while my unfinished novel sits in drafts. I know pretty much next to nothing about the plot of this book, all I know is that Clary is Ginny, and that it was a Harry Potter fanfic before she decided she was too lazy to write anything else. I never read the Draco Trilogy, either, so I'm coming into this completely blind.

Everything in italics and quotes is actually verbatim from the book itself.

It opens with a Shakespeare and a Milton quote, so you know, at least she did her English homework in high school.